Show RUNNING GREAT steamships Irn immense menie modern liners of tons have automatic machinery controlled by single hand in the hands of a skillful marine architect much more has been accod with steel st ruction than the mere economy of space the safety of vessels at sea has been enormously increased until in the highest type of modern ocean liners the elemont of danger Is virtually eliminated the marvelous ingenuity displayed throughout this great fabric of steel in gilard ing against every possible contingency of the sea aea comes to the average landsman as it a surprise A great liner of tons may be controlled by a single ongle hand the complicated machinery machiner y for safeguarding the ship Is practically practice tica lly automatic the bottom of the great hull of the liner Is doubled the dimier in ier shell being strong enough to float the ship even n it if tho the outer hull be completely torn away it la in exceedingly unlikely that water would ever reach this inner shell through accident to 0 the main hull but the precaution Is taken fo EO that it if ones once in a thousand trips the ship should strike a hidden object it will prove absolutely invulnerable the shipwrecks of the past caused by running upon hidden rocks derelicts and icebergs are thus completely eliminated canslers Cass lers fers magazine |