lows cool and pure along the corridors, that is like
nothing else. The company on the _Titanic_ woke up on Friday morning to
begin in earnest their four days of isolated life. Our traveller, who
has found out so many things about the ship, has not found out
everything yet; and he continues his explorations, with the advantage,
perhaps, of a special permit from the Captain or Chief Engineer to
explore other quarters of the floating city besides that in which he
lives. Let us, with him, try to form some general conception of the
internal arrangements of the ship.

The great superstructure of decks amidships which catches the eye so
prominently in a picture or photograph, was but, in reality, a small
part, although the most luxurious part, of the vessel. Speaking roughly,
one might describe it as consisting of three decks, five hundred feet
long, devoted almost exclusively to the accommodation of first-class
passengers, with the exception of the officers' quarters (situated
immediately aft of the bridge on the top deck of all), and the
second-class smoking-room and library, at the after end of the
superstructure on the third and fourth decks. With these exceptions, in
this great four-storied building were situated all the most magnificent
and palatial accommodations of the ship. Immediately beneath it,
amidships, in the steadiest part of the vessel where any movement would
be least felt, was the first-class dining saloon, with the pantries and
kitchens immediately aft of it. Two decks below it were the third-class
dining saloons and kitchens; below them again, separated by a heavy
steel deck, were the boiler-rooms and coal bunkers, resting on the
cellular double bottom of the ship. Immediately aft of the boiler-rooms
came the two engine-rooms; the forward and larger one of the two
contained the reciprocating engines which drove the twin screws, and the
after one the turbine engine for driving the large centre propeller.

Forward and aft of this centre part of the ship, which in reality
occupied about two-thirds of her whole length, were two smaller
sections, divided (again one speaks roughly) between second-class
accommodation, stores and cargo in the stern section, and third-class
berths, crew's quarters and cargo in the bow section. But although the
first-class accommodation was all amidships, and the second-class all
aft, that of the third-class was scattered about in such blank spaces as
could be found for it. Thus mo