ining it was a reception
room, where hosts and hostesses could meet their guests.

Two private promenades were connected with the two most luxurious suites
on the ship. The suites were situated about amidships, one on either
side of the vessel, and each was about fifty feet long. One of the
suites comprised a sitting room, two bedrooms and a bath.

These private promenades were expensive luxuries. The cost figured out
something like forty dollars a front foot for a six days' voyage. They,
with the suites to which they are attached, were the most expensive
transatlantic accommodations yet offered.

THE ENGINE ROOM

The engine room was divided into two sections, one given to the
reciprocating engines and the other to the turbines. There were two
sets of the reciprocating kind, one working each of the wing propellers
through a four-cylinder triple expansion, direct acting inverted engine.
Each set could generate 15,000 indicated horse-power at seventy-five
revolutions a minute. The Parsons type turbine takes steam from the
reciprocating engines, and by developing a horse-power of 16,000 at 165
revolutions a minute works the third of the ship's propellers, the one
directly under the rudder. Of the four funnels of the vessel three
were connected with the engine room, and the fourth or after funnel for
ventilating the ship including the gallery.

Practically all of the space on the Titanic below the upper deck
was occupied by steam-generating plant, coal bunkers and propelling
machinery. Eight of the fifteen water-tight compartments contained the
mechanical part of the vessel. There were, for instance, twenty-four
double end and five single end boilers, each 16 feet 9 inches in
diameter, the larger 20 feet long and the smaller 11 feet 9 inches long.
The larger boilers had six fires under each of them and the smaller
three furnaces. Coal was stored in bunker space along the side of the
ship between the lower and middle decks, and was first shipped from
there into bunkers running all the way across the vessel in the lowest
part. From there the stokers handed it into the furnaces.

One of the most interesting features of the vessel was the refrigerating
plant, which comprised a huge ice-making and refrigerating machine and
a number of provision rooms on the after part of the lower and orlop
decks. There were separate cold rooms for beef, mutton, poultry, game,
fish, vegetables, fruit, butter, bacon, cheese, flowers, mine