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of mahogany, pitch pine, teak, and othei" woods are always to he 

 found piled up, seasoning, or going thix)ngh the saw mills, and 

 being transferred to carpenters' and joiners' shops. Great logs 

 come in at one end of the sawmill, and pass out at the othei' as 

 finished deck planks. Logs are also cut here for the joineis, 

 cabinetmakei's and all other trades using wood. There is a 

 studio for the artists and decorators. Much of this work is sub- 

 contracted to specialists, but a large and increasing amount is 

 done in the studio and by the firm. 



The fittings and sundry machinery required in modern ships 

 vary very greatly. The electric engine room for the Olympic" has 

 four engines of a total of 2,320 H.P. foi- the electric service of 

 the ship, and there are 200 miles of electric cable on board. 

 While these engines and their accessories are not made by 

 Harland & Wolflf', yet they provide work for a large number of 

 electricians, completing the fitting out. On a ship of this class there 

 aie about 10,000 lights, 16 electric cranes and winches, passenger 

 lifts, lifts for mails and to stores and pantries ; special motors 

 for turning and handling the main engines in port, for driving the 

 fans and ventilating apparatus, and the machine tools in the ship's 

 workshop, for the Marconi installation and for a hundred and 

 one other devices for convenience and ST,ving of labour. 



Such ships as the " Medic" one of a set of sister ships capable, 

 each of them, of carrying 90.000 carcasses of mutton, require, of 

 course, the special fitting of refrigerating apparatus. Ships for 

 tropical seas differ cntii'ely in fitting from those for the Atlantic 

 service. In the decoration of the saloons and staterooms of such 

 ships there appears to be an increasing scope for applied arts and 

 crafts. Until lately, decorative art on board ship tended to be 

 rather "commercial art," but the openings for really artistic 

 work have rapidly grown, and here is a field wide open for Irish 

 students of our Schools of Art. Possibly the right man could 

 make a mark by designing a few cabins in Celtic ornament, which 

 does not seem to have yet been used on board ship. As an 



