The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-08
FOG FLIES AND SHIPS COME IN.
A WHOLE DAY FOR FISHING ON
THE LCCANIA OFF THE HOOK.
The st. Paul Slipped In Earlier Than the
Cunarder, After Arriving Is Hours
Later-The Carpathia and La Bre.
ta6ne Also in the FOg.BOund Fleet.


Dawn yesterday revealed to the marine
| observer at Sandy Hook four liners that
| had dropped anchor outside the bar In
| the fog: The Cunarders Lucania and Car
| pathia, the French steamship La Bretagne
and the American liner st Paul. The Luz
cana had CROPPED her way to the Sandy
| Hook lightship, guided partly blythe latter's
fog siren, and anchored at ?'0S o'clock on
| Saturday morning: the Carpathia came
along in the afternoon and the st. Paul
joined the fog-bound squadron at sociock
in the evening. La Bretagne anchored at
clock yesterday morning.
Three times on Saturday. while 1t was
still daylight, Capt. McCay of the Lucania
got mp anchor and made ali effort to reach
harbor, Each time the air cleared bit
for only an aggravatngly brief interval,
and he anchor splashed down again.
Early yesterday morning the st. Paul,
in brief spell of clearness, managed to
dodge inside the Hook. Tho .I,ucania was
about to follow when the fog curtain
descended again. Later in the morning
the mis-. vanished in shower and all craft
that had been waiting came in.
In the thirty hours she was out in the
-
lack means of Willing away the hours.
netting was stretched on the promenade
deck and there were games OF handball,
cricket and bowling. Edmund jackson
of Leeds. brother of an English expert
cricketer, carried off the honors in the
Iucania s games.
All Saturday afternoon passengers fshed
from the sides of the big ship with lines
furnished by the purser and Able Seaman
Philip Breen. The luckiest Of the anglers
OF Chicago. Capt, Duffy hauled in half
a basket Of ling. big and little. Nearly
everybody had fresh fish for dinner that
evening.
Besides the lucky fishermen there were
aboard the L,icania
:, Major II; J. Gould Adams. G. j Bainbridse
Va Vail j. r. Gnrundy Waiter Il. Law.
Anna Hickisch of the Moody Manners Opera
Perkns a Cap Mr spw sTTs
Doremus and F. o. Winsow.
Some passengers who arrived by the ST.
Paul are:
p caPs Ira DC WeRo5a u sc KIN
aha MT Gs9{Es 3 WasPsS
the American Embassy at London; Niels
ETo G1 5Rszo ap EaS Mr. o NJ Lyahs smns aFc
acre Stable; Edward Penfleld. Mr. and Mrs
A. Vatable Edward r. Dickinson, f. ". Dun
ton. Charles F, Haseltine, \ de Navarro
who is here to look after his fats; Lawrence
A. Odlin, Prof. w, A. Wyckof. Mr.. and Mrs
w. B. McElroy. Mrs. Brewster Cameron and
DR.. c. b. Johnson
Thomas Clyde learned by wireless while
the Lucania was of the Long Island coast
that his horse Dublin had defeated Hermis
in the race at Gravesend last Wednesday.
Mrs. Richard Harding Davis brought two
English bulldogs with her. and her h,ls-
band brought one-act play called the
System Of Goodrun," translated by Mr..
Davis from the French of Andre Dulord.
Charles Frohman will produce the play
here. Capt, Lydig WHO has al :, been away
his wife, said that many of the Spanish
people apparently had not heard yet that
America and Spain had ever been at war.
They treated the American tourists with
great politeness. Spanish hotels and rail-
roads. Capt. Lydig said, were worse than
anything Of their kind in any other country.
The vicopte de Chambrun. secretary
Of the French Ambassador at Washington,
was a passenger by the French liner La
Bretagne.
Sir William Van Horne arrived from
Havana by the Ward liner Esperanza, in