The evening world. Newspaper, August 24, 1914, Page 3

Nicholas durtey American women, unaccompanied by and Italy. Of course conditions have chang for the better in Italy, Switzerland ana Austria since the Principe dl Undine sailed on Aug. 12, But te returning Americans were 60 exer: cised over conditions that prevailed when they loft that a committee ap- pointed at a meeting of passengers om Saturday sent a radiogram to Becretary of State Bryan asking that he send a representative to the Hotel Biltmore to-morrow afternoon te meet the committee and discuns Plana for the relief of the unfor- tunates abroad. ‘The members of the committee are former Mayor George B. McClellan, Dock Commissioner R. A. C. Smith, Geno Dunn, Park Benjamin and Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University. “Uncle Joe” Cannon, former Speaker of the House of Representatives, whose daughter Helen was a passenger on the steamer, was made a member of the committee when he went aboard to meet Mies Cannon at Quarantine. ‘The Principe di Undine was char- tered by Dock Commissioner Smith an4 others at a time when it looked es though Italian lines would be un- fable to furnish transportation to the public for some time to come. Mr. Smith and his associates lacked $3,500 of baving enough cash about them in Genoa to pay the full obarter price, but Richard C. Harrison of Mr. @mith's office was on the pier when the ship arrived to-day with $8,600 tn @old, which was turned over to the Fepresentative of the line. FIRED UPON BY BRITISH TOR- PEDO BOAT. An English torpedo boat fired a ghet across the bows of the steam- @hip outside Gibraltar and an officer of the war vessel boarded her and looked over’ her papers. Just before @aylight last Friday the Principe di Undine was stopped by a big mer- chant ship converted into a com- merce destroyer supposed to be the Cunrad liner Caronia. An officer boarded the Italian vessel before al- lowing her to proceed. Nicholas Murray Butler, concerning ‘whom there was a great deal of anx- fety, had the unusua! experience of getting along for eleven days with only 28 cents in money—and Italian money at that—and coming out at the end of the period with a balance of 20 cents. He lived on credit, Dr. Butler and bis wife and daugh- ter were in Venice when the war etarted. On July 31 Venice was en feté. On Aug. 1 everything in Venice closed down. Dr. Butler couldn't get @ penny on his letters of credit. He had about $160 in Italian money and tickets for New York via the French line, Naturally he started for Havre, After being held up in @m automobile at the Swiss border end suffering all sorts of delays in Italy on railway trains, he reached Milan with 28 cents, ‘There he lived for eleven days with his party in the best hotel. He spent im actual cash during that time 10 cents for a cab ride and eight cents for street car fare. When he finally raised enough money to get his party to Genoa he gave the hotel proprietor @ check for his bill and his tips. Ex-Mayor McClellan was in the Austvian Tyrol with about 400 other Afmericans when the war started. He delayed his departure until the Goy- ernment confiscated every horse and eufomobile owned or controlled by the landlord of the hotel. Mr, McClellan and his wife chartered a horse and wagon from a farmer and rode thirt For Constipation Ez-Lex chien aed ig regulates rer snd promotes digestion, ood Yor an jotes joe eens 106,, 25e. and S02 as RICH AMERICANS RETURNING TELL OF LIVING ABROAD ON NEAT TO NOTHING FOR DAYS Chartered Ship, Had Twenty-eight Cents Cash to Last Eleven Days, and Didn’t Spend It All. American refugees arriving to-day from Genoa, Italy, on the Sabaudo! Miner Principe di Udine expressed alarm over the plight of hundreds of caught unprepared by the war in Austria, Southern Germany, Switzerland | A number of these women are school teachers, few had any more money than enough to carry them along on a carefully prepared plan of economical expenditure, and most of them were practically penniless within a few days after the declaration of war. Sire “THE EVENING “WORLD, MONDAY, AUGUST 94, 1916. remeng Butler, Home on male relatives or friends, who were miles to the Swiss fronteir, From there they made their way down to Genoa, CARDINAL FARLEY FORCED TO WALK. Cardinal Farley was put to