The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-05
l2.OOO Cheer. Chucklc and
Wave Flags and One
Dives After Ship.
HONORS DIVIDED BY
EDISON AND BRYAN

Amid scenes so grotesque as 10 be
almost beyond belief Henry Ford's peac,
ship Oscar II. backed out from it's pier
at iioboken yesterday afternoon, h,aring
a strangely assorted company that has
proclaimed that 1t will stop the war.
The snip was scheduled to bear away
toward expectant Europe at o'clock.
but a series of unusual happenings kept
7. at the pier until just thirteen minutes
after 8. In the hours wait the crowd
VI fully $4,000 that jammed the Scandi-
navian- American Line dock and boiled
laughed and catcalled as Mr.. Ford him
self and one or another Of his more or
less celebrated passengers came TO ,le
rail to make speeches or otherwise to
entertain.
Through such SonfusIon as could
scarcely be imagined william J. Bryan.
Thomas A. Edison. John Burroughs and
others of lesser note made their way.
pointed at. plucked at. "God-blcss-
you-ed." to bid godspeed 10 the man who
has made a success NJ selling automo-
biles and now essays TO force back the
tide of world war.
About 100 In Pnrt..
\ careful count of the passenger LIST
showed ina; lia sailed IN the first and
second cabins. which were reserved "N-
clus!vely for the Ford party and dec
grated with stuffed doves and olive
branches ~ least a dozen more came
late and We're not listed. and probably 100
made VI, the parry. 90 these. however,
thiity-nine were listed as newspaper or
magazine corr. spondcn:s three as movie
men and twenty-five AS college students.
This would leave ninety-s!N, from whom
must be deducted the muti:arious Sec
Ie.a.ics. ass stants and stenugraphers
OF NJ Ford and about everybody else
Of the peace staff. Probably the number
OF actual peace delegates did no; eAceed
sixty.
1n,re were speeches galore ON the
shV. where nothing less than pande-
mou.um le'ered. Th,re was the band
PLAYING 81 Didn't Raise Nv Boy to BE
a Soldier" there was Mr.. Bryan acting
A. witness to Il hnsty marriage, ne
altar lights for which were banging
flashlights there was Il swedish stew
ard rushing about with "A squirrel in Il
cage and finally forcing 1t into hr.
Ford's ststevoon there We're belated ar
rivals. including many college students.
forcing their way past every one ana
trampl,ng aboard their trunks upon
their shoulders 'h,'e were cresr> Tor
every body and by everybody and around
and about ana through It all pushed
and jostled the crowd, waving 'iac',
American. swedish. peace ilags, all kinds
OF flags. ANA reaselessly crying ont for
peace, reac" penC"
Confusion Every W here.
As IL was al the beginning - th- Ford
peace ship plan. 50 IL was at the pier
yesterday. Nobody knew where To 20.
nobody was in charge OF anything, mo-
body knew anything except that here
was q ship that Henry Ford was taking
TO Europe to stop the war. get the boys
out of the trenches by Christmas and
lots OF other things. An intoxicated
young man with Gcrmnn accent
shouted, "Go,t strafe Heinrich Ford :"
Women cried Historically. "God bless
Mr.. Ford God bless Mr. Bryan" The
band played "Onward. Christian Sol
diers" and changed to THE star span
gled Banner" \ man said to be "A movie
actor dived into the water after the re-
ceding ship. Through II all the crowd
cheered and laughed and waved iiasS
The scene was most lively when MI
Ford and Mr.. Bryan went aboard. few