The New York Times, 13 September 1907
LUSITANIA HERE AT 9 A. M. TO-DAY
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Will Come Through the New Channel, and Reach Her Pier About Noon
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RAN 593 MILES YESTERDAY
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Could Have Done Better but for Fog---293 Miles Away at 9 Last Night
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Knots
First day's run ............... 561
Second day's run........... 575
Third day's run ............... 570
Fourth day's run............. 593
Total up to noon yesterday....2,299
Total still to be covered......... 481
Average speed yesterday ..... 23.80
Average speed for four days ... 23.11
Probable arrival at Sandy Hook. .
9 A. M. to-day
Probable arrival at Pier ....... Noon
Probable time from Queenstown to
Sandy Hook, 5 days 1 hour and 15 minutes.
Beat previous record from Queens-
town to Sandy Hook, Lucania, 5
days 7 hours and 23 minutes.
Best record from Southampton to
New York, Kaiser Wilhelm der
Grosse, 5 days 20 hours
Best record from Cherbourg to
New York, (and. best Atlantic rec-
ord,) Deutschland, 5 days 11 hours
and 54 minutes.
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By Wireless Telegraph from THE TIMES'S Correspondent on Board the
Lusitania
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ON BOARD THE LUSITANIA, Sept. 12, Noon, via Halifax---At noon to-day,
the fourth of the Lusitania's first transatlantic voyage, the run for
the day was announced to be 593 nautical miles, an average for the day
of 23.86. The run on the first day was 561, on the second 575, and on
the third 570.
We are now in latitude 42 degrees nine minutes, and longitude 63 degrees
32 minutes, having traversed 2,299 miles from Queenstown, and having 481
miles to go before reaching Sandy Hook.
On account of veering in toward the Nova Scotia shore, because of the
fog, the distance to be covered to New York was cut four miles, from 485
to 481.
The morning has been sunny and the sea smooth, except for half an hour
about 11 o'clock, when the big liner slipped through a dense fog bank.
Later the fog rose, however, and again the sun shone brightly.
The announcement of the day's run was received with great cheering. Much
regret was expressed at the necessity of slowing down for the fog. Had
this not occurred, the day's run would doubtless have been 600 miles or
over.
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NEWPORT, R. I., Sept 12---The steamer Lusitania reported herself 185
miles east of Nantucket Lightship.
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NEWPORT, R. I., Sept 12---A wireless message states that the Lusitania
was 100 miles from the Nantucket Lightshio at 9 o'clock to-night. She
was expected to pass the lightship about 1 A. M. The weather is clear.
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CAPE SABLE, N. S., Sept. 12---A message from the Lucania indicated that
the steamer was 250 miles astern of the Lusitania at 6 P. M.
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The Lusitania will arrive at the Bar this morning, as THE TIMES stated
yesterday, probably about 9 o'clock and will be docked at the foot of
West Thirteenth Street about noon.
Her run yesterday was 593 miles, the greatest run of the voyage. Up to
noon she had traveled 2,299 miles from Queenstown, and up to 9 o'clock
last night had traveled 2,487 miles, being at that time reported 100
miles east of Nantucket Light ship. This left her 293 miles to go out of
the total of 2,780 from Queenstown.
Her voyage was somewhat shortened by the necessity of her veering in
toward the Nova Scotia coast yesterday morning to avoid a dense fog,
which shut down for about half an hour. The course was thus shortened
four miles.
This same fog bank prevented her making probably a world's record for
one day's run. It was thought, as indicated by wireless messages
received from on board last night, that she would have equaled if not
bettered the Deutschland's run of 601 miles, the world's record for one
day.
But the fast run of the fourth day, 593 miles, brought up her average
speed for the trip from 22.8 knots to 23.11 knots.
The average speed for the day's run of 23.86 knots is a trifle better
than the famous run of the Kaiser Wilhelm, which made one day's run of
591 knots, an average speed of 23.64 knots an hour.
The probable time of her run from Queenstown to Sandy Hook is 6 days 1
hour and 15 minutes, the best previous record between the same two
points being 5 days 7 hours and 23 minutes, made by the Lucania.
