The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-05-27
HUGE VESSELS
ARE BUILDING
NEW WHITE STAR LINERS WILL
DWARF THE MAURITANIA
THOUGH NOT SO FAST.

The giant Cunarders Lusitania and
Mauretania, whose record-cutting
trips across the Atlantic have been
laterly the wonder of the world, will
surely suffer eclipse. in point of size
and palatial accommodation for pas
lsengers at any rate, when the mar
vellous twin leviathans. Olympic and
Titanic, recently laid down in the Har-
land and Wolff yards at Belfast for
the White Star Company, are complet-
ed two years hence.
New and amazing records as to
length, beam, and tonnage, as well as
of luxury ahoat, Will be established,
and the two new liners will cost over
| e1,500,000 sterling each. Both the
| Olympic-which is due to be launched
! first-and the Titanic will be more
than $50 TT. in length. The famous
Mauretania is 100 It. in length; the
Baltic the largest of the White Star
boats at present 725 it. The net reg
istered tonnage of the Olympic and
Titanic will be $4,000; that of the
Mauritania is 32,500.
The new steamships will have a dis
placement of 10000 tons. They will
have beam of 80 it. The boat deck
will be more than 60 #. above the
water.
Neither the Olympic nor the Tita-
mic will be high-power boats, nor are
their lines designed for great speed
u knots being the average aimed at,
as against the % of the Swift Cum
arders.
Each boat will carry under normal
conditions more than 5000 persons all
told. There will be accommodation
for 600 first-cabin passengers, which
will compare favorably with those of
the best hotels ashore.
The seond cabin will carry as many
more, while some 5000 steerage pas
sengers may be disposed OF on the
lower decks The crew will be the
largest ever employed on one ship
more than 600 in all.
The monster new White Star liners
will have nine steel decks, the upper
three being designed for promenad-
ing.
There will be a large entrance hall,
a spacious dining-room, smoking
room, library, women's parlor, grill,
and Longing rooms deliberately fur
nished to the last detail. In addition
to these familiar cabins, there will be
many apartments which will render
the Illusion of a great hotel COM
plete.
A ballroom completely enclosed
with glass and heated will lend all the
comforts of the land to the high seas.
By day this enclosure may be used as
sun parlor and promenade 1t will
be large enough to accommodate sew
eral hundred passengers.
In planning the cabins Of the new
liners the luxuries of the most up-to-
date hotels have been kept in sight
and even improved upon. These boats
will offer not only extended suits OF
looms, but complete flats, which will
make it possible to cross the Allan
tic while enjoying all the privacy OF
ones own home. These ocean-goine
flats will comprise bedrooms, sitting
looms or parlors, private baths and
even a private library, all en- suite
Another novel cabin where meals
will be served will be well-appoint.
led grill-room. The cabin will suggest
an old English chop-house, with high.
backed stalls of ancient oak and broac
low tables A grill at one end of the
L.
guest waits. 1t will be possible al
any hour of the day or night for {
passenger to seek the grill-room
choose the particular chop or steal
desired, and have it cooked before his
eyes.
The palm garden will be still anoth
Ell refuge for those who weary of the
confines of the ship during theil
transatlantic trip. The garden will
he located on the SIN deck and IN