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January, 1916 mands and is willing to pay for pleasant surroundings and comfort whether by land or sea,” stated H. B. Etter, designing draftsman, Wm. Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Build- ing Co., Philadelphia, in a paper on the interior decoration of vessels. “It is true,” continued Mr. Etter, “that they have congenial surroundings on -some ocean liners, but the American coastwise steamers, with some notable exceptions, are. rarely so _ fortunate. I do not wish to criticize these steam- ers too harshly, but they are for the most part ugly from a decorative standpoint. The writer has. been on board of some of them where the interior was an eyesore, when a really fine effect could have been made for a very little if any additional cost. The joiner work has to be made to suit the vessel, and it could have just Y, for an interior a great many things should be considered, and care should be exercised to have the decoration of adjoining public rooms so one will not shock the other. All should blend together like one complete thing and yet not be alike. The interior decora- tion of a vessel is very often unsuited for the climate’ she is to trade in. The writer was once called upon to look over a steamer engaged in trop- ical service to see what could be done to improve her. I found the smoking room “a black hole’—everything dark, gloomy and hot looking. The other public rooms were not much better— mahogany everywhere. Why is it so many ship owners insist on mahogany or oak-paneled walls when we can get so much better results from deli- cate tints? In the first place hard- wood walls kill the furniture; they The New Members and Their Addresses Life Associate Member. change building, New York. THE MARINE REVIEW 5 noisseurs of art. Some of the Italian styles are beautiful and are especially suited for first class yacht work, as they are fine as to detail, mostly always carved and consequently more costly. “Proportion is another great consid- eration. As the deck heights are us- ually too low for the size of the room, the walls should be designed to deceive this and give the impression of height. This can be greatly improved by keep- ing the chair rail, if there be one, as low down as possible, thereby making the upper panels the longest and prevent- ing the squatty look. Columns and pilasters. should be well proportioned and with caps and bases suitable for the shafts. It costs no more to turn a column shaft to the proper diameter in proportion to the height and to have the proper taper and fluting, than WW P. O. Address, 9 Prospect West, Rosert M. Tuompson, 43 Exchange Place, New York. Members. CornEtius A. Binks, superintending engineer, N. Y. & Cuba Mail S. S. Co., N. Y. City. P. O. Address, Mattawan, N. J. FREDERICK H. Cuase, naval architect, Tams, Lemoine & Crane, 52 Pine street, New York. ANDREW W. CHRISTIAN, assistant to president, Harlan & Holl- ingsworth Corp., 526 Bourse building, Philadelphia. Niets CHRISTIANSEN, superintendent of machinery, News S. B. & D. D. Co., Newport News, Va. ALBERT C. A. HOoLzApFELs, vice president, Holzapfels, Ltd., 18 Broadway, New York. RussELt C. Jones, manager, Marine Dept. Griscom-Russell Co., 90 West street, New York. Georce F. Lawtey, president, George F. Lawley & Son Corp., Neponsett, Mass. Newport Jouan H. Lrnpross, draftsman, Cox & Stevens, 15 William Y street, New York. P. O. Address, 4124 Eighth avenue, Brook- lyn, N. Y. SQ WWW WG WWW GI Collingwood Shipbuilding 1119 Joun S. Leitcu, general manager, Co., Collingwood, Ont. ° Davip Mirrar, surveyor, Lloyds Register of Shipping, Munsey building, Calvert street, Baltimore, Md. JosepH F. Moran, vice president, Atlantic Basin Iron Works, 11 Imlay street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Kurt A. W. OrBANOWSKI, naval architect, 140 Broadway, New York. EvanceLtos D, PapayANNis, naval constructor Royal Hellenic Navy. Witit1am W. SMITH, East Pittsburgh, Pa. : Joun F. WentwortH, draftsman, Navy Yard, Boston, Mass. Ceci. W. WEAVER, marine estimator, Pusey & Jones, Wilming- on, Del. : Lupwic ANDERSEN, ship and engine surveyor, 80 Broad street, New York. Henry Homes, Exchange building, New York. engineer, Westinghouse