The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-14
2,00OOFTHE HOMEWARD BOUND
CROWD 4 INCOMING LINERS AND
MAKE CUSTOMS MEN WORK.

Bishop With Good Report OF the Philip.
pines-Automobilists VINO Have Done
| the Alps and sahara-A Host Of Player
Folk and the "ParsifM' singers.
| The energies OF the customs mon were
taxed to the limit yesterday attending to
| the landing OF more than 1900 cabin pas
sengers, mostly returning Americans, from
the North German Lloyd steamships Kron-
prinz Wilhelm and Grosser Kurfuerst the
! Red Star liner Finland and the Atlantic
Transport steamship Mesaba.
The Kronprinz Wilhelm did not have a
berth vacant in her cabins. Although she
had several days of tumultuous weather,
she made the voyage in days, 15 hours
and is minutes, at an hourly average Of
2252 knots. Among her passengers was
the Right Rev. Charles Henry Brent, Mis-
sionary Bishop Of the Episcopal Church in
the Philippines. He said that Episcopalian-
ism was established firmly in Manila and
that the country was getting along famous
ly. There was not even memory of insur-
rection. The American army had little
to do except with the rebellious Moros,
who were the enemies of both Americans
and Filpinos.
The Bishop said that he had travelled
all over Lu2on and Panay, and that he had
found all the schools with both native and
American teachers, well filed.
Other passengers by the Kronprinz were
Prof. Samuel s. Sanford OF Yale, Nat c.
Goodwin, Mr.. and Mrs. Cortlandt Bishop,
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Untermyer, Dudley
Carter, son of Mrs. Leslie Carter: Mr.. and
Mrs. William Alan Hoar, Louis Steckler,
Reginald de Koven, Robert E. Bowling,
/. Townsend Burden, Jr. G. A. Won Lingen,
German Consul-General; Prof. Brander
Matthews, Count Strachwitz and DR.. G. A.
Quinby.
Prof. Sanford said that in England he
found everybody for the Japs. In France
the general sentiment was ro-Russian,
although numberess Frenchmen were not
chary Of their admiration Of the fighting
qualities of the little men OF the land of the
chrysanthemum.
Gossip of the ship had it that there had
been card cutting contest in the smoking
room on Monday night in which Eat Good
win, j. H. Strosnider and John G.. Ryan
won about Z COO. Each Of 20 the hee ALLEGED 1ed
participants in the game referred inquirers
to the others.
Cortlandt Bishop said that he and his
wife had taken an extensive automobile
Europe and Africa They had penetrated
sixty miles into the Sahara, passing many
caravans and frightening canels unfamiliar
with the locomotion of civilization. They
also had done some autom obiling in the
Alps, getting to an altitude of about l 500
feet.
Mr.. De Koven said that he had brought
with him the music of light opera in which
De Wolf Hopper will appear this winter at
the Lyric.
At
begin rehearsals Of his new comedy, THE
Usurper, on Thursday. and that ne would
open at Powers's Theatre in Chicago on
Dot. 8. He will appear here at the Knick-
erbocker on Nov. 2s He says that the play,
the scenes Of which are laid in England and
America, is a dandy"
SINGERS FOR sAvAaE's -PARsIFAL.'
Other arrivals yesterday included de-
tachment Of the singers engaged by Henry
w. Savage for his production Of -Parsifal."
Christian de voss came on the Finland.
He Is one Of the tenors engaged for the
title role. He was born in Amsterdam in
1872, and his career was made In his native
city. In 1898 he appeared in the Neither
lands Opera Company at Amsterdam az
Wdlther In -Tannhaeuser. and after that his
progress to the rank of first tenor was
rapid. He has made his greatest sue
cesses as Lohenorin Tdnnhaeuser and
Siegmund.
On the Grosser Kurfuerst we're Hanna
Mara, Johannes Bischoff and Putnam |
Nine Mara is to be one of the |
three Kundrys. She studied the role at |
the suggestion OF Frau Wagner for whom |
she sang at Bayreuth. She is an Austrian
and was born In the Tyrol. She won first
prize for piano at the Musical Conservatory :
in Vienna when only 49,
Johannes Bischoff. who will divide Am
'Crtds with Herr Egenieff, comes from tina
5tadt Theater at Cologne where for several
years he has been the first barytone He is
4 pupil of Franz Betz. who coached him
n the Wagnerian repertoire. Putnam
Iriswod is young American who studied
singing at the Royal College of Music under
iendegge. He has sung at Covent Garden
Ind was under contract for term Of years
1t the .Stadt Theater, when Col. Savage
bought his release to come here.