Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-09-12
Big CuFnarder In Wireless Com
munIcalIon With Sable Island
and Is Ahead Of All
Previous Times.
ONLY An ACCIDENT CAN PREVENT
She Is Way Ahead of the DeutchIand
Despite the New Ship Has Handi
cap to overcome-Tnkcs 5000 Tons
of Coal to Feed the 1870 Furnaces of
the Big Vessel.
nv Assoclntcd Press. }

NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-THE giant
turbine steamer I.ustiania. which Is
liifcting its way across the Atlantic
on its first trip to America. has found
herself Unlike most steamers the
big lineh has been shaken together
on the first trip and is making the
best time ever made on w2stbound
journey across the Atlantic. For TWEEN
ty-four hours. ending ut noon today
the run Of the ship was $40 knots, an
average of % "a knots an hour and
with beautiful weather. forcasIed there
Is little doubt that the ship will reach
Sandy Hook lightship under five avs
for the trip.
The last official report of the ship
when she was picked up by
the Cape Race wireless sta
ton at 500 O'Clock this morn
ing At that time the ship had GOV.
cred 1865 miles of the voyage in
seventy houE. The remaining 1925
miles. If made at the same rate of
speed that has been maintained up to
the time of the report, 1854 miles
an hour, would require forty-seven
hours and thirtyfive minutes, and
would bring the great liner abeam
the Sandy Hook Lightship at 4:15
o'clock Friday morning with record
Of four days twenty-one hours and
thirty-fiva minutes for the trip.
This time. If attained will beat that
of the Lucania, the record-holder of
the Cnnard line. by nine hours and
fifty minutes. The present record OF
speed across the Atlantic westward
is held by the Dcntchland OF the Ham
birgAmerican Line and is five days
plGVan hnitrc ,,,f,
but because of the fact that the .oute
covered by German ships is CSC miles
longer than the route from Queens.
town. the Lusitania must heat the
Deutchland's record by at least eleven
hours in actual time between points.
If the Lusitania keeps up her present
speed her time ftom Queenstown will
beat that of the Dcutchand from
Cherbourg by fourteen hours and nine
minutes. giving her the record for the
trip ac1oss the Atlantic by more than
three hours
The latest news of the Lusitania was
received from Marconi wireless sta
ton ut Sable Island, which station
came into communication with the
Cunard liner Lusitania nj 1f:20 TO.
night, eastern standard time. The
steamed was then $50 miles west of
the station. All are well aboard and
the turbiner is rushing ut high speed
on her record breaking voyage to New
York.
viii Lover Record Barring Accidents.
The unpleasant weather which New
YORK has suffered from today had not
reached so far to sea as to interfere
with the progress of the Lusitania.
and while ii is liazy off candy Hook
tonight the wcather department fore
cast say the indications are that ships
leaving Thursday will have fair
weather rs far as the Grand Banks.
Unless the Lusitania should cncoun.
ter fogs or some accident should have
happened to her machinery there
seems TO he no doubt that she will sue
coed in lowering the record for the
trID across the Atlantic.
The Cunard liner, Luciania. the
holder of the lines record for the trip
which left Queenstown shortly before
the l.nsitania reported by wireless off
Cape Race. nj 3 o'clock this after
noon. 1t is figured that the Lucania
should reach Sandy Hook about mid
night Friday. This will make her
run . days, IL hours. ten hours be-
mind her record. At the present rate
of speed maintained by the two ships
the Lusitiania should arrive at least
20 hours ahead of the Lucania If
the l.ucania has been delayed by bad
weather conditions the Lusiania must
have escaped those conditions or is
speeding ahead without regard to
them
Tho Lusltania and her sister ship
The Maruretania. not yet completed.
stands as the largest ships ever built.
Both ships were constructed form the
same models. The speed of the Lus-
itania Is developed from four screws
rotated by turbine engines of $500
horse power. The number of furnaces
required to keep up this tremcnduoua
horsepower is 1872. Four monster fun
nels will carry the smoke from the
furnaces. These tunnels have n dI-
ameter of "a feet and are 155 feet