New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-13
Retiring Envoy and 200 OF
Corps to Leave on
Frederik VIII
HEAVY u. S. GUARD
! SHIELDS DIPLOMATS
Secret Service Men and
Police to Protect Them
Until Their Departure

Arrangements were completed YES
+ terday by the Scandinavian-Americsn
Line for the accommodation of Count
Won Bernstorff and members of the
I German Embassy and consulates in this
/ country aboard the Frederik VIII,
which will sail tomorrow for Norway
and Denmark. Suites and state rooms
in the first cabin Of the big liner
have been made ready for about 200
members of the German diplomatic and
consular corps.
At the Office of the line yesterday 1t
was announced that the Frederik VIII
would sail from the Seventeenth Street
pier, Hobokeu, at o'clock tomorrow
! afternoon.
United States Secret Service men will
accompany the special train which will
carry the retiring ambassador from
Washington to Newark and will guard
the German officials. They will be as.
sisted by the police of Newark and
! Hoboken.
/ The German officials are expected 10
arrive in Hoboken at about $3.50 TO-
morrow morning. They probably, VIII
90 direct 20 their suites aboard the
liner. Even then the ambassador
quarters will be constantly guarded
until the ship departs.
On Lookout for Cranks
The Frederik VIII will be unusually
crowded This fact has thrown an td-
. h.
men, who are doing their utmost to
/ check up on every passenger booked.
All passengers will be carefully looked
over for fear that some crank may slip
aboard and cause mischief. The water
side of the liner will be patrolied by
New York police tugs.
So thoroughly had the government
provided for the safety of Count Won
Bernstorif that a duplication IN work
resulted. Rear Admiral Usher, COM
mandant Of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
had received instructions from Wash
ington to transport the ambassador and
his retinue on a cutter from the New
Jersey Central terminal at COMMUNE
paw up the Hudson to the Scandinavian
American pier On his order Com
mander Frank B. Upham had made az
I engagements with the police of Jersey
/ City and Hoboken TO cooperate with
the naval Authorities in guarding the
departing diplomatic party when IT be-
came known that the Secret Service
! had the safety of the German officials
| in charge.
Room for 1900 Passengers
For the special sailing of the Fred
erik VIII the second cabin has been
converted into an annex of the first,
with the same price and service. The
two cabins accommodate about 500 per-
sons, and nearly every berth had been
taken yesterday afternoon. 1t is eN-
pected that the third cabin, which
holds 700 persons also will be filled.
! The cancelled sailing of re Helhg
Olav, scheduled 10 leave for Scandi-
navian ports on January 81, and the
delay of the Frederik VIII, which was
20 have left on February 7, coupled
with the assurance Of safety from Ger
man submarines due TO the presence
of the Teutonic officials, has crowded
the liner.
The Offices of the Scandinavian Amer
lean Line were open yesterday, al
though it was holiday. Hundreds OF
Scandinavians visited the booking
Offices to make sure Of their berths.
Halvor Jacobsen, general passenger
agent Of the line, said that 400 pas.
sengers had made reservations for the
Hellig Olav and 500 for the regular
sailing Of the Frederik VIII. Most OF
these passengers will be crowded be-
tween the decks Of the Frederik VIII
tomorrow.
Few Americans on Board
az. So III ,,araope ,rbo ,,aan th a
earlier reservations are Norwegian.
Danish and Swedish merchants and
commercial travellers" said Mr.. ia
cobsen. There are also many other
Scandnayians, who have been here for
various reasons. All are anxious TO
get home TO their families, now that
there is danger of war between this
country and Germany. We have also
a sprinkling of South American diplo-
kmatic and consular officials going to
their posts in Europe.
"This sailing is undertaken at the
request of the State Department, and
we have no idea whether another will
be undertaken in the near future. We
have no idea when the Frederik VIII
will return 10 the United States. IL
all depends on the future developments
in the war. Very few American citi-
zens are sailing on the Frederic"
Mr.. Jacobsen said the>captain OF the
Frederik VIII would select his own
course of sailing, probably north OF
the Faroes, 10 avoid the submarine
zone altogether. and thence southeast
TO Christiansand, Norway. which port
should be reached about February 20
The next port will be Christiania, on
the following day. The German Off
Gals and their families should reach
Copenhagen about February p.