The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-27
LEVIATHAN At HOB0KBN
Germany's Monster Ocean Racer
Successfully Doeked
Her Passengers.

With flags flying and her decks swarm
ing with passengers, the big record
smasher, Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, of
the North German Lloyd fleet. steamed up
to her pier at Hoboken this morning.
She had made her maiden trip from
Southampton in 5 days, % hours and 10
minutes, breaking the former record held
by the st. Paul of the American Line,
which was 6 lays and 81 minutes. She
has also defeated all maiden records on
any route In the world. and she is the
largest vessel a1oat. The once famous
Cunarders, Campania and Lucania, are
now back numbers IN the seas of COM
merce.
The gigantic German Liner covered
$3.50 knots at an average hourly speed
of p. 80 knots. On one day she made an
average of nearly % knots. and her build
ers, the Vulcan S~hipbuilding Company of
Stettin. are confident that she can main
tain this average during g whole voy-
age. Her run on Saturday was 54 knots.
which exceeds by two knots the best
westward daily run of the Cunarder Lu-
cania- 1t is expected that she will reduce
the time from Southampton to five days
and a half. She developed 10000 horse
power on the trip and consumed 500 tons
Of coal daily.
The Kaiser Wilhelm crossed he bar at
nine o'clock last night, but was blige
to remain at anchor until this morning
before she could come up to her dock.
AS she steamed up the river shortly be-
fore eight o'clock, a crowd gathered on
the dock to get a glance at her and to
greet the arrival Of their friends who
were on board. AS she approached the
pier she looked like an immense floating
palace. The numerous tugboats that
fitted about her were like bees around
a hive. 1t took an hour for the tugs to
push the stern of the big mass around
SO that she could slip into her dock, and
even after she had been pushed In the
full length of the pier her stern extended
about twenty-five feet beyond the bulk
head. A corps of customs inspectors were
on the dock to examine the baggage OF
the passengers. There were a number
OF wealthy persons on the list and the
receipts were unusually large.
Among the passengers Were:-H1S High
ness Prince Brancaccio, Prince Marco An
tonic B~rancaccio, Consul enera Feigel
Of Leipzig. Theodore H. Hayemeyer, II,
rector Herman Schumm. and Mr.. and
Mrs. Adolph Billhardt, late United States
Consul at Moscow, Russia, ana their two
daughters.
The Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse is Gas
feet long, or 81 feet shorter than the
Great Eastern, and she measures 1900
tons gross. The Great Eastern was only
a single screw and she made a freighter's
time OF twelve knots. hat the German
flyer will make more han % knots is not
doubted by her owners, who say that her
possibilities are not yet known.
Within a year, the White Star liner
Oceanic will be launched. She will be
longer even than the Great Eastern and
wilt measure 1900 tons.
The Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse is the
only liner with four tunnels that has ever
visited this port. Her dimensions are:-
Length over all GAS feet, beam 66 feet.
depth 43 feet, tonnage 1900, and dis
placement 10000 tons. She has bilge
keels or both sides of her hull, by which
her tendency to roll is checked. The vio-
lent vibrations so often created by great
engine power on ocean Gamer will not
be felt on her. as the engines are balance
by the SchIick system, by which the up
and down motion of the ponderous masses
is compensated. and the heaying motion
of the engines SO disagreeable to passen-
gers and Injurious to the vessel herself
will be avoided