less than four days if not in three. But the question is, where shall
we put her, that is, where shall we dock her?

To build a thousand foot pier to accommodate her, appears like a good
answer to this question, but the great difficulty is that there are
United States Government regulations restricting the length of piers
to 800 feet. Docking space along the shore of New York harbor is too
valuable to permit the ship being berthed parallel to the shore,
therefore vessels must dock at right angles to the shore. Some
provisions must soon be made and the regulations as to dock lengths
revised.

The thousand footer may be here in a couple of years or so. In the
meantime the two 840 footers are already on the stocks at Belfast and
are expected to arrive early in 1911. Before they come changes and
improvements must be made in the docking and harbor facilities of the
port of New York.

If higher speed is demanded, increased size is essential, since with
even the best result every 100 horse-power added involves an addition
to machinery weight of approximately 14 tons and to the area occupied
of about 40 square feet. To accomplish this the ship must be as much
larger in proportion.

The ship designer has to work within circumscribed limits. If he could
make his vessel of any depth he might build much larger and there would
be theoretically no limit to his speed: 40 knots an hour might be
obtained as easily as the present maximum of 26, but in designing his
ship he must remember that in the harbors of New York or Liverpool the
channels are not much beyond 30 feet in depth. High speed necessitates