GERMAN LINERS AT NEW YORK

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3063, 26 April 1917, Page 7

GERMAN LINERS AT NEW YORK

. __ $ : - -. BADLY HA'NDJyED LEVIATHANS. The liner Berlin, trying to make New York in a, thick fog, missed Sandy Hook and the Ambrose Channel by a great many miles, and ran aground oa the flats near Eockaway—tho jlaco

now mentioned iu the American papers as tbo point from which the steel not will bo stretched every night to protect the port;/ When tho Berlin was aground largo crowds went out to see her and to joke about tho incident. The Germans put the full blame on tho fog, but bs a number of British and other liners had entered the. port without mishap on the-same day there was a good deal of criticism on German seamanship. ■ , ■ - Tho gianfc liner lmperator made nor appearance in, Now York on the same day as tho Cunarder Aquitahia arrived. There was much curiosity in New York as- to how these two enormous ships would manage to creep up trie Hudson and to swing into their piers without accident. Tho Aquitania. staff was keen to excel, and in spite of tho strong tide that was running she was brought in and moored! in about fifteen minutes. Her departure was quito as remarkable, being eone insido of twenty minutes. The lmperator was 'two hours getting into her berth; and carried away part of her pier structure. When going out she damaged a, tug, sank a' barge laden with coal, and suspended traffic in the Hudson for l.over an hour. ' ' . - On her first tnp to New/York tho lmperator also Buffered a mishap of a i symbolic kind which impressed the superstitious! Her figure-head was a. gigantio eagle of gilt metal with outspread wings. The eagle was not built for storms, and a wave carried oft boththo wings of the Imperial bird. There was a largo gathering of Gorman Americans to cheer her on her arrival, and when they saw that her .proud! symbol was not so much an eagle as a penguin they wore filled with sad forebodings. The friends of the Allies have since offered the interpretation _ that the future of Germany is neither in the air nor on tho water—"Manchester Guardian." ____