The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-03
DAY GAIN ON ATLANTIC TRIP
NEW CUNARDER LUSTTANTA WILL
EXPEDITE THE MAILS
Ana when she Arrives IN scptembcr she
May Use the Ambrose Channel. Al.
though n cult Negotiate the Present
C0urse-War Department Helps Dat.
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.speefsi Cable Despatch 10 I'VE SUN.
LONDON. Aug. Following the success
full trial run Of the Lusitania yesterday,
on which she averaged 2Sk knots. the officers
Of the Cunard Steamship Company to-day
made this statement:
THE mails OF the L~usitania leaving
New York on Saturday should he delivered
at the general post office. London. about
midnight on the~f following Thursday or early
on Friday morning. The Campania and
Lucania are now the fastest British steam
ships, and their mail is delivered in London
early on Saturday morning. Thus over a
day will be knocked on. There will be a
similar reduction in the westbound mails"
The American Express Company and other
firms thai have large mails say that the
earlier arrival will be Of incalculable value
to commercial. and banking houses, as
il will enable them TO catch the Saturday
return mails.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 2,-The Wa Depart
ment has decided that the largest of the
transatlantic steamships may Use the
Ambrose Channel, New York. while the
work Of dredging is still in progress under
the direction Of the corps OF engineers,
The question came up in connection with
the new Lusitania Of the Cunard Line. which
is shortly to make her first trip across the
Atlantic to New York. The Cunard people
have been fearful hat the big liner would
experience difficulty in getting in and out
OF New York when heavily loaded by
way Of the old channel.
Although the Ambrose Channe' in not
open TO navigation. The War Department
has decided To announce hat il will allow
vessels of deep draught which would be
likely 20 have difficulty in using the old
channel 20 enter and depart by way of the
new route. Smaller vessels tugs and other
craft will not be permitted to use the channel
while the work is in progress
The Cunard company and some Of the
other big transatlantic companies have
asked that the channel be buoyed, but this
the Department has declined to do, mas
much as to do so would give the channel a
sort of legal status and attach responsibility
which the army engineers decline to accept.
The Cunarder Lusitania. biggest and
swiftest Of Atlantic liners. will make her
first trip TO New York in the first week in
September. The Ambrose Channel, at
least a part Of it. completed to a depth Of
HDOut 30 ISet, mas Detn ubcu by several org
freighters whose pilots have been willing
to take a risk in the unbuoyed lane, and
has been found 20 be all right. II was
said at the Office OF the Cunard Line tina
the expectation was that the channel would
ne ready before the great turbine Cunarders
we're. When the frames of the Lusitania
were being laid the talk h~ereabouts was
that the channel would be waiting for her.
A part OF il. probably several hundred
feet wide and between 81 and 10 feet deep.
may be. The trouble, even with the great
ships in commission. such as the White
Star glantess Adriatic. is in negotiating the
turn in the main ship channel at Southwest
Spit. Tide Inc wind must be just right
TO enable a big ship to avoid touching bot
tom at this corner.
The Lusitania, according to one Of the
lines New York representatives. will not
draw more than thTty-two feet when she
comes in. and several craft drawing a trife
more have managed to ONE up the cir
cuitous channel without getting into diff
cult4es. Ever if the new channel is not
ready and buoyed the Lusitania can come
in by way OF the old course. Still the line
would appreciate il if Uncle Sam could
have the new way ready when. the four
and a half day ship bounds in from the
open.
An army engineer said yesterday that
he believed the new channel wou lid be
ready and buoyed in time TO let the Lusi-
tania slip through.