The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1902-02-13
KAISER'S YACHT
REACHES OUR SHORES

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hour before by the United States battle
ship Illinois, which came up from Hamp-
| ton Roads TO serve as the flagship of
Rear Admiral Robley d. Evans, who is
to be the special naval escort of Prince
| Henry of Prussia when the prince reaches
| here
| Some curiosity existed as to what the
| yacht would do in the way of saluting
as she passed the forts. AS matter of
fact. she did nothing. She neither fired
a gun nor dipped a flag. and the marine
/ shaIps knew that although the vessel flew
| the flag of the German navy, she entered
| this port as yacht, and yachts do not
| salute forts.
Many Small Boats.
| So many small boats were outraged
| from the Hohenzollern's davits on the
| port side that the Quarantine boat, Gov
ernor Flower could not get near enough
| to permit Health officer Doty to be
hauled aboard without breeches buoy
! DR.. Doty found no sickness aboard, and
! the vessel proceeded up the bay. The
| yacht moved carefully up the harbor, pay
! ing no attention to the occasional salutes
! by whistle from harbor craft which she
! passed
AT ~ p m Sllt IedNiitu ii punt III the
! North River opposite Second Street. Ho-
| boken. and was making for the North
t German Lloyd pier when she was hailed
| by the tug Castor. aboard of which was
/ Mr.. George Platt president of the North
/ German Lloyd Line; Mr.. H. Wiegand the
! line director general, and Mr. Gustav H.
! Schwab, called out that the Hnhenzollern
! had arrived so much earlier than expected
that berth would have to be cleared for
her.
Way Soon Cleared.
! Therefore she had better anchor in the
river for time. This the yacht did and
at once there was a mighty hustle to get
several lighters out of the berth on the
south side of Pier g. in little less
than two hours the way was cleared. and
| the yacht was warped in and made fast
at the pier.
In the meantime the sub committee of
| the mayors committee on reception to
| Prince Henry had joined Mr.. Schwab and
| the officers of the North German Lloyd
Line, who from the Castor had boarded
the lines steamer which lay on the OPP
! posite side of the pier to the imperial
| yacht
| AS soon as the gangway had been run
| up from the pier to the yachts deck the
members of the subcommittee boarded
| her to pay the mayors respects 10 Ad-
mirai Won Baudissin. and tell hin the
mayor was glad to know that ne had
! arrived.
To Pay Official Call.
When the committee came ashore Mr..
| Reynolds said that the mayors respects
would be returned in person by Admiral
Won Baudissin, probably tomorrow. While
! the committee was still aboard Capt
! Clifford II. West, aide to Rear Admiral
| Barker, cOmmandant of the BROOKLYN
| navy yard, boarded the yacht from the
| navy yard tug Narkeeta to pay Admiral
| Barker's respects to the German admiral
| and to arrange for the latter's visit to
| the Brooklyn navy yard, and moment
later an aide to Major General Brooke,
| commanding the Department of the East
came along to tell the German admiral
| that the United States army was just as
| glad to see him as the United States
| navy; also, that General Brooke would
| be glad to see the admiral at Governors
| Island
When the official visits had been paid.
| Mr.. Schwab walked down the gangway
| and announced that the German admiral
would be pleased 10 have the reporters
pay their respects.
| A squad of representatives of the
| press, some with camera accomplishments,
| had been waiting about three hours for
tHdt invitation. Inc herman admiral re-
! ceived them in the stewards cabin. The
| admiral was in undress uniform. He ap-
peared to be about fifty years old, with
| bronZed face deep blue eyes, light hair
mustache. and chin whiskers. The ad-
miral, who speaks English, said:
Gentlemen, | am very pleased to see
the representatives Of the press of so
great and fine a city as New York. We
had very pleasant voyage. But you
want some notes. | suppose of what l
| have to say. Yes? Well: / have prepared
some and here they are"
Thereupon the admiral pointed to a
stack of envelopes photograph size, one
| of which he opened, and from it took a
printed description and history of the
vessel he commands a photograph of her
| and Il photograph Of the Emperor and his
suite and the Empress, taken aboard the
yacht.
These. / think" added the admiral,
will give you all the information you
want. l am very glad to be in New
York"
The admiral was told that he had ar
rived about three days sooner than was
expected, and that he was very likely to
become famous in this country for
promptness as Admiral Dewey.
Says Dewey Is Great.
"Ah," exclaimed the admiral, Il could
not hope to be so famous as your great
Dewey in anything. He is one of the
greatest, if not the greatest, of the
worlds naval commanders"
Just then Capt. George \. Converse. of
the Illinois, called, and in order to have
a talk with his latest visitor the admiral
turned the scribes over to Lieutenant Re-
bensburg, who described the trip. An
aide took the newspaper men through the
yacht.
She is finished in oak satin wood, and
maple, the latter, so the aide said, hay
ing been obtained in the United States.
In the lounging room OF the Emperor's
suite are to be found an organ and baby
grand piano, both of which were bought
in the United States.
In the Emperors bedroom are two pho
tographs, one OF the Empress and the
other of beautiful young woman with
BABY in her arms. The aide said the lat
ter was a photograph of the Princess of
Pless.