The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-05-27
LARGEST STEAMER.
DINING ROOM Will SEAT Eight
HUNDRED In COMFORT
A CITY ON The Waves

Crowds Watch Arrival in New York
Of the Latest Queen of the Sea-
Is Claimed to be Accident Proof
But the to of the Titanic Hangs
Like Ghv st Over its Safety.
Navigation in North River, between
lower New York and Hoboken, stood
still Thursday while the Va:erland,
biggest ship atoat, defed all efforts
to dock her, and swept broadside
down the stream for more than a
mile. When the liner arrived at her
pier after her maiden voyage, her
great length and strong ebb tide
proved too strong a combination for
the fleet of willing little tugs that
urged her toward her berth. For
more than three hours the tugs pull
ed and hauled at the gigantic liner
without success.
Once sic was almost ready to tie
up when the tide gripped her and
dragged her out of the slip. Ferry
boats and small craft scurried to
safety as the leviathian floated broad
side down the river, with twenty tugs
circling frantically around. She
floated mile before the tugs got her
Strengthened out, and then she re-
turned under her own steam.
Three thousand persons aboard.
impatient to land, watched the man
oeuvers, without showing any alarm,
although there were moments when
the steamer narrowly missed crump-
ling the end of a pier. The fourth
attempt to dock the ship proved sue
cessful.
She is the largest ship in the world.
having a tonnage of $4,000. She is
$50 feet long and 100 feet beam.
Her tonnage is 5000 feet greater
than that Of the Imperator. Her
forged steel rudder weighs sos tons.
Being Of the balanced type, a consid-
cradle part of it extends forward Of
the rudder post. This style offers
greater steering surface than does
the usual shape, and it is also much
more sensitive. The rudder shaft is
nearly three feet through.
1t is upward of fifth oe mile
(four New York city blocks fron)
the pilot house to the big rudder, but
it is very obedient, so obedient, in
fact, that the pressure of child's
finger on a spoke Of the little wheel
in the wheelhouse will make it
mind. Her blades remind one Of
a windmill. Each of her four pro-
peilers has a diameter of 10 feet Z
inches and weighs nearly Is tons.
They revolve $50 times a minute.
They are of manganese bronze, forg
ed. Her anchor, the biggest on the
seas, weighs 11.S tons. The star
board bower weighs 10.5 tons.
AS in the case Of the Imperator,
her hull has been constructed with a
wonderful inner skin carried high
above the water line, making her a
vessel within vessel. She is pro-
vided with both longitudinal and
transverse bulkheads, giving her a
cellular construction, and rendering
her proof against collisions and SIM
liar accidents of the sea. She car
ries lifeboats more than sufficient to
accommodate all on board, while her
powerful wireless equipment enables
the vessel to keep continuously in
touch with the land.
She is the first steamship ever
built with tunnels which do not pass
directly through the center Of the
decks. Each of her three great fun
nels divides in the form of the letter
"Y" at a point beneath the lowest
passenger deck and joins again in
single tube which rises above her
uppermost deck. The space occupied
By the ordinary tunnels passing
through the middle of the decks is
thus clear and there will be no OBJ
structions in the public cabins.
The grand dining room Of this
giant steamship seats SEQ persons
comfortably. The old swivel chairs
fastened to the deck Of the ordinary
steamships are dispensed with on the
Vaterland and movable chairs are US
ed. In addition to the dining room,
the Vaterland has an elaborate Ritz
Carlton restaurant, grill room and
palm garden. The great social hall
is the largest ever built on board
vessel. 1t is rooted with stained
glass and illuminated by concealed
lights. The woodwork throughout is
richly carved, whil the walls are
panelled with rare tapestries and is
set with statues. A fully equipped
stage is one of the leading features
Of the social hall.
The elaborate swimming pool Of
the Vaterland and her various elec-
trio therapeutics and other baths,
lend to her the attractions Of great
sea or bathing resort. The pool,
which reproduces a Roman bath, ex-
tends through three decks. 1t con-
sists Of three large rooms, and en-
trance hall, with hard painted walls
and a floor of ornamental mosaics,
an ante-chamber rooted with glass,
and the pool. The roof is supported
by ten marble pillars, and arranged
along the sides are twenty-eight bath
cabins. In connection with the pool,
barbership and hair dressing parlor
have been provided for use Of the
use Of the passengers.
The smoking room on the upper
deck forward is a luxurious loung-
ing place. 1t has been decorated
sumptuously with rich panelling and
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