Show COMING OF THE A. A The great er the thc Lus Lusitania tania is due in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York harbor today No o other so splendid a ship was ever e produced before She is feet longer I than any of the immense Salt Lake City blocks s she hc 1 would just about fill one of our wide streets between I Ithe the sidewalks she is five fi stories in height and has I I two passenger elevators ele She burns hurns 1400 1 tons of I coal daily Because the Germans outran the thc crack the Cam Campania ania and the Lucania the British British Brit Brit- I ish b government advanced to the to produce a ship that could show its heels to the I Germans and the Lusitania a is the result Tier Her guaranteed guaranteed guar guar- I speed is 25 knots an nn hour hour about about 28 S miles miles miles- and md when her machinery gets to working smoothly it is expected that the full tl trip trip across across p-across the bi big ferr ferry will rill be only four and a half da days s 's The wireless yes- yes t. t cr aY said that out from Queenstown because of fog the ship slowed down to 20 O or 2 22 knots I That reads like a u joke What difference would it it t be to an ordinary craft whether the Lusitania j I l struck it at a speed of 20 or 25 knots It would be beann annihilation ann in ill either cither event e h Ve wish that all our senators and amI representatives tives could be he in New cw York City Cit when this miracle of of the sea pulls palls up tip to tu her pier pic i that the they y might realize realize realize real- real ize what pains Great Britain takes lakes what expense she cheerfully fo submits to to in order Older to maintain Brit Brit- Dish Vish 1 pre prestige tige on the sea and aud to realize how petty pett and contemptible is the position of our own country in iu II that respect A nation of people with exports and imports amounting annually to 1600 1600 1 I and nd our oar flag an unknown quantity in almost er c every port of the world Such a 3 ship as rs the Lusi Lusi- ought tania ought to be he an un object lesson to the United States Slates that would stir up an overwhelming demand fo for a n merchant marine murine to correspond with the repUblics repUblic's reH republics republic's re re- publics public's H blics pull power cl |