New-York tribune., 1920-06-14
1894 Arrive,
Hours Overdue.
On l1aperator
Liner Averages II Knots
OH Voyage and Tardiness
Nets Customs Inspectors
$4,000 Overtime Pay
Swung by the Flood Tide
Captain Forced to Steam
From Quarantine to
Gravesend Bay and Back

The steamship lmperator. once the
pride OF the late Herr Albert Balin,
head of the Hamburg American Line,
when In peace times she made fast
runs between Hamburg and New York.
arrived here last night from Cher
bourg and Southampton with 1874
passengers after comparatively slow
trip across the Atlantic.
Throughout the run Of 1921 miles
she logged an average speed of trihe
more than seventeen knots and he.
tardy arrival was windfal 10 the
customs inspectors in the way of over.
tino pay for The Cunard Line which
now operates the vessel. win have to
pay the inspectors and deputy sur
veyors $500.
In accordance with a ruling of the
treasury Department, all expenses for
the service of customs employees on
sundays or other holidays at the rate
or double time must be paid by the
steamship lines which elect to dock
thelr steamships at such times.
Long Wait for Inspectors
The customs inspectors who ex-
amined the baggage of the Imperstor's
passengers last night We're held In
readiness from 10 a. m. yesterday until
I p m, when the gangplank OF the big
vessel was made fast at Pier Sd, and
each inspector earned thereby the
equivalent of two days pay.
The big vessel came into Quarantine
at 8:l5 p. m. During the inspection
ny the health officer, she swung around
win the stiff flood tide and pointed
her nose seaward. When released
from Quarantine, she was compelled,
as measure of precauton, to steam
down to Gravescnd Bay to make the
turn and resume. her journey into port.
she came abeam the Cunard piers
shortly before p. m, and the SAM
sun food tide that drove him to Graves
end Bay to turn confronted Captain c.
A. Smith in the North River He took
ms huge craft up the river close to the
Hobokcn shore. and with the aid of ten
tugs put about skillfully in about ffty
minutes and warped into the dock at
P'er 54 without the swapping of a
spring line.
Great Crowd at Pier
crowd Of some two thousand nay
sons fiocked to the pier outside the
customs lines to greet the returning
passengers. Seldom in the history of
the port has crowd been handled IN
! such orderly fashion. Special guard;
of the Cunard Line controlled the Wis.
ltors with military precision. and the
same system employed at the gang
pianks enabled the 9G6 first and secon
cabin passengers TO come ashore with n
twenty minutes after the Imperator
had made fast.
The big vessel had undergone an
overhauling in England and, according
to hor officers and passengers, she came
across the Atlantic with unusual stead
mess
Among the saloon passengers was
Clarence H. Mackay, president Of the
Commercial Cable and Postal Telc-
graph Companies, who had been abroad
five weeks. He was accompanied by
his mother and his niece, the Countess
de Bonvouloir, and the attel's hus-
band, Count Jules de Bonvoulor. Mr.
Mackay brought with him the body of
the Princess Colonna di Stigliano. the
daughter Of his mother by a previous
marriage. The princess died Of innu-
cnza in March, 1919, while serving as
a Red Cross nurse with the Italian
army. The body will be placed in the
Mackay mausoleum in Greenwood
Cemetery
Frank Moran a Passenger
Also on the lmperator was Frank
Moran. the hcaVywe! Ght fighter, who
went to France to recover his share of
40 per cent of the 100000 taken in
at the box Office during his fight with
Jack johnson. The money. he said, was
not disbursed because Of liens brought
against it by creditors of Johnson. He
said he had returned home to "smokc
OUT Carpenter, the French champion,
whom he believes he can knock out if
q match can be arranged.
Moran was accompanied by Johnny
Coulon, the American bantamweight
who has been fighting abroad. Moran
said he would return to London in
September to fight Joe Beckett, the
British heavyweight.
Among others on the Imperator were
Charles j. CIiddcn, the Count and
Countess Orowska, Gibson l'ahne-
stock, Mrs. !. G. Baldwin, jor and
Mrs. j. a. Coates, Randolph Dodge and
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