great discomfort and inconvenience by the war, according to Frederick J. Haley, an agent of Clark’s Tours, who brought forty school boys home from 4 trip through Europe. Mr. Haley met the Cardinal in Switzerland. “Cardinal Farley,” declared Mr, Haley, “was in Austria when it be- came apparent that there would be war, He started for Switzerland in an automobile. Soldiers held him up frequently. Finally some army of- ficers, needing gasoline, robbed the Cardinal's car and he had to walk far. When I saw him he was comfortable in Switzeand.” “Catholics in America were indig- nant over the treatment accorded Cardinal Farley, and soon after it took place he was besieged with inquiries and offers of assistance,” continued Mr. Haley. “But it then ‘was too late. So numerous were the messages sent to the Cardinal that he feared his friends in the United States might misunderstand the situation if It were not rightly ex- Plained here, He then prepared a statement and gave it to @ friend bound for this country.” The etatement referred to has not yet been made public. Miss Helen Cannon and Mr. and Mrs. L. Lesseur were closing up a tour of the world when rumors of impending war began to reach them at Lucerne, Switzerland. They had plenty of money in letters of credit but little cash, “It was my wonderful father that got us through,” said Miss Cannon to-day. “Long before we had any idea of the seriousness of the situa- tion he was at work over here. “The United States Consul at Lucerne came to me, saying he had received word from the United States Consul at Genoa that I must start for there at once, My father, he said, had advised {t. I lost no time in starting. The last Americans I saw were ex-Senator Spooner of Wiscon- sin and his wife, sitting on the hotel veranda at Lucerne.” L, O. Hartman of Chicago, an agent for the Foreign Missions Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was in Semlin, Hungary, opposite Bel- grade, when war was declared by Austria against Servia. He saw the Serbs blow up the bridge on the night of July 81. “We had an awful time getting to Vienn aid Mr. Hartman, “At one place I was held under suspicion of being a spy. I had an old letter of introduction written by Mr. Fair- banks of Indiana when he ¥ 1s Vice- President. A young officer of the Austrian army read the letter and became voluble, “‘Ah,' he id, ‘this ts your Vice- President, a great man. of him,’ “He gave me a p: through the country,’ SOME FINANCIERING DONE TO) GET SHIP, | The committee in charge of the ship issued a statement on arrival here telling of the diMculties encoun- tered, Excerpts from the statement follow: “By the terms of the charter 50,000 francs had to be paid in cash to the | Ldoyd Sabaudo Company before 4.30 | P. M. on Friday, Aug, 7, aud the bal- ance, 460,000 francs, was to be paid on the day before galling, Tuesday, Aug. 11, To meet these conditions re quired no amall ingenuity, as well ad | constant and difficult negotiations, A moratorium had been declared in It- aly, and the banks were only paying their depositors a limited and small amount dally, It was next to impos- | sible to obtain cash on letters of credit | issued in America, At this point the | general manager of the American F: preas Company in Genoa, Mr, Saren: tino, came to the aid of the Ame cans with splendid resourcefulne: and generosity, By taking the per- which gct me T have heard | h sonal checks and personal guaran teen of the guarantors he was able a’ 4.25 P. M. on Friday, Aug. 7, or five minutes before the option expired, to | make ae payment of the 50,000 franca, the whole company of 400 it proved to be possible to pacinet ‘only about 60,000 francs in ac- tual cash. Zhe balance was taken by FRENCH GIRLS BIDDING GOODBY TO SWEETHEARTS ©) er NEWS the guarantors and by the American Express Company in the form of drafts attached to letters of credit, to receipts for prepaid return steamship passage, to travellers’ checks of various kinds and to personal checks on well known banks and trust com- panies in the United States, “The price of passage to New York was fixed at $260 gold, ininimum price, a berth for accommodations in the rooms scheduled as first cabin; $100 gold per berth for accommodations in the rooms scheduled as second cabin and $50 gold per place in what was