The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-09-02
SEVEN LINERS RACE
TO AID Immigrants
Each Tries to Get In Before
September Quota Is
Filled Up.
GREEK MEETS GREEK
Contest Between 2 Steamers
Loaded With Grecians
brings il Quarrel.
RUSSIAN EXILES ARRIVE
Three Princes, picture Brides
and College Girls Among
Passengers.
RUSSIAN EXILES ARRIVE


yesterday morning in the September
international race from Ambrose Light
10 Quarantine. Spectators in the
monthly event were thousands of
cheering immigrants, to many of whom
tho prize was entry into this country
and the penalty deportation.
Several of the big ships, including
the Acropolis of the Black Sea Line
and the King Alexander. both from
Greek ports, and the Baltic American
liner Gdansk, have been lying off Am
brose Light for several days awaiting
September /, so that they might land
their cargoes of Greek and Polish inn
migrants. Under the immigration law
the August quota OF these nationalities
has been filed. The bitterest rivalry
was between the King Alexander,
which flies the Greek flag, and the
Acropolis, which is under the Ameri-
can, as each ship carried many Greek
immigrants, and together more than
enough to complete the September
quota.
Tho French liner Chicago. from
Havre, which arrived during the night,
was the first to take aboard a pilot
after midnight and dash up Ambrose
Channel She reached the Narrows and
Quarantine at / :0S A. N. After her
came the King Alexander, with 1,1S3
passengers, dropping anchor at LOT,
which let go her mudhook at l :o9. Fol-
lowing them were the Gdansk, the Lith-
uana, from Danzig; the Italian liner
Giuseppe Verdi, from Naples, and the
Rosalind. which brought from Halifax
4 number of immigrants who were
bound for this country.
1Picturc Brides" Arrive.
The King Alexander's most fervent
rooters among her passengers were
some scores of picture brides" who
have become engaged by Photographs
10 young Greeks here. Many prospective
husbands in motorboats greeted them
enthusiastically at Quarantine and tol-
lowed the shp to its pier.
Capt. Batchelder Of the Acropolis
later in the day appealed to the authori-
ties at Ellis Island on the ground that
his ship had passed into Quarantine at
least a minute before the King Alexan-
der. This and the wedding out of Greek
nationals exempt under the law. will
take several days. The Greek quota for
1Ittgi aud nm
missioner-General of immigration, ar
rived yesterday from Washington and
went to work on the problem OF ham
ding the immigrants and preventing I'M
necessary deportations under the new
law.
On the Giuseppe Virdi. which brought
1925 passengers, including many Amer
icans, were Nine. Gina Langone, chair
man Of the Women's Italian Hospital
COMMITTEE of Boston, who has estab-
lished schools to teach lace making in
Italy, Giulio Setti, conductor Of the
Metropolitan Opera House. The Coun-
tess Valerie de Kermen, whose home Is
at IS West Sixty-eighth street. and Cav
alieri Luigi Constantine, pianist, who
will go on tour.
American Girls Return.
Ninety American EIlSt SluucDJS Ut
colleges all over the country, returned
on the Chicago. in the care of Irwin
Smith. from tour of Europe as guests
II the Italy-America Society. Tho
students took part in the placing of n
bronze wreath on the tomb OF Dante,
at Ravenna, as tribute from American
institutions OF learning. Also on the
Chicago was Major Frank w. Sherwood
Of Chicago, who has been visiting the
devastated lions OF France.
The Acroi Is brought three Russian
Princes, cousins. the Princes Peter
Simon and Dc-letre Shannon Erishoff,
who passed eight months in Turkey after
expulsion from their own country by the
Eolshevists. The wives of Simon and
Demetre died of starvation in Russia
before they reached Turkey. All three
were lawyers in Petrograd and formerly
we're officers in the Cars army. The
Princes, who were clad in clothes fur
nished by the American Red Cross, and
other refugees on board brought word
that conditions OF Russian refugees in
Constantinople are still of the worst de-
scription. Men, women and children,
many of noble birth, are dying of hun
ger and destitution in the streets. The
three Princes win be aided by relatives
living in New York