New Britain herald., 1915-12-04
FORD PEACE PARTY SAILS FOR NORWAY
Departs From New York Aboard
 Steamship Oscar Il
BRYAN AND EDISON AT DOCK
More Than Eighty Peace Advocates on MisSiOn-Eifty-Seven NeWspa-
 pIlers Accompany Them.

New York Dec. 4.-Henry Ford and more than eighty peace advocates sailed from here on the steamer Os- car 1T for Christiansand, Norway. The party was accompanied by fifty-seven newspaper correspondents and pho Atographers and more than twenty general assistants, secretaries and stenographers.
 The Oscar II should arrive at Chris tiania, Norway, her first stop, about December IA. Thence party is to pro- ceed to Stockholm, Copenhagen and The Hague. It is proposed to hold the peace conference at The Hague Hanna Only Governor.
 Of the governors invited, so far as announced, l.. B. Hanna of North Dakota was the only one to accept William J. Bryan, who received an in- vitation, declined to accompany the party but said he hoped to join them at The Hague a few weeks later He explained that he believed he could accomplish more in the interest Of peace at present by remaining in Amreica.
 In the list of envoys given out by MT. Fords assistants are, among others, the Rev. Charles F. Aked, San Francisco; Lieut.. Governor A. d. Bethea, South Carolina; Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain, New York; T. A. Hosteller, Washington; the Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones' Chicago; the Rev. Samuel s. Marquis, dean of St. PauPs Cathedral, Detroit; E. H. Molthan, Williamstown, Mass; Senator Helen R. Robinson, Denver; the Rev. w. M. Wright, Little Rock, Ark, and Lars P. Nelson, New York.
 Twenty-three Women.
 Twenty-three members of the party are women. Students from Yale, Eassar, Barnard, Dartmouth, Oberlin, Williams, Drake, Vanderbilt and Co., 1umbia, and the Universities of Kans sas, Ohio, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Wis consin, Illinois, Nebraska, Michigan and Texas accompany the expedition.
 The peace delegates received large 1 red celluloid buttons bearing white 1 star with rays and the words Out of l the trenches by Christmas" a Mr. Ford and his staff were busy at their headquarters until the last minute, but when they left for Ho- boken to board the Oscar II it was stated that all arrangements were complete.
 Ford's Farewell Statement.
 Before sailing, MT. F'OrQ SSueO WnaC he called a farewell statement.
 T am sailing with the firm belief,' he said, that great good will come of this mission. It will keep alive the thought that peace is possible as well as desirable, and so long, as that is done hope of peace exists.
 1T know little of the details of the working plan of the peace conference. but I do know that every effort will be made for an honorable and early peace.
 we are leaving with the feeling that those parts of the world now at peace and at war have heard of the plan and are in sympathy with the move, and that the best wishes of the great majority go with us.'
 The sailing of the Oscar II, fixed for 2 o'clock was delayed some time by the unexpected arrival of fifteen peTsons who had been invited by MT. Ford but had not indicated they in- tended sailing.
 n William J. Bryan and Thomas A. Edison arrived at the dock an hour before the steamer sailed, to bid farewell to MT. Ford.