SS President Harding Passenger List - 8 September 1926
Front Cover, Cabin Passenger List for the SS President Harding of the United States Lines, Departing 8 September 1926 from Bremen to New York via Southampton, Cherbourg, and Cobh (Queenstown), Commanded by Captain Theodore Van Beek, U.S.N.R.F. GGA Image ID # 1eeef0c298
Senior Officers and Staff
- Captain: Theodore Van Beek, U.S.N.R.F., Commander
- Chief Officer: G. C. Stedman
- Chief Engineer: J. W. Rakow
- Purser: G. J. Ross
- Surgeon: V. Neesen
- Chief Steward: J. Nicholas
Seapost Clerks
United States
- Mr. William Haase
- Mr. Robert G. Weaver
German
- Mr. L. Kuck
- Mr. H. Wulf
List of Cabin Passengers
- Miss Julia Allen
- Miss Mary Anderson
- Mr. G. B. L. Arner
- Mrs. Marianna Aronheim
- Miss Beatrice Aronson
- Miss Mildred Baird
- Miss Vinona Beal
- Miss Fannie Beal
- Miss Ethel Benz
- Mrs. Sara F. Bloch
- Mr. Irving Bloch
- Mrs. Anna Blochert
- Mr. Joseph Bloodgood
- Mrs. Bloodgood
- Mr. Joseph Bloodgood Jr.
- Miss Winfred Bloodgood
- Miss Elsie W. Bond
- Miss Marion C. Bond
- Miss Mollie Brenner
- Miss Mary Gladys Brown
- Miss Janie Rice Brown
- Mr. Richard Buhlig
- Miss Anna Bushnell
- Mr. S. J. Burgoyne
- Mrs. Burgoyne
- Miss Florence Burtnett
- Mother M. Joseph Butler
- Mrs. Thomas J. Byrne
- Miss Jean Campbell
- Miss Elizabeth Carey
- Miss Frances Cheney
- Lt. Cmdr. Lewis P. Clephane
- Mrs. Clephane
- Mr, Joseph G. Coleman Jr.
- Mrs. Coleman
- Miss Agnes Coleman
- Miss Leonora Coleman
- Mr. D. M. Compton
- Mrs. Compton
- Master Richard M. Compton
- Master Gale W. Compton
- Master Charles E. Compton
- Miss Mary Conway
- Miss Mabel Cotterell
- Dr. Robert L. Cowles
- Mrs. Jennie G. Cramer
- Mrs. E. M. Crane
- Miss Dorothy Crane
- Mr. J. P. W. Crawford
- Mrs. Crawford
- Miss Harriet Crawford
- Mr. H. B. Clarke
- Mr. C. T. Contos
- Mr. Thornton Coolidge
- Rev. Thomas Michael Cullen
- Mrs. Walter Dalsimer
- Miss Jean Davis
- Miss Mary Degnon
- Mr. John Dingfelder
- Mrs. Dingfelder
- Mrs. S. Dillenberg
- Miss Gladys Dillenberg
- Miss Margaret Donahue
- Miss Agnes Dreher
- Mrs. Glen Edgerton
- Miss Diana Edgerton
- Dr. Adolph E. Eichhorn
- Mrs. Eichhorn
- Mr. Erwin Eichhorn
- Dr. Augustus A. Eshner
- Mrs. Eshner
- Miss Juliet F. Eshner
- Mr. Christian J. Fauth
- Mrs. Fauth
- Master Richard M. Fauth
- Miss Phylis Fenn
- Madame Zelie Fernay
- Dr. M. Filiurin
- Mrs. E. R. Fiske
- Miss Kathryn Fiske
- Mr. Edward Fiske
- Mrs. Flora Fried
- Miss D. Maud Frye
- Professor Kemper Fullerton
- Mrs. Fullerton
- Mr. Spencer Fullerton
- Miss Kathleen Fullerton
- Miss Diana H. Gelling
- Mother M. Gerard
- Mr. Chester H. Gleason
- Mrs. Gleason
- Mrs. E. D. Gluckman
- Mr. Wtadjstaw Gorczynski
- Mrs. Diana Grim
- Mr. John Griswold
- Mr. Augustin Griswold
- Mr. Herbert Groesbeck
- Mrs. Groesbeck
- Mr. A. Grossman
- Mrs. Grossman
- Miss Lolita Grossman
- Mr. Philip W. Haberman, Jr.
