Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-09
FLEETEST OF FLEET
Huge Turbine Lusitania Passes
Lucania.
RIDES STEADY AS A HOTEL
Makes Twenty-Fv Knots an Hour
Easily.
MAIDEN VOYAGE FOG-HAMPERED
Big New Cunarder Crowded and Pas
sengers Lined Rails During Run
With Older Boat
MAIDEN VOYAGE FOG-HAMPERED

Special Cablegrsm TO The Star.
LONDON, September "a dispatch to
Lloyd's from Browhead states that the
Lustania signaled by wireless at 2 am.
not giving any distance. The Lucania re-
ported to the Browhead station at am
225 miles west.
subsequent message reported the
than twenty-five knots She had left the
Lucania far astern.
The officers of the Cunard Steamship
Company say that no further messages can
within the radius of Cape Sable, Nova
Scotia. Which will be Wednesday.
QUEENSTOWN, September 9-The new
Cunarder Lusitania passed the Lucania
holder of the Queenstown record, at $50
pm. yesterday, at d speed of 20 knots. near
Daunts Rock, a few miles outside of this
port, The Lucania left this port forty-fi
minutes ahead of the new leviathan
The Lusitania reached Queenstown at
9:2s yesterday morning. and the Lucania of
the same line. which sailed four hours
ahead of the big turbiner, got in ten min
utes later. Both ships experienced fog dur
ing the run for Liverpool
The passengers of the new boat said they
We're delighted with their trip I'D to the
present. 1t is expected that the Lusitania 8
mail will be delivered in New York on Fri
| day She left Queenstown at 1211 pm.
The Lucania sailed at 11:4O
Like Dining in Hotel.
y wireless message from the Lusitania
Via Crookhaven County Cork timed 1922
sunday evening, says:
The Lusitania travelled at no great pace
at first, but the absence of vibration was
50 noticeable that 1t made the passengers
believe they We're dining in a hotel. After
dinner the pace was increased. The cleo
trio lifts on board the ship We're busy until
late hour Saturday night conveying peo-
pie swiftly up and down between the five
decks.
While hundreds We're exploring and ad-
miring the comforts of the ship groups of
Cunard directors, ship experts and naval
architects gathered in the smoking room,
and earnestly discussed the prospects of
| the voyage The Lucauia which left Liver
pool four hours ahead of us. was overtaken
and passed at 4:3O Sunday morning She
| had half an hour start of US leaving Queens
town.
Two hours after we left Queenstown
| the Lucania was still ahead. At O'Clock
tonight she was about fifteen to twenty
miles in front of u.s. A fog caused the
Lusitania to slacken down her speed, which
| greatly disappointed the passengers. There
| Were occasional patches Of brightness dur
| ing which the pace was increased"
Makes rs Knots Easily.
| The mail matter placed aboard the Lusi-
| tanla at this port totaled 76S sacks. 1t is
said here that when the new boat was clear
| of the fog in the Irish channel she let out {.
| link or two at times and easily steamed
twenty-five knots an hour. The staff of the
engine room said the machinery was work
| ing splendidly.
Another wireless dispatch from The Lusi-
tania, timed $780, says:
We are $50 miles from Queenstown at 8
o'clock. The weather is clearer and we are
blowing throuhg the water at great speed
The Lucania is believed to be near US, but
her position Is not specified. She has not
been sighted since dinner time. The pas
sengers lining the sides to catch a
glimpse of her if possible The progress OF
the LuSitania is beautifully smooth
Two hundred passengers were left over
here in spite of the fact that the steamship
agents had been instructed to discontinue
bookings a week ago.