A Score of Millionaires, a Museum of Curios and a Miniature Menagerie The 400 passengers who arrived early on Monday morning on the Cunard str. Samaria, under the command of Captain G. S. Hors-burgh, 0.3.B., B.D, R.N.R., from Tiongkong, on a world cruise under the auspices of Messrs. Thos. Cook
Shanghai and visiting the places Son spent the day touring about of interest in the native city. On Monday morning a party of 75 left for Soochow, returning in the evening. Another party of 50 en-rained for Peking, and will rejoin the main body 15 days later at Yokohama, making the trip overland by way of Mukden and Korea, Passengers stated that the Samaria has been transformed into a combination floating curio shop, horticultural exhibition and menagerie, since at every port of call large purchases have been made of representative exhibits. There ave some 50 parrots, macaws and canaries, ten Siamese cats, 47 Chow dogs, 11 assorted reptiles, four monkeys, a gorilla, and innumerable white mice. Mr.
Richards, from New Orleans, La., attempted to bring on board a two-ton baby white elephant at java, but was prevented by Capt..|Horsburg while the playful pachyderm was struggling to free himself from the cargo slings. Potted plants and orchids abound in profusion in the main saloon. crossed the equator, at King Neptune held cost and ini-fiated 100 male passengers, as well #s a large number of the crew, including two stewardesses, into tke mystic rites of the deep. After a solemn procession three times around the main deck, headed by the ship's band, court was opened at the edge of the swimming pool, where Capt. Horsburg was invested with the order of the Gay Old Sea Dog," while the passengers were charged with committing various offences, including the wearing of a monocle before breakfast. "Guilty" was pronounced by the court in each instance and after taking the doctor's prescription all were dropped into the swimming tank,. following which they were given a diploma suitably inscribed.
All. the Provinces of Canada, as well as 41 States of the Union, in. cluding Alaska, Porta Rica and the Virgin Islands, are represented by one or more passengers. There are more than a score of millionaires on heard, as well as others whose interests total well in excess of that mark.
The Samaria left on Wednesday afternoon for Nagasaki, Kobe and Cokohama, and will proceed thence to Honolulu, San Francisco, Balboa and Cristobal, arriving at New York on May 31.
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