Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-08
INTERESTING NEWS
FROM EAST ORANGE
GIRL NOW ABROAD
Miss Marie RyersOn, on Trip to
Naples, Tells OF la Fete
Rationale"
on Board S. S. Germanla.

On Board >. b. GerfndHia.
Atlantic Ocean en- Route to Naples.
To the Editor Of the Evening star:
1t may be of interest 10 some OF our
friends at home to hear something
about how we celebrated the l4th Ct
July. the French holiday. on ship
board. We have been sailing for ten
days, and late this afternoon sighted
Cape ST. Vincent, off the coast of Por-
tugal, and this morning about 9 O'Clock
caught the first glimpse of the majestic
Rock of Gibraltar. On one side of the
ship spread out before us was the coast
of Africa, Morocco and on the other the
Spanish coast.
A ship Celebration.
The chief feature of the trip was the
celebration of the Fete Rationale. AT
8 o'clock IN the morning a salute was
sounded, and the ships flags and pen
nants, including our beloved Stars and
Stripes, were run up, n hutterea
from the mast, Next. we could hear
the voices of the third-class passengers
singing THE Marseillaise'' from their
part of the ship. The remainder of the
day vas spent playing games on deck
and in preparation for the program Oh
the evening. This began with a fine
ulllleI u IlOI0 COu1SCS tAAehL 50
dining saloon was gaily decorated with
silk flags, American, French and
Italian, and around the sides of she
saloon and over the doorway larger
flags were hung. We then drank a toast
to Captain Boulenc. of the Germania,
and the program continued. A second
address was made also in French by
Charles Lehman, of New York These
xrora foI1orvad NV frfo in English given
by the Rev. DR.. Alexander Lewis, pas
tor of the First Congregational Church,
of Kansas City, Mo-, and Paul H.
Linaberry, NJ. A, Harvard, lectenr
d'Anglais a la Faculti des Lettres De
PUniversite de Lyon. To Miss Louise
K. Hardy, of South Orange, a member
of the New Jersey Woman's Press
Club, who is my travelling companion,
belongs the honor of writing an original
poem for the occasion, which she read
and received a great ovation. The cap
tain proposed a toast to her n made
a request for copies of the poem, with
permission to have 1t published in La
Revue des Revues. Mrs. Paul H. Lima
berry contributed q soprano solo, ana
accompanied herself on the piano. An
amusing sketch, THE Ruggles's Christ
mas Dinner from "fhe Birds Christ
mas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggln,
was recited by Miss Edith L. Rhodes,
off Brooklyn, and kitty Malone's FIX
perience with the Heather Chinese" by
Mary Mapes Dodge, was given by the
writer.
Fireworks at Night. +
II was nearly II o'clock when we
left the dining saloon n went above,
on the top deck, where over h ocean
the full moon threw a pathway of sill
yer light. Our gallant captain brought
out skyrockets-red, white and blue
which were set off over the ships side.
They threw a fantastic glow over those
on the deck, and as the shower OF
sparks dropped into the sea the cele.
hration of the 14th of July, the French
independence Day ended.
esIan Overheard.
And now l must allude to a sorrowful
episode which occurred four days & 1t
was during the afternoon that a man
rushed to the upper deck to the cap
tain with the news, Man overheard"
This proved to be true. The captain
Immediately gave orders to slow down
and to lower a 1ifeboat. Meanwhile a
D1C0Cl NCA AAAd OCCAA ~
board to the unfortunate man. who.
however. could not be seen. BY this
time the ship had turned and gone
back, as nearly as possible, to the
spot where the man had gone over
board. but he could not be seen. There
was nothing that could be done. The
sailors stood ready to man h lifeboat,
but after searching through glasses and
fr0r1 4ha ~ aofhooH So xroi,, 4ha oapfnin
gave orders to ''go ahead" and we were
obliged to continue our journey, leav-
ing the poor fellow in his watery grave.
The facts, as near as can be ascer-
tanned, are that the man was an
italian, in the steerage, Is years old,
n that he committed suicide by
jumping overheard. His baggage was
opened In order to learn whatever clues
were possible. Letters were found
from his mother. written to him in
America, beseeching him for money,
and a letter supposed to be from the
young woman he loved, which had been
returned to him by her. He had APP
peared sad and not well all during the
voyage. Watching his opportunity, he
climbed outside the rail and, after
making the sign of the cross, jumped
"a n oCos - 90 SNAA ~ AAOs IN
were eyewitnesses of the tragedy that
he made no effort to grasp the life pre-
server that was thrown to him. 1t
cast a gloom over us. as death always
does. and was. of course, doubly hard
for those who had been daily asso-
ciated with him. One person who felt
his death keenly was Royal Commits
sioner Gaetano Cafiero, c. P. N, a
polished Italian officer employed by the
Italian government to look after the
welfare of the steerage passengers. It
was he who opened the drowned mans
effects and read his letters. The COM
missioner had been overlooking the
Storage passengers not twenty min
utes before the catastrophe happened.
To witness Passion Play.
We are now expeetantiy dreaming of
wonderfully new sights awaiting us in
Naples. Rome, Florence. Venice and
Sorrento. Fastening on from thesa
places TO witness the production of the
Passion Play" at Oberammergau. But
wherever we may wander in foreign
lands there is no joy to be compared
to that of returning to ones home land
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