New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
Olympic Leaves
Berth Carving.
S
Ship News Man
LongslioremenAlso Too Busy
TO Heed "All Ashore" Sig
nal; Landed i'm Tug With
Reporter, Photographers
Passengers Left on Dock
Six Fail to Get French Wise
of Passports and Sail ON
Lapla1d Two Hours Later

When the White Star liner Olympic
slipped out of her berth in the North
River yesterday bound for Cherbourg
and Southampton she took with her
an Industrious ship news reporter,
eight photographers and about forty
longshoremen who had been engaged
in their respective tasks, paying no
heed TO the signals of Cali ashore" ="
There were six second-cahin pas
sengers on the pier who would have
willingly exchanged places with tho
former unlisted voyagers, for they had
neglected to get French vises for their
passports day before, the offices of
the French Consul opening yesterday
at the time the vessel sailed.
Officials of the White Star Line, see
ing the predicament of the news con-
tingent when the gang plank had been
pulled in Immediately dispatched tug
which went alongside the Olympic when
she was off Christopher Street. 1t was
then that the longshoremen made their
appearance. They had been rushed
aboard the liner at the last moment
to assist in taking on 4,954 bags Of
m=il that arrived late and were oc-
cupied in the hold Of the vessel stow
ing them away when she started out,
All were taken off and set safely
ashore. The passengers who were left
behind obtained their vises and de-
parted on the Red Star liner Lapland
two hours later. The lapland calls at
Cherbourg on the way to Antwerp
Italian Delegation Sails
A delegation of three prominent
Italians. headed by Chev. Mario
Schiesari, sailed on the Olympic to
convey the gratitude of the Italian
Americans to the new Premier, DR..
Mussolini. The other two in the party
were Captain idario Cobianchi and
Cav. Louis Ricci. Chey. Schiesari
was the organizer here Of the Italian
Irredentists Society and was member
of the committee that greeted General
Diaz when he visited this country.
Francis Burke Roche, another pas
senger, sailed with Mrs. Roche for
Ireland, where the former will meet
his twin brother, Baron Fermoy. Later
they will pass some time in London
with their mother.
Others on the liner included Dr. E..
L. Gros, head of the American Hospital
in Neuilly, France, who is returning
to resume his work there after series
of lectures in this country; Gardner
Richardson, who returns to Austria for
the American Relief Administration,
where he will continue to render as
sistance to the intelligentsia and the
middle classes, who are now in dire
need, and Joan Reed, nine and half
years old, who is accompanied on this
trip by her mother and brother Ralph,
after visit to her grandmother in
Toronto. This is the childs third
round trip across the Atlantic.
Missionaries on Cedric
The White Star liner Cedric had
among her passengers eleven Method
ist missionaries, all women, who are
on their way to Bombay, India. The
delegation was headed by DR.. Rita B..
Tower, of Flint, Mich. DR.. Tower said
that after the party reached Bombay
the missionaries would break up and
proceed to different stations through
out the country. The young women
are from the Western states.
The President Fillmore, of the United
States, sailing for Bremen, took DR.,
Arthur l. Blau, of 348 East Eighty
fourth Street, a specialist in children's
diseases and one time diagnostician for
the Health Department. Dr. Blau will
pass about six months in Berlin and
Vienna to acquaint himself with the
European methods for the treatment of
children's diseases.
Other vessels sailing yesterday were
the Oropesa. of the Royal Mail Steam
Packet, for Hamburg, which, upon her
arrival in Europe, will enter the South
american service of the company from
Liverpool; the Anchor liner Cameronia
for Glasgow, which took James Meckle-
jones, who has charge of the second
class cabin department for the line in
Glasgow; the Caronia, of the Cunard
Line, for Liverpool, and the Holland
America liner Rotterdam for Rotterdam