The sun., 1903-12-28
LINER ALL ICE DOCKS In SNOW
ETRURIA BRINGS BUDGET OF
JAPAN.RUSSIA WAR NEWS.
Story That Woolwich Is shipping War
Material TO Japan-Also q Scheme
to English a Fleet Of Japanese Mer.
chant Ships-A SeagOing Santa Claus.


Like Christmas cake ornament magni-
fed the Cunarder Etruria from Liverpool
and Queenstown, after lying to four hours
"fr Sandy Hook in frosty tumult, came up
to her pier yesterday morning with very
small but happy ships company. She
accumulated all her crystalline loveliness
of outline within sight of port. Her voy-
age before she struck into the frigid blast
Of Saturday was merely of the usual winter
roughness. She shipped many sea crests.
and these, with spindrift and spray, which
froze in the bitter air as they lashed the
ship, made an arctic picture of her. From
waterline to truck, forward. she was moulded
in ice.
She had Sandy Hook abeam at 2:3o o clock
in the morning, and waited OF shore until
the sea had subsidized bit and daylight had
come, and then, at $40 O clock, headed for
port, reaching Quarantine at 1857. She
left her anchorage just in time to meet
the morning snowstorm, which added ito
her evanescent glory by coating Of FROST
ing, but prevented her from reaching her
dock until nearly II o clock
Some of the Etruria's twenty nine cabin
passengers we're Percival Phillips, war
correspondent OF the London Daily Err
press; A. j. de Souza. Portuguese mer-
chant of Shanghai r. Krishna. an East
Indian merchant OF the same city; j. De
Armas, Lieut. Col, G. Hunter Ogilvie Of the
Royal Canadian Artillery. Peter Stirling,
pr W r Williams. James H. johnson and
" W. Price
Mr. Phillips is an American and was
formerly with the Pittsburg Dispatch.
He is going to San Francisco, and will
sail THENCE. on Jan. 7, for Yokohama by the
Pacific Mail steamship Siberia. He said
it was believed in England by everybody
in diplomatic and political life that war
between japan and Russia was inevitable.
MY own paper" he said, 'feels 30 sure
that war is coming that 1t has hurried me
of to be on hand. Woolwich arsenal is
shipping war material to Japan. OF course
that hasn't been printed in the English
newspapers. not even in the Ezpress but
| have it on good authority that 1t is true.
1t is lso reported in London that lot OF
young English military and naval attaches
recently sent to Japan ostensbly to learn
the Japanese language really have been
sen, to observe the war mano uvres,'
Mr.. Phillips said that the captains Of the
Nippon Yusen KaiAha, the great Japanese
steamship line, owning more than seventy.
five vessels of the finest modern type, will
put their comma nds under the British nag
when they hear that war has been declared.
All the shippers are English, and each has
a bill of sale of his ship in his pocket and
a certified check ready TO pay for his ship
at the Office of the British Consul at the port
ne happens to be nearest when the war news
reaches him This is intended to prevent
Russian cruisers from capturing such
Japanese merchant ships as are not In use
as transports by the japanese.
Messrs de Souza and hrishna say that
the news of appT0aohlng var sent them
route. They also will sail from San Fran
cisco by the Siberia. leaving MIR. Phillips
at Yokohama and going on to Sha nghai;
Mr.. de Sollza, before going West will spend
the Chinese Minister. MIR. de Souza said the
opinion OF merchants in the Japanese and
Chinese trade is that japan and RUSSIA
will fight.
cabin passengers we're eating their Christ
mas dinner word came from the steerage
that a six-year-old immigrant boy was
waling because there wasn't any Santa
Claus at sea Assurances that Santa Claus
couldn't walk on the water and might get
scorched coming down a funnel didn't
pacfy him. He thought Mr. Claus might
utilize a ventilator if he was really the
person he had been cracked up to De, and
If he didn't show himself soon he. the
yOunRSuI, WOdi0h bchCNO eASAS VoS "AiJ
Santa Claus.
The diners in the saloon decided that
there must be Santa Claus pretty quick,
and, turning their eyes on and pointing
their fingers at Purser Mocubbin' they
said you're it."
The purser borrowed a huge fur coat
and cap, and with an improvised white
beard of raw cotton, marched at the head
of the cabin passengers down into the
steerage Every one in the procession
loIa xr-tt frr,if rQn lll
quickly fashioned, bits of bric-a-brac and
odds and ends. The sceptical six-year-
old and all the other youngsters greeted
their visitors joyfully, and all got some
and resumed dinner. The POO steerage
passengers had dinner OF turkey and
goose topped OF with ice cream.
During the festivities the Etruria was in
touch by wireless with the Atlantic Trans
port liner Minnehaha, Atty miles away.
American liner Philadelphia, then talking
TO the French liner La Bretagne, bound
east. BY this wireless chain every ship
in the lot was able to wish every other
ship a merry Christmas.
On the second day out Josef Brown, a
second cabin passenger, was taken before
Capt. Pritchard accused of attempting TO
assault Brooklyn girl who was travelling
alone. He met the girl in dark passage
She screamed and a steward ran to her
and put Brown under arrest. Capt. Pritch-
ard. after hearing the girls story, ordered
Brown put in irons. Brown declared that
lie had only tried to kiss the girl and that
he was drunk and irresponsible. The girl
raid she didn't want to press the case against
Brown. and finally after applying to Brown
some good deep sea language Capt. Pritch-
ard ordered him to stay In his cabin the
rest Of the voyage. The girls father met
her at the pier and requested that nothing
ahould he done about the matter. Brown
was turned over to Detective Mallon. After
a consultation, in which the father OF the
girl and Pier Superintendent Watson took
part. II was decided that Brown could not
be held by the police here for an offence
committed on the high seas on British
vessel. Then Mallon told Brown to clear
out quickly. assisting his momentum
bit by a swift one" below the escutcheon.
Percy Standing brother of Guy Standing,
the actor who has been playing in London
in A Message From Mars taking Mr.
Hawtrey's part; Lady Cecil Moon and Mat
thev Allen were paSsen GERS by the stea M