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LONDON MUCH DISAPPOINTED
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Sorry the Blue Ribbon of the Atlantic Was Not Won
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Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES
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LONDON, Sept. 12---It is considered certain here that the Lusitania will
not lower the Deutschland's record on the trip now approaching
completion, and, despite the fact that no transatlantic liner ever has done
her best on her maiden voyage, deep disappointment is felt that the blue
ribbon of the Atlantic still remains with a German ship.
Expert calculations show that the Lusitania's average speed from the
Daunt Lightship to noon Wednesday was 22.58 knots an hour.
To equal the Deutschland's average at 23.51 knots an hour, the
Lusitania, from noon Wednesday till her arrival at Sandy Hook, would
have had to make an average of 26.1 knots an hour. The Nantucket report
of her position indicates that she failed to do this.
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KRAMER WILL PILOT HER
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Picked Because He Took the Caronia Out the New Channel
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No word by wireless was received at the Cunard offices yesterday from
the Lusitania. The officials believe that this is due to the fact that
she has already made her report to the office, and whatever wireless
work is being carried on as she nears this port is the sending and
receiving of messages for the many passengers on board.
The pilot who will have the honor of bringing the Lusitania through the
Ambrose Channel is Frank Kramer of the Sandy Hook Pilots' Association.
It was Kramer who, two weeks ago, took the Caronia out through the new
channel, and since that time he has been down in a tug, accompanied by
Vernon H. Brown, agent of the line, and made a study of the new fairway.
It was said that the action of the Cunard Company in selecting Kramer to
bring their new turbiner into port has caused some feeling among the
other pilots of the association.
They thought that the pilot for the task should have been selected in
the regular way, picking up the one whose turn it was to "come in " from
the pilot boat.
At the office of the association I\in State Street it was said that the
matter had been adjusted, and there were no hard feelings over the
selection of a pilot. Kramer is an old-time pilot, and one of the most
experienced. He has for years been piloting vessels of great draft in
and out of this port.
It is expected that the Lusitania will reach her pier about noon to-day,
and everything has been made ready for her reception. A gang of men was
yesterday at work, cleaning up and putting the last touches to the
temporary shed on the new pier. For those who wish to get a view of the
big liner as she comes up through the new channel and past Sandy
Hook the Ocean Society has chartered the steamboat Sirius, and the
indications are that she will go down early this morning filled with
nautical experts.
Every small craft skipper is on the lookout for the Lusitania, and she
will be greeted by a salute of steam whistles which will surpass any
reception ever given to a liner.
A party of United States Army engineers arrived in this city last night.
They will go down the bay in a tug to watch the performance of the
newest turbine, and later will inspect the engines.
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JOURNALISTS ON LUSITANIA
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Sixteen Financial Writers to Inspect Mineral Resources of Ontario
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A party of sixteen prominent British financial journalists will arrive
to-day on the Cunard liner Lusitania as the guests of the Government of
Ontario, Canada, to inspect the mineral and other natural resources of
that province.
W. T. Hedges, representative of the Ontario Government, arrived here a
few days ago to make arrangements for the reception of the visitors and
escort them to Canada. After lunching at the Hotel Belmont to-day, the
party will be taken to see the sights of New York in private
automobiles, and leave in the evening for Niagara Falls en route for
Cobalt, Sudbury nickel mines, Sault Ste. Marie, and Copper Cliff, to
inspect the mines.
The British journalists will have another opportunity of seeing this
city on their return from Canada, before they sail for Liverpool by the
Cunard Line.
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CAPT. HOGEMANN PRAISES HER
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North German Lloyd Commander Thinks Lusitania a `Wonderful Ship'
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"The Lusitania is doing finely, and there is no way of getting around
it," said Capt. D. Hogemann of the North German Lloyd liner
Kronprinzessin Cecilie yesterday morning. Capt. Hogemann, who is also
the Commodore of the North German Lloyd fleet, was in command of the
Kaiser Wilhelm II of the same line when that vessel was smashing
ocean records, and was on the bridge when the Kaiser, in July of 1906,
logged 591 knots in one day, which is going at an average speed of 23.64
knots an hour, one of the fastest performances in the history of
transatlantic navigation.
