The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-18
STEAMER ST, LOUIS
 L|NPS INTO PORT Was Crippled from Start and
 Passengers Were Angry COULDN'T GET UP STEAM Passengers Get Up Resolutions Con- demnine the Management for Re-
 ceNing Them on the Trip, Know
 ing Her Crippled Condition.
COULDN'T GET UP STEAM

New York, January 17.-Hailed with cheers from a vast crowd tsat thronged the wharf of the American line, the steamship St Louis, six days overdue, was hauled into her berth today. While her detention was in part due to tempes- tuous weather it was in the main at tributable to the fact that the defective condition of her boilers admitted of main tainfng only a low Tate of speed under favorable conditions. The voyage from Chorbourg to the Sandy Hook llghtshlp. consumed thirteen days, four hours and twenty minutes which was six days ff- teen hours and twenty-five minutes more than the ships best time.
 According to statements of passengers, only two of the ten boilers were availa- ble when the voyage began and at times only one of these was in use.
 Four men were scalded by escaping steam during the voyage, but apart from this no accident occurred, and at no time was the safety of the vessel great ly imperiled.
 Went We'll for a While.
 For the first three days fair progress was made, but on January difficulty with the boilers increased and on the following day when the condition or the boilers became known among the passen- gers much alarm and indignation were expressed and meetings were held In the saloon in the second cabin, at which resolutions were adopted severely censur- ing the company for permitting passen- gers to embark on steamer in the crip- pled condition in which the St Louis proved to be. These were embodied Tn a statement drawn up by a committee of
 ,i.., m n11hllH the arrival of the ship.
 So great was the anxiety of the pas sengers when the vessel had been out about week that petition was aa- dressed to Captain Basso@ requesting him either to head for Halifax or trans fer the passengers to the first west-bound steamer that passed. Either of the corirsesi were declared in the judgment of the captain, to be too hazardous. To- wards the end of the voyage the discom- fort of the passengers was materially in- creased by a scarcity of provisions and of water.
 Made Garrison Finish.
 After reporting her arrival off Nantuck- ct last night the St. Louis made some what better time, and came into port sev- eral hours ahead of the time when she was expect ed. On her way up the bay the St Louis was saluted with whistles from all passing craft and as 1t approached it's dock the cheering on the wharf was an- swered by her passengers. who thronged the rails waiving hats and handkerchiefs
 As soon as the ship was made fast and the passengers began to rush ashore, guards were placed at all the gangways and no one was permitted to go aboard. nor was any of the officers and crew per- mitted to leave the ship. A few minutes sufficed for the first and second-class passengers to cross the gang plank to the upper deck of the wharf, where they were surrounded by rejoicing relatives. On the lower deck of the wharf similar scenes were enacted among the steerage passengers. who. however. were soon com pelled to part from their friends m or der to go to the immigration depot at Ellis Island