The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-06-21
Mrs. Hall Became Homssick as
Soon as Stsama Sailed.
SHE TOOK FIRST BOAT BACK,
StIIl Weeping for Husband and Babe, She
Arrived In New York PsnaIlsss Quick
Response BY Husband

New York. June 2l.-"Ive had
Mrs. w. f. Hall. OF Chicago, as she ran
down the gang-plank of the Kaiser VIII
helm der Crosse on Tuesday night. What
i want is my baby and husband"
Mrs Hall was suffering from a case Of
homesickness that beats the transatlantic
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 hurriedly
that she had no time TO draw her re-
mittances on the other side. but travelled
on a second cabin ticket bought with the
money she happened to have In her purse.
ii don'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 Amer
ica"
Mrs. Hall is the wife OF the president OF
the Chicago Automobile Repair company
With a party consisting OF the families
OF the two Chicago manufacturers she
sailed from New York on the North Ger
man Lloyd liner Barbarosso on May 30
She was TO replenish her purse lin Lon
don.
According to her own story the Bar
barosso had no sooner left Long Island
on the horizon behind the stern than Mrs
Hall began 20 cry.
ut was awful" she said, ito think OF
my baby I'm Chicago without any mother
and my husband without any wife. and
me on the ship without either baby or
husband.
~ hooar % cry a pd for tan davq I did
nothing else The doctor said there was
nothing the matter with me but home
sickness. The folks said IL was ridiculous
10 be homesick for Chicago. but II was for
my baby and husband / was homesick
when the ship reached Southampton I
told them was going back by the next
boat. | didn't want 10 see the King or
the Tower OF London or Westminster ABB
hey or Psris-not even Worths-or any
thing wanted to see my baby and my
husband.
"Thoy couldn't do anything with me
and | went ashore at Southampton on
Monday a week ago. | was told that a
steamer would come along from Bremen
the next day and | decide, 10 go on &C.
There was plenty of money waiting for
me I'm London. but ] wasn't going there
for fear Ia miss the first steamer
spent aN my time on the pier looking
toward Bremen. i found i had enough
money WITH me 10 pay TOT d StcOnu ChDHl
passage on the vessel which proved 10 be
the Kaiser W nnelm der Crosse. j never
felt so happy I'm my life as when / went
aboard her"
When Mrs. Hall arrived at the pier In
New York and got her baggage around
her she sat down and indulged In another
crying spell.
Haven't any money" she said to
friends she had met on the boat. "I
don't know how i shall ever get back
to Chicago"
They dried her tears and sent her TO
the Belvidere hotel, Eighteenth street and
Fourth avenue. There she sent tele-
gram 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 II 10 Hall on the death OF his
mother, who was "A Han
To correspondent who saw Mr.. Hall
I'm Chicago he said
II don't see why she used the name OF
Downey. unless IL was TO save me from
embarrassment. ! suppose that home
sickness brought her back"