The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-04-08
All Removed Safely to tho
Prinz Friedrich wilhelm
by NightfaIl.
ANCHOR HERE At MIDNIGHT
,,72o Persons Transferred InF|vs
Hours and Ten Minutes
Irene Hard Fast

All VI 'hS pt.ss'Hb III cI tfl'- fTiHAS0
1rene-l ,720 mon. women and children
were on board the Prinz Friedrich wilhelm
by O'Clock last night At siO the res.
cuing ship started for Hoboken. She
passed Quarantine at 1872? A. NJ and
had wireless orders to anchor Of the
Statue Of Liberty and to doce in Hoboken
at q A. NJ
Tugs adventuring into the shallow
waters to the lee Of the stranded Princes
had transshipped the passengers At Lone
Hill in exactly five hours and ten minutea
The life savers said II was a record per-
formance. 1t prompted Lieut.. Atlee. the
United States inspector in charge OF the
Long Island life saving district. to tele.
phone congratulations to every man who
had hand in the job.
From the rail of the big Prinz the cabin
and steersge passengers waved farewell
az they sailed away to the ship that had
kept them rather pleasantly imprisoned
for thirty-eight hours. They were going
to New York and solid footing. but they
knew there WAS no likelihoodfor the Prin.
zess to follow them very soon. The surf
men and the wreckers, observing that the
Princess had imbedded herself further
and further in the soft sands Of Lone
Hill bar, figured that it wouldn't be possible
to haul her of inside Of week II might,
they thought. take much longer.
Late last night it was reported to TIM
Sun that the Princess was still stanoh
and watertight and that there was no
likelihood Of her plates weakening under
the incessant worrying Of the waves. Her
keel was buried full six feet in the sand.
She swung little to the right or tho
left. but the movement. so the surfmen
thought. was no great strain on her plates
Capt. Frederic Won Letten Petersen,
his officers and his crew-3sO all told
stayed aboard. ready to help the Govern
ment boats and the Merritt 4 Chapman
tugs in an attempt to haul her on at high
! water this morning. They were COM
Portable and in no danger. SO Capt. God.
dard of the Lone Hill life saving station
reported. But In case it blew up stormy
Goddard carried an inch line ashore
from the Prinzess's bow OF course the
cutter Mohawk. the derelct destroyer
Seneca and the tugs kept close by.
| Very early yesterday morning. just be-
fore high water came to Lone Hill bar, at
A. NJ. Capt Petersen thought there waA
good chance to slide off the bar and head
in for New York. The Government
boats pulled and the tugs strained at thick
wire hawsers. but 1t was of no use. All
their best efforts could do was to slew the
Princess Ground some fourteen degrees,
pivoting the big steamer on her own bow,
which was ram,ned hard in the sand
In the work of the very early morning
the passengers took keen interest. They
thought at first that their stay at Lone Hin
would be limited indeed. but when the
officers reported there was no chance OF
leaving that part of Long Island they
didn't get gloomy. Not a bit of II. The
first cabin made up bridge parties and
squabbled merrily over no trump makea
on spade hands. The band came on deck
and played lively airs in the clear night
Forward. where more than I, 400 Italians
were crowded, there was a tinkle OF guitars
and pleasant sound Of women's voices.
1t was Ed Baker, coming back to the damp
bar late in the morning. who told to Q
cluster of surfmen around the brush fire
how the first cabin passengers finally
left their bridge tables to crowd forward
and give ear to the Italians singing Grand
opera pieces.
Young Baker. with his boss. Cap'n
Goddard, picked up through the night
aboard the Princess something OF the
story Of what had happened when the
whole ship felt dull shock at o'clock
on Thursday morning. The strandine
was 80 surprising to the ships officers
that for few moments they were dunn.
founded. But discipline counted. They
do things on the big liners pretty much
as things are done in the navies. From
the steerage rose a jabbering. The folks
from Palermo thought OF their saints
and called upon them. There were a few
men who acted foolishly In the first scare
and ran around clutohing at one another.
Some women screamed All OF this was
only temporary. 1t required just q few
words from Peterssens stalwart subordi.
mates to calm the steerage folk
The young officers went here and there
in the crowds, patting women on the
shoulder. yanking a man or two back
to where he belonged and telling every
body that nothing much had happened
So inside of an hour from the time the
Princess butted into North America tho
ship was quiet and orderly and there
we're few sounds floating through the log
save the murmurs frorr the steeraEe.
The first cabin passenger didE't need
to he reassured Many Of them had
crossed the Atlantic before and took
pride in behaving sensibly. Many OF ths
men went to Capt. Petersen and volun.
teered to go among the steerage pas
seneers and help keep the people there
quiet. A 1t happened their ssrvlc6A
weren't needed, but it made Petersen
think very well indeed Of the folk In thS
first cabin.
OF course none Of the usual prsoautionA
were neglected when the ship groundeA
The lights were not disturbed-the sAoek