New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-02
Two Ships Race
To Port to Beat
New Alien Law
King Alexander, With Six
Day Handicap, First to
Cross Quarantine Line;
Rival Loses by Minutes
Both Laden With Greeks
Owners of Defeated Craft
Will Appeal to Washing
ton to Land Passengers

The recent legislation which has re-
| stricted immigration and turned the
steerage business topsy-turvy took
new turn yesterday, compelling two
steamships from Greece to shut down
their safety valves and push their en-
gines to the utmost in an effort to beat
each other to port. The contrasting
vessels were the Greek liner King
Alexander and the Acropolis, which
flies the American flag. 1t was real
race, not for prestige, but for cold doY-
lars and cents, for it was losing game
running up into the thousands of dol
lars for the one that cane into port
last.
Like many races 1t ended in dis
putc, and the losing vessels owners will
protest to Washington if the local i'm
migration officials refuse to take care
Of her immigrants from Greece
Beats Six-Day Handicap
The winning vessel was the King
Alexander, which left Piraeus August
ID. six days after the Acropolis cleared
the same Grecian port She is the fast
er ship, and as the Mobile she carried
! many American troops home from
France. The Acropolis is the old trans
port Fitzpatrick. which never had rep
utation for speed.
According to the immigration figures
.ha september quota for Greek subjects
, this port is 657, and the Greeks
eligible for admission to this country
wa"id more than consume the entire
f.sptain John Lambrades, master of
T. Alexander was not anxious to land
nj, passengers here in August, as the
1arA-a for that month had been ex-
hausted and he would have to return
with his travellers to Greece. He
Unanswered cleverly along the At
lantic and managed to slip into Quar-
antine yesterday, shortly after a. m.
The Western Union marine observer
recorded him as arriving in Quarantine
at l:07 a. M; the Naval Communica-
tion Service gave him the same time,
and the Postal observer checked him
at 1910 a. m. The same chroniclcr
timed the Acropolis at 1912 a. M, the
Western Union and the Naval Com
munication recording her as arriving
at 1909 a. m.
Appeal to Washington
With the count of three against her
The Acropolis lost, but her owner, the
American Black Sea Line, will appeal
&c Washington to. have her Greek. i'm
migrants landed. 1t is contended by
her oHner that she came in practically
at IA same time as the King Alexander
and made an honest effort to make port
at time that would be suitable to the
provisions of the law.
The Acropolis carried sixty-two Rus
sian refugees who were sent here by
the Mennonite Relief Committee. They
were driven out of Russia by the Boil
sheviki because they had served with
General Wrangel. The men said that
many Of their comrades were shot by
troops of the Soviet government after
they had been captured.
On the King Alexander was fifteen
year-old Greek boy called James Gikas,
who was a stowaway. He told the i'm
migration officials that he was clever
with his fists and wanted to meet any
American pugilist equal to him in years
and weight. He was taken to Ellis
Island and will be deported