The Washington times., 1902-02-24
FIPST INTERVIEW ON BOARD.
Prince Talks With Reporters Who
Came the KrOnprinz.

Came ON the Kronprinz.
NfaW YORK, Feb 23.-That Prince
Henry knows just what to say and how
0 say it was the opinion of everybody
aboard who happened to come into per-
sonal contact with him. In his inter-
views with the American and Gerr.an
press representatives he gave an illustra-
tion of this.
4 can only thank you. gentlemen, he
added addressing the reporters as
/ body. for your courtesy to me on this
voyage. From the first day have known,
Of course. who you were, and l do not
mind telling you that had looked for
far more aggressiveness than have met
with from you.
4 Pleasing Experience.
1T affords me great pleasure to state
that my first experience with American
journalists proves that they are gentle
men. and i assure you | deeply appreci-
ate your forbearance.
This voyage has been great expert
ence to all of us. l doubt if any of the
passengers have realized what this storm
some little inconvenience to put up with
a little shaking now and then, and pos
sibly loss OF appetite occasionally you
can have no such idea of the terrible ma
ture OF the storm as We had who saw it
from the bridge.
Never Saw Such storm.
I'm my experience as sailor. which is,
as you know, considerable | have never
witnessed such a storm, and | think we
can agree that we owe much to this
good ship Kronprinz and to Captain
Richter for his skill in bringing uG
through. He is to be congratulated in
having passed everything on the road.
"One word more. in conclusion, as to
you gentlemen of the press: | must admit
that | admire the harmonious way you
seem to work together; no one of you. so
far as | have been able to learn, trying to
obtain an unfair advantage over the
others"
A Little Incident.
Your Highness forgets the Marconi
business" interrupted one of the crowd.
How is that"
You see. prince it is this way. There
is a paper which has the control of the
wireless telegraph station at Nantucket.
all his news several hours ahead OF the
rest of u.s.
But won't he give way?"
That's the trouble. or course he says ,
his editor won't hear OF such a thing and
We are wondering whether to cut the wire
or to throw him overheard"
A Kindly Suggestion.
or perhaps your Highness. having the
bn tn-i,.a
might not object to sending for each of
US a message to our paFers." suggested
another reporter.
The prince smiled good humoredly at
the prospect OF leaDing into fame as a
full blown reporter even before landing
on American soil, but he refused the bait. |
NO. l think you had better throw him |
overheard" a repetition of the famous !
handshake brought the interview to 4 /
close.
Marconi signals Received.
From O'Clock onward on Saturday !
afternoon the little cabin on the hurri- |
cane deck, where the Marconi installation |
was situated. sent out a perpetual rattle !
OF wireless signals for the Nantucket sta |
tion.
The young English operator looked wor-
ried.
i cant make it cut he said. "We |
have been receiving calls for X. p |
which is the signal for Kronprinz, for the |
past two hours, but though l answered |
them over and over again, there has been
no reply. For the last half hour they
have been silent, and l don't know what
to think
Answer Was Heard.
1t was now about 10 o'clock at night.
As it afterward developed, the answering
signals had been received at the light
ship and transmitted to New York but so
far as we on board could make out, our
wireless appeals might just as well have
been addressed to a phantom Flying
Dutchman for all the satisfaction we got
cut of it.
1t was after II o'clock when a faint tap
ping in the receiver brought the welcome
news that our signals had been answered.
The Only Message Sent.
The message from the prince to Presi-
dent Roosevelt, which had the right of way
against all others. was the only message
sent from aboard snip.
A second message. in German, addressed
to the Kaiser. was put into waves. But it
was Ii useless attempt. The answering sig
nails grew fainter and fainter and stopped
altogether. and a long press despatch
which was to have scooped all the New
York papers lay untouched on the Oper-
ator's table when morning broke.
The members If the 'cCTner club SO |