Evening Star Newspaper, March 12, 1929, Page 24

favorable weather. The officers of the | Philip S. Peyser, a member of the so- bridge cannot have any one moving | ciety. about to divert their attention and,| The society will meet each Wednesday what is more important, they cannot be | in the new quarters, it was announced distracted by answering questions that | by William A. Johnson, president. are bound to be asked when a passen-| The membership now includes some ger sees some of the instruments on |100 leading stamp collectors of the vi- the bridge for the first time. cinity. 1passrm;er unit for the American Mer- | chant Marine. For one year I served as chief officer of the America and in | February, 1922, took command of my | first passenger ship, the Peninsular | State, which was afterwards renamed the President Roosevelt. I took her out f the Camden yards as a new ship and Your business card represents you. It ought to be good. - 3 ARPORT MERGER PROECT AN Syndicate Admits Negotiat- ing to Develop Long it ety | remained aboard as master for six years, | during which time I had the good for | tune to supervise the rescuc of the cr of the British freightcr Antinoe in mid- ocean, a little more than three years ago. | had to clean the utensils for the next| In February of last year it again fell | meal.~ Al the women were segregated |0 my lot to Teturn to the America, but ' I 2 { in one compartment of the ship, separ- | this time as captain, a promotion that sland Sites. Following the Siberian trips, the |ate from the male passengers, and the | thrilled me, for I regard the America as » America was ordered to Newport News, | first evening ouf. from port, each immi- | a fine large dignified command. She has R ——" where the Mount Vernon was tied up | grant was given a donkey breakfast— | the most luxurious captains quarters I Epecial Dispatch to The Star. with some 5,000 troops aboard, which |an armful of hay for a bed. There have ever scen on shipboard and is NEW YORK, M: “ | she had brought from Vladivostock east- | were only crude sanitary facilities and | without question one of the finest cabir: » March 12.—Negotiations | ward, she had engine trouble and the | social halls and smoke rooms were nevet | liners in the North Atlantic service. It have been undertaken for the purchase | men were transferred to our vessel and | cven dreamed of. was_completely reconditioned just prior of Curtiss Field, Long Island, by the oOnce again we procecded from Trieste.| Today the third-class passenger has|to the time I was reassigned to her. ‘Wall Street syndicate which last week Command of Liner. acquired Roosevelt Fild, 1t was learned Taking command of a passenger liner yesterday. It is planned to join the gave me an additional responsibility in “two fields into one of the largest air- ports in the country. An effort was being made to keep details of the negotiations secret until the deal was completed. But the circu- lation yesterday of the false report that the field had been sold and the deal closed led to making public the fact that the project has been planned and will create an air terminal which the backers believe will be adequate to handle all of the commercial air traffic of the future in and out of New York. ‘War Flyer Handles Syndicate. Roosevelt Pield, one of the oldest airports in the metropolitan district, was bought last week by the syndicate which is headed by Seth Low, war-time fiyer and member of the brokerage firm of Charles L. Frank & Co. of 60 Broad street. The anouncement at that time *+ said that it was planned to develop one of the finest airdromes in the country. ‘The addition of Curtiss Field to the project will make available the con- struction of a runway nearly two miles Jong and will give a base which is immediately workab's. Curtiss Field, which is adjacent to Roosevelt Field, is the smaller of the two airports, but from the point of (Tomorrow: Courtship and Marriage.) |SEEKS LARGER QUARTERS. st Pure Vermont Washington Phil;\tclic Society Re- Maple Syrup ports Membership Increase. | Pint R The growing: membership of Washington Philatelic Society for the Qual‘t bottle‘ sl 10 15-Gal. tins ....$1.90 third time in a decade has forced the N. W. Burchell organization to seek larger quarters, and 817-19 Fourteenth St. (Copyright, 1929, Associated Press.) That's the kind we _design and engrave ‘BREWED Engravers and Stationers ~ 611 Twelfth Street the next meeting of the society, set for tomorrow, will be held in new clubrooms in the Seccurity Bank Building, 1518 K street. The enlarged accomodations for the club were provided by the courtesy of Maj. Julius I, Peyser through hi: n. passenger vessel there are also more obligations. y cabin is al open, day and night, to any pass them all to feel they can come to me if the occasion ari I have usually | found the traveler very considerate and only in rare instances does he come fo me with a complaint. These are usu- ally of a minor character and can b(»“ adjusted by department heads on ship- board. The appearance of the captain on| the decks or at his table in the dining| saloon invariably starts a barrage of questions from the passengers. As soon as we pull in the lines I am asked “What kind of weather will we have on the trip and when will we arrive?” Women passengers fear storms mo than men but they frequently confide in me that they would like to see what a real storm is like just for a ‘few minuts A woman came to the bridge one! day and asked me the usual intr ductory question, to which I had to} explain that it was impossible to de- termine the weather several ds in advance and that the.time of arrival, could not alw be determined. less | than a few d .out. She then re- WoobwARD & l.oTHROP 10" 11™ F.aND G STREETS sy == view of aircraft operation Fas been a more active center than the iarger port. 'The question of price is sad to be one | of the details of the project which is still open. When R. J. Réynolds, pres- ent owner of the field, gurchased it in 1927 the sale price was reported to be slightly under $1,000,000. Roosevelt Field was held by its récent owners, the Lanwin Realty Corporation, for $2,750.- 000, but the Wall Street syndicate is said to have acquired it for considerably less than that price. The mmembership of the syndicate hich Mr. Low heads includes John W. Cutler of the Edward B. Smith Co. and the members of the banking firm of some 2,400 passengers to New York, many of them being Italian immigrants. ‘The America was still fitted out as a transport but in that category had ac- commodations that were just as good the war. What a contrast there is be- tween those quarters of pre-war days and the ones the third class passenger enjoys today. In the old days there was no dining | room. The immigrants sat in circles | on the deck, 10 to a mess, around a kettle in which some sort of a stew had «, . . Social responiibilities go with a captain's command. . On the return voyage the America took | a bed with clean linens, rooms with berths, dining room, smoking room and | social hall, a library and baths. After her career as a transport the America_was taken over by the Upited as those offered to the immigrant before | States Shipping Board and allocated to an organization that failed after a short period of operation. States agen In 1921 the United Lines became the operating We then had the nucleus of quested that I go a little farther north and pass an. iceberg so her husband, who was on board, could sce what one looked like. Of course, granting re quests like these is quite impossible, for our courses are the same across the Atlantic during various periods of the year and are changed because of the ice floes, primarily. Passengers as a rule are never per- | mitted on the bridge. but the captain of the ship will permit them to stand | on the wing for a bricf period during Refinishing Tapestries, Mohair Brocades and Velours Hitt, Farwell & Co. been cooked. Each had a kit of tin 100 Acres in Curtiss Field. utensils from which to eat. The refuse | The Curtiss Fleld property contains was thrown overboard and the passenger | Bbout 100 acres. The field was owned | == by the Airdrome Development Corpora- n and for several years had been under a lease, which expires this Spring, 5 g and because of other plans of the Cur- 2 wfiregg tiss company the lease was not to be yenewed. The Curtiss service is under- 5 : . being developed in and around New ato 3 York. One of these is a plan to have all VS the exclusive fixed base operation at - Floyd Bennett Field, the municipal air- o port on Barren Island. 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