The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-05
Difficult to Go From
 America to EngLand
Urgent Reasons For Travel Must Be Sufficiently Serious to Be Considered by Authorities American Soldiers Make Fine Impression Throughout Kingdom. Sporting Ways Lked-"Discovering'
 New York
By LADY Ma

| New York, May 2-tspecial)I am try- ! England is calling me and long for Lcndon and it's war rations and it's near l by echoes of war and it's thrills and even | it's privations.
 I But to want to cross the ocean and to | be allowed to cross the ocean are two 1 very different things nowadays, and I
 am waiting anxiously for the verdict as
 to whether the authorities will consider
 my urgent reasons" sufficiently seri-
 ous.
 l People nave asked me recently wheth- CT l am not frightened" at the idea of sailing across the Atlantic in these terri ble times, and quite truly I have an- swered, No"
 Fear of such voyage is the last thing that occurs to me. for I always think of what is happening in France and in Flanders and of the thousands of men and women who are braving worse dam gers every hour of the day and night without a murmur.
 When 1 came over to America just about seven months ago I felt no sug- gestion of fear. And now that I want to iCthlH dil JuSl as Tree rom lHc lutA of nervousness as I was then.
 THRILL OF A QUARTER TRIP
 One morning last week I went on an exploring expedition to New York's busy world of ships, and sat for a time in Battery park looking out upon the won derful harbor with the Statue of Liberty looming vaguely through light mist
 Then noticed a small steamboat drawn Cir rIo he +hor ,fah ho printed notice Twenty Five Cents to the Statue of Liberty"
 The price and the destination lured me and suiting the action to the thought
 paid my quarter and stepped aboard Pretty soon the wheezy machinery started chug-chugging and we were swept out into the soft, hay, sunlit tide
 Presently in the distance I saw a mountainous monstrous shape looming
 into my line of vision and ] noticed busy
 little motor boats and tugs scuttling round in excited courses while hoarse shreks and trumpetings filled the air from various rivercraft, large and small
 An exctedlooking young soldier came dashing out on the stuffy cabin of our own vessel, took a nasty glimpse of the broadening shape cried. "Gosh!' and drew q new broad brimmed hat from brown paper bag he was carrying. InlS tune ndlJ He WdNeu iIdHliedliyt ! crying as he did so. to me: She's back again. she's back again.
 I also grew frightfully excited and said something thrilling, and the soldier lad exIla ined what the great ship was and how she had been a famous German liner and how she was now used for war pur- poses, and did I see the stars and stripes flying at her bow, and lots of other things that the censor would never allow me to write about
 It was one of the finest experiences of the kind I have had since coming to New York and l watched that huge bulk swinging lazily toward it's journeys end and my eyes followed the mysterious
 lines and waves and wonders of camou- flage on it's mountain high bulk, while by my side that young soldier told ex- citedly of the ships history and of her present subservience to the star-spangled banner
 We watched the sea-giant without ceas- ing until suddenly our tiny craft swung with a jerk against the miniature quay at the foot of the Goddess of Liberty then I "came to- and my eyes looked into the iron face of the woman who guards the harbor.
 The young soidier joined his comrades with his new hat under his arm and his