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S. S. PRESIDENT HOOVER Blowers for Ventilating System, Top Deck busson tapestry panel especially woven. The furnishings are overstuffed chairs and settees, walnut armchairs in green leather, baize covered game tables and round card tables all of walnut; and glass top smoking stands. Ample overhead lighting is provided by 12-foot long trough lights between every other beam space and there are also wall bracket lights and a floor lamp in each corner. The walls are decorated with paintings of California scenes. The floors are in shades of green and vermillion rubber tile. Draperies are mounted in recessed window boxes and are of heavy hand-blocked linen with white background and with shades of green and vermillion color- ings. The first class din- ing saloon is located on the upper deck amid- Ships just aft of the first class foyer and is in contemporary design with pinkish grey panel Work and: trim: The walls are flush paneled with applied moldings finished in gold leaf. All pilasters and col- umns are ornamented with an inset carved panel in gold leaf and the cornice and girder casings have mold- ed edges with gilt finish. Airports are arranged in groups of four in each recess. The recesses have painted trim with moldings and carved ornamented gold leaf. A narrow scored mirror it fitted vertically between the pairs of airports. In the lower part of recess a ventillation duct enclosure is fitted with painted paneling and walnut top. Over the center of the room there is a large well extending to the bridge deck with sides decorated by full height cut glass mirrors orna- mented in gold leaf and separated by wide con- Emergency Light. Set cave painted pilasters. A musicians’ gallery ig provided at the forward end of the well. The ceiling over the entire space including the wel] is of painted Vehisote with mullions of white pine and is fitted below the beams. A large sideboard paneled in satinwood with walnut top and trim placed under a tall scoreq mirror in a frame of carved walnut with gold leafed ornament is installed opposite the stair- way on the centerline of the ship. Sideboards and mirrors of similar design are placed port and starboard at the forward and after ends of the room. In addition to a ‘‘bachelors’ table’’ with 16 seats there are dining tables, each seating, two, four or six persons with a total seating capacity of 272. These tables have solid walnut tops on a metal pedestal base adjustable to the sheer and camber of the deck. Dining room chairs have satinwocd frames and are upholstered in modern fabrics. The tiled rubber flooring is of a pleasing design in light green tones. Aft of the first class dining saloon on the port side of the ship there is a private dining room accommodating 16 persons. Other Public Rooms NE of the fine public spaces is the marine tea garden at the after end of the promen- ade deck. It is enclosed at the sides and most of the after end with sliding frameless plate glass storm windows, which when opened in favorable weather make it practically an open- air space. The walls in way of the windows are paneled in teak. Elsewhere the walls are flush paneled and painted in old rose, the center panels at each end being decorated in a stencil design in tinted silver leaf, with baseboard, cor- nice and panel strips of teak. The furnishings consist of veranda chairs and settees lacquered in ming green, Chinese red and ebony. There are wicker and silver lacquered arm chairs up- holstered in green moire, green lacquered (Continued on Page 37) Capstans and Bollards After Deck 99 MARINE REvVIEw—August, 1931