Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-10-12
SMASHES ALL RECORDS
Lusitania Now undisputed Queen
Of the Atlantic.
MAKES 4 PHENOMENAL RUN


Made GIT Miles One Day.
New York. Oct lie I'he turhine
steamship Lusitauia Is queen o. tha
seas She finished second run to
this port at 1.lT o'cock this morning.
and anchored near the SANDY Hook
Ildghtship. waiting nntll sunrise before
entering the harbor through the news
/ Ambrose channel
| She made the voyage from paunt's
Rock across the Atlantic in four days
nineteen hours and forty minutes
lshe Is the first four-aay boa to cross
lfrem land to land, and she now hollis
/ an The records Of the western ocean.
| An lights were shining and i was
i evident that interest In the passaga
was great among the passengers and
they were keeping NJ Just. when The
voyage had ended and BY -hov much
I the record had been beaten.
The steamer slowed down AS soon
| al she lad ended her voyage, and
soon arterwara anchored and waited
until ire sun should show the way
, Through the new channel to the harhor
and on to her pier
Tho r.asftaia left pannt's Rock
/ where the western voyage begins ~ re
I, O'clock ASA Sunday morning THAT =
!, 1857 4. N. New York tine. IS the dif
ference between Daunts Rock and
New York Is four hours twenty-three
minutes. Finishing atI:15 NJ today
Friday) makes her voyage from land
TO land four days nineteen hours TIM
!, ty.eight minutes
This Is Ave hours sixteen minutes
!. faster than her first trip. y she has
come the same course as she did on
her first trip. ESQ nautical miles. she
has averaged 2los knots, and 80 has
made several new records on tho Vey
lage.
:. Makes et7 Miles in One Day.
She has made run Of Cos miles
one day aud 611 the next day, and Az
eraged for tile BIS days rlsA 2fsIt
g knots. These. two runs wipe out the
record held by the Deutschland OF 6ol
I'm les and an average Of 2419 For
the entire voyage she has settled the
Ar question OF supremacy that has
a troubled the Supporters OF the y sutsch-
land and Kaiser Wilhelm II. The
IS Deutschland ran from New York tefs
d Plymouth Iii FIVE days seven hours
and thlrty-eight minutes. averaging
1881 knots but the Kaiser Wilhe'rn II.
q on voyage % cherbonrg. aYer@9s.i. il
= IS SAID, 23.5s
me Lnsiiania, up 70 noon on We'd
a tuesday, promised to beat The REGARD
g even more severely, She was then
{ 1856 miles from Sandy Hook. ana if she
e kept up the rate Of speed 1T waIca she
Q had been steaming she would have
q ended her voyage at II o'clock Thurs
day night and made a record two
,hours faster But Capt Watt WIS sat
: isfed with what his vessel had shown
and slowed her down somewhat.
4 Not Anxious to Show Speed.
II was stated al the Cunard Line
offices that VI was not the policy OF
those In charge Of he ship TO Knock
the record ali to pieces at one effort
as BY 50 doing they might injme the
Iengines, but that lit e. wou'd be
cut off on each voyage until by next
summer when the evenings are long.
II will be possible to dock the vessel
on Thursday night. thus making the
voyage In about four and a half days.
To do this she viii average 25 knots
all the way across. Ai
A wireless message from the steam.
ship was received at the comiJanv's
office Thursday morning, which said
that at II O'Clock she was a3f miles
cas- Of Sanady' Hook This shows that
she had gone 554 miles since noon on
"Wednesday. and was cons sqiienfly not
| going within knet Of her sneed or
herr great days run.
She passed Nantucket Lightship at
| 5:25 in the afternoon and then had
1913 miles more before he eni u the
voyage was reached
! CUT OF Y. M. C. A. BUILDING.
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