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Show NOTHING SPARED TO MAKE LIFE COMFORTABLE. Southampton, June 13. Tho new North German Lloyd liner George Washington called hero today and. sailed again for Cherbourg on her maiden voyage to New York. Director Helneken, managing director direc-tor of the North German Lloyd, in an address at a luncheon on board, said that in the building of the trans-Atlantic liners nothing had been spared to render life at sea as comfortable as on shore. In the case of tho George Washington, he ventured to claim his company had succeeded in doing even more than this. They had to deal with a noble ship, bearing a noble name,1 and so they had striven to create, so to speak, a noble atmosphere throughout through-out the ship by filling every available space with reminiscences of the ship's great namesake. The George Washington, 27.000 tons, is the largest ship fver built in Germany Ger-many and is from the yards of the Vulcan Vul-can "company at Stettin. She Is 722 feet long, 7S feet wide, and the depth from the upper saloon deck is 54 feet, and from the awning deck SO feet-There feet-There arc two sets of quadruple expansion ex-pansion engines, aggregating 20,000 horse-power, which will give an average aver-age sea speed of IS 1-2 knots. Her floating population will amount to 3,303 persons. There is an open arhor connected with the smoking room on tho upper deck, and Marconi offices for writing messages, dark rooms for photographers, a large electric gymnasium, gymna-sium, and winter gardens. |