Lusitania Nearly Ran Down Schooner.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 13, 1912:
Going Slow in Fog Off Nantucket, She Sighted Fishing Vessel in Time.
PROF. MOORE A PASSENGER
Tells of New International Rules for Wireless Regulation Agreed On at London Convention.
    The Cunard liner Lusitania arrived yesterday afternoon from Liverpool several hours late, because of the fog she encountered this side of the Grand Banks and the adverse current of the Gulf Stream. Until noon on Wednesday the liner averaged 24.75 knots, and made the passage of 3,094 miles from Daunt's Rock to the Ambrose Channel Lightship in five days nine hours and fourteen minutes at an average speed of 23.94 knots.
    When she came up to her pier at 2:30 o'clock there was a strong flood tide running, and it required eight tugs and the persuasive eloquence of Capt. Roberts, the Marine Superintendent of the line, to dock her. The Lusitania brought over 229 first, 391 second, and 626 third-class passengers, and 2,600 sacks of mail.
    At 4 A.M., yesterday, off the Kantucket Lightship, the Lusitania had a narrow escape from hitting a fishing schooner in the fog, but as the liner was slowed down the lookout men in the crow's nest and on the forcastle deck in the eyes of the ship, sighted her in time to avoid a collision.
    Among the passengers was Prof. Willis L Moore, Chief of the United States Weather Bureau, who had attended the International Radio-Telegraphic Conference in London, in which he delivered an address. His chief purpose, he said, was
to illustrate to European scientists how the principles of meteorology were made use of in the United States and to arrange a convention between twenty-seven countries to be represented by 150 delegates, to agree on certain rules for the operation of wireless telegraphy.
    Prof. Moore said that the most important measures agreed upon at the conference were the restriction of amateurs to short wave lengths, the stopping of all messages for the last ten minutes each hour to listen for "S.O.S." signals, the carrying of two operators on every ship, and an auxiliary power great enough to operate the wireless apparatus in case the main engines and boilers were put out of commission by accident. The arrangement for weather reports from all ships, he said, would be of great service to vessels in all oceans as soon as others than the Atlantic liners had adopted the new system.
    Bishop Charles P. Anderson of Chicago, who is Chairman of the Episcopal Committee on Faith and Order, returned from conferences with the Archbishop of Canterbury and leading clergy in Great Britain regarding a meeting of all denominations of Protestant faiths to be held in New York next year. He said that his mission had been successful, and this was one of the most important movements ever undertaken by the Protestant Churches. The meeting in New York, he said, would be attended by delegates from every country.
    W. T. Sesnon, Chairman, and Theodore Hardee, executive officer of the commission sent to Europe by President Taft for the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco in 1915, arrived on the Lusitania from their trip through Europe. Mr. Sesnon said that they had received the greatest encouragement from foreign potentates. The King of Spain was especially friendly. Every European power had agreed to send warships to San Francisco, Mr. Sesnon said, and they would all go through the canal on their way out to the Pacific.