The New York herald., 1922-12-28
Voyagers Kept i'll State
rooms. Glass of Ports
Knocked Out.
SAvOIE BADLY BATTERED
Wireless Wrecked as Freight
er Called Help-Caronia
and Others Suffer.

Three storm belated liners arrived
yesterday with tales of mighty seas,
taller than any in authentic history
of Atlantic turbulence, which Kept
voyagers in staterooms many days,
flooded berths, smashed one piano,
twisted bridge rails and knocked out
the glass of ports, but injured not
single traveller. The French liner La
Savoie. two days behind winter sched-
ule, reported having slid down into
the hollows OF waves ninety feet high.
Some passengers were willing to swear
to that and add a dozen more feet
or so. Capt. Henri Boisson, veteran
Gallo navigator, was not insistent
about the exact altitude of the seas,
but he declared that they were the
biggest and toughest that ever lam
basted any ship he has ever com
manded, and that he took catnaps III
his clothes five strenuous days and
never left the bridge until the fer
ment had subsidized.
The worst blow, estimated at more
than 100 miles, came on Wednesday, De
ccmbcr 90. when the crest OF n monster
wave invaded the ship. swept through
the lounge and wrenched the piano from
its fastenings, sending 1t ceilinGward.
1t crushed cello in descending and
also smashed itself. Only a few pas
sengers had the nerve to leave state
rooms and go to the lounge and they
were soaked and crawled back to
shelter.
= o : Mt Peak of storm.
Even in the staterooms there were
occasional invasions Of sea due TO the
smashing Of heavy glass ports. Eugene
B. CLARK. Chicago manufacturer. VIII"
with his wife occupied a suite on the
port side, managed to get some sleep
cespite the fury OF the storm. but was
aroused by swlshing Of water in his
cabin. He waded out and summoned
help and stewards carried Mrs. Clark
10 drier quarters. A stateroom port had
been stove and the seas had gushed
through as from the mouth of wave
shooting cannon. Adolph Busick. fur
ing the Atlantic twice year for twenty
years in all seasons said II was the
stormiest trip he had ever made and
that he was Inclined to think that prayer
may have saved the liner, as he believed
that every passenger sent up prayer
for her safety.
At the peais OF the tumult Capt Bois-
son received an @ S radio from the
Blue Star Line freighter Tudorstar in
midocean saying that ste was helplessly
drifting with her rudd sr carried away.
Before she could get anything more
about the plight OF the frelghter the
Savoie's wireless attenne were wrecked
and when. after perilous work OF her
radio force. the aerial equipment was re-
stored. the Tudorstar was out of touch
with the liner. Capt. Boisson was glad
TO learn after he arrived that tho
freighter had been picked UP and was
struggling eastward n tow of another
cargo ship. The Tudorstar is bond
from Seattle by way OF the Panama
Canal with refrigerated far Western
products for London and Glasgow.
Dancer shfed mt Paris.
Mrs. James Edwards of Buffalo and
her daughter Thelma. the latter a dan
Ger. went to Paris in the expectation
that Miss Thema might dance. there
after season in London When her
mother saw what Paris wanted she wept.
Miss Thelma said. ana they decided II
was too extreme"
The Cunarder Caronia from Liverpool
and Queenstown by way OF Halifax hal
three ports stove in in the series os
tempests that buffeted her nearly all the
way across
AIR. and Mrs. Augustine Healy of Chi
cago passengers. who have been hunt
ing In East Africa brought freak head
OF a rhinoceros with a front horn twen-
ty-nne inches long and rear horn
usually undeveloped. thirty-seven inches
long. Mrs. Healy brought the head Of
one OF the largest lions ever killed iu
East Africa. which she shot herself.
joaquin Sorolla. Spanish painter ar
rived with twenty-five canvases depict
Ing the progress Of Spain done by tis
father. which will be exhibited here in
the rooms OF the Hispano Society.
The United American liner Mount
Carroll. from Hamburg. lost lifebooj
covers in the blasts and twenty feet Of
her lower bridge was smashed Capt.
Higgins said the waves were mountain