The Mena weekly star., 1907-09-19
THE LUGTAN|A ARRIVES.
Giant Turbine Steamer Reached Sandy Hook Lightship at sos
 Thursday Morning.
TIME FOR TRIP 5 DAYS AND 54 MINUTES
The Bio Vessel Given Clsmorous Greeting by immense Fleet of steam Craft as She Moved Up the Harbor to Quarantine Station-other Rec ord Ere akers.

ship record between European port and New York was made by the Cu- nard lines new giant turbine ship, the Lusitania, which arrived here Friday. The Lusitania left Queenstown, the nearest transatlantic port to New York, at 12:10 D. m. Sunday, and ar rived at the Sandy Hook lightship al S:05 a. m. Friday, making the time fos the trip 5 days and 54 minutes. This is hours and 29 minutes better than the previous Queenstown-New fork record of 5 days, hours and 23 min utes, held by the Lucania, of the same line.
 While the Lusitania has made new record for the time passenger is actually on board ship, she has not beaten the average speed per hour re- corded, both the Kaiser Wilhelm h. which has made 23.5S knots per hour from New York to Plymouth, and the Deutschland, with record sof 235l knots per hour to Plymouth, having made better time.
 The log of the Lusitania gives her time of passage as days and 54 min utes. and her time of arrival off the Sandy Hook lightship as S:05 a. m. Her average speed was 23.01 knots pfr hour, and the days runs were 556, 575, 570, 593 and 483 to the lightship, a total distance of 2,7S2 miles.
 When the giant Cunarder swept up the bay she was given a clamorous greeting by an immense fleet of steam craft, which had cengregated off the quarantine station to await her ar rival. Nearly every one of the yachts, towboats and other steamers was crowded with passengers, well sup piled with horns and othar noise making devices, and at times even the shrieking steam whistles were almost drowned out by the toots and cheers. The Lusitania presented a magnificent picture as she slowly drew up at quar- antine. Her keen, high bow. beauti- fully symmetrical lines and finely modelled stern marked her a true greyhound. The first sight of New York which the passengers on tte big steamer gained was one of wei come. From the highest point of .he towering Singer building on Broad. way, the tallest of the buildings in the world, there had been strung a series of signal flags which in the marme code spelled welcome" The futter. ing greeting was 600 feet above Man. hattan's great thoroughfare, and could be seen far down the bay.
 The Lusitania's passengers included Robert Balfour, M. F.. Mrs. Potter Palmer, Robert Goelet, Mrs. Richard Croker and several officials of the Cunard line.
 Sixty-one years ago the little steam. ship Europa. a Cunard liner, with her old-fashIoned engines, crossed the At lantic from Liverpool to New York in II days and 3 hours. Her perform. ance was heralded to the four corners of the earth that the Europa had broken the record of IA 1-2 days, made by the steamer Great Western eight years before, in 1S3S With the Eu ropa's voyage began the lasting con. test for the supremacy of the sea, which has led to the building of the fleet Lusitania.
 The Lucanias record of days, ' hours and 23 minutes, made from Queenstown to New York in 1894. was not broken until the Lusitania arrived Friday. The Lucania on that trip made an average speed of 21.S1 knots over course of 2,779 miles. While the Lucania was holding the Queens town record, the North German Lloyd and American lines began to battle for the western record from South. ampton to New York, which was held for three years, between 1893 and 1896. by the steamships Paris, New York and St. Paul of the American line. The St. Paul in 1896 made the voyage from Southampton to New York, distance of 3,050 miles. fin days and 31 minutes. Then the North German Lloyd company put over the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, the first of the greater ocean steamships now traversing the Atlantic, and the new vessel in 1897 became the marine won der of the world when she hung m n
 
 record of days. 22 hours and 36 min. utes from Southampton to New York The big Kaiser, as she is familiarlv called in shipping circles, created a new record in 1899, when she steamed from Cherbourg, France, to New York distance of 3,050 miles, in days IS hours and IS minutes. This record was lowered in the same year by inc Kaiser to days, IT hours and 37 minutes. The Hamburg American line captured the blue trophy of the sea from her rival in 1900 with inc steamship Deutschland, which made the distance from Cherbourg to New York in days, 12 hours and 2g min. tues. The Deutschland lowered her own record by minutes in 1901 The hronprinz Wilhelm. the new shin of the North German Lloyd line. slinned across the Atlantic in 1902 in 5 days II hours and 57 minutes, which was the banner record until the next wear when the Deutschland again wrested the honors as the fastest shin atlo,t by slipping off minutes from tho rao ord time of the Kronprinz Wnbalp The Deutschland made on this ro markable voyage an average speed n, 23.15 knots. F0Su VI
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