New-York tribune., 1901-12-16
STORMBEATEN LINERS IN.
DETECTIVES HUNTING MEN RESPONSE
BILE FOR LIVERPOOL EXPLOSION.
ARCHBISHOP CHAPELLE RETURNS FROM
HIS MISSION IN THE PHILIPPINES
HEAVY CHRISTMAS MAILS.

HIS MISSION IN THE PHILIPPINES
HEAVY CHRISTMAS MAILS.
The transatlantic liners Etruria. from Liver
pool, and La Bretagne, from Havre. which ex-
perienced stormy weather on the passage across
the ocean, arrived in port yesterday The
Cunarder with 40 heavily loaded mail bags
was badly listed TO starboard when she came up
to her pier, and the French liner, which brought
$50 sacks of mail, experienced considerable diff
fculty in being warped into her BERTH because
CT the strong northwest wind and heavy ebb
tide. At Quarantine the liners were unable to
unload the heavy Christmas mails on account
of the high seas prevailing inside the harbor
The water rough to threaten to
swamp the mail boat. The Postmaster if it had
ventured alongside the Etruria or La Bretagne-
La Bretagne brought in all J66 passengers, of
which % were in the cabin The Etruria carried
in all 26S passengers, and nearly half of
these in the saloon and cabin
Among the passengers La Bretagne were
Archbishop ChapeIe, of New-Orleans, and until
lately Papal Delegate to the Philippines. and
his niece, Miss ]. Songrac; Father Charbonnet,
Mr.. and Mrs Manuel o. Silva, Mrs Delamare
and w Pelham Little
Archbishop Chapelle was sent to the Far East
by the Pope in 1899, al the suggestion of Presi-
dent Mckinley, to settle what was then known
the friar question On the way home from
this important mission Monsignor Chapelle
stopped at Rome. and to-day he will make his
report to President Roosevelt Pope Leo XIII
has transferred Bishop Sharetti. OF Havana, 10
the diocese of the Philippines. Archbishop
Chapelle declined to discuss his mission abroad
before making his report to the Washington
authorities
Among those aboard the Etruria were Bolossy
Kiralfy. Herr Fritz Kreisler. the Austrian vio-
linist: George D. Raper, the dog fancier, who is
TO act as judge at the exhibition of the Ladies'
Kennel Association at Madison Square Garden:
DR.. John T. McKelway. Percy Cornelius, Mrs
NJ de Leftwich-Dodge. Francis H Shepherd, ].
c. Sloane and Captain o. Rasmussen.
Mr. Kiralfy said that he went to France last
November for the purpose of arranging spec
tacular pageant for Barnum & Bailey's circus.
which occupies the Machinery Building the
Exposition grounds The extravaganza, which
was known Queen Balkis. proved a great Sic
cess and will be shown through the French
provinces. There are over five hundred people
taking part in the pageant, dozen elephants.
camels zebras and sacred cows. The show is
going on smoothly. Mr.. Kiralfy said and for
that reason he came back to spend Christmas
with friends.
Herr Fritz Kreisler. the vioIinist. comes for
his third tour OF America under the manage
ment of Henry WOlfsohI.. On Friday he Will
play with the Philharmonic Society. after which
he will visit principal cities to give rectals.
He will play with the Boston Symphony. and the
Chicago. ST Louis Cincinnati. Pittsburg and
Philadelphia permanent orCheStras. Herr KreiS-
Ter said that since he left the United States
wear ago he had toured Russia and Germany,
and that while in Berlin he took the place of
the soloist of Ysaye, who was suddenly taken i'll
at the first Beethoven concert which Kresler
attending.
The presence of Pinkerton detectives. search
ing for Larry Marks and others suspected of
participation In the gigantic bank forgeries re-
Gently discovered in Liverpool. at the pier as
the passengers from the Etruria were landing.
led to the disclosure of the fact that the British
Government was also anxious get hold of
several mysterious characters, supposedly Irish
men, suspected of being the authors of the ex
plosion and fire which wrecked the Exchange
buildings and Liverpool Town Hall on Friday
morning a week ago. The Exchange buildings
the passengers say, form quadrangle, and on
the DaIe-st side of the square is the Town
Hall which was blown up by dynamiters in
June 1881 and has since been rebuilt at a cost
of over 81 ,O00000. Two weeks before that time,
on MAY 16 1881 the Central Police Station. at
Liverpool a couple of blocks from the Town
Hail. was also blown up. For these explosions
Roberts, McKevitt and McGrath were arrested
and sentenced to life imprisonment.
The Etrurias passengers who visited the scene
of the explosion and fire on the morning of De
cember 6 say that Superintendent Thomas of
the fire brigade told them that the Exchange
was destroyed by Internal machine timed to
go off at midnight and placed in the offices COM
Drising groups and B. where brokers samples
of oil were stored. John Lee. the keeper of the
Exchange, they said. informed them that he
suspected Irish-Americans, who had been meet
ing for days the monument of the emanci-
mated slave in the courtyard of the quadrangle
Of being responsible for the latest outrage The
explosion which startled the city occurred
the third floor about the centre of the RumfOrd
ST side of the Exchange building. and the
fra jns+antIy followed the ChapeI-st and Dale
st sides were quickly in flames The loss by the
fire and explosion was over 100000.
The detectives at the pier would not admit
that they were seeking others than the men
wanted for the bank forgeries.
The Etruria's butcher has in box carrier
pigeon which picked up the ocean when
the vessel was on her way TO England from this
port on November % last. The bird in
good condition ard seeking owner, has a ring
about its leg marked "V, II, 66S."