New-York tribune., 1922-09-03
Atlanta Girl
W no Srlubl,et1
King Returns
Mas Dickey Arrives ON
NIauretania; She Unshink.
ingly Left Alfonso Alone
On Floor AT Deauvilie
s.enarch Good Natured
I.,lian immigration Head
Here; Praises America;
Liners Crossing Slow

u. katherine Diekey, pretty
/ ..s,sa society girl, who has danced
- 81. ss,ehrated metropolitan tenors at
,,,.,,a diplomats at Washington and
s.s.;.rysshed folk Of The West in the
s.,.voon,s Of San francisco, went
$3.50 ard danced with q king. But
.ssn she arrived here yesterday as
- u the 1916 passengers on the
wsa,stania Of the cunard line the
80. that was told concerned not the
III that she had actuslly danced with
king. but the fact that she had
.nubbed him. 1t was, Of course unin-
sentional-
The king was Alfonso XIII OF Spain.
us ,oot tbe slight beautifully for a
s;,0 or for anybody else, for that
.astssv Miss Djckey. her father, James
nIekey. an Atlanta banker. and her
81, friend, Miss Wilmontine Perdue,
II srree on that, as did all the other
w.nsstaria passengers who heard the
ssasy The Cunarder brought home a
s ave nstnber Of young American girls.
Il II sssds Che voyage from Southampton
~ Caerbourg in six days and seven
teea hours.
King Causes Flutter Of Hearts
Kiss Dickcy, her father and Miss
p.rdus we're in the grand ballroom at
ths Casino at Deauville, France, about
month ago, and there was futter
among them and among all the other
dancers. too. when it was learned that
King Alfonso was present and was dan
rins' There was still more Of fiuttcr
arone the trio of Americans when the
English. speaking secretary of the Span
ish monarch came forward with the
message that King Alfonso had seen
Miss Diekey and requested the pleasure
Of dance with her.
Miss Dickey accepted. The dance
started, but stopped duddenly when the
Atlanta girl caught sight of her banker
father in the role of wall flower.
That would never do. Never. She
asked her dancing partner to please
aEait a minute smiled at him, and
shot across The ballroom tc the wall
and the wall flower, leaving King AL
fonso XIII Of Spain standing somewhat
uneomfortably in the middle of the
ballroom, and crowded ballroom at
that. The other dancers gasped, and
Miss Dickey gasped a Little, too, when
she came to realization of the seem
ing enormity of her error
II was all fixed up, however, when
Prince Nicholas, second son of the
King Of Rumania, conveyed to the
King the American girls regrets.
Italian Dignitary Arrives
Among the arrivals on the Maure-
tania was His Excellency Giuseppe de
Miehaelis, Commissioners General of
Emigration of Itaiy. He is on his way
to Canada to study immigration condi-
tions. He received welcome from
an eHissar.' Of Commissioners of Immi-
grafton Husband and the surgeon gen.
'eral OF the Public Health Service.
y will try to make my stay in the
United States as long as possible, for
particularly admire this great coun-
try he said. mo country is more in
terestlng than this one, since America
is called upon to-day more than yes
ferday to contribute in prominent,
decisive way to the economic recon
struction OF the world.
The ever larger number of our fell
low countrymen in America shows that
.hey have always been welcome here
Just because they came to usefully fit
INTO the industrial and agricultural
ilte Of the country.
ne restrictive per cent law has
considerably reduced the number of
new arrivals, but as some day the new
needs 81 America will demand a larger
immigration the Italian emigrant shall
always be desirable element because
g ms old recognized qualities those
afe added every day that come from
constant Improvement and refining of
sis Standard of life and of his pro-
tessicnsl value.e
Sir Ashley Sparks Aboard
Vtners returning on the Mauretania
were Sir Ashley Sparks, X. B. F., gem
eial agent and resident director Of the
ounard Line in America; Lady Sparks
snd their daughter, Eleanor, and AL
gsH :. Crockett, editor of "World
Iraveler' and president of the World
ir1yeler gr Publishing Company.
mere was no attempt by the Gu
aasder to break speed records this trip,
iof one Of the low pressure turbines
va vas placed out of commission after
oalei Engineer A. Cockburn had re-
ported to Captain A. II. Rostron, the
sg;,aalmsander, I'm that something was wrong
me Manretania will continue for
saotner trip bringing in the rush of
pp0msDound passengers" said Captain
=. nos.fon, "and after that we will lay
y 70 md out what is the matter. The
.ssuit will be that the Mauretania be-
sQmes seven -iav hnat fnr +ha tina