Show MARVELOUS STEAMSHIP SPEED New York celebrated recently Rob Robert Robert ert rort Hudsons application of steam to marine navigation in the tho Clermonts trip up the Hudson That trip with its laborious speed upstream marked an Epoch In all ocean and river navigation tion Uon scarcely less memorable than the discovery of this continent Since inco Ince that time Ume men have been saying the limit of Df speed In ocean navigation had been reached and hardly a decade has passed Without Its experts who ho could prove by calculation that Improvement In ma machinery chinery or hull huH construction had reach reached ed the point where no further headway could be made By the time this is In print the tha Cu Lusitania will probably have beaten by twelve or thirteen hours the record speed between Queenstown and andew New Kew ew York and this in the face of fog Encountered en route which interfered Materially with fast running for some me hours At times the new ship has made better than 26 6 knots an hour or over miles In 24 hours a rate of I feet every sixty minutes Compared with this most of the railroad trains of i ithe the country in passenger service are slow and only the limited trains can be put in the same class The Lucania of the same company which Is racing or was supposed to be racing with the Lusitania was left heft hopelessly in the therace therace race The competition between these two ships is of extreme interest because they represent types of engines which differ widely and the he race will afford I Ison not only a test of speed but a compari comparison son in fuel cost and other factors of operation which determine the com corn commercial commercial mercial value of a marine investment The speed of the winner is due duo to her turbine engines those marvels of in inventive Inventive Inventive genius which represent the lat latest latest est cot word in the application of steam to the development of power The brief wireless reports from on board say the ship is a marvel of comfort and stead steadiness steadiness ness the lack Jack of vibration being due duo duoto to the difference of motion between the reciprocating engine and the turbine After this demonstration it Is probe probable probable able the turbine will displace all other types of marine power equipment as it itis itIs Itis is already displacing the other types in stationary power plants Probably there will be wiseacres who will accept the Lusitania as the ultimate limit of oJ marine architecture and speed just as asmon asmon mon men said fifty years ago that they had reached the last Jast degree of speed To those who have watched the growth of mans power over mechanical agencies and his utilization of new forces and forms of application thero there is no fixed limit either to speed or power or ca capacity capacity capacity of any ocean carrier no limit but the investment required and the possibility of returns on that invest investment investment Investment ment |