The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-03

Der, 1885, reduced the record TO SIX Gays
two hours and thirty-tWo minutes. 1t was
in July of that year that the Euuria crossed
to Queenstown in six days four hours and
ffty-four minutes. The return passage was
made in six days one hour and tOrty-SeVen
minutes.
When the twin-screw racer, the City of
Paris. of the Inman Line, made its debut
in 1889, her maiden trip showed that she Tar
outclassed the single-screw Cunarders, and
on her second voyage to New York she
brought the passage time down to five days,
twenty-three hours and seven minutes. In
August OF that year she again shifted the
record to five days, nineteen hours and
eighteen minutes.
When the White Star liner Teutonic
came out in 1890 and lowered the record
by thirteen minutes only, tremendous
struggle began between the White star
and the Inman Company, and the Cunard-
ers appeared to be hopelessly out OF the
race.
Many interesting struggles occurred be-
tween the City of Paris and the City of
New York against the Teutonic and Males
tic, the most interesting battle occurring In
August, 1890, when the Teutonic and the
City of New York steamed out of Queens
town together and prepared to try conclu-
sons for the supremacy which had fallen
first to one and then to the other. The leu
tonic finished the race in five days, eighteen
hours and twenty-seven enthusiastically six
hours ahead of it's rival
FIVE-DAY OCEAN GREYHOUNDS.
The Teutonic then established both West
ern and Eastern records in 1891, making the
trip to New York in five days, sixteen hours
and thirty-one minutes, and from New York
in five days, twenty-one hours and three
minutes. The following year, however, the
City of New York recaptured the Eastern
record, and the City of Paris covered the
westward record by thirty-three minutes,
making the voyage in five days, fifteen hours
and fifty-eight minutes. 1t was then that
the Cunard Line began to exert ITSELF and
with the Lucania and Campania all previous
records were quickly smashed to pieces
The Campania in August, 1892, made the
western trip in five days, nine hours and
twenty-nine minutes, and the following Oc-
tober she captured the Eastern record with
a voyage or nve days, twelve hours and
seven minutes
The Lucania then, in August, 1894, wrested
the westward record from her sister ship by
doing the distance in five days eight hours
and thirty-eight minutes, and the following
month she again beat this with five days
seven hours and forty-eight minutes On
the 18th of October, 1894, the Lucania ar
rived in this port five days seven hours and
tWenty-three minutes out from Queenstown,
and this still stands as a record for that
particular voyage. The Lucania also holds
the record for the eastern trip to Queens
town, made in September, 1894, in five days
eight hours and thirty-eight minutes.
Previous to the new record of the Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse the Southampton record
westward was made by the American liner
ing six days and thirty-one minutes. The
eastward record from New York to South
ampton was made by the St Louis two
weeks ago, when she made the journey in
six days ten hours and fourteen minutes.
Previous to that the record had been held
by the Furst Bismarck, of the Hamburg
line. with voyage of six days ten hours
and fifty-five minutes, made in September,
1893.
The Touraine holds both records between
Havre and New York, her time being, east
ward six days twenty hours and six min
utes and westward, six days fourteen hours
and twenty-six minutes.
The piers of the North German Lloyd
Steamship Company at Hoboken We're
thrOnged this morning as the Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse was towed in at 5
o'clock All the way up from quarantine
the vessel was saluted by passing craft. and
when she finally came into view from Ho-
boken the cheering was loud and prolonged.
Capt H Esngelbart, her commander, was
the recipient of congratulations from many
and was soen surrounded by an admiring
crowd anxious TO learn the details of the
trip. The passengers, too. We're made to re-
count their experiences, and all seemed glad
that they had CHANGED TO be aboard the
great vessel when she was making her first
"trip westward.