Evening star., 1914-11-11

~ ~ Stas Co:rrS Spondent ~
NEW YORK, November 1.-THE COM
binatiou os more than six million
Christmas gifts and Friday, the 18th,
mas proved too much even for the
Christmas SHIP. and the naval collier
!ason. which IS to carry the gifts of the
hiudies and -rovn-ups OF America to
the war -" i,iows and orphans of Eu-
rope. i:.a, not sail from New York un-
Ill saturday. There is a possibility
hare posi- bility--that the Christmas
ship ma. be ready to east Off and move
doN.I- the bay Thursday night, but
tco@e in charge OF the monumental task
of loading the Jason haven't much hope
Of this Therefore. as no sailor would
thirt of sailing on Friday. the 18th,
t'a2, +. II. Lawton. i'll charge of loading
the rcssei; Lieut.. Commander Courtney,
commanding the vessel, and Irving T.
Busi, president of the great Bush Ter.
1n:nal Company, said last night that it
probably will be Saturday before the
christmas ship begins the voyage to
ihc waiting war orphans and their Wild
owed mothers across the Atlantic -
NJ noon today the jason left the
III ooEfS navy yard-where about G, 300
toiis OF coal We're unloaded from her
c'ipaclous hunkerS to make room for
the Bush terminal, where long strings
OF lo1Ged cars were waiting to pour
.helr freight into her holds. More than
AtU OF these cars were waiting before
Inc Jason moved up to the dock and
every ear was packed as full of solidly
p%cLed cases of Christmas gifts as 1t
would hold There were more cars to
come, too: the busy sorters and packers
i.adh nea Fly reached the end Of the
immense piles of boxes and packages
.,nd bundles in the three big rooms that
Lave been turned over by Mr.. Bush for
the work of properly asserting and
preparing Tor export Americas Christ
mas oHerings for the war sufferers
Work Night and Day.
VII day yesterday, practically all
night last night and during the day
today nearly 100 soldiers, under COM
.'and of Maj. Lawton: seventy-f1ve
sailors from the battleships Wyoming
'.nd Florida and army women from
Governors Island, the women of the
l;ed Cross and the corps OF lauorers
il the employ of the Bush Terminal
Company " orked hard getting the
Mountains OF gifts ready to stow away
down in the deep. dark holds of the
Christmas ship. Belated consignments
rushed to brooklyn by express. ny
celifely had TO be opened, gone over,
sorted as to contents and repacked
So far as has been humanity possible
instructions accompanying Individual
parcels have been carried out. Gifts
married For Belgium have been pack
ed and addressed to Belgium; parcels
which the senders meant to go to
Germany or France or Austria. or
wherever. have been packed into big,
strong export cases and marked for
the countries for, which they were in
tended Of course, there are certain to
have been mistakes: 1t could hardly
be expected that the vast mountains
or gifts could be handled and packed
Mithout some errors creeping in. But
these nave been very, very few
Monday the packers completely lost
count of the number of individual gifts
that are going on the Christmas ship
~ that time the count had gone far
;-ooVe 100000. Since then fully as
.ianl' have been handled or are on the
ilpors ready to be handled. President
Ersh said last night that his Sunday
estimate---a million Individual gifts
was far too small.