New-York tribune., 1922-11-11
Rull1'nanians Are
Here With Debt
Extension Plea.
viii Ask Payment of S38.- /
OOO. 900 Owed by Govern
nlent Be Deferred; Claim
insufficientR Rehabilitation
Sir Eric Ceddes Arrives
Many Notable Americans I'm.
cluded Among 488 Cabin
Passengers ON Aquitania


ane Cunard liner Aquitania, arriving
mere yesterday from Southampton and
oherbourg, brought two Rumanian
Jufists, who are going to Washington
70 discuss with Secretary Hughes and
secretary Mellon tho payment of $685.
ooo'ooo owed by their government to
the United States. They are Eftimie
Antoneseu, financier and one Of the
Judges Of the Superior Court in Ru-
MANIA and Constantin Antoniades, Ru-
manian member of the international
ooufs OF Arbitration sitting in Paris.
shortly after the vessel docked yes
tter,day they departed for Washington
=. ID Understood that they will ask for
an extension of time for the payment
VI tne loan, as Rumania has not vet
rehaoiiltated herself sufficiently from
an economic standpoint to meet the
uene at the present time. 1t is also
oelleved that while they are in this
country they will seek to interest
american capital in Rumanian indus
trles' which are showing indications
OF beginning to thrive.
Inc delegates were met ct the pier
by delegation Of Rumanians Of this
in New York. s"'
.,, Sir Eric Geddes, G. C. B., G. B. E.,
England's Efficiency Man." also Left
Ior Washington last night after his
arrival on the vessel to visit his
nrother, Sir Auckland Geddes, British
Ambassador to the United States. and
Lacy Lacy .Geddes. Sir Eric said he came
mere primarily on business of private
nature and declared that his mission
had no political Significance, as he was
out Of politics. He declined to make
any further comment During the war
oir Eric was First Lord of the Ad-
mlrslty and later he was placed at the
mead of the Geddes committee, which
was appointed to revise the British
nudget by cutting all appropriations
to minimum.
Countess Szechenyi Arrives
!. Countess Laszlo Szechenyi, formerly
1ladys vanderbilt, was also among the
passengers. She was accompanied by
her four daughters, the Countesses
They were met at the pier by members
OF her family and went to the Wander
bilt home here. The countess said that
her husband, the Hungarian Minister
to the United States, would leave the
Szechenyi castle, where they spent the
summer, in few days and will ar
rive in this country in about two or
three weeks.
That the milk trust in London is
worse than the one in this city before
reforms were instituted was the state
ment made by Nathan Straus, philan-
thropist and champion Of pure milk,
rnf
ence. on the subject, Of which Lord
Astor was the president, in the English
capital Mr.. Straus said that some of
the plans adopted at the conference, he
believed, would result in reformation.
He was accompanied by Mrs. Straus
and Joseph Straus.
The department stores in Paris are
doing a fairly good business at pres
ent, but the speciality shops are feeling
the effects of the unsettled economic
conditions in France, according to Ir-
wing /. Bloomingdale, Of Bloomingdale
Brothers, who returned after a six
months stay abroad with his wife and
their SON, D. I. Bloomingdale. He said
he believed that the newly established
tariff In this country was one of the
contributing causes to the defeat of Re-
publicans here in the recent elections
However, he predicted big holiday
trade this season, but added that he
looked for period Of depression after
that.
Mrs. Katherine T. Force and her
daughter, Miss Katherine E. Force,
were also among the arrivals on the
Cunarder. The latter took occasion to
deny published reports that she would
soon announce her engagement. Dur
ing the trip they lost their passports,
but they had no difficulty in establish
ing their citizenship for the immigra-
ton authorities and were permitted to
land without the usual red tape. They
we're accompanied by friend, Miss
Grace Hendrick.
Among the 488 cabin passengers on
the Aquitania were Mrs. william E.
Corey, formerly Miss Mabel Gilman,
who returned from her chateau outside
OF Paris, and was met at the pier by
Mr.. Corey, steel magnate; Miss Emily
B. Grigsby, ward Of the late Charles
7. Yerkes, Chicago railroad man, here
for short stay; James G. Fargo, who
returned after three years in Paris,
and was met by his father at the pier;
the Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava,
here for o visit; the Marquis and
Marquise de Pinar del Rio, Paul
Ludikar, basso from Prague, here with
his accompanist, Anton Bedna, for a
concert tour; "a. H. Benjamin, wooden
importer of this city, and Mrs. Ben
jamin, and w. c. Gaunt, prominent
woolen merchant Of England, who is in
this country to look over some of his
properties and will then go to Canada
to ioanect the EueInh Mills which ba