feature of the ship's equipment serves but to emphasize the fact that everything conducive to her safe, efficient and economical operation is brand new and up-to-date, thoroughly practical, although in many cases being high ly scientific. Every detail of the vessel, however, trivial it may seem to the superficial observer, has received careful observation, study, thought and execution at the hands of highly trained men whose lives have been spent in such work, men whose experience has enabled them to understand the purposes aimed at for making the ship perfect, through the utilization of every practical and scientific aid available.

The Daily Feeding of 4,500 People

Imagine a hustling, bustling, busy town containing 4,500 inhabitants, almost all of them adults, and being well fed from one central source of supply and service, and then one begins to obtain an idea of the vastness as well as the compactness of the Leviathan, and the responsibility of those in immediate control of her. Of course there must be navigators and seamen, engineers and firemen, to direct the course and drive the ship on her way; but there must also be stewards-and there are-any number of them, from the man who rejoices in the title of chief, to the humbler individual who serves you at the table or in the care of your cabin. Electricity is availed

View of a Section of Main Galley

The galley on deck A serves the restaurant, winter garden, tea room and officers' dining room, and consists of eight ranges, one bake-oven, two grills, one ice-cream maker, one meat and vegetable chopper, one bacon slicer, one potato peeler, one griddle, one waffle-iron, one bread slicer, one coffee mill, one pastry mixer, one dishwashing machine capable of washing 3,000 dishes per hour, one automatic toaster, all in a very much out-of-the way part of the ship and being merely auxiliary.

The first-class galley on F deck has two 8-fire island ranges, one 2-fire single range, two meat and vegetable choppers, one high-powered whisking and mixing machine, two large capacity potato peelers, four 60-gallon kettles, and twelve 2-section heavy duty vegetable steamurns, four electric toasters, one electric coffee grinder, ers. The pantry adjacent to this galley has six 20-gallon of 15,000 dishes per hour, one double combination silver two electric dish-washing machines each with a capacity burnishing machine, electric bread slicers, griddles, ice

cutting machines and knife cleaning machine; and in the first class dining salon are 48 electric plate warmers, and in the restaurant 18 plate warmers.

On the F deck are two first class bread making and baking rooms containing two heavy dough mixers, each of two barrels capacity, two electric ovens, each capable of baking 180 1-pound loaves, roll dividing machine capable of producing 36 rolls at one operation, each roll identical in weight to the fraction of an ounce; to say nothing of the pastry room with its specializing machines for mixing pastry, pie crusts and the like, and these details omit mention of similiar equipment in the second, third and steerage gallies, as well as the petty officers' galley. Nor is mention made of the great refrigerating rooms where food is stored and kept at an even temperature that assures freshness of a quality with the best that can be found upon the land.

For the dining rooms the Leviathan has 102,000 pieces of china, for the restaurant 119.278 pieces; of glassware 48,084 pieces; of silverware 71,798 pieces; of galley utensils 23,000 pieces; of blankets 34,000 pounds; 4,449 matresses; 190,000 pieces of linen; and 42 refrigerators.

For a round trip she requires 80,000 eggs, 6,000 boxes of apples, 15,000 pounds of butter, 20,000 pounds of jam, 20,000 pounds of cabbage, 6.000 pounds of game, 2,000 quarts of milk, 70,000 pounds of flour, 186,000 pounds of meat, 20,000 pounds of ham, 60,000 pounds of potatoes, 56,000 pounds of fish, 16,000 pounds of sugar, 2,000 pounds of grapes, 14,000 pounds of carrots, 400 crates of oranges, 250,000 cigarettes, 1,600 pounds of tomatoes, 2,240 pounds of tobacco, 3 tons of tea and coffee. The Leviathan is calculated to make at least fourteen round trips each year; so the vear's supply of food already catalogued may be multiplied by fourteen for one to grasp her annual food-consuming capacity.

The cooking and serving of these vast quantities of food are conducted on a scale and in a manner thoroughly systematized by the best obtainable talent and are equal in every respect, in their several classes, to that found in the best hotels in the world.

