The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-12
Great Cundrdsr Receives Royal
 Welcome At New York
THREE RECORDS ARE MADE
Lusitania Makes Shortest Trip Across Atlantic, Fastest Average Speed and Longest Daily Run In
 Triumphal Voyage.

New York, October 11.-All New York, ahoat and ashore made welcome to the record breaking Lusltania as she swung into her dock today bear ing tho title "Queen of the Seas, wrested from her German rivals by making the voyage from Daunt's Rock to Sandy Hood lightship in four days and nineteen hours and ffty-two minutes.
 Three hundred and twenty-three fire men. under orders to work to their limit. fed the furnaces between 950 and 1000 tons of picked British navy Welsh coal each day in order that the Cum arder might become the first four-day
 sh ip to cross the Atlantic
 On Tuesday night when the Lusitania
 turbines were working at top speed
 the heat in the stoke hole was so in
 tense that fireman became crazed and
 the strength of half dozen brawny stol<ers was required to carry him to
 the ships hospital. That evening the Cunard's officers established pre-
 cedent and gave each fireman q bottle of ale in appreciation of their ef- forts. The next day tho Lusitania
 broke all records by reeling off 6f7
 knots and made an hourly record of 2f.76 knots. The firemen received no ale that night which they laughingly asserted accounted for the slower days
 run of 500 knots on Thursday. Capt. ].
 B. Watt of the Lusitania was highly
 pleased with the ships performance, and said:
 With better weather conditions the Lusitania can do better"
 Representatives of the German
 steamship lines. with a photographer. made the voyage on the Lusitania and made observations of the ships con
 struction and the workings of her tar ] bipes- They vs2nid express no opinion 1 on .Sne Lusitania.
 1 Three records We're written down ln the Iusitania's log book. two of the n | wrested from the great German rivalg of | the Cunard and one from the swift Lu- cania of her own llne,. They vS.e the shortest time from any European port to New York, the fastest average speed for
 any transatlantic voyage, 2399 nautical
 miles per hour; and the longest daily run, 617 nautical miles. Translated Into land miles her speed average for the run was ! 2760 miles an hour. Her acheYoment Is a triumph for British shipbuilding and sailors, and may mark the passing of the old-fashioned reciprocating engine and the beginning of the universal linstalla- tion of the turbines. which have made it possible for this ship to carry all records by the board
 The Lusitania in her daily runs ex- ceeded on two days the recopd of 6O1
 knots. previously held by the Deutsch- land.
 Counting the days from nooH to noon. the runs were as follows Sunday, Il; Monday. 59J; Tuesday, COS; Wednesday,. 6l1 Thursday, 6O0 and from noon Thurs
 day to 1:l7 a. m. Friday, 32i miles. The new Cunarder is the first -four day boat" to enter the New York harbor. having completed the passage i'm less' than five days. shortening ghe record
 held by the Lucania by more than eleven
 hours.
 Had the Lusita nia's arrival been timed so that she could reach New York in the daylight hours her passehgers might
 have been landed at the dock within five
 days after passing Daunt's Rock off Queenstown. As it was she was com, pelled 10 anchor off Sandy Hook har n nd wait for safer passage up the new Am
 prose channel from the bar to the mar
 rows.
 She remained at anchor until 712 a n,
 when she crossed the par and moved
 slowly and carefully up the new and as
 yet uncompleted channel, and came to
 anchor off the quarantine station on
 Staten Island Her arrival was greeted
 with the hoarse salute of every steam
 craft then in that vicinity. Flor an hour
 the giant ship swung idly at her anchor while the port physician made his has,y continuation To determine 1T any conta-
 gous diseases were hidden among her
 many hundreds of passengers This com pletcd, she took up her rim 10 the dock, moving slowly and majestically LID the liarbor amid the salutes of many steam
 craft, to which she responded with the hoarsc roar of her own siren