Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-12

Turkish Bath.-one of the Latest Lux. uries.
 shipboard with the privations of an
 ocean voyage before them.
 What marvellous developments have
 taken place in the construction of the
 big boats in the last few years. Some
 thing of sensation was created not
 so many months ago when it was an-
 nounced that an la carte restaurant,
 an elevator and a roof garden had
 been added to the list of attractions
 for the comfort of oceangoers.
 Now comes the Turkish bath and the
 tennis court to help make an ocean
 voyage an event to be looked forward to with keen pleasure. Even sea sick
 ness is almost thing of the past, for the great length and broad beam of the modern vessels make them, except for extraordinary weather, "as steady as rock" Some even go so far as to predict the seagoing theater, and as sert that not so far in the distant fu- ture the actor may speak of having had an engagement on the transatlan- tic circuit.
 In these days when fast steamships cross the Atlantic in an endless pro- cession, carrying thousands of passen- gers and enormous cargoes of freight there has come an insistent demand for large steamships combining speed, safety and comfort. The ingenuity of the shipbuilder has been taxed to please the ocean travellers. Each year sees the advent in North Atlantic lanes of new leviathans combining all the latest inventions and improve ments for the comfort and entertain ment of the seagoing public. The steamship lines announce with some pride that they are about to build a steamship a few feet longer and with greater capacity than all that have gone before, and this has brought un. der discussion the question as to how far this development can be carried on.
 In discussing this question the man. ager of one of the big transatlantic lines said that in his opinion the limit had been reached, considering the present facilities.
 Larger steamships" he said, mean a greater depth of channel, longer piers and more space between them. Practically. the size of the future steamship depends on the depth of the channel and harbor. We have at pres. ent at this port depth of 34 feet at high water in the channel. This al. lows us to load to depth of 31k feet. We must have at least two feet and half under the keel. It is ex- pected that the Ambrose channel will have a depth of B feet, and this will allow for a slightly deeper draught.
 "The harbof ought to have depth of 40 feet. The length of steamships has now reached about 800 feet. and there is no reason. from technical point of view. that we should not have the thousand-foot steamship. We will be able 10 save in working expenses h the large size steamships. The aues. ton. however. has many sides. The present piers are 500 feet long. They would have to be longer with longer vessels, and then. again. with greater length comes greater beam. and as the present space between piers is only 70 feet 1t would mean another change. We have reached the limit. I believe. with our present facilities"
 With the addition to the great North l Atlantic fleet of the new White Star yiant Of the sea. the Adriatic inc coming of the Hamburg-American fier Europa and the new French liner in oe larger than La Provence. the queen If the French feet. the highest attain nent of the shipbuiIder's art has been cached.
 A notable innovation of the Adristic is he Turkish bath. There are the usuaI lot. temperate and cooling rooms "a arge plunge bath and massage ,ouches. There is also an electric 'ath. The gymnasium is well eauip- ed and there is a photographers dark i oom. available for passengers.
 The new Hamburg American liner Europa will embody all the new fea. ures of the Adriatic with stil o,hers dded- In type and interior decora- ion she riIl be much like the Raiser,p Iuguste Victoria Two novel features Till be tennis courts on the upper eek and a swimming pool 75 by 7s