The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-22
THE MAJESTIC
From the Louisville courier-Journal.

From the Louisville Cour1er-J ournal.
 Is there with soul so dead whose blood doesn't quicken at the thought of ships and salt water?
 Evidently not, from the reception accorded the new queen of the ocean, the White Star liner Majestic. She has been received with great acclaim in the busy arms of New York harbor after her maiden voyage across the Atlantic.
 New York, blase about most things, showed keen interest in the arrival of what has been called the Norwich of the Handkerchiefs were waved from 10000 windows. Thousands lined themselves along the Battery sea wall, and every pier head within 10 miles had it's quota of iegemen come to give homage to the leviathan.
 The dimensions of the Majestic exceed even those of the Titanic, which sank in midocean on April IA, 1912, with loss of 1,500 lives. The Titanic was also White Star liner and during it's short life was the Gargantua of the deep. Its tonnage was 46,000; that of the Majestic is 56,000 Its length was 882 feet; that of the Majestic is 956. In depth the new ship exceeds the old one by eight feet, the figures being 102 and 94, respectively.
 The horsepower of the Titanic was 47 1000; that of the Majestic is 100000. The Titanic
 
 by 4S boilers. The Titanic had room for 5000 passengers, while 4,1oo passengers can tread with comfort the nine decks of the Majestic.
 While the Majestic's speed is 25 knots and many sea fans expect it to break the trans Atlantic record, now held by the Cunarder Mau- retania, it averaged only 22.69 knots on its first voyage. time days, 14 hours and 45 minutes. Captain Sir Bertram Fox Hayes claimed that the Majestic made no attempt to break the existing record of days, 13 hours and Al minutes. His first concern the safety of the voyage.
 No doubt he pushed off with sober recollec- tions of that voyage of 10 years ago which end ed so tragicauy for Captain Smith of ths Ii. tanic and hls precious cargo.
 The progress made in the building of ships within 80 years is striking, when the size of a steam packet of 1842, with a length of POT feet, a tonnage of 1,2e0, depth of 22 feet, a horse power of TAO, passenger capacity of 90, with four boilers and two decks, is pared with the magnificent proportions of the Majestic.
 And yet as larger and larger ships are built, the primitive joy of sailing diminshes. In such luxurious edifices the Majestic, with their enormous restaurants, their tennis courts, their theatres anu their promenade decks remote from the water line, cross the ocean with hardly the consciousness of doing so. The conquest of Neptune>s almost complete. Only now and then he, with the help of the gods of wind and storm. sucks proud bark down to watery grave.
 The real joy of sailing came in the days when Neptune was yet a formidable rival when every wave was an adventure and when every list was likely to let the sea pour in.
 Contrast the feelings of the brave sailors of the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria steering into the unknown in their frail shells, subject to the seas every angry mood, with the complacence of the passengers who enter such ships the Majestic with no more fear than they enter the hotels built on Manhattans solid rock.