Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-13

iron screw steamers betwaan Europe and
America was the lnmaa Inc. established
In 1850. The transatlantic record was
greatly reduced. and at the same time
each succeeding vessel was longer and OF
greater horsepower than the last. Thus
in 1862 came the CuaarGar Scotia, 3IS feet
long q leviathan Of the times. only to be
surpassed by the White Star line: Oceanic,
40 feet long, t,W years later. The
Oceanic had a speed of fifteen knots and
made thu TRANSATLANTIC trip In eight days.
In 1873 the City of Rome Of the Inman
line went from Quee 1stoHn II New Yo"k
in seven days. eighteen hours and fifty
minutes. This was ths beginning OF the
IRE oord-shaving" days. and thereafter the
time was lowered by hours and minutes
instead Of days.
A few years brohxht another change
from iron to steel-and in 1882 the Cunard
company put out the Airania. O steel ves-
sci 47O feet long una with gross ton
mage Of 1928. Meanwhile the Servia,
launched year before by the same COM
pany, had cut the New York-Queenstown
time to six days. twenty-three hours and
fifty minutes.
The new City Of Paris went on the seas
in 1892, launched oy tho lunau company.
This vessel was of the non-sinkable type.
and her fittings wore by tar the most lux
urious seen UP to that time. She was
20-knot ship, 325 feet long and 10, 49S gross
tonnage. The Etruria Of the Cunard COM
pdny ndu cut Inc Ii SAMMY iA' Oh
record to six days. one nour and fifty min
utes, stealing the leurels of the Oregon OF
the same line by eight hours. The Paris
clipped the time TO live days, fourteen
hours and twenty-four minutes.
The next Queenstown-Sandy Hook REQ
ord made in 1894 stood until beaten by
the Lusitania. On October q Of that year
the Cunarder Lucania sailed from Queens
town for New York and ran abeam the
lightship at Sandy Hook just five days,
tHv-t hrn otyot, tao
later.
Germans Hold Record.
While the record for the Queenstown
New York trip went to the Lusitania on
her maiden trip the Deutschland of the
Hamburg American line claims speed
honors for the Plymouth-Sandy Hook
trip. which she made in 1900 in five days
fifteen hours and forty-six minutes run
ming 265 miles farther than the Cuuarder.
The Kaiser Wilhelm II of the North Ger
man-Lloyd line made a speed average of
1888 miles an hour in 1904, while the Lu-
sitania's average was 23.01. But the lat
ter holds the undisputed record for the
fastest run ever made from shore to
shore.
Next to her glorious size her speed and
her tremendous power. the NERVOUSNESS
Of the new ocean queen is most striking.
Telephones, elevators, cafes music rooms,
ball rooms and palm gardens with rich
decorations and electric service every
where have eliminated the ship and Great
ed floating hotel on palatlal lines in its
stead. Not detail seems forgotten; they
say there are electric curling irons In the
women's staterooms and manicures mas
seurs and hair dressers are to be found
In well-ordered apartments.
Behind all this magnificent development
IN ocean travel stands one flgure-that OF
the rich American.
Foreigners have built the palatial ships
for the most part but they have built
them for the American tourist whose dol
lars by the million enrich the countries
OF the old world every year. Used to the
luxury at home which his wealth per-
mits. he must have luxury not only while
abroad. but also while on his way there
SO with the wireless telegraph to enter
tain him with the news and keep him
posted in the stock market while he Is at
sea. he sets forth in regal splendor to
spend a fortune in the markets of the
east.
And as our British. German and French
cousins watched him year after year they
dreamed OF newer plans to draw these
streams OF gold from the fruitful west
And the development Of the great ocean
express of 1907 was one result.