Show LINERS WILL TEST SPEED I Four Ocean Steamships to Bace 1 Across the Atlantic New York Aug 1 Tliere Is to be a great ocean race from New York to Europe next week The participants In the struggle will be the three largest steamships In the world Oceanic Deutschland and Kaiser Wilbelm der Groese with the American liner New York accompanying them This will be the first time these four flyers have crossed the ocean together or within an easy period The race will begin at 10 oclock next Tuesday morning when the Kaiser lhelm will start for Bremen 10 Cherbourg and Southampton The next morning at 10 oclock the Deutschland will pull out for Hamburg calling at Plymouth Ply-mouth and Cherbourg and at about thc same hour the New York will start for Southampton direct The Oceanic rwill leave this port I at 330 the same afternoon There is a great deal of excitementamong the steamship I steam-ship tjgerits over the coming struggle The officials of the lines Interested all say thattherel Is L to be no race but I that is understood to be merely the pursuance of the conservative policy natural under the circumstances People Peo-ple have not forgotten the stories of odllme river races when hams were fed to the furnaces and 0 colored roustabout roust-about was perched on the safety valve regardless of the chances of blowing the boat to perdition Of course nothing noth-ing of thjit kind is feared in this approaching ap-proaching race across the Atlantic timid who might but there are tmid persons be afraid to take passage in a vessel which was straining every nerve in Its mighty framework to got across tho 3000mile stretch ahead of its competitors tors Taking everything into consid Taldnr cerythlnr eration those who arc familiar with the possibilities of fast ocean travel 1 and the advantages and disadvantages of each ship think that each vessel has about an equal chance oC landing its malls in London first PIttaburg Dispatch Dis-patch |