The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-07-21
From New York to Genoa
(By Daniel BidwelD
6 in Nav when the Dante

Fifteen days later she was III CaulN
harbor, whence she sailed to dash Tor
her home port, Genoa.
Two hundred miles west OF Cadiz'
while still on the broad waters OF the
Atlantic, she took the covers off twelve
of her boats, lowered the boats from
the high davits to the rails of the prom
enade and main decks, held two boat
drills for passengers, and slowed pro-
visions for FIVE days in the lockers
Among the passengers were five sing
ers from the Metropolitan Opera House
company, of New York City, and fifty
three members of the Russian Ballet
troupe, which had danced The Fawn
in the same temple of art. You may
also include two war writers, Fred
Smith, of the Providence Journal, and
yours truly. Another press represen-
tative was Alberto Torchiani, New York
correspondent of La Tribuna, OF Rome,
The captain had thot to coal ship
in the harbor OF Cadiz, but the Spanish
authorities thot otherwise. They were
not convinced that the sale OF coal to
an armed merchantmen was neutral.
In the note OF January 10, President
Wilson and Secretary Lansing had, IN
substance, limited that such a vessel
was, in effect, an auxiliary cruiser, as
to their relations to submarine craft,
and this view was upheld in Cadiz.
At midnight, in the teeth Of stiff
gale, the captain weighed anchor. He
was apprehensive that continuance in
the harbor might be construed as an
overstay, and that his ship might be
liable to internment. He had landed
three members of the grand opera
company, who feared the sea trip to
Genoa, because of the chance to en-
counter an enemy submarine, and
who were to gain the city by tedious
rail journey, thru spain and the south.
of France.
In the meantime the war writers had
spent six hours in Cadiz. They had
separated to multiply by two the
chances of observation. On their re-
turn each found the others opinion to
coincide with his own-Cadiz was pro-
German. Furthermore, each had been
told, even by English business men
residing in the town, that Spain was
pro- German.
1t was the Kings birthday. 1t was
fiesta. Flags were flying and the
kings portrait was in the shops. But
portraits of the Kaiser were more nu-
merous, and more buttons and badges
of the kaiser than of the king were on
sale.
The war correspondents were told
that the kings mother was Austrian,
that the royal family, barring the Eng
lish-born Queen, were pro-German,
that the mobiles and most OF the rich
commoners were also pro- German, and
so was the press; that business men
desired German competition with Eng
fish after the war.
They were told that the king, court
and mobiles, further, had feeling against
two OF the allied nations in particular,
France and Portugal, because these
were republics. And then, cumula-
tive Of all this, masses Of Spaniards had
hereditary feeling against the Portu-
gese. And there was a religious SYM
pathy for the Austrian emperor be-
cause he was staunch Roman Cath
olic. Most Of these facts were new to
the war writers, and most are likely
new to millions Of readers at home.
The captain had thot to save some
$40 or $12 ton by purchase in Cadiz
for tho coal is high in the Andalusian
port it is still more altitudinous in
Genoa, where bituminous is about $50
to $35 ton. AS for anthracite, it
rises sometimes to $50, SIS or $50 a
ton. Strange prices obtain in some Of
the war-stricken lands.
Off Gibrater the captain received
dispatch ordering him to excise the
run to Naples. He was told to make
the run to Genoa. To Malaga the
track route runs almost parallel with
Al