The evening world. Newspaper, August 29, 1914, Page 2

AR ee s | GERMANS ARE REP Wee a herein da t THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1914. ’* RTED FROM PARIS THREATENING BOULOG ‘ony y SCENE ON BATTLEFIELD OF HAELEN SHOWING EFFECT OF SHELLS (First Photographs of the Horrors of Modern Warfare Arrived Here To-day on the Adriatic.) of ths burning of Louvain the Belgian army has left Antwerp ‘and is moving in force toward Brussels. It is reported here that the Belgian army has been >}. ‘materially reinforced and that it will cooperate with English 4 troops from Ostend. It is rumored that the British army may include the native Indian forces sent by England from her eastern Empire, although all requests for details of troop locations. are sternly frowned on by the War Office. It is known that the General Staff expects important de- velopments in Belgium which will entirely change the general outlook of the present campaign. ag GERMAN REPORT. BERLIN, Aug. 29 (By wireless to the Associated Press, via Sayville, L. 1.].—A special despatch to the Tages Zeitung declares that the British defeat at St. Quentin was complete. The British losses were heavy, and the routed British soldiers (St. Quentin is twenty miles from Cambrai, to which point Premier Asquith admitted yesterday the British Army had re ‘tired om Wednesday.) and a great quantity of siege artillery have crossed {A United Press despatch from.Peris mentions this movement hy and says it indicates that the Germans and Austrians have united “ae ,, to direct a dlow against France before Russia can do much damage. It cays the five corps, with heavy slege guns, after crossing the 7 Rhine, headed for Belfort, the most southerly of the French ie fortifications.) a SERVIAN REPORT. _— "j-dered to remain on the defensive. From the same source came reports that the Kaiser, fearful of the steady progress of the Ru: they reached City Hall. The (via London) Aug. 29 [Associated Press).—A | French liner La France, bound east- despatch to the Giornale d'Italia from Basel, Switzerland, says that three German army corps, two Austrian army | disturbed. et NIGH, Servia, Aug. 29 (United Press)—That the Russian advance Game the report to-day that because of these troops being drawn away from Bosnia Emperor Franz Joseph's southern armies have been or- n advance, has ordered the Fifth Army from Alsace. To speed these troops to meet the victorious Russians the ratl- Peads have been taken over and traffic to the east suspended for four days, ADR ARNED WITHIN GUNS BRINGS HOME 176 Twice She Stripped for Action, but Supposed Enemies Were Friends. 4 (Continued from First Page.) ' —_— Again passengers were driven be- low, and ammunition was hoisted to (the waiting breeches. Just then the fog lifted and the red stacks of the ward, showed. The vessels saluted and each pounded on her course un- DR. RITTER ON SINKING SHIP FOR THREE DAYS. | Most thrilling of al! the tales brought back from the war #bne was that told by Dr. Charles L. Ritter, a | Paterson, N. J., dentist who, with a party of eleven American women and two other men had to travel 5,000 miles, part of the way through the White Sea, north of Russia, to get from St. Petersburg to London. A sinking ship was under them for three days; they came near starving; were Petersburg on July %0, when all wa: bubbling with the war feve took a train for Moscow, bell li could fet out of Russia via some of the Black Bea ports. But Mowow was @ trap; mobilisation was pro- ing tbere, and not a seat ould {n any train south or w We returned to St. Petersburg. “The day war was declared by Ger- mony 7 Went out o the hal ce and was one of a crowd of full; 60,000 people before the palace. I pd of Norway. “Finally we managed to make the/| Uttle port of Vardo on the north coast Thence we went by mall steamer to Bergen in six days. nally we got a boat out of Bergen Newcastle, England. There our little party divided. I believe the other sur. for SAYS MR. BENNETT, Courtenay Bennett, the British Con- gul-General in New York, who went abroad just before the war began with the intention of taking a long vacation, came back on the Adriatic. He had beard by wireless of the Brit- lsh victory in the North Sea yester- day and appeared to take it as a mat- ter of course. Engli hmen are unable to conceive anything but victory in connection with the! navy. — —S Tena dream MoUs SERVICE William K. Vanderbilt sr. sald he was sorry he had escaped any ex: periences out of the ordinary. Hi Fi-| happened to have planty of money in hia pocket when the news reached him at Chateau Deauville, in France, declared. but were forced to abandon the tempt, as it was impossible