- Dr. J. Halpern Mrs. Halpern
- Mrs. Harry T. Hall
- Master Theodore Hall
- Miss Frances Hall
- Mr. Guido J. Hansen
- Mrs. Hansen
- Mr. Theodore Hansen
- Miss V. Hargraves
- Mr. Edwin D. Hardin
- Mrs. Hardin
- Mrs. Etta J. Hendrick
- Miss Louise Hessin
- Mrs. Julius Hirsh
- Dr. Lynn Harold Hough
- Mrs. Hough
- Miss Maud Huttman
- Miss Clara Humbert
- Mr. E. W. Hunius
- Miss Catherine Hudson
- Mrs. Hunter
- Miss Elizabeth L. Ives
- Mr. Anton Janota
- Mrs. Janota
- Miss Helen Janota
- Miss Alice Janota
- Miss Sarah F. Jones
- Miss Gerdken Kaptein
- Mrs. Carrie Katzenberg
- Mr. Ellingwood W. Kay
- Prof. James M. Kieran
- Mrs. Kieran
- Mr. Theodore Kluth
- Mrs. Philip A. Knowlton
- Mr. J. J. Lamb
- Dr. Charles Lebolt
- Mrs. Lebolt
- Mr. J. F. Lee
- Mr. Herman Levy
- Mrs. Levy
- Miss May Levy
- Mrs. Etta Lindeman
- Miss Katherine M. Long
- Mr. Douglas Loree
- Mrs. Loree
- Miss Claire Lutz
- Dr. Richard Lynch
- Miss Susan Louise Mandel
- Prof. Peter Vincent Masterson
- Dr. E. B. Mathews
- Mrs. Mathews
- Miss Margaret Mathews
- Mr. E. Mayer
- Mr. F. U. McBride
- Mr. J. J. McDonnell
- Mrs. Emily T. Merrill
- Mr. Karl Messenger
- Mrs. Messenger
- Miss Wilfrida Messenger
- Mrs. Lucille Michel
- Miss Julia Michel
- Master Norman Michel
- Mrs. Beatrice Mintz
- Prof. R. M. Mitchell
- Mrs. Mitchell
- Miss Jean Moses
- Mr. Henry C. Mulligan
- Mrs. Mulligan
- Miss Ruth Mulligan
- Mr. W. D. Murray
- Mrs. Murray
- Mrs. P. H. Myers
- Miss Jane Myers
- Miss Betty Myers
- Miss Flora B. Myers
- Miss Mildred Owen
- Mrs. Nellie E. Paul
- Miss Rose J. Peebles
- Mrs. H. Perloff
- Miss Elizabeth Persons
- Mrs. E. L. Peterson
- Mr. Theodore Plummer
- Miss Harriet Rigney
- Dr. Walter Roberts
- Mrs. Roberts
- Mr. Gilbert W. Roberts
- Miss Anna S. Roberts
- Mrs. Lydia W. Roberts
- Miss Margaret Roberts
- Miss Mira Bell Schilling
- Miss Therese Schoenborn
- Mrs. Charles C. Schoneman
- Mrs. Mary Schuenmann
- Mrs. Edith Schwarz
- Miss Helen Schwarz
- Miss Sadie Schwarz
- Miss Jellis Me Creagh
- Scott Miss Mary Seiders
- Mr. Henry Bill Selden
- Mrs. Selden
- Miss A. M Shallcross
- Miss Grace Shepherd
- Mrs. Ruth Silverman
- Mr. Joseph T. Singewald Jr.