Machine Co., assistant engineer, Esplen & Sons, Produce P. O. Address, 807 Eighth ave- Brooklyn, N Frepertck J. Smitu, superintendent, Machine Shop, Robins Dry Dock & Repair Co. P. O. Address, 307 Sherman street, Brooklyn, N. Y. : Louis N. Lacomse, assistant superintendent, Robins Dry Dock & Repair Co., Brooklyn, N. Y. P. O. Address, 451 Fifty-sixth street. SAMUEL BENNETT, surveyor, American Bureau of Shipping, P. O. S. Box 438, Newport News, Pa. FREDERICK S. Brinton, naval architect, 22 Colman dock, Seat- tle, Wash. : Associate Members. Norman R. Duron, designer, marine machinery, Jones Co., Wilmington, Del. CuarRLEes F. pE GANAHL, president, Tampico Navigation Co., 80 Broad street, New York. JaMes A. GUTHRIE Jr., Pennsylvania R.. R. Co. Von-FonG Lam, student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass. P. O. Address, 156 Huntington avenue. Joun A. McGrecor, president, Union Iron Works Co., San Francisco, Cal. CuarLes H. MAcponaLp, representative, Art Metal Construction Co., 1400 Woolworth building, New York. LeicH R. Sanrorp, U. S. Engineer Office, Rock Island, IIl. Henry E. Russert, Asst. Naval Constructor, U. S. N., Navy Yard, New York. Pusey & marine adjuster insurance department, Junior Members. Henry C. Apams Jr., shipfitter, N. Camden, N. J. Cray L. Jennison, draftsman, U. S. Coast Guard, Treasury Department, Washington, D. C : Cart E, Pererson, draftsman, Morse Dry Dock & Repair Co., Brooklyn, N. Y. é sap Puitie H. THeEarte, draftsman, San Diego Marine Construc- tion Co., San Diego, Cal. Y. Shipbuilding Co., GeorcE Latnc Jr., surveyor, The Vessel Agency, 58 Maiden ~ Lane, New York. Brighton, N. Y. Linn M. Rakestraw, student, University of Michigan. Address, 1316 Geddes avenue, Ann Arbor, Mich. P. O. Address, 31 Trinity Place, West New 1eee(Op SOWA Wwrhrw ww " 00 Yj Brooklyn, N. Y. Z Taiies McNavcH, manager, Esplen & Sons, 20 Produce Ex- j | Y ingless panels, The joint work of most of these ves- sels is very often of the same design from end to end, bottom to top, and bad proportion at that. It must be trying to. one of refined taste to have the same thing staring at him every place he goes for a week or So. “Tt seems to be a mistake when a new passenger vessel is to be built if some scheme of decoration is not worked out. Of course this has been done for some of them with notable success and things seem to be improv- ing in this respect. There are so many periods of decorative styles so suit- able to be selected from for a vessel’s interior, most of them not expensive to reproduce, that it seems reasonable that anything else. should be discarded. In working out a_ successful design absorb the artificial light also, for no matter how brilliantly a vessel may be lighted there are always deep shadows and dark corners. Light colors are cheerful; they reflect the artificial light and make a good setting for rich fur- niture besides. Of course there are cases where light tints would not answer. A smoking room, as we all know, should not be decorated like a ball room, yet we need not have it dark and gloomy as in the vessel just referred to. Periods of Decoration “Some of the periods of decoration which are most pleasing and well adapted for ship interiors are Louis. Quatorze, Regency, Louis Quinze, Louis Seize, French Empire, Elizabethan, the Georgian periods, Adams, American Colonial and some others not so well known by those who are not con- » for one ill proportioned. There are a number of books that treat of this subject, of which Vignola is considered the best. ; “Cornices and moldings should have a defined profile. You often see a jum- ble of curves and fillets with no par- ticular meaning and cornices too deep or with too much projection or else too little for the lower portion of the wall. Neither should they be too in- tricate, for, aseit often happens, the forecastle hands may have to paint her some time and they are more: in- clined to finish quickly and leave no ‘holidays’ than to make a careful job, so pile the paint on thick which soon clogs the moldings and _ spoils their beauty. The bed moldings of cornices can be enriched if more elaboration is desired. Egg molding, dentil courses and the like are rich, pleasing, and good taste, and, as they are inverted,