The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-14
GALES LASH THE ST. PAUL.
JULIE OPP AND OTHER P~AssEy6ERs
KNOCKED DOWN BIZ Il SEA.

N"NNSAAD DOWN NJ ~ onAs
The Actress was Picked Up Unconscious Us.
der . Let or Deck C~hnirs-ahip Dtdn't Have
Ono Pleasant Day All the. way Over
Passed the Dutch Linor Maasdsu. Disabled.
wostward.bound craft from European ports
are having a time OF It b~uffoting the crested seas
dashed up by tho forco gales OF the last several
days. The American liner st. Paul, which
arrived yesterday from Southampton. q day
late. did not have one day Of pleasant weather
in her voyage of z days. o hours and 81 minutes
from the Needles to Sandy Hook lightship. She
got the worst lambastinR on Thursday, when
she put only 1871 knots Of tumblinR water astern.
Her fair-weather average IL about 500 knots
She shipped much spray and an occasional crest.
Several passengers who ventured out on the
promenade deck when the weather was at Its
worst were thrown down and slightly hurt by
the top of a comber that swished along the deck.
Among them were Miss julio Opp, the actress,
and Miss Wakefield.
When tho st. Paul was two days out she
passed a Holland-Amcrica steamship stopped.
with an oil tank standing by. apparently pre-
/ pairing to tow her. Tho Dutch liner was doubt.
less the Maasdam, which sailed from Rotterdam
on Nov. 8 for this port, and was sighted of the
! Scilly Islands on Friday, returning. She sig-
nailed that one Of her engines was disabled; that
the damage was serious, and that she was going
to put into Plymouth for repairs.
Miss Opp IL rather q stately person to DO
selected by tho Atlantic for tho victim Of
one Of It's practical jokes. She was sitting
on tho promenade deck on Thursday dashed in a
chair and protected by a heavy sailcloth screen
from the slapping seas that were coming over the
bow. There came q boisterous wave that swept
sailcloth shelter and chair and actress tumbling
over and over smash against the deckhouse
III, n-N .-. f-.,l
with tho faithless awning and four or five
= wrecked chairs piled atop of her. She was
carried to her stateroom, where 1t was found
that she was not hurt except by a severe blow
as feeling like a. fool-as | did. 1t IL a cut to
ones pride that hurts most in an accident like
When she went to London a year and n half
ago Miss Opp was not an actress at all. She was
make herself Known in an honorable way. and
who had done some writing that was acceptable
to the publishers TO whom she presented it She
had beauty and a flno presence.
She is the daughter of Johnny OPP. an east
side politician Of some .renown, who was for
cry. He was one of the most well known and
popular men OF tho old Volunteer Fire Depart
rough and ready east side Citizen Of the period.
Miss Opp came back to New York yester,
aHy as the a com%en wh9se work PROM h" ib sro sTifi.
year ago it was. thought that she had
to pi"y Hv muen in " "As You Like Ike IT. a part
which required her to speak some twenty-five
than acceptabIy for Julia Nelson as Rosqliad.
and ndia has for ss several mG pdhnon attrG ,o .f zig
Princess and tho BatteSay."
To use her own expressions. Miss Opp is In
New York now because she has been sloaned'
James, Theatre for the fret production in this
country Of Pinero's play :. The PRINCESS and tho
nJJ5 uss " present. aes tHf% Cartons ar ! tne Pr "Tree Of Kn owl
edge" q play in which Miss Opp is not essen
Yesterday as he unstrspped Miss Ops trunks
for tho inspection Of the custom officials. but at
any moment Mr.. Alexander may cable for her.
Miss OPP. was met at the American line pier
by her mother and q group of five or six girls
see he as 0 she " tsit cd y Win her friends TeS sA'y and
lodged baggage %rustlers as they trundled by
stage "l She is quite tail and has psrfeet self.
possession. not only OF mind but Of Sa "
York Ses ~s and aps Ne@ York % cG people pts'' She IL at cannot q, Selp
feeling that Notwithstanding her remarkable
rise to public g. recognition abroad. she is as much
ago, and consequently as much on s trial Ia. .,.
But here p have to fsii back upon The hope that
honest liking that wo Americans have for one
another. I do hope that the home people
now NOW 0s as N'n I said si mf because aAf Mr.. e9 %lssaD Ddsr
has loaned me to Mr.. Frohman;;. Mr.: Pinero
course. That is the English way. The author
to @sie himself disusreeable in that position,
but Mr.. Pinero has never been anything but
please people here as much as it has pleased
them on the other side l will be 80 very glad
Really i was very keen to come back to my
mother. She has had a great deal Of trouble
since ] went away. and l have wanted ever SO
stsy w Roa HS T ! don' ! f Know h0S You i0n MUST %'i ask
When they said that Mr.. Frohmsn wanted me
and ! was to go l didn't go into particulars at
now am just the least bit frightened. Tteel
stupid Just now from being knocked around tho
MIR. Frohman had just invited Miss Opp to
enter one OF his companies when she went to
Europe two years ago, At that time she had
They had advised her to go on the stage. She
went to Mr.. Frohman and asked for a trial.
Just as he had decided in her favor Miss Opp re-
ccived a cablegram from Bernhardt offering her
part in . London production Of Camille. Miss
obtained a small part at the Saint James's.
was made an pnderstudy to Julia Nelson in
the heirs first tlia me-" aroused irsa tremendoas enth %nis aD.
Since then her progress has been easy. After
Nov. %, Miss Opp hopes to appear in New York
in "As You Like 1t" and Tho Tree of Knowl-
edge
Among the st. Paul's passengers were Budd
Doble, Miss Rosebud Doble, Ada Rehan. Angus
tin DAILY. Tyrone Power. Count Zborowskii. and
William Randall Cremer. Mr.. Cremer is bound
for Washington TO present TO the United States
Senate n petition si0nod by 1000 persons, repre-.
senting 2.75O,OOO British workingmen, asking
the Senate to do all IT. can to, promote the adop.
ton Of an arbitration treaty between the United
States and England. Mr.. Cremor was formerly
a member of Parliament. 10 editor of the Arbi
traitor. and is First Secretary of tho Interna.
tional Workingmens Association.