The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-04
Puts In at Bar Harbor, Me.
After Swift Run.
RETURN ORDERED BY WlRELE LESS
The Owners Were Afraid She
Would Be Captured.
Offers of Passengers to Buy
Her We're Unheeded.

New York, Aug. 4.-The KrOn
Prinzessin Ceciiie is the finest ship of
the North German Lloyd fleet. News
Of her safe arrival at Bar Harbor was
received at the line offices here in a
telegram from Captain Polack. Until
his message was received the line was
apparently in the dark as to the ves-
sells movements since steamlng out of
New York harbor.
The gold aboard the vessel-more
than ten million dOllars-was consign-
ed by New York bankers to Lonuon
and Paris. Officers OF one OF the
great international banks concerned
said today that the metal would now
probably be landed at Bar Harbor and
returned to New York by express
Officials OF the line saio tnat the
Cecilie had nos been ordered back to
port from this side of the Atlantic and
that II any Instructions had been re-
celved by Captain Poiack they must
have come from Bremen, although it
was admitted that Captain folack
might nave acted entireiy on his own
initiative. Inc officers mere insisted
tnat they ahd not been in cOmmunlca-
ton with the ship after she lett here.
Oniclals OF one OF the big banks here
which was Shipping more tnan $abJO,Uvv IN
gold on the nner, expressed great dis
appointment over her return. Some of
them SAID frankly that they would nave
by the french. In sucn an event. they
thought, the French captors would have
seen to 1t that the metal reached its ues-
tlnation. Arrangements were being made
To-Day Tor return OF the gold to New York.
Apparently all efforts to have it shipped
Oh any other vessel have been aDan-
doned.
Max May. vice president Of the Guaran-
ty Trust company. shipper or approxi-
mateiy hair OF the Ceclne consignment
OF goid. said that when the gold was re-
turned to New York 1t would be deposited
in the sub-treasury.
The gold shipped Dy the Guaranty Trust
company was destined for London. OF
the Wv, l6s0V aboard. Paris was to have
received n, S64, ,0VO, the remainder being
CONSIGNED TO London bankers. The Guar
anty Trust furnished $4.943000, the Ma
tiOnal bank $3lbt.OOO and two other bank
ing companies made up the rest.
Bar Harbor, Maine, Aug. THE
North German Lloyd steamer Kron-
prinzessin Cecilie, carrying more than
$40. 100000 gold, and whose where
abouts have been more or less of a
mystery since she sailed from New
York last Tuesday, arrived in the
harbor here today.
The Cec.lie dropped anchor here at
o'clock this r-orning after a forced
| run of four days. her Offices fearing
capture.
With a cargo Of ten millions in gold
and a million in silver, consigned to
French and English bankers. with an
estimated value of over five millions
| in herself, the Kronprinzessin Cecflie
has constituted probably the finest sea
prize ever open to capture.
| AS she crept along the Maine coast
and into the harbor under the cover
of night, each deck, and every por.
hole was blanketed with canvas 50
that not gleam of light betrayed her
whereabouts. Her four stout stacks
] had been tipped with black paint SO
that she .e-embled an English steam
ship.
At one time capture seemed immi-
nent. Captain Charles Polack re-
ported on Sunday that he had inter-
| cepted a wireless message from one
French vessel to another giving warn
ing of the Cecilie's proximity, but un-
der the protection of a providential
fog, the North German Lloyd liner
| escaped.
The Kronprinzessin Cecilie left New
York early last Tuesday morning,
bound for Bremen via Plymouth and
CherbourP.