New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-08
Girl Bids 800
For a Husband
With No Takers
Confronted With Detention
at Ellis Island, She Is
Willing to Marry Even
a Ship News Reporter
Lived Here Ten Years
Another Prospective Bride
Allowed to Land Because
tiance Was Awaiting Her


Fiance Was Awaiting Her
It's not every day that an over
worked ship news reporter, sad-eyed
from endlessly hearing how the re-
turning traveller has been fleeced by
the European hotel keepers, has
chance to marry young woman pas
senger, with bonus of 500
thrown in and a guaranty Of no
further responsibility. No, indeed:
the reporter who meets those that
come up from the sea in ships is more
likely when he steps up to some fair
damsel returning from a hat-buyi,p
expedition to Paris and asks her about
critical opinion in Norway on Knut
Hamsun's latest book, to be menaced
with the point of parasol or annihi-
tated py cold glance than to be Of
Tered the damsePS hand in matrimonv
But the unexpected happened vas.
terday. when the Mount Clay. of the
United American Lines, locked at the
!oot CT West Forty-sixth Street. Miss
Rose Pooh, of 100 West Eightv-ninth
Street, who is in charge of the Hotel
Pennsylvania dining room and who
went to Germany six months ago to
visit her mother at Borken, West
phaila, was the lady in the case. Miss
Foch mas been in America ten wears
ana mas taken out her first papers.
When she got back, however, she
iouha mat she was in the tolls of the
immigration law, which is as one of
the famed laws of the Modes and Per-
SLAMS, and which required her to So
!ourn at Ellis Island until the author
tiles had considered the matter
One Proposal After Another
My goodness!' exclaimed Miss Pocb
much distressed, turning to one of tho
newspaper men who had met the boat.
"a give hundred dollars to any
american citizen who would marry me
right now, and all he'd have to do
would be to walk down the rangplank
with me and all his work would be
over" "'0io nc
Alas! for the gallantry of yore. Did
the reporter play the Sir Walter
Raielgh and offer the lady his name,
@ VINE she might bridge the watery
gap between herself and these shores?
he did not: He only stammered hat
he already had wife and two children
and no coal in the cellar. considera-
tons which no one in the age of
chlvalry would have needed for q mo-
ment, and refused Miss Poch's pro
posal. Worse and more of it, second
reporter to whom Miss Pooh then ad-
dressed herself did the same So the
VVoyager sadly took the tug for Ellis
Island and durance vile instead Of a
taxi to Eighty-ninth Street, and the
mower OF American newspaperdom 90
about to-day with downcast ewes ava
shame-faced countenances.
MISS Poch was not alone in her
ppredicament, however. Mrs. Herman
mans Stark, whose husband is assist
ant superintendent of the Kiel Furni-
ture company, of Milwaukee, and her
1I!hlrteen-year-old daughter; Mrs. VIII
liam Deppe, of Milwaukee, with her
six-year-old son, and Mrs Martba
Busch, waitress, who also has first
papers, were also held in the imnigra-
ton authorities net for the same req.
son and were taken to Ellis Island
with her.
A Wireless Romance
"A young woman who did land. and
from whose case Miss Pooh probahiv
got her idea, was Miss Ada Peick. Of
hamburg, who was on her first visit
mere and who was met by her future
husband, Arthur f. Rehbein, of 141
flerson Street, Jamaica. Mr.. Rehbein
is assistant wireless supervisor of the
United American Lines. and said that
the romance began when he met the
young woman at her mothers home in
hamburg year ago.
Saying that she had come back to
america to end her days, rather than
stay IN Germany, where she went two
years ago for that purpose, Mrs. Louise
Melse, " years old, also returned on
the MT Clay. Mrs. Meise, who has lived
mere o3 years, made up her mind to 90
back to her birthplace after the war.
and took all her possessions with her
IN nineteen trunks. She found con-
oltlons IN Germany SO terrible. she
SAID, that she could not stay, so with ali
her trunks, and travelling entirely
aione, the septuagenarian came back TO
the United States. She was met nv her
daughter Mrs. Hilda Biberg, ~of 14e
East Sind Street, with whom she will
make her home, and by her two grand
daughters
Search for Quaint Dory.
The Mt. Clay was hailed in her vow
age at o'clock Sunday afternoon.
while off the Grand Banks, bv the mo-
tor-drlven fishing schooner DOLPHIN IT
The boat hailed the steamer and steerej
zlg-zag course to intercept her. When
the Mt. Clay was brought to a ston the
five men in the fsherman's lookout
posts and the eight men on deck in
CURED anxiously if Captain Brown had
sighted dory which was missing from
the schooner. The latter recalled that
six or eight hours before he had sighted
an overturned dory with no signs of
life, and so told the Dolphin's crew.