Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 150, Decatur, Adams County, 25 June 1923 — Page 3

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Leviathan made Wonder Ship by American Brains .

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When vessels in New York harbor shriek a “God . Speed" through their sirens and thousands on shore cheer the Leviathan on her departure on Independence Day, the salutes will not only be for the liner herself but for the hundreds of Americans - whose brains and craftsmanship have made her rebuilding possible. Their efforts and results have proved incomparable in the history of ship construction as is evidenced by the -new Levia- ’ than, which as flag ship of the United States Lines fleet adds material prestige to the American merchant marine. As the Pyramids In their solid grandeur overshadow any other •olid structure in the world, so does the Leviathan excell all other cfaft, in size, equipment, appointment and service. J r Comparisons are often deemed odious, but it Is by comparison only that the features of the gigantic liner can be set forth. •

On this ship Chairman Lasker and 200 friends sailed last Tuesday on the greatest junketing trip ever made, estimated to cost this nation 52.000.000.00 for^t he “joy ride. _

Indiana Dry Goods, Ready-To-Wear Convention The Indiana Retail Dry Goods Association, composed of the Dry Goods and ready-to-wear dealers in the state will hold their annual convention in the Travertine Room, Lincoln Hotel, Indianapolis, Indiana, June -’6th and 27th. This association is one of the most successful state wide associations of retailers in Indiana. Its membership is composed of the leading merchants in these lines in four-fifths of the entire state. The convention bn Tuesday and Wednesday, June 26th

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Can Carry 4,674 Persons In this connection it -has been noted that the Leviathan has a total passenger capacity of 3,398 persons in her three cabins, greater than the housing accommodations of the world’s largest hotel, the Pennsylvania in New York. The total number of souls which the Leviathan can carry however, including her crew of 1276, is 4,674. The Steward’s department of the Leviathan will be called upon to feed, when the vessel has her capacity of passengers aboard, that number of individuals at least three times a day, something no hotel in the world can do. To properly set the tables for the breakfasts, luncheons and dinners on the Leviathan. 221.000 pieces of china will be used; 48,084 pieces of glassware and 71,798 pieces of silverware, in addition to innumerable table cloths and serviettes sufficient to stock a big dealer in these w-ares for months. ► In reconditioning the Leviathan,

and 27th, will be strictly along lines of c interest to retail dry goods and ready- t to-wear dealers. A number of set addresses are embodied in the program, every address being on specific topics of interest to retail dry goods and ready-to-wear men and being given by experts in their line. The convention will convene Tuesday noon, the afternoon session being given over to addresses and to a discussion of store problems by the entire membership. In the evening an elaborate banquet will be served in the Travertine Room of the Lincoln Hotel. A special feature ot the ban-

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY. JUNE 25, 1923

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in making her American in every respect in equipment and appointment, 2,900 each skilled in his particular craft, labored mightly, not for the dollars his efforts brought in, but for the satisfaction gained in adding to the glory of American shipping on the high seas. More than 1,000 manufacturers assembled and furnished to the liner mechanical equipment, fittings, decorative material and furniture, in many cases at a financial loss. ■The quality of all this material is of the highest obtainable, the workmanship the best possible, for in the work was put the desire to see the Leviathan surpass anything which ever sailed the Seven Seas. That the superhuman efforts, the uncanny skill, which everyone from the contractors in charge of the work to the lowliest mechanic brought to the task have been successful is shown by the Leviathan herself. , The Wonder Shin, with a gross tonnage of 59.956.65, is 3.405 gross

quet will be the Style Show staged by the Cleveland Garment Manufacturers Association complimentary to the

