Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-11
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Hamburg, June 1.-THE steamship
1mperator, the newest transatlantic
liner of the Hamburg-American line,
started on her maiden trip to America
today with list of distinguished pass
engers, including officers of the line.
and a number of persons prominent
in society on both sides of the At
lantic
The Hamburg American officials say
that so many safeguards have been
taken as the result of the Inflated
Titanic's trip that all danger has been
eliminated in connection with the I'm
,perator.
The new transatlantic leviathan is
SO feet wide, her displacement $4,000
tons and her required contract speed
is % IL knots. The new ship is really
a vessel. The hull was built with a
double bottom extending her entire
length and equipped with coal bunkers
at the sides, which give her almost a
double shell, after the plan adopted by
Brunei in the construction of the
Great Eastern fifty years ago. Trans
verse bulkheads equipped with doors,
operated by hydraulic power and con-
trolled on the bridges Of the vessel,
subdivide the hull and different decks.
The double bottom of the ship is ex-
traordinarily large in measurement,
being some 76S feet long, 80 feet wide
and more than six feet in height.
The turbines naturally attract great
attention because of their size. One
of the rotors contains $4,000 blades,
weighs 1876 tons and is expected to
develop more than $4,000 horse power.
The casing which encloses the rotors
is % feet long and Is feet wide. The
shafts are a foot and half in thick
ness and the bronze propellers are
more than sixteen feet in diameter.
The anchors with which the lmpera-
tor is provided weigh in the neighbor-
hood of 5000 pounds apiece and the
vessel carries five of these so-called
mudhooks.
One of the new features Of this new
leviathan is the elimination of built-in
berths in the first cabin storerooms.
Metal beds replace the hunks of for
mer years and there is a large num-
Der of individual staterooms. The
folding washstand gives way to a
marble wash basin, with running hot
and cold water. A gymnasium equip
ed with every apparatus from a pair
of dumbells to a mechanical horse,
affords a means of exercise other
than promenading around the ship, a
distance of almost a mile. A bath.
built in accordance with ideas and
methods of the Romans, measures 60
feet in length, and is Al feet wide;
medical and hygienic baths are fea-
ture of this section of the lmperator.
To eliminate the rolling of the YES
sci, even during rough weather, the
Imperator is equipped with the Frahm
system of "compensating tanks"
These tanks in heavy weather,
through an ingenious system siphon-
ing and distribution of water counter
act the rolling tendencies of the ship
/ in a heavy sea.
The crew of the new vessel numbers
some 100.
| The dining rooms of the Imperator
in size compares easily with the ac-
commodations offered by the best ho-
tells. The main dining room is To-
Gated amidships on two decks, the
upper portion forming a large open
gallery. Above the gallery, which is
oval in shape, rises a cupalo of richly
decorated glass, which lends much to
the lofty appearance of the great hall.
What will probably prove to be the
most popular cabin aboard the vessel,
will be the rathskeller or cafe veran-
DAM floored with a stone pavement
and furnished with a half timbered
ceiling. One of the features of the
ship will be the main lounge. 1t is so
CONSTRUCTED that it may be turned into
a good sized ball room.