The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-12
MET FANCY WEATHER AT SEA
ADRIATIC Mad A SNOWSTORM on
THE FOURTH or JULY.
Last Tuesday a TOrnadoish Thundercloud
siGnsllcd Its Approach by Putting the
wireless Out OF Business First Of the
Thronk OF Homeward Bound Americans

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Thronk OF Homeward Bound Americans
The grea. White Star liner Adriatic.
in last evening from Southampton. Cher
bourg and Queenstown. found varieties
Of abnormal summer weather in her course
She sailed from Cherbourg OF July 8, and
while heading for Queenstown the next
day ran into a snowstorm that lasted about
fifteen minutes
While she was of Sable Island on Tues
day night the Adriatic became entangled
in an electrical storm that put her wire
less out Of commission She had many
messages to deliver but could not get the
shore station.
There was then nothing in sight on any
horizon that indicated a storm Several
hours later il hove in view. however. in
the form Of a cornucopia shaped cloud,
which threw from it's narrow. or sealine,
end electrical fireworks OF all kinds men
toned in the books. The wireless ex-
perts could not get even a hint OF what
passing ships and land stations were try
ing TO send to them. A torrentisl tropical
downpour followed the sky illumination.
At times the air in the neighborhood Of
the liner was stabbed by the white ~stilettos
of the storm. but the ship herself was inn
mune. Timid passengers went into their
cabins INC locked the doors.
Later the Adriatic picked IN the North
German Lloyd liner Kaiser Wilhelm H.,
bound east, which said she couldn't send
her wireless messages to Nantucket be-
cause Of the electrical disturbance. The
Adriatic took the Kaiser's dispatches and
handed them in to Nantucket.
The Adriatic brought the first Of the
great throng Of returning Americans who
will fill the cabins Of westbound liners from
now until the latter part Of September.
In the first cabin alone she had 355 voy-
ayers, including former Commodore Fred
erick G.. Bourne Of the New York Yacht
Club, who has been automobiling in France
and having a good time with Sir Thomas
Upton on the latter's yacht in the Mediter-
ranean, Mr.. and Mrs. F.. w. Vanderbilt,
Lucine Kellogg Wilmerding, Mrs. Joseph
L. Widener. Mr.. and Mrs. George II. Wight
man, Mr.. and Mrs. Granville G.. Valentine,
Mrs. s. Van Rensselaer, Thayer, bringing
the body Of her husband, who died In june
Mt Vichy, France; Edward F. Murphy, the
horseman; Mrs. Albert Pancoast, John F.
Lavigne, Mr.. and MIRA George Edgar Beers,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles l.. Case, Henry Forbes
Bigelow, Charles Augustus Davis, MIR. and
Mrs. Eugene Endicott, William s. Gould,
Mr.. and Mrs. George B. Ellis, Samuel Nor
gan Bushnell, Major Fraser, Mrs. James
Gayley, Harlowe Scott Graham, Prof.
George e. Hale, DIR. and Mrs. Oliver Ham
lin. Mr.. and Mrs. Ogden H. Hammond,
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Buchanan Henry, Capt.
u. r. Hutton, MIR. and Mrs. Harry LaMon-
tagDe, Mrs. John Sloane, Mr.. n Mrs. c.. A.
Severance, Miss Clarice Vance, the singer;
Mr.. and Mrs. Wypant Vanderpool and
Mrs. Guest, the automobiles.
The Ave members OF the orchestra Of the
Adriatio interested Miss Vance and she de-
cided TO get up a concert for their benefit on
Wednesday night. They accompanied her
in several n hat she will sing here in
vaudeville. She collected $45, and putting
il on a plate left IL on a table near the leader
Of the orchestra. He complained later
that he had not received 1t. IL was then
learned that one OF the stewards had taken
the money to turn it over TO the British
seamens' fund. Before the ship reached
Quarantine yesterday the matter was
Strengthened out and the orchestra got the