Monday, Jul. 23, 1928
Porko, pedigreed Duroc Jersey pig, with two Great Danes, two Afghan hounds, many a crate of pheasants and chickens, left on the motorship Santa Maria, in the charge of Dog-fancier Jose Leguia, son of famed Augusto B. Leguia, President of Peru. Porko will not grace the Presidential pigpens. Son Leguia intends him as a gift to a friend. Danes, hounds, will join 60 dogs at his Peruvian farm, 150 miles from Lima.
One billion dollars was represented by four men, who sailed lightheartedly on the Majestic, intent on grouse-shooting, yachting, sightseeing in the British Isles, Normandy. The four: John Pierpont Morgan; Morgan Partner Charles Steele; Andrew William Mellon; William Larimer Mellon.
Vicomte Alain de Leche, France's young patrician poet, gave way to generalities about women before boarding the Majestic. German women . . . "wear too much glasses, are either Hausfraus or adventuresses." French women . . . "are too calculating." British women . . . "love sports too well, are developed only physically." American women . . . "are intoxicating, but oh! so intoxicated, I am shocked. I am disgusted. I shall never marry an American." But M. le Vicomte could be generous: "I liked Indians, cowboys, Charlie Chaplin. . . ."
Men and women, sprinters, jumpers, pole vaulters, hurdlers, shot putters, hammer throwers, wrestlers, oarsmen, swimmers, divers, gymnasts, fencers, yachtsmen, horsemen, cyclists, boxers, officials, etc., etc., boarded the Roosevelt, planned to live aboard the liner until its return August 19. With the U. S. Olympic team went three athletes, not team members, crossing as stowaways. Famed Sprinter Frank Hussey hid in a bathtub, was removed to the brig, ransomed by friends on board.
Jack Vannard, head boy of the Piccadilly Hotel, London, held a pudding in his arms as he sighted Manhattan's skyline from the deck of the Berengaria. It was consigned to Manhattan's new Hotel Piccadilly, which opened its doors last week. As credentials, Bellhop Vannard brought jealously guarded recipes of Piccadilly the Elder to Piccadilly the Younger. None of these, however, impressed immigration authorities, who rudely consigned bellhop, pudding, recipes, to Ellis Island, until Bellhop Vannard might submit proof he would not become a public charge.
Showman Ringling, Educator Flexner, Novelist Croy, Banker Warburg, Gasman Insull, the crew of the Rofa, arrived, variously by the Berengaria, Paris, Santa Louisa, Deutschland, Tuscarora, Majestic, while Poloist Milburn, Actress Larrimore, Democrat Silzer, Balloonists Eimermacher, Zech, Golfarchitect Emmett, Producer Shubert, Shopkeepers Gimbel, Filene, Singer Hempel, sailed, variously, by the Majestic, Deutschland, Bermuda.