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JULY 30, 1930.

THE

HE EMPRESS OF JAPAN now on her maiden voyage to Hongkong, is the largest and fastest steamship engaged in regular traffic on the Pacific Ocean-and also one of the most modern and sumptuous liners in the world. Painted in glistening white, a blue ribbon beading her main deck, she will arouse deep enthusiasm in the travelling public as, proud of line and elegant of design, she steams majestically across Hong- kong's harbour for the first time on her romantic career. She is a three-funnelled twin-screw all- burner of 26,000 tons. Her propelling machinery consists of geared turbine engines, developing an average sea speed of 21 Knots. The principal dimensions are:

Length foverall) Breadth

666 feet

at Promenade Drek) 87°j. Depth A Deck)

509%

By comparison, the Empress of Cangda, previously the largest Canadian Pueife ship on the Pacific run, is a tonnage of 21,517 tons.

There are six decks runaing forward and aft and lettered "A" to "P" The superstructure consists of Boat and Promenade Decks---each over 300 foot in fength--topped by the Navigating Bridge which, 68 feet above the hand water-line, is the most up-to-date and complete of its kind.

The Empress of Jagun has a carrying expacity of 400 First, 164 Second, 100 Third Class and £48. Oriental Stoerage passengers. Accommodation for First Class passengers is on Boat, "A" and "B" derks--for Second Class passengers aft on "B" and "C" deeks and for Third Class passengers aft on "D" dock. The Second Class cabins on “1?” deek enn on occasion be rapidly converted into First Class staterooms.

The Pride Or The Pacific

"EMPRESS OF JAPAN"

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT.

THE PALM COURT.

TATURAL oak enriched

N

with gilding takes the place of ash in the spacious Palma Court, or Ball Room,

at the foremost end of the Promenade Deck. It is open

on three shles-port, for- wand and starboard-to wide sea Views seen through hard windows half screened by palms and flowers. The electric lighting concealed in the richly decorated ceil- ing is capable of instan→

taneous colour changes.

SMOKING ROOM.

A

warmer note is struck

in the genial Smoking Room, where the inlaid teak floor and walnut skirting contrast with a specially selected light-grained ma- hogany which is studded. with bronze nails to obtain

a trellis effect. An out-

standing feature is the

monumental chimneypiece of carved Roman stone, crowned with a cut-glass

overmantel.

THE

SWIMMING

POOL.

SITTING ROOM

OF A

PRIVATE SUITE,

Capt. ROBINSON., O.B.E., R.N.R.

Commander of the Empress of Japan.

JULY 30, 1930.

SUITES AND STATEROOMS are con- nected with every department by a comprehensive telephone system. Suites are decorated with olive wood panelling, the furniture is covered with purple damask and the twin beds are recessed. Each suite possesses a aitting room done with landscapes in a grey tone and a tiled verandah with wide windows surmounting flower boxes. Special staterooms are decorated in walnut with satinwood enrichments and Quebec birch and black bean. Grey-green-blue Cipollino marble with gilded. bronze mountings has been employed in the Dining Room, which seats 294 people. The centre of the room is a high well on each side of which is a running gallery with a Musicians' Gallery at the after end. The furniture is of dark, carved mahogany. Entrance to the Dining Saloon is obtained through a Louis XIV Foyer in which the marble treatment of the Saloon is repeated in massive columns. Illuminated alabaster ornaments mark the termination of the two carved balustrades of the grand staircase that ends in the Foyer.

Large windows are a feature of the public rooms, which consist of a Ball Room and Palm Court forward, Card, Writing, Lounge, Smoking Room, Cocktail Bar, Gymnasium and, of course, a well appointed Children's Room,

Elevators are installed at convenient points to connect all decks and direct connection between the Gymnasium and the green and black marble switn ming tank five decks below on. "D" deck is maintained by a fast private elevator. The bath has its own refreshment booth, spectators' balcony, dressing boxes, electric bath, and is lighted by an underwater system.

THE EMPIRE

LOUNGE.

GEORGIAN

STYLE

CARD ROOM,

A

GYMNASIUM ON BOARD an ocean liner is no longer a novelty.

The floating

palaces of to-day which cross the mighty oceans between Canada and the Orient and Canada and Europe have gone one better than, the best hotels. There are hotels. that can invite their guests to baths in private swimming-pools; but how many of them 'can offer the busy man or woman the use of a gymnasium?

The apparatus with which the gymnasiums of the ships of the Canadian Pacific line are fitted is varied and diverting. The "horse" and the "camel" are perhaps the most popular among the machines. When travelling on the "Empress of Australia" and the "Empress of Scotland" to and from Canada on his last visit, the Prince of Wales rode many imaginary miles on the comfortable back of the "horse" and also on the "camel's" hump. These beasts are electrically controlled and when the cur- rent is switched on the "horse", which is properly saddled and has crupper and stir- rups, proceeds to emulate the movement of a horse in motion.

The gymnasium itself is a spacious room, well ventilated, and fitted with electric fans which help to keep the air always fresh. Durin certala hours it is reserved for the exclusive use of the lady passengers, and most important of all a competent ins- tructor to initiate the unsophisticated in the intricacies of the apparatus, how to punch a punching-bag without it hitting back, and row on the stationary sculla without barking one's knuckles and shins.

GIANT PROPELLERS,

over

HE Twin Propeliers cach weigh

the largest solid

Twenty tons, and ure

propellen in the world. To cast them, thirty- five tons of bronze were used.

PROMENADEssensers

all classes. First Class passengers will have a promenade area of 31,000 square feet. This includes the long, covered Promenade Deck, the Boat Deck and, on top of the house on the last-named, the, large Sports or Sun. Deck.

A large up-to-date barber's shop and a ladies' hairdressing saloon fitted with latest electric equipment are situated on "A" deck, immediately below the Promenade Deck. On the same deck are two manicuring or chiropody saloons, a photographer's dark room; and the surgery and dispensary. In the central hall are the Company's offices, Ticket Agent and Purser's Room, Information Bureau, Stenographers' Room, and a Private Office.

Bouts are ample for the full number of passengers and crew, and are slung on twenty sebi, of davits. Two motor-boats and two small emergency boats are also included,

All electric appliances on board are as comprehensive and, perfect as modern science can make them. They include, to name only a few, wireless telegraphy, direction finding and submarine signalling apparatus; electric sounding machines, gyro-compass equipment and clear view screens, orchestra and gramophone repeater installation, cinema ap- paratus, and an extensive telephone system. The electric lighting, heating, cooking, and power installations, of latest type throughout, will be developed to a degree hitherto unattained on any first-class liner.