one can be connected with any department of the vessel. When in harbor,
either at Liverpool or New York, the wires are connected to the City
Central exchange so that the ships can be communicated with either by
local or long distance telephone.

By means of wireless telegraphy voyagers can communicate with friends
during almost the entire trip and learn the news of the world the same
as if they were on land. A bulletin is published daily on board giving
news of the leading happenings of the world.

There is a perfect fire alarm system on board with fire mains on each
side of the ship from which connections are taken to every separate
department. There are boxes with hydrant and valve in each room and
a system of break glass fire alarms with a drop indicator box in the
chartroom and also one in the engine-room to notify in case of any
outbreak.

The sanitation is all that could be desired. There are flush lavatories
on all decks in marble and onyx and with all the sanitary contrivances
in apparatus of the best design.

The vessel is propelled by four screws, rotated by turbine engines and
the power developed is equal to that of 68,000 horses. Now 68,000
horses placed head to tail in a single line would reach a distance of
90 miles or as far as from New York to Philadelphia; and if the steeds
were harnessed twenty abreast there would be no fewer than 3,400 rows
of powerful horses.

Such is the steamship of to-day but there is no doubt that the thousand
foot boat is coming, which probably will cross the Atlantic ocean in