The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-15
GOOD FOR THE ST. PAUL
AMERICAN LINER MAKES 4 YEW
 OCEAN RECORD.

OCEAN hGCOhDs Her Time Is Six Days, Thirty-one Minutes Makes the Very Remarkable Average Speed of s1 ;Os Knots an Hour.
 New York, Aug. 14.-The American liner St. Paul has again demonstrated that American shipbuilders can make the fastest ships atloat of their tonnage and power. She has established new ocean record, having made the voyage from Southampton to New York in days and 3l minutes, five hours faster than the fastest time ever made until June 5, when she did the trick in 6:05:32 and hour and 53 minutes faster than the St. Louis last week trip of 6:02:24
 A few years ago that a Friday boat could get In so early in the morning that her first appearance would be chronicled at 9:S5 o'clock from Sandy Hook would have been deemed well nigh Impossible This is what the St. Paul has done. The Sandy Hook ob- server saw her crossing the bar at that hour this morning. He rubbed his eyes and looked again. It was the St. Paul, sure enough, and he heard the faint echo of big cheers coming into shore, and flashed the news to New York that another ocean record had gone to smash. The St. Paul was not sighted from Hire Island as usual
 She passed in at Sandy Hook at 9:46 o'clock, and her passengers went in the streets of New York quarter of hour before noon.
 The St. Paul left Southampton on the Needles at 1:44 o'clock in the after noon She reached the Sandy Hook lightship at 9:15 o'clock this morning, having covered the total distance of 3,046.1 miles in days and ,31 minutes, an average speed of 21.OS knots an hour. This average Is really very re- .narka ble.
 When the St. Paul broke the record on the voyage ending June her aver age was 20S2 The St. Louis average speed on her record trip was 20.S6. The Cunarders' Lucania and Campania, which have 10000 more horse power, have made averages of 21.26 and 2189 on record voyages
 One of the features noted by the pas- sengers and officers of the ship was that this was the St. Paul's thirteenth western voyage, and Captain Jamison, her commander, say that he is now considering the advisability of becom- ing a member of the Thirteen club.
 The St. Paul made fast to her pier at 11:4O o'clock Captain Jamison was at once surrounded by her friends, and congratulations were poured in upon him.
 Purser Richard Jones speaking about the trip said:
 .The voyage was one of the most pleasant that I have made. Most of the time we had fair weather, but in the neighborhood of the banks we ran into a rather heavy fog. This made it necessary that we slow down little, and of course we were correspondingly slower on reaching port, While we knew that the St. Paul was making a good run, we were dubious about breaking the record, as we expected to encounter fogs on the last two days We did meet the fogs all right, but for tunately they were not very fornlid- able.
 The St Paul brought 438 cabin pass engers and PAT steerage passengers.
 The performance was all the more re- markable from the fact that once she had to stop her starboard engine fol half an hour to plug leaking tube in the main condenser and that three times she had to run at considerably reduced speed because of fog. Her av- craze sped was 2O.86, being .04 better than the St. Paul's best. Her whole days runs were AT, 519, 530, 520, 510 ant 499. On one day she averaged 21.o; knots an hour