Identifier: worldscolumbiane02whit (find matches)
Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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the floor as there will be above the water ather draft on sailing-. Therefore if a complete section of the shipwere shown it would have to go down into the ground twenty-sixfeet, or make the top of the funnel twenty-six feet higher. As it is now, the first orpromenade deck ismore than twenty-five feet above thefloor, and the topof the funnel is yetfifty-three feetabove this. Thisserves to givesome idea of theactual heio-ht ofthese orreat trans-atlantlc liners. AsM one approaches thevessel the blackiron sides of theship are seen,studded with port-holes, extendingalong the aisle andrisinor to a heio^htof seventeen feetabove the floor,where the platingends and the railing on the second or saloon deck commences.Above this is the first or promenade deck, and yet above rises thebridge from which the officers direct the course of the vessel. Justaft of the bridge and on top of the deck-house is a life-boat readyfor launching. Passing around the end of the exhibit it can be plainly seen that
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VIKING SHIP TRANSPORTATION. 271 it is only a section of the ship, as the ends are cut off square andleft open, so that all four decks, and to some extent what is on eachone, are visible. The visitor passing through this exhibit will seethe model-room, steerage compartment, first-class compartment,second-class compartment, dining-saloon, promenade deck, libraryand smoking-room. The visitor can thus obtain a perfect idea ofthe size, furnishings and style of the ocean liners.

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