New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-21
PROUD HE FLEW
AMERICAN FLAG
Capt. Dow Says He Cant
Say What the Devil He
May Fly YETI
DENIES LUSITANlA
HAD WARSHIP GUARD
DreXel RidiculeS War Zone
Fear-McClenhan Says Ger"
mans Are Angry with u. 5.

Captain Daniel Dow, master OF the
Cunard flyer Lusitania, expressed prlde
yesterday in having flown the American
ensign from the taffrail Of his vessel
on her recent run up the Irish Sea from
Queenstown TO Liverpool.
ayes. ran up the Stars and Stripes,
he said yesterday after he. had put the
Lusitania into dock "What if ! did
| am the one who was responsible. /
had no orders from the Admiralty to
do Il.
"Did do 1t 90 disguise the vessel?
should say not Everybody knows the
Lusitania. She could not be disguised.
ran up the American flag because |
had a lot of American passengers on
board did it to protect them, ana
they we're perfectly satisfied to be pro-
tected by their own flag
Asked if he expected TO use the
American flag on the run into Queens
town and from that port TO Liverpool
on the next eastward voyage ne
smiled ~,
81 can't answer that" he replied
Really can't say what the devil may
fy before | get through with this ar
fair" ,,
Captain Dow denied emphatically
that any flag other than the British
had been flown on the run, which be
gan at Liverpool on February l3 and
ended at this port yesterday.
Denies He Had Convoy.
IL has been said that five fast war
vessels accompanied the Lusltanla from
Liverpool to Queenstown and beyond
Daunt's Rock Lightship, but tins was
denied by Captain Dow.
"0f course" he said, 81 am only the
master CT this ship and may know, moth
ing about it, but / was on the bridge
all the time and saw no warshlps
You won't find it recorded in the log
that we had a convoy
According to the passengers, the Lu
sitania went down from Liverpool tC
Queenstown so fast that no submarine
could ever have hoped to hit her with
torpedo. She is good for twenty-foul
knots, and it is believed she exceeded
this speed as an average on the rur
down the Irish Sea.
The Lusitania brought over 572 pas
sengers, 263 being in the saloon
Among them was Anthony j. DreXcl
who came over on trip of six weeks
which will be spent in this city anC
Philadelphia. He said conditions II
England were steady and serene con
fdence was apparent everywhere IN the
British Isles.
"Englishmen are sure that Germany
will be beaten" he said, "and they are
patiently awaiting the outcome Of tn,
conflict. Put me down as saying that
am heart and soul with the Allies. Tha
submarine scare is wholly a thing o.
the Imagination
Germans Say Hang Americans
! Dean Howard McClenahan OF Prince
| ton, who had been studying conditions
IT. Belgium and Holland, said an anti
/ American spirit is running rampant II
Berlin. The Germans, he SAID, sa!
Hang the Americans and 1.-THE sooner
/ they get out the better
/ "While abroad" said the dean, Z"
| considered forming some plan TO brIni
| over 10 this country number of des
titute Belgians, but ! found the gov
/ eminent strongly opposed TO it,"
DR.. George w. Grille, the surgeon, o
/ Cleveland, who has been at the from
! III anu Ildut "a SptNldl Sluug "
| the use of local anesthesia. said tn,
/ American Volunteer Ambulance Corp!
was marvellous, and that it was abb,
! to take wounded men from the battle
! field sixty and seventy miles TO thu
rear in three hours. He said the NOR
tally of wounded was not more thar
8 per cent.
f. L. Buero, Secretary of Foreign
Affairs of Uruguay, came over on thu
Lusitania on his way to San Francisco
where he will represent his govern
ment at the Panama-Pacific Exposi
ton. lie was met by representative
of the State Department and will cal
Upon President Wilson tomorrow.
Also on board was the Countess l.
de Hemptinne, of Belgium, who ha
come to offer thanks for American re
lief and ask for more help for he
people.
ALREADY" she said, "many womel
and children have actually starved q
death. After the war Belgium will b
worse off than now. for her farms vii
be graveyards.'
Among others on the Lusitania wcr
Lady Williams Taylor. George Tyler
John Astor Squiers, Mrs. II. b. Squicrs
Nh. and Mrs. Clifford Rsmsden, Mrs
W. Il. Leeds, Frederick Orr Lewis Mrs
C. p. Radcliffe Dugmore. Lord Castle
maine and Mrs. J. w. White.