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Touring back through Maine, the party broke up at Camden. On the last stage of the journey from Bar Harbor to Camden, Governors Trapp (Oklahoma), Robinson (Delaware) and Trinkle (Virginia) traveled aboard the Navy dirigible Shenandoah. Others of the party went by water, as the guests of Edward W. Bok aboard the yacht Cyrus H. K. Curtis...
...entirely for fuel, for food. At Pago Pago, the ships will refuel from their own tankers-an operation that, it is hoped, will take no more than twelve hours-and again the fleet will bear away, to the southeast. The cruiser squadron headed by the Seattle with three Admirals aboard- Coontz, Cole and Leigh-will go to Melbourne, Australia. The battle fleet, headed by the California under Admiral S. S. Robison, will go to Sydney, New Zealand. Later, a light cruiser squadron will go on from Melbourne to Hobart, Tasmania...
...Morris Sampter of Manhattan was at sea. She wanted to talk to her sister, a Mrs. Emil Berolzheimer. Mrs. Berolzheimer was also at sea, 150 miles away, on another German liner. Nevertheless, Mrs. Sampter marched into a telephone booth aboard her ship, the North German Lloyd Columbus, and was soon gabbling with her sister, on the Hamburg-American Deutschland, about fashions, family matters and a political dinner Mrs. B.'s brother-in-law had lately attended. For eight minutes they talked, exclaiming, interrupting each other, both talking at once. After she rang off, Mrs. Sampter paid the wireless operator...
Amundsen's five companions in daring-Lincoln Ellsworth of Manhattan, and Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, Leif Dietrichsen and Mechanics Omdahl and Feucht-were also aboard the collier, together with members of the Norwegian Aero Club's relief expedition. When the ship reached the Skagerrak narrows north of Denmark, the party was to be met by seaplanes which would convoy them to Horten and thence to the "honor pier," royalty's landing place...
...through the surf put a gasoline launch, the Thelma, with a fishing party aboard. The beach crowd watched her careen on the breakers, herded to the water's edge when the boat capsized. Good swimmers ran splashing out, split the first wave with a dive, plowed off to the rescue...