New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-04
lUS|TAN|A IN PORT ONLY
= g HOURS 10 MINUTES
Cuts Mauretania's Time for Sail
ing on Return Trip by
8 Hours II Minutes.
CAN'T STOP TO LAND CARGO
Liner Has Lost Nine Days Be-
cause of the English Strike,
and Her Captain Wants to
Get Back on Schedule.

For agility in the lively game Of touch
s-d 20 the steamship Lusitsnia. Of the
Cunard Line. took with her from this port
yesterday az Sol p. m. the blue rlbon
Of the seas.
She captured the record. held bv the
Nauretania. which left New York at 500
7 n on Saturday, December Il, after be-
i-c in port only thirty-seven hours and
t7enty-one minutes The Lusitania came
right in and turned around and went ri ht
cut again in the record making time Of
thfrty-two hours and ten minutes, thereby
sxceIlinE the Mauretaniss expedition BY
rive hours and eleven minutes.
Carrots, turnips. corned beef and coal
10 the amount OF almost unbelievable ton
mage we're slowed in the Lusitanias hold
with such a smart CELEBRITY that even the
rival steamship companies. though not
loud in their conEratuls tons were com
peued TO admire It, on Saturday morn
ing at a.5i o'clock the Lusitanis's gang
vrav touched the Cunard Line pier. Al
most instantly she began 10 receive coal
for her eastbound trip. BY p. m ls7'
tons had been put aboard. and the coal
beavers stopped work one hour for supper
They ate. il is said. as If they felt that
thew had earned the food and as II they
enjoyed 81.
However this may be- by II p. m. los
more tons Of coal We're put where they
would do the most good on the dash 10
Ffshguard: between midnight on Saturday
and 6 o'clock yesterday morning 1.3A tons
we're transplanted. and from a m. to PAS
70 N. yesterday 1913 tons were loaded,
making 5544 tons IN all When the Lust
fania arrived she had on board $50 tons. Of
which she consumed 100 tons i'm port, SO
she carried IN her bunkers last evening a
total Of 60l4 tons Of food for her boilers.
The Mauretania on her record Christmas
trip reached her pier at i:H q. m. on Fri
DAY. December Is. 1910. began coaling at 10
m. and sailed at 500 p. m. IN Saturday
December ~.
70 Make Up Lost Time.
The Lusljania skins across the Atlantic
these DAYS. disembarks her passengers with
a. rush. takes on eastb0und humanity with
urheard-or nimbleness and scuds across
the Atlantic again as II she were a ferry
boat she cannot wait 10 land her cargo
She must make Liverpool. via Fishguard,
by next Friday night or Saturday morning.
says Captain J. r. W. Charles. because she
has lost nine days by reason Of the strike In
England. and means to make them UP II
IT, takes her every boiler. horsepower and
an the clean linen in her closet.
Immediately on her arrival here the At
men IN the Lusitania's engineering depart
rnent began the work of cleaning her boil
ers and making repairs 20 the vessels ma
cbinerv. The man In charge Of the ships
linen sent an emergency call TO one Of tho
ciry's largest steam laundries. Seventy-six
more passengers than the LUsitania had
ever before carried were brought by her 70
this CITY on Saturday. Forty thousand
pieces Of soiled linen were sent 20 the
cleaners. and by noon Yesterday they were
IN on board ship as white as snow. The
IUsitanias linen closet carries $4,000 pieces.
Although American laundries are more
prompt IN conveying goods back 20 the
ehip than the English cleaners are, the
Iusitonia's mana ger Of napkins and pillow
cases had a good deal 70 say yesterday
pertaining 20 the comparative excellence
Of the British finished product
You put too much lime IN your water
over here" he said 'Tt eats I'D the goods
The British way is better. far better, Al
though I really must say, y know, that
forty thousand pieces IN twenty-five hours
~ bowling EN- along quite nobly.'
While 357 men and women were making
beds and clearing up nine hundred state
rooms on Saturday. 10 be ready for yes
terday's sailing, William II. Allison. the
chief steward. went 70 market. He wanted
n. 600 eggs. 1900 pounds Of corned beef, IS
- pounds of beef, 1900 pounds Of mutton
100 pounds Of lamb. 200 pounds Of Ger
rots. 700 pounds OF turnips and two tons
Of assorted vegetables. an aggregate Satur-
DAYS purchase OF about twenty tons Of
food
No Tir,e a Unload CARGO