The New York herald., 1921-05-15
5 1000 ON FOUR STEAMSHIPS
LEAVE NEW YORK FOR EUROPE
Miss Edith Cummings Sails to
Play in Women's Golf
Championship.

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liners. bearing close to 5000 passengers.
left port in quick succession about noon.
The largest Of the quartet was the
I Olympic of the White Star Line. which
carried 75C saloon passengers, and was
nlled 10 capacity. She backed out into
the river only twenty minutes after the
Red Star liner Finland had left with
out trouble from marine strikers. The
Finland. being under the American nag,
was the only one affected by the strike,
/ but her substitute crew did not delay
matters much. The third ship TO sail
was the Cedric. also of the White Star
Line, and after her came the French
liner Rochambeau
No class of Americans lacked repre-
sentatlon on the liners. Among those on,
| the Olympic were persons prominent in
society and in theatrical circles. Two of
the voyagers. Norris Gest and Brock
Pemberton, theatrical producers. left
good news behind them. They agreed
that the price of theatre tickets must
drop soon. and drop heavily.
With her hopes high and with conf
dence in her ability to be at least a
runner up If not a winner in the forth
coming woman's international golf
championship In England. Miss Edith
cummings OF New York and Chicago
started for the other side on the Olym-
pic. She won the women's tournament
at Belleaire last winter and judging
{, ON the games she has played recently
she will give a good account of herself
as one of the aspiring golfers among the
younger American amateurs. She is a
daughter Of Mrs. D, Mark Cummings Of
Chicago. Before sailing they had passed
several days at the Ritz-Carlton.
Mr. and Mrs. Gustavus Town Kirby,
who sailed on the Olympic. are en- route
to Switzerland, where he will attend
I several international conferences on
sport at Lausanne. Upon their return
they viii go to their country place in
Westchester county.
Newly Married Couples.
Among the several newly married cou-
pies on the Olympic are Mr.. and Mrs.
Adalbert Volck. whose marriage took
place in Montclair n. j.. last Wednes-
day. They win go to London to join his
mother, Nine. da Cana. wife of the
Brazilian Ambassador to the Court of
St. Jamess.
Mr. Joseph S. Ulman. who also sailed
by the Olympic is en- route to Paris to
visit his brother-in-law and sister the
Duke and Duchess de Montmorency. in
Paris. His fellow passengers include
Messrs. Lloyd Warren and j. Louis
Webb.
The Rev and Mrs Charles Barker
Scovil. who were married last Wednes-
day In ST. Paul's Church in Pawtucket,
r. L., are passengers on board the Olym-
pic. Mrs. Scovil was Miss Beatrice
Adelin Sheldon. only daughter of Mrs.
Philip Collins Sheldon. They will go to
France. where Mr.. Scovil. who was chap
lain of the Seventy-first New York In
fantry, will dedicate two tablets to be
I
| in memory of the soldiers of the Sew
enty-first who fell in battle
Mr.. NJ, Scott Bromwell of Washing
ton came to New York to say bon voy-
age to his mother. Mrs. Charles S. Brom-
well. who Sailed by the Olympic They
had passed several days at the Ritz
Carlton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Archie Roosevelt and
MIR. and Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt We're
also on board the Olympic. Archie
Roosevelt sailed to spend two or three
months in France looking over the oil
situation for the Sinclair oil Corpora
! ton, and Mr.. and Mrs. Kermit Roose-
welt left to attend the wedding of Mrs.
Roosevelts sister, Miss Elizabeth Will
lard, daughter of the American Minister
to Spain.
Sir Charles Sykes. one of England's
leading business men and a director of
the Wool Textile Production and chair
man of the board of control of the
Worsted Trades of England is a pas
senger on the Olympic. Sir Charles is
accompanied by Lady Sykes and Capt.
Stanley Sykes. They make their home
at the Biltmore while in New York.
Stewards to Join Strike.
Stewards on both the Olympic and
the Cedric announced their determination
Of quitting work as soos as they reached
British ports. where q strike is on.
Rear Admiral William S. Sims. L.
S. N, commander of the American forces
I'm the war zone from April. 1917, until
the end of the war. sailed with Mrs.
Sims on the Cedric. to receive the degree
/ of doctor of laws from Cambridge Uni
versity Two little girls Constance du
Puy and Sally Wund, girl scouts Of New
port. r. L.. brought baskets OF fruit and
flowers as gifts of their organization,
which uses the Sims home at Newport
as their headquarters.
Others on the Cedric were Brig. Gen.
w. J. Nicholson, T. S. A.. retired. and
Mrs Nicholson, George A. ?. Haldane-
/ Duncan of Boston. Mrs l.. l.. S. Baggs.
the Marauise dc Rosales and DR.. Il.
Okamoto, physician to the Crown Prince
Of Japan, now in England.
Among those on the Finland were j..
Coleman Drayton of this city and Mr.
and Mrs George Woodward OF Philn-
delphia.
/ on the Rochambeau were Carter Har-
rison, former Mayor of Chicago, and
I Mrs. Harrison, wilfrid Pelleter. French
pianist George Plateau, French actor; {;
/ Edgar Mechman. formerly Of the French
] Theatre here VI. Metzinger, leader or
1 the French orchestra, and Nine Metzin-