New-York tribune., 1905-11-13
HAPPY ON STUCK LINER.
MAY GET AWAY TO-D4Y.
Graf Waldersee Passengers ShO5c
No Signs of Distress.

The philosophy of the man from Archey Road
prevailed aboard the Graf Waldersee yesterday
1t lay its full length in two feet of mud en-
the Red Hook Flats off 39th-st.. Brooklyn The
big liner may get oIt the high tide early this
morning. but if it doesn't it's 800 odd passengers
declare they're content
Baron Otto Won Etzel military attacfie of
the German embassy. who is a first cabin pas
senger. said he did not know a great deal about
the Dooley brand of philosophy. ''but we Ger
mans always like to view the when it's Just
about to rise, and if it doesn't rise. well, we wait
until it does. 1t always does some time. So here,
if we get out tomorrow. all right; If not, We'll
we'll surely get out some time.
why don't you go bacS to tcxn?" someone
asked another cabin passenger
why should II" the response. This is
as good as any hotel We're having the time
Of our lives here"
the first and second cabin passengers played
shuttle board, sang and told yarns. Captain c.
Krech announced that arrangements would be
made at the hotels for the passengers If they
wished to return to the city until the big liner
got af1oat again. but not one of the passengers
took advantage of the offer. One passenger
got off to go IN the Baltic
"If II weren't that 1 have to be abroad at
certain date I should enjoy the whole thing
immensely. 1 met such rafting good
story telers. especially among the gentlemen
Tell you one? Well just ask someone else who
laughed as heartily as 1 did,
There was a sacred concert on board ship
yesterday afternoon and after that various in
teresting games were played. In the evening
hundreds of persons gathered on the Brooklyn
shore, attracted by the echoes of some German
air Not the least among the jolly hrst caplh
passengers c. Rump. customs inspector
for the Chinese government at Tientsin Mr.
Rump Baron Won Etzel and a score of others
rivalIed one another in designing some new
thing to while away the time.
There are two hundred and ninety steerage
passengers. and up to an early hour there had
been no suicides, and the reports from the hos
pital were that the patients the happiest
The concertina and other musical instruments
kept the steerage in a continual whirl of ex-
element
The officers of the vessel stole nap for an
hour or so yesterday, but were astir early ar
ranging to get out. if possible, on the f1oodtide
this morning. The ships crew began early yes
terday morning to unload three thousand TONS
of the ships fourteen thousand tons OF cargo
which will make her considerably lighter and
he a great help when the foodtide in.
Every seventy-five tons removed raises the YES
sci an inch when she is afioat. The cargo is
being piled into lighters, barges and scows. and
some of it into the steamship Venetia, which is
r,,lled alongside of the Graf Waldersee She is
living a little more than half a mile from tne
Brooklyn shore. and the captain said that II
She could move lust six hundred feet west she
cou1d float Shortly after 8 o'clock yesterday
afternoon the big liner rolled on the port slde'
then reversed and seemed to move
There she goes. There she goes! went up
from the steerage and the cabin passengers
dropped the shuttle to join in the cry. But sne
didn't move. Since she went aground carry
Cot r5aIy
made to float her. but she was stuck TOO iaSt
to rise with anything smaller than hoodtlde'
Emil Boas and other officials OF the HamOurs-
American Line visited the vessel for an hour or