The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-22
A New Yorker In Europe
By PAUL HARRISON

Aboard s. S. Normandie, June 22. Scarcely had your correspondent crossed the gnngplank at Havre into the biggest ship in the world gross tonaEe, 79,2s0; length, 1929 feet: beam, 11s feet, 6 inches) than he was seized with case of statis- | tics.
 For one thing, couldn't And the porter with my bags. Plenty of porters were running around with luggage = 4soo pieces roughly, containing enough French perfume to pleasantly scent the Chicago stockyards. and enough lingerie to make three sets of in. timate garments for the Statue or Liberty. But wanted my own bags, in which were S6 different items, including twelve dirty shirts and tho ash tray purloined from Bouquets bistro.
 Finally I plunged into the Nor mandie's labyrinth of corridors. totaiing a length of A city blocks and after q brisk hike came upon my cabin. which was 80 feet above the waterline. 50 steps and an elevator ride from the dining room, and next door to voluble French couple who argued at a mean rate of 357 words to the minute. also found the porter. No. l4s. and my luggage.
 Lengthy Medltations
 Then for Q stroll on the sun deck (two city blocks in length) to watch our departure from Havre and to mediate on some more ex- nmpies of the ship's great size. If it were up-ended against the Elm. pire State building, Al Smith would be very much surprised. If it were placed in Times and Longacre Squares, just barely fitting in the space. Nils Granlund would try to rent 1t for . night club. If 1t were got down in Fifth avenue. with the stern at Forty-second street and the bow past Forty sixth, 1t wouldn't be of much use 10 anybody.
 Both tubes of the Holland ve- hicular Tunnel running under the Hudson river could be put into one of the Normandio's tunnels. This would be difficult of accom- plishment, however, even though the stern funnel Is just q dummy |. The swimming pool is II? feet long, ranging in depth from 8 feet at the deep end to three fingers at the bar end to three fingers at the bar at the shallow end where non.swimmers can practice partial immersion in highballs and Martinls.
 l nAa tnrvs arAnnA tha pr0 Ypl an. ado deck Is more than sixth of tancc, because 1t doesn't allow a fellow to stroll past the marvellous blonde in the deck chair as often as he's like The theater seats 400 people when American films are shown; practically nobody whom French fiickefs are run There's brokerage office aboard. cheerful forecast of the day when voyaging tycoons will watch the quotations and send buying or ders---through the seven radio operators--to Wall street.
 Rolling in Dough
 The kitchen Is so big 1t has traf- fic regulations for it's 72 cooks and 76 assistants and the incoming and outgoing walters. Any waiter car- rying the captains coup has prece- dence over all other traffic. I have l not been able to count all the walt ers, but am certain that If laid end to end they would look very silly. The electric range is 60 feet in length, two-sided, and has SO ovens for baking $500 rolls and cakes & day. No housewife would feel at home on the range. So much pas try is made and eaten that the Normandie has three doctors and a corps of nurses. They're secret iy sorry that the ship is so steady, because it Is much easier to take care of seasick people. who ask nothing more than to be allowed 10 die.
 There are 49.330 pieces of sil- yer in the dining service, which is more than souvenir-seeking pas sengers possibly can carry away far several additional voyages. Of the 5000 ash trays in the pub lie rooms, 435 were missing be- fore, the ship had progressed from Havfet Southampton. The cel- lar, if that is not too landlubbcr- ish a term, contained 7B.000 bot ties of wine and 500 barrels of beer when we sailed. but the ship is a great deal lighter already.
 on investigation that you are cor rect-not only will cancel my | a. E.f L.