Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-25
HEROES OF OCEAN
TO GET WELCOME
New York Plans Gigantic
Reception to Capt.
Fried and Crew. :
BY the Associated Press.

6y the ASSOCIATED FEeSNs
NEW YORK, January 25.-Plan:
were forming today for welcome tt
Capt. George Fried and his crew of the
liner America in keeping with theil
heroic rescue of 80 men from the sink
ing freighter Florida.
The America, with the survivors
aboard, Is due to reach her berth al
Hoboken some time tomorrow after
noon.
Despite his expressed distaste Of pub
lie demonstrations, it was apparent to-
day that admiring fellow townsmen will
not permit Capt. Fried to Shun the
limelight, but will accord him a civic
welcome similar to that given three
years ago, when he rescued the crew OF
the British freighter Antinoe.
Tentative plans announced by Police
Commissioner WhaIen, who is also
chairman of the mayors welcoming
committee, call for a parade up Broad
way from the Battery and reception
at City Hall.
Mr.. Whalen will go down the bay on
the city tug Macon, meet the America
and escort her to her pier. Capt. Fried,
Chief Officer Harry Manning, who COM
manded the lifeboat crew Of eight, are
to be taken aboard the tug to the Bat
terry. where a fleet of automobiles VIII
bear them in a procession OF triumph
up Broadway.
Two Seamen Lost.
The rescue of the crew of the Antlnoe
in n1id-Atlantic three years ago yesCet-
dav was even more dlfncult expiolV
than the saving of the crew OF tne
Italian freighter, and, ike Inc second
rescue, it demonstrated the MASTER sea-
manship and daring courage OF Capt.
Fried.
Two of the Roosevelt's seamen were
lost and five lifeboatS smashed before
all Is of the British sailors were salely
aboard the President Roosevelt.
A boatswain's mate and maSter-aC-
arms were drowned when the first DoaI
launched was splintered against the sue
of the liner. It was 80 hours later tnat
can't. Fried sent wireless message tell
ing of the rescue of II of the AntlnoeS
crew. The next day the rest were TAKEN
off the sinking hulk. 49,
Nv the rescue of the crew OF the
Florida. the America has more imam
evened the score of lives she has cost
and has saved. Twice she Went OUT OF
her course to permit her surgeon 10
minister to men desperately i'll at sea,
thus saving two lives. The FLORIDA
rescue brought the total to "a. Acct
dents in which she has figured nave
cost half the number saved.
Has Colorful Record.
The America, which was launched in
1905 by the Hamburg-American Line
under the name Amerika, has had
colorful career. In a collision OF Kent,
England, in 1912, she sank British
submarine with the loss OF Is lives.
Two more lives were recorded against
her when she sank at her pier after
she was taken over by the United States
Government during the war and re-
modelled for transport service.
In 1919 officers reported mutlny
aboard the ship, which was put down
without loss of life. TWO years ago
she caught fire while being recondition-
ed at Newport News and suffered dam
age estimated at 100000. After being
rebuilt she was returned to service, with
Capt Fried in command.
While city officials were planning a
public reception for Capt. Fried and
Chief Officer Manning, two women were
waiting to give them more homely
greeting. One is Mrs. George Fried, the
captains wife, and the other is Mrs.
Anna Manning, widowed mother of the
chief officer.