The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-22
ENTERTAINMENTS
MAIDEN VOYAGE
Biggest Ocean Liner Is De-
layed Three Hours in
Docking.
TUG GETS IN THE WAY
Shin Which Had Avoided Ice
Peril Halted by Small
Boat.
MANY NOTABLES ABOARD
Gisntess's Initial Trip Is Made
in Five Days Seventeen
Hours.
MANY NOTABLES ABOARD

~ sea and steering clear Of the ice menace
OF the Banks, the superb Hamburg Amerl-
can liner vaterland. from Hamburg.
Southampton and Cherbourg, was held up
more than three hours yesterday afternoon
by an impertinent. snub nosed little Le-
high Valley tug audaciously escorting two
bsrRes alongside. like rakish beau, be-
fore a crowded river front and the fab
bergasted officers OF the mightiest OF mer-
chantmen.
The tug might have been slowed away
ana hardly noticed in the yawnlng hold Of
the ship but the assurance of her skipper
was immeasurabe and unstowable.
The liner arrived in Quarantine early
and was passed swiftly by Health officer
OConnell The revenue cutter Calumet
met and cleared her az she glided up
through the mist toward her Hoboken
berth Commodore Ruser had announced
that he expected 90 dock at 10 \. NJ. The
tide was a romplng ebb and fifteen mile
breeze, blowing directly down the river.
made the Commodore cautious in the
msnnuvring ~ his sl0.0o0,000 yacht.
The young pilot who had brought the
vaterland up was as ambitious as the
Commodore to finish hawlessly a flawless
Atlantic canter The ship had gone up the
river beyond the most northerly OF the
three Hamburg piers and was gradually
backing down on the tide to make the slip
between the first and second piers when
the tug and her barges were seen bucking
the tide just ahead OF the Vaterland
Tide Worries Tug.
II looked for time as II the tugs skip
per had taken position with no other object
than 10 get good view OF the giantess as
she warped into her berth lie had not
counted apparently on the Overwhelming
80 40 u,tp nj p1 ha nj
himself drifting down on the Vaterland
Whistles of some OF the sixteen tugs
warned the I.ehigh skipper to get out OF
the way. but he could not do So
Despite his efforts TO 40 ahead he made
sternway toward the towering hull Of the
new liner. and Commodore Ruser was
forced to give up his plan to pivot on the
northerly end of the first pier and. pushed
and pulled by the tug fleet, warp into
dock. He was compelled to back out OF
the way of tho tug.
Incidentally the vaterland set the
pilots of several ferryboats who were
unaware Of the tug incident wondering
Why she was obstructing the fairway.
The Lackawanna and Erie ferry service
was hampered for fifteen minutes or
more. Dock Commissioner X. A. c.
Smith. who with julius p. Meyer. Vice
director OF the line. was on the bridge.
said that when the tug with her tow
dnally got out Of the way the Naerland
had been forced TO mannuvre out OF posi-
ton to make n quick docking because OF
the shoals directly under her stern.
Both Mr. Smith and Mr.. Never were
OF the opinion that a harbor traffic squad
might be a good thing to establish for
the benefit of big ships docking. Mr..
Smith said
Trafnc Regulation Needed.
Tho trouble emphasizes again the
necessity for the Federal authorities to
cooperate with the city authorities In regu-
iating harbor traffiC. There Is always
danger of accident due to sudden river
congestion. Also 1t would be wise TO
dredge out the shoal running out from
the Lacka wanna ferry, which has been
menace to ships long time
The big ship found herself churnlne
the mud to the surface over the shoal
with her huge propelers, and Commodore
Ruser. believing In the rule OF safety first
worked his signals from the bridge and
steered as IL the liner were fabric OF
glass lie had drifted several blocks
down the river and before he cautiously
worked back into proper position tc
attempt making the slip again the big
railroad tower clock indicated IL 80 anC
the temperature Of the tugboat men OF tn,
laboring fleet was at blood heat. More
than n thousand persons waiting on th'
pier for friends or relatives also were ir
a state of mind. At l 20 +. M. the
great shin was made fast,
traffic westward the Vaterland brough
32o frs. cabin. 1i2 second cabin. 3i5 thirc
cabin and 80 steerage passengers. Sh'
made the run from Cherbourg In iv'
days seventeen hours, AT average
speed of 23.2 knots. She had fine weathe
nearly all the way. warning from tn
American ice patrol cutter impelled Com
modore Ruser to steam bit below TIL
prescribed lane OF the liners to avoid tn
bare possibility OF meeting ice and h
thus added a few hours to his trim.
Some distinguished Passengers.
Among the Vaterlands saloon passen
gers were Dr. Georg Brandes the Danisl
literary critic; Or Forester, designer o
the ship his father. who liz So years oil
and made his first Atlantic trip in her
bringing a painting by German arts
that will be presented to Felix Adler .
the Society for Ethical Culture: Walthe
Blohm Of Rlohm n Voss, builders OF tn
ship: Herman Frahm, also OF the ship
building firm and inventor OF the Frahu
anti-rOlllng tank Alexander Carlisle, de
signer of the Titanic BERNARD Kellermar
author of THE Tunnel; Alfred Kerr
dramatic and art critic: Paul Rainey
John A. schlelcher. former United State
Senator Nelson w Aldrich. Martin Becl
Adolph S. Ochs. George Wood Bacon, Ad
mirai oscar Won Truppel Of the Germa
navy, Chief Engineer Emil Coos. Edga
Alldn foTbth ana tnltI inspector SACNH
Of the Hamburg American Line.
Every passenger had only compllmer
tary things TO say Of the big ship ID
Georg Rrandos who said he had bee
all over her. from stokehold 10 bridg
said she was little world in herself
Or Brnndes praised the philosophy
Nictzsche. He had this TO say Of Amei
lean authors:
Poe Is the greatest American poet, a
though little mad next to Poe
Thomas Paine. the hereto. l regard JAG
London as the greatest contemporary nj
thor. Next TO him | might classify Upto
Sinclair and Frank Norris as distinctivel
American Emerson IL the greatest Amer
can thinker. All Danes nave a warm sp,
m their hearts for Longfellow." ID
Brandcs viii lecture AT Yale and the I'm
yersity Of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
Paul Raney VINO had been In Afric
sixteen months getting movies OF Wild an
nal life, brought back about 5000 fe
OF Aims. lie has one MIN OF a lion tn,