Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-05
I LINER HAVERFORD'
TO SAIL TONIGHT
{ Loading of Cargo Delays
First ''Peace"
Voyage
az PASSENGERS ABOARD
Workers and Implements of
Reconstruction Depart for
European Field

The American liner Haverford, with
forty-seven passengers, will leave her
dock at Washington avenue this eve
ming for Liverpool
, The departure Of the steamship
known az "Old Trusty." will mark the
/ resumption Of passenger service from
this port. 1t will be the first since the
summer of 1915 that a steamship has
left this port with civilian passengers.
Instead of caissons, guns and other
war materials being lifted into the hold
of the Haverford this afternoon. hun
dreds of one-man farm tractors were
loaded.
The ship was to have left her pier at
o'clock. but the departure was de-
layed to place the tractors, hundreds Of
bags of starch and other foodstuffs
aboard.
There was one sad group amcng the
passengers boarding the ship this after
noon--Ernest Hayne his wife and two
small daughters, who were deported by
the immigration authorities because of
Illness, after being in this country three
years.
3 Envoys OF Reconstruction
Some of the passengers are going to
Europe to visit their kindred in the old
country-visits planned but long delayed
because OF the war. Others are going
TO engage in reconstruction work or re-
sumo business associations
George Drexel Steel, of this city, and
Lieutenant Donald Gray Farmhouse. a
friend from California. both former
american aviators. are bound for Brus-
sells to engage in reconstruction work
for the Belgian Mission Council.
Aboard the Haverford are big consgn-
ments of shoes, stockings and clothing
that the two former fiiers will dis
tribute to the needy citizens Of Brussels
Steel was accompanied by his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. William T. Steel, of Ger
mantown and his sister. Lieutenant
Barnfouse lived with the Steel family
here for some time. He is a graduate
OF Princeton Theological Seminary. He
enlisted in the aviation service shortly
after being ordained to the Presbyterian
ministry. During his stay in the army
he preached TO thousands of soldiers at
Kelly Field and at Mineola. 1t was at
one of these meetings that he met young
Steel his chum. and interested him in
relief and religious work.
Edgar Delefeld, another passenger,
halls from Maplewood. a suburb Of st.
Louis. and is bound to his old home
town. Abergaveny. England, to settle an
estate and also to arrange for a shooting
match between the territorials of that
community and the crack shots OF the
Home Guard Company at Maplewood.
MANNED Hero Homeward Bound
Patrick Gair a war hero. minus his
left leg, is sailing for his home in
England, after three years of strenuous
fighting. during which he was wo & ded
at Ypres. at the Somme and at Lens
He was mustered out in Canada, COM
ing to Philadelphia for visit
Robert Foreman, another soldier from
the Canadian army. who lived at 2431
South Ninth street, is returning to Eng
land his home land. Mrs. Hannah Cum
HE. unable to return to her home in
Manchester for more than a year, final
iy gained passage on the Haverford and
~ rejoicing on her opportunity to see
the folks" Miss Florence Homer Mole
and Miss Dorothy Marshall are also
bound home to st. Adams and Horn.
castle, respectively, while Lucy Robb Is
going back to Glasgow and see her
parents.
t Among the cabin passengers booked
to sail on the Haverford are the follow
ing Philadelphians: