Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-09-11
OCEAN FLYER {
All Eyes Watching For the New
 Cunard Steamer in Her ,, Race Against Time
NOW LEADING RECORD

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 seas at speed never before attain.
 ed by steamship on a westward
 voyage, the giant turbiner Lusitania
 of the Cunard line, is sweeping along
 at a 25-knot clip on her maiden voy-
 age to New York and wireless Eles- | sage. received from; Cape Race, N. F..
 early to-day shows that the, Lusitania
 has broken all records. for trans.
 Atlantic steamer If she maintains
 her speed through the last thousand
 miles of her trip the hope of q four
 day trip across the Atlantic will
 have been realized. The Lusitania
 came into the wireless zone of Cape
 Race at 5:2O o'clock to-day and tele-
 graphed that she was then 225 miles
 southeast of the cape at the time, or 1,125 miles from the Sandy Hook
 lightship. The despatch, to-day show
 ed that the big ship had covered I, :
 655 miles of the voyage in approxi-
 mately seventy hours through swell.
 ing seas and murky fogs which
 hindered her progress and that she
 had averaged a trifle better than 231la
 knots an hour, a speed record never
 before reached by trans Atlantic steamship. = :-~.r,St g, t
 The Lusitania is expected to finish by the red-hulled lightship off Sandy Hook about 1 o'clock Friday morn ing, which would make the time of the voyage about four days and F hours, more than 13 hours peter than the record trip between Queenstown and New York of five days, seven hours and 25 minutes made by the Lu- cania of the Cunard line in 1894.
 The Lusitania's maiden voyage promises also to wrest the title oi queen of the seas from the Deutsch- land, of the Hamburg-American line. The Deutschland made 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 indicated the big Cunarder should make the last stretch of her voyage as top speed and officials of the company state to- day that when the Lusitania edges her way through the New York nar- rows all transatlantic steamship rec ords will be broken and that a new era in the maritime world will have commenced. T. .s--,--s....ss.. -s., : , All New York will welcome the mammoth Lusitania, whose maiden voyage in quest of the blue ribbon of the seas promises, to be. so sue cessful. The Lupitania and her sis ter ship, the Mauretania, not yet completed stand as the largest ships ever built. Both ships were COZ structed from the same models. The speed of the Lusitania is developed from four screws rotated by tuI pine engines of 6S,000 horse pvwer.: Sixty eight thousand horses placed head and tail in single line would reach from New York to Philadelphia, a distance of 90 miles. Harnessed twenty abreast there would be 3.400 rows of powerful horses The number of furnaces required to keep up this tremendous horse power is 192 and hundreds of tons of coal are required during the voyage. Four monster fun nels will carry off the smoke from the furnaces and through each Of these steel stacks two railroad trains could easily pass each other. The tunnels have diameter of 2i feet~and are 155 feet in height The Lusitania is T90 feet long. which is much longer than the average pus- senger train. She is SS feet broad. The mammoth vessel with her coal bunkers filled, carries 1000 tons of coal. Her displacement on load draught is 45,000 tons and she car ries crew of nearly 900.
 The Lusitania has accommodations for $50 first class passengers, DO second class and 1900 third class passengers.
 A despatch to the Cunard company from the captain of the Lusitania re- ceived this morning states that the ship is 1,1S9 miles from Sandy Hook and is expected to reach Sandy Hook at 4:30 a. m., Friday. If she does ar- rive at that time she will have aver lged about 23.8s knots an hour and will have broken all trans-Atlantic speed records either west bound or east bound.
 A despatch from the Associated Press correspondent on board the Lusitania by Marconi wireless reads ] IS follows:
 ''0n board steamship Lusitania, via Cape Race, \. F., Sept II.
 Associated, New York:
 Tuesday noon, eleven hundred, l hirty-six miles from Queenstown; log; rain: northerly winds. Lusl- l ania marvel construction. comfort, ! uxury, steadiness. no sessickncs, all I 
 The distance covered hy the Lusi- ania between Tuesday noon, when he above despatch was sent and the 'oint at which she vas reported to he Cunand line at ; o'clock i his morning is about 455 miles. which listance the new vessel covered in eventeen hours. indicating that she Vas making a little better than 28 Inots an hour at that time.