Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-12
.LUS|TAN|A'S LAST LAP
Big Cunarder Must Make a Gar
rison Finish.
SMALL MARGIN TO SPARE
She Lost Time in Fogs Off the Grand
Banks.
BEING RACED AT TOP SPEED NOW
Proved Remarkably Smooth Running
and Can Do Much Better in
Clear Weather.
SMALL MARGIN TO SPARE
BEING RACED AT TOP SPEED NOW

NEW YORK, September 1.-THE Titanic
turbine steamer Lusitania of the Cunard
line entered today on the final stretch of
her maiden voyage, which may break all
transatlantic records. The newest grey
hound OF the sea was reported $50 miles
east of Sable Island at 11:2O O'Clock last
night and no further reports of her NAV
be received until tonight, when she will
onter the Nantucket wireless zone With
500 miles to be sailed at II 90 o'clock last
night the Lusitania will have to make
twenty-four knots or better until Sandy
Hook light vessel is passed in order to
excel the record of 10 knots held by the
Deutschland of the Hamburg g-American
line. The Lusitania will have fair weather
for her last days run, and every ounce of
her propulsive power will be used to make
up the time lost in the fogs off the Grand
Banks. Driven at her top speed the giant
Cunarder may be expected at the lightship
shortly before o'clock Friday morning
making the time for the trip a shade under
five days.
Wireless dispatches from the Lusitania
show that the ship is running smoothly
and that her machinery has been shaken
down SO that her run from Sable Is md to
TINS port can be made at her highest speed
Oficlals of the Cunard line planned to have
the Lusitania at t! end of the ocean racing
lane at O'Clock tomorrow morning and
despite the fogs they believe she will be
found at the lghtship nea- that time. While
the Lusltania Is expected at the gateway
OF the port at sunrise tomorrow she will
not slip through the Narrows until several
hours later, when the tide serves full in the
Ambrose channel. The Lustania viii be
the first ocean liner to enter the port
through the new fairway.
The LuSitania has negotiated the rouph
seas which she encountered on her ovape
with no difficulty and only score of her
1000 passengers have suffered any indispo-
sition.
Making Up Lost Time.
Judging from the latest wireless report
received from the steamer Lusitania,
flashed from Sable Island at 11:2O last
night and reporting the vessel as $50 miles
east OF that place, it looks as if the big
Cunarder will not reach Sandy Hook until
ABOUT am. Friday morning. If she does
this she still will beat the records of the
Lucania and the Deutschland but not bv
so much as was Indicated when the first
wireless report was received from Cape
Race.
There seems to nave been a marked de-
crease IN the speed Of the steamer yester-
day. probably due to the fact that she ran
into one of the thick fogs SO abundant Off
the Newfoundland coast. With clear weather
she viii pick up some of the lost time in
the run to Nantucket, the next point the
liner will be heard i.o:n, but this can only
amount to an hour at best Should
the Lusitania arrive at am. Friday as
now indicated, she Will have made the voy-
age in almost exactly five days
one of the remarkable features of the
LuSltania's voyage, according to wireless
dispatches, is the extraordinary immunity
from seasickness enjoyed by the passengers.
The sea has been quite rough the past day