As a Naval Auxiliary and Troop Ship

No story of the American steamship Leviathan is complete without a fair summary of her "naval history" and use as a troop ship, personal details of participation in which are endlessly recounted throughout the length and breadth of the land by "doughboys", their families and their friends, so that there is probably no ship in the world better known to the American people, or more affectionately regarded by them, than the Leviathan.

Great Britain, to be sure, has her Aquatanias, Olympics, Berengarias, Majestics and Mauretanias, dear, doubtless to the hearts of Britons, but we have as an outstanding sea-mark of our participation in the World War the Leviathan, upon which is focused and concentrated the affection no less than the pride of the American people. Of course she has her nickname, such as "the Levi", and the "Levi Nathan", which her admirers like to roll under their tongues evidencing their familiarity with her, but the name that seemed best to fit her, and with which she was christened by the "doughboys", who went back and forth upon her, was the "The Big Train", which to their consciousness best visualized for them and their hearers what she was, the ship that regularly and steadily, under all conditions of wind and weather, or schedule or submarine, mines and all other devices of the enemy, carried safely, comfortably and expeditiously 89,243 individuals, exclusive of her crew, on the foreign-bound trips of the Leviathan in war time, and which brought back to the

United States after the war was over 87,800 persons, other than the crew, according to precise figures furnished us by the Adjutant General of the United States Army. The vast majority of these, of course, were young men and women in the military and naval service of the United States.

Truly, therefore, the Leviathan is an historic ship and there is no other passenger vessel afloat which should have the claim upon American popular affection that is the due of this magnificent liner. Already we have told where she was built, and when, how she happened to be caught in the Port of New York when war was declared. her owners deeming it wise to interne her in the United States in what was then a neutral country, and where she remained, tied up to the wharf at Hoboken, until this country was forced to declare war against Germany, in April, 1917.

In that year she was seized by Executive Order of the President of the United States, placed in the custody of the United States Navy and after a short overhaul period took up her duty as the greatest ferryboat the world has ever seen. world has ever seen. At one time she brought from "the other side" more than 2.000 Navy men together with 12,000 Army men and women, the total being nearly an entire army division with its own particular headquarters' staff, nurses, welfare workers, etc., or a total of well over 14,000 souls. They were comfortably as well as speedily transported some 3,500 sea miles in less than seven days. Was the "Gob" wrong when he affectionately nicknamed her "The Big Train"?

We have described what is necessary for the feeding of 4.500 persons who may use her on a single trip as a regular liner, but think of her now housing 14,000 passengers and crew. Think of serving 45,000 meals daily, or over 300,000 meals on the homeward bound tripthink of that housewives and homebodys-and think what a strain was put upon the ship's gallies (or kitchens) and pantries, in fair and stormy weather. so as to enable "all hands" to eniov Navy hospitality. In describing this part of the Leviathan's activities Captain L. H. Rutter, of the United States Naval Reserve, has said: "As you know, an American railway coach carries approximately 70 people comfortably. On such a load basis this wonder ship carried 200 car-loads of people at a trip, together with their subsistence and baggage or twenty train loads of ten coaches each (ten heavy trains), or if you prefer to think in French units, you can double the number of cars. Was the 'Gob' wrong with his affectionate 'Big Train' descriptive nickname?"

Her reputation for seaworthiness. speed, steadiness and sanitation, he also said. was such, and our medical officers thought so well of her in this respect, that immediately after the armistice she was selected to repatriate more than 11.000 American sick and wounded, many of them desperate cases, to whom the crossing in an ordinary ship might have been a hell afloat.

Preliminaries to Reconditioning

At the inception of the great war. when the Navy Department took over the Leviathan for the transportation of American troops to France, the interior fittings of the ship were torn out in a hurried and ruthless manner, in order most expeditiously to fit her for the service in which she was to engage. The result was that little or none of these fittings were preserved, or so preserved as again to be fit for her use as a first class passenger liner in transatlantic trade. When it became a question of what would be done with the Leviathan, after the war was over and she had so magnificently performed her