Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-28
BIG SHIP IS HERE
Zaandyk, With Paving Block,
Arrives From England.
ATTRACTS MANY VISITORS
Largess. Steamer That Has Ever
Touched at This Port.
TAKES SOUTHERLY ROUTE
Sixteen and Half Days Consumed in
Making Voyage-Flies Flag
OF Holland.

Fixing the Nag of Queen Wflhelminas
little country. he big Holland America
line stcarsh p Zaandyk Is attracting
many visitors to The 9th street dock 10
Sc the largest steamship that has ever
brought cargo 20 Washington. and the
rSt Dutch vessel To visit this port in
the recollection of the oldest denizen of
toe river front. Two years ago the
Brush steamship Paul Paix. laden with
Ia rirzs blOcE from VI do esofougn Eng
taEd. the same Kind Of cargo ard from the
same port hat tie Zaandy-k came. dis
charged cargo here. and Up to that time
she was the largest vessel that had ever
bee.. IN the local port, bu; the ship now
here IS twenty-nine feet longer anu car
ries about 90 tons more cargo The
vessel loaded her cargo at the English
port and sailed July for this city.
Taking the long southerly route to avoid
tceberss, the snip had a pleasant voyage
of sixteen and haif days 10 the capeS
of the Chesapeake. and the run up the
Potomac 10 Alexandria, where she had
TO stop for visit from the marine hos
pital surgeon was made in fourteen
hours. Capt. John Barclay piloted the big
ship from Cape Henry to this city.
The Zaandyk is commanded by Capt.
r. W. Braun Of the Royal Naval Reserve
Of Holland, and has thirty-eight men in
the crew. includ -ng officers. OF this num-
Der fifteen are employed in the navigation
of the ship eighteen in the engine room
and five cooks and stewards look after
the culinary department
Capt Braun has TO aid him In the
navigation q. G.. Best, first officer: G.. ii.
Guntner-Mohr. second officer. and c. II.
Tirion, third officer. +. Schrey is chief
engineer, and NJ. q. kort, 3. Voss. c. l..
Bentson and G. Moerdyk are his assist
ants The officers are all Hollanders and
speak English if native born.
Carries About 5000 Tons.
The Zaandyk is 1893 feet long, 46 feet
beam and 269 feet deep in the hold. Her
registered tonnage is 300, but her dead
weight carrying capacity is about 5000
tons. She is. it is stated, the smallest
ship in the fleet of her owners, and for
that reason was selected to come to this
city with the cargo of block. The bands
OF green, white and green on her smoke
stack and the same colors in the flag at
tne nainmaSt head with the letters y. A.
;. VI. signify that she belongs to the
NederianGsch -Amerikaansche Stoom-
Naart- Maatscnappij of Rotterdam, or as
II : Familiarity known in this country,
the Holland American line. which operates
o's passenger steamers out Of New York
as well as freishters in the American
trade The Zaandyk is employed in carry
ing cargces between ports in Holland and
Boston, New York, Philadelphia Balti-
more, Newport News, Savannah New
Orleans. and also to Montreal and Quebec
IN company with a dozen other big steam
ships.
The officers of the ship state that the
line viii. in the course of the next
-FOUR years. build ten or twelve big
steamers In preparation for the trade
that Will be developed by the opening
II the Panama canal On the Zaandyk
the captain has his quarters aft The
otner ofhcers are chartered in the mid
snip mouse and the crew forward The
quarters of Capt. Braun are larger
than usual on even first-class passen-
Ser-carrying ships. and are fitted out
In the most comfortable style. The
rooms OF the other officers are bright
and airy. and they say they have moth
ing to complain of as far as quarters
and life on the ship are concerned
The ship lying at the wharf fills the
entire dock space OF the big pier of the
American Ice Company, and extends
over the District sand wharf at one
hand and tho Vood-unloading dock of
Clarke & Son at the other. \ person
on the river can see nothing else but
the big ship, thoroughly does she
dominate the surroundings and from
the wharves she looks big as the
Capitol building.
The only objection the officers of
the ship have to Washington Is the
fact that there are no facilities at
rho wharf suitable for mooring such a
DIX Vessel, ana IN MAKING LeT lhty
were afraid that she would pull the
river front into the harbor before it
was done by attaching hawsers to
derrick poles or anything that would
serve mooring pile.
Visitors See Ship.
The vessel had hardly been made fast
To the dock before visitors started
aboard. Capt. Braun has no objection
10 any one seeing his ship but there
Is danger OF getting hurt while she ia
discharginS cargo. and visiting during
working hours will be discouraged To-
day, however. all who wish may board
the big ship and look her over They
viii find Capt. Braun and his officers
all young men, who will welcome
their guests most heartily and give
them the run OF the ship. To discharge
the cargo a week or ten days will be
required, so that IL Is probable that
the Zaandyk Will be here this entire
week. From here she is 10 go 10
Baltimore, where she viii unload about
500 tons of miscellaneous cargo in
casks. barrels. boxes and packages of
general cargo for Rotterdam and
other ports In Holland.
capt Braun, though a young man. is
a veteran navigator, and has been for
years in the service OF the Holland
American line, commanding many diff
ferent ships The fact that he is a
captain In the naval reserve of his
country gives him the privilege Of fly
Ing special nag. First Officer Best is
also a royal naval reserve officer. and
would be called upon for service should
Holland become involved in war. In
preparation for the many visitors the
ship will receive while in port here.
the crew was busy Friday and yester-