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Show GEIER prisoners are transferred to barracks v sr w S OS TEUTONS IN MERRY MOOD, DESPITE THEIR CAPTIVITY MEMBERS of the German cruiser Geier being marched from the depot to waiting street cars, on which they were taken to Fort Douglas for internment in the war prison. Many of the prisoners carried musical instruments for entertainment within j the prison gates. i , .. . . , i : fjrrf':ii Tl 3Urijt 4t J I J ; in BiiMMMMriillili1IIIWMIIiMlWltWMlAIMtiMWMMMIMMMMMIMMlMIll No Mishaps Attend Internment of German Officers Offi-cers and Men; Trip Through Downtown District Without Incident. r i 1TH such quiet and order that the people of Salt Lake l( fe scarcely knew when it happened, hap-pened, the officers and sailors sail-ors of the German cruiser Geier, who arrived in the city on a special train about 3:30 yesterday morning, were detrained, de-trained, loaded aboard street cars and transferred to the Third war prison barracks at Fort Qouglas between 8 and 9 o'clock yesterday morning. The entire detachment of prisoners, including twenty officers and 159 sailors of the Geier, headed by Captain M. Grasshof and Captain K. Gulock of thj! German collier Locksun, were safely iu-side iu-side the barbed wire stockade of the prison camp within another hour. Owing to the fact that the public was not advised as to the probable hour of detrainment of the prisoners, there were comparatively few people at the station aside from railroad employees and persons going to and from work, who were attracted by the sight of the blue uniforms of the sailors and the olive drab of the United States soldiers who accompanied them as military guard. Bv previous arrangement, as soon as the special train pulled in at the Rio Grande denot this morning, the engine was detached and the prisoners were left in their cars for the balance of the night. A line of sentries was established estab-lished by Captain La Vcrgne L. Gregg, commanding D company of the Thirty-second Thirty-second infantry, which acted as military guard for the prisoners from Honolulu, Hawaii, to the prison camp at the fort, and these men, in addition to those on dutv in each car. kept careful watch until the prisoners were detrained. No one was permitted to enter or leave the train until after daylight. In Merry Mood. The special train carryiug the prisoners prison-ers was composed of eleven coaches, three of which were baggage and diner. There was one Pullman, the Denmark, in which the officers were kept by themselves. them-selves. Four tourist sleepers were filled with the sailors, and there were three tourist sleepers occupied by the 154 officers of-ficers and enlisted men of the guard company. The guard cars were eo arranged ar-ranged that there was one guard coach between each two of the coaches occupied occu-pied by prisoners. In addition, guards were kept on duty constantly in the coaches occupied by the prisoners. As soon as daylight broke the prisoners prison-ers were up and the soldiers turned out. Small detachments of the sailors, under guard, were permitted to leave their coaches and exercise along the platform, wash their faces and hands in the depot wash room, buy tobacco and newspapers newspa-pers at the news stand. It was a healthy, husky, jolly and talkatively-inclined aggregation of jack tars whose heads bobbed in and out of the train windows as they surveyed the surroundings of their new place of sojourn, so-journ, and noted the arrival of police officers and officers from the prison camp 'to take them to their war prison homes. Some of the faces of the sailors were almost hidden behind masses of shaggy black whiskers that made them resemble resem-ble Russians, but all of them were smiling. smil-ing. They were in a merry mood despite de-spite the long trip, the early hour and tbe chill of tho morning. Shortly after 6 o'clock in the morning morn-ing Colonel Arthur Williams, commandant command-ant of the war prison camp. Captain Stephen Abbott, adiutnnt of tho prison comoanV, Dr. W. F. Beer, surgeon of the orison company, and a detachment of doctors arrived at the depot. They made an examination of the prisoners for traces of disease. But one man was found who was at all under the weather. and he was suffering from an old attack at-tack of rheumatism. An ambulance from the post had been provided for emergency, and the rheumatic prisoner was conveyed to the prison hospital in this. He was able to walk to the ambulance am-bulance unassisted. All the other officers offi-cers and men were in perfect health and fine spirits. Transfer to Prison. Street cars to transfer the men to the post arrived in front of the station a little before 8 o'clock. Immediately Chief of Police .J.. Parley White and Captain Riley M. Beckstead, at the head of a detail of police, cleared the platform plat-form and street of spectators. The infantry in-fantry guard for the prisoners was formed on the platform, and at command com-mand of the chief warrant officer of the Geier crew, the sailors from the various va-rious coaches filed out and lined up in double ranks along the platform. The officers formed in a company of their own at the head of the column. At a signal from Colonel Williams, the officers offi-cers and men were marched to the street and placed aboard special cars. A special spe-cial detail of police in automobiles and mounted on motorcycles accompanied the line of cars from the depot to the post. Arrived at the post the officers and sailors were unloaded from the cars near the war prison entrance and marched directly into the lane between the two fences of the stockade. Three sets of barracks had been prepared for them', and the remainder of the day was spent by officers and sailors in getting get-ting themselves established in their new quarters. The officers and sailors of the Cor-morau, Cor-morau, who preceded the Geier crew to the prison, watched the arrival of the Geier crew with much evident interest. Many of them knew each other, and there were numerous interesting reunions re-unions after the newly arrived detachment detach-ment got inside the compound. It was learned that the Geier was chased into the port of Honolulu after her escape from Tsing Tau, China, in 1914 by Japanese war vessels, and that that was the reason she did not dare leave the port when given the customary custom-ary twenty-four-hour notice by the American officials. The Jap boats were lying in wait for her outside the harbor. har-bor. . Mrs. 'Grasshof, wife of the commander of the Geier crew, arrived in Salt Lake tater in the day with her 3-months-old baby. She called at headquarters of the war prison camn yesterday afternoon and inquired in-quired as to the health and condition of her husband. The wife was advised as to how to proceed to secure permission from the war department to visit her husband in the prison camp at proper times. She traveled from Honolulu with her baby on the same boat with her husband hus-band and other officers and men of the Geier crew, but was not permitted to travel from San Francisco to Salt Lake on the special prisoners' train because of lack of prqper accommodations. |