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376 | oH or with any fellow traveler in another stateroom, or while the ship is at dock with anyone in the city. In addition, of course, to this public telephone system, there is a private system for the operation of the ship leading from the pilot house to the engine room and other departments. Equipped with Wiaureless The steamer is, of course, equipped with wireless and also carries an aux- iliary storage battery plant which will operate for six hours if by any acci- dent the boilers should be put out of commission. Alarm boxes are placed at convenient intervals which are rung at stated times by the night patrol and register in the pilot house. An automatic signal board placed in the pilot house controls the signal lights of the ship. These lamps are carried in duplicate, one dormant and the other burning, and if by any chance the burning light goes out, the other is automatically thrown in and registers in the pilot house. As- surance is, therefore, given that the port and starboard and other signal lights are always burning, or at any rate that if anything is wrong with them it is immediately announced. The. steamer is also equipped with an electric whistle device for sounding signals and can also be arranged to automatically blow the fog signal at prescribed intervals during thick weather. In addition to the usual engine tel- egraph, the means of communicating intelligence from the pilot house to the engine room are many, including an electric signal bell system and also an electric indicator connected with the main shaft, which indicates whether the engines are going for- -ward or astern. The system of elec- tric fans throughout the boat is quite complete and is especially elaborate and painstaking in the dining room. All the drinking water is passed through copper tubes and purified by electricity before being served. Many of the functions of the galley are also performed by electricity, such as po- tato peeling and dish washing. The meters in the switch board are of Weston make with General Elec- tric sockets and Crouse-Hinds dis- tributing panels. The new steamer will be equipped with a 32-inch searchlight, the largest on the lakes. Auxiliary Machinery A very complete equipment of aux- iliary machinery is installed, part of which has been mentioned in the early part of this account. The main feed pump -is a 16-24-24 by .24 in. THE MARINE REVIEW Blake tandem compound _-- simplex pump of very massive construction. This pump will not be much used, as it is expected that the connected feed pump on the main engine will take care of all feed requirements. An auxiliary feed pump is also fitted, 14 and 8 by 12 in. Blake ,duplex. The fire and general service pump is a 16 and 9 in. by 12 in. duplex underwrit- ers' pump, located on the main deck where it will be readily accessible. The fresh water service on the ship is cared: tor 'by an 8 and. 10 in, by 12 in. Blake duplex pump, drawing water for four fresh water tanks of a com- bined capacity of 17,000 gallons. The water for drinking purposes is all purified by an electrical apparatus furnished by the Water Purifying Machine Ca; of Buffalo, N.Y, The water closets and other sani- tary systems are supplied with water by a tandem compound duplex pump, Sand 14cin. by 14 and-12:ins~ Phis pump also supplies cooling water to the main engine journals, the auxil- tary imjection spray heads' in the main condenser and other service of similar nature. The sprinkler sys- tem throughout the ship is supplied from an 8 in. erry -turbine driven centrifugal pump located in the hold but with the throttle valve within easy reach from the handling plat- form so the pump canbe started without going below. As the steamer is equipped with a full water bottom ballast system, a pump is necessarily required to han- dle the water and accordingly a Blake vertical cross compound duplex pump 15-24 and 24 by 18 in. is installed connected to the water tanks with discharge overboard and to the trim tanks which are located on the guards. The refrigerators and food storage spaces are cooled by a 10-ton car- bonic anhydride refrigerating machine built by Kroeschell Bros., of Chicago. The forward funnel is fitted with one 10 in. and 26 in. whistle and one 6 in. organ whistle. The ashes are discharged outboard by eight hydraulic double jet ash ejectors of improved design. The stoke holds are roomy and well ven- tilated, and designed with safety es- capes and with view of comfort for the stokers. A Schuette & Koerting film feed water heater, made by the Schuette & Koerting Co., of Philadelphia, Pa., is installed, designed to raise the tem- perature of 200,000 lbs. of feed water from 130 at hot well to 200 at deliv- ery with 4 lbs. back pressure. All steam and feed piping through- out the ship is covered with 85 per booths, November, 1912 cent magnesia sectional covering and in exposed places the covering is jacketed with galvanized iron. All flanged joints are straight faced with slight retaining grooves for the gas- kets. Decorative Features of the Ship The decorative features of the ves- sel have been entrusted to Louis O. Keil, the marine interior decorator, who has designed the interiors of a great many steamers, notably those of the Hudson River Day Line and the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co. The keynote of the decorative scheme is a rich simplicity. Elaborate ornamentation has been suppressed and the result is: The first thing that a traveler sees, of course, about a steamer, is the lob- by. This is very spacious, quite as large, in fact, as the lobby of an or- dinary hotel, containing the purset's and. steward's offices, telephone parcel and baggage rooms, and a lunch counter, the entrance of which is gained through a doorway. The lobby is designed in the Tuscan order of architecture,' Lhe watls are paneled in mahogany inlaid with vari- ous woods and the colors are in keeping with the general dominant tone of this aristocrat of woods. The ceiling decorations will be in bronze and Roman verd. Light will be ob- tained from ceiling and wall brackets of appropriate design. <A feature of the lobby that marks quite a depart- ure from the usual sidewheeler onthe lakes is that the grand stairway lead- ing to the promenade deck is in- closed in a vestibule with sliding doors; "The purpose of. this "is to shut the stairway off immediately in the. -event (of: a possible fire, a very remote contingency, it must be ad- mitted. The main dining room is immedi- ately abaft the purser's and steward's offices on the main deck, extending to the stern of the ship. It is carried out in Adams design with mahogany and white enamel. In addition to a banquet room 24 ft. long on the star- board side and two private dining rooms On the port side, there are a number of alcoves with bay windows on both port and starboard sides of the main room where one may have a fair degree of privacy in dining. Light is obtained from Sheffield sil- ver candelabra carried on columns, as well as Sheffield silver wall brackets. The extreme outer end of the main dining room is taken up with a great sideboard with dumb waiter leading to the buffet on the orlop deck be- low. ihe dining room is 72 ft. long, 60 ft. wide at the forward' end, taper-