- Rev. William Smith
- Mrs. Smith
- Mr. Ivan George Smith
- Miss Betty Smith
- Miss A. H. Snyder
- Dr. Harry A. Solomon
- Mrs. Solomon
- Mrs. Nina Spark
- Miss Annie Spark
- Master Daniel Spark
- Miss Frances Spence
- Mr. Raymond A. Sterrett
- Mr. F. C. Stadelhofer
- Mrs. Stadelhofer
- Miss Bertha Stadelhofer
- Mr. Stuart C. Stetson
- Miss Caroline Strouse
- Miss Margaret Sutherland
- Miss Ann Taggart
- Mrs. Horace H. Thayer Jr.
- Miss Barbara Thayer
- Miss Lily R. Taylor
- Mrs. J. M. Taylor
- Miss Elizabeth Taylor
- Mr. David S. Thomas
- Mrs. Thomas
- Miss Louise Thompson
- Mrs. Fred Trebitsch
- Miss Annette Trebitsch
- Dr. Lester J. Unger
- Mrs. Unger
- Master Roger H. Unger
- Rev. John F. Walsh
- Mrs. Rosa Warshow
- Mr. Gustavus Weiler
- Mrs. Weiler
- Mr. Richard Weiler
- Mr. Mason B. Wells
- Mr. H. Cady Wells
- Mr. C. F. Westerfeld
- Miss Bessie Whitford
- Mr. A. Frank Wickes
- Mrs. Wickes
- Dr. Seymour Wimpfheiner
- Mr. Frederic Winston
- Mr. Moritz Wolff
- Mrs. Wolff
- Miss Alice Wolff
- Mr. Harry A. Woodruff
- Mrs. C. H. Woodruff
- Miss Helen Woodruff
- Miss Laura Wyatt
To Southampton:
- Rev. George Stone Alcock
- Mrs. Alcock
- Mr. Wilhelm Dreier
- Miss Mariska von Klenze
- Mr. Friedrich Kuhlenkampff
- Mr. Federico Pfingsthorn
- Mrs. Pfingsthorn
- Prince Friedrich Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe
- Mrs. A. Wohlwill
- Miss Wohlwill
To Cherbourg:
- Hon Frederick M. Davenport Member of Congress
- Mr. Frederick M. Davenport Jr.
To Queenstown:
- Mr. H. M. Dockrell
- Mr. Franz Schreyer
Corrections To Passenger List
Additional Passengers
- Mr. P. G. Chiapparelli
- Mr. M. Cohn
- Mr. W. G. Collins
- Mrs. Mathilda Goulder
- Miss Bertha Goulder
- Mrs. M. Heaton
- Mr. C. T. Kontos
- Miss Mary Mathews
- Miss Katherine Morse
- Miss H. A. Meredith
- Miss Emily R. Maross
- Mr. M. G. O'Connor
- Miss C. O'Connor
- Rev. P. J. O'Reilly
- Rev, Mother M. D. Regan
- Mr. D. Sinn
- Mrs. R. L. Taylor
- Mrs. V. Wagner
- Miss H. Wagner
- Mr. M. Walsh
Not On Board
- Mother M. Joseph Butler
- Miss Frances Cheney
- Mr. C. T. Contos
- Mr. Philip W. Haberman Jr.
- Mrs. Emily T. Merrill
- Mrs. Nellie E. Paul
- Dr. Seymour Wimpfheiner
On Board Summary
- Cabin Class Passengers: 271
- Third Class Passengers 363
- Seapost 4
- Stowaways 1
- Commander, Officers and Crew 232
- Total souls on Board 871
Information For Passengers
Hours for Meals are posted at the Office of Chief Steward on the Steamer
Divine Service in the Social Hall on Sunday at 10:30 am
INFORMATION BUREAU
This office has been provided for the convenience of Passengers. All inquiries for information should be made at the office.
Passengers are requested to ask for a receipt on the Lines’ Form for any additional Passage Money or Freight paid on board.
LETTERS, CABLES AND TELEGRAMS
Letters, Cables and Telegrams are received at the Information Bureau for despatch, also all Mails will be distributed there. Cablegrams and Telegrams should be handed in an hour before the arrival at any port of call.
