The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-22

Then, Weeping, Mrs. Hall Took the
Very First Steamship Back to New
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Il men, weeping NFb. thC
Very First Steamship Back TO New
York.
From the New York World.
i've had all the Europe 1 want" said
Mrs. w. E. Hall of Chicago. as she ran
down the gang plank of the Kaiser Will
helm der Crosse on Tuesday night. What
1 want is my baby and my husband"
Mrs. Hall was suffering from a case of
Inconsistencies that beats the transatlan-
tic record with ease. She went to Europe,
crying all the way over. cut a five
months sojourn down to two days and
returned by the first steamer so hurried
ly that she had no time to draw her re-
mittances on the other side. but Travelled
on second cabin ticket bought with the
money she happened to have in her purse
II didn't mind the second cabin and
wouldn't have minded the steerage," she
declared. I'D have shipped before the
mast or anything to get back to Ameri-
ca"
Mrs. Hall is the wife of the President
of the Chicago Automobile Repair Com
pany. With a party consisting OF the
families of two Chicago manufacturers
she sailed from New York on the North
German Lloyd liner Barbarosso on May
80. She was to repenish her purse in
London.
According to her own story the Barba-
rcssa had no sooner left Long Island on
the horizon behind the stern than Mrs.
Hall began to cry.
ut was awful" she said, TO think Of
my baby in Chicago without any moth
er, and my husband without any wife,
and me on the ship without either baby
or husband.
Il began to cry and for ten days did
nothing else. The doctor said there was
nothing the matter with me but home
sickness. The folks said it was ridicu-
lous to be homesick for Chicago. but it
was for my baby and husband l was
homesick.
when the ship reached Southampton
I told them l was going back by the
next boat. / didn't want to see the King
or the Tower of London or Westminster
Abbey or Paris-not even Worth's-or
anything. / wanted to see my baby and
my husband.
"They couldn't do anything with me
and l went ashore at Southampton OIL
Monday a week ago l was told that
steamer would come along from Bremen
the next Gay, anu 4 ueCi0cu 10 81 Oh H.
There was plenty of money waiting
for me in London, but 1 wasn't going
there for fear I'd miss the first steamer.
l spent all my time on the pier looking
toward Bremen. l found / had enough
money with me to pay for a second cab
in passage on the vessel which proved TO
be the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse. l
never felt so happy in my life as when 1
went aboard her."
When Mrs. Hall arrived at the pier In
New York and got her baggage around
her she sat down and INDUCED in an
other crying spell.
Haven't any money" she said to
friends she had made on the boat. II
don't isHoar how I shall ever get to Chi
cago."
They dried her tears and sent her to
the Belvidere Hotel. Eighteenth street
and Fourth avenue. There she sent a
telegram to her husband. and a money
order and cheering words came flying
over the wires.
She registered at the hotel as Mrs.
Fanny Downey." She said she did this
because Downey was the name of her
husband until two years ago, when he
changed it to Hall on the death OF his
mother, who was a Hall.
To World correspondent who saw Mr..
Hall in Chicago, he said:
II don't see why she used the name OF
Downey, unless 1t was to save me from
embarra ssment. 1 suppose that home
sickness brought her back"