Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-11
at a fashionable resort. and all seemed
happy and gay.
Greeted by American Flag.

Greeted by American Flag.
AS she came abeam Of the lightship
Capt. Jacobson raised the American flag
to his masthead and the big Britisher
gracefully responded by dipping the en-
sign at her tafrraIl. With the same steady
speed the Lusitania passed to the south
she gave three blasts of her peculiar
sounding whistle as q parting salute. Be-
hind her streamed line Of black smoke
that poured from her four tunnels in such
was being pushed to her greatest speed
to make the Hook in record time. When
she passed the lightship she displayed
signal flags that read:
IAN well on board. Expect to be at
Sandy Hook at lis o'clock tomorrow
morning"
The latest and largest Cunarder in ac-
tual service started on her second trip
from Europe to America late Saturday
afternoon, October 5, with 800 people In
her first cabin. 446 in the second and
1.O48 in the Storage.
At 1890 Sunday morning the real speed
test In which $4,000 year subsidy Is
involved. began. 1t was then that the
two hours later she was abreat of Daunt's
Rock, and Capt. Watt started the chro-
nometer that was to be stopped when she
was abeam the Highland iightship.
AS on the first voyage the tendency to
dress as II the ships decks were a metro
politan hotel instead Of an Atlantic liner,
soon beanie evident. Full evening dress
seemed to be almost obligatory on the
part OF the men in the first cabin, while
the women displayed decollette toilets Of
elegance when they appeared In the dining
saloon. The lounge looked more like the
foyer Of the Savoy in London or the Wal
dorf-Astoria in New York than the cabin
of ship at sea. Only the vibration OF the
racing turbines told the difference.
Rejoicing on the Bridge.
On the bridge there was rejoicing at the
clear skies and the clearer atmosphere
and the wireless at no time indicated fog,
the only thing that would make necessary
the reduction of the rate Of revolution Of
the screws. The winds. were not gen
orally favorable. but they helped to force
the draught through the .yentilators and
keep the fire rooms well supplied with
oxygen for the combustion of almost
thousand tons Of coal a day.
On Wednesday afternoon the wireless
to Cape Race proudly related that all
records for q days run had been broken.
The first dispatches gave the distance
from noon Tuesday to noon Wednesday
as 617 knots, but this was afterward cor
rected 70 619. which is eighteen knots
faster than the record established by the
same ship on her maiden trip.
Great Britain Is Proud.
LONDON. October 1.-THE performance
OF the Cunard Line steamer Lusitania in
crossing the Atlantic from Daunts Rock.
near Queenstown. to Sandy Hook light
ship in about four days and twenty hours
is hailed with delight throughout Great
Britain. this being. one writer puts 1t.
"a proud day for Mrs. Britannia"
evening lOnR C.
counts of the passage and comment with
satisfaction on Great Britains regaining
the mercantile marine supremacy which
was lost to Germany a decade ago. To
make the victory complete they ask that
the Lusitania repeat on her homeward
journey what she accomplished on her
outward passage. Experts express the
opinion that she is able to still further
cut the time between Daunts Rock and
Sandy Hook lightship. saying that she
will not have any difficulty in averaging
the 24H knots required to gain the full
government subsidy.