The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-01
CRACK LINERS
OFF TO EUROPE
With N0TABLES
Winter Rates Effective To-
day Cause Exodus of
Americans.
BY SAM LOVE
United Press Staff Correspondent


NEW YORK, Aug Within an
hour after winter east-bound pas
senger rates had gone into effect
on the Atlantic today fleet OF six
crack liners steamed down the
Hudson River and out to sea, bear
ing to Europe the seasons greatest
galaxy of American notables.
Bargain counter prices attracted
rich and middle-class alike. Multi
millionaires whose purses would
buy ocean-going vessels for their
private use mingled with small
salaried newlyweds making their
first voyages.
Steamship men said the exodus
was unprecedented.
AS early at p. m. Sunday streets
leading to the big piers along the
Hudson were swarming with pas
sengers and friends who had come
to wish them bon voyage.
Winter rates, which are cheaper
than summer tourist rates, went in
to effect at midnight.
Leviathan Leads
The first of the ships, the gigan-
tic United States liner Leviathan,
nosed down the river shortly after
midnight, it's lights cleaning across
the water and it's decks ringing
with gaiety. Then followed in quick
succession the Cunarder's Aquitanla
and F'ranconia, the Red Stars Bel
genland, the French lines France,
and the White Stars Olympic.
The voyage of the Leviathan,
flagship of the United States lines,
marked a new development in COM
mercial aviation. Aboard was Clar-
ence D. Chamberlin, transatlantic
f1ier, and a small airplane in which
he flew back to land this morning.
Other notables among the
Leviathan's 1850 passengers were
Senator David A. Reed OF Penn
sylvania and Mrs. Reed; Reginald
Denny and Mrs. Denny; Herman
Cron, the big game hunter, and
Prof. D. G. Jackson of the Mas
sachusetts Institute of Tech
nology.
A large crowd gathered at Pier
SO, where James (BuO Stlllman
and his northwoods bride boarded
the Olympic shortly before it left
for Southampton and Cherbourg.
The Olympic's passenger list
already was bristling with notaoles
including Clarence H. Mackay,
Ralph Pulitzer, the Count and
Countess Scherr-Thoss, DR.. Daniel
Fish Jones of Boston, Abe Attei
former lightweight boxer, John B.
Miller, president of the Southern
California Edison Company, Con-
stance Talmadge and her mother,
Mrs. James K. Hackett, Henry r.
Rea and Henry Oliver Rea OF
Pittsburgh, Major P. A. Love OF
Montreal, and DR.. and Mrs. P. Fl.
McNulty of Winnipeg.
Journalists Touring
Leaders in American journalism
sailed on the Aquitania, including
George B. Parker, general editorial
executive of the Scripps-HoWard
newspapers, with Mrs. Parker and
two children, and Arthur Brisbane,
editor of the New York American,
with Mrs. Brisbane and two chill
dren. Parker will represent the
Scripps- Howard papers at the IN
ternational press conference this
month at Geneva.
Other notables aboard the Aqui-
tania were Russell G. LeffingWell,
partner in j. P. Morgan & Co.,
Herbert L. Pratt, president of the
Standard Oil Co. of New York, A.
F. Pillsbury, the big -four merchant,
and H. S. Wilcox, President OF the
Troy Laundry Machine Co.
On the France were Walter DAM
rosch, New York symphony orches-
ira leader, Mrs. Damrosch, the Zit-
enfield twins, Bernice and Phyllis,
l3-year old swimmers who will at
tempt to swim the English channel.
William j. Fox, president of the
Encyclopedia BRITANNICA, and Ray
gnond Horteig, hotel owner, and Mrs.
Orteio.