New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-06
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ON LA LORRAINE
Big French Liner Boldly
Puts Out to Sea in
Face of Enemy.
600 GO BACK TO
BATTLE FOR FRANCE
Thousands Cheer as Boat Quits
Pier-English Captain Gives
Assistance.

Assistance.
More then ten thousand French folk
on shipboard and ashore sang the
"Marseilaise" yesterday as the French'
liner La Lorraine steamed out of port
for Havre with 1,400 passengers, 600
of whom were reservists.
The men who had responded to the
call of arms we're impatient over the
tardy departure of the vessel that was
to take them back to their beloved
France. Ten a. m. was the hour sched-
uled for the Lorraine to start, but
she did not so, and some twenty MIN
utes later there was no indication that
her gangplank would soon be hauled
ashore.
A conference concerning the advis-
ability of sending her out in daylight
was under way, and Captain Maurras
had eft the vessel for a talk with
CAPTAIN Herbert j. Haddock, master
OF the White Star liner Olympic, that
had locked at Pier 60, few hundred
wards north of where the Lorraine lay.
Efforts were made to keep these
facts from the impatient reservlsts but
the news spread among them IKE a
prairie fire, and rumor soon had II that
La Lorraine would not sail. some
seven or eight thousand friends, rela-
tives and sympathizers on the pier
maintained a feverish conversation
during the restless interval IN when
the conference of officials was held.
This broke forth into ringing cheers
later when Captain Maurras, the
French master, walked briskly ABOARD
with a smile of confidence on his race.
He bowed to left and right as he hur-
ried over the gangplank and promptly
assembled the bridge. Signals were
displayed, hawsers were loosened, the
Lorraine's whistle, hidden in a cloud OF
steam, blew loud and long, and soon
the vessel moved slowly riverward.
This was the signal for the loudest
and most enthusiastic demonstration
that has been made on the waterfront
in many months.
British Join in Singing.
A brass band that had accompanied
the fighting men of France to the
French Line pier struck up 1.-THE Mar
seillaise," and at 11:40 a. m, when the
vessel was Strengthening herself out
making ready for Sandy Hook, its sound
was lost in the great chorus that sang
with it. French threats alone did not
SINCE the national air of France. There
was an abundance of British power
contributed by the sailormen and Of
ficers on the Atlantic Transport liner
Minnehaha, which lay on the south
side of Pier SO, adjacent to Pier 81,
from which La Lorraine had just
steamed.
This sympathy Of the British for the
French was mutual, and the French
folk soon directed their attention from
the departing Lorraine to cheer the
men on the Minnehaha.
AS the Lorraine got her bow toward
the south and moved slowly by Pier o2
she received a similar greeting from
the crew Of the Cunarder Saxonia.
The British vessels rigging was filled
with sailormen and stokers, and all her
decks aft were filled with shouting
Britishers.
La Lorraine frequently dipped her
colors as she passed downstream.
/
American liner Vaterland, a prisoner
in her dock in Hoboken, she blew three
long blasts Of her whistle, which in
the language Of ships is a salute. Some
folk thought il might have been a
mock greeting to the big German yes
! sci, but those who know Captain Maur-
ras were confident that he was not in
dulging in any such display. The
tugs responded, however.
The French skipper lost no time in
getting into the open sea. He took the
/ Lorraine dowa the bay much faster
than is his wont, and despite the pro-
test of the pilot dropped him in the
! Narrows. The rules require that the
| pilot shall take the vessel beyond ths
/ iightship. but Captain Murras would
/ OF consider il so yesterday. A tug
BOAT chartered by the French Line was
rafting for the pilot and took HIM
ashore. The French skipper then sent
mis- engines at full speed and was soon
lost to the view of the marine observ-
ers at Sandy Hook.
Captain Has No Fear.
As he went aboard the Lorraine yes
:erday Captain Murras was asked if he
cid not fear capture by a German
cruiser. He shrugged his shoulders
raised his hands, palms upward, and
smilingly replied "Ha, hal I should DO
THAT you call it-vorryl"
Mayor Mitchell and Dudley Field Ma
lone, the collector of customs, were on
board the Lorraine to bid goodby to
friends.
Among them was the Rev. Maurice
Reynaud, a Catholic priest, who re-
turned to France TO serve as chaplain
of a reserve regiment. II an oppor-
tunity arose, the priest said, he would
become a colonel.