The New York herald., 1921-12-01
EARLBEATTY SEES
RESCUE ON SAILING
Longshoreman, Pulled Into
Water by Hawser, Saved by
Barbados Swimmer.
PRAISES ARMS FARLEY
Sorry to Go and Will Come
Back 'as Soon as I Jolly
Well Cam

Earl Beatty. First Sea Lord of the
Admiralty, who has acted as naval adj
wiser tc the British delegation at the
terday for home aboard the White Star
liner Adriatic, standing on the bridge
beside Capt Hambleton. the skipper, as
the liner drew out in stream.
He witnessed the rescue of a negro
longshoreman, Ernest Williams. by a
gallant black Barbadian, Albert VOL
colt, just after the lines of the ship
were cast off. Williams was caught In
the heaving line attached 10 q bow
hawser and dragged overheard. He
the line were hauling rapidly through
the river toward the side of the liner.
More than a thousand persons on the
pier saw him struggling to free HIM
self.
Chief Officer Frank. standing at the
ships bow, yelled to the men at the
drum of the steam winch around which
the hawser was coiling to cut the rope.
They did something better, throwing
the turns of the hawser off the drum
and overheard. Williams was almost
exhausted when Wolcott, the Bar
badian. jumped into the dock and made
for williams with the natatorial energy
of q clever West Indian swimmer.
Rescuers Cheercd.
He grasped the weary Williams
nd O-
side the pier. to which both were hauled
by longshoremen, to the accompani-
ment Of cheers from ship and shore.
Williams was taken to the office at
the end of the pier tagged out, and his
hardy rescuer. although from a semi
tropical island, walked off dripping as
| il he did not mind the chill of this lati-
tude after a plunge in cold river.
The White Star Line will reward him.
/ Admiral Beatty did not reach the
gangplank of the Adriatic until few
minutes before she was scheduled to
sail. He was accompanied by Lady
Beatty and her niece, Miss Field. He
seemed to be startled by the size OF the
throng of reporters encircling him. re-
marking, How many arc there OF
your" Without waiting for an answer
to this he said:
II am very sorry to go. have had
| six weeks of very happy and hectic
time, the greatest hospitality anybody
could expect: remarkable appreciation
of the United States for the service of
the British Navy"
Conference Work Praised.
The Admiral praised the work of the
conference at Washington, saying that
the fact that he was going away indi-
Gated that it was proceeding in a very
| satisfactory manner, and said that he
understood that Japan had accepted the
ratio of naval reduction suggested at
! the beginning of the conference. In re-
sponse to the question when will you
come again?" the Admiral laughingly
said: "I'll come back as soon as ! jolly
well can
Anthony G. De Rothschild, British
banker, who was reported to have come
| here to confer with American financiers
over the possibility of German loan.
declined to talk on the object of his
visit, because he did not-believe in giving
out interviews. He did, however, re-
spond to the question What will be the
effect on exchange If the armament con-
ference ends successfully" by remark
| ing that IL he could answer that he
would never have to think of work
again.
| A delegation from the Salvation Army
gave good-by to Commissioner Frederick
Booth Tucker and Mrs. Booth Tucker
returning to London. Ocher passengers
were Viscountess Harcourt, granddaugh-
ter of the late Junius Spencer Morgan
IAN Hay Beth. writer John c. Neale
of the Midvale Steel and Ordnance Cor
poration, and Bertram winthrop, spe-
cial attache OF the American Embassy
at Paris