New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-03
STEERACE DE LUKE
ON THE VERONA
Rita Jolivet and Captain
Gull Make Crossing
Delightful.

The most eontented and grateful lot
Of American refugees that has come TO
sh.s port since the European war be-
can arrived here last night from Genoa
Nv tAs italian steamship Verona. with
the exception Of 20 women and 81 men
who were compelled to travel in the
stssrage, the 2O2 Americans on board
found accommodations in the saloon ana
ssoond cabin departments, but all had
tha freedom Of the ship and took their
meals in the first cabin.
when Captain Simone Gull master
Of the Verona, was few hours at sea
he made inspection Of the vessel and
Immediately set his men at work build
Ing separate quarters for the 20 Amer
lean women. So we'll was the work
done that the compartment was known
aboard ship as the "Steerage de Luxe ="
Prominent among the steerage pas
senRers was Miss Rita Jolivet' the
actress. who was leading woman for
Otis skinner in "Kismet," and who re-
Gently appeared in "a Thousand years
AGO. Miss Jolivet was exceedingly
popular with all the women passengers
and during the voyage of sixteen Gays
managed TO conceal her identity.
II was only when Miss Jolivets name
was checked off on the alien manifest
BY the immigration officials that her
friends Of the voyage learned she was
an actress. Not knowing who she was
many of the women advised the report
ers to fnd the dear little French girl
in the steerage," who had managed the
entertainments on board and had made
life so merry for all her fellow refu-
gees. Miss Jolivet never participated
In the programmes herself.
"This is the saddest trip have ever
made to this country" said Miss JOLT
vet. "All my people are in the war,
the men in the army and the women
with the hospitals. asked our consul
at Genoa to help me get back to Paris,
as I wanted to serve as a nurse with
our Red Cross, but he told me that the
government was only taking nurses
with experience Of three years or
more. ] then determined to come here
and send back to France as much of
MY salary as ] could afford"
Miss Jolivet had been in Italy under
contract with one Of the big Italian
moving picture companies for dozen
film plays. i
Miss Julia Byrne, vise-prineipsl Of
Public School &c, Manhattan, was
among the saloon passengers. She
said she had booked passage in this
city TO return on the steamship Ham
burg, now the Red Cross, and that
through the courtesy of Captain Gull
she was taken back on the Verona.
"When we were passing out Of
Gibraltar" said Miss Byrne, "a French
torpedo boat came out to US and asked
the captain if he had any Germans or
Austrians on board He replied that
he had two German subjects among his
saloon passengers, but that they were
women. The officer on the war vessel
directed him to proceed"
The Verona brought over 800 pas
sengers. OF her "a saloon passengers
81 were American citizens; SO Of the
172 second cabin were citizens and the
steerage Of STA had 90 citizens.
Among others on board were Miss
Esther Edmonds, an American por-
trait painter; Albert Arthur Living
ston, professor of Romance languages
Mt Columbia University; Mr.. and Mrs.
william Stanton, John 7. Shaw, Miss
Elisabsth Burbank, Miss May Storer,
d. b. Jenkins and c. Valentine Kirby.