The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-18
FIRST GERMAN SHIP
SINCE 1914 ARRIVES


felt about it7 Well. We dId not feel like
rubbing II in on the German oflcers.
They did what they were sent to us to do
and did 1t willingly
German Commander Went.
Capt Evans said the Kaiserin was
a good ship and that the engineering
force had got out OF her about all the
speed she was capable Of developing,
running one day at the rate OF nearly II
knots Her highest average in her best
days was about I'm knots.
He learned that the veteran German
commander Of the Kaiserin, Capt. e.
Kopff, had shed tears when he parted
with her at Spithead, just before she
was turned over to an American crew
that took her to Brest, also that one of
the German seamen, crazed by Bolshev-
ism. resented giving up the ship and was
subdued by vigorous American by q
INST blow on the head.
Capt. Evans was In charge Of the
aviation station at Pauillac and all his
sailormen were In that service. He did
| not see why men employed by navigators
| OF the air should not be quite as capable
to handle plain sea ship. so he picked
from his 5000 competents S43 to help
run tho kaiserin. That Ia more than
400 more than the Germans used when
the Kaiserin was In the mercantile SER
| vice piling up the ducats for the Ham
burg American Line and for William
Hohenzoliern, wiro had big wad Of the
stock thereof.
The stan Of Skipper Evans consists In
part Of Lieut. Commander c. L. o,.tle.
executive officer Ensign John J. lie /, i,
assistant executive officer, and Lie1t-
| Commander N. H. Gersenhoff, navigat-
ing officer. They laughed at the rumor
| published here. that they had brought
! along German officers to help them run
the ship, which many considered quite
natural when II is admitted by even so
good navigators as the British that the
| Yankee sailorman, on the quarter deck
I or In the forecastle. Is about as good
as any in this world or any other.
The Kaiserin got away from Brest at
1880 p. NJ. April and arrived of
Sandy Hook at 8 clock yesterday morn
ing In a dense fog. Capt. Evans dropped
anchor and did not pull 1t up until about
, 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, when
| there came a rift. He reached the Ho-
boken pier Of the old Hamburg-Ameri-
can line about o'clock last night
! Economical in Use of Coal.
The trip was without serious incident
and there was only one day OF bad
weather, and that was the first day out
T, The ship took the middle lane, covering
$3.50 miles. Capt. Evans was a BIT
! economical in the use of coal, remark
ing that only by burning coal could
you get high speed. and intimating that
he might have equalled the record that
the Germans claimed for the chip II he
had kept the furnace fires burning
fercely. The ship will be fitted out al
real transport while here and It II
expe cted that she may carry about 5000
troops on her next trip from Brest-
When she first appeared In thes'
waters the Kaiserln was the bigges
ship In service on the Atlantic. some
what longer than her sister, the Amer
ika, now rechristened America. and II
the transport service. and having on
more deck. She has twin screws, 4
700 feet long. and like the America. &
fitted with elevators, American style
symnasiums and equipped with pain
garden.
Among the German officers aboard
all OF whom have seen service in the Ger
man Navy and all of whom are entitle,
to wear the Iron Cross. was Waite
Dost, once skipper OF the Kaiserin and II
the war navigator OF the dreadnough
Schleswig- Holstein. He consented I,
! talk late last night. after consultation
with his brother officers. He said h
appreciated the kind treatment he ha
received at the hands OF the American
officers. He was glad to say that Their
, was no sign aboard the ship from sol
diers, seaulen or nurses of the existenc
of any malice. He praised Capt. Evan,
not as a typical American. but as a An
gentleman"
The Kaiserin brought 1919 militar
passengers, including the 141st Fiel
Artillery complete, of 8s officers an
1924 men. 406 nurses from nine bas
hospitals. two Brest convalescent de
tachments OF 1913 men, requiring no epe
cIal attention and 40 casuaI nfflcera