New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-08
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
b -nonr ru 1rss rHAN sEYEN DAYS.

trO EUROPE IN LESS THAN sE'EN a.
al reception given on board OF the GuI "n hs Say
Se}ofe abe last sailed from this port the cspan m
rsanonsS TO remark, SAID Yes the Aiashs mas nas
psae tho fastest time 9 Tbs CAPTAINS prophecy has
nravsI truA md the trip from Sandy HOOK 70
bneenstovn as made by the Alaska IN less tnsa
seven days. the only instance on reSOfJ uoo. bar at
nos n m. and arrived at Queenstown at p M on
TUESDAY. Deducting hours and ~ minutes il no .
aTs %S hours and 10 minutes This includes the
time lost discharglng the plot aiteI "arL
Sandy Hook in ls4s it was oonsidero1 tha nas
able that an ocean steamship should make inc pas
SAGE in less than sixteen days. Year after year
however. the improvements in the genera COZ.
struction of vessels, the fine lines gwen 10 .o
And the increase OF stcamenglne power haNe khed
greater speed, and the voyages nave oeeh Hi'i
by marked steps. r-..,,ors mas
The rivalry which exists between the various
senger lines would 10 part account 1or ts Tor the
sion but it would not account entIoHS 10 nassage
shortening of the time required to MAKE ,'0 he IN
20 less than one-half. Rivalry mas ga naval orcb-
petus TO n wonderful advancement III naNai ssoi.
lecture and marine engine building Oeeah 81
not only now make the same dlstancG of isss than
boif The time hut with the consumption OF leS
Iii H. fnel burned twenty-five years ago. When
In Is6G a Steamship made the tTaEsatialc UP ~
% mi less than eleven days, 1t was c"hsueIeu a
,benonenal epoch in the history OF ocean travel
Eonr wears later there was marked TvalI3 DC
tween the White Star, Cunard ana lhlIh A'itgs,
and the time consumed III MAKING tno
t 'in fTon New-York to Queenstown wa, was
c,'p I'm IN fen and ten aud e half days
The Baltic of the White Star Line, IN Loi Hlauo
the massage from Queenstown TO new, loih ~ .
cy, 10 hours and 80 minutes and back to Qneens-
town in : days hours aud . uiinutes my sV',r r
ers of this line made sulplslng teTO a from New
the average time of twenty-four triSs HIiH 80
York to Queenstown being only uaNS' 10 n0'' 10
and minutes The Adratlc made lhe 9cSI ,itp , ~
daVs 23 hours and IL minutes from Vueeheto",I
10 New-York The Baltic, of the same me, Hlauo
The passage 10 Queenstown from New l0Ih III I
days 20 hours and minutes ne rec 0I IN Ocfober
Isz5 making the trip i'll days, 10 hours ana 10
minutes and the City OF Klchihohu; ol 'o So
line. made the passage from Queeh3tVWm ~ as ro
,norkable when il is remembered that the eastward
massage IS made more quickly than the wes1Waitxt
owing to the perceptble llhueIce vi wv Ma
Stroa1n This record was beaten, however IN o. u
nv both the Geruanic and BritaIinlc ot nc ,oT
Star Line the passage TO Queenstown Oh tnu d
teInC made in DAYS, 10 hours and minutes, anu
of the latter in days, II hours ana n Iihutes'
The same vessels made The passage from HuS1en s
town TO New York III 1877, the GeImanc IN days
II hours and 81 minutes, and the Britannia Ill :
DAYS 10 hours and 53 minutes 49,, 1904 ,.bo,
These records were not beaten uIuli IooV' M i
the Arizona, of the GuIon Line, began 10 acic' ~
markable speed. Two voyages to queenstown uul
ing her first year of running were MADE IN uays
Is hours and 5S minutes. and III DAYS ~ Ho t
and - minutes The succeeding year she hiaue tho
remarkable time of days, hours ana 40 minutes
from New-York 10 Queenstown thirteen olher
trips that year were were i 4he GaIBo. Of the
Cunard Line. In September 4ast slo ln"uo
the trip from Queenstown to New-lorK II n
DAYS. / hour and SO minutes, and returned III
dave hours and 81 minutes he City OF f hUie
VI VA . aptcipated although she has made good speed
The City Of Chester, of the same line, is equally as
fast as The City of Rome The SerVla, OF tine Cu-
800 inc IL another of the fast ocean vessels, haV-
ing made The trip to Queenstown Il days, hours
and 30 minutes. The Alaska has made last Time
ever since she began to rum ana on March %, III,
isbed a trip to Queenstown in 81 days, hours ana
43 minutes Her next trip from Queenstown, Oh
April Q, for New-York was made IN days nouIs
and Al minutes These were the fastest tIlps
eastward and westward on record. Her last tnp
previous to the one just finished, to Queenstown
was made III days and 20 minutes