Passengers should personally ascertain whether there is any mail for them before disembarking, as mail for passengers is brought on board by a special courier.
Passengers' Addresses may be left at the Information Bureau in order that any letters sent to the care of the Lines may be forwaded.
None of the ship's staff, other than those on duty in the Information Bureau, is authorized to accept letters, cables or telegrams for despatch.
WIRELESS SERVICE
The long range wireless equipment permits of the vessel communicating with the shore from any point during the trip to or from New York. Passengers desiring to send messages will consult the operator for rates.
Ocean Letters are accepted on board for transmission by Wireless to a vessel bound in an opposite direction. They will be forwarded to destination by registered mail from first port of call after reception, A charge of $1,20, including postage, is made for twenty words and four cents for each additional word. The maximum Ocean Letter is 100 words,
SEATS AT TABLE
Passengers should arrange with the Chief Steward for seats at table.
SMOKING
Passengers are requested not to smoke in the Dining Saloon and Social Hall.
COLLECTIONS
Contributions that passengers desire to make at Concerts or on other occasions, should be delivered to the Purser, who will make public announcement of the total amount collected, giving a receipt for the information of all passengers.
The total amount collected will be distributed by the Management of the United States Lines to the following charitable institutions:
- Seamen’s Charities in New York
- Seamen’s Charities at terminal ports in Europe at which our steamers call
- The Actors’ Fund of the United States
No requests for contributions for musicians or other employees on the steamers will be made,
DECK CHAIRS and STEAMER RUGS
These may be hired at $1.50 each for the voyage on application to the deck steward.
MEDICAL ATTENTION
The Surgeon is always at the disposal of those passengers requiring his services. In case of illnes originating on board? or after the departure of the steamer, no. charge will be made for these services, and such medicines as are prescribed by the Ship's Surgeon will be furnished without expense to the passengers.
In cases of illness, not originating on board, the Surgeon is permitted to make the following charges:
- For office visits, $1.00 per visit
- For state-room visits $2.00 per visit, with a maximum charge of $4.00 per day
If the passengers consider that the charges made by the Surgeon for such services as he renders are improper or excessive, they are requested, before paying same, to take up the question with the Commander, and the bill will be either adjusted to a basis that will be satisfactory to the passenger or withdrawn. The purpose of the United States Lines is to make its service satisfactory to ail passengers.
BAGGAGE
On disembarking, passengers are specially requested to claim their baggage before leaving the Custom-Office, otherwise considerable delay and extra charge for carriage may be incurred in forwarding to destination any baggage not accompanying passenger on the railway. Passengers are requested to pack only steamer trunks for their staterooms, as it is not always possible to put larger trunks in rooms.
It is recommended that passengers insure their baggage, as the Lines' liability is strictly limited in accordance with contract ticket. Baggage insurance can be arranged at any of the Lines' offices.
Westbound passengers can arrange with the United States Lines' offices in Europe for collection of baggage from hotel or% residence and have such baggage placed aboard steamers at Southampton or Cherbourg, Arrangements have been made to have bagagge stored at Paris, London or Bremen and placed aboard steamer for passengers embarking at other ports.
EXCHANGE OF MONEY
The purser is prepared, for the convenience of passengers, to exchange a limited amount of money at rates which will be advised on application, A receipt covering each transaction will be given.
VALUABLES
The United States Lines has provided a safe in the office of the Purser, in which passengers may deposit money, jewels, or ornaments for safe keeping. The Lines will not be liable to passengers for the loss of money, jewels, or ornaments by theft or otherwise, left in baggage in staterooms, or carried on the person.
TRAVELERS' CHECKS
The United States Lines has placed on board its vessels American Express checks which may be secured from the Purser on application.
RETURN BOOKINGS
Pursers of the United States Lines can book your return passage. Sailing lists, rate sheets, cabin plans and other information will be furnished upon application at the Purser's Office. Tickets can be secured or deposits to secure reservations can be made. The Purser will procure by radio, without charge to the passenger, reservations or any information necessary.
