The New York herald., 1922-05-14
Great Crowds at
Piers to See 1000
Sail for Europe
Largest Number of yoyagers
of Year Leave Here Aboard
Eight Liners.

Seven thousand passengers. bound on
tion OF war ravaged countries attend
ance at the Passion Play at Oberammer-
gau. touring Europe and working with
out pay in the mines of Siberia. sailed
for Europe yesterday on eight liners
Large crowds assembled at all the piers
to bid the voyagers goodby.
The fleet of ships that sailed was the
largest that has put TO sea so far this
spring, and the number OF passengers
was also the largest of the year. The
greater part of those sailing are bound
to Europe on vacations. but the number
-1 men bound ON strictly business trips
was Viewed by shipping men as an indi-
cation OF steadily reviving International
t-ade relations.
One of the passengers sailing on the
Olympic. the largest of the eight. was
Mr.. J. Pierpont Morgan, who is going
TO Paris to sit on committee of finan-
ciers appointed by the Reparations Com
mission TO consider the conditions under
which the German Government could
raise foreign loans to assist in the solu-
Morgan was accompanied by Mrs. Nor
gan, Mr.. George Whitney. "a member Of
his firm, and Mrs. Whitney.
Two other bankers who sailed on the
White Star liner were Mr.. Otto Fl. Kahn
OF Kuhn. Loeb & Co.. and Si- Felix
Schuster, one OF the directors of the
National Provincial Union Bank OF
London.
Sir Felix said he had been here three
t. 4.
prominent men. all Of whom terrified his
own observations Of gradually returning
signs of commercial activity
II also found increasing signs of de-
sire to cooperate with England in the
great burden of the rehabilitation OF the
distressed countries of Europe. SO long
as this can be done with prudence and
proper safeguards. I am OF the opinion
that both nations clearly understand
that they have great task before them
which cannot be carried out by one
alone. Neither need fear the competi
tion of the other, for there is plenty Of
work for both to do"
Miss Mary Garden, another voyager on
the Olympic, said she was going to
Switzerland, via Monte Carlo, with the
firm intention of climbing the highest
mountain she coul find in the Alps to get
away from every one she knew and have
complete rest. She VIII return In the
fall to sing for five weeks for the Chi
cago Opera Company and to go on con-
cert tour. She denied that she was en-
gagged or meditating matrimony. An
other operatic star was Tito Schipa,
tenor, who sailed with Nine. Schipa.
Marcus NJ Marks former Borough
President and chairman of the National
Daylight Saving Association. sailed with
statistics to show non-daylght saving
countries that pushing the clock ahead
an hour every year saves 2S per cent.
in gas bills.
Ono hundred and fifty tallors, shoe
makers. carpenters, machinists. railroad
workers, miners. bakers and other labor
ers sailed yesterday in the steerage OF
the Hoiland-hmerica liner Rotterdam, en-
route to the william .. Haywood Kus-
bas colony in Siberia. where Mr.. Hay
wood is planning big mining operations
Two more delegations of workers viii
leave later on this spring. Some Of
those who sailed were born in this
country. They plan to demonstrate that
n Communist community can exist and
have agreed 10 work without any fixed
pay for two years.
More than a hundred priests came to
the Rotterdam's pier to bid farewell TO
Mgr. NJ J. Lavelle of the New York
archdiocese, who sailed to represent
Archbishop Hayes at the Eucharistic
Congress at Rome.
Other ships sailing were the White
Star liner Baltic. the Red Star liner
I-apland. the Royal Mail steamer Orbita.
the United States liner President FIJI
more the Cunarder Caronia, and the
Greek liner ThemistocleS.