Like all the other skippers now in New York, Commodore Hogemann is
watching closely the dally reports of the maiden voyage of the
Lusitania, and he does not hesitate to give the great Cunarder full
credit for the splendid performance she is making, particularly as this
is her first trip, and as everybody knows transatlantic skippers and
engineers never push their vessels until they have become thoroughly
familiar with the workings of the ship and the engines, as they say,
"have become perfectly tuned."
"From what I have read in the newspapers," said Capt. Hogemann
yesterday, "it is very apparent that in the Lusitania the Cunard Company
has one of the most wonderful ships ever put overboard. She is doing
wonderfully well when you take everything into consideration. You must
remember that her engineers have not become thoroughly acquainted, so to
speak, with her great turbine engines, and when they do I have no doubt
whatever that the Lusitania will do a great deal better.
"Of course, I am not an engineer, but I naturally know a little about
navigation, and no one had the right to expect the Lusitania to eclipse
ocean records on this her first time out."
"Do you think, Captain, that the Lusitania will eventually smash the
ocean records for fast steaming?"
"I would not be surprised it she did," answered Capt. Hogemann.
"Will the North German Lloyd build a steamer to eclipse her in speed?"
"Now that is a leading question," answered Capt. Hogemann with a smile,
"but really I do not know. We have some very fine ships already, you
know. This one, for instance, [meaning the Kronprinzessin Cecilie] is a
fine vessel, and she will do a lot better before very long."
In shipping circles generally the coming of the Lusitania was the main
topic of conversation. On all sides praise for the new Cunarder was
heard, but there was a dissenting note here and there.
"Don't forget," said the commander of one of the big ocean liners, "that
the Lusitania has engines that develop 70,000 horse power. Build a
reciprocating engine with as great power and it, too, would propel a
ship at a record-breaking clip. And then the coal consumption. Remember
that they say the Lusitania is eating up about 1,100 tons a day. That is
quite a meal, isn't it? "
Not only are the skippers but the deck hands as well excited over the
advent of the Cunard's long-heralded record breaker. A deck hand of the
Kronprinzessin Cecilie was laboriously translating into German the story
in an afternoon newspaper yesterday of the Lusitania's coming.
Officers of higher rank in the employ of the two great German lines also
intimated that bigger and faster boats, flying the German flag, would
probably be forthcoming should the Lusitania snatch away the speed
laurels of the Kaiser Wilhelm II and the Deutschland.
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BIG DEMAND FOR PASSES
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Public Immensely Interested in Biggest Atlantic Liner
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The amount of publicity given in the daily press throughout the country
to the maiden trip of the Cunard liner Lusitania has so aroused the
interest of the public, especially.the citizens of Greater New York,
that the Surveyor's office, in the Custom House in Wall Street, was
thronged from 9 A. M. yesterday morning till late in the afternoon with
people making applications for passes for Pier 54, North River, foot of
Thirteenth Street, where the great steamer will be made fast about noon
to-day.
The new pier will not be able to afford standing room to all the people
who received permits before the Surveyor decided that they had issued
enough.
The revenue cutter, which will leave the Barge Office at 6:30 A. M. to
go down to meet the Lusitania at the Quarantine Station, has a full
complement of passengers, besides the regular number of Customs
Inspectors who go down to collect the declarations from the ship.
In answer to the numerous inquiries at the Cunard office in State Street
yesterday as to what day the Lusitania would be open for inspection by
the public, the officials of the company stated that the date would not
be fixed until the liner had docked, as the Captain would have to be
consulted in the matter.
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AMBROSE CHANNEL RULES
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Small Craft That Might Hamper Dredgers Are Barred
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To prevent the overcrowding of the new Ambrose Channel by small craft,
which would hamper the work of the dredgers, official regulations for
governing the navigation of the new waterway from the ocean were issued
yesterday by the United States Engineers' Office, after being approved
by the Secretary of War. The law reads as follows:
"Vessels and other craft having draught of less than 29 feet may not use
or pass through that part of Ambrose Channel (formerly East Channel)
which lies south and east of a line between the West Bank Lighthouse and
the Coney Island Lighthouse, and no vessel or other craft may use the
said part of the channel during the night between the hours of sunset
and sunrise. This regulation does not include vessels belonging to the
various Government departments or the Board of Pilot Commissioners, nor
vessels of the length of 600 feet or more over all, but such last-named
vessels may not pass at night between sunset and sunrise."
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