New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-22
SCENES AT THE COMPANY,s OFFICES.

The folio wing dispatch received at 1l:3O a.
m. yesterday bv Kunhardt 81 Co.. the agents OF the
Hamburg American Packet Company In this city,
at their office. No, 81 Broad-st.;
HAMBURG Jan. 2l.-The Cimbrla had % cabin pas
sengers 800 seerage passengers and 92 in the
far 80 have landed Cnxhaycn aud II at Wcser Light
house The latter names have not yet been ascertaned
We are preparing list of h0sc saved ana those rshg
which We will cable to Associated Press.
There were many inquiries at the Office Of Kun
hardt & Co. yesterday for news of friends who wers
or were supposed 10 be ON board the Cimbrla. Among
the per- ons seekinginfOrmati0n Ernest BOb,ien.
lie SAID that his wife and his two children. a bov
and girl ten and eleven years old respectively,
left Hamburg for New-York the day that
the CimbIia sailed. and that they must
therefore have been on the lost vessel.
Mr. Bobsien came to this country
from Berlin, where he left his wife and children,
four or five months ago. and he has since been en-
ployed az n matchmaker by Tiffany d 20. Ills wife
and children were coming over to join HIM and TO
make a home in this city. He told his story with
evident emotion, aud WAS greatly affected when he
was informed that the names of his wife and children
were not among those OF the saved. Al last, he
caught at the hope that his family had been de-
layed and were not on board the vessel at all.
This hope seemed to give him much relief. and he
went away from the Office with his anxiety ylsi-
bly, relieved.
Two gentlemen called at the Office about
p. m aud asked If Bruno Wick had been heard
from. Thy said that he was a young man living
in New York friend of theirs who had been travel
hing IN Europe. He WAS to leave Switzerland Tor
Hamburg aud New-York at a time th At would make
il seem likely that hc would be on board the Cim-
bria lie would have been among the caUin pas
sengers If on the vessel a. all When told that his
name was not the cabin list, they concu ed that
he did not take the CImbria. Franz FlOTkOwsky.
sieeraRe passenger from Prussia, was asked for,
and his name does not appear among those saved.
Injuries were made at the office also il any news
had been heard of Jacob Schroeder jr, OF this city.
who was expected to sail On the CimDra. Schloedrr
is nineteen years DID, aud is the son of Jacob
Schloedcr, wine dealer at No. 166 Flrst-aye. tic
went to Germany last june on visit. Recently his
father received letter from him. saying. | shall
sail on the next steamer" As the Cimbria was the
next steamer 10 sail after tn date II hls letter, 1t is
Thought he was on board. He was 10 have come az
a secOnd-cabn pass ngrr but his name does not APP
pear on he list az tclegraphed.
The per Of the steamship company at this port Is
in Iloboken. at tho foot OF fIth-st.. lew blocks
north ol the ferry. The company i building q new
pier adjoining the ferry house, with n frontage oil
some 100 feet, ana with very elaborate accohmoda-
tiuns for passengers and great facilities Tor ban
ding freight. 1t will also have its offices there The
new structure will soon he finished. This building,
we'll as the old pier at Ffth-st was visited by
great many people yesterday whose curiosity hAd
been excited by the news OF the dsaster 10 to Cln
b.a Nearly all we're anxious To leain further par
ticulars OF the calamity, the number supposed 10
nave been drowned, the naies Ol the officers their
careers etc. Every emplOye Oi the company who
could be got at was besiegcd with questions In
qnirers obtained very little information. however.
Tho employees from Captain Badenhapsen, the
superinI Iendent, down 20 tho watchmaD, had very
little knowledge of the Cimbria. her Officers or her
crow. j. +. H. Meyer, the manager, gave tco ful
est account. Captain Badenhausen spoke Or Cap
tain Bauscu ls one Of the best officers in tbe employ
of the company. The superintendent avoided TO
aDDfareu
be dlsnclincd to answer their questions.
The watchmen at tho pier were the most disturbed
passengers aud crew. A good many or their
acauantances of both visited the
per from early in the morning until lato in |
tho day, 20 discuss the all-absorhing topic. They
got lutte definite knowledge, however, hs reporter
WAS the first to give the information that the |
cap tain aud three officers Of tue Cinbrls were miss
ing. ,.s,
pier at an early hour and remained there until |
noon then lie made m inspection VI the new pier |
in conpany with four friends and went To his rooms
at Nacgelfs Hotel. This hotel ana Buschs, on the |
pier, are headquarters for the German ana Dutch |
element OF HOboken and there yesterday tno iato |
of the Cmbra WAS tho leading topic OF conyorsl- |
tion. As the disaster Was known only 10 lew on |
Saturday night, there was q great crown Oh ocr- |
mans at Naegois yesterday, especially IN tho even
ing. One noticeable feature of II ALL however, was !
total ignorance OF All 10 the names oil any oil
the passengers or even the number ana captain |
Badenhausen was unable to throw any light Oh the
matter. 80 ,
The officers of the steamer Ruga, Of the Hamburg
American Line, which came into port on Ihnrsuay,
were IN Hoboken but they knew very little about
the Cimbria and her officers.
rumor was circulated yesterday that two ac- |
tors coming to join the 1hslia Theatre company
on board the Cimbria. In the absence
of the manager, Heinrich Conred. one Oh
his relatives denied the renort to a TRIBUNE re,
porter last evening. report also circulated
that brother of Henry Reiche, dealer in birds at
No. 90 Chatham-st., was npon the CimUria. MIR.
Reiche who was seen by TRIBUNE reporter last
evening. denied the story. His brothers name, he
stated, was Charles, while the name mentioned in
the dispatch was Leon.
At III y. N. Mr.. Meyer had received no further
Len&inued on Fiilh Page.