The Mena weekly star., 1907-09-19
.LUGTAN|A COMING FASI
Great Atlantic Liner in Touch With Cape Race Wireless Station
 Wednesday.
WILL REACH NEW YORK THURSDAY NIGHT
All Previous Records Are Expected to Be Broken Unless Some Unforeseen Accident Happens to the Big Vessel Records of Former Fast TriPs Across the Atlantic.


 Cape Race, N. F., Sept. 12.-The Gu nard line steamer Lusitania, wnose maiden voyage across the Atlantic IS expected to eclipse all ocean records, came in touch, through the wireless l telegraph, with the American conti- nent early Wednesday At 5;2O o'clock Wednesday morning mes sage received from the steamer said that the vessel was 223 miles south east of Cape Race at that hour.
 New York, Sept 12.-The indicated | position of the Lusitania is about 1,l25 miles from Sandy Hook, so that If the big steamer, if she can maintain the rate of 25 knots speed she Is credited with, will reach the entrance to the port of New York about 1 a. m. Fri day morning, which would make the time of the voyage about four days and IA hours, more than 13 hours better Ian the record trip between Queenstown and New York, of five days, seven hours and 23 minutes, held by the Cunarder Lucania. Such time if made would wrest the the best At lantic record from the Germans, now held by the Hamburg American steam CT Deutschland.
 When heard from Wednesday morning the Lusitania had travelled about 1,655 miles of the a,7S0 between Queenstown and New York in approx imately 70 hours. This would make her average speed up to that point a trifie better than 23ls knots per hour. It is known that fog materially inter- fered with the speed of the Lusitania for many hours after she left Queens town, her speed at times being re- duced to 20 knots so that she since must have steamed much faster than 23h knots to secure that average. The run from Cape Race down the coast is generally made at top speed, as conditions are favorable, so that ship ping men who learned of the Lusi- tanias position Wednesday confident ly predicted that, barring accidents, the Lusitania will be hailed as queen of the seas when she reaches port early Friday.
 The Deutschland's record was made on voyage from Cherbourg to New York in 1903 in five days, II hours and 54 minutes over a course 3,054 miles in length at an average speed of 23.15 knots. With clearing weather indi- cated the Lusitania should make the last stretch of her voyage at top speed, and officials of the company state Wednesday that when she edges her way through the New Ambrose channel all transatlantic steamship records will have been broken and that a new era in maritime records will have begun.
 mammoth Lusitania, whose maiden voyage in quest of the blue ribbon of the seas promises to be so successful. The Lusitania and her sister ship, the Mauritania, not yet completed, stands as the largest ships ever built. Both ships were constructed from the same models. The speed of the Lusitania is developed from four screws rotated by turbine engines of 6S,000 horse power The number of furnaces required to keep up this tremendous horse power is 192. Four monster tunnels carry off the smoke from the furnaces. These tunnels have diameter of "A feet and are 155 feet in height. The Lusitania is 790 feet long, much longer than the average passenger train. She is 88 feet broad and were the new wonder of the sea placed in city street her sides would touch the buildings on both sides of the thoroughfare. The brobdignagian vessel, with her coal bunkers filled, carries 1000 tons of coal. Her displacement on load draught is 45,00O tons and she carries crew of nearly 300.
 The Lusitania has accommodations for $50 first class passengers, 500 sec ond class and 100 third class passen- gers.
 A dispatch to the Cunard company from the captain of the Lusitania re- ceived "Wednesday morning stated that the ship was 1,1S9 miles from Sandy Hook and is expected to reach Sandy Hook at 4:30 a. m. Friday. If she does arrive at that ime she will have aver aged about 23.6S knots per hour and will have broken all transatlantic speed records, either westbound or eastbound. A dispatch from the Asso- ciated Press correspondent on board the Lusitania, by Marccni wireless, reads as follows:
 Tuesday noon 1,136 miles from Queenstown; fog; rain; northerly wind Lusitania marvel construction, comfort, luxury, steadiness. No sea sickness. All enthusiastic"
 The distance covered by the Lusita. mia between Tuesday noon, when the above dispatch was sent and the point at which she was reported to the Gu. nard line at o'clock Wednesday morning is about 45s miles, which dis, tance the new vessel covered in IF hours. indicating that she was making a little better than 26 knots per hour at that ime.
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