New-York tribune., 1907-10-12
THE BIG SHIPS RUN.
PASSENGER TELLS TALE
Not Dull Moment on LuSitania
IN Record VOyage.

ing its weird farewell TO those the Liverpool
landing stage and its almost human yell of warn
ing 10 the shippers of the river craft in the Mer
sey 20 give her room, the giantess Cunard liner
Lusitania moved naiestically out into the stream
7;48 on Saturday night. October s. thus begin
ming her third and record breaking passage across
the Atlantic
In the scant two hours that the great ship had
laid alongside the landing stage 400 first class and
z5 second class passengers with their tons of bag
gage. had been taken board and a hundred or
more visitors with special passes had seen their
friends OF, incidentally inspecting the magnificent
quarters allotted TO the first and second cabin pas
sensers- Soon after, while the massive turbines
were driving the great liner in the darkness and
rain out through the deepest channels the pas
sengers mustered at the sound of the bugle in the
spacious dining saloons for their first meal of the
passage Holyheads flashing light passed at
r:45 p m. that night
Looming out from the low lying clouds about
the horizon at daylight Sunday morning could be
seen the rocky coast of Ireland. north Of Queens
town. OF which harbor the Lusitania LAY to-
from 7:45 to 9:45. Soon the tender America came
alongside with passengers and luggage. followed
in half an hour by the maiboat the Flying Sports
man Bunhoat wcrlen by the dozen. with baskets
filed with real Irish laces climbed the side like
OLD sailors and spread their goods for inspection on
the first and second cabin promenade decks. Better
saleswornen than these rosy checked Irish lasses
with their native "barney." would be hard to find
Some returned to their boats with empty baskets
and buging pocketbooks.
Twenty-Five minutes after -four bells 90 o'clock
vas struck on the ships bells the L,usitania at
fuu speed passed Daunt's Lightship. the point of
departure and the beginning of the record run that
the big ship was about to accomplish.
From the increased vibration and the great swirl
Ing OF the water under the ships counters and in
her wake. II soon became evident that the report
that every attempt would be made to break all
existing records this trip was true Twelve fire
men known as leaders had been shipped at Liv-
erpooI and these with the other sixty-four men in
each watch, feeding coal into the 1913 furnaces
at a rate that was consuming some twelve hundred
or more tons day.
Early risers on Monday found half a gale from
the northwest blowing, and a big beam sea was
making the ship roll some, but it an easy roll
ana al hands" We're cheered by the bulletin,
which showed that $50 miles had been covered. at
an average speed Of 1856 knots. The wind
Ightened considerably during the afternoon. SO
that ct dark It almost calm with q long, easy
swell rolling in from the westward
POOL MADE ON RUN.
Al Of Monday night the great turbine engines,
well supplied with steam. made the whole fabric
fairly quiver with their tremendous power. The
four massive propellers each revolving from 40
I2 times a minute, driving the Lusitania
through the smooth water at the rate of twenty
five knots. The hat pool of $3.50 made up by
twenty men IN the first cabin smoking room
Monday night had for the low number 591 miles
and for the high 610. Every hoped the ship
would break the Deutschland's one-day record OF
6l miles, but their enthusiasm knew bounds
when the noon bulletin on Tuesday showed that
the big Cunarder had made COS miles. at
age speed Of 24.32 knots She had broken the
record by miles, and but for the
strong breeze and heavy beam sea Of Tuesday fore
noon she might have added at least five miles
10 her score
The old legend, Wonders never cease was
never better exempifed than IN the next twenty
four hours. The 2,sOO persons composing the pas
sengers ard crew of the Lusitania had not ceased
at her FnaT OeTf o
day when, TO their establishment Wednesdays bull
letin showed for the days the figures 1911"
written in red ink by the navigator. Chief Officer
George ". Nelson who. with Captain J. B. Watt.
Chief Engineer Duncan, Purser Joe Lancaster,
and, in fact all the officers and crew, had just
70 be proud of their ships performance-the
greatest on record. 1t was indeed a red letter.
day. for the Cunard Line. for from noon TO noon,
measuring in time in this case, a hours, So min
utes and seconds. the Lusitania had ploughed
q s17-niIe furrow of foam in the Atlantic, at an
speed of 2476 knots. this being equal
10 statute miles
Nor this the end Of this wonderful pace for
after another smooth water run OF a hours 81 min
utes and II seconds. 800 miles'' the record
posted noon on Thursday, with the additional IN
formation that Sandy Hook Lghtshp. the goal
which marked the end of the passage, only 324
miles ahead Nantucket Lightship was passed abeam
10 starboard SIS p. that day, just as her twin
lights began TO show after sundown. Many pas
sengers up the ship dash past Fire
Island Lghtship, steering straight arrow for
Sandy Hook Lightship which she passed at III on
Friday morning, thus completing the record pas
sage from Daunt's Rock Lghtship in days. 10
hours and 52 minutes. Her average speed for the
entire distance Of 27SO miles "a knots exactly.
Nof A DULL MOMENT.
There was not a dull moment on the trip for
what with e concert in the second cabin on
Wednesday evening, from which f1o los was re-
allied for the orphans Of officers and seamen in
New York and Liverpool; concert in the first
cabin on Thursday night for a like charity, which
netted fS5 and lively sports on the second
cabin deck, the passengers enjoyed themselves
immensely, to say nothing OF the continuous ex-
element kept up by the ships performance. From
collection taken up at the concert for the fire.
fz3 was realized. Bransby Williams. who had
Tected in evening dress, came in attired
stoker, black and griny with coal dust, 20 thank
those present for their contributions.
THE ARRIVAL.
At TIP yesterday morning the racer weighed
anchor of Sandy Hook and proceeded slowly up
the new Ambrose Channel. AS she TO anchor
again off the Quarantine Station on Staten Island
She greeted with hoarse salutes from every
craft in that part Of the harbor.
II SAB before the doctors finished their
Euination and the revenue cutter pulled up along
side with reporters and customs officials.
As the Lusitania being warped into her dock.
with tugs putting around her like swarm of bees.
two Of the three-inch hawsers which with a dozen
snapped with reports like pistol shots.
After the usual congratulations had been offered
the officers of the record breaking liner attention
was turned 70 the men whose hard and constant
labor had TO certain extent made the fast speed
OF the liner possible. The engine room force on
men. When IL ascertained at Tuesday
that the Lustania had done 600 miles for the