average cross section of the tower is 75 by 85 feet, the floor space
of the entire building is 1,080,000 square feet or about 25 acres.

The tower of this surpassing cloud-piercing structure can be seen for
many miles from the surrounding country and from the bay it looks like
a giant sentinel in white watching the mighty city at its feet and
proclaiming the ceaseless activity and progress of the Western World.




CHAPTER VI

OCEAN PALACES

Ocean Greyhounds--Present Day Floating Palaces--Regal
Appointments--Passenger Accommodation--Food Consumption--The One
Thousand Foot Boat.


The strides of naval architecture and marine engineering have been
marvelous within the present generation. To-day huge leviathans glide
over the waves with a swiftness and safety deemed absolutely impossible
fifty years ago.

In view of the luxurious accommodations and princely surroundings to
be found on the modern ocean palaces, it is interesting to look back
now almost a hundred years to the time when the _Savannah_ was
the first steamship to cross the Atlantic. True the voyage of this
pioneer of steam from Savannah to Liverpool was not much of a success,