New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-09
LINERS RACE 10 PORT.
THE CAMPANIA BEATS THE ST. LOUIS
BY FORTY-FIvE MINUTES ONLY
OFF THE BANKS THE TWO VESSELS SIGHTED
EACH OTHER AND STEAMED SIDE BY SIDE
FOR TwENrY.FouR HoURs-A FOG
MADE THE CAMPAN1A SLOW
DOWN OR SHE WOULD
HAVE BEATEN THE
RECORD.

As II has become almost a habit OF the hee'er
ships OF the American and Cunard lines which SAIL
from England on tho Same day 10 arrive he'c vi
Friday evening yesterday the ST LOUIS an"
Campania rushing In by SANDY HOOK ON!
three-quarters OF an hour apart. They hustled mp
TO Quarantine and 10 their piers. being d"ck'"
within about half a hour % each other.
Both steamers left England-the ST. LOUIS tro'"
Southampton and the Campania from Lverpooi-a
week ago to-day. and after crossing about twenty
five hundred miles Of the Atlantic came IN SIGHT vi
each other off the Banks last Thursday mormhH
The St Louis was about eight miles ahead OF her
larger and heeter rival. On the minute each snip
began TO put in her best PAGES According 10
passenger the Campania word was sent GOV"
to the engine-room TO pile the coal. and ny tne
way the smoke poured from the vesseis TWO III"
mense tunnels It piled.
All day long and we'll into the night the Nv"
vessels raced along toward New-York. with the
Camran!a slowly but surely closing the gap Ne
tween them Among the passengers OF the am
pania a pool was started on the day $ run N''"o.'
exactly at midnight on Thuraday the '"''p''
had pulled up abcam OF the -. LOUIS ""' "
hours she could shake her piucNy h't'e S''''
, foo sot in and the whistles OF each vessel couid
be heard by tho other as they pioueheu '
the water with only TWO miles ne'wee" w.,
GRADUALLY however tho Campania drew aheau
and arrived at the Sandy Hook lghtsh'P III wv
Tho ST Louis arrived there at 90"
That the victor had done pretty hea'i' Nv"
best was shown by the log for the days 'u.'
From noon Of Thursday to noon yes"r""!' nv
r,os had been left behind her In the tweil,s 20
hours and ten minutes allowance pcs Ilia r,,n,
thc decrease in n days length on wcstWd.u W. ~ =
The C,ampania's best record for DAY run S % 10,
e. onlv S53 miles and had II not been TOT '' -,
Witch she cncouno cred. and FOR when sh m.n,,iI
siow down for thrty-two rninu'r r snn oi n,brh
so,h,,cs. have beaten her record The poor WILL u
hod heon made up for that days LIT "'"'"
10 ~, s,7I and was won by T. j. Mlis eo ala.
Tho Campania's time tor the NoyaR' ol - - 40 =
I. Z days 10 hours and Il minutes rs "s"'' ~
scord ~ DAYS ? hours and minutes .. ,,s,o
po,b Vessels had unusually iarse paSTonErl .'s
.h.ps hoin- 81, "a hin passengers on ne
among them being Howard G9u'd. MIS- Nj r. and
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NI hmons ihe passenger. the s. Louis Trrt
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~ f.ni,.d states Minister TO SPAN. hhi
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hemcr. Charles Melville Dewey. j. l."
~ u y BENEDICT.