Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-29
STOKERS DELAY BIG ship
ANGRY, THEY GIVE THE LUsITA
MA POOR STEAM.
Turbines Make $50 Instead of 200
Revolutions a Minute-Kick
Over Food

LONDON, September 2s-Despite sixteen
| hours of fog, two days of heavy seas, IA re-
fractory crew and 800 sullen stokers the
Lusftana has broken the record from New
York to Queenstown by fully three hours
That her average speed was only about
go, compared with 23.01 on her westwa
passage is ascribed partly to the American
coal she used. which had not the same
steam-raisng qualities English coal, but
the trouble with the stoAers contributed to
| lowering the average.
A newspaper correspondent among the
passengers writes that a more refractory,
a more stubborn and more malcontent
collection never fed a furnace. Sunday
night, when twenty-six hours from New
York. they assumed an attitude Of open
defiance. alleging that they were receiv-
ing improper AMI insufficient food.
\ begrimed deputation of twenty-five
made up from the hold through the luNur!
Gus saloon departments to the bridge bear
| ing pots and pans of steaming V:tua!S
Capt. Watt pacifed them, but only for a
short time. Throughout the trip their work
| continued loose and half-hearted, at times
approaching absolute ineftciency.
1t was impossible to get more than 100
| or 1GO revolutions out of the great turbines,
which were built TO make from $50 to 300
The violent squall which attenled tie
steamers start was followed by Stiff. H;g
Sc degrees for the air and SO for the wafer.
Stops and Fog.
Monday forenoon brought a fog, which
thckened until toward evening. 1t had
the consistency of the London pea soup
atmosphere. Two stops were made to To-
cate the whereabouts of the dOleful uoans
of distant foghorns.
From Tuesday night 20 Thursday after
noon the lrer underwent baptism of
rough weather. She went through it mag
nifcently. She careened gently at maxi
mum angle of % degrees, rolling with
graceful swing that defed discomfo's, and
went forward with the rhythmic ease OF {
cruising yacht. Surgeon PontOt says he
was not summoned to attend a single case
of nausea. but it seems that a few seHsi-
tive stomachs rebelled without troubling
the doctor.
Great interest was displayed when the
steamers Brandenburg, Minnehaha, Ryn-
dam and Celtic We're sighted Wednesday
and Thursday. All were making heavy
weather of it compared with the comforta-
BILE rolling of the Lustania. After this the
passage was uneventful to Queenstown.
The best evidence of the steamers speed
was then given. She made the run to
Liverpool In nine hours and twenty min
utes which was hardly below the rate of
twenty-five knots. tremendous crowd
awaited her at Liverpool, and she was
cheered wildly. The passengers are uni
formIy enthusiastic over their trip Capt.
Watt says the Lustania is the handiest
ship he ever commanded.
Lusitania's Performance.
The Lusitania left Sandy Hook at GAL
pm on Saturday, the Dist. The report
shows that she has established a new
record for the eastward passage from
Sandy Hook lightship to Queenstown. The
best prior record was made by the Lucania
of the same line thirteen years ago, on
September H. 1894, when she crossed from
New York to Queenstown in five days eight
hours and thirty-eght minutes. The Luz
Sitania, therefore, beat the record by four
hours and nineteen mintes The average
| speed of the LuCanid on her record trip was
| y 81 knots hour
| A glance at the table of her daily runs
| shows that she steadily gained time until
| Thursday, when her speed began to fall
| off to a slight extent and Friday, when the
| distance she had to go was not so great.
| The heavy weather of the last three days
| accounts for her slow progress. At tie
/ outset she was handicapped by a dense
| blanket of fog which delayed her several
| hours.
| The eastward passage was made in
| slower time than she made on her trip to
this city, when her average speed was
Lucanias record and set up new mark
for the distance of five days and tiftyfour
minutes.
But although the Lusitania showed her
self a faster boat than the Lucania east
ward, she did not surpass the best single
days run of the smaller liner. That was
533 miles The best single days run of
the Lusitania, Wednesday last, is re-
ported from Liverpool 530 miles