The New York herald., 1922-04-16
GIANT WATERSPOUT
THRILLS TOURISTS
Carmania Passengers See
Struggle Between Sky
and Ocean.
COLUMN 1900 FEET HIGH
Mediterranean Travellers Tell
of Ncarness to Danger in
Troubled Fiume.
COLUMN 1900 FEET HIGH

The grand climax of the two months
cruise in the Mediterranean Of the Gu
nard liner Carmania was not in Euro
pean waters. but in the Gulf Stream
three days from New York.
The 267 passengers on board had seen
everything worth looking at; in fact
they were almost too satisfied with
their observations to look at anything.
no matter how antique, exciting, or un-
usual, when suddenly, out on the Allan
tic. they saw something that made them
all sit up and gaze as If they had never
seen anything before.
What they saw was vast disturb
ance, about twelve miles from the ship.
In one part of the Atlantic, ocean and
sky seemed engaged in gigantic
struggle. the ocean TO pull down the sky
and the sky to drag up the ocean. The
sky won. A swirling, green and white
mass of water, surging, whirling, and
glinting In the sun. left the surface OF
the water and wound upward.
Danger within Five Miles.
Passengers watched the vast struggle
without awe. but with great respect, at
the whirling column, and spoke softly
down the tube to the chief engineer
The Carmania started to go the other
way. The great waterspout writhed for
three quarters of an hour. and ap-
preached within five miles of the ship.
According to Capt Nelson, the spout
was $50 feet in diameter and mile
high
The great column did not wait to be
measured. however and volunteers Tor
the job would not have been found
aboard the Carmania il II had. The
great mass of water suddenly seemed
to wreN itself from the grip of the SKY
and came tumblng and roaring down
onto the surface OF the ocean once more.
Although the cruise was one OF only
two months passengers in that time
came TO realize that Europe is still nos
tile happy tourist land 1t was before the
war. When the Carmania reached
Fiume it was to find that party of
Italian Fascist had captured the city.
The American Consul went on board the
ship to warn the passengers not to go
ashore, but some ventured at their own
risk. Before the ship left a party OF
Jugo-Slavs had battled in, fought the
Italian invaders and driven them. out.
writer Home with Romance.
The romance--for a cruise has ro-
nance as inevitably as 1t has an end
ing--was still more or less up In the
air when the Carmania docked. Miss
Dorothy Farnum of 23 West Fifty
fourth street. writer. who was chap
eroned on board by Ethel Watts Num-
ford. playwright. met Prince LUX Fellah.
an Egyptian revolutionist, who had been
exiled from his country. Miss Farnum
arrived home with her veil arranged as
a yashmak, to conceal the lower part OF
her features. and wearing two ropes OF
huge amber beads given to her by the
Prince.
Miss Farnum will make another trip
abroad in eight weeks. When asked II
she would 20 TO see the Prince Miss
Farnum said:
Whoever touches Nile water must
come back
In response.t to a question as to whether
she would marry the Prince, she said
East Is East and West is West, but
maybe the twain will meet" which was
variously interpreted as correction OF
Mr.. Kipling or confession of uncer-
tainty.