The times., 1897-09-27
AN OCEAN RECORD BROKEN
The Kaiser Wilhelm Beats the
st. Paul'S Time.
WONDERFUL TIME MADE
Her Run of 564 Knots in One Day
Exceeds by Two Knots the Best
Westward Daily Run of the
CuDnrder Lucania-Great Things
Expected Iu the Future

New York, Sept. &c The giantess of
liners, the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, OF
.he North German Lloyd fleet, which ar
rived in port tonight, beat the record from
southampton. which was six days and
tnisty-one minutes, and was held by the
ST. Paul, of the American line.
The time of the great German scorcher is
five days twenty-five hours and rorty-fiye
minutes. She not only created new rec
ord on the southampton route, but she
smashes all maiden records on any route
and imperiis the supreme Of the Cunard-
efs. Lucania and Campania, a S mistresses
or the peaceful seas 0 f commerce.
a look at her marvellous days runs in
dlcaUes what nay be expected Of her in
the future when her machinery has linn
bered Up. At noon on her first day from
The Needles she had covered 20S knots.
She distinguished herself on her first full
days run by eclipsing the record of the
best ship on the Southampton route. She
reeled OFF 531 knots. On the succee ding
days her runs were, respectively, 495,
512, 554, 564, aud TO Sandy Hook, lS6
knots.
Her run of 564 knots, completed on
the nautical day ending at noon on Saur-
day, exceeds by two Knots the best west
ward daily run of the CunardeT, Lucania.
This clearly indicates that 1t viii not he
long before the Lucania viii be back
number.
The Kaiser covered 3.o5O knots al an
average hourly speed of y 80 knots. There
iG
in aLother part of this story, but this is
only maiden trip.
On her magnificent run Of 564 knots
yesterday the Kaiser made an average
Of nearly twenty y-threeknotsan an hour, which
Is what her builders, the Vulcan Shipbuild-
iGs Company, of Stettin, think she can do
for whole voyage. 1t is thought She can
beat the LuCania by about a knot an hour,
and VIII Reduce the Jimefr Southampton
10 five days and a half. She developed 3d.
900 horse-powe on the trip she finished
abeam of the Sandy Hook light shiptonieht,
ana her average daily Consumption of
coal was 500 tons.
Her steam pressure 20 the square inch
was l 80 pounds, aud the average revolu-
tinus Of ber screws was II to the minute.
A & certain hours Oh the trip the steam
pressure was a tufle higher, and the
revolutions % her prOpelIers faster. That
was nots MY so during { he last eight hours
when her average speed was % IA knots.
Five years ago the neutrality-suspicious.
Line bad the record from southampton.
The Bl iLish built steamship Paris of the
American Line, cut it down to g days 8
hours and 81 minutes, and the American
Liners, st. Paul ana st Louis, reduced it
to the figures that the Kaiser has just
eclipScd
The best hourly average OF tie Cam
pauia fer voyage is 22.o1 knots, made
in May, 1898.
The best hourly average of the st. Paul
is 2I.0s knots.
The best single days run of the Lu-
cania is 5s2 knots: Campania, 553 knots:
st. Paul and ST. Louis. each, $50 knots
The Kaiser VIII sail from this port on
Thursday for Southampton and Bremen
She VIII undoubtedly smash another record
made by tie American Liner st. Louis.
That record VIII probably not be a very
hard one for her, ds it is six days, ten
hours and fourteen minutes, an ayera ge
speed CT 1894 knots