The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-11-10
IA SAVOIE BEAT LUCANIA IN.
FASTER IN ROUGH SEAS-PHILA-
DELPHIA THIRD IN RACE.
kept Below on All Three-Got
Election News OF Nantuckct-Dr.
Jenkins says Plague Has foothoid
IN Liverpool Man With Marvel Hat.

IN Liverpool Man With Marvel Hat.
A. a rough-weather boat the new French
u,sr La Savoie has demonstrated that
=. can beat the s~wiftest British ocean
,rossor in commission. the lean Cunarder,
T,cania. which holds the record between
sandv Hook and Queenstown. The Savoie
-, IN Yesterday from Havre, vanquishing
%, only tho crack Of the Cunard feet, but
r. easily outsailing the American liner
philadelphia, from Southampton and Cher
no,,rg. which IA a tanch craft in tumultu-
Gus seas,
u,Ius 10 get even with the vaulting nauti-
al ambition Of the German shipbuilders.
she Il not so swift a ship as the Hamburg
american liner Deutschland and the North
corman LLOYD flyers Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse and Kronprinz Wilhelm, but she
i nretty close 10 them, and a fraction of a
Lrot better than the Lucania in time Of
stress.
Over n course Of 3,i5s miles from Havre,
Ia Savoie, tussling with heavy head seas
and gales most Of the way, averaged 1914
Knots an hour, and finished her trip in Q
days. is hours and IS minutes. The Lu-
csnia. over the Queenstown course Of
,7sl miles, averaged 1s.24 knots, and the
naturalized American. the Philadelphia,
covered a course from Cherbourg Of s,O4+
miles at an average hourly speed of 10
knots.
The rough-weather days were those
IN which the Gallo liner did stunts. When
The Briton was Keeling of merely 49l knots,
the 'paquebot' was doing sos. After the
ga Gained a bit and the winds ceased
-LI.Ig,. tho aim Gttpnrdar did hQftar
work. Her best days run. in moderate
weather was $40 knots, or 10 knots better
than the best performance OF the French
man. On this quiescent nautical day
the Philadelphia put sos knots astern.
All three ships scooped up sea crests
veteran voyagers were able to show up
Al meal time. The Philadelphia carried
away the wooden top OF her steel main
mast while pitching in the seas. Capt.
Mills denied a report that the topmast
had been hit by. lightning. La Savoie
passed the Philadelphia on tho second
day out and the Yankee ship nsvsr caught
her.
The Lucania and La Savoie being
equipped with wireless Geographic APP
on Friday afternoon that they were ap-
preaching this port. The Philadelphia
used the megaphone TO speak the light
ship. a Savoie got to Sandy Hook at 2
o'clock yesterday morning, but grounded
near the southwest spit two hours later
and didn't get of until Q A. NJ, The Phil
delphia reached the lightship at S A. NJ.
and the Lucania passed twenty-five minutes
later. The Lucania was the last to n
her passengers as she was from a plague
infected port and was held several hours
while her passengers were inspected;
Aboard La Savoie was the body OF Fran
chs Otto Matthiessen, the g %refner,
who died in Paris on March 8. TIT coffin
was in a mortuary chapel and was almost
hidden by flowers On the trip the flowers
were scattered over the room by the rolling
and pitching Of the ship. Another body
on La Savoie was that Of Octave Biardot,
who died in Paris.
Chartran, the portrait painter, who In
tends to live In this city, at 10 West Thirty
third street. was a passenger 10y the Savoie,
NJ. Roberval and his French opera com
pany Of iO2 persons. bound for New Orleans,
were also passengers on la Savoie; so
was the Count de Sibour, who wears a hard
felt hat fesrfully and wonderfully made.
Il u built somew hat after the style of the
shovel hat Of a clergyman. The Count
Is said % be a leader Of eccentrics on the
bouleysrds. His hat Is wide Of brim and
low Of crown.
la Sayoie shipped several sea crests.
which carried away a ventiLator and dam
aged rail-.
DIR. William T. Jenkins, Health Com
HAiNNlfLtl anu DlbAl'l " Min
Croker, received aboard the Lucania Of
Nantucket by wireless message. the news
81 the defeat Of Tammany Hall. He said
be- had visited the Squire's home at Wan
tAge. and denied that he had gone abroad
10 promote the interests Of a private marine
medical hospital of which he ~ the heal.
He declared that the object Of hlH visit 10
England wac rocuperation n not bust
nsss lie said hat the bubonlc plAsu"
eIlstsd In Liverpool when lac left. There
had hssn two deaths, there were three oa.es
In the hospital and a man was under
observation. Ia. doctor said
II 10 feared that the disease may spread
The difficulty il e. trace lie origin. II has
broken uut ainuug clearly people In apart
m"uts and, although II IL limited, the fact
that o. caurut he traced NAV MAX. " more
dIfDIf "a. control talked With ~ Hops,
bead ~ ihr GlN-rnmeut Medical stan at
Liverpool. bat dld not personally Invest
satr Tie Dass- Everything ls b-ing done
! L4ycTpIul that modloai st.no- sanctions
& presrut M" sproad q the dis"as", lu-
cInng d % iurp-rtion u passuus"Is
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