Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-17
COMFORTS OFLAND
New Atlantic Steamers, Olym-
pic and Titanic, Will Have
Squash Courts.
ALL KINDS OF BATHS, TOO
Golf Course of 10 Holes-Try to
Amuse Passenger and Make
Him Forget He's at Sea.

The announcement that a squash
racket court will be one of the fea-
lures of the great White Star line
steamship Olympic, soon to be in serv-
ice, and the Titanic, now building,
calls attention to the constantly grow
ing tendency to give the sea traveller
every comfort and luxury that can be
obtained ashore.
The squash racket court will be
placed directly above the keel, five
levels up from the skin of the ship,
counting the bottom as one, double
bottom as two, bed plates, lower orlop
and orlop. The court, which will be
available for tennis, handbaIl, squash
or rackets. will be on the lower deck,
also designated as the "G'' deck.
The court will be 80 by 20 feet in
size. 1t will extend up through the
middle of &c" and ''F'' decks as high
as the main, or Re" deck, for the
Olympic and the Titanic are each if
teen stories high, as follows: Floor,
double bottom. bed plates and lower
orlop, orlop, lower, middle, main, sa-
loon. upper, promenade, upper prone
made, boat and sun decks and extra
compass platform.
All the other ships of the line are to
be fitted up with squash courts also.
A coach will be engaged for each
steamer.
Features put forth by different lines
are nationally characteristic. The Rot
terdam of the Holland-American line
brides herself upon her baths Nearly
81, II
dam is a bathroom. Even each room
of her swell suits has its own tub,
with all kinds of water.
Besides a smoke room. with q bal
cony running around it. a library and
a social hall, the Rotterdam has also a
palm court. The Rotterdam was first
with a glass Enclosed deck. They are
all having them now.
The RuSSian-American line main
tains a chapel upon each of its steam
ers, while ikons hang here and there,
and the sacred lamp is ever kept burn
ing in the main cabin.
FURNISH ALL KINDS OF BATHS.
The White Star liner Adriatic now
has swimming pool, but the Olympic
and the Titanic will have tanks 80 by
13 feet as well as Turkish and electric
baths, with hot room 16 by 20, a
cooling room 20 by 80 and a .gymnasi-
INN 46 by IS feet.
All the North German Lloyd liners
now have glass inclosed decks, open
air cafes and meals a la carte or table
d'hote
The Royal Mail Steam Packet COM
pany erects canvas tanks which are
filed with salt water, running in and
out. for swimming in the tropics. The
Hamburg-American line alsA rigs the
same kind of diving pools On the
Royal Mail you can purchase an en-
tire suit of clothes from the barber,
and the Lapland of the Red Star line
runs dry goods shop.
The Venezia of the Fabre line has a
lovers seat, just small enough for
two, on the boat deck looking aft. ~
The Titanic will have a golf course
of eighteen holes. with the hazard an-
der the lifeboats; also will the same
kind Of links be laid out on the sun
deck of the Olympic. Roller skates
win be available to all.
The Adriatic has a theater, with
proscenium arch and several sets of
scenery executed by the deck steward.
Ernest Freeman. who paints in the
baggage room after his charges have
turned in.
The new Franconia of the Cunard
line has a machine shop with a ca
pacity for turning out a big Job on a
rolling sea- 1t has also a fresh water
distilling plant
1t was not so very long ago that the
Fabre liners carried COWS that the ba-
bies might have fresh milk. The crews
OF the Royal Mail run an open game
OF the lottery style upon the after hatch
every night under the tropics.
The Europa Of the Hamburg line. to
be the biggest ship in the world. and
the Deutschland, to be renamed the
Victoria Luise. cruising steamer. are
70 have q shaped tanks. within which
water will swish back and forth. flop
ping every time a wave strikes the
hull and counteracting the effect Of the
blow. These are the mo seasickness
ships"