The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-05-24
|MP[RATOR IS IMMENSE
Germany Has Built ship Greater than
the Titanic TO Run Between
Hamburg and New York

| Berlin. Germany, May PA party
of distinguished engineers. newspaper
representatives and others left here
yesterday for Stettin. the guests Of the
Hamburg American Steamship com
ipany, to attend the launching Of the
Ieompany's new liner Imperator. The
new vessel. which is larger than any
lcraft .afioat. is TO be launched today
from the yards of the Vulcan Ship
building Company on the EIbe. The
ship Will probably be ready to make
her first transatlantic voyage early
IneXt winter.
The Imperator * designed to eclipse
IAN previous records of ocean grey
hounds for size and splendor She Is
to be about twenty feet longer than
the Olympic and her sister ship. the
Inflated Titanic. and Will have a dis
| placement exceeding those vessels by
about 5000 tons The length Of the
| Imperator over all viii be 900 feet. anl
when complete and fully laden she viii
Misplace about $4,000 tons. There viii
| be eleven decks on the new liner. and
| she Will be fitted out in the most luNur
| ious style.
The deck of the new liner Will have
| the beam of Broadway. New Iork'S
leading thoroughfare, at its widest
Ipart-96 feet Nine of her eleven
decks will be above the water line.
equal to the hight of the largest apart
ment houses. If the fmperator We're
set up on end beside the cathedral of
Cologne, the famous tower would come
only TO the second funnel of the steam
ship. Nearly 100000 feet of Oregon
fir were used for her decks alone.
With so much space available fea-
lures are possible that have never be-
fore been introduced. There will be
la promenade deck nearly a quarter of
| a mile long. a great entertainment hall
two stories high. holding 700 guests.
conversation room, a smoking room,
ladies' hall winter garden. Ritz
Carlton restaurant, a reproduction of
Iancient Roman baths in bronze. marble
and ivory, rathskeller, women's salons
in different decorative periods and na
ttional styles, university" telephones.
1.-The biggest gymnasium yet, running
track of tan bark, a squash court, sub
marine signals and powerful air pumps
to watt below currents Of the purest
lair and afford equable temperature
throughout.
The Imperator will, when completed.
not only be the largest vessel in the
WOTIu, nut Will III dulIl!Ou sure Het
passengers against the terrOrS of sea-
sickness. This happy condition is to
be brought about by the installation
|of the Frahn decks on board the new
Goliath of the ocean, a device that
reduces the motion of a ship to a min
imum. 1t has been tried out by the
Hamburg-A American Line on q small
ship and. so it is averred, has reduced
the oscillation in heavy weather from
|siXty-three to three degrees
The new liner will not be a fast
boat. being built more for solid COM
fort than great speed Her time across
the Atlantic will be in the neighbor-
hood OF seven days. Her engines will
be Of the reciprocating type.
1t goes without saying that the com
pany is preparing to equip the I'm
perator with a sufficient number of
lifeboats to accommodate all of the
passengers and crew, numbering alto
gether about 5000 persons. The muat
powerful Marconi apparatus ever set
lup at sea will be installed on the YES
sci. the unusual height of her masts
making it possible to receive or trans
nit mesSa geS across the broad eNpanse
of the Atlantic ocean. 1t is expected
that she VIII always be in direct COM
munication with either Europe or Am
emicd