The Portland daily press., 1900-04-12
She Sailed at Once for
Liverpool.
Leaving Behind Her the Tourists
Some of Whom Are Sick.

Rome the "Clark's Oriental Tourist
party" which sailed from Boston, Febru-
ary lat, on the Dominion steamship New
EnRlapd for q tour OF the Mediterranean
has met with misfortune. In the party
are three Portland men. Mr.. William n.
Ingrahsm, Jr., Mr.. Leonard o. Short
and Mr. Philip @. Loring. Besides these
there are Frank L. Dlngley Of Lewiston
and some others from that city, j. dge
Emery Of Ellsworth, as well as many
Maine people.
The party numbered 52S when 1t left
Boston. They had plea SAINT trip up the
Mediterranean and after visiting Jerusa-
iem arrived at Naples March 10. Here
the tourists left the ship and went to
Rome and were to sail on the New & ng-
land from Naples for Villafranche. the
seaport of Neioe on Saturday. March gath.
Here the ship was to remain day or
two ana about one hundred and fifty Of
the number were then to sail on the ship
for Liverpool. have q week or 80 In Eng
land and then sail for homo today, April
18th. The rest of party were to proceed
across the continent and join the New
England at Liverpool for the passage
home.
Saturday, March "a, the New England
suddenly got up steam and sailed In
great haste from Naples, leaving all the
Clark party at Rome or Naples and put =
ting all OF their baggage ashore on the
custom house dock. This baggage was
put ashore in great haste. Many Of the
tourists had not encum bered themselves
with all their baggage when they left the
New England. intending to join the ship
weeks at either Naples Moe or Liver
pool. In consequence Of this sudden de-
parture Of the New England from Naples,
for which there could not be asoertaine1
any possible reason by the press CORE =
spondents there, the passengers were
many of them left In very embarrassing
situation. At the time these dispatches
we're written at Naples Mr.. CLARK who
was conducting the party had not been
found, and 1t was not known just what
would be done with the tourists. Their
baggage which had teen taken from the
state rooms on the New England and
huTrledly packed by the steward and his
assistants had been dumped on the deck
at Naples where the custom house officers
went through 1t and put duties on all
dutiable goods which the tourists only
Intended to pay duty on in the United
States. The goods, so these stories say,
were not packed with the greatest care,
women's dresses which had bseu left
hanging In state rooms on the New Eng
land to keep them from wrinkling were
packed into canvass bags and some of
them badly damaged and in many other
ways tha tourists we're put to much
trouble and inconvanience.
Those of the New Englsnd's passengers
who expected to go to England on the
shio had not provided themselves with
sufficient money to defray their expenses
across the Continent and some Of them
were said by the dispatches to be left In
a most destitute condition. When they
found that the New England had sud
denly and mystariously sailed without
them their indignation and alarm was
great and the entire party much dis
tressed.
This was the story In brief which the
papers printed yesterday about this
tourist party. In these stories 1t was
hinted that the breaking out of small
pox among the crew of the New England
was the Gauss for the sudden sailing Of
the New England but nothing was
known about the truth of the small pox
story and 1t was rather discredited.
.EArs. William III. Ingraham received a
dated Florence, March 90. This letter was
very brief but it seems to solve the mys-
terytof the sudden departure OF the New
England from Naples and the apparent
abandonment Of the tourists in Rome.
In his letter Mr.. Ingraham said that
after the party had arrived at Rome and
mad been sightseeing for several days 1t
as learned that Mrs. Thompson OF
Frlendship, Ne, who was one OF the
tourists had been taken suddenly slok and
carried to hospital. She had not been
feeling well for some days bnt the doctors
did not know what was the matter with
ner, SO Mr. Ingraham wrote, until she
suddenly broke out with small pox. AS
soon as { the symptoms OF the dread
disease appeared the woman was hurried
off to hofpltal In Homeland Mr.. Ingra-
ham wrote that he had heard the day be-
fore he wrote from Florence that the wo-
man was dead. The death Of Mrs.
Thompson at Rome has been reported but
the cause of 1t was not given. Mr. In
graham wrote that 1t was thsn learned
for the first time that four of the New
Englana's crew had small pox and that
i've others of the tourists. had been striok-
en- with the disease ana taken to the hos
pital In Rome. Tbs New England had
bssn scheduled to sail from Naples for
Villatranche on March Gath at three