Show Mother Misses Liner Barred From Ship Because of Skirts NEW NEW YORK c. April 8 J Just 8 Just st as the American liner Iner St. St Louis Louis was pulling out of her dock for her er voyage to Liverpool a breathless woman leaped from a taxicab and rushed to the edge of the pier Stop the boat she cried frantically Ive gO got to get aboard aboard Ive Ive I've got to see seemy seemy see i imy my son In spite of her protests the woman who was Mrs C C. B. B Simpson a first cabin passenger on the liner was unable un un- unable able to make the trip It was her only chance to see her son who Is on furlough furlough furlough fur fur- lough In London from the French trenches for or by the time the next ship I arrives he will have gone back to the front Mrs Simpson Simpson- had engaged passage but there was some trouble about getting getting- a passport at the last minute and she was delayed She got gotto gotto gotto to the dock less than five minutes too late Had the accident happened to a man the company officials explained to her I he would have been permitted to board the ship in the harbor There is a rule i of the line however adopted for safety's safety's safety's safe safe- I tys ty's sake salte that prohibits any woman from boarding one of Its ships from a tug I |