The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-01-26
DEMPNO[F To
COMMAND GIANT
CIeveland's Captain TO Take the
Largest Steamer AhOat
When He Gets Home.

Whom Captain Dompwolf of the Ham
burg American liner Cleveland, reaches
Hamburg on his return from this tour,
he will be assigned to tho command OK
the largest steamer in the world, thh
Kaiscrin Auguste Victoria, at present
in charge of Captain Ruser. This and
other plans the Captain told to a re-
porter for The Advertiser yesterday at
ternoon.
But the Hamburg American company
has something better than even tho gi-
gantic Kaiserin Auguste Victoria. in
store for the man who can handle his
ship with the consummate mastery Cap
tain Dempwolf showed when he took
charge of his vessel after the tragic
death of Captain Sanders on the bridge,
Wednesday morning. The company Is
building two monsters of the deep.
One, now under construction, is called
the Imperator.i The other, the plans for
which are complete, is not yet named,
but Captain Dempwolf thinks It win be
called either the "Atlantic or the
- Europe.nq
These steamers are the greatest ever
planned. The Imperator is registered
at $4,000 tons, several thousand tons
larger than the greatest ship ever
floated to date, and the unnamed
monster is to be even greater. They
are to have the tremendous speed OF
more than twenty-four knots and will
carry small-sized town in their spa
cious cabins, says Captain Dempwolf.
His Christmas Tree.
Z But before he began to talk of the
great ship he is to command, if all goes
well, the captain drew his visitors at
tehtion to a glittering little Christmas
tree, standing ON a table beside his
couch. "Mine daughter that makes me
think about,' said the skipper, waving
his hand. "There at the top is some
of the beads she worked at when she
was but six, or maybe four years old.
Now she is seventeen hut those beads
they go everywhere with me and every
year l put them at the top of mine
Christmas tree, and then can not
throw away that tree. No l have not
the heart. So / keep it until San
Francisco reach. There-maybe."
Talks Of Sanders.
Captain Dempwolf grew gloomy and
sorrowful when he spoke of the sudden
death of Captain Sanders. ''The pilot
he looked sick to me when he came on
my bridge. / saw that he was going
too close, but l had confidence in him
from the way he handled my ship the
last time L was here. And then, just
after we touched the gun of the cruiser
he fell forward calling to me, Il am
dizzy l tell you it turned me sick
too. ~
When his quick thinking and prompt
action in averting a worse collision
with the Colorado was mentioned tho
big man actually blushed. ~ ch, that
was nothing, he said. eve learn
to act quick at sea. - Just the same he
seemed immensely pleased when he was
told of the favorable comments made
along the city's waterfront about his
Workmanship.
"They were very nice about the ac-
cident at the meeting of the board of
inquiry on the cruiser. They had me
over there and asked me lots of ques-
tions and let me ask questions of the
diver. He said that there was q
Scraped place on one of the blades and
another place where piece had been
Clipped out. The captain asked him IL
the Clipped piece was new and he said
it was not. Then / asked him how he
knew that, and he said it was filed
with barnacles When asked him if the
might not have been knocked
Off by my plates he said that was inn
possible because the barnacIes were so
firmly fixed in it that he had trouble
in knocking them off SO do not be-
lieve that the Cleveland touched the
propeller of the Colorado at all. The
gun, yes, we scraped that little but
did no harm.''
His Coming Ship.
But throwing Off the gloom that the
subject of the pilot death and the
following accident had thrown him into
captain Dempwolf began to talk about
he new monster ships his company is
building or to build. They are to be
he largest vessels a1oat when they
re off the stocks. One, the Imperaton
il being built by the Vulcan Irons
works at Hamburg and the other two
will be built by the Blohm and Voss
company of the same city. They are
o cost in the neighborhood of nine
hillion dollars each and are, as stated
Ibove, to be $4,000 tons gross burden,
II perhaps q few thousand tons more.
The Imperator is to be finished in
april of next year, and the unnamed
hip of which Captain Dempwolf is to
70 the captain, is to be completed in
october of the year following. The
bird has not yet been decided upon,
nut it is probable that it will exceed
he other two by several thousand tons.
'aptain Ruser, the present commander
( the Kaiserin Augnste Victoria, by
he way is to command the Imperator.
Aladdin outdone.
The story of the accommodations ON
he ships reads like a slice out of
.laddin and the Wonderful Lamp. For
Instance the Imperator is to have
leven decks above the water line and
ill be able to carry without crowding,