Bisbee daily review., 1913-03-11
NEW CUHARDER
 MAMMOTH SHIP
8qHitania Is Nearing Com
 pletion at Glasgow and Will Be Launched in Four
 Weeks as Largest Vessel
TO RE FLOATING CITY

GLASGOW. March During the past few months the work of building the new CaDard liner Aquitania has proceeded so rapidly that her builders, JHo arm1of John Brown and company, Of CIydehsnk. expect to have her ready for launching in about four weeks. Owing to the extraordinary size of the vessel the Clyde river is being deeUened and widaned opposite inc shiEyard, in anticipation of the launching.
 It is many years since there was the same amount Of interest attached To the building of a new liner for transatlantic service as is shown in the auEitania. This interest is due almost wholly Go the extreme size of the vessel In her present condition ou the alius at Ciydebank she pre- sents 3 wonderful spectacle. appear ing something libe an eleye8-stoFied shy-scraper ia course Of construction.
 The Aquitania will have gross ton Eage Of 5o.0UG tons, or 5000 tons greater than the Olympic. the largest ship now lflcat The Aduitania and tho Hamburg-An.erican liner fmpera- tor now building at StettiH, will have tile same gross tonnage. though in other measurements the Cunarder will eclipse the German vessel The dimen- sions Of the Aquitania are SS5 feet length and g5 feet beam, while those of the imperator are 710 feet length and % feet beam
 Ever since the contract for the Aquitania was awarded 70 the Clyde bank builders iu December. 1910, 1t has been generally known that the new vessel was to be the largest ship ever built; but it has not been gener ally realized how very much larger the ship was to be than any of the huge liners which have excited wonder in the past by tlieir great proportions. As already stated the new vessel will have much greater tonnage than the White Star liners Olympic and her sister ship. the ilIfated Titanic. These record breakers Of but a few years ago. the Baltic and the Adriatie. length 7o9 feet and tonnage 23. 900 and 2f.000 respectively are not to be com pared with tho Aquitania
 Brought to land, the Aquitania would dwarf great works of which man has Iohs been prone to boast. The Washington monument in the United States capital, whose 555 feet wes for years the worlds record for high con- structioh. would make only a fair prop for the new steamer leaning against it The hig thing or the sea wctild over-top che famous woolworth build ing ia New York cit by more than leo feet.
 The speed Of the new vessel will be about 9 knots an hour. This is coRsid- eTably less than the records Of some of the transatlantic liners now in service, but is considered fast enough for all purposes. The interior fur nIshings and decorations of the Adui- tania are planned on the most lavish scale. and she will in every way merit the dcsaf itticn or a floating city. She will have accommodations for $50 first class passengers, 740 second class. and 24e0 steerage passengers. How greatly the new vessel win ex. eeed all others in the nature of the passenger accommodations is shown by the fact thas the first class state enf railroad officials were on the coast and that he had no appointments with