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Show AMERICANS LEFT LUGGAGEINEUROPE CABINS JAMMED WITH PASSENGERS PASSEN-GERS WHO WERE EAGER TO LEAVE SCENE OF CONFLICT. Leave Baggage Behind and Take Quarters in Steerage Rather Than Wait for Other Ships Sailing For Land of the Free. New York. Another baggageless lot of Americans who fled Europe to avoid the war, reached New York Saturday on the Celtic. The cabins were jammed and the stewards had a hard time feeding the throng. In the first cabin were 304 passengers, passen-gers, in the second 606 and in the steerage 656. W. H. Vanderpool, son-in-law of C. K. G. Billings, was a passenger on the Celtic with his wife, child and Miss Billings. He said they were in Paris when the condition of affairs became alarming. The party left on a crowded crowd-ed train for Calais. The Celtic took a northerly course and steamed without lights at night, but the trip was without incident. Other passengers were Mrs. Alfred Vanderbilt and son, Capt. C. A. Barbour, Bar-bour, Ernest Iselin and Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Westinghouse. More than a hundred persons of means were in the steerage of the Celtic because of the congestion on board. One passenger who fortunately fortunate-ly obtained first cabin accommodations, accommoda-tions, refused an offer of $2,700 for a stateroom. The Celtic's passengers appointed a committee to send resolutions to president pres-ident Wilson thanking him for the interest in-terest he has shown in getting standed tourists out of Europe. |