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Show PASS IN A1IJMCEAN Husband and Wife Try to Unite, but Are Still Widely Separated. NEW YORK, Sept 20. wen Morris of Dayton, O., speeding to England to get his wife and baby daughter, passed them In mid-ocean. Morris was on the Baltic,' which sailed last week. Unknown Un-known to him his wife and five-months-old baby were among the steerage passengers pas-sengers on the Arabic, bound for New York, where she expected to meet her husband. Morris came to this country several months ago, settled in Dayton. He was so well satisfied that he wrote his wife to Join him, sending her a ticket for her passage on tha Arabic. She wrote him that she did not care to leave her home. Later she changed her mind, and the day before the vessel sailed wrote him that she was on her way. Meantime Morris decided to go to England and get his wife, and took passage last Friday. When the Arabic arrived here the mother and child were taken at once to Ellis island. The immigration officials tried to communicate with Morris at Dayton, only to learn that he had gone to England. When the news was told to the young mother she cried bitterly. She Is likely to be sent back to England at once, as the officials are aware of no way to communicate with the husband. |