New-York tribune., 1908-08-13
CARONI4 SEA S4MARITAN.
Cunard Liner GiUes Food to StarUing
CreY of Sailing Ship.

The Cunard liner Caronia. which was not due at
New York until this morning. arrived last night,
after unusually quick run from Queenstown,
beating the White Star liner Majestic which left
Queenstown four hours and a quarter later. The
Caronia landed her passengers at s15 o'clock She
up from Quarantine with heavy flood tide
and had warp into dock alongside the Pan
nonia It difficult task TO put the big liner
IN but with little assistance from the tugs Cap
tain Dow took her upstrea m close to the Hoboken
side and turned her The sangplank was down
within thirty-fve minutes after she came abeam
the pier
The Caronia played the part of the gosd Sanar-
tan of the sea on Friday evening by supplying
food the hungry crew of the British ship Lyder
horn. ]. A. NcCubbn, the purser who is the editor
Of The Cunard Daily Bulletin printed board.
wrote the following account of the incident:
This evening. at 30 o'clock, a large ship was
observed on the starboard bow. flying the letters
Ny which in the inteTnationa code of signals
on the Carona 5unnng fa up [ns ansTe5tng s & peG
while our course was altered and the engines
Lyderhorn, one hundred and thirty-four days out
from teuieue 6onnd for were three
sailors fhe and foaS the ehef Of the who
sShpaesa Sa eres had sa1i had no food for two
The scene that presented itself when the pas, pas,
sengers emerged from the saloon will not easily
be forgotten: for barely hundred yards away sSs
Rsf afansf ths dhon EafS 9i With ali Sails set while
below three men busily engaged in slowing
s sies aganst an the caronias side In than TWEEN
ty-Ave minutes sufficient stores had been trans
ferred from the Caronia to the Iyderhorns noal:
and with three ringing hurrahs from the ere" OF
the sailing ship answered by the hearty cheers or
orr passengers the Caronia's engines were runs
full speed ahead and the voyage proceeoed WIN
Among the passengers on the Caron1a was n
" searles who Is connected with the manage
-,en+ Of the Hotel Plaza. Several months ago
three Fnslshmen visited the Plaza and were so
tn,nressed with the design of the hotel that they
returned to London and organized a s1OoOO.O00
cornnanv to build a duplicate Green Park. near
buckingham Palace. Mr.. Searles was invited to
London by the company to select site and give
s,,ggestions in the laying out of the proposed
hotel
James O'Sullivan superintendent of delivery
az tbe nostofice IN Philadelphia who was a pas
sen9er on the Caronia. informed by John NJ
T3ishop deputy surveyor of customs, that he had
better remain in this city night and not try
To 90 to Philadelphia NJ. O'Sullivan was puzzled.
but the deputy surveyor explained that he had re-
ceiyed telephone call from Philadelphia in the
afternoon requesting that he detain Mr.. O'Sulli-
van In New York hundred letter carriers
who expected the Caronia would dock in the
morning had arranged to come to- this city to
give dinner for the superintendent tonight at
the Hotel St Denis. Mr.. OSulivan. believing
that perhaps the Philadelphians would not know
the difference if their mail was not delivered de-
cided to let the carriers come on, and remained
in the city.