The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-10
CROSSED ATLANTIC 6Ot TIMES,
CELEBRATION on TIE KAISER
ron ENGINEER BAUM.

He's the Dean OF Al the North Atlantic
Reamen--Made HE First Trip Over
IN ISdI-Cams 10 the Hansa and Took
Is Days-Made side Trips 20 China.
Radiant with swapping bunting. the
North German Lloyd crack. Kaiser Wilhelm
H.. from Bremen, came gaily into Port
yesterday afternoon. Some folks thought
that II was the hundrsdth anniversary Of the
death Of SCI iller that inspired the jutila
OF the hags. but il wasn't Chief Engineer
Carl Baum, who has Travelled more miles
afoat than any officer on any liner in the
world. was icing honoTed by his shiPmates
and his line on the completion Of his oOoth
round trip across the Atlantic.
It was really the beginning Of his 3olst
az he sailed originally from Bremen, but
odd numbers, although they may be lucky
do not look we'll in the form Of incandescent
bulbs over a cabin door, Chief Engineer
Baum is modest, and probably would not
have permitted the electrician to put up
the uumt ers Il he had caught him. 1t
WIS done, however, on the chiefs watch
below" and, as II was under orders Of
Capt Hogemann, the chief would have
had TO submit 10 1t, anyhow.
II was forty years ago that Carl Baum
went as an assistant engineer aboard one
of the four single screw steamships that
made up the North German Lloyd feet. He
had been graduated from a technical school
and had spent several years in a machine
shop. His first trip across the Atlantic
was in the CID iron. hfteen day when she
was lucky steamship Hansa built in Scot
land in isi. Since then the Germans have
hunt their own ships. and now have the
EWlftest merchantmen on the seas.
He made thirty-one round trips in the
Hansa and then went 20 the New York.
Then he became chief engineer Of the Nec-
kar He saw the power Of the lines feet
gradually grow 70 200 steel ships. After
leaving the NeckaT he took charge Of the
engine room Of the Elba, in which lie made
eleven round trips. Then, SUCCESSFULLY, he
was chef engineer Of the Fulda, the Elder
twin screw the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse
and finally the Kaiser Wilhelm II.
He saw the record between ports cut down
from fifteen to less than Elk days and the
stokeholds Of the liners made tit for human
beings to work in without endangering IN ir
health From burning few hundred tons
OF coal on a voyage, he became accustomed
TO burning about $50 a day and nerating a
power that drove the ship, when the engines
were doing their best, at a speed sometimes
in excess Of twenty-four knots.
Bremen Is now only seven days away
from New York, and the chief says when he
gives his wife and family (seven girls and a
bow good by, II seems TO him as II he we're
Just going across the Hoboken ferry to New
| York In the old da 8 he was sometimes
nearly two months away from home.
Incidental to his trips between New York
and Bremen he has made runs between
China and Bremen. between New Orleans
and his home port and between Havana
and Bremen, He has Travelled in all the
forty years Of his life afoat 2,3i6, S32 miles.
II he had been the engineer OF an aerial
line between the earth and the moon he
would have made the round trip about
five times. Never in his career has he had
a single accident in his engine room.
When he was in the Kaiser Wilhelm der
/ Crosse al the Hoboken pier fire, with some
help from tugs he ran the big ship out
stream from the fame zone, scorching her
sides somewhat.
Mr.. Baum was bonn in Lamsdorf, Bavaria
! As years ago. He Is fine sTecimen OF a
/ Teuton His grizzled whiskers and still
abundant gray hair were once blond. He
| l. big chested and has a true seaman's voice
] that might be heard even above the roal
/ the Kaiser's mighty envines.
/ On this last trip the Kaiser covered 3,l7'
/ miles at the rate Of 224s knots. Among
her Passengers we're Albert c. Bostwick
I Harry Lehr, Francis VI. Racon, Jr., Gen
Walter c. Stokes. John Sloane. Capt. Ed
ward c. Brooks, L. S. A.: Frank {. BostocE
the animal man Count Albert Oberndortt
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles 7. Yerkes, E.W. Chand
1 ler. Capt. @. T. Scott, +. p. Dunno anc
/ Walter Damrosch.