The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-20
SAY KARLSRUHE HAS
CHESTERFIELDIAN CREW
Captured Van Dyck's Passengers
Tell story Of Fine Sea
Manners.

They were rs mild hammered men al.
ever scuttled a ship, the gentle Germans
of the cruiser Karlsruhe. which captured
the Lamport & Holt liner Van Dyck,
crack Of the fleet. and gent her to the
bottom off the Brazilian coast late last
month. The Sac Paulo Of the LLOYD
Brazleiro Line landed In Brooklyn yes
terday ia OF the Van Dyck's passengers.
who told the story.
The Karlsruhe was sighted by the Van
Dyck on October rs, and the latter being
comparatively a slow boat made no EFFORT
20 get away. Finally the Van Dyck
stopped on demand and the Earlsruhe's
steam launch. with fifteen armed men
under Capt. Fresc, formerly an officer OF
the North German Lloyd liner Kronprlnz
Wilhelm. went alongside the merchant
man When Capt Frese and his mon
had boarded the Van Dyck the passen-
gers. 20l in all, including sixty in the first
cabin. were greeted cheerfully by the
Germans
Capt. Cadogan handed over the Van
Dycks papers to the German officer Tho
ships safe was opened and $4,000 all
except that entrusted to the purser by
the passengers, was taken. The Germans
were gallant to the fifteen American
postcards. photographs of the cruiser and
her crew and other souvenirs
Passengers and crew were put on the
steamship ASCENSION. An .ncipient mu-
tiny of some of the Van Dyck's crew
was quelled by the German marines.
The ASCENSION loafed four days at sea
before putting into Para so the Karlsruhe
might have a chance to get "A good start
OF possible British pursuers. The officers
of the Karlsruhe boosted that they had
captured seventeen vessels. mostly British.
None Of the passengers could tell of the
fate OF the Van byck The had heard
from the German officers that the raiders
considered the capture OF the big Lam
port & Holt liner as an act that would
soon bring their raiding career to an end.
They knew that the British warsh!ps
would make their supreme effort after
that to put the Karlsruhe out of business.
The Germans, so the passengers said
expected their finish sooner or later. but
they looked forward to IL with indiffer-
ence.
The Van Dyck was bound for New
York at the time she fell into the euemy's
hands She had left Buenos Ayres OF
October 10. MOntevideo on October Is.
Rio de .fauero on october 10 and Bahia
on october %. Between Rio and Bahia
she was IN the company of the British
cruiser Bristol and some of the passcu-
gers recalled ssrCast.cally to-day that
the British warshlp had Ridden her god
speed" az she steamed away.
II was II o'clock on the morning Of
october 20, clear day. when the ocean
was rolling IN - comparatively easy swell.
that tho lookout on the Van Dyck saw
two columns of smoke on the horizon.
soon a warship was made out. She was
coming for the liner AT full speed. with
great columns of black smoke boiling out
OF her Tunnels. IL was not long before
the skipper of the Van Dyck saw that hi.
visitor was the dreaded karlsruhe and
no gun from the cruiser was necessary
to bring the engines of the liner to a
stop The position Of the Van Dyck then
was latitude IA south. longitude 40 az.
one incident OF the boarding was shown
~ AN act OF the GERMANS courtesy. All
the women passengers were Americans
save one. Mrs \. VI. Slack who a.
though her home - ~ California, l. -.
English birth. She had small British
nag p.nned To- her breast IS capt fr'ss
approached The captain bowed tn her