The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-04
GREAT DAY or HOMECOMERS
CABINS OF FIVE LINERS TIRE OUT
THE CUSTOMS OFFICERS.
Ksiserin Augustc Wet oria Bears Scarcely .
Mark Of the VILE de DaJon's Bewsprtt.
which VOL One Side Of the BIg ship
while the Other Side Slept on.

While tho Other Side Slept on.
The Hamburg-American liner Kaiseirn
Auguste Victoria, bearing mere catlike
scratches as the result of her encounter at
theb beginning of her voyage with the French
bark Vile de Dion related by cable last
week. got into Quarantine yesterday after
noon with the largest aggregation OF pas
sengers in cabin and steerage hat has
entered port since the beginning of the
season. Her whole ships company con-
sisted OF s.Os4 persons. including ISL saloon,
200 second cabin, 223 third cabin and l.s22
Storage passengers.
1t was near midnight before an unusually
large customs force under Col. Bishop.
Deputy Collector, had passed the baggage
OF the throng. Col. Bishop thought that
the cabin arrivals for the day had broken
records, but he could not say for certain.
His men, who had passed six ships. in
Guiding the Baltic. the Campania, Ia Lor-
raine and the Graf Waldersee, were played
out. Altogether more than 100 cabin
passengers had been landed when the
lonesome last one left the pier OF the kaiserin
Auguste Victoria.
The pier il one of the longest, widest
and solidest in the world, but it was pretty
well taxed by the invasion from the floating
city and the baggage Of its citizens. There
wa much hubub but no confusion and the
s4l cabin passengers with 5000 or more
pieces Of baggage all got swav without
mishap.
Naturally the talk Of the ship was the
collision with the French bark. Folks
board the kaiserin did not now the name
OF the bark ~ was supposed by Capt.
Ruser and his officers to nave been a
schooner-unti a wireless from Assistant
General Manager Meyer OF this city told
them.
Only about $50 passengers were awakened
by the bark when she smashed her jibboom
and bowspri. to splinters oil the high and
tough steel plates Of the liner on the star
board side aft. These happened to be sleep
ing near the place where the jibboom hit
and where later the yardarm ends Of the
bark scraped. They came out Of their
rooms in night clothes-it was just after
midnight-ahd were much disturbed. On
the port side Of the ship, wider than the
ordinary street, passengers slept, serenely
unconscious. 1t was not until breakfast
time. when h port side sw apped senti-
ments with the starboard. that all tho ship
knew q sailing ship had hit them. Such
10 the bigness OF q modern liner.
The kaiserin was four hours out OF Cher
borIg in Cimmerian fog, going, slow-ac-
cane. The foghorn OF the bark was heard
indistinctly and the liner came almost to
a stsndstill. Magician Kellar was among
the passengers on the starboard side and
he was one OF the first on deck. He con-
fessed his inability to draw sailing vessels
out of fogs away from the paths OF liners.
He said also that he had been wrecked
once-in the Bay Of Biscsy and had been
nervous ever since. The scare was over
in a few minutes INT the Kaiserin then went
cropping after the bark to help her. but
couldn't find her.
Some passengers by the Kaiserin were
Robert Edeson, the actor. who says it 10
true hat he y going to marry Ethel Lovey.
who was a fellow passenger August Shoan.
Chancellor to the King Of Sweden, here
to pave the WI a for the visit Of Prince Will
am Of Sweden; Mr.. and Mrs. CIaus Spreck-
els, DIR. Hugh Pitcairn, American Consul
General at Hamburg; DR.. Leonhard Of the
German Department Of Justice; Count
Won Lynar of the German Embassy at Waah-
ington, j.. c. Van Cleaf OF the National Park
Bank, Maurice Untermyer. Charles May
Oelrohs. DIR. n Mrs. Calvin Thayer Adams.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt and her children,
Percy @. Williams. Walter Chanler. Jr.,
and II. G. Norfieet.
Maurice Untermyer has been at Carlsbad
taking the waters. He said he met there
James A. O'Gorman, John r. Carroll. Sam
Judge Newburger and that they formed
the Little Tammany Hall Society Of Carls-
bad. All hands were taking the waters
on the side. Mr.. Untermyer says that
prices at Carlsbad are preposterous and
that the new Tammany organization is
going to get up a stock company and build
a hotel there exclusively for Americans.