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CAMMERT BROS.

ADOTIONKERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS,

Public Auctions-

"HE Undersigned have received in- stractions to sell by Public Ane

.00

THURSDAY, June 21, 1920, commencing at 11 m

at Fook Tai. Cheong Godown.

West Point

(For Account of the Concerned),

700 Baga Teakin Nice,

Bage Tonkin Rice,

(stored in the sbora Godown).

300 Bags Tonkin Rice,

stored in Fo On Godown, West Point).

200 Bags Toukin Rice.

125 Bags Tonkin Hice,

100 Bags Tonkin Eice.

tored in the China Provident, Icen

Mortgage Co.'s Godown, West Point).

Terms: Cash on delivery.

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LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong June 21, 1920.

MESSES LAMMERT BROS. 170

instructed to sell

The Steamship

-" JEHANGIR"

Naw ying in the Harbour of Hongkong.

ander an

Order of the Court

Er

PUBLIC AUCTION

MONDAY,

-the 28th day of June, 1920, at

3 o'clock P.X.

IN ONE LOT "At their Auction Rooms, in Daddel

Street.

The ship is a British ship registered et Hongkong of 5206 tone Gress and of 3360.71 Registered tonnage and was ailt by W. Denny and Brother, Dumbarton.

For particulars to view apply to Measts. Lammert Bros., the Auctioneers.

For further particulars

Apply to

H. JOHNSON, STOKES

& MASTER,

Frince's Building, or to

MassES, LAMMERT BROS.,

The Auctioneers.

Duddell Street-

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RECONDITIONING THE LEVIATHAN.

MAY COST $10,000,000.

New York mail advices say -The bids for the conversion and recordi tioning of the Leviathan will be opened on May 15th. The plans and specifications for the job,, draws up by a corps of experts, with Mr. W. F. Gibbs, chief of the construction department of the International Mercantile Marine Company, direc ting the work, have been declared to be the most complete and remarkable aver compiled. The specifications, divided into eleven sub-sections, were bound into a volume about two inches thick. More than twenty blue prints, showing all features of the ship, were included.

At the direction of the Shipping Board the plans and specifications were sent to the New York Shipbuild- ing Company, the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company,

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tantamount to telling the UnitedIt was not possible for the Board States that it might obtain them in of Architects and Engineers to dry the nether regions. The first meet dock the Leviathan in making their ing of the board-of ́engineers and plans. Therefore all of the holl architects was held on December 9th: † measurements had to be made from Working steadily from that time on, the interior. One of the first, and the goal was attained about ten days most complex experiments required ago. The services of the men for was to determine the stability of the the most part were obtained grat-Leviathan. They had to find where the centre of gravity of the ship was, uitously.

and had to conduct other experiments to judge as to her trim. It took three months of tedious work to finish these testa.

It was said that the work would have cost a commercial company at least 100,000 dollars, had the same corps of experts given their services to the effort of showing the means and ways.

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The specifications; as submitted to the prospective bidders, told of the present condition of every saloon cabin, port hole, galley and nook in the ship, and specified what would have to be done to correct all troub les

The Leviathan will have a capacity for 3,536 passengers if the present plans are carried to fruition. She furnished, will be luxuriously

The pians, drawn with 1-16 of although the more ornate German style of decoration will be "pardy an inch, representing one foot showed discarded for the more simple every piece of furniture on all 12 American ideas. The passenger decks, as the repair interests will be accommodation will be as follows required to supply.

Passengers. Rooms

431 Saloon ..... First class. 544 168 Second class..in 934 247 Steerage 1,068 279

Total.....3,536 $1,125

If the Leviathan, under the new

revenue.

The ship is designed especially for the carriage of passengers, as the loading and discharging of freights would cause ber retention in port for several days and thereby reduce her revenue production. She will have room for about 1,000 tons of express matter and mails when she comes back from the repair yards.

the William Cramp and Son Ship and arrangement, should have a capacity Engine Building Company, the Morse list of passengers on one round voy Dry Dock and Repair Company, theage, it would be possible for her to Todd Shipyards, Inc.; the Brooklyn derive a gross income of 860,000 Navy Yard and the Boston Navy dollars from this one source of Yard. While the navy yards cannot bid on the work they will be per mitted to forward their estimates, and it is considered not improbable that the Shipping Board will turn the Leviathan over to the Navy Yards if they offer to do the work for less than the private interest bid.

The latest authoritative though unofficial estimates are that the

While the Leviathan is to be con- United States will have to spend 10,000,000 dollars to re-convert the verted into an oil-berner, the change former German liner into the finest will be effected with due regard for ship afloat. It will require 2,000 men the military necessity of her burning working steadily one year to make coal for fuel In the event the oll the changes authorised by the plans supply should be cut off or prove inadequate the liner could be placed and specifications.

The difficulties under which the on a coal-burning basis within three corps of naval architects and marine weeks. The only thing which must engineers who volunteered to draw be changed to effect this conversion up the plans and specifications for is the interior furnace arrangement. the rehabilitation of the Leviathan By putting in new grate bars and can hardly be imagined. While changing the furnace fronts the the Shipping Board made an Leviathan could use coal for bunkers. effort to get a complete set of; the plans for the Vaterland from the builders, Blohn and Voss, it was told that these might be had for the sum of 1,000,000 dollars. This was

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The ship will have a capacity for carrying 9,000 tons of fuel oil. This additional space has been acquired by using some of the double bottoms, employing part of the room forward formerly given over to bunkers, and some of the space previously assigned to cargo carriage analy

The Leviathan has twelve, decics. THIS disease is so dangerous and so When the Hamberg-American liner rapid in its development that progy. was commandeered for the transport mother of young children should be prepared for it. It is very risky to wait of troops, the E deck and darkn until the attack of croup appears ad below were torn out and tafidées " then send for medicine and let the child were fitted in to comandate `suffer until it can be obtained.. Cham thousands of soldiers. In restoring berlain's Cough Remedy te prompt and the vessel fór:comiendat serylees, effectual and has peret, "been imoys" **- The "caldna, salonu, land other All in May coc. Always have a teatures must be put back and the in the home For sale by all Chemists

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declare that they will make many improvements in her ventilation sys- tem. With the ship barming fuel oll it is declared that it will be so cold In the freroom that- during the win- ter and fall the firemen will have to wear their coats to be sufficiently warm.

The ship does not roll enough to require the installation of stabilisers. Her lighting and plumbing system will be Americanised, and there seems to be no doubt but that she will be an even better ship than when she crossed the Atlantic on her mai den voyage.

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