New-York tribune., 1922-02-26
Liner Pounded
BY Heavy Seas
On Trip Here
Despite Terrific Storm. Sue.
ccssfml Operation for APP
pendicitis Is Performed
on Boy Aboard Aquitania
Midget Family Arrives
Passcnger Brings Word Sir
Ernest Shackleton Sank
Fortune in Expedition

The Cunard liner AGuitAnia which
arrived here yesterday from Southamp.
ton and Cherbourg, took beating from
the Atlantic on the run across which
her officers and crew said was the worst
she las had since she came into the
company's service. Fifteen port lights
made of s4inch glass gave way before
the crash of waves that broke over her
main deck forward and hurled tons Of
water over the bridge.
Her big beam and draft, however.
held her fairly steady in the turbulent
ooean, but occasionally she made
plunges that caused timid travellers to
become uneasy
The trip generally was an unpleasant
ore out Of doors. but within the warm
and luxurious interior the passengers
save little heed to the weather. Jazz
and the dance whiled away the six
stormy nights of the passage
The weather was not exactly to the
liking Of Or. B. Sydney Jones, tho
Aquitania's senior surgeon, who was
obliged to operate quickly on one of the
passengers when tho storm was at its
height
Dr.. Jones, who is specialist in
abdominal surgery, has performed more
capital operations at sea than snv
transatlantic surgeon now in service.
Re was called on Friday to the state
room Of Robert Webster, & scven-yesr-
old boy, who was on his way TO Cali
tornia with his parents. The child
was seriously i'll Of acute appendicitis.
When the boy WAS taken TO the
operating room DIR. Jones was asked
II he wished reduction in the speed
OF the ship, but he replied that the
Aqultania was steady enough despite
the weather, and it would be perhaps
better to let her go on. The operation
VAS performed and the patient was
restng comfortably yesterday when
the Aquitania docked.
Among the saloon passengers was
Sir Frederick and Lady Becker. the
former ship owner and pulp pape-
manufacturer of Canada. Sir Frederick
who was close friend Of the late Sir
Ernest Shachleton. said that tho ex-
plorer had been suddenly deserted BY
MS Canadian hackers and was obliged
10 put his entire fortune into his ant
arctic expedition. His widow and TWO
email children we're left penniess, but
Shackleton'5 8 friends, according to Sir
Frederick, will soon take means 70
make them comfortable for life
Emil Ritter, H Snowman of Berlin.
brought over seven uidgets varying In
height from two TO three feet. Ritter.
who will exhibit his family" with an
American circus. said he had adopted
IS his children five Of the little folk.
All ot the Nlliputian group are Ger
man except Miss Jennie Lindsay Phil
lips, who is Scotch
Another traveller was n. W. Banks,
an American checker player, who went
abroad for champion ship contest in
England and was defeated by Robert
Smart. of Glasgow. Mr.. Banks, WHO
met ali comers, played forty games,
thirty-seven being draws
S. j. Lister, general manager of the
Cunsrd Line in Liverpool, brought over
the information that the Mauretania.
which has been converted into an oil
burner, would resume service to this
rort, leaving Southampton March 25
With her new equipment he said the
M@uretania would beat her own worlds
trans Atlantic record, which Is d DAYS
10 hours and A. minutes from Daunt's
Rock fightship 70 Sandy Hook. The
Mauretaria, with the Berengaria and
the Aouitania, he said, would enable
the Cunard Line to give the fastest
weekly service operating between New
York, Cherbourg 8nd SOUTHAMPTON