Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-04-18
LOST STEAMER
MARVEL LUXURY
WAS FITTED UP LIKE HUGE
HOTEL; HAD BATH IN
EACH ROOM
FIFTEEN STORIES HIGH
Had Nine Steel Decks and Was Fitted
With Every Modern Safety Con.
trivanee; Had Miniature Golf
Links on Top Deck

New York, April TO- The Titanic
was the largest ship afloat. She was
nearly 1000 tons greater than her sis
} ter ship. the Olympic, and, like her,
was 100 feet longer than their next
rivals. She was SS2h feet long, 92h
} feet in the beam and "a feet deep. She
was of $4,000 tons register and had a
displacement Of $4,000 tons. At the
} same time she was a floating marvel
, of luxury and carried literally a town.
full Of people.
The Titanic was fifteen stories high.
The floors were named the bottom,
double bottom, bed plates, lower orlop,
orlop, lower middle, main, saloon, up
per, promenade, upper promenade.
boat and sun decks and extra compass
platform.
, With officers and crew numbering
$50, the Titanic was capable Of carry
ing 5000 to $500 passengers-cab1n
and steerage She was built to be the
last word in size, speed, power and
sea luxury, and it would take
powerful imagination to conceive the
magnificence and detail for comfort
and luxury and pastime on the great
ship.
nS6CUlSlSO TtO9V ''SsS'
It's interior more closely resembled
a huge hotel, with heavy balustrated
wide stairways, elevators running up
and down for nine stories; its great
Isaloons and restaurants, its miniature
Itheater, squash and tennis courts,
swimming pools and Turkish bath.
rooms; it's great smoking room, caro-
rooms and beautiful music rooms, and
even on the top Of it's twelve decks a
miniature golf links.
Captain Smith, her commander, the
admiral of the White Star fleet, was
in command of her sister ship, the
Olympic, when she made her maiden
voyage to New York and also when
she collided with the British cruiser
Hawke in the Solent last September.
The Titanic was launched at Belfast |
May 81, last year. J. Pierpont Morgan, !
who was the guest of Lord P1rrie |
chairman and managing director of
the White Star line, and j. Bruce Is
may, chairman of the international
Mercantile Marine Co., witnessed the
launching. Enthusiastic crowds, lining
the banks of the river Laffan, cheered
heartily as the big vessel took TIT
! water.
Bath in Each Stateroom.
Each stateroom had it's own tub |
with all kinds Of water. There was a
servants hall for the Wallets, maids
and other servants of the voyagers. |
When they were not actually engaged
about the persons of their employers,
servants were expected to remain in
this hall. though they were travelling
first class. BY this arrangement the
difficulties that have some times
arisen aboard ship when valet was
mistaken for his master were to be
avoided.
| Another feature was an old English
chophouse with high backed stalls of
black oak. The arbors in the palm gar
den were another novelty. They were
artificially contrived with vines amid
banks Of real flowers.
The sitting rooms in some Of the
suites were as large as 15x15 feet. The
restaurant was larger than that in the
OLYMPIC and had a novelty in the
shape Of private promenade deck ON
the starboard side. 1t led to recep-
ton room where hosts and hostesses
could meet their guests before going
into the restaurant
Had Many Safety contrivances.
The Titanic had nine steel decks.
The hull is divided into thirty water
(tight compartments, the doors Of
which could be simultaneously closed
by throwing over lever on the
bridge. Some idea of the damage done
by the collision may be judged from
the fact that through this arrangement
of Iulkheads the huge vessel was con-
sider>d unsuitable.
Two suites on the Titanic were
s4,350 each for the single trip. These
apartments, which were called the
regal suites, were just abaft the grand
companionway on the B deck. They
consisted of sitting rooms, sleeping
rooms, baths and wardrobes, with a
front garden" wide promenade ex-
tending the whole length Of the suite
and having it's own sea rail.
| The occupant of one of these suites
could smoke, read, loll, exercise or do
as he chose on his own deck with all