New-York tribune., 1922-07-09
Majestic Leaves
Sc Behind in
Passport Tangle
Bewf1dered Travellers, Con-
fused by Daylight Time
and French Consulate
Rule, Give Vent to Anger
40 Barely Get Aboard
Declare They We're Told
Wise Was Not Necessary;
2.O83 ON Giant Liner

Thirty-six second cabin passengers
holding tickets for transportation on
the big White Star liner Majestic
stood on Pier SO yesterday and saw the
liner depart without them.
They looked bewildered. Nearly all
were from out of town, and some of
them said harsh things about New
York's daylight saving time. Others
gruubled at the French Consulate.
The combined invective doled out by
the weary thirty-six upon the con-
sulate and the local time could not be
printed, for much of it was in Polish,
italian and Russian, and if translated
would mean something terrible.
1t was the local time, which was mis-
leading to them, and the alleged con-
fusing information put out recently by
the French consulate relative to pass
port vses that they credited their mis-
fortune in missing the big boat"
The Majestic carried an enormous
passenger complement. In her saloon
accommodations alcne she had S11 trav-
elers. The second class had booking
of $50 and in the steerage were 592.
get out on an opportune tide and the
opportune hour for departure was
ii A. NJ.
Although they were informed of the
hour when the tickets were purchased
some of the belated voyagers thought
that II q. m. meant noon on the day
light saving schedule and were ap-
prised of their mistake when they
struggled to the pier too late to get
aboard.
This was not all, however. Sailing
these days on a big steam ship with a
big passenger list is not as simple as
it was before the war. 1t is no longer
q matter of walking aboard and show
ing ones ticket when one is at sea.
Passports and their vises have to be
examined, and the examination of
ports compels prospective voyagers to
stand in line sometimes as long as a
half hour.
Recently the French consulate is
said to have notified the White Star
Line that hereafter no French wise
would be required on the passports of
passengers in transit through France
with destination in other countries.
With this assurance seventy-six sec
ond cabin passengers arrived at the
White Star pier yesterday with no
French vises on the passports.
About this time it was learned that
the dispensation of vises applied only
to steerage passengers.
Rush for Passport Bureau
Instantly there was a rush for the
French passport bureau, which is
housed on the French Line pier, few
hundred yards south of Pier SO, where
the Majestic was taking on her pas
sengers Forty of the seventy-siX hur-
ried away ard returned with the French
vises, but the other thirty-six were un-
able to be accommodated before the
Majestic sailed
AS the Majestic had to get out on the
tide she could not be held and the thir-
ty-six travellers were left behind.
They plainly were disappointed and
even the assurances of the representa-
tives of the international Mercantile
Marine Company that they would be
cared for on other vessels did not seem
to console them.
An effort was made to put them or
the Baltic, which sailed for Liverpool
at noon, but she was full The Red
Star liner iceland took few and the
others will be sent out on the Amer
lean liner St. Paul which sails or
Wednesday.
Among the Majestic's passengers
was James Speyer, the banker, who is
going on his annual vacation in Eu-
rope. He said the ravages of war had
left him only one nephew, and that
he would 90 to Germany and bring
back to this country the twenty-four
year-old son of his deceased sister
and start him in the banking business