A PALATIAL STEAMER.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2739, 1 February 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)

A PALATIAL STEAMER.

A visitor to the largest merchant steamer afloat, tho new Atlantic liner Teutonic, gives the following account of what he saw : —" All previous arrangments haye been cast to the winds, and all the contrivances and appliances are new. There are-no longer the little stuffy, illventilated state rooms, the very atmosphere of which made a man feel exceedingly uncomfortable, even before the ship began to pitch in the trough of the sea. Therooms are large, boautifully furnished, well ventilated, and brilliantly lighted by electricity, of which light every passenger has full command. On each side are several rooms like those of a first class hotel, having beautiful ruga on the floor, bright polished bedsteads, and scattered round every luxury the heart could desire; the hangings are gorgeous, and all tho palatial arrangements iu perfeot keeping. Attached to each of these fairy palaces are splendid bathrooms, with hot and cold salt water baths ; in fact, nothing is wanting to make them as complete as human ingenuity could devise. The grand saloon or diningroom excels for costly luxury anything of tho kind that has over floated on the sea, It has not the between-decka look of the ordinary steamer saloon ; the ceiling is grand and lofty, and in the centre rises an exquisitely beautiful dome of light stained glass, while tho furniture is of the richest and most substantial kind. The china and silver of tho tabic service are of rare beauty, and tho tablecloths and napkins of the finest and best that can be made. Aremarkable feature is tho flooring, which is laid in beautiful mosaic. It looks like tho finest of encrustod tiling, but it is rubber, and so adjusted that the foot will not slip when the vessel pitches or rolls.