The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-20
DESCRIPTION OF THE s.
 "KRONPRINZ WILHELM"

The twin screw express steamship Kronprinz Wilhelm of the North Ger man Lloyd Steamship company was built by the Vulcan Shipbuilding com pany of Stettin, Germany. Her dimen- sions are 663 feet length, 66 feet beam and 43 feet depth; her gross register tonnage is 15,000 and her displacement 21 300 tons The Kronprinz Wilhelm Is of the same type as the well-known ex- press steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse of the same line, but Is fifteen feet longer than the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse. The new steamship has been built of the best German steel as four deck vessel, with numerous ex- tras, and has received the highest class of the Germanic Lloyd register. The exterior appearance of the steamer Is the same as that of the express steam ship Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, and she is distinguished in the same way by four large smokestacks.
 The accommodations for the first cab in passengers are placed amidships, on the main, upper and promenade decks and are provided with every possible comfort for the travelling public. Four cabines de luxe. composed of sitting room. bedroom and bath-room, and eight apartments consisting of bed room and bathroom, have been fur nlshed for the accommodation of those who wish to travel luxuriously. A number of staterooms have been pro- vided on the awning or bridge deck, which is the deck above the promenade deck. The passengers in these rooms receive the full benefit of light and air on the topmost deck of the steamer. The second cabin also shows that the comforts of this class have by no means been neglected.
 Particular attention has been paid in the construction of this vessel to the adoption of the most advanced and per feet arrangements for safety. A dou- ble bottom that extends nearly the en- tire length of the steamer is divided into twenty-four water-tight compart- ments; besides which the entire hull Is separated into seventeen water-tigh compartments by fifteen transverse bulkheads that extend to the upper deck, and by longitudinal bulkhead in
  rangements should be odded a large and extensive pumping plant of the most varied description, fire extinguish- ing apparatus of every kind and a full equipment of boats, of which the steamer carries twenty-four The we'll known Schlick system by which vibra- tion is reduced to minimum has been adopted on this steamer, as on all the new vessels of the North German Lloyd. also bilge keels, to prevent ex- cessive rolling. All compartments are electrically illuminated, nineteen hun dred electric lamps being provided for this purpose, which are fed by four dy- namos of 825 Arnperes and 100 volts The motive power consists of two six cylinder quadruple expansion engines, indicating 33,000 horsepower. The ne- cessary steam is furnished by sixteen large boilers, of which twelve are dou- ble boilers and four single boilers. The coal consumption is about five hundred tons per day. The bunkers hold 4,450 tons of coal and the crew consists of about five hundred persons.
 The arrangement of the first cabin dining-room is a masterpiece of interior architecture. The dining-room, con- tains 414 seats. The prevailing tone of the panel work of the dining room is green. charmingly relieved by bronze panelling on the walls. The ceiling is decorated with allegorical paintings representing the seasons, day and night, etc. The subjects of the paint ings on the walls are the house in which the Crown-P Prince lives. the for mer palace and the cadet school in Pion, where the Crown Prince received his education. Adjoining the main din- ing-room there are forward and aft on each side extensions of this dining room. forming, as it were, small dining rooms. The walls in these smaller rooms contain landscape views of Pots- dam, Sans Souci. Pion, Bonn and neigh borhood. The large skylight. crowned with an arched cupola is plastioally decorated. A gallery surrounds the