New-York tribune., 1912-08-30
OLYMPIC SAILS LATE
Boat Train Fails to Leave Lon
don on Time.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON LINE
F. Housman, Walter Kelly and
Doc" Owen Among the
White Star Passengers.


London, Aug. 29.-The Olympics
hoodoo apparently refuses to be shaken
off. Tt was not enough that the vessel
had TO start day late this trip on ac-
count Of losing propeller blade on her
last westward voyage. but her pas
sengers were held up this morning in
the wet and cold at Waterloo Station
while the tracks were cleared at VauX-
hall. two miles away, after the train
smash, in which two persons were
killed and several injured
Among the injured were two pro-
spective bridegrooms, one Of them being
J. Pratt, of Addlestone, who was on his
way to Stroud. Gloucestershire, to be
married this afternoon and take his
bride to America He had his leg
broken.
Meanwhile hundreds Of passengers
| for the Olympic, with tons Of baggage,
crowded the platform at Waterloo
waiting for the White Star specials to
take them TO southampton, while local
trains pulled into the express platform
and disgorged passengers among the
already overcrowded seagOers.
Among the most cheerful Of the
olympic passengers We're '"Doc" Owen
and n coterie of his pals. who took
advantage Of the opportunity TO look
over their fellow travellers.
r. Housman. of A. \. Housman
Co. was also bound cheerfully vest
ward but his cheerfulness was due 70
belief in the prosperity OF America
He said while waiting for the tram:
America is on the eve Of great
bccD. The crop reports suggest a pc
Rod of prosperity which will last sew
eral years. regardless OF VINO Is
elected In November. Wall street is
showing great strength and paying
little attention 70 politics. ! think
President Taft IL growing stronger
with the country every day, and IL IS
no matter If the betting is : to
an Wilson. That does not amount to
much.
cone of the strongest reasons ior
Mr. Taft's success is that the Arherl-
can workman is paid better thhh any
workman in the world, and ] can't see
bow Governor WILSON, tarlt pro-
promme will bear the workman
opaIvsIs. because the workman wants
his nay kept up TO five dollars oay'
ard roonkeving with the tariff. as Gov
or,,or Wilson suggests. will tend 10
hiring the American workman down 10
the level OF the British workman "ho'
when in afiuence. gets only TWO oo'iarS
day.
"rhe conditions in England undel hs
free trade regime are terrible AS i"
instance of the way business Is "'-
noyerished thereby, 1 saw. "neh cross
,,g ON the Channel boat last week.
,ot OF dressmakers with TRUNKS IKE
,ocLin1 caaes filled with dresses from
par,s made and ready to dump on the
English marLct. That couluh oo "o"e
in America, II they wanteo 10 uu''p
Paris dresses in America they "ouiu
have to- rov {, the privilege. also saw
. largo m. nufacturer of linen in Buda-
nest. who assured me that he could
make linen and sell It in the Engiish
market cheaper than Irish linen. He
added that when he was able to supply
the Hungarian demand and have a sur
plus for export he was going TO enter
the English market TO compete WIN
Irish linen.
"The American steel business Is III
wonderful condition. / saw an ofnclsi
OF the Steel Corporation couple OF
weeks ago on the Continent, who said
the corporation needed five thousand
more workmen than they could get
The cost of living is difficult prob
lem. but II is chiefly influenced by the
production and general conditions OF
country. Tariff tinkering will not prove
TO be q remedy. The tremendous crops