On the day the Carmania came into port, the first great ocean liner driven across the Atlantic by turbine engines, it was announced that the North German Lloyd had laid the keel of a ship, the Prinzessin Cecilia, to meet in rivalry of sea speed the two giant Cunarders which the British Government is to back with its credit. That will be a contest worth noting. The Carmania, 30,000 tons displacement, 334 times as big as the caravel that Columbus crossed in, is only a trial ship for the new Cunarders, which are to make twenty-five knots. They will have turbine engines. The Cecilia will have engines of the present type. That test should be the final one. Out of rivalry comes advance. The Baltic, the biggest ship afloat, was originally laid down 700 feet long, to match the Celtic and Cedric. Hearing that the German Lloyd was to build a 707-foot ship, the Kaiser Wilhelm II., the White Star people cut the Baltic in two, shoved the ends twenty-six feet apart, and framed between. The result was not only the longest but the heaviest of ships, very close to 40,000 tons. She is five times as big as the Alaska, a few years ago a record-making "ocean greyhound." The new Cunarders and the Cecilia may not be heavier than the Baltic, but they will be longer—perhaps nearly 800 feet. As for power, the Kaiser has already three times the indicated power of the heavier Baltic, so great is the added cost of extra speed at sea. The new ships will far surpass even that mighty driving force.—New York World.