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Show MONSTER TO &AUCEAN Largest Vessel Yet to Be Built for Panama Route Trade Xew York, Apill 12.--The cabled announcement from Bremen thai the Noith German-Lloyd has given orders for the building of a new llnr, largor than any now In its service, is explained ex-plained at the steamship offices hore to mean that a liner of 0LU00 tons. S,000 tons bigger than the Olympic and TltanfcIs to be launched to put .Germany again the first place in the trans-Atlantic borvlce. Moreover, It is stated that 'he new liner, to be-named be-named after one of the great ieadcrh in American history, wIU be the first" of a fleet of simllnr boats designed to-take to-take the place of liners of the Kaiser Wllhelm der Grosso type. These latter lat-ter boats will be utilized for a service serv-ice from New York to San FranoJsco via the Panama capal. The now 1'oats, which will cost $10,-000,000 $10,-000,000 each, will bo the Inst word in ocean luxury. There will not be an ordinary berth in the entire ship and there will be a bed for everyone, from the millionaire who payr, a small fortune for-tune for a suite on iho promenade deck! to the humble steora&e passenger. passen-ger. The Kaisfr Wilhelm der Grosso 10 years ago was one of the fastest and largest liners afloat. The new ships will bo almost four times as large. They will be more than three times as big as tho battleship Connecticut, the flagship of tlrp United States fleet. |