The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-11-06

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the Cunard liner Lusitania, which ar
rived here today after a record-break-
ing run across the Atlantic, is receiv-
ing the homage OF the stoutest rivals
of the owners, the North German
Lloyd Steamship Company
Amid a din even greater than that
which greeted the new liner on her
maiden voyage, the Lusitania steamed
up the harbor this morning to her
dock, her stentorian siren shrieking
acknowledgment of the bedlam OF
noise and the galaxy of color which
hailed her capture of the blue rib
bon of the seas"
Not content with having shattered
all transatlantic records, the Cunard
Company, it is said expects to cut an
even bigger slice off the ocean record
on another trip, and it is believed that
the return voyage will be the occasion
for the attempt
That the Lusitania, under perfect
conditions, is capable OF doing $50 riau-
tical miles in day is the belief of
George thompson, superintendent OF
the engineering department of the Gu
nard Line he has been on the Lusl-
tania ever since she was launches,
studying her turbines and machinery.
He said today:
1.-The Lusitania proves that the tur-
bine style of engine for fast SHIPS is a
permanent institution. We burned a
little more coal this trip than We did
before, consuming between $50 and
1000 tons of coal daily. She will prob
ably do better. Under perfect condi-
tiOns l think the Lusitania can do $50
nautical miles in a day"
In the ships log is epitomized the
story of the swiftest passage across the
Atlantic, in which may be read the
long-looked-for advent OF the -four
day boat" a craft which, until the new
Cunarder, fitted with her SO,OOO-horse-
power turbine engines, made her won
derful maiden trip, had been pronounc-
ed an impossibility by many eminent
marine engineers.
There were incidents that brought
the hearts of Chief Engineer Duncan
and his assistants up into their
mouths, and for the men who passed
the coal there were days and nights of
work at high pressure in a tempera-
ture not especially conducive to sus-
! tanned strenuous endeavor.
But the men kept at it from the hour
last Tuesday morning when word came
down from deck that the time to
smash all records had arrived until the
symmetrical hull brought the Sandy
Hook Lightship abeam shortly after I
o'clock this morning.
The stokehold force of $50 were all
! picked men. There was picked coal
| for them to handle, and the orders to
! the fireroom force were to spare neith-
err themselves nor the fuel. And they
did not. The going was not any too
smooth until Monday afternoon, and
then the men, as an engineer officer
put it, were crowded lust a wee"
Shortly before Tuesday noon it was
known down below that the Lusitania
had done 600 miles for the rs hours,
anu III bllI leu elON VI lllG lul ildCt lllG
word shot along like a blast of cool
air. Then came a bottle of ale for
each of the 800 men.
! The present of ale was not at all in
accordance with the custom of the Gu
nard Line. That this was so may be
gathered from the fact that the ale
had not long disappeared before word
came that between that noon and Wed
nesday noon the Lusitania was going
to "go some" and that Captain Watt
expected all men concerned to see that
no failure occurred through their in
ability to handle coal as 1t should be
handled on four-day boats.
1t was a strenuous day in the dark
. places where passengers never go.
Most of the Jhirty-three officers Of the
engineers division did little or no
, sleeping, and the firemen went at their
work with every bit of the determine
ton which actuated those on the
bridge.
Stripped to the waist, fully 200 men
at time kept the furnaces supplies
with all they could consume, which IS
saying a great deal. For the white
; flames were nothing more than I'M
, mense crucibles in which steel would
have curled up like sheets of TIN, in
p a@%%%@%&+1%8s1~@%@Sa%<sA%~S~9-
gree, minimum 60 deg, and the mean
1873 deg, G deg. lower than the nor
NAL and IT. deg. below last week S.
The mean relative humidity was 100
per cent and the prevailing wind NE,
with an average hourly velocity Of lO.4
miles. The mean daily barometer rang
ed from 8O.O5 to 1910 inches, OS to .1S
inch higher than the normal
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