The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-17
CUNARD AGENT LAUDS CEDRIC
GIANT WHITE STAR BOAT BRINGS
1899 PASSENGERS.
Richard Croker u Thinking OF Horse,
Not Politics. His Son Frank Reports
oxford Professor and Sioux Home.
sick for the Piains--Da mr0sch Back.

sick for the Piains-DamrOsch BACK
The giant White Star liner Cedric. in last
| evening from Liverpool and Queenstown
had mill-pond sea from dock to dock
and made the trip In days hours and
20 minutes, which Is fast for her. Vernon h
Brown OF the Cunard line. who was passen'
ger, said the Cedric was one Of the steadiest
vessels he ever had been across In. Passen'
gers hardly knew they were moving. nc
slight w&s the vibration and 80 placi the
sea.
The Cedric brought 1899 passengers
including 500 immigrants, most Irish
Scotch and English.
This Is said to be the largest company OF
Celts and Anglo-Saxons that has ever
come into port in one ship. They swarmeo
the rails OF the main deck as the great shiT
warped into dock as swiftly and smoothly
as little coaster They are handsome
! and hardy lot.
Among the Cedric's cabin passengers
we're:
nYSssRs XIX ssSh1T
/; r e Drury Lowe, J. 4. Mashee: George
ffASn nsn phS%"s fTpy HhG$ss fps Hsay
Auberon stevens. Joseph Ward, j, p, and
Charles c, Townsend, Thomas 7. stiIlman
I. A. Willard. .Jr. Mrs. $, l.. Smyth MIR. and
Mrs. II. A. Simonds. John j. Sheehan and
Mrs, Charles f. Blakeway.
The Cedric was detained two and hall
hours in quarantine because three of her
tremen are i'll with mild form of smallpox
They reported sick on Sunday and the ship 8
surgeon after examining them had them
isolated in the hospital. They were trans
ferred to North Brothers. Island.
Frank II. Croker, who arrived by the
American liner St. Paul from Southampton
and Cherbourg. said that his father Richard
Croker. was, apparently. not thinking
about politics any more.
There is nothing" said young Mr.. Croker,
in the report that my father il soon coming
home. He is simply enjoying his horses and
his place at Vantage and bothering about
Robert P. Porter. who has been abroad
since December. said he thought reopening
the tariff question was mistake. he lett
his family in England.
Another passenger by the st. Pau was
Richard Townsend, an Oxford professor
who left here in 1880 after some experieno Q
in the West as cowboy and who will revisit
the scenes of his strenuous youth before
returning to England. Others were
H, l. Heinz and Miss Mary 4. Heinz. Major
ca, $. Miller. s. A.: + # ol5phant: Charles
Alton. A, v Young, Ho wer r. Watson and
Some Of the passengers who came in ye-ter-
day on the Etruria were T., q. l.. An derson,
the Hon. Cecil Clifton. William H Drew.
F. Morton Morse David Muir, c, f, skinner,
st Clair Tilley and the Rev. Egerton r. Young
In the second cabin were two fine looking
Thomas and Julia Staben. They got home
sick in London and were sent home by
Buffalo Bill. They will go to the Pine
Ridge Agency.
A negro who slowed away aboard the
Etruria. was discovered in coal bunker
the second day out and put TO shovelinG
coal. As he is an American citizen he can
not be sent back to Liverpool
Aboard the Hamburg American liner
Auguste Victoria, in yesterday from Ham
burg, Southampton and Cherbourg. were
Walter Damrosch, the musical director.
and these among others:
Count Ivan de Rubido Ichv. attache to the
Austrian Embassy: Dr. a 4 Donaldson nd Smith
Aip"s. j, W. Bernheimr B. " Bntterheld.
Gsp Georse Rd boy c9pe rax ;Ss E. :
F + KAY and i" AUGUST p Windolph ~
Mr.. Damrosch said he had visited Richard
Strauss while in Italy and had heard his
new opera, die Feuersnoth," which Mr..
Damrosch says is beautiful produce
ton.
Some of the passengers bound for Queens
town and Liverpool by the Cunarder
Ivernia. of yesterday. are:
Edmund Ashworth. MIR. and Mrs. Augustus
Thomas, MIR and Mrs, Elisha Whittelsey,
Mr.. and Mrs ". T Cough, John Galloway.
Jr. Mir and Mrs. George s. Eastwick. Mr..
and Mrs Richard X. Fox, W. u, Dixon. Mr..
and Mrs. T X. I.adlaw, Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon
King Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Joel, MIR, and Mrs.
f. Hicks Herrick. the Rev. James A. OBrien
and MIR and Mrs Alfred T Marcus.