The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-04-06
Indicated
Length Displacement horsepower Speed
20 KNOTS AN HOUR.


Extraordinary speed" Mr.. Ismay
continued, will not be sought for IN
these larger vessels. About 20 knots
an hour, l should say, will be their
gait. We have some very good reasons
for not filling them up with engines
and coal bunkers. There is always a
certain percentage of people who are
always in hurry, but we do not be-
lieve that that percentage is large, nor |
is there any reason to believe that it is
considerably increasing. To the or
binary voyager a day more or less is
not a matter of extreme Importance,
but Two or three additional knots an
hour is a matter of extreme Importance |
to the operating company. That the
vast majority of ocean travellers are nor
insistent on high speed seems to be |
proved by the popularity of such YES
sells as the Amerika of the Hamburg
American Line and our Adriatic."
The two vessels which Mr.. Ismav
had selected as an example have no
pretensions to extraordinary speed, but
and the type which they represent are
exceedingly popular with the travelling
public. The patrons of this class know
of the many features which by the
sacrifice of knot or two of speed it
was found possible to install in them.
One, therefore, wonders about the
many unknown features which the
White Star Company can place in these
tremendously big vessels of a relatively
slow speed. Elevators are already a
familiar feature. Will these roomy
new leviathans have trolleys or moving
sidewalks to carry passengers up and
down their far-reaching decks? Will
they have theatres and shopping ar
cades? When the bow reaches port
will it be necessary to telephone the
fact to the other end?
NO NAMES ASSIGNED.
Where, anyhow, is this era by era
increase in the size of ships to end? In
comparison that was made when the
new Cunarders were first contracted FOR
some interesting calculations were
made. These showed that if the rate
of increase in steamship dimensions
should be maintained for the next hun
dred years at the same ratio that they
increased from 1907 to 1907 the ship
launched at the end of the next cen
fury would have a speed Of 6527 knots
day, and would be able to cross from
New York to England in about Ii
hours, The vessel would be nearly a
mile in length and would have accom-
modations for $4,000 passengers.
OF course, no name has been assign
ed to either of the projected vessels.
But the White Star Line will I'M
doubtedly follow its old system of no
menclature, and when these two come
out the names given them will in all
, probability end with the clicking &c
which has so long distinguished the
vessels of this fleet.
Few lines have had a more interest
I ing history than the White Star, and It
: is now pertinent to recall what that
history it. The red swallow TAIL with
it's 5-pointed white star in the center
I an emblem now familiar in all the
), waters of all the world, was first hoist
r ed to the masthead of a smart Austria
, liam clipper before the days of the
s great rush to the gold diggings, more
{ than half century ago. 1t could hard
ly have been anticipated that the time
would come before the end of the cen
4 fury when the same flag would be thI
c recognized emblem of several fleets o.
powerful steamships traversing all the
great oceans of the world. Yet thi:
n is what has now become an accom-
4 plished fact.
q WHITE STAR CLIPPERS.