Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-03-27
RIVAL QUEENS.
RACE BETWEEN STEAMSHIPS AL
ALBANIA AND AUGUSTA.

<AlJ<AN MIA AN II &AONIOO ~.
The Baltimore American of Sunday
published the following:
The Baltimore and Norfolk steamers
Alabama and Augusta, which belong to
opposite lines, arrived in port yestcr-
day, and the officers of the Alabama
report that she beat the Augusta in n
race down the bay Thursday night.
The Alabama. of the Old Bay Line, has
held the bay record, having made the
run between Baltimore and Norfolk in
less than nine and Il half hours, cover
ing distance of about $50 miles. The
Augusta is the new and palatial steam
or OF the York River Line, and n speed
OF about eighteen knots is expected of
her. She was recently grOomed into
first class condition, and resumed her
route. An officer of the Alabama makes
the following statement:
Much has been said lately about the
new steamer Augusta, of the Balti-
more. Chesapeake and Richmond
Steamboat Company. as being the
queen of the Chesapeake. or, as her
builders said. The finest and fastest
boa; on the bay AS TO the first, it is
left to the public to decide. hut as to
the last part. few points will speak
for themselves. The Augusta has been
Tennessee, OF the Old Bay Line, for the
last fifteen days, and the papers at Will
minSton, Del. where both of the Old
Bay Lines boats were built, said of the
result between the Augusta and Geor-
sa that the former boat was not in
IT, After this the Augusta was put In
the dry dock, bottom repainted and q
bronze wheel put on to try her with
the steamer Alabama, another boat Of
me Old Bay Line. built at Sparrows
Point. This contest took place Thurs
day night of this week from Baltimore
to Old Point. The Augusta left her
wharf. at Light street, some five or
ten minutes ahead OF the Alabama,
which ran behind her to Sandy Point.
when Captain Bohannon, OF the Ala
bama, rang the call-bcl to the engine
room, and told Chief Engineer Bitten
| he could let her go, and in less than
thirty minutes the Alabama was lead
ing by three or four lengths At
Smiths Point, mouth of the Potomac
river. the Augustus sidellghts could
not be seen, and nothing more was
| seen of the Augusta until she arrived
at Old Point, forty minutes after the
Alabama. which shows that the So
called Queen of the Chesapeake is not
the Greyhound
1t was stated at the office of the Old
BAY Line yesterday that the Alabama
| Hdu passed. the Augusta. Ine officials
of the York River Line state that the
Augusta runs on schedule time, and
that her officers have been instructed
not to speed her.
THE AUGUSTA DISABLED.
Yesterdays Baltimore Sun says: The
new steamer Augusta. CAPTAIN Ben
nett, OF the Chesa oeake Steamship
| Company. which left Saturday night
heavily loaded with freight and with
thirty passengers aboard, on her regu-
lar trip to Norfolk, returned to Balti-
more yesterday morning. owing to an
accident to her middle pressure-valve
stem. which broke about 10:45 u. m.
Saturday off Sharp's Island. The At
lanta, arrived from Norfolk for Balti-
more, conveyed the Augusta to port,
where she will he laid up for repairs.
The Atlanta was loaded with the Au-
gusta's freight and left last night for
| Norfolk