The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-15
TEMPEST.LASHED LINERS In.
WHITE WITH ICE AND SALT
Under THE CLEAR SIN.
Half Dozen Rode Out the Northeast
Snow storm Outside the Hook-St Paul
First of Zig saturday Trio TO Get Here
-Nordica Sezsick From Port TO Port.

A tempest dashed fleet Of liners, bigger
than any thar has passed Quarantine of a
morning in many months. got into port
Yesterday under the clear sun. ice-shea thed
and frosted like Christmas cakes and with
tunnels masked in salt CRYSTALS Half q
dozen of the big ships. including the Gu
harder lucania. the French liner La Tou-
raine and the American liner st, Paul, had
anchored over night outside the bar.
The st. Paul was tho first of the trio
to reach Sandy Hook lightship. She ar
rived at the bar at 3:l5 on Saturday after
noon and hauled off shore because Of thick
weather. She returned at 7i5 p. M. and
anchored. The observer did not find her
until morning.
Westerly gales and heavy head seas the
last half OF the riotous voyage delayed
the three big ships more than half a day.
The only steamship that was damaged in the
tumult was the Spanish freghtsr Octubre.
from Huelva. She had a two weeks battle
With the seas, some of which boarded her,
carrying away two lifeboats, staving a
deckhols-., flooding the cabin and twisting
bridge stanchions and ladders
Senator William A. Clark of Montana
was a passenger bv the St Paul. He went
away aboard the Lucania three weeks ago,
on vacation, spending two days in Lon
don and five in Paris and on the Continent
He said that he had transacted no business
while abroad. His chief object in going
was 10 brace up with the sea air He was
accompanied by his niece, Mile. La Chap
peller The tax or their dutiable goods,
inch ding diamond brooch for one of the
senator's daughters, was g. 800. The Sena-
IL e.
the law does not permit the acceptance Of
anything except cash for customs dues,
he had 10 leave the goods until to-day
Nobody the senator knew had enough
money about him to cash the check. ana
the banks We're not Cp,n.
Asked il il was true that he had made
present of a million dollars to his first
grandson, recently born, the senator said:
Well. It hasn't materlalizei vet"
The Senator Will go to Washington to-
day and will stay there until the end of the
session of Congress. He said the United
states would, he felt confident, remain
entirely neutral in the Venezuelan trouble
Mime. NOrdica, who is not an able sea-
man, found the seas too turbulent for her
on every day of the ST. Paul'S trip and kept
To her sta-eroom from port 10 port. It
took her three hours after the ship locked
10 get into good shape to go to the
BLcNingl!aIn. sine Will JON the Maurice
Nrdu Company, Of which she was not a
member last season.
was unable To JON the company earlier,
Nine. Nord ca said yeSto rday, because
| had made a number Of engagements
to sing in England before Mr. Grau and |
zane to an agreement. Alter | left this
country last sprng | went TO Paris for
short rest and then sang at Covent Garden.
Later took part in the Wagner perform
auCes at the Prn2 Regents Theatre in
Munich. Next year ? all sing there again
and Will give >i'giirdc for the first nm"
Pr, v.ousiy hay" sung only the BrIrntiide
lu DE No.aurc.' Here | shail apIear
during IN" w.ntcr in the revival OF La
Gioconda winch | have never yet sung
here
Nine. kirkhv-Lunn, an En- glish contralto,
who IL a newcomer here also arrived. She
will sing BrdngGsne OF Friday. She il
also to appear in concert and oratorio
She made her first appearance in opera
last summer al Covent Garden and was very
suCCeSsfUl Here she viii divide tie Ger
man contralto roles with Nine. Schumsnn-
Heink
Other vovagors by the 81. Paul we're
NJ Edmund Kelly. a French authority on
internat ional law; K. W. BALDWIN, Dewitt
-. cook, q. W. Hoadlv and Ramon A.
de To!"io. Argentine Consui-General at
New York
Arthur Hagen, Jr.. and his bride of this
city, who arrived hv the Lucania evil
IDENTIFY had not given their young friends a
.lfl'f ~ IflI 'fl'b|dl' ltie NtlNEP.
Bride AID bridegroom found score -
enthusiastic Young folks. including eight
brighten girls, lining the gangplank
when they stepped ashore. Every one Of
the score had a package Of rice and the
couple shed showers Of II from ia" ships
sid, 10 the pier. Other passengers by the
Iucania were; W Rathbonc Bacon, A. r.
Bingham, G.. C.. Chapman. Mrs Archie
bald Forbes Rear Admiral George r.
lde. L. 5. y; d. s. Kerr, John Sander
son and the Marquis Spencer-Turner.
Aboard the Minnetonka, from London,
were: II. II Andrews. II Duckworth Bayne,
Frank I. Brakeman, {. II. Bull, Lieutenant
Commander John Gibson, L. $. n. COL.
Lewis and Charles Townley Martin.
The steamer kronprinz Wilhelm, out
ward bound, which anchored in Gravesend
Bay over night, cleared Sandy Hook bar a,
7:25 Yesterday morning