The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-04
SWIFT KAISER \ KNOTS SLOW
THE STRIkE BREAKING FIREMEN
FOUND JOB a TOUGH ONE.
.Jsv,es stiIiHtan Returns. Denying That He
VIII Make His Home I'm Paris -Ghauncey
Olcott and Augustus Thomas Aboard
-shufneboard for 81 q "A Side.

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The North German Lloyd stea mship
Kaiser Wilhelm H., crack Of the feet. fin
ished yesterday the slowest trip in her
history, Half the 800 amateur British
fremen who took the places Of German
stokers on strike had never been to sea
before, and o N the first day out thirty-fve
became so sick that they were unable to
wc-h. The chief engineer vent into the
steerage and asked for volunteers. offering
good pay. Forty strong young immi-
grants, who were glad to get the job. found
firing different from the hardest kind Of
work ashore and they gave up exhausted
after standing a few watches Of four hours
each. Then the stricken thirty-five got
better. But the best all could do was to keep
the ship averaging a fraction more than
10 knots, about four below her usual speed
in pleasant weather with trained stokers
on the job.
At Southampton there were lined up on
the pier a throng Of union men, who tried
to persuade the British stokers to desert.
Many wanted to. but there was no way
OF getting ashore except by swimming.
The lines agent thought IL was best not TO
put the Kaiser into lock at Southampton
under the circumstances. 90 all passengers
from that point were brought out in tenders.
After they had been at sea a while the new
stokers themselves threatened TO strike
because they said that three bottles OF
beer a day had been promised them, and
that instead they had got one drink Of
schnapps for each watch. The beer was
served and the stokers ceased murmuring.
James Stillman, president OF the National
City Bank, a passenger by the Kaiser,
said it was not true that he went to Paris
TO avoid appearing before the Interstate
Commerce Commission. He declared that
he did not intend to live in Paris; that he
was not going to avoid any subpenas,
and that he did not intend to resign the
presidency OF the National City Bank,
and that was all.
Other passengers by the Kaiser we're
August Spreckels, Harry Won Tilzer, the
composer; Charles Triller and Charles
Livingstone Hyde, who played a game Of
Switchboard for 81 900 a side on Monday
on the hurricane deck, Triller winning;
Chauncey Olcott. who is going to. appear
at Saratoga next season in The Irish
Cavalier" a new play by Theodore Burt
Sayre; Augustus Thomas, who will soon
begin rehearsing his new play for Dustin
Farnum, The Ranger" to open at Wallack's
in August; W. NJ. Let's Of London and
Leon Turcat of France. who are going to
establish an automobile factory here;
Clarence W. Watson of Baltimore. who
entered ten horses in tho International
Horse Show in London and captured one
championship and twenty-three prizes;
Mrs. Gustav Luders, who left her husband
recovering from rheumatism in Germany;
Gen. @. s. ~Batcheller, formerly Judge OF
the American Court OF Clnims at Cairo;
+. w. M~acmonnies, Prince Poniatowski,
George H. Perkins, Capt. Henry Leonard,
Military Attsche Of the American Legation
at Pekin; Samuel II. Valentine, William
H.. Bliss, Mrs. J. T. Burden, Mrs. Mortimer
Brooks, Isaac H. Clothier. Jr., Walter
Schade, Mrs. r. g. Dun. Prof. Bert Reese,
George A. Frisbie, Mr.. and Mrs. r. X .Cassstt,
Mrs. Henry Clews, Mrs. Herbert Parsons
and Mr.. and Mrs. cameron Waterman.