The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-25
BRITISH SHIPPING IN
CRIPPLED CONDITION
w. R. Grace, Passenger on Bal
tic Bringing Ais, Tells Of
Conditions In Europe.
GREAT CHANCE FOR q. s
Gordon Auchincloss Says Col.
House May Sail for Home
September 16.

with AS passengers and 1883 sacks
OF mail the White Star liner Baltic
reached port yesterday after an I'M
eventful voyage from Liverpool. She
stopped at Halifax and landed SIS civil
ians and 2,050 officers and men Of the
Canadian Expeditionary Forces. The
passengers who went ashore there in
| cluded Lord Finlay.
w. r. Grace, head of the Arm Of w
R. Grace & Co.. returned with Mrs.
! Grace from a I'VE months business trip
\ abroad. He said the tonnage shortage
abroad Is still acute.
II do not believe any one here real
ICES the serious aspect of the shipping
situation in Britain and the other allied
countries" Mr.. Grace said
I'm England there Is no Indication of
an approach to normal conditions. and
| although there Is some building going
on there is unrest among labor, which
prevails also in the other countries of
Europe. There does not seem to be
any immediate prospects Of a change for
the better.
Tonnage can neither be bought nor
chartered abroad. The shipping Of Eng
land is still under the control OF the
i
| ments of vessels. To me IT looks as II
the United States, with It's building pro-
gramme rapidly going on. soon would
reach the position Of a dominating figure
In the shipping Of the world"
Building Slowly I'm Britain.
Mr.. Grace said he was glad to learn
the ships of his New York-South Amer
lean lines are being released by the
Government as the troop movement
slows down. They will soon be running
to capacity. he said.
Joseph w. sherwood. inventor OF the
sherwood system of longitudinal brac-
ing for ships, who also arrived on the
Baltic, confirmed Mr.. Grace's views. as
to conditions in the shipbuilding indus
try in Great Britain. He said the build
ers were booked up with orders. No
contracts are being made for delivery
in less than two or three years. he said
and few builders are willing to under.
take new contracts on account Of the
uncertainty of the labor situation. He
thought that America would be a strong
competitor of the British shipbuilder,
for long time to come.
Gordon Auchfncloss, son-in-law Of Col
, Edward NJ. House and the Coloners sec
rotary at the Peace Conference, also wal
, a passenger on the liner. He said tina
Col. House, who is now in England
probably would return to this countr,
with Earl Grey. who is expected to sal
. September 16. He said that Under Sec
. rotary Of State Frank Polk, who tool
: the place OF Secretary Lansing in Paris
Is being hard worked and has not SUI
fcient assistance in his manifold duties
though he is in better health thai
when he left Washington.
Mrs. Frederick Guest. a daughter o
Henry c. Phipps of Lakeville. Conn.,, ar
. rived with her three children on thei
? way to the Phipps home, where they ex
: pect to remain three or four months.
0 Women Physicians Arrive.
: Three well known women physician
came from England to attend the worl
conference OF women physicians to b
held hare shortly. They were DR.. Louis
;, Aidrich Blake, DR.. Louisa Martindal
y and DR.. Marion Wright
: Another British passenger ~as Z
Manifold Raeburn. the new directs gen
= eral OF the Ministry of Shipping 4
this city. He brought staff OF fftee
: assistants with him.
a Benjamin Stern OF Stern Brother
= said there would be a great deal O
a business abroad for American firms
y they were not tied down by official re
. tape, which seems designed expressl
+. to place obstacles In the way of Ameri
n cans doing business abroad. at begin
q | with a passport when you start away,
Mr.. Stern said, land 1t ends with tn
= ridiculous customs and immigration re
!. tape when you land again"
nthsr- -passengerR- on the Ral
= tic were Mrs. Harsen Rhoades OF 10
- East Thirty-fifth street, returning froI
"a three years work with the Red Cros
a. and c. r. Cramer OF San Francisco an
= Washington, chief counsel of the Roys
Dutch Shell oil Company. who has bee
n abroad invest eating reports that BIRTHS
= interests had been trying to get contrt
v of the company and its Java oil field
< He found the reports without founds
l. ton. he said.
N 8. s. Purling, Y. p. Hand and Mayo
n A. D. Buick of Hamilton, Bermuda. n
a turned from a quest for steamships to
"a placed In service between New York an
Bermuda. They had made arrangement
with Furness, Witty & Co., which fir
operates the Bermudian, to place al
= other steamer on the route next white
IL they said.
= AR Hayman. the theatrical manage
a refused to make any statement abo'
ID the actors strike or his future plal
"a until he had conferred with his ass
n ciates Augie Rather. who went owe
,e seas with the Fifty-second Pioneer II
Al fantry, returned from London, whe
Id he won the interallied boxing champion
r ship, defeating the English champiC
Sc BOY Mccormick. King George pr
A. scented him with the winners medal.
SCHOONER AND SIX LOST.