New-York tribune., 1921-01-31
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Delays Docking
OF Aquitania
Drift Holds or Cunard
Liner More Than Hour;
Rumanian Envoy Among
the Prominent Passengers
Shackleton Also Arrives
British Explorer Predicts
Continued Mid Winter;
Is Here on Business

The Cunard liner Aquitania, with
1000 travellers. an unusually large
westward list for this season, arrived
here yesterday from. Southampton and
Cherbpurg after q rough passage Of six
days ten hours and forty-threc minutes.
Her average speed over the journey
of 3,16l miles was 20.4S knots.
The vessel tried to warp into her
dock at Fourteenth Street when the
tide was on the ebb and had difficult
encounter with drift ice that held her
OF for an hour.
Tugs were sent in ahead of her t.
break the ice jam, but still the mighty
ship was unable to warp through It bv
tho aid OF her spring lines 1t was only
after several gangs Of men were set to
work with poles, pushing the ice cakes
toward midstream, that the big craft
was enabled to make fast and discharpe
her passengers.
Rumanian Envoy Here
Prominent among her 566 saloon
passengers were the Prince and Prin-
cess Bibesco, the former coming here
as the newly appointed Minister from
Rumania to Washington The prince
recently represented his country at
London as charge de affaires and while
there married Miss Elizabeth Asuuith
the twenty thrce-year-old daughter of
Asquith, of England.
The prince said he had been selected
for his new post in Washington to de-
veiop the good relationship of his
country with America. He said he felt
that his knowledge. Of English-speakine
peoples and his diplomatic experience
IN England would help him in this eff
fort.
Sir Ernest Shackleton, the British
explorer and writer, whose name did
not appear on the ships passenger
trip to Montreal.
He said he was not surprised at the
mild winter along the Atlantic coast,
and expressed the belief that the mod
crate winter temperatures would con-
tinue here until spring. Sir Ernest
said ne predicted continued mild
winter several weeks ago from obser-
vations he had made while ON a. trip to
bergen, Norway. He said the ice was
packed hard on the Siberian shore and
chat ships were enabled to get as far as
Spltzbergen without difficulty. This,
coupled with the disintegration of the
Ice on the North Atlantic, he said, was
good basis for predicting mild winter.
English Sculptor Arrives
Giorgio Polacco, the former conduc-
tor OF the Metropolitan Opera House,
came over in response to 8 cablegram
from Miss Mary Garden, director Of the
Chicago Opera Company. Mr. Polacco.
who is an American citizen, said he
Seuld not say what his hurried mission
here would develop until he had had a
conference with Miss Garden.
Mrs. Claire Sheridan, an English
sculptor, who had been in Russia and
had made portrait busts of Trotzky
and Lenine, came on the Aquitania to
make lecture tour of this country.
She was accompanied by her young son.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, whose
Iatherr great-grandson Of Richard
Brinsley Sheridan, the English dra-
matist, was killed in the World War.
Randolph G. Lewis, who was sent
abroad by Pathe to confer with Rud-
yard Kipling, on the filming of three Of
the latter's stories, returned after q
stay OF three months. He said he had
spent most Of his time abroad in con-
ference with Kipling, and that the three
Kipling stories would soon be made in
this country for the screen.
Among others on the Aquitania were
DR.. G. A. Elsberg, Sir Philip Gibbs, the
war correspondent; Vice-Admiral II. M.
p. Huse, U. S. N; Lieutenant Com
mander II. w. Koehler, U. S. NJ; Major
General the Hon. Sir Newton James
Moore and Mr. and Mrs. w. Waite.