The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
BID $5OO,OOO FOR
SHIPS LUXURY SUITE
RICH MEN WOULD OCCUPY
FORMER IMPERIAL STATE
ROOM ON LEVIATHAN.

NEW YORK.-Fares exceeding
100000 will be paid by those who
sail on the Leviathan on her maiden
trip July 4th. Several millionaires are
bidding for the right to pay the top
PRICES, 0O0-to occupy the former
imperial suite, designed on the old
Vaterland for the German kaiser.
There will be no steerage," says
w. ]. Love, vice president and general
manager of the United States ship
ping board. "The Vaterland had three
classes and Storage. The rebuilt Le-
viathan has three classes only-wlth
minimum fare of $275."
Passengers and crew will total A.
GA. The first class cabin will accom-
modate o76. second class 542 and third
class 1880. The crew comprises l,ZIo.
The commander will be Captain Her
bert Hartley formerly OF the steam
ship St. Louis.
Vice President Love ampliied for
NEA service his announcement that
rebuilding operations now nearing
completion at Newport News, Va
made the Levathan the largest ship
afoat. Her gross tonnage is now So
956.65. as against 54,282 originally,
3,405 more than the Majestic, al
though she is eight feet shorter and
only fraction OF a foot wider.
1T cost 8.500000," said Love. The
ship is now worth $25,000,000. She
has been converted from coal to oil
burning.
Crosses in Six Days.
"She will sail from New York for
Southampton every three weeks, max
ing the trip in six days. Each trip will
consume $500 tons of fuel oil. If this
1,462,300 gallons were gasoline it
would run a fivver around the world
1000 times. or would drive a car TO-,
900 miles a year for 263 years!
weight OF the Leviathan loaded is
1920 tons. To transport this weight
on land would require $3.50 freight
cars.
There are twelve decks, five pas
senger elevators, and six freight ele-
vators for baggage and provisions.
Even the engine room has an elevator.
The swimming pool, for first class
passengers only, is SO feet long, 20
feet wide and from 81 to 6H feet
deep. 1t carries 10000 gallons or 118
tons of water There is a gymnasium
16x40 for the first class, and another
14x27 for second class. Also two Ii
braries containing ALSO volumes.
Safety is assured on the Leviathan.
There are sixty-eight life boats and
two 31-foot motor boats equipped
with wireless, the seventy boats having
a capacity of 4,750 persons. There is
a Sperry gyro-compass, similar to
those used on battleships; draft guages
so the amount of water the vessel is
drawing can be read on the bridge;
four microphones for submarine sig
mails; two high-power searchlights;
thirteen watertIght transverse bulk
heads, and eighteen watertight sliding
doors automatically operated and con-
trolled from the bridge.
Fire protection includes a forty
hve-s station alarm system, twenty-eight
miles of copper tubing in which ex-
pansion of air raises an alarm of fire
automatically, 1000 feet of hose and
ten pumps having capacity of loo
gallons minute.
Hospital for Thirty Four.
THE Leviathan has $4,000 electric
lamps and a generating plant pro-
viding enough power to supply an
ordinary home for seven years. There
is a social hall 53x75, with a 21-foot
ceiling. On board will be three doc
tors and three hospital stewards, with
an operating room and hospital &C
commodating thirty-four patients, in
addition to the crews hospital &C
commodating sixteen.
The distance around the prone
made deck is 1000 feet-4.8 laps to the
mile There are seven galleys, where
the cooking will be done by Ameri-
cans. Chinaware includes 100000
pieces-and there are $4,000 linen
sheets, pillow cases, towels and table
cloths
Food? There will be enough for a
city on each trip-ninety-three tons
of meat thirty-six tons Of poultry,
three tons of game birds, twenty
eight tons of fish, thirty tons of po-
tatoes, ten tons of other vegetables,
eight tons OF sugar, three tons OF tea
and coffee, two tons of ham, thirty
six tons of flour, two tons of grapes,
seven and half tons of butter, ten
tons OF jams and preserves, and ton
OF tobacco; besides that 1925 quarts
OF milk. OLA dozen eggs and 600
boxes CT oranges, apples and other
fruit"