The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-11
She Seems to Come Up to Her
Owners Expectations.
FOUR DAYS, IS HOURS
Is the Time She Now Promises
to Make.
Travelled 1865 Miles in the
First 40 Hours.

cape Race, y. F.. Sept. 1.-THE
| Cunard line steamer Lusitania whose
maiden voyage across the Atlantic is
expected to eclipse all ocean records,
came in touch through the wireless
telegraph with the American conti-
nent early today. At $50 O'Clock this
morning message was received from
Inc steamer saying that the vessel
was z25 miles southeast of Cape Race
al that hour The indicated position
OF the Lusftania is about 1125 miles
from Sandy Hook, so that if the big
steamer, can maintain the rate of 3
knots with which speed she is cred
tied, she will reach the entrance to the
port of New York about / O'Clock Fri
day morning, which would make the
Tune average about four days and IS
hours, more than Is hours better than
the record trip between Queenstown
and New York, five days, hours and
% minutes. held by the Cunard liner
VIII wrest the best Atlantic record
from the Germans now held by the
amburg-American steamer Deutsch-
land.
When heard from this morning the
LuSitania had Travelled 1865 of 27SOi
miles between Queenstown and New
York in approximately 20 hours This
would make her average speed up to
better =
knots per hour.
1t is known that fog materially in
terfered with the speed of the
Lusitania for many hours after she
left Queenstown. her speed at times
being reduced to 20 knots and that
much faster than % Il knots to secure
that average The run from Cape
Race down the coast is generally
made at top speed, as conditions are
2
learned of the Lusitania's position this
morning confidently predict that bar
ring accidents. the Lusitania would
be hailed as queen of the seas when
she reached port early Friday.
The DeutschIand's Record.
New York, Sept. 1.-THE Deutsch-
lands record was made on a voyage
from Cherborg to New York in 1903
in five days, IL hours and "a minutes,
over a course S.O54 miles in length. at
an average speed of 23.15 knots. With |
clearing weather Indicated the Lusf-
tania should make the last stretch of
her voyage at top speed and officials (
OF the company state today that all :
transatlantic records will have been I
broken and that a new era in marine
records will have begun All New
York will welcome the mammoth I
Lusitania whose voyage in quest of /.
the bluest of the blue ribbon of the I
seas promises to be so successful The (
Lusitania and her sister ship. the I
Mauritania not yet completed, stand I
as the largest ships ever built
Both ships were constructed from (
the same models. The speed of the I
Lusitania is developed from four
screws run by turbine engines of S.
600 horse power The number of fur |
naces required to keep up this tre- /
mendious horse power is 1872. Four !
master tunnels carry off the smoke of 4
the furnaces. The tunnels have a !
diameter of "a feet and are 155 feet in /
height The Lusitania is T90 feet /
long. much longer than the average I
and were the new wonder placed in a 1
city street her sides would touch the !
buildings on both sides of the street 4
The Brobdignagian vessel with her I
coal bunkers filed carries 1000 tons
of coal. Her displacement on load !
draught is $4,000 tons and she carries /
a crew of nearly 900. The Lusitania !
has accommo dations for $50 first class /
passengers. 500 second class and 100 /
third class passengers.
A dispatch to the Cunard company
from the Lusitania received this /
morning stated that the ship was l. /
100 miles from Sandy Hook and ex- l
pected to reach Sandy Hook at 4:3O a. /
m Friday If she does she will aver |
age about 23.6s knots per hour and 1
will have broken all transatlantic /
records westboUnd or eastbound. A /
dispatch of the Associated Press cor
Marconi wireless reads as follows:
ION board steamship Lusitania. via |
Cape Race. y. F.. Sept. 11.-Asso-
ciated Press. New York. Tuesday |
noon. 1.136 miles from Queenstown:
fog; rain: northerly winds Lusitania
marvel construction. comfort. luxury. !
steadiness- No seasickness- All en-
thusiastic."
The distance covered by the Lust
tania between Tuesday noon. when /
the above dispatch was sent and the /
point at which she was reported to 1
the Cunard line at O'Clock this 1
morning is about 455 miles. which /
distance was made in "a hours indi- |
eating that she was making a little 4
better than IS knots per hour at that
time
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