Evening star., 1909-09-03

! Passengers landed and mails de-
! livered four days from Queens
= town for first time.
! NEW YORK, September 3.-The CunarG
. liner Lusitania landed her passengers al
30 o'clock last evening. She arrived of
/ the Ambrose Channel lightship at AZ
! pm. breaking all previous records over
I the short course.
She is the first westWard-bOund Atlantic
steamship to land her passengers in five
days after leaving her sailing port. The
new record time from Daunts rock to
the lightsh.p is four days eleven hours
forty-tWo minutes. and the Lusitania' s
average speed on this trip was 25S5
knots an hour.
The best previous record was made by
her sister ship. the Mauretania. August
=, 1t was four days fourteen hours
thirty-eight minutes and the average
speed was 25.st knots an hour.
From this the Lusitania has clipped
, two hours iifty-six minutes. Her best
day 5 run was made from Monday noon
to Tuesday noon. when she covered $50
miles. against the 673 miles made in one
day by the Mauretania on her last west
ward voyage. In this last respect, there
fore the Mauretania still holds the rec
ord.
New Propellers Helped.
The remarkable speed made by the Luz
sftania was attributed by Capt Turner
! and Chef Engineer Duncan to the effect
Of the new propellers which were fitted
to the four turbine shafts in July. Two
four-bladed solid brass propellers were
fitted to the hish-pressure shafts in the
wings and two three-bladed manganese
propelle"s were fitted to the low pressure
turbine shafts aft. which are used for go-
ing astern il maneurering. The high
! pressure turbines do not reverse.
On her first westward passage from
| Liverpool August {, since the new pro-
pellers were put in. the Lusitania came
| over the long course in four days six
teen hours and forty minutes. which was
/ three hours better than her previous rec
/ ords, and only forty-fye minutes behind
the record of the Mauretania on that
run. This demonstrated the Improvement
made by the change. After that Capt
/ Turner was confident that if his vessel
!! had good coal she would land her passen-
! gers Thursday night here and beat the
| MauTetania's record. When he told about
| the passage last night, the captain said
| that the ship had behaved splenddly. and
| If il had not been for a gale and head
/ sea Wednesday night she would have been
at her pier two hours earlier.
Capt. Turner's Account.
Eve were delayed five hours at Queens
/ town. said Capt. Turner, waiting as
usual. for the London mails. The weather
was rough, with head sea the frs. day
out. but after that we had a fine smooth
passage until yesterday, when it came on
to blow hard from the southeast and
veered around all points to northwest
which held us back bit, but think It'll
keep John Pritchard busy with the Mau-
retania for time to beat our record OF
! days IL hours A. minutes
| A great deal of the credit Of this fast
/ voyage is due to the engineers and fire.
men,, continued the captain. They
have all worked hard to insure the ships
landing her passengers tonight. There is
a keen friendly rivalry between the crews
Of the two ships to decide which vii, be
tania was built on the Tyne. and many
OF our crew are Scotch. Naturally they
wanted to see a Clyde built ship make
| good"
! former and present general agents for
/ the Cunrad line in America. congratulated
Capt. Turner on his landing his pas
sengers in four days. The bronzed com
mander replied smilingly that he hoped
! to do better.
| Congratulations From Passengers.
! The Lusitania brought $50 cabin passen-
gers. They were all delighted at sharing
| in the record voyage as they stood on
deck while the great liner steamed majes-
tically up the harbor. the crimson rays
! of the setting sun lighting up her upper
i works and giant smokestacks. Angus,
Belmont, Payne Whitney, Gen. c. II. Tay.
| Tor, owner of the Boston Globe; Nine
Nordica, Miss Fannie Ward, Edward
Shearson and Mrs. A. l.. Erlanger were
among the passengers who cOmplimented
the captain and officers on the new
! record.
concert Gen. Taylor who was chairman
proposed this resolution. and the passen.
! gers adopted it unanimously:
! THE passengers of the Lusitania, who
| appreciate the fact that il has been a
great privilege to cross In the STEAMSHIP
which breaks the transatlantic record be-
| tween Europe and the United States, de.
sire to extend their hearty congratula.
| tions to Capt. Turner and his officers and
. crew. They also desire to especial,
commend the fidelity. skill and energy o.
the chief engineer and his assistants.
i THE uniform courtesy of the officers
/ crew and stewards has also been highly
!, appreciated. and the trip has, in all re-
spects, been one OF the highest comfort
and pleasure to all PARTICIPANTS
Cheers From Lightship.
The Lusitania passed the Nantucket
I IghtShip quite close at 0:3O am: yeSter-
day al 2j knots an hour. The lightship'
| crew We're waiting on the deck and gave
| a cheer. to which the passengers on the
liner responded by waving their handker
chiefs. Everybody knew by that time
that the captain would make good his
promise and land them that same nigh,
in New York
i Capt Turner in his message Wednesday
night TO the Cunard line said he woulo
pass the lightship at pm. II was IA.
pm. when the lghtship was abeam and
y O'Clock exactly when the Lusitania
steamed out of the Ambrose channel uI
TO quarantine.
Runs, Coal and Cost.
Chief Engineer Duncan, with the usua,
canniness of a Scot, and of Cunard engi.
neers in particular. could not be induced
to give the actual coal consumption or
the record-breaking voyage, but II was
said on good authirity that il averaged
including coal used for the auxiliar.es-
1850 tons day. which totaled 4,725 tons
for the trip at a cost of S321 ton: al
together a total coal expenditure Of abou,
Sl5.356. The passengers who came smil.
ing down the gangwat to greet waiting
relatives and friends seemed to think il
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