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Show New Liner to Be of Such Proportions That Three Trains Could Be Driven Abreast Through One of Her Funnels . TnjNMSt. 3 - , - A&KeST - ZU-- - f" "rX..i I ffm, e3e"T , , The new liners being constructed for the various transatlantic steamship steam-ship companies, like many of the new buildings being erected In various cities In North America, will assume colossal proportions when completed. Some Idea of the dimensions planned for the new 40,000 gross ton Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Britain, now under construction on the Clyde, can be gained from the fact that three standard gauge trains could run abreast through each of her streamline stream-line funnels, at the same time leaving leav-ing sufficient clearance for a hypothetical hypo-thetical trespasser. Architects are equipping the Empress of Britain with three funnels, and In streamlining these they will depart radically from standard British marine practice. Landlubbers, as a rule, are not aware that the third stack la often added merely to balance the appearance of the ship and that it serves only as a ventilator and engine-room hatch through which bulky machinery could be lowered Into the ship. Today, with the increasing demand for more speed the third funnel has a utilitarian as well as an artistic function. Time was when the size of a funnel was indicated by remarking that a train could be driven through It. Each of the Empress of Britain's funnels fun-nels has a long diameter of 35 feet, which would afford running space as well as ample clearance for three standard coaches measuring 9 feet 10 y2 Inches each In width. r , i 1 ill m A Swk" At, .' The Empress of Britain will ply between be-tween Quebec and Cherbourg and Southampton and Is expected to make the transatlantic crossing In slightly under five days. She will be the largest vessel on the historic St. Lawrence Law-rence route Because the Atlantic Is narrower between Quebec and Europe than It Is between other North Atlantic Atlan-tic ports and the Continent, the Empress Em-press will make a strong bid for the blue ribbon of the Atlantic, being capable of developing a speed In excess ex-cess of 26 knots. |