New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-02
NEW Liner RIVALS
! COLUMBUS CALLEON
Maiden Voyage of Fred
[ erik VIII a 23-Day Odyssey
of Fog and Gales.
lWANDERS TO AZORES
TO ESCAPE ICEBERGS
Passengers, Pent Up 10 Days,
Kept Aboard by Islands
Police Officials.

Seldom has new transatlantic inner
fresh from the yards Of her builders been
overwhelmed with difficulties such as ne-
feu the Scandinavian American steamship
Frederik VIII. which came I'm Yesterday
after q maiden voyage when began AZ
Copenhagen on February >.
The Frederic VIII left her home port
on February and on the same DAY
stopped at Christiausand. port 81 call
where she was detained four DAYS because
Of fog on tho 9TH she started for New
York. and when well to the north anu
beyond the Scotch coast the captain rea'-
lied thai the new type Of boilers IN
stalled I'm the vessel were making an enor-
NOUS demand urou his coal bunkers
The Fredcrik was supposed 10 consume
about 90 tons Of coal a DAY, but her con-
sumption was then averaging about 800
tons u was inferior coal. the skipper
said and allowances had 70 be made FOR
That feature of his trouble. captain
Thor,sen realized that me would not nave
coai enough 70 take him across and ne
MANNED 10 20 into Halifax to roplcnish
his bunkorS
There the ice problem doomed M Colby
before
illusions with tho ice The fate ~ the
Titanic on ho~ maiden voyage to this port
almost two years ago IN those very waters
wa. present in his memory, and he wanteo
the maiden voyage of the Frederik to he
safe ono
Cantain Thomson thought he'd look he
fore he leaped. so nc sent out calls by
wireless asking about ice conditions thal
prevailed along the route TO Halifax lie
was informed lbs relayed messages rom
steamships a thousand miles away that
dangerous ice might he looked for. SO ne
rromptly changed his course to the south
going $50 miles out Of his way 70 the
azores. where he arrived on February y
ARRANGEMENTS were made to coal at
ponta Delgada- two days being allotted
20 the task.
Meanwhile. tho passengers penneo UP
for thirteen days. and still long way
from their destination. chafed under the
.reetraint and begged to be allowed 10 20
ashore Captain Thomson gave pelnIs-
NON and ali went well until some Of the
s.aerspe passengers ran wild through the
toUr. causing the project Of police 10 seno
them hack 10 the ship with the order that
mo more passengers from the FreoerN
be allowed TO land
Everybody stayed aboard and soon the
&o,cnspeople waxed indignant over the
restraint put upon the visiting vessers
.passengers and had the order rescinoed.
The people Of Ponta Delgada sent greet
l,ngs TO the passengers on the Frederic
and Informed Captain Thomson that they
han prepared fete for them and would
welcome than ashore for entertainment
when he saw Mt 10 arrange for landing.
A gale frornsthe northwest came up sud
denly on the second day OF the visit OF
the stranger from Denmark and blew for
forty eisht hours. The passengers well
coined the kindly offer OF the Inhabitants
q, the Azores and Captain Thomson
aRreed 70 let the saloon and second caDin
nsssengers accept this hospitality. The
favorable gale that had delayed them IN
port stopped, however, as suddenly as IL
had come. and the Frederik VII swung
her stern around to the Azores and let the
Villagers have the fete all TO themselves.
{ The temperature in Copenhagen the DAY
the passengers left there was 10 degrees
below zero and I'm the Azores the theF-
rnonnster registered 20 above.