Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-05-09
QUEEN OF THE OCEAN.
The City Of Paris Beats the Record
of Transatlantic Voyages.


The new steamship, the City of Paris, which
arrived at Sandy Hook yesterday morning,
can now claim to be queen OF the sea, for she
has made the fastest time on record for an
ocean voyage, having beaten the Etrurias
time by hours and ~ minutes. The New York
S'm says: Although hampered by heavy winds
at the beginning of her westward voyage and
by fog at the close, she broke all previous
records, and placed herself at the head Of the
list OF ocean greyhounds. Making allowance
for the difference In time, the City OF Paris
made the run between Queenstown and Sandy
Hook in days, % hours and minutes. The
best previous time, that OF the Etruria. made
last June, was days, hour and IS minutes.
The difference in favor of the CITY of Paris was
therefore 2 hours and Is minutes. Besides
tins, the City OF Paris surpassed the record for
"a consecutive hours on three different daya
REVIEW OF RECORD MAKING.
The Tribune. after referring to the pride of
Captain Watkins in his achievement and the
fact that this unprecedented speed was made
upon the second transatlantic voyage of the
steamer, which promises that even her present
record will yet be surpassed. saws: What 10
the limit of speed!' has been the question ever
since the Guion steamship Arizona came out in
1881 and made a rush for the Queen Of the
Oceans pennant. and took it with a record Of
Z days. hours and % minutes. As steamship
has followed steamship. as compound engines
have succeeded single low-pressure engines
and triple-expansion engines compound
engines, the speed has been increased
When the Cunard steamship Etruria
made her remarkable record of 6 days,
i hour and SIS minutes from Queenstown 70
New York in June last il almost agreed that
this was unapproschable. All other competi-
tors yielded 10 her the champion pennant When
Captain Frederick Watkins, formerly Of the
White Star line, took command Of the City Of
Paris, the Inman line recognized. as the White
Star line had done years before. that be was
the peer of the renowned Captain Cook, the
commodore OF the Cunard line; and when he
made the notable fast trip on the initial voy-
age of the City of Paris he figuratively gave q
hitch TO his trousers and said: shell do better
next time" Her trip ended yesterday proved
the truth Of his prophecy.
MAKING SUPERB RUNS.
The City of Paris sailed from Queenstown a
Las p. m. Dublin time), on Thursday, MAY 2.
and soon after leaving Lands End she met
with strong breeze. followed by a moderate
gale. At noon on May she had covered 445
miles. The following "a hours she made 492
miles, and covered sos miles from SATURDAY.
noon TO noon on Sunday. This was unprec-
edented "A hours run, surprising by one knot
the best days run of the Etruria. In the "a
hours ending Monday at noon she had made
500 miles, and then made 5ll miles. This was
tremendous run for an ocean steamship, but
notwithstanding the fact that il was a great
achievement, il must be borne in mind that she
was running TO the westward and had covered
about ten degrees of longitude. So that she
was about twenty-four hours and forty minutes
making that one days run. However, all other
steamships are favored in the same way
When the pilot boarded the vessel. at 7:30 a. m.
yesterday, Captain Watkins verified his position
and time. But the vessel was handicapped
somewhat by fog which began at noon on
Tuesday. In the meantime the vessels speed
was slackened several times to take soundings.
Then, too, she came.the southern course TO
avoid the ice. This Is seventy miles more
than the course taken in August
The entire distance run was 1855 miles. an
average of about 20 knots an hour. She burned
an average of 800 tons of coal each twennty-four
hours, and made an average of eighty-eight
revolutions per minutes of the engines, at one
time running up to ninety-two revolutions