New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-26
John w. Davis,
Ambassador to
Britain, Home
Denies Report He Is to
Quit His Post, Declaring
He Seeks Two Months
Rest and a Vacation
DIR. vi. vi. kadetz Returns
War Worker, Prisoner of
Bolsheviki for Six Weeks.
Comes Back on Olympic

ceeded Walter Hines Page as Ambas-
sador to the Court of St. James's nearly
two years ago, arrived in New York
yesterday on the Olympic. from Lon
don. Ambassador Davis was accom-
panied by Mrs. Davis, their daughter
and other members of the family.
There is nothing official about my
visit home" Ambassador Davis said
at the Waldorf yesterday afternoon.
II am just taking my first vacation in
two years, that is all"
The ambassador denied reports cur
rent in Washington that he would not
return to his post in London. He an
nounced that he would remain in the
United States. about two months be-
tore going back to Europe. He also
SAID that he would not be in position
to talk about European affairs or poll
tics until he had conferred with the
State Department in WASHINGTON. He
reiterated that his mission here was
no more than a personal mission of
visiting and resting.
In New York Ten Days
The ambassador expects to remain
in New York about ten days, later
visiting Washington, but first he will
go to Clarksburg, w. Va, his home
and birthplace.
West Virginia friends were waiting
for him at the Waldorf yesterday to
inform him that his homecoming will
be the GROWING feature of most elab-
crate Labor Day celebration, in which
between 10000 AID $4,000 union mine
workers and many other union men
from all parts Of the state Will par
t:cipatc. In fact, they told him that
Labor Day will be John W. Davis
Homecoming Day" for Clarksburg, and
Clarksburg will celebrate accordingly
III honor of a native son.
Ambassador Davis was mentione!
Tor the Democratic nomination for
President in the pre- convention period,
ballots in the San Francisco convon-
ton.
Louis Dreyfus. who returned with
several new plays, was also on the
olympic. With him were Mrs. Dreyfus,
Known on the stage as Vall-Valli, and
their little daughter, Louise. C. J.
Tolley, the English amateur golf cham
pion, also was a passenger. He is to
enter several contests here.
Others who arrived we're Lord
Charles Hope, brother Of Lord Francis
Hope; Mr.. Charles B. Alexander, Lloyd
B. Sanderson, of the Royal Mail and
Pacific Steamship Navigation Company;
Mrs. j. Gardiner Cassatt and her
daughters, Miss Ellen NJ. and Miss EN-
genia k. Cassatt; MI and Mrs Her
bert c. Cox, Andre Furuseth, who has
been attending the international Sea-
mems Union Congress in Genoa, Will
lam II. Ingersoll, DR.. Moses NJ Kadetz
and James A. Burden, a New York
banker
DR.. Kadetz was with the American
Red Cross at Kiev in 1918 A year
later, when he went to Warsaw to join
his wife and daughter, whom he had
left there, he was captured by the
Poles, he said, and after his release
was made prisoner by the Bolsheliki
They held him for six weeks.
Mr.. Burden, with his wife and daugh-
ter, spent six weeks in England, France
and Belgium. The banker said that
France was not as war-worn as he had
expected to find it, and in Belgium, he
SAID, they are working night and day
In the great tasks OF restoration.
William Elliott, former captain in
the ARM, returned with Mrs Elliott
and their son, Duncan, two and a half
months old. Captain Elliott formerly
was a member OF the theatrical produc-
ing firm of Elliott, Comstock & Gest.
His wife was Mile. Louise LIE Grange.
of the Comedie Franc caisc. They were
married in Algiers.
Alfred Hertz, former conductor of
German opera at the Metropolitan
Opera House and now conductor of the
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, re-
turned, after visit OF several months
in Europe.
MI Hertz said that Paris was gay,
while in Berlin and Vienna the con-
dltions were depressing. Berlin is
like a dead city, the Conductor de-
clared, although good plays are being
produced in the theaters, and the
plays of Shakespeare have not lessened
in popularity with ne Germans.
Among the returning army men on
the Olympic were Colonel CLYDE S.
Ford, who spent three months as OBJ
server on the staff of General Wrangel
in the Crimea. Previous to that he
had been with the Near East Relief
He had been away from home for four
years.
The Honorable Mrs. Hugh f. French.
daughter Of Robert J. Wynne, a former
Postmaster General and later Consul
General to London, was an Olympic
passenger She is to visit her father
in Washington
In the Storage OF the Olympic
came two Of the tallest persons in the
world. They are Eugene Arceau, the
Nendee giant, who stands eight feet
six inches in height weighs 3O8
pounds, and wears size No. "a shoes
In the women's quarters of the steer
age was Ms Gerry Mills, eight feet
one inch in height and weighing 2S0
pounds. They arc TO join a circus in
the West.
Worlds Fastest Motorboats
On the forward deck of the Olympic
were the worlds fastest motorboats,
Miss Detroit and Miss America, both
owned by Garfield A Wood, WHO was
a passenger on the ship. Miss Detroit
recently won the Harmsworth Cup.
Captain Sir Bertram Hayes, oi the
Olympic, yesterday denied the report
that a speed contest would begin
Saturday when the Olympic and the
Aquitania, of the Cunard Line, both
leave New York for Cherboprg and
Southampton
Eve shall leave four hours behind
the Aquitania." the Olympic's com
mander said, land | expect TO arrive
in Cherbourg after the Aquitania has
landed her passengers.'
Sir Alfred Waldron Smithers. NJ. P,
an Olympic passenger, was i'll when
the ship locked. He was taken to
New York hospital Sir Alfred is an
official of the Grand Trunk Railroad.
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