Show RAGE RACE OVER OCE OCEAN J WON BY A MINUTE The Kaiser Wilhelm II Declared Victor Over La Provence GAINED A DAY OAY IN CROSSING in P Made lade Wagers or on Oil H Result II 1 I by Telegraph I 1 heir K ft 11 nc X New W York Jan Ono Ono of oC the mn most moll 1 exciting races over ever run across the Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic It IJ by ocean liners was wa finished nl hmo hero with tho time arrival of or the tho Kaiser II IT of the North German Lerman Lloyd line lino and Ln La Pr tit of Ie the tho French I line The German Lerman ve vessel fl was eras t victorious victori nn ous os h by l j just 1 one nee minute Its time lime n l passing ln In nt al I Sandy Hook Hool was 1236 p p. inn in m. La Provence passing in at al 1 12 1237 37 l Altho Although h the race race was r really all tW over I nt fit Sandy Hook the giant liners continued con cnn tho tiro contest up the tho bay to qua qua- quarantine antine whore when the lice er I Wilhelm II arrived i at nt 1 J It Its rival rl throe three minutes af astern Jn Much mon money was wn lost and won on the race by hy the till passengers who made maden n wagers s l-s by hy w wireless I during t time the h voyn voyage e. e After Arter both vessels pl docked the winners and nud losers met at nt uptown hotels whore where the tho dollars changed hands Holh Bolh vessels were Christmas ships shillS La Provence left leet Havre TC on nn Dc in Iii and pa passed Nl the Ch Cherbourg breakwater breakwater break break- water 1 line lino nine nine-hours nine hours before the tho raiser Kaiser Wilhelm II II which hail had sailed the tho day before from firemen Bremen After leaving leaving leav leav- I ea ing Cherbourg the fire German boat hoat was w compelled to reduce speed r limy Mile Bile i h IiI r. ra Gap JI On Tuesday afternoon the tho Kaiser o overhauled l the 1 and learned learn learn- ed ll that th the French vessel had gone b by The Tho Iaiser's got busy HI with their nautical instruments and nand found that the Frenchman was only eighty miles almond ahead Then the Jai Kaiser Karter er began to Jump through the sea ea That night It tore through h the water as never n before Captain Ho hall had not expected to catch c. his French rival I until Wednesday day night but wh when n he ho learned that It was only eighty miles ahead certain of his officers r received Cd instructions not to 0 spare the tho coal conI Both men were wre told to get there lher Just as ns dawn broke Wednesday morning th the tho lookout on the Kaiser saw sawa a streak of smoke moke on the western horl horizon on The wireless s operator was ryas aroused and In a n tow fow minutes reported report report- ed cd that the ship nhe ahead nd was the La Provence Pa Passengers soon oon heard the news and through the whole ship the cr cry went event We Weve Ye te got the tho Frenchman I La a Provence Pro was then te ten n miles in the lead 1 That It Jl was going fast too was apparent but slowly tho the Ger Ger- German German man boat crawled up until It was but hut two miles as astern ern Then rhen an urgent order was sent from rom the Kaisers Kaiser's bridge to the thc engine room and smoke e began to roar from flom the funnels tunnels In harf ml an hour the tho Frenchmans Frenchman's lead was cut down When lOu IOu miles southeast of or Cape Race the Kaiser was wn abeam beam of or La Provence PIo fhe They saluted each other and th the e l Kaisers Kaiser's al cr's passengers cheered c Km- Km two 0 hours both hoth were about on nil even cn terms then lh the Gorman German carryIng carrying carry carry- In Ing every elJ ounce tit rif steam began heg-an to forge lorge nh ahead abeam At twilight ht on nn Wednes Wednesday da lay day only the masthead tl light of La Provence PIO could he be seen astern Thursday nl night ht the th J. J Kaiser I ran into a 3 fog tog and reduced speed and arid with irh morning had hall to anchor near the tho Fire Prise Island lightship Shortly h before fole noon the We haze have lifted and L La 11 a Provence came out of dC time the mist going at full sp speed e 1 Again tI time the race was wa resumed ll The rho French boat bont still had hud a L chance to win On almost even ven terms lorms the tho ships shins r c raced ll for rOI time the entrance of Gedney channel each knowing that tho the first idest there would have Im tho thin right of or way woy They were only a few fw hundred 1 yards apart when tho the Gorman Comma forged ll almond abend n Its average speed for thc tho voyage was waR 22 21 12 knots |