The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-07
EUROPE IS REVIVING,
HOMECOMERS SAY
Notables in on Olympic Find
France and Belgium Re-
gaining Stability.
GERMANY NOT SO WELL
Saner Element in Italy Is
Winning Over Radicalism,
Declares Sabin.

Cliffs OF baggage from the colossal
Olympic. In yesterday with 1850 first
and second cabin passengers. taxed the
mental and physical energy of limited
force Of eighty-one customs inspectors
who had not cleared the White Star pier
Until they had been on the job more
than three hours. Many distinguished
voyagers added to the revenue of Uncle
sam BY paying duties on high priced
things they bought on the other side
Mrs Marshall Field gave up nearly
S5,QOO. and among others who contrib
uted similar sums were Mr.. and Mrs
James Speyer and Joseph z. Grace,
nephew of the late Michael p. Grace,
who died recently in England.
Thomas Fortune Ryan and Mrs. Ryan,
who have been two months on the other
side. got back in the big ship. They had
been entertained by the King and Queen
OF the Belgians. and said they had had
a zine time and were in excellent health.
Mr.. Ryan gathered statistical and other
information about France. England and
Belgium. which inspired him to say that
we should ''let Europe alone and let her
work out her problems In her own way,
which she will do" He noted that the
crops in France and Belgium were in
good condition. and things brighter in
the two countries than he expected to
find them.
Excepting the coal strike cloud in
England" Mr.. Ryan continued. there
is great Improvement there. In France
much money has been made. but 1t Is
in France and those who have profited
apparently do not realize that their
fortunes are far less when exchange
Is taken into consideration" Mr.. Ryan
would not talk about domestic political
affairs and said he would not say any
objects of his trip to France was to
see about the purchase of the French
tobacco monopoly.
Germany in Bad Plight.
James Speyer of the banking house
of James Speyer g. Co. said he found
things in Germany not anything like so
Good as Mr.. Ryan pictured conditions in
France, England and Belgium. Ger
many was not only suffering from lack
Of raw materials, he said, but from the
inability of her undernourished workers
20 turn out a proper days work. Until
the laboring classes We're in better physi-
cal shape very much could not be ex-
pected of them. Mrs. Speyer noted that
there were $1,000 underfed children be-
ing cared for at Frankfort-on-the-M Main.
that the German people were grateful
for the relief sent from the United States
and that the Society of Friends of Amer
!ca and England were doing great
work in reconstruction.
Charles Steele of ]. =. Morgan & Co..
back from a vacation Of two months
with Mrs Steele said that he and Mr..
Morgan were shooting In Scotland when
they received news Of the tragedy in
front of their Wall street building. The
first cable shocked them, but they were
relieved when they got n supplementary
cable saying that no injury had come TO
Mr., Morgan's son. They were affected
to learn of the deaths OF two OF the Nor
gan firms employees.
DR.. S. Parkes Cadman of the Central
Congregational Church, Brooklyn, who
made an address at the Pilgrim cente-
nary at Plymouth and was the chief
speaker at the unwilling of the Pilgrim
memorial at Southampton. also arrived
by the Olympic. Brighten. Cornelius
who has been abroad since
May. noted great improvement in condi-
lions In France and England since his
trip. He said Mrs. Vanderbilt
and ner QAuEnleT, NhO diS SAoPPAhb ~
Paris, would be here soon.
Charles II. Sabin. president OF the
Guaranty Trust Company. was met by
OF the State Department
He also noted that England. France and
apparently were in good shape.
He said he was always an optimist, and
that his observations abroad had con-
vinced him that European conditions
were mending: that the worst was over
IN Italy now that the radical element
in that country had needed their saner
brethren.
Charles II. Goddard. president Of the
American Druggists Syndicate. said the
drug and chemical situation abroad was
not the best. The European countries
were still burdcned with stocks accu-
mulated during the war which must be
absorbed. With all other products drug
and chemicals would then so down IN
price. Otto Well of the Metropolitan
Ouera House. who with Mrs Well has
spent the summer in Vienna and a
Ttalv. said n movement had been begun
in Vienna to build a public monument
dedicated 10 the United states for the
relief given TO Vienna's starving fami-
lies.
Other arrivals we're w. Pierpont
Hamilton and dis daughter-in-law' MRS.
PIerpont NJ. Hamilton; Mrs. Kodnah
yyanamaker, the Rev. Gypsy smith,
Mrs. Il. II. Scovill and her granddaugh-
ter. Miss Margaret Aspinwall Alfred
J. Johnson. former city Chamberlain
Rishon John ]. Cantwell OF Los Angeles.
Mrs. Jules Bache, Mr.. and Mrs James
Byrne. James Byrne. Jr.. and the Misses
sheila and Beatrice Byrne. Mrs. J.
Frederick Brown, Mrs. w. II. Brevoort,
Mr.. and Mrs. Hamilton Carhart, Miss
Van Rensselaer, Cruger. hurry Guggen-
helm and Mrs. Guggenheim, Mrs. ~. -.
Hapgood, Alfonso de Navarro. Capt.
Harry oelrichs. Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick
:. Whitewell and Mr.. and Mrs. Harold
Weeks.