The sun., 1907-08-14
Big NEW BREMEN FLYER In
GROWN PRINCESS SHE'S NAMED
FOR SENDS WIRELESS GODsPEED

spcs . sister Co the Kaiser Wilhelm n. and
Promises TO he Faster An Angry
woman Meets Her Husband and AM
other on the PIER and PIies q Parasoi.
The new North German Lloyd liner
Kronprinzessin Cecilie the first actually
feminine ship that the veteran commodore,
Capt. Hogemann. ever commanded, arrived
last evening from Bremen. Southampton
and Cherbourg. after one OF the swiftest
and serenest trips on record. She didn't
break any records. except In vibration.
Nobody had any trouble eating all tho
meals furnished on the unusual plan advo-
Gated by Chief Steward A. Rabien Of eat
when you feel like It," That was feature
of the trip. Nobody was forced TO go to
the table II he felt bit squesmish.
The big ship is a sister Of the Kaiser
Wilhelm H.. which holds the speed record
across the Atlantic. but she has a bit more
engine power and a few mechanical inn
provements. including propeller pitch.
which, her commander and her chief en-
gineer say. will make her the swiftest liner
afioat equipped with reciprocating engines
She was handicapped by bad coal and in
experienced stokers on her maiden trip.
but she averaged the very respectable
speed Of 2i.si knots over a course Of 3,iiS
miles. and her time was days % hours and
45 minutes from Cherbourg breakwater.
The first North German Lloyd wireless
paper was published aboard the new flyer
on Thursday. In it appeared this message.
from Heiligendamm. on the Baltic:
My constant thoughts and my heartiest
wishes abide with you to-day in the hope
that the beautiful ship which bears my name
will have . most successful and pleasant
maiden voyage CEcILIE.
Crown Princess.
In answer to this Capt. Hogemann sent:
Will your Imperial Highness eraciously
allow me most devotedly and loyalty TO re-
turn to you my hearty thanks for the cordially
good wishes you have expressed at the de-
parture on her first voyage of the beautiful
ship which you have honored by the bestowal
of your name
The Kronprin zessin." Capt. Hogemann
said last night, lis doubtless the swiftest
vessel Of her kind in commission. feel
sure she will come pretty close to averaging
TO Sandy Hook hghtship, thus clipping a
few off the record between those points.
We made no effort to speed her this time.
We just wanted to get 6mbered up
Among the kronprinzessins passengers
was Charles nj. Muoknio. manager of the
foreign department Of the American Loco
motive Company. who has been five months
abroad. chiefly in China. japan and Russia,
inducing the Far East 20 buy the gian,
machines Of his employers. He sold 1888
locomotives of the \ wheeled Pacific type
in Japan alone. He said the talk Of war
between America and Japan was nom
sensical. IL had been bred and fostered
by the yellow press Of Japan and America
and the intellectual Japanese looked upon
it just as the same class Of Americans do.
There was a diversion on the North Ger
man Lloyd pier after the last two passen-
gers landed. They were on the saloon
list as Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Asam. and according
70 their declarations they were bound for
Philadelphia. As they stepped OIL the
gangplank to the pier middle aged womau
advanced toward the young woman who
accompanied Asam and said things to her
in German. finally whacking her with
parasol.
Mr.. Asam got out of the battle formation
instantly. The elderly woman proclaimed
that she was the only genuine Mrs. Asam
and again tackled the young woman, this
time with bare hands She was dragged
away by customs inspectors and men Of
the Kronprinzessin. She became hysteri
cal and the other Asams got away. After
becoming coherent again the elderly woman
said her attorney had advised her to meet
her husband at the pier and make sure that
he was with somebody who wasn't his
wife She said she had been unable to
control herself after seeing MIR. Asam with
the young woman.
Tim Donahue. chief OF the customs
sleuths. -frisked" first cabin passenger
whom he suspected of having things about
him that he should have declared before
leaving the ship. IL was said that the
passenger is the president of a bank in
Cincinnati. The passenger had only abous
$500 worth OF dutisble jewelry. including
several diamond and opal rings and gold
watch. He gave up the jewelry without q
NH nd ia al hal m w
redeem it. Tim said he didn't know the
bankers name.