The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-09-12
GIANT CUNARDER
TRANSATLANTIC
At rs KNOTS
Lusitiania Sweeping the Sea In
Record Time
DOWNS ALL GERMAN filters
America Awaits Triumph Of Turblners
Maiden Voyage In Quest OF Blue
Ribbon Of the Seas.

NEW lOltk, sept. l4,-lloWlnB the
mountainous waves Of the Atlantic
with speed never before attained by
steamship. the giant Cunarder, the
new turblncr LuslianIn. Is sweeping
along at twenty.slx knot clip ON her
maiden voyage from England to Amer.
lea. and a wireless message received
from Cape Race. y. T.. shows that the
LusitRnla has broken all records for
transatlantic steamship either west.
bound or eastbound.
II she maintains her speed through
the last thousand miles Of her trip the
hope Of a four day trip across the AZ.
lnntic Will have been realized.
when the Lusitania came Into the
wireless zone OF Cape Race she tele
grnphed that she was about rs miles
southeast Of the cape at the time. or
LIPS miles from the Sandy Hook light
ship. The dispatch showed that the
big ship had covered 1855 miles u her
voyage In approximately seventy hours
through swelling seas aud murky fogs
which Numbered her progress. and that
the had averaged a trihe better than
2sik knots an hour. speed record ney.
or before attained by Transatlantic
steamship.
The last report from the Lusitanla
reads:
ut IL announced that the ships run
for the preceding twenty.four hours
was so miles. the posting 81 the an
nsuHecment bcing received With
cheers We have Just passed within
signaling distance 81 the mammoth
Hamburg American liner America.
The ships lounge T. proving one ~ IT,
most popular features and i Nc night
crowded with the beautifully gowned
usnep partdlng II reminds Que Of
the fe}er Of the Waldorf In New York
A concert was held In the music room
last night which was presided over
by Quilted states senator George suth
erland o. Utah. The weather Il beau
tlful. aud the ship Is travelling evenly
aud smoothly.
The Lusltanla II n marvel ~ con
struction. comfort. luxury aud steadi
ness. with no seasickuess. All are
enthusiasts"
The Lusltanla l. expected TO fash BY
the red hulled ilrhtshlp ~ Sandy Hook
about o'clock tomorrow morning
which would make the timc aysrag,
nliuut days i3 hours more than elHht
cen hours better than the record triI
between Queenstown and New Nork
Of days : hours - minutes. made ~
4 the Lncanln ~ the Cunard line In 1884
The Lusitanin's maiden voyage prom
lses also 10 wre-i the title ~ the quccr
Of the seas from the Deutschland Of
the Hamburg American line. Th'
Deutschland make the voyage from
Cherbourg 20 New York IN 1903 In
days II hours "a minutes over a courss
s.cot miles In length az an average
speed OF 23i5 knots. With clearlng
weather Indicated the big Cunardel
should make the last stretch Of hel
voyage Vt top speed. and officials 81
the company say that when the Lusi
tAnla edges her way through the New
Yort narrows al transatlantic steam
ship records will b. broken and tina
new era In the maritime world VII
have commenced.
All America VIII welcome the nam
moth Lusitanla. whose maiden voyag'
IN quest OF the blue ribbon ~ the sea
promises 10 be so successful TIT
f.usitania and her sister ship. th'
Maurstania. not yet completed stan'
a. the largest ships ever built
The Cunari liner Iucnnla. which j
racing with the Lusitnnla. was report
Cd by wireless TO Cape Race ~ LIE
miles east ~ Sandy Hook nj p M
yesterday. n II figured that the Luca
mia should reach Sandy Hook ba
about midnight Friday night The La
sitanla Il likely 20 beat her by twentl
or twenty.onc hours.