Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-03-28
TIE KAISER WILHELM II.
Marvels Of the North German
Lloyd's New Liner.
MODEL OF SAFETY AND LUXURY.

Largest of Express Has
Seven Decks and n Postomce.
Electric Plant Win Light Cigars
In Smoking saloon, Heat Curling
Irons or Flash "A Marconfgram.
Marvellous in construction, luxurious
IN furnishings and appalling in size is
the Kaiser Wilhelm III. of the North
German Lloyd line, which was launch
ed last August and will arrive In New
York next month, says the New York
Commercial Advertiser. She is the
largest Of the express steamships now
plying between the old world and the
new. She is about ~one-seventh of a
mile long, 706 feet 6 inches, ~ feet
beam and her displacement Is 26,500
tons of salt water. She has seven
decks and her height from the keelson
to roof of the smoking saloon is ~ feet
Z inches.
The steamship has two bottoms,
seven feet intervening between them.
If a hidden rock should penetrate the
first bottom. the second would save
the ship. If by any mishap both bot
toms should be rent, seventeen power
full steam pumps, capable of d~ischarg
ing $500 ton of water an hour, would
be put il action. Surprising that for
some reason all seventeen pumps re-
fused to work, safety would still be
secured by the seventeen water tight
transverse ~bulkheads and one long ad-
ditional bulkhead in the engine room.
As a finaI precaution the Kaiser Will
helm III. carries a fiotilla of twenty-six
boats that can be lowered into the wa
ter by four strong boat hoists.
1t is hoped that the new vessel will
attain a speed of twenty-three and one
half knots an hour. Her two bronze
propellers, % feet 10 inches in diam
eter, are driven by fouf powerful en-
gines. Steam will be generated in nine
teen boilers. The driving shaft is go
feet long and weighs 565 1000 pounds.
Despite the force of 10000 horsepower
which Will be necessary to propel this
floating city across the Atlantic in five
days svfbration win be reduced to a
minimum, for the main engines are bal
anced on the Schlick system.
In the passenger accommodations are
two imperial suits, with dining. draw
Ing, bed and bath rooms. costing for
two passengers from New York to
Bremen. or the other way about, $1,000
in summer. There are eight state cab
ms with bath. 80 first class cabins and
107 second class cabins. The first class
saloon is 10S feet long, 80 feet broad
and provides chairs for 554 passengers
In the second class saloon 100 travel
crs can be seated. There are n chill
dren's saloon, smoking room, library
typewriting ROOM. drawing room anG
two Vienna cafes. There is also q
p~ostofIice, the mails to be sorted and
landed ready for distribution. Like
her sister ships, the Kaiser Wilhelm
IL. is equipped with the Marconi wire
less telegraph system.
An interesting feature is the cigar
Shaped. submerged rudder apparatus.
with a view to the vessel being re-
CURED as an auxiliary cruiser.
She has nineteen boilers, with a total
heating surface of 107 900 square feet,
the necessary steam power being pro-
duced at a pressure of 213 pounds.
There are double and single ended boil
ers. the former weighing when empty
2G4,000 pounds and the latter 16E20O
pounds. The boiler rooms and coal
bunkers have a total length of 295 feet.
and a railroad track $50 feet in length
conveys the coal from bunkers to fur
naces. Combustion gases from the
nineteen boilers are discharged through
four tunnels. Cowls siXty-nine feet
long conduct the fresh air into the boil
er rooms.
The steering apparatus, worked by
steam power. consists of a main EN-
CINE. built into the cigar shaped ex-
tension and able at full speed to turn
the rudder at a pressure of 5000
pounds In "A few seconds from hard
a-starboard to hard a-port. a second
steering gear has been built, half pow
er, into n house OF h poop deck. Ell
ther apparatus can be worked from the
foredeck and afterdeck bridges, as well
as by hand wheel or tillcr, worked by
tackles.
The electric plant upon the ship will
| lUIIlSh Oi+oNp hHpNNH hShtah
200 i~ncandescent lamps, will ring
electric bells. work electric signals.
light cigars in the smoking saloon. turn
fans and ever heat the ladies' curling
irons In the first and second cabins.
The Kaiser Wilhelm III. is capable of
accommodating 775 first class, 343 sec
ond class and 700 third class passen-
gers. Besides these. there is a crew of
GOO men, including the captain and Off
GERS. making nearly $500 persons
enough to populate a considerable town.
In the drawing room is a large por-
trait by Ludwig North of Emperor
Wilhelm H.. whose name the shin
bears.
BACK Al HIS POST.
NJ Tacoh Wilson boss hoilprmaker