The evening world., 1894-09-14
'LUCANIA, The QUEEN.
She Holds Both Eastward and
Westward Ocean Records.
The Time In Each Exactly the Same,
5 Days, 8 Hours, SO Minutes.
Campania, Due To-day, May Cause
Another Surprise.

An Associated Press despatch from
London says that the crack Cunard
flyer Lucania. which left this port last
Saturday. passing Sandy Hook Light
ship at 2.35 L. Nj, arrived at Queens
town at 3.47 this morning.
This makes the Lucania's time from
this port to Queenstown. days, s hours
and 3S minutes, the exact time of her
westward passage to this port from
Queenstown Aug. 81 last, which was the
fastest time ever made by ship In
crossing the Atlantic.
by this performance. however. the
Lucania beats the record for the eastern
passage made by the Campania Aug. II
last of days, 10 hours and Al minutes,
The Lucania, therefore, while not re-
ducing her record for the westward pas
sage is doubly Queen OF the Seas"
since she has cut down the time OF the
| eastward passage to the exact minute OF
the westward record, reducing the Cam
| minutes.
These facts and figures were confirmed
at the office of the Cunard line. Bowling
Green. this morning by an Evening
| World' reporter. There, too. 1t was
also learned tnat the IuCAnlab ually
runs were Az. 5l2. 494, 5l4. 5O6 and 1857
knots, "A total of 2,SlO Knots. or an aver
age speed of 2l;s4 knots per hour.
| In spite of the fact that she smashed
equal the highest average hourly speed
| record, 2l.S9 knots. made by her in
June last, and her $50 knots covered In
record for the longest days run.
pani9, IS due here today Or this evening,
ner agents ng ,b were on
too. might retaliate and smash the Lu-
cania's record before the ink on the
newspapers telling OF 1t was fairly dry.
herself to-day, however, the probabilities
are that there will be no more record
breaking this year. as September gales
| to be encountered.
This has been a remarkable year for
ocean .record-breaking. At the begin
eastward Queenstown record, five day
twelve hours and seven minutes. made
Nov g., 1888. Aug. 81, this year, the
i've days ten 1 hours and forty.seveni
minutes, lowering her own record one
hour. and twenty minutes, and to-day
the Lucania knocks Off two hours and
time. 1t will thus be seen that the east
ward Queenstown record has been cut
down three hours and twenty-nine min
| tIe ytdr
The westward Queenstown record-E
days, Y hours and AZ minutes-alsc
made Nov, 3, 1893, was held, at the be,
This was lowered by the Campania
Aug. II three hourse and eighteen min.
utes, when she arrived here in days
hours and 20 minutes. and Aug. 81 the
Lucania made the trip In 8 days, s hour.
and 38 minutes, cutting down the Cam
pania's record flfty-one minutes. Tn,
westward Queenstown record has thu
been reduced this year four hours anC
nine minutes.
Another Queenstown record breaker
so far as her own time is concerned, 1!
that of the White Star steamer Britain
mic. The Britannia is twenty years old
and has never done anything remarkable
in the way Of fast trips as compared
with the records OF the present day
She has been looked on as an eight and
created a mild sensation when she came
minutes, nearly twenty-four hour.
ahead of her usual time.
The western Southampton record ha:
also been broken this year. The time
of the Paris, 6 days. nine hours and 81
minutes, made July 81. 1893, was the rec
ord until Aug. "a, OF this year, when hei
| sister ship, the New York, came In in
days. hours and 38 minutes. lowering
the record 50 minutes.
The Fuerst Bismarck still holds the
| eastward Southampton record, 6 days
| 10 hours and 90 minutes, made Sept. IS
1899.
A comparison with previous records
Will be interesting at this time: