Show SLEEPY HOLLOW IS NE NEW NAME FOR HOBOKEN I G. G Great reat Ships Interned Are I Rip Van Winkles of the Sea Dy fly CARLTON TEN EYCK Written for the United Press Pi-ess 1 8 1 April 21 21 t mf Rip Van Winkles of or the Sea ea Is la tho the new name given the dozen big furman Ila passenger lin liners tied up mild at al today toda As exhibit A of o what the world war can cn alII and does do to a n belligerent s M merchant marine the dozing Idle leviathans levia- levia thans than at nt the tho Hoboken docks locks arc are believed to be the most striking of or the war tsar h itself el Is 19 a Sleepy Hollow The Tho c cessation of commerce nl nt the ho German German Ger Ger- man uman piers has hit a n hard harrl blow at Hoboken's Ho Ho- hokens hoken's business IJU When tho the war Is 18 over the Rip flip Van Winkles Winkles' will awake a Sot Not ot before according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to the 1 vigilant nt vJ agents of or Uncle Sent who watch day Ilay and ano night to see e that none of or the Interned liners slip out outto outto to 10 sea pen Captain Moller the grizzled old 8 sea seadog a dog doc who Is is superintendent of the North German Lloyd piers growls and a grumbles grum grum- ides bles over 11 stories that the German passenger passenger passenger pas pas- fleet Is waiting for fOl a chance to 10 sneak ou out nut 1 One lie He more or less makes no difference difference dif dif- f ference erene he ht declared U upon pon reading newspaper stories of alleged lJ preparations 1 lions for flight of or the big ships shills Cates Gates Guarded At ever overt every gate gale stands a customs guard Just an at If there were customs to custom CUStom cus tom toni like the days before lie war Down the hit bay are vigilant members of th the navys navy's 5 mosquito fleet neel and n even r I la larger r lr war cs vessels eIB stationed to head off the German ships or 01 any airy others which seek to leave lVe New ew York harbor without permission of or Undo Samuel There are arf six boats tied lied up at the thc North German Lloyd docks the docks the Princess Princess Prin Prin- cess Irene the thc George e Washington the tho Friedrich dor der Grosse the Kaiser l Wll- Wll 11 helm Im II 11 the Grosser Crosser Kurfurst and the Barbarossa all 11 splendid boats But there Isn hili t I a one that hasn't cobwebs cobweb and rust rusl on J il mt I. I Lack seems Just nM ns hall had for boats hoats as for human be- be eIn e- e In lags H. H cobwebs bs off orr boats ts Isn't such hard work worl but the sailors hate hale to lo brush cobwebs at 1 r reduced rates raIls When hen the war W broke rok out and the thc company saw that It II was going to lo be bp forced to la lay tt Us its bents beats up the captains offered their crews part pa pay to l keep rep on working Most of time the men declined But Hut those who accept accepted are all living comfortably on hoard board tho the ships exec except pi these C who preferred to leave Thc rhey get It their sleeping quarters and their meals mc for or not nothing but the they brush no cobwebs As AM a stud study In neutrality a I compan company of German sailors hanging out their red flannels on the quarter lied of or the George Washington V ton Is worth going going go go- o. o ing to the enchanted c city ty of or Hoboken lo to sec c Coal Is Short The vessels are nrc standing out of or the water front from ten to twenty feet reet hove above the normal I load d line lino There isn't one of oC them that's thal I got ot oteliu eliu enough h coal Oal to get Ila past t tho rho statue Of t Liberty Kiy Captain Moller Ho will not nol let hi his man n take visitors through an any of the ships But Hut he hc said that the till customs authorities apt the secret la Ie men had been heen nil all through them and could go o through them again as au often orten as the they came around with search warrants war war- warrants rants signed by the German consul There are aboul about 2201 OO men mell living on the Ow company's ships and perhaps one one- third of or these are arc still on the pay roll l inch ach ship maintains a small fire Just enough h 10 to keep the electric rn going The Tho ships do not depend on their own engines to get t theta them out of or th the decks In case of ot fire The piers them- them selves are arc equipped with cables and donkey engines to haul the boats baits out In Ina Ina ina a Jiffy If It necessary At the American Hamburg line docks Captain Jarka says MS that thaI he cant can't allow However he has all any m mystery hunting no ob objections If Ir a person gets on a ferry boat oat and looks over the tile piers to see the and the time Bohemia and the Pennsylvania and the th President Lincoln Lincoln Lin Lin- coln lying there without a thin thing to do doThe doThe The Tho Is the tho hl biggest P t boat In existence She cost coat 1 and Is I worth out about l out 16 cents where she IK Is It lakes a thousand tons ton of or coal a da day to rush her across the ocean on one of or her regular rr-gular trips If anybody knows how to coal a boat like this and slip her out of or the harbor without the neutrality squad d noticing It it the 1110 companies would like hies to hear bout about his system m for use In times limes of or peace The crews of the Hamburg American boats are living aboard on about the same terms as ls the North German Lloyd I Imen men |