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Show SEAS SIXTY FEET HIGH Steamer Cedric Reaches Port After Most Turbulent Turbu-lent Trip of Career. NEW TORK. March 20. More than three and one-half days behind her best record time for the voyage, the big White Star line steamer Cedric came Into port today after the most tjrbulent trip of her J career. From the outset of the voyage ;the Cedric encountered", heavy weather. The force of the gales was territice and at limes assumed hurricane proportions with tremendous sea. At times the seas broke more than twenty twen-ty feet higher than the Cedrlc's bridge, and were estimated to be sixty feet high from the hollow to the crest. Her officers rar that although the huge ship rolled and pitched violentlv she behaved splendidly. In the most violent period of the storm, on March 12. Mrs. Whitney, a steerage pa'c-engcr. gave birth to a child. He was named Cedric Whitney. Among the passengers on tne ( edrlc was Jebez White, the British Pugilist. nd his manager. Charles Mitchell. Mte Is matched to fight Jimmy Bntt of San FranciJCQ. |