The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-11
LUSITANIA IS
 QUEEN OF OCEAN Cunard Line Captures from Germany Record for
 Fleetest Ship on
 Atlantic.
TIME, FOUR DAYS
 AND TWENTY HOURS
Credit Given to the superi- ority of Turbine Engines Celebration on
 the Boat.

Newport, R. L, Oct. 1O.-With all transatlantic records well within her grasp, the great turbiner Lusitania swung around the Nantucket lightship at 5:25 o'clock this afternoon and head ing into the sunset, began her dash along the home stretch 193 miles to the finish of her second westward passage at Sandy Hook lightship.
 The Nantucket lightship is anchored forty-four miles southeast of Tom New CTS Head, on Nantucket Island, and far out of sight of land and as is well known, is the turning point of all ves- sels bound for New York from Euro pean ports, As the water is shoal north of the government vessel all steamers turn the lightship close aboard.
 Captain Jacobson, in command of the lightship, which at present is Relief
 No. 71, from the Hatteras station, noti- fled the Naval station here tonight of the onrush of the Lusitan1a. A shower
 of spray was squirting high up her cut
 water, smoke was rolling out of all four tunnels and blackening the sky far
 down to leeward while her wake stretched miles astern. Passengers
 could be seen crowding the decks and a big siren shrieked in answer to the salute of the lightship.
 It was the first chance those on board the lightship had of seeing the Lusitania for on her previous trip she passed in the night.
 The sea to-day was smooth, the
 weather clear, and the wind light from the eastward, but although the breeze was astern the Lusitania left a { trail of smoke as if she was speeding against hurricane. At 5:25 as she Scame up abreast of the lightship the \ aLusitanias helm was put hard over Hand her course changed from west 8southwest to a little north of east as Hshe headed for Sandy Hook lightship, Rthe finish line 193 miles away It Twas sunset as the Lusitania passed aand at o'clock the lights in her after cabin disappeared into the darkness. The steamer passed the lightship at Ha distance of only mile and quar- 'Ster. The Lusitania reported all well Ion board and that she expected to arr #rive at the bar at 1:15 tomorrow 4morning.
 S On Board the Lusitania, Thursday, 8Oct. 10 via Siasconset, Mass, Oct. 10. 8-Three thousand passengers crowded 1.-the decks of the Lusitania at 5:25 D. m. 1 1to-day, New York time, to watch her 'steam past Nantucket lightship. We are making twenty-five knots an hour.
 There is great enthusiasm on board sover this record breaking trip We ex- pect to finish the run off Sandy Hook slightship at 1 a. m. tomorrow, four Hdays and fifteen hours out. The en- sgineers are making every effort to amaintain the high speed to the end of athe trip.
 Colonel H, I. Kowalski of San Fran @cisco was chairman of the concert to- anight. He made speech that was received with enthusiasm. Although live applaud the Deutschland as the Hpacemaker," the colonel said, "yet we cheer the Lusitania for beating her in athis heroic struggle to wrest from the RGerman giant the blue ribbon for Mspeed, The Lion is again master of Athe ocean highway, and this English llvictory is one in which the whole world sjoins We Americans also are in on Hthe victory"
 Continuing, Colonel Kowalski made reference to Robert Fulton and the Founder of the Cunard line. "The egreat record made with the turbine hengine removes all doubt of it's effi- lciency," continued the speaker, "so let us give three cheers for the build ssrs, the engineers, the captain, the ADfficers and the crew of this gallant vessel"
 x Captain James W. Miller, of New aYork, then made short address, in (which he said in part:
 When one remembers that barely sone hundred years have elapsed since hhe first steamboat parted the waters of the Hudson river the wonder sgrows that man, in a century, has achieved this noble craft, which in design, perfection and speed is une- nualled, and which is annihilating Hime and space and bringing into close Aouch the land of Fulton and the land 1f Cunard"
 The Rev. Dr. Robert Collyer, of
 New York, followed Captain Miller and said:
 Ut has been a marvellous perform
 Ance. Ours is the noblest vessel
 afloat and this has been the finest triI | ever made"
 James Elverson of Philadelphia
 said this trip had proved the value of
 the turbine engine He described the achievement as magnificent and said Ahe Lusitania was the noblest and best Appointed steamship atioat.
 The weather is clear and the water
 .Jmooth. We will anchor off quaran- Zine about [ o'clock and dock about 10 Tomorrow morning.
 s6 Among the speechmakers was alst tHf