The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-10-25
He LUSITANIA'S TRIP
life Aboard Cunard Liner on Her
Maiden Voyage.
TIRELESs MAN KEPT BUSY.

ssengers Sent and Received 1000
Words by Mareoni System Daily.
ladies' Dined In Gorgeous Toilets,
Escorted by Men In Evening Dress.
When the steamship Lusitania, the
Inard lines turbine giantess, hove
her anchor and steamed out Of
heenstown harbor shortly after noon
Sunday, Sept. s, all hands fondly
ped we were beginning a record
baking voyage across the Atlantic,
Us a New York Times representative
10 was aboard the Lusitania. The
cania had left half an hour before
and was completely lost in the fog
pen we got outside the harbOr.
Looking around on the crowded
cks fore and aft, it was easy to real
that we were on the largest ship
the world, with a floating population
5000, including the crew, men and
bmen gathered from all parts OF
rope, all bound for the land of the
est
rhe steamer was under command of
plain J. B. Watt, and the engines
re in charge of Alexander Duncan,
Scotsman of the old fashioned Clyde
I'd type, who are all brought up to
ieve that words are not necessary
engineers; that it is action that
S. w. j. Luke, the designer of the
sitania, was on board in company
III E. II. Cunard, one of the direct
of the line, whose famous motto
ID to be eve never lost a life"
tn the foghorn blowing at three
butte intervals the liner picked her
y cautiously out into the Atlantic
the wake of the Lucania. At 3
N. we were told that she was TWEEN
miles ahead of us.
he passengers in the first cabin did
appear to be very lively lot, the
seeming to fill them with gloom.
fact that we had to slow down di-
lily after starting was looked upon
bad omen by some Of the croak-
One tall Seotchman, who still
re his kits and had a voice that
gested a steady diet of porridge
} haggis. said to me:
Hoot, mon. It's a raw NIGHT the
}, I'm thinking. l wish l could see
bonny BARNS again"
Vhen the fog lifted in the night the
er was put at full speed and bowled
ng at the rate OF twenty-three
pts. Wireless messages were receiv-
from the Lucania ali through the
ht, but our officers professed to
Re no idea of her position. CUES
bed closely by painstaking passen'
3, they did not even remember the
pc of their old greyhound. Some
E, when we were all tucked away
pur hunks sleeping peacefully, the
itania passed her PAGER, and by
on Monday the Lucania was
y-one miles astern, but the maJori
Of the passengers did not know
1t had become of her until they
fhed New York By noon on Tues
the distance between the two Gu
ders had been increased to IN
Is.
be of the features of the daily life
shipboard was furnished by th'
elevators amidships. which car
the passengers up and down t
various decks, five in all, which ar
gnated as A, b. c, ID and e. I've
in gold laced uniforms were II
&c and were kept busy day AM
= especially at dinner time. wheI
ladies' appeared in gorgeous toi
escorted by their husbands II
nm evening dress. Sitting in tn
hdid dining room, decorated Il
e and gold, with its lofty balcony
listening to the orchestra, it wa
eult to believe oneself at sea
e telephones. which are connecte'
every cabin. afforded grea
sement to the passengers at IRIS
later were found OF great CONVEX
in asking ones friends II the
coming to dinner or for a prom
e on deck. The ship was 50 larg
1t was not always possible to 4
your friends without the aid c
Telephones and the central ONCE
ach deck Following the Londo
pm the passengers al said, ar
thereY' instead Of the America
lor After dinner on 6ne eveI
we sat out on the spacious veraI
of the promenade deck and listeI
music
Of the busiest men On the shi
the Marc0ni operator, who va
Sd at al hours b pa@engel