Bookings can also be made through the agencies of the United States Lines in all principal cities of the United States and Canada. Reservations, especially during the Summer months, should be made, if possible, several weeks in advance.
AMERICAN CUSTOMS REGULATIONS
On arrival in New York your baggage will be subject to the same inspection on landing as on landing abroad. American Citizenship does not permit you to bring dutiable goods into the country without paying duty.
A blank will be furnished you aboard the steamer before landing. This must be filled out, listing in detail every article you obtained abroad which you are bringing home. A 25 cent revenue stamp must be affixed to the declaration. Stamps may be purchased from Purser. The list is then given the ship’s purser.
This list is called your "declaration” and should include all wearing apparel, jewelry and other articles, whether worn or not, carried on your person, in your clothing, or in your baggage. These items must give their cost or value abroad and whether they were bought or given to you. Also jewelry and wearing apparel, taken out of the United States and remodeled abroad, must be listed with the cost of remodeling. Residents of the United States are allowed to bring into the United States $100.00 worth of personal effects bought abroad free of duty, in addition to all wearing apparel taken from the United States on sailing.
RECOVERY OF U. S. HEAD TAX
This Tax can be recovered by passengers, if same has been paid, provided they inform the U. S. Immigration Inspector on arrival at New York of their intention to leave the United States within sixty days (the time prescribed by U. S. Law), and obtain from him Transit Certificate Form 514.
It is also necessary for this Transit Certificate Form 514 to be turned over to the Steamship Line when completed, in time to allow same to be placed before the Immigration Authorities in Washington within 120 days of passenger’# arrival in the United States.
Unless this regulation is complied with, the Tax cannot be recovered,
SUGGESTIONS AND COMPLAINTS
Suggestions, complaints or criticisms of service or of personnel should be addressed to the General Manager, United States Lines, 45 Broadway, New York City.
LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE
Latitude means ’’distance north or south of the equator”, and longitude means distance from the Meridian at Greenwich — near London. Both are recorded in degrees, minutes and seconds. At the Equator a minute of longitude is equal to a nautical mile, but as the meridians converge after leaving the equator, meeting at the Poles, the size of a degree becomes less. Sailing eastward a ship moves against the revolution of the earth, thus her course makes her gain time, while if she were sailing to the westward with the movement of the earth she would lengthen her time.
CHANGING THE CLOCK
Between New York and London there is a difference in time of five hours, and as the sun rises in the East, as we say, when the ship is going eastward she meets sunlight earlier each day and thus gains time. Exactly how much is computed each day at noon, and the ship's clocks are immediately set at the correct time for that longitude. On a vessel which makes the crossing in five days the clocks will be set ahead each day approximately an hour; on slower ships, of course, less. Going westward the clock is set back daily in similar fashion.
TIME AT SEA
Time on board is marked by bells, the ship's bell being sounded in single and double strikes.
OCEAN LANES AND DISTANCES
Transatlantic steamships follow certain lanes or tracks, unless prevented from so doing by stress of weather, or work of rescue or relief or other unforeseen circumstances. From August 24 to January 14 a vessel going eastward follows the short track, and from January 15 to August 23 the long. Going west the short track is followed from August 15 to January 14; and the long from January 15 to August 14. Following these lanes makes for safety and enables vessels better to meet the exigencies of weather conditions.
MEASURING BY SOUND
It is possible to determine by sound how far distant a passing ship is if she blows her whistle or, in case of a warship, if she fires a gun. If the steam from a vessel's whistle is seen and ten seconds elapse before the sound is heard, she is just 21/10 miles off. If one second elapses, she is distant slightly more than one-fifth of a mile; if five seconds, a little more than one mile; if twenty seconds, 4 1/2 miles.
PORT AND STARBOARD
Formerly the two sides of a ship were called "Starboard” and "larboard”, the two prefixes being derived from old Anglo-Saxon words meaning, respectively "loading” and "rudder”, and the word "board” meaning side. The term "Larboard” has given place to the word "Port”. To "port the helm” carries a vessel to starboard, and to "starboard the helm” carries her to port. The French equivalent for port is "Babord”, and starboard is "tribord”.
