The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-04-10
viii Go to Newport News
Dry Dock After Dis
charging Cargo.
REE0FTHESANO OAT3:30P.M.
Ruddsr Stock Bent, So She 1owsd
In-Cargo In Good Condition
No Water In Her.

The liner Princess Irene. stranded on
Thursday morning on Lone Hill bar,
Fire Island. was fioated yesterday after
noon and towed up to the city. Her rud-
der stock had been bent. and although she
used her own propellers to help her OF
the bar il was deemed prudent not to
use them on the way up or until the
amount Of DETECTION OF the ridder stock
| is precisely known. She anchored OF
Scotland lightshp little before l o'clock
this morning and will be towed to her
dock as soon as the sun il up. A
diver will report on the condition
OF her propeller. and then after dis
charging cargo she will steam or be towed
to Newport News. where she will go into
dry dock. A new rudder stock is coming
| from Germany by the Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse. due here a week from Tomorrow
The little red flag on the jackstaf Of
the Princess Irene which had been call
ing keep on pulling" to the tugs that
have swarmed around the stranded
steamer came iuttering down yesterday
afternoon at half past 8 o'clock. In its
place the German ensign went gayly up.
the water under the propellers Of the
Princess began to churn furiously. the
two tugs that had been hauling at her
stern let their whistles shrek and the
Princess Irene was OF for New York.
Within half an hour there wasn't trace
of the hustle that had been going on on
there for eighty odd hours. Some two
hundred persons stood on the beach and
watched the Irene 60. They didn't cheer
when the big liner began to move. The
men filed their pipes. turned their backs
and remarked Thar she goes
A fresh southeast breeze had been
blowing on shore In the early part OF
Saturday night and those interested in
the fate Of the Irene had been praying that
It would stifien up. for they wanted good
tide. But the wind went into the north
east and picked up snowstorm some-
where. This made heavy rolling sea
in spite of the fact that the wind was on
shore. At o'clock yesterday morning
with the high tide came another attempt
on the part OF the tugs Relief and Rescue.
with the revenue cutter Mohawk standing
by, to bulge the Irene They moved tbs
stern thirty feet to seaward and brought
her more head on to the beach
The early comers in the morning saw
that the snowstorm had outlined the
upper parts Of the Irene and the attendant
tugs in white and that snow lay on their
decks couple Of inches thick, Once in
the night those who slept near the scone
Of the stranding had heard the Irene
whistle wall one long and four short
blasts. This meant by the prearrango1
code Prepare to anchor" The surfnen
: from Lone Hill, Point O. Woods and Blue
: Point had their boats on the beAch ri!
} night. The only thing they could fin
wrong when they got up yesterday mora
ing ives the fact that the line that hId
, been brought in from the liner to tn,
beach wos broken. They got tho gun
. out from Lone Hill SO as to havc il re .di
To shoot another line aboard II necessary
But it wasn't needed.
There was no lighter alongside th"os
r masted schooner was hanging Ground
, ready to relieve the Irene Of her cargo If
called uron and hung Ground all d.. hut
) was not called upon, Woll to tn" w"et Of tho
r Irene was anchored the Mohawk, with hes
, lib and staysail up to steady herself.
? for she rolls awesomely Near the No
lhawk for time was the derelict destroyer
. Seneca and four tugs. the Relief and the
Rescue and the John A. Timmins and Il 4
II. j. Merritt Before noon the Seneca
! got a wireless that somewhere out in the
Gulf Stream there IVES Il derehct TO I .
destroyed and she scuttled of to STs
= York
I Although high tide was not due again
= until O'Clock in the afternoon. tho tuGa
| began their last and successful try at tn"
e Irene about noon. The wind was still
! blowing offshore and there was hcevy
o soa.
The tug Relief had line ovcr tho
: Irene's starboard quarter to tho south
cast. At her stern too was the Rcscue,
. heading straight out to sea. Tho Irene
, had kedgcs out astern and her auxiliary
cnCin1s wore working away at tho winch"s
. Watching the performance on the bcach
+. were sIrfmen with their girls on th"r
, arms. caustic natives who had lone since
given the ship up for lost. automobiles a
: who had come from Sayville and boat
. parties that had come across tho Greal
. South Bay at considerable profit to the
\ owners Of launches.
At 2:sO r. NJ. looking across heavy
s surf they saw the Irene sway slowly end
Z solemnly from side to side and they kr Y
that something was going on in tho senc
under hcr keel. At 2:s0 tho bow OF tha
Irenc began to lift bit and the wiscacroi
said that her stern was In deeper water
n Also less OF her red underpinning showed
II At Sis the groups agreed that tho lrcn'
'. was getting into deeper water, Their
d the auxiliary engines worked the herde
10 and little black things that were the crev
"a began to hop about on deck hauling in III
Is slack Of the cables ~ the boat got undo
way. Snow huttered from her tunnels
q "a the water foamed under her propelle.s
il and there was no doubt but that she wa
doing mighty things. Then camo tn
Timmins and the l, j. Merritt and pu
their ncs.s against the Irene's bow en-