The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-14

New York E Nov. 1.-The American chiIdren.s Santa Claus ship steamea away today with it's great cargo or presents and toys for the fatherless
 chiIdTen of Europe Nearly ninety carloads of Christmas aifts from American boys and girls were aboard the U S ship Jason, when she slipped away from her wharf The holiday gifts were piled high on her deck. City offfciaIs army officers from Governors Island and relief commit tees, who had collected gifts all the way from San Francisco to New York, Joined with the great throng of snoth-. CTS and children on shore, waving flags and singing songs-all wishing t1e gray cruiser s'C4odspeedsn The Jason sailed late today because
 the Admiral Santa. Claus, Lieut.. Com
 mander e. B. Courtney, thought Fri day. the 18th, an unfSvorable day to
 cast off The Jason's mission is two
 fold. Not only does she transport
 Christmas gifts to the stricken people
 by which all European countries may display artistic and Industrial. deveI-
 opment at the Panama-Pacif1c Inter national Exposition at San Francisco
 next year.
 Commander Courtney's itinerary plans taking the Jason through the Panama Canal and the unloading Of
 the Old worlds exhibit treasures at
 the Exposition grounds about Fsebru-
 ar.t | which is three weeks before the
 Exposition opens. The Jason,s return cargo will include many millions of
 dollars worth of misunderstanding and
 art objects from eighteen foreign ra- tions. fi
 While the Jason crosses the sea the 9rst Santa Claus ship on record, she turns a modern treasure ship. In- cad of war munitions she carries
 kens of. happiness and friendship; Nstead of war reminders, she brings ack exhibits of what the Old World l has achieved in art and industry in time of peace. Lasting international l Friendships takes root eon soil planted with tender acts to which Uncle Sam ] is not entirely a stranger Before ten deriI1g the Jason's services, Secretary
 Bryan and the State Department were careful to delicately consult the wish es Of European countries All eagerly accepted the new evidence of 4Ameri- ca,s friendship, after which Secretary lDaniels and Rear Admiral Blue, com
 mandant at the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
 were able to assign the Jason to a mission that makes new chapter in
 the use of United States nen-of-war. 1 The Jason unloads her last batch Of 1 Christnas goods at Salonika about I November 18th The itinerary trans nitted by the State Department to l Cenamander Courtney will include
 stops at ports at which exhibits will be anbarked as follows;
 Salonika from Greece. Bulgaria, servia, and Montenegro; Piraeus. from l Ottoman Empire; Genoa, from Ger
 many, Austria and Italy: Marseilles,
 from France and Switzerland; F'al-
 mouth, from Holland. Belgium. Nor- j way, Sweden, Denmark England.
 Wales Ireland, Scotland and Russia l. zrIai1 ffe nf h.
 CTS, sheet irons, fiqueurs, laces and embroideries will be assembled at Fall
 mouth from Archangel2 in the same
 way that the Christmas presents will
 be forw arded from the English ports I to Russia.
 .F Under arrangements concluded by l lsesomrnissioner General Thomas M I Moore of the Exposition with the
 State Department, Exposition exhibits l will be brought from art and indus