THE BAROMETER
Next to the mariner's compass and chart, the barometer is the most important aid to navigation ever invented, Many persons know that a barometer is an instrument for recording changes in the weather, and the student of physics is taught that this is done by measuring the weight or pressure of the atmosphere, A rising barometer denotes the approach of good weather; a falling barometer, the reverse. A sudden fall warns the mariner to be on the lookout for a severe storm. The barometer was invented during the seventeenth century by Torricelli. The ship’s barometer, which is kept in the chart room, is very different from the original device. It traces a barometer chart, recording the atmospheric pressure throughout the voyage.
THE TIDES
The surface of the ocean rises and falls twice in a lunar day of about 24 hours and 52 minutes. The tides do not always rise to the same height, but every fortnight after the new and full moon they become much higher than they wer© in the alternate weeks. These high tides are called Spring Tides, and the low ones Neap Tides, The close relation which the times of high water bear to the times of the moon's meridian passage shows that the moon's influence in raising the tides is two and one-half times greater than that of the sun.
THE GULF STREAM
By far the most important as well as best known of the great ocean currents derives its name from the Gulf of Mexico, out of which it flows between Cuba and the Bahamas on the one side and the Florida Keys on the other. In its narrowest portion the Gulf Stream is about fifty miles wide, and there it has a velocity at times of as much as five miles an hour.
Flowing in a northeasterly direction along the American coast, its current gradually widens and its velocity diminishes. Reaching the banks of Newfoundland it turns and sweeps across the Atlantic then/ dividing into two portions, it sends one arm down toward the Azores and the coast of Morocco, while the other passes near the shores of the British Isles and on to Norway.
As it emerges from the Gulf of Mexico it has a temperature of 84 degrees in summer, higher than that of the ocean at the equator. Even by the time it has reached mid- Atlantic it has fallen not more than 14 degrees. The effect of the Stream upon the climate of Great Britain and the northwest coast of Europe, 4000 miles away from the Gulf, is to raise the winter temperature about 30 degrees above what would be the normal temperature of those latitudes.
THE FLEET
PASSENGER SERVICE (Gross Register)
- LEVIATHAN 59,956
- GEORGE WASHINGTON 23,788
- AMERICA 21,144
- REPUBLIC 17,910
- PRESIDENT HARDING 13,869
- PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT 13,869
EXPRESS SERVICES
- BREMEN-SOUTHAMPTON- CHERBOURG-QUEENSTOWN- NEW YORK
- SOUTHAMPTON-CHERBOURG NEW YORK
TRANS-PACIFIC and SOUTH AMERICAN SERVICE
The offices of the UNITED STATES LINES in Europe and! in America will make through bookings to the Far East, Australia, India, South Africa and South America. Full information and rates will be cheerfully quoted on application to any of our offices.
The Trans-Pacific Service of the ADMIRAL ORIENTAL LINE from Seattle to Yokohama, Kobe, Shanghai, Hongkong, and Manila is specially recommended.
The UNITED STATES LINES are also agents for the PAN-AMERICAN LINE, operating between New York and Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Montevideo and Buenos Aires.
Carl Schiinemann, Bremen
The very highest quality of service is given on these ships and everything possible is done to assure the comfort of! passengers.
UNITED STATES LINES FREIGHT DEPARTMENT
All of the steamers operated by the United States Lines are combination freight and passenger ships. They are modern in every respect and some are equipped for carriage of considerable cargo under refrigeration.
Our Docks are of recent construction and modern in all equipment, offering facilities for loading direct from cars into steamer, eliminating any hauling, lighterage or transfer by trucks. This is especially advantageous to Western Shippers, and movement of through cargo consignments in carload lots.
Special attention is given to shipments of household goods, automobiles, etc. or
ANY AGENCY OF THE UNITED STATES LINES
Prepared 2015-06-11 by Paul K. Gjenvick, MAS, Archivist