cailed the dormitory fitted up be- tween decks for approximately fifty women at one end of the ship and eighty men at the other. Every berth was speedily allotted, and many anxious Americans had to be left behind, “None but Americans wero per- mitted on the ship with the exception, of course, of the ship's own personnel. Provision was finally made for 399 in all.” —_——— FRENCH LINER CHICAGO BRINGS SHIPLOAD OF AMERICANS HOME. The French liner Chicago which left Havre on Aug. 14, reached New York last night. She was delayed at Havre for six days by the French Government. The Chicago was halted twice by French torpedo boats and offloers came aboard and examined Cap* Mace's papers, before the ship was allowed to proceed. The vessel en- countered no German or Austrian warships, howeve! Interesting stories of their experi- ences aboard were told by several uf the Chicago's passengers, William J. Davia of Indianapolis is very deaf. He wears upon his chest an audiphone, which looks like a tele- | phone receiver, > . Davis was walk- ing through the Rue Royale toward de ja Concorde in Paris mnouncer” conveyed to his ars a hei bid atter in the rear, A gendar! 4 bim, lugged him | off to a station and accused him of catching wireless messages from the Eiffel Tower. The Hoosier convinced the gendarme by demonstrations that . Fabricius, an agent of the French Government, arrived on the Chicago to buy oll, flour, shoes, wool and cot- ton. “Woe look to the United States to supply food to the belligerent na- tions,” said he. “In Paris to-day are 60,000 unemployed. So long as victor: js with the French arms so long wilt these unemployed be content, but the | asaate the tide of battle should go | rainst us then look for trouble. The French te: perament {s such that tt jeannot si 4 defeat.” cnieenei RUMOR WILL NOT DOWN THAT GERMAN CROWN PRINCE HAS BEEN SLAIN IN WAR. LONDON, Aug. &% (Associated Press). Refugees coming from Germany atat according to the Evening Standard, t reports persist there that Crown Prince Frederick William ia dead. ‘Thia ts the latest of a series of re- ports representing that the heir to the throne had been stabbed by a Socialist, had been in battle and other © Bruere, sister of City amberlain Henry Bruere, who was in | the south of France before the outbreak ‘ of the European war, and whose where- abouts for weeks was unknown to many gnaious relatt friends, is safe in Lon ine will sail for thie country ie (7 perfectly legitimate use for | NORWAY HALTED JUGGLERS OF FOOD BY FIXING PRICES Even Made Merchants Pay Back All Overcharges to Their Customers. ‘The Norwegian-America liner Kris- tlanafjord «.. Christiania and Bergen,Norway,bring- ing a number of American tourists, The steamer carried her limit of pas- sengers. She had to engage 100 ad- ditional stewards and mess men and She charged the regular rate for passage and refused bonuses for the quarters ived this morning from women to accommodate thera. cupied. Mrs, John P. Jones, widow of the late Senator Jones of Nevada, secured the last stateroom on tho liner after having raced ahead of the war through France and Germany, She got the sult de luxe and hadn't enough of money to pay for it. The agents of the line gave her credit for the balance. In Norway the jobbers tried the game game as the jobbers of this! country In boosting the price of foods. ey well and money made no differ- The boost lasted just two days. The Government took a hand, appointed |‘ committees In all cities and towns and made the jobbers make restitution |where there had been overcharges. ‘The sale of wines and liquors was stopped, only that of light beer and soft drinks being permitted. Hotels extended the same accommodations to the poor as to the very rich, and Nor- way and Sweden were two countries where money was no good to buy favors in wartime. The harbor of Chrtsiania was | mined when the steamer satled out of it. A government vessel showed |her the way. She took the north- west passage through the North Sea, She saw no warships, SAYS RUSSIA WAS EAGER FOR WAR. Russia was eager for the declara- tion of war by Germany, according to Robert Bresel of Chicago, who was in Moscow when the news of the Kata- action was made public, “Thousands carrying banners and |flags paraded through the streets of |the elty, unmolested