Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-04-12

the Umbria and Etruria the Campania
and Lucania, the Caronia and Carmania,
the Lusitania and Mauritania. For one
thing, this saves expense of architects
fees, etc, in construction. For another.
il enables the company to have two ships
of the same character on the ocean at
the same time. one starting from New
York and the other from Liverpool the
same day. and passing in mid ocean.
The following is the description Of the
Carmania. as kindly given me by Cap
tain Barr: Length. 675 feet; breadth, p:
displacement, 30,91S tons; gross tonnage,
1884 tons She has nine decks, as fol-
lows: l. Bridge deck. q Boat deck.
l3. Promenade deck or deck A. 4. Bridge
deck or deck B. 5. Shelter deck or deck
C. 6. Upper deck or deck d. 7. Main
deck or steerage deck. s. Lower steer
age deck. 9. Orlop or cargo deck. Be-
low the Orlop deck is the hold, in which
cargo also is carried Think of a house
675 feet long, Y feet wide and ten stories
high, including basement. Our sky
scrapers pale into insignificance beside
it.
Ihe indicated horsepower of the Car
mania is 10000. She is the largest
triple screw turbine steamer afloat She
has cellular double bottom tanks
, tn roughout, their capacity being 2,S46
tons. The diameter of her funnel is Is
fee 8 inches. She has two tunnels and
two masts, 13 boilers and SO furnaces.
On the boat deck is an elegant lounging
room for gentlemen and ladies' On deck
A is nicely fitted up writing room, and
a parlor with beautiful furniture and a
coal fire burning in an open grata. On
deck 3 is rotunda overlooking the spa
cious dining room in the middle of deck
Z. On deck A, outside, is the prone
made. Here the steamer chairs are plac-
ed. As you see from this brief and all
too inadequate description, the Carma-
nit is literally a floating palace. On ac-
count of her size and the large bilge
keeis fitted to her midship section, he
ship is so steady that you scarcely foel
any motion as she plows through the
waves. thus reducing to a minimum the
danger of seasickness, so much dreaded
usually by ocean voyages, She is also
rendered practically unsuitable by the
! equipment of sStoneSEloyd" systems of
safety watertight doors. by which the
captain. from his pace onI TN e bridge,
can divide his ship into It's various inn
pervious compartments. She is equipped
with ,..e submarine signal apparatus
whereby the approach to the coast and
actual position can be readily obtained;
she is fitted with both long and short
distance wireless telegraph services by
which communication is kept up all
through the voyage with the shore as
well as with passing vessels and by
which the company is enabled to dis
tribute each morning the
CUNARD DAILY BULLETIN
giving the glst of the reports from the
old and the new world. While out in
mid-ocean We could read our morning
paper at the breakfast table, as at home.
We knew, for instance, as early as the
people of Atlanta about the eruption of
Eesuvius, the death of Thomas c. Plat
and of Louis Kloptch, and we kept UP
with the latest phases Of the Philadel-
phia street car strike, in which some OF
our party were considerably interested.
The capacity of the vessel is about
$500 people, as follows: Crew, $50;
first-class passengers, 400; second-class
passengers, $50; n.,-,.-, lass or steerage
Passengers. 2,4O0. On this voyage the
ship carries only 1857 people, as fol-
lows: Crew, $50; first-class, 400; second
class. 40; third-class, 1917. the steer
age passengers, you know, nearly all
travel to America, not from II. 1t is
rather a mivxed multitude we have on
board, English, American, Hungarian;
Episcopalians, Roman Catholics, Metho-
dists, Presbyterians, Baptists, Disciples,
Mormons, Jews and Gentiles, old and
young, male and female, married men
and married women, wiuowers and wild
ows, old bachelors and old maids, boys,
girls and babies-but not white and
black. There is not a negro on board.
The servants, or stewards" and stew
ardesses." are all English young men
and young women, and they are as po-
lite, as clever, as accommodating, as eff
ficient a corps of servants as could we'll
be found anywhere.
OUR PARTY.
Our own party is known as the Willard
Wicker party. 1t is conducted by Drs.
Junius w. Willard, of Atlanta, Ga,
and ]. ]. Wicker, of East Mortified,
Mass. 1t consists of "a persons altogeth-
er, as follows: DIR. j. ]. Wicker and
wife, East Mortified, Mass; DR.. ]. w.
Willard and son, Mr. ]. w. Alexander
and wife, Atlanta, Ga; Mrs. Porter King
and daughter, Atlanta, Ca; Mrs. Au-
gusta NJ. Post, Chicago, ILL.,; Miss Julia
Eppers, Baltimore, Md; Miss Okle Paint
er, Jacksonville, Fla; Mrs. John r.
Whitehead, son and daughter, Albany
Ga; Rev. J. r. Keyton, Dothan, Ala;
Rev. Sam H. Campbell, Troy. Ala; Mr.
]. o. Brown, Dothan, Ala; Mr. Eugene
willingham, Atlanta, Ca; Mr.. o. c. Bar
ton, Paris, Tenn; Mr.. Fred Patterson,
Atlanta, Cal Mrs. NJ. E. oliver, son
and daughter, Atlanta, Ga; Miss Addie
s. Mitchell, Lindale, Ga; Mrs. Ella S.
Carter, Atlanta, Ga. Miss Sally Rigsbee,
Durham, n. c.; Mrs. c. II. Rhodes,
Kansas City, Mo-; Mr.. James King, New
York. n. Y; Mrs. Edgar Dunlap, Allan
Ia, Ga: Mrs. John T. Woodside, Green
vile, S. c.: Rev. w. r. Minter, Lincoln
ton, n. c.; Miss May Jones, Canton,
Ga; Mrs. Samuel Lumpkin, Atlanta, Ga.
and Edgar f. Folk, Nashville, Tenn.
Que party is quite a cOngenial one, and
we are anticipating a delightful time to-
gether for the next several months. AL
together. crew. passengers and all, we are
one big, happy family. and almost feel
that we should just like to float on and
on forever-if only the loved ones at
home were with us.
SEVEN MEALS A DAY.
Seven meals a day are served on board
think of it, seven meals a day!-as fol-
lows: Coffee before breakfast, breakfast
at $50, broth at II, luncheon at l, tea
at T. dinner at 1880. supper at 10. / sup
pose no one person eats all of these
meals in a single day. But they are at
the disposal of any one For my part,
eonfine myself to the three principal