New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-08-09
FOG PREVENTED DANCE.
Glide Fitch, on the Adriat'c, SAID
He Welcomed the Vet Blanket.

The White Star liner Adriatic arrived yesterday
from. Southampton with an unusually large list OF
returning travellers Not including the crew, she
had 1893 persons on board. The big liner had good
weather throughout the passage until Wednesday
evening. when she poked her nose into a thick fog
blanket. which lasted until she came abeam of
Sandy Hook Lightship yesterday
Clyde Fitch, the playwright. who a passen-
ger. said the fog indeed most welcome, it
thwarted the efforts of number of women pas
sengers who had planned TO give fancy dress
bali Wednesday night Il never enjoyed any
thing the trip quite much as I did the sight
of those big fog banks rolling around thick
ard fast" said Mr.. Fitch. because / knew 1t
meant the doom of the silly fancy dress ball. An
hour before the time set for the grand march
two women appeared deck attired In ridicu-
lousy grotesQue costumes that they had spent
days in improvsing- L am confident the appear
arce OF those women caused the fog TO close DOWN
upon us.
Mr.. Fitch said he had been travelling through
Europe in his motor car at a fairly good speed
and did not meet with an accident He brought
over the manuscript of his new play Bluff which
was ordered by Charles Frohman and finished
while Mr. Fitch in London.
NO; it is not society play" said Mr.. Fitch,
although it has to do with New York life. 1t
seems TO be the general belief that every play
write must be a society play Many of my sue
Cesses have been plays OF this sort, but it does
not follow that must forever write society plays.
Truth which produced in London before L
departed, a big success and L arranged to
have it produced in France. Germany. Italy, Nor
way, Sweden. Austria Holland and Belgium
Miss Helen Miller Gould, who has been abroad
since May Of last year. one Of the Adriatc's
passengers. She said she in good health. and
would go her home at Irvington-on-
Hudson. Miss Gould accompanied by Miss
NJ. Clark. her travelling companion. She declined
10 talk of her sister. Nine. Anna Gould with whom
she had spent much of her time. declaring that
she never talked for publication Miss Gould CON
1ributed largely subscription for the ships
concert Tuesday evening. but the purser de-
clined TO tell the amount
Alan r. TIavley a director OF The Aero Club of
America who has been making ascensions abroad
and arranging the appearance OF foreign con-
testantS for the international cup race TO be held
in St Louis in October. passenger. Mr.. Haw-
ley said that Lieutenant Frank 2. Lahul, winner
of the James Gordon Bennett International chal-
lenge Balloon Cup had recovered from his illness
and had promised to defend the cup at St. Louis
Mr.. Hawley said he made one ascension that at
tracted the attention of the French scientists.
1T was the night ascension made near PARIS.
he said 1T was of the strangest l have ever
experienced. got between two electrical Clouds
and for a long time the basket ropes. balloon my
companion and myself were bristing with electric
sparks realized fully that time what l had
heard OF the phenomenon OF St Elmos hre'
Mr. Hawlev won two cups while abroad. and
from one OF his asCensions. made at Paris. ne
landed the Zuy6er Zee. distance OF about three
hundred and fifty miles
When the Adriatic lying in the fog about
four miles east of Sandy Hook Dr. George w.
R:ey, treasurer of the New York State Osteo-
pathic Society. received wireless message from
the outbound Hamburg American liner halserlh
Auguste Victoria. announcing that he would not
he able TO get into his apartments at the Hotel
Pierrepont in West 32d street. The message came
from DIR. Charles r Bandel. president Of the
society, who a passenger on the halserln.
Both physicians were worn out after their hght
in Albany in favor the Osteopathic bill. ana
agreed TO care for each others practice while one
was abroad. DR.. Riley did not understand the
message, but his arrival learned that there NAG
beeu a misund Outstanding between the owners OF
the Pierrepont and the lessee. and that his apart
rnent had been closed.
other passengers on the Adriatic were Christie
nher PalIes Lord Chief Baron OF Exchequer IN
ireland: Miss Jean Reid, VI. J BOurke, George
f Dunscombe. Mr. and Mrs: W. w douglas anu
Mr. and Mrs James w. Ellsworth