The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-18
GERMAN LINER
ARRIVES HERE;
FIRST SINCE IL
Kaiserin Auguste Victoria
Has Aboard Six TeutOn,
Officers.
BRINGS q. s. TROOPS
Vanquished Foes Came
Along to Assist After Ship
Was Surrendered.
ARE. MOSTLY ENGINEERS
Capt. Evans Says Vessels
Commander Wept on Turn
ing Her Over.
ARE. MOSTLY ENGINEERS

The Hamburg American liner
kaiserin Auguste Victoria, most luxu-
rious of all passenger ships when she
made her maiden voyage from Ham,
burg to New York in 1906, came in
last night and tied I'D at the same old
Hoboken pier she at one time used
regularly. But this time the skipper
was new, no other than Capt. Frank T.
Evans, u. s.. N. son of Admiral
Fighting Bob" and the crew was
made up Of gobs. not Heinies. The
passenger list too was different from
any the crack liner ever carried be-
Tore fine collection Of doughboys.
The kaiserin Auguste Victoria is the
first German ship to reach New York
since 1914 excepting those confiscated
and converted to allied uses. She is
part Of the spoils Of victory. She was
in Hamburg when the war began and
she stayed there until she was allotted
by the Allies to Uncle Sam under the
armistice terms.
SIX German Omcers Aboard.
Six German officers came with her
mostly Of the engineering force, some OF
whom had been in the gorgeous liner
when she used to steam triumphantly
as the last word in skyscra ping marine
art into this harbor. welcomed by the
whistles Of an unbiased American feet
or harbor craft. She did not get a toot
yesterday.
The German oGcers. as Capt. Evans
said. seemed to. be decent chaps" al
though one Of them did wear conspicu-
ousfy1an Iron Cross. They were assigned
to the ship BY the Government that
was in charge OF things in Germany
when she sailed from Hamburg for Spit
head, England. Their duty was TO look
after German interests and TO do all thew
could to help the Americans find out the
mechanical intricacies and the best
methods Of getting the most speed out Of
the ship
The six wore the blue uniforms IA
miliar to travellers who used to patron
ize the liner in her roseate days. and
they were treated with fine courtesy by
/ the bluejackets. doughboys and more
than 400 women nurses aboard.
The six German officers ate their
meals apart from the American multi.
tude. and not one OF the American of.
fcers even hinted that there had been
any unpleasantness between the late
German Empire and these States. Nc
! Yankee vandal disturbed the fmperia
signs on the nine decks OF the lofty shir
informing passengers that the elevation
where they happened to be was ths
Grown Prince" the Kaiser" or the
"Aususte Victoria" deck. To offset thi.
royal nomenclature there were tn,
broadway" and the Union" decks
whose signs also were undisturbed
have when the Kaiserin Is turned bach
TO the German Government was a prob
lem that rather amused Capt Evan.
and his staff
| Five of the six German officers IN
! their great coats falling below the knees
were grouped on the promenade deck. q
royal one. when THE Sun man asket
them II they would like to say anything
| about their trip and tell why their Gov
ernment had sent them over. The,
looked gloomy, possibly remembering III,
|
harbor with hundreds of American trav
ellers aboard and when they were re
garded as ideal officers of an ideal ship
the biggest and finest then in servic,
on any sea. A tall blonde, less thai
40, was the interpreter of the group
He talked a moment in German will
his shipmates, and then said solemnly
in excellent English: we have nothing
to say" They looked as II they hac
had a deal to think about and were still
on, the Job.
Capt. Evans remarked that neither h,
nor any OF his stan had asked an,
questions of the Germans. whose name
even were unknown to the Americans
The Captain said:
I'VE made no comments about then
in or out OF their hearing. Some things
as you have doubtless heard, are bette
left unsaid. We were careful not I,
offend them. Now. you would not thinl
II a fine thing II after Sullivan had licke,
Kilrain Sullivan had asked him how h
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