New-York tribune., 1907-10-11

The record breaking Lusitania arrived at the
Sandy Hook Llghtship at 1:25 o'clock this
morning. The time from Daunt's Rock was 4
days 20 hours. The last days run was appar-
emily the fastest OF the trip. over a smooth
sea, with little wind. The Lusitania beats her
time for her maiden trip by approximately five
hours. her time that trip being days ~
minutes.
Fire Island was passed at 1907. after the big
liner had been sighted southeast of that point
at 1I:22 She had passed Nantucket Lightship
at 5:25 o'clock yesterday. going at a speed Of
25 knots.
The Lusltana's time averages almost exactly
"a knots for the entire trip. Her arrival at 20
or minutes earlier than she passed the light
ship would have made her speed exactly "a
knots. Her average on her first trip was %. OF
knots
Captain J. b. Watt informed the Cunard COM
pany by wireless last night that he expected to
reach Sandy Hook Lightship by 115 o'clock
this morning. the official end OF the course
from Daunt's Rock, England. This will make
her time for the passage about days 10 hours
and 80 minutes The following wireless dis
patch received earlier in the evening from
aboard the big ship:
ION board the Lusitania, Thursday. Oct. 10,
via Siasconset. Mass. Oct, 1O.-Three thousand
passengers crowded the decks of the Lusitania
at 90 D. m. to-day, new YORK tlme. TO watcn
her steam past Nantucket Lightship. We are
making twenty-five knots There is great
thusiasm on board over this record breaking
trip.
Colonel II. /. Kowalsd of San Francisco.
was chairman of the concert held tonight and
praised the record the boat is making.
Among the speakers George Croydon
Marks, NJ p. who said: II desire 70 pay a
tribute to the stokers Stripped to the waist.
these sturdy men shovelling in coal
never before in order that this vessel may fly
the blue ribbon OF the Atlantic. Credit Is also
due to Italy, for italian. William Marconi.
has given us his wireless telegraphy to COM
municate with the land from mid-ocean. And
would also congratulate the Cunard company
on it's perseverance and indomitable pluck"
1.-THE weather is clear and the water Is smooth
We will anchor off Quarantine about o'clock
and dock about 10 tomorrow morning"
When the Lusitania anchors off Sandy Hook
this morning she will have captured practically
all transatlantic records. The Cunard Line and
England will then take from Germany the eager
ly sought record for possessing the fleetest ship
on the Atlantic The Hamburg American liner
Deutschland has held the record for number
OF years
A wireless from the ship yesterday said that
nj noon six hundred nautical miles had been
covered since noon of the day before. at an
average speed of 24.15 knots. Her best days
run was 619 knots nine better than the former
record held by the Deutschland Her average
speed exceeds the former record. 2S5s knots.
held by the Kaiser Wilhelm II, of the North
German Lloyd Line.
At the offices of the Cunard Line 1t was said
Yesterday that the advance list OF the passen-
gers on the Lusitania showed that she has on
board Ss2 first class passengers 446 second class
I'll
Richard Y. Cook, of the Trust Company of Phil
adelphia: ViscOunt d'Alte. Portuguese Minister to
the United States; B. n. Duke and A. b. Duke
Sir Samuel Faire. Mark Hamburg, Lieutenant
Colonel w G. Macpherson. c. NJ. c., and Isaac
Rice and Mrs. Rice. the president of the Society
for the Suppression Of Unnecessary Noise.