These five winners in the dramatio
transa&dantlc race of the immigrant
armada were the President Wilson,
I carrying 439: the Washington, with
[ 81; the Canada, 707; the Polonia, 503,
! and the King Alexander, 816.
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Dramatic Story Told.
As the descendants of Erik tho
Red in Iceland might tell the Saga
of the Viking's discovery of America
so, no doubt, will hundreds of tb_.
passengers some day describe the
midnight sprint across the three
| mUu line which made them Amerl
I cans while their colleagues were,
| forced to sail back to their mother
' lands.
Midnight of the first day of the
| new fiscal year approached, and nine
liners were already jockeying for
position, just ott&^icfb of American
territorial waters. TThaf ‘hung on
I the skill of their maneuvers may be
exemplified by tho situation of the
t Grecian immigrants. On the nine
ships, as they raced full speed ahead,
were nearly 1.000 Oi*eeks. Of these,
only 649 could, under the restricted
immigration law. enter America.
Those crossing the lino last would
have come across the sea In vain.
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Watch Intently.
So they watched intently, through
the murk of midnight, the black
hulks racing alongside. Eight of the
ships were anchored in Graves End
hav, but the keen glance of the
President Wilson's captain, Hubert®
Stuparich, had detected a strategic
position off the Staten Island shore.
From this position, he estimated, he
could speed into line ahead of the
other ships, and maintain his posi
tion in the lead in the narrow chan
nel until Quarantine and victory.