by the police or | troops,” said Mr, Bresel, | «Ror two days I remained. During | that time it was said that at least 100,000 Russian soldiers had been planted on the German frontier, but the newspapers forbidden to | print news not given out by the War were Office, I myself saw thirty regiments leave Moscow for the front. They were splendidly drilled and were prepared to entrain when the war news came, “After two days practically every German shop os cafe in the city bad of the officers, all of which were oc- | been stoned by mobs, but no Ger- mans were hurt. Several hundred were arrested as spies, I heard, but no news of their fate was made pub- lic, It is my opinion that Russia has been expecting and preparing for the present situation for years.” Dr, and Mrs. Allen of Brooklyn, were in Berlin when war.was do- clared. Unlike most other Americans ‘they did not attempt to leave the city until the Germans were al.cady in Belgium, Then they found that all communication with England or oth- er Atlantic shipping points was cut off. Leaving all their baggage be- hind, they took train for Bremen, the journey taking two days because of the hundreds of troops trains rushing southward. Thea they managed to reach Borgen and safety, They were treated discourteously nurherous times by German officials, their friends asserted, “I was in Paris up to July said Mrs, John P, Jones. “On that day 1 left for Cologne and the next two days and nights I spent in Ham. burg. SAYS MONEY MADE NO DIF- = FERENCE IN NORWAY. “1 was there when the Imperator! jarrived from New York and heard nothing of the war, The Imperator‘a| passengers went right on to Berlin and I went to Copenhagen. A friend] there told me to get to Christiania and get the first ship for America and I followed his advice. 1 heard of war being declared in Christiania, “1 succeeded in getting a little money on my letter of credit, but that was the beat I could do. The people of Norway treated us wonder- ence to the hotel keepers or to the steamship lines, first served, whether we had money or not, 1 was short of money for my passage and offered to pawn my jew- elry, but the company wouldn't hear of this, They said that { could pay up when I reached York. AMERICAN FLAG 10 FLY OVER U. §. STEEL AND STANDARD OIL SHIPS United Fruit Company Also Ready to Register Vessels Under New Law. WASHINGTON, Aug, % ‘The United States Steel Ccrporation, the Standard Oil Company and the Unit- ed Fruit Company have notified the government of thelr intentions to put under the new law extending registry to forelea built craft ——>———_ Mental Dinenses Army Increase, WASHINGTON, Aug. %—One-fifth of all the soldiers in the regular army dis- charged for disability are afflicted with mental disease, Capt. Edgar King of the Army Medical Corps reported to- day. The discharge rate on this 4c count is higher theh fi home jor any other It was first come, | their fleets under tho American flag, | | GERMAN WIRELESS STATION CLOSED BY US, OFFICIAL Plant at Tuckerton, Which | Communicated With Kaiser’s Fleet, Illegally Operated. | Orders were received here to-day | from Acting Secretary of Commerce Sweet closing the Goldschmidt Ger- man wireless station at Tuckerton, N. J. Through its manager, Theodor |. Lemke of No, 150 Nassau street, | the station has been represented as | sending messages to Germany freely and as receiving a few at intervals The despatch given out at the Ger- man Embassy in Washington, an- | nouncing a German victory in Lor- | raine, in believed to have come through Tuckerton, The Britsh and French protests | against the operation of the wireless stations at Sayville, L. L, and Tuck- erton differed in that the Allies in= sisted that the dachmidt station was operating without a United States license. The Hague agres- ment forbids the licensing to a war- ring power of @ station on neutral territory after a declaration of war. |The Tuckerton station was not to commission until after Aug. 1. The Sayville station had been operating or a license for several montos re war began, The despatch from Acting Secre- tary Sweet notified Mr. Lemke that the department was informed that| the Tuckerton station had been op-| erating illegally and confiscation of| the apparatus was the penalty. | Acting retary Sweet said the of- ficials