Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-08-24
W|LM|NGtON|ANs HOME.
AFTER EXTENDED TRIP
Explosion on Ship and Discovery
of Girl Stowaway Add Excite
ment to Long Voyage.

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Several WilminRtonians landed I'm
New York last week after an interest
ing and evcntfnl tour through West
ern Europe. Mrs. Il. X. Mode and her
father. George w. Baker. arrived last
Saturday eveRing on the Aauitania.
They separated from the rest of the
party in England. going to Mr.. Bakers
old home in Norfolk. England. where
ne celebrated his saith birthday. Be
fore sailing from I.iverpools they
visited the Isle OF Wight
Sunday evening ON the Colonia ar
rived Mrs Samuel Bancroft. Miss NAL
colin. Mrs. IL. p. Rumford and Miss
Genevra Rumford. who visited Queens
town and Halifax on the homeward
voyage. Miss Genevra Rumford went
To York Gin Beach, Maine. for the
rest of the season. and the other
members of the party returned to VIII
mington.
The party sailed June 25 on the
steamer Emperor of India, which car
ried 4s6 passengers, and cruised for
month through northern waters. Just
of Newfoundland an explosion oc-
CURED. which killed and wounded
several OF the crew, and created a
near-panic. Shortly after this ex-
element was quieted. a stowaway
was found. young girl of about 20,
who was finally turned over to the
authorities in Edinburgh. The cruise
was intended to include Iceland, but
wireless warnings of icebergs forced
a change I'm the course. NAs IL was.
the travellers saw 16o icebergs. some
times the vessel passing within 200
yards of them. and as the Emperor of
India is tropical ship. designed to
ply between London and Bombay.
and without adequate means of heat
ing, the passengers suffered greatly
from cold.
The first stop was made at North
Cape, within the Arctic Circle, where
the midnight sun shone brightly
enough at l.30 o'clock in the morning.
to permit some adventures to climb
the steep cliff. The natives regarded
all Americans as millionaires and were
most hospitable. The party then
cruised down several Norwegian
fiortis enjoying the beauty OF snow
topped cliffs, glaciers and mist-veiled
Several automobile trips |
were taken to famous falls and to |
cities where cathedrals dating to the
Twelfth Century ~Te visited The |
landscape is most pictur- |
esque, according to the reports of the |
The matched roofs Of. the |
peasants hnts are bright with wild
flowers that grow there-deep purple |
pansies, gaudy buttercups and cerise |
foxglow-
The steamer ran on a rock in one |
bf the fiords, which accident oc- |
a two-days' stop in Bergen |
for repairs. when the passengers |
visited the museums and art galleries. |
From there the party went to Scot |
land and visited Edinburgh, Loeb |
katrine and other beauty spots. |
Across the channel in Holland they |
visited Amsterdam, The Hague, Mark |
en- and sailed up the Zuider Zee. In |
and the desolafsd battlefields around |
Ypres. AT ostend the young people in
the party went bathing At that |
famous resort no promenading on the |
beach is allowed; the bathers get |
into little wagons and are trundled |
out into the water, where they go |
In France the party devoted much |
Of the time TO visiting hattleflelds, al
though some time was spent IN Paris.
The destruction around Rheims is |
fearful, they say, although the heroic |
are busy restoring the land, /
u spite of the difficulty of plowinG the
lelds where hundreds of unexploded
shells still are buried in the ground.
rhe Rheims Cathedral is in process
If restoration, but one of the party
described it as still looking like
pictures of Pompeii. At Rheims the
amous wine cellars were visited,
where in deep underground caverns,
almost like the Catacombs, twelve
million bottles of champaign have
,een turned twice daily since they
we're bottled ten years ago.
The Marne was crossed and the
amous stream surprised the Whining
onians by being no wider than the
at Van Buren street. On
me of the battlefields Miss Rumford
.ntered a dugout and secured he'll
net, part of a machine gun and other
souvenirs The celebrated poppies
hat grow in Flanders fields were
almost at the end of their season,
some pink and deep orange
ed blossoms were still decking the
ields.
After a brief time in London. the
,arty sailed from Liverpool and ar
lived in America last Sunday.