New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-04
II. R. WADUCT BLOWN UP THIEF SEARCH ON LINER
But None on the Adriatic as
Scotland Yard Described.
$4,000 DIAMOND ROBBERY
Customs Men and Police Swarm
Aboard and Scrutinize All
Passengers in Vain.

The little customs cutter Manhattan
suuirmed down the bay last evening "h-er
many more passengers than she IL III the
habit Of carrying. Not only did she tahc
along enough customs inspectors Tor ACE
ouate distribution among five liners an"
one tramp, but as heavier ordnance she
carried six Central Office mon. under inc
leadership OF Lieutenant Dominick Riiey'
four Pinkerton detectives and deputy
United states marshal. not 20 mention. OF
course. tho inevitable knot Of ship ne"sers.
There seemed enough dynamic humanity
aboard 10 blow the hsrbor full of sensa'
tons hut little occurred.
The detectives were bound for the White
Star liner Adriatic. tho last OF the hall
dozen steamships 10 arrive In quarantine
4 fin from Scotland Yerd TO Deputy fol'cs
Commissioner Dougherty 10 lcok out TOT
five men who had stolen S25,"0 worm III
diamonds in London was the cause OF their
trip. When they boarded the liner they
ransacked first cabin. second cabin ana
storage for the alleged thieves. whose pho-
tographs they had, but they could ma no
one who resembled any Of the fugltiNes
Az an extra precaution, when the steamer
jocked n detective stationed himself ~
each gangwsy and closely scrutnized each
messenger ss he descended m the pier
They we're forced 10 the conclusion that
their men were not aboard
The cutter stopped first to put customs
officer aboard the Iamport Holt liner
Voltaire. from South America. Then she
turned back down tho bay again, slowing
down as she came abreast Of quarantine
to let her passengers watch the Holland
America liner Rotterdam race the Gale
donia. or the Anchor Line, up to tho Mar
rows. Both boats belched black volumes NJ
smoke and tore great white burrows In the
water in their final squirt The ROTTERDAM
won by length over her smaller rival.
They had come in abreast Of each other all
the way from Fire Island
A similar race. though not en- close a
ono. took place between the Adrlatic ana
the Red star liner Lapland from as far
east as Nantucket Although the Adriauc
had head start. the Lapland beat her to
Quarantine by several minutes. Both had
new material in their engine and boiler
rooms as a result Of the strikes abroad
The English boat. hailins from Liverpool,
had suffered more recently. however, than
had the Bapland.
The four transatlantic liners were stuffed
with passengers, the Rotterdam carrying
100 in her two cabins, record comple-
merit The Lapland had BIZ hrst 'ap'n'
| 1876 second cabin and S37 steerage passeh-
gers, a total Of t.G10 while the Adrlauc
carried a total Of 1,945 passengers.
Otto r. Barnard, Justus Miles Forman'
Colonel George Harvey. Dudley Ward. NJ
F.. and Vanderbilt Webb came over in the
first cabin of the Adriatic. SO ala - T.
Dixon and A. H. Lowe, the Enghsh tennis
champions, who are TO play the American
champions at Newport. They were met at
the pier by Marshall Mclean, Lyle Il. Ma
han and Robert u. Wrenn. representing the
American players, who will escort them TO
Newport Mr.. Ward, member or Parlia-
,nent for southampton. Is on his way 10
Canada where he will watch with great
interest he progress of the elections
.tx-Mavor Mcclellan, who has been aoroa
s,nca last March. bore "A strip of surgeon
master on his forehead. the result or a
wound received when he tripped recently
on the stairs Of the hotel in Paris where
he and Mrs. Mcclellan we're staying rue
made light of the mishap.
The Moroccan situation the FORMER MdS"i
considered extremely serious, though just
! before he left France he thought the ten
sion had lghtened a bit. The pubic III
neither country understood we'll what II
WAS all about, he said. the two govern
ments having guarded the details OF 'he
negotiations as a secret.
! Mr.. Mcclellan had visited Italy France
and Germany in his six months ABROAD. III
/ italy he attended the Camorra trial at VI
| terbo. Only sixty Of the three hundred Wit
nesses have been examined so far, he re-
marked, so that Americans going abroad
next summer will also have an opportunity
| to attend the trial
ON the Iapland were Justice Francis NJ.
! Scott. OF the Appellate Division of the
Supreme Court, who said he knew nothing
about Murphy's plan TO shelve him when
| his term of office expires on January /;
J. T. Morris vice president OF the Erie
Railroad. and r. j. o. Rhinelander. George
b. Mcclellan the former Mayor, came over
on the Rotterdam.
A wireless message was received aboard
the Adriatc as she came up from Quar-
antine sent by the Minneapolis of the At
lantic Transport Line. $50 miles out TO
| sea. on her way to London. reading:
1--WE miss Caroline Mercer. If body
washes up-light brown hair. brown eyes.
five feet six inches, lis pounds; clothes
| marked G. M.-nctify w. Farnham Smith,
! Omaha Club, omaha, Neb.'
! The message was signed ny captain