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tons larger than the next biggest vessel. As she lay in her berth at the yard of her reconditibners at Newport News, Va., the Leviathan’s colossal size dwarfed the graceful battleship West Virginia, the latest in warcraft construction. Homieness a Feature Everything about the Leviathan is in keeping with her size, her status as the largest craft in the world, the hope ot’ the American merchant marine. The decorative and furnishing scheme of the Leviathan, planned and executed by masters of the interior decorating arts, is the last word in beauty and ‘’homieness.’’ Every state in the Union contributed material of seme description to make the huge liner a thoroughly American craft — an American institution, in fact—and this is recognized by 48 sump, tuous stained glass windows in the big first cabin library, which represent the various states. It is in this library that will be hung a

r Indiana Retail Dry Goods Association. ; A complete line of suits, wraps, > blouses, sweaters and other articles of

portrait In oils of President Harding, on which Howard Chandler Christy is now working. Visitors to the Leviathan, when she reaches New York after being drydocked and painted at Boston, will find the vessel bristling with points of Interest. Not the least of these is the third “smoke stack," of the liner, which is not a smoke stack at all. This funnel, it has now been disclosed for the first time, not only provides the forced draught for the ship's oil burning engines, but contains two gigantic water tanks. These tanks, each of ten thousand tons capacity, hold the water for the staterooms, baths and drinking water devices. The piping through which this water flows in supplying the needs of the passengers on the .ship, the electric wiring for lighting and telephone communication purposes would be sufficient, so many hundreds of miles have been used, for a large township on shore. The 150 handsome clocks on board the Leviathan would be more than

| women's apparel will be shown on living models, at the close of the din- ■ ner. An inovation in the Style Show-

enough to equip every public structure in such a town. The Leviathan, through wireless apparatus constructed especially will at all times be in direct communication with New York. The liner will be equipped with both radio telegraph and telephone devices. While the radio telegraph will be used for business, the radio phone will be mainly utilized for the purpose of entertainment. Each stateroom in the first cabin will be so equipped that the passengers will not cnly hear messages and cortcerts broadcasted from shore.’ but will be enabled, through a huge central ship's switchboard, to talk to shore. This is the first apparatus of this kind to ever be utilized on ship board. A search light, more powerful than any ever used on a passenger vessel is pail of the Leviathan’s electric equipment. This searchlight Is 42 inches in diameter, and, located on the foremast, is electrically controlled from the bridge.

I will be that fifteen young ladies, mem-' Ibers of the Delta Delta Delta Sorority of Butler College will act as models. A special program of music by the Lincoln Trio and pipe organ will be I given during the banquet and the I style show. A great ileal of interest is being liow n dry goods men tin >iig lout, the tate in the coming convention due I'o th- unusual number of lore probi lean that dealers just now are facing. The attendance promise; .) be the largest the Indiana Retail y Goods I Association has ever had at any of ■ its annual conventions.

TUMBLES FROM WINDOW fix ■^^ rr T~wra ■ /'x ; A iMli t f v ■ '•X •?- 7- '* i 1Z X ¥**» X I ils' ■ Robert Daniel Ray. Jr., 2/ a years old, tumbled out »f the je.r window of his home into a coal wagon and was only s h a h t’y hurt ’ , . Chirico—Robert Daniel Ray. Jr. is the hardboiled kid of nis netgn l,orimo<Ltl a windov sill, kmiwd out and then tumbled three stories. He landed in a coal wagon and was picked up practically uuhurl. The wagon carried a load of SOFT coal. ' «**W

The generating plant of the Le viathan, which furnishes electricity to the searchlight and all othet lights and eleotrtcal equipment, has a L7UO K.W. capacity. The power of this plant used between seven and eleven at night, would supply an ordinary home for seven years. There are 15.00 U lami« used In lighting the vessel, controlled from 9.000 switches. Eleven elevators on the liner, all operated by electricity, reduce the necessity of walking, when going from one deck to another. Io a minimum In the making of the Leviathan, for the liner Is practically a new vessel now that her reconditioning has been completed, a task which even foreign experts deemed impossible, that pioneer American spirit, which sent the settlers westward with their wagons'and oxen—which carried the clipper ship to the leading position in the maritime world, has shown itself at the best, has again conquered the seemingly unconquerable. •

Dry goods dealers anil dealers in ladies ready-to-wear in Indiana, although they are not members of the Association are welcome to attend the convention and the style show. The United States ta rated eleventh in the illiteracy list of leading nations. Classes in golf for women have been inaugurated at the University of Cincinnati. Women students of the University of Pennsylvania are organizing a daily newspaper.