Foreign News: Five Days

Last week, passengers on the 20-year-old Cunard Liner Mauretania, swiftest pride of British fleets, found themselves in Manhattan only a little more than five days after leaving England—”second fastest boat crossing of all time.” The Mauretania’s 1924 record of five days, three & one-third hours has never been bettered. Before the Mauretania, new speed champions were built at the rate of twelve every 50 years. But there has been talk, which had become more specific by last week, that great wharves were about to be built at Montauk Point (at the easternmost tip of Long Island) for U. S. transatlantic steamships, that the Pennsylvania R. R. was to extend its fastest service to such wharves, that U. S. transatlantic ship service would gain a day thereby.