of the Tuckerton station had been Instructed, when they opened the! station, to limit their activities to ex- | perimental and scientific tests, ana | that no permission had been given for the transmission of commercial or ci ent messages, nke wrote to Secretary Bryan in the first week of war put- ting the station at the service of the State Department, Mr. Lemke said that his company had not attempted to use tie Tucker- ton station until It was flooded with 1ests from persons who wished to| communicate with stranded relatives| abroad and from American newspa- pers, It then sou,ht and received | from the United States Government, | he said, permission to send simple! messages in plain language and had| not sent or received any German of- fliclal messages, though there was no law against receiving messages any- way. “Try One More Good Dinner” MANCA-CEA WATER ‘The Natura) Mi ing Water It rarely, (7 ever: fuile to Immediately Promote Good Digation, | Send for booklet, Acker, Merrall & Condit Co. ad al} Fumt Claes Druggists and Gensam, | to furnishing information to refugees | umn with the addresses of Ambassa- OTABLE AMERICAN REFUGEES ARRIVE'‘ON PRINCIPE DI UDI Furnish List of ‘‘Dont’ to Stranded America Copies of the firat issue of the American Bulletin, published In Lon- don in the interests of stranded Americans, reached here to-day by mail, It is @ four-page paper devoted as to th Hing of ships and regis- tration and contains a directory col- dor Page and the various committess, Three columns of the first issue are headed “Who's Where,” and contain names of persons of whom inquiry has been mi AMERICA AND CHINA MUST FIGHT JAPANESE Declares New Republic Does Not Trust Mikado or His Promises, Predictions of @ war in the future between Japan on one side and the United States and China on the other, were made to-day by Yang Yu Ying, the Chinese Consul-General in New York, who Is @ representative of thi revolutionary and progressive idea: of the new republic. All Chinamen, according to Mr. Yang Yu Ying, look upon every movement of Japan out- side her own boarders or her own possessions with suspicion. “ "China," he sald, “does not betleve that Japan is actuated by any high, | noble or generous ideals in selsing the German province of Kiaochow on Chinese territory, Japan expecta to profit by the seizure. She may return Kiaochow to China, but she will de- mand something in Manchuria In re- turn. Germany, in 1895, prevented Japan from taking what she desired in Manchuria. “China has massed her troops about #erritory of Kinochow, but this move is not regarded as an act of aggression. At the present time China has plenty of internal troubles.” Anked about the German assertion that Japan, attacking Kiaochow, as making preliminary preparations for| war with the United States, Yang Yu Ying said: “All depends on the movements of} Japan, If Japan adheres to the prin- ciples she has outlined, the United States will not have to act. But China believes the United States will have to xo to war with Japan eventually, When that happens China will be an ally of the United States.” Fifth Avenue, 38th * Store Opens at 9 A, An Advance to inspect t Broadway at A clearan Lingerie at substantia $2.00 values............ $3.95 values......."... $5.00 values............ Lord & Taylor. Closed. All Day Saturday is being shown of * Exclusive Novelties in Silks €8§ Dress Fabrics Out-of-Town Merchants and Dressmakers are Saks & Company Announce for Tuesday, Aug. 25th “A list of “dont’s” published By: Bulletin follow: “Don't worry. To do so Is to yourself, and, what is more portant, others, “Don't forget you have no of troubles, “Don't grab a stateroom for when there are but two in party. Don't forget that riches sense of comfort depend on know how to do without. “Don't forget there are others as human as you who want te CHINESE CONSUL SAYS. lowes “Storm Hero” Practically at Batre ° co ter etores tn Great A 0: COUNTRY. “Edd; Sauce for hot weather. ‘Eddys’ a. 01d English Sau STYLE ; Grocers ate delica- tessen Stores Sell It. Per Bottl: 1 Oc Made arene, 331 Spring St., N. Ye worto “WANTS” work WONDERS Street, 39th Street M. Closes at 5 P.M. Importation invited he collection. 34th Street ce sale of Blouses 1 reductions, ...Feduced to $1.00 ...feduced to $1.35 ...Feduced to $2.00