Show great the steamship mile race from cleveland 0 to erie tuesday between the cleve land passenger steamer city of erie owned by the cleveland fc buffalo transit company and the detroit s crack passenger b at owned by the white star company was in many respects the most noteworthy race ever sailed on fresh water the erie covered the distarce in 4 hours 14 minutes and 9 seconds pass ing the stakeboat at er e 45 seconds ahead of the beating the latter by 4 seconds elapsed time 1I was pronounced by old ves selmen to be the prett est race ever witnessed aside from winning the speed cham pion ship of the great lakes the erie won about for those who bet on her |