Stipe Kruze (Original spelling Kruže) and Jerko Matesan are listed in the same EI Manifest:
New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 about Jerko Matesan
Name: Jerko Matesan
Arrival Date: 3 Sep 1913
Birth Year: abt 1882
Birth Location: Dalmatia
Birth Location Other: spalato (Italian: Spalato; Croatian: Split)
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Ethnicity/Race-
/Nationality: Croatian
Port of Departure: Bremen
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Ship Name: Kronprinzessin Cecilie
Nearest relative: Orsula Matesan, mother (incorrectly listed as father!)at Split
Final Destination: Portland, Oregon to brother Tony(?) Matesan.
Stipe Kruze is on the same ship traveling to the same destination as Jerko (was in the US before, in 1905 and 1907).
There are still KRUŽE residing in the village of Srinjine today.
(Jerko, Jeronim = Jerome)