Bon Voyage

The Black Cross liner Booker T. Washington crept up New York harbor to its berth. This is one of the ships with which Marcus Garvey (now serving five years in Atlanta Penitentiary for using the mails to defraud) (TIME, Jan. 11, 1923; Feb. 16) and the Universal Negro Improvement Association planned to use in recolonizing Africa with U. S. Negroes.

The Booker T. Washington had been on a cruise to the West Indies--said to have been a world's record for duration, lasting four and a half months.

She left New York on Jan. 18. Her engines broke down at Philadelphia. On the way to Norfolk, the crew set fire to the forecastle trying to keep themselves warm. At Havana, the vessel was held for debts. At Kingston (Jamaica), a new firebox had to be installed. At Colon (Canal Zone), the Secretary General of the Association quarreled with the captain and fired him. There also the chief engineer obtained a lien on the vessel for unpaid wages. Also, the chief steward was arrested for shooting a woman there in 1914. On the return journey, the boat collided with a dock at Charleston (S. C.) and injured herself.

It was reported that the Association had to spend $50,000 in all for repairs and debts during the voyage. Now it is considering chartering her to other operators.