The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-12
PONCE RIDES SAFELY
 IN BERMUDA HARBOR
PICKED UP AND TONED IN BY GERMAN STEAMER
 RICEMERS.

Cablegrnm Received From Captain Harvey of tine Disabled Ship--AlI WelI-Ponc@ Broke Her Shaft in Stern Tube on December 30 and FIOated at the Mercy of the Sea Until | January S--Only Two Days From New York When Accident Happened. New York, Jan. 1.-The steamship 1 Ponce, disabled but safe, is riding at anchor in St. Georges bay, the Der mudas, tonight, and her crew of fifty two and seven passengers are "all well"
 This assurance was received direct from Captain W. A. Harvey by the owners, the New York and Porto Rico company, this evening. Today's cable reported that the long overdue steamer had reached the fortified harbor in tow of the German steamer Elizabeth Rick mers, but message from the master himself had been eagerly awaited by General Manager Mooney of the line, and still more anxiously by the cap tain's wife in Brooklyn.
 MT. Mooney stated tonight that representative of the company would sail on the steamer Bermudian for Ber- muda tomorrow morning, furnish bonds for the indemnity of the Eliza beth Rickmers, and immediately after arrange for a tow to bring the Ponce to New York. The passengers will be offered the option of coming to New York on the Ponce or taking passage on the next Quebec Steamship compa- nys steamer leaving the islands for New York.
 The Ponce, 1t appears, was but two days out of New York when her ma chinery was disabled She sailed from Ponce, Porto Rico, December 26, and on December 30 broke the shaft in the stern tube. Roughly estimated the ves- sel was then $50 mles from this port, which ordinarily she should have made on New Years day. Helpless, the Ponce drifted for ten days, her signals of distress being picked up by the Ger man steamer on January g. The Rick mers, Captain Walsen, had sailed two days earlier from Philadelphia for Ma gasaki and Shinoneseki.
 Captain Harvey's cablegram follows:
 "St. George, Jan. il. "Ponce broke her shaft in stern tube on December 30, and was picked up on the Sth January by the German steamer Elizabeth Rickmers, and lowed into Bermuda; all well.
 Harvey" The office of the owners remained open late tonight, and General Man ager Mooney was as busy exchanging congratulations with friends of those abroad the Ponce as he had been fol a week answering queries as to thu steamers probable fate.
 Hamilton, Bermuda, Jan. 11.-At o'clock in the afternoon of Decembe 30 the tail end of the shaft of tn Ponce broke and she drifted at tn mercy of the wind and current unti the night of January ', when she wa sighted by the German steamer Eliza beth Rickmers, Captain Walsen fror Philadelphia for Japan. At 6:3O p. IT the Ponce sent up a rocket and fe' minutes later the German vessel alter ed her course and headed for the dis abled steamer. The Rickmers reache the Ponce at [ D. rl., but as the nigh was dark and the weather stormy Cap tain Walsen decided to stand by tn Ponce until daylight. At o'clock the morning of January 8 the Rickme1 got two hawsers on board the Ponc and soon afterwards began to tow he towards Bermuda.
 The two steamers were then 395 mile from Bermuda. The tow proved to a heavy strain. During the night the 9th both hawsers parted in heaV gale and the Rickmers hove-to the re of the night. On the morning of u 10th the German steamer sent two ne lines on board the Ponce, which we got ready for towing, and both vesse anchored off Bermuda at Ii o'clock tn morning.
 Barring the discomfit and anxiet the passengers suffered no inconvei fence, the food supplies being amp All the passengers express themselV as being grateful for the kindness al solicitude of the officers of the Ponce.
 The names of the passengers ar Henry w. Rogers, of Philadelphia; A Fox. of New York; A. H. Bates, washington, D. C.; J. D. Campbell, Oneida. N. Y. J. P. Kidd, of Westwoc N. J., Gregorio Santiago, of Ponce, R.. and Maria Mayoral, also of Pon' P. R.
 All the passengers of the Ponce W sail January 17 for New York on t steamer Bermudian.
 HOUSE BREAKS RECORD.