The sun., 1919-01-24
FOG DELAYS EVERY
TRANSPORT BUT ONE
Orizaba Lands 1926 Officers
and Men i'm Dense
Smother.
FLEET HELD OFF HOOK
Mist So Thick That Levia-
than's Departure for Brest
Is Prevented.

One lone transport. the Orizaba, which
arrived in q mistless atmosphere
Wednesday night, came in yesterday
morning out OF the smothering fog that
masked the waters surrounding all the
boroughs and stretched out so far to
sea that the remotest wireless operators
on the steamships farthest from Sandy
Hook said they could not see a ships
length ahead. or. for the matter OF that,
astern. abeam or straight UP in the air.
Some of the ships out In tho trackless
opacity might have been able to show
their signal letters to Sandy Hook OBJ
servers X the day had been clear. II
was suspected by Capt. Edward s.
Murphy of the port of embarkation at
Hoooken that a feet OF overdue trans
ports was pretty close to Sandy Hook,
or anchored in the invisible outside
Leviathan's Sailing Delayed.
Naturally. when ships cannot get in
ships also cannot get out. The biggest
and finest American passenger carrier
held up by the observation was the L.
viathan, once the Hamburg American
morning for Brest with n distinguished
lot OF voyagers. Capt. W. w. Phelps.
her commander. took her out in the
stream off Hoboken. and then promptly
took her back again. preferring not to
take the risk of being bumped by har-
Dor or other craft playing blind mans
bun In the war paint atmosphere
She probably will get away to-day.
taking among other passengers William
G. Sharp. American Ambassador to
France: Brig Gen. Frank r. Hines.
chief of embarkation at Washington
Newcomb Carlton. head Of the Western
Union, and ten French officers who have
been instructlng our doughboys at vari-
Gus encampments.
The only steamship from across seas
that actually came in yesterday and had
the distinction of having her name Of
ficially IN the arrivals was the British
tanker Masconomo. But there Is little
doubt that there were last night dozen
or more battleships. transports and mer-
chantmen anchored of the Hook ready
to come IN when the mist curtain lifted.
Among the fleet are the battleshlps
New Hampshire and Louisiana. bringing
the Fifty-ninth Coast Artillery. which
Brooklyn is particularly interested in
as +, comprises the old Thirteenth Regi-
ment Brooklyn's "Fifty-ninth Over
Here Association has chartered four
vessels to greet her boys down the bay,
F, and no seaside community has any. more
patriotism and local spiri. than that one
ovnlng Coney Island. In the o'finG
near by last night we're the hospital ship
Mercy and maybe the transports Gala
| mares and SURNAME and the French
liner Rochambeau filled with soldiers.
Harbor TraMc ParalyEed.
The great fog, which cut off all the
upper half Of the city's towers from puS-
| lie view. paralyzed harbor traffic as well
as closing the sea gates. The relief
| steamship Pensacola, scheduled to sal
| from the foot OF West Twenty second
street with army trucks. touring cars
AGRICULTURAL machines, foodstuffs and
clothing Sor about 100000 sufferers ir
the near East, will not get away until
this morning.
She carries also a party OF workers
under the direction OF the American
Committee for Relief In the Near East
Cleveland II. Dodge, IN an address Il
the workers, eaid they were factor II
making II possible for the Republic o
Armenia" and the Republic of Syria
to hold up their heads with other ma
tons.
The Orlzaba. from Brest, brought II
1885 officers and men. 400 OF whom
we're i'll or wounded. In the contlngen
were twelve officers and $40 men OF TIT
Fifty-second Ammunition Train, In com
mand Of Major o. II. Wallace OF Z IVES
| Ninety-second street, who was instructo
in mechanical engineering at New lorl
! University before going to France.
Among the veterans were ~Happ.
| jack Gallagher OF Manhattan. VIII
has been twenty-three years in tn
Marines and was gassed and twic
wounded In Franco: Sergeant REGINALD
Grimm. 305th Infantry. OF Brooklyn. VIII
won the Distinguished Service Cross 70
rescu!ng what was left OF his compan.
after all the commissioned officers hat
been either killed or wounded in tn
Vosses, and Sergeant George Luden o
the Marines. aged 64, whose eight son
entered the war and inspired him to d.
likewise, his former experience in tn
Marines enabling him 10 pass muster.
Rickenback~r Home Soon.
While the Orizaba was at Copen
hagen. whence she sailed before goin
10 Brest 10 get Yankee soldiers. w. E
! Waklason, who says he is an America,
citizen. of West 10sth street, stowe,
away in her. lie said he was in Aus
tria. his native land. when this countr
entered the war and was interned. II
escaped with several French soldiers. Fl
was taken to Ellis Island for investiga
ton.
Capt f. V. R!ckenbacker, premie
American ace and motor racer. who ha
brought down twenty-six Boche ma
chimes, Is expected to arrive by tn
White Star liner Adriatic. due in sew
eral days from Liverpool and Brest. II
will be greeted by his motoring friend
as no other aviator who has landed a
this port and will be banqueted unit