Show Speed of Steamships The new steamer of the North German Ger-man Lloyd line tho Kaiser Wllhclm It has been heralded as a liveday boat destined to show her heels to the fastest of the transatlantic vessels Her maiden trip from Cherbourg to Now York occupied however five days twentythree hours nnd fortyseven minutes but an her officers Sty sho mado no attempt at speed and as on two days she was delayed by fog little hus been learned oC her possibilities Her speed was better however than that made by her predecessors thc Kronprinz Wllhclm and the Kaiser Wllhclm der Grosse on their maiden trips and the only steamer that holds a better maidentrip record Is the Doutsohland of the rival Hamburg American line The qujcket trip over made across the Atlantic was S that of the Lucania of the Cunnrd line In 1S94 her time being be-ing 5 days 7 hours and 23 minutes but that was on the New YorkQueonutovn course shorter by 300 miles than the run from New York to Cherbourg Last September the Kronprinz Wilholm made the run from Cherbourg to New Fork In 5 i days 11 hours and 57 minutes min-utes and in 1900 the Kaiser Wllhelm del Grosse made the same trip east hound In 5 days ICJiours The Deutnuh lands best record was In September 1900 when she sailed from New York to Plymouth In 5 days 7 hours and 38 minutes Fifty years ago the record on the New YorkQueenstown route was above nine days In 1869 It was cut to a little lit-tle less than eight days In 1S82 the Alaska educed the then existing record rec-ord thirteen hours at a clip her time being 6 days 18 hours and 37 mInutes Half a dozen fresh records wero made in the SOs and in 1S8D the City of Earls went below six days with a record of 6 days 19 hours and IS minutes Six other records were made In the next five years ending with the feat of the Lucania which has remained for nine years unsurpassed Chicago Record Herald |