The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-08-04
North Germany Lloyd Kron-
prinZessin Cecilie Arrived
This Morning
CARRYING MORE
THAN $4,000, 900
Made Forced Run of Four Days
Whereabouts Had Been q Mystery
officers Feared Liners Capture If
Voyage Was Continued.

officers Feared Liners Capture IF
Voyage Was Continued.
BAR HARBOR, Me-, Aug. 4.-After
a forced run of four davs the North
German Lloyd liner kronprinzessin
| Cecilie, carrying more than $4,000. 600
in gold, arrived in the harbor here
this morning and dropped anchor She
sailed from New York last Tuesday
and her whereabouts had been mvs-
terry, it being reported yesterday that
she had been captured off the north
coast of England. Her officers would
say no more than that they feared the
liner ) capture If she continued her
voyage.
With cargo of ten millions in gold
aud million in silver consigned TO
French and English bankers, with an
estimated value of over 1000. 600 in
herself the kronprinkessin Cecihe has
constituted the finest sea prize ever
open to capture. As she crept along
the Maine coast under cover OF night
each deck and every port hole was
covered with canvas SO that not a
sheen of light could be seen. Her
four smoke stacks had been painted
so that she resembIed an English
steamship.
Captain Polack reported that he had
| intercepted on Sunday wireless mes
sage from one of the French vessels to
another giving warning of the Ce-
ellie : proximity, but under fog the
liner escaped.
\ group of tinancers on board offer
ed to buy the ship and sail her under
American colors, but to all proposals
the captain replied that his duty was
spelled by his orders from Bremen
which instructed him to turn back
and save his ship.
There was Il stampede for the wire
less, but the captain announced that
no messages would be sent for fear Of
betraying their location 1t was not
until the passengers awoke this morn
my IN sight of the green Maine hills
that the liner 5 destination hecame
certain. For two nights with head and
side lights eXtinguished the kronprinz-
essin plunged through the fog with un-
reduced speed and without sounding
her fog horn.
Officials of the line said that the
kronprinzessin had not been ordered
back to port from this side and that
If any Instructions had been received
by the captain they must have come
from Bremen.
The officers here insisted that thev
had not been in communication with
the ship after she left New York.
Presumably the vessel is now short of
coal The opinion was expressed that
she might proceed to Boston
Officials of one of the big banks in
New York which was shipping more
than $3,oo0,000 in gold on the liner.
expressed great disappointment over
her return. Some of them said thev
would have been glad if the vessel
had been captured by the French.
In such an event they thought the
French eaptors would have seen to it
that the metal reached its destination
Arrangements are being made today
for the return of the gold to New
York. Apparently all efforts to have
1t shipped on any other vessel have
been abandoned.
The vice president of the Guarantee
Trust company, which shipped approx
mateiy half of the consignment of cold
said that when the gold was returned
to New York it would be deposited in
the sub-treasury.
Col. Cobbell, an English military Of
fcer, was one of the few Enolishmen
on board and his chagrin at not BEING
able to join his army was apparent
There were a number of German Off
GERS ON board.
Oral duels and miniature interna-
tional warfare in the smoking room
helped to divert the minds of the pas-
sengers who were inclined to give wav.
to misgivings.
J. Alden Morse, secretary of the To-
cal board of health, went on board
ship during the forenoon and later
returned to shore lie summoned al
number of local physicians and Henry
Bah of Mt. Desert ferry the nearest
customs officer. He said that first and
seeond-class passengers would be ex
amined as fast as possible and allow
ed to come ashore
The steerage passengers will not be
allowed to land at present. The ship
remained at her anchorage through
out the forenoon.
After the passengers had waited sew
eral hours great bundles of newspapers
were brought and by their fiaring
headlines the passengers first learned
the gravity of the situation.