The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-12
WIRELESS WARNS THE KAISER
SHE DROPPED RECORD MAKING
ON NEWS or ICE AHEAD.
And or q sudden Found thirty Bergs, some
OF Them Right In Her Course, and She
With 1000 Souls AbOard.-RmDerOr
NInIAm .>Inspects His Namesake.

Groomed for a record run the North
German Lloyd steamship Kaiser Wilhelm ii.
started dashing across the sea from Cher
bourg for this port last Wednesday. The
Emperor William himself, for whom the
mighty flyer Is named. had visited her at
Bremerhaven for the first time and had
complimented her and her commander,
Capt. Hogemann, on her superb appearance.
The captain resolved TO do a stunt In the
name OF the Kaiser and after getting into
the open the liner began to reel on the
knots as she seldom has done except when
she captured the reobrd for speed on the
Atlantic.
On Saturday the ssa, which had been
comparatively smooth, began to hump itself
bit. The ambitious greyhound leaped
through It undlsmayed. On Saturday night
she began to feel around with her wireless
TO get weather impressions Of liners going
east Capt. Hogemnnn knew that the White
Star steamship Teutonic, bound from New
York for Liverpool, ought to be in his
neighborhood and he found her Just before
midnight. She told him that che had passed
nine large ioebergs. That did not disturb
him much, as he was not travelling on the
eastbound track.
But when the Teutonio reported that she
had had a chat with the Cunarder Caronia,
which arrived here on Sunday. and that
she had found thirty big and little bergs
in her course, Capt Hogemann decided 70
give up the idea Of making a record. The
Caronia had doubtless gone over the same
track that Capt H0Remanu was covering,
and he thought OF the safety Of the ? OOO
souls aboard. He knew that the En-
peror would not care German bad word
about a record that involved the safety Of
passengers, and began to reduce speed
Early on Sunday morning the ship was
in a swirling fog. The temperature Of the
sea fell IS degrees, and Capt. Hogemanu
doubled his lookouts and signAlled quarter
speed to the impatient engineer. For
hours she loafed along like a mere tramp,
with whistles giving hoarse warnings to
any craft that might be in her way.
The mist curtain was rung up by fine
sun at noon and disclosed the biggest and
finest collection OF icebergs the commander
ever had seen. Some we're so close to the
ship that it was necessary to alter her
course several times to avoid collision with
their submerged bulk, hidden under water.
Hundreds OF passengers came out on deck
and took ia the unusual spectacle, and
everybody who had a camera got snap
shots Of the most picturesque Of the
pinnacled apparitions.
Capt HogemAnn said he had never heard
Of berRs Of such dimensions being so far
below the steamship lana. and intirnated
that the prescribed course would have to
be altered FOR a while 20 that peril to liners
might be avoided. He had no intimhtion
when he sailed from Cherbourg that chips
Of the Labrador glaciers had dTifted 80 far
to the southwark. The bergs were strewn
across the steamship lane as far as the eye
could see, north and south. He and his
officers counted thirty bergs in all. Twenty
two we're between 20 and 60 feet tall, and
eight we're between SOHnd i2Ofeet tall. There
we're also drifting about chunks Of solid ice
broken from the bergs and big enough to
imperil the safety Of a liner that ran into
them at full speed. Capt. H6gemann said
he was glad that the Teutonic had sent him
wireless warning otherwise he might not
have proceeded with the caution that he
exercised.
Every officer and sailor aboard the Kaiser
talked all the way across the sea Of the visit
Of the Emperor to the ship while she was in
Bremerhaven preparing to leave for New
York. He happened TO be there in the
imperial yacht He and his stan surprised
Capt. HGgemAnn by a visit which was not
on the ships schedule. The officers say
the Emperor Ia the most democratic ruler
that ever happened, He went all over
the liner, from stokehold 10 bridge, evinc-
ing an eager and intelligent interest in
everything. The submarine bell with which
the steamship Is equipped was explained
to him. He was told that a similar bell
Is attached to the Sandy Hook lightship
and that the liner, in time Of fog, could
find out how close she might be to a bell
equipped station by underwater telegraphy
The Emperor said he thought that the
German lightships ought to have similar
bells. He was told that steps were being
taken to accomplish this. This was on
the Emperor, but he received il with a smile.
Capt. Hogemann showed his sovereign
how to close all the twenty-eight bulkhead
doors below the water line OF the ship In
twenty-five seconds by merely touching
a button on the bridge, and the Emperor
remarked with a smile: Itch bin Eanz
nit hochst Meiner selben NIfrieden." mean
ing. as 1t vas expressed in English by an
offlcer, Il am quite satisfied with myself"
The ofioer, who reads the Fheoends BldHsr,
asked the reporters to please remember
that the Emperor was getting OF a joke
and that he did not mean himself, actually
hut bis nAmesake, the ship.
The Emperor left the ship in a hurry.
When he reached the end Of the ganRway
he stopped and started back again He
had forgotten TO give the captain good-by
and wish him a swift and pleasant voyage.
He did this, and went back 10 his yacht.
He did not neglect TO write his autograph
in the captains album, also on the back OF
a picture Of the German Emperor that the
captain has on the wall Of his cabin.
Il would have made that record" the
captain said, IL II had not been for ice and
fog
Among tho Kaisor's passengers were:
]. W. Appleton, George n. Binney. Prin-
cesse di Sdgliano Colonna, Robert Iyos
CANNED, Ms. J. w, Mackay, II. d. Rich
ardson, =. Taeliavia Tanini, Count Raoul
dAdhemar, Franz Bartholomay, Chester
W. Bliss, Samuel 2. Brown. Henry Ben
necKe, II. p. Dodge, William II. Erhart,
Arthur Giesler, A. A. Larocque. P. r. Muir
phy, Walter O. Morse, 8. Newhouse Mis-