to set through | Germa Finally reached London, and It w: that they were able to communica\ with thelr moth: Geneva in Swi Mr. and Mra. J, Borden Harriman and their daughter, Ethel, were among the Adriatic’s passengers. The Harrimans had been caught by the By the Martenbad. They tried to get to her, not until the day before the Adriatic sailed| room with a Mrs. Cavanagh, also of who had reached! Children. These women had to pay and James Buckley, Smith's manager, were on board. COMPLAIN BITTERLY OF UNSAN- ITARY STEERAGE CONDITIONS. ‘The Americans who came home in the steerage were loud and unceasing in their denunciation of the accommo- dations, They wouldn’t have minded the discomforts so much, they said, but for the fact that the steward. preyed upon them continually, and| although they had paid $45 each for steerage passage—only $10 leas than is charged for cabin passage on vi s carrying but one class of passen- gers—they had to tip the head stew- ard or some other stewari every time el steerage was infested with v. min, which is not an uncommon con- dition in steerages, and the American passengers were disposed to accept this os a state of affairs associated ip, but they did complain abous th orles and other to! rooms, These were in a disgraceful state when the boat started and not m ‘was made to clean them up dur- plenty of money but was forced to accept steerage passage or remain be- hind, was thoroughly sick of her ex~ perience. Ali the Americans in the steerage were routed out at daylight this morning and herded on deck with the aliens in the rain to await the ar-/| rival of the doctor. They atood out in the downpour for two hours and were drenched. Mins McCreedy estimates that the forty or fifty Americans in the steerage must havo distributed at| least $1,000 In tips. In the first place each of them had to pay from $5 to $10 for meals from the second cabin. They couldn't eat the steerage food, which they described as “rotte: and it wasn't long before they were Stewards also accepted bribea for actting aside rooms. Miss McCreedy, who was sick all the way acroi for a small inside room wh id to keep to herself. The Mrs, Jobn Ward of 1411 Summit street, Pittsburgh, with her two chil- dren, @ boy sixteen months old and a girl three months old, wae put in a | Pitteburgb, wbo had two small sick for every bit of extra attention they required for their sick and fretful off- spring, and they landed on the pier utterly worn out, “Take my tip,” sald Thomas R. Jensen of Creston, low: jon't meat irlemon' OLYMPIC, WITH Not armed liked the Adriatic but carrying a passenger in every con- ceivable place a passenger could stowed—to the number 6f 1,772—the were forced to accept battle by the German cavalry, who were | Tie stranger shifted instantly and are. oCreedy, a young Phii-| White Star Iiner Olympic camo up to| been Visclared (urea dase bursees te ary line of t. a drew nearer. 4 adeiphia business woman who had|her dock at 1 o'clock to-day. The|the meantime he had on au masses on their retreat. wife of a United States Senator, a financier known on two continent A prizefighter, a dozen school girls— ll of her passengers were reduced to the common level of thankfulness in the democracy of two cabins and steerage. No incident marked the Olympic’s passage from Liverpool; no ships of friend or enemy were sighted, though the wireless sent cheering newa from British cruisers below the horizon. Each night ports were darkened and the huge ship stole unobserved over the lanes. Perhaps the plucklest woman on the ship was Miss Mary R. Whitman, a teacher in the De Kalb Normal School at De Kalb, Ill. She had suc- cessfully piloted a party of fourteen schoolgirls through all the hedge of oI Then they suddenly ap- hi A vivors—and we well call ourselves diture of his ample funds | Re Baker of New Haven and| bayonets between Munich and safety, | tuto Galicia has alarmed Berlin and Vienna was indicated to-day when i Gat mee ie Survivors are ati in London. Wo| be was able to travel in comparative & travelling companion paid @ stew-| nad bulldozed railway guards, threat-| hoy vomainad, “The aatate Bir. pene % became known that large numbers of Austrian troops have been de- | to carry them from Yorrcrs to peace. | Ad travelled repre than 5.000 miles} comfort to Landon. ard #10 to allow them to hold & room | seq bank cashiers and cajoled ateam-|iok refused to reveal now the ebift tached from the army defending Bosnia agalnat the Servian fnvasion and| Here le Dr Rittars sory and beyond the Arctic circle to encapey Fee ate with her brother crrk| that two male passengers who were| ship officials all in the name of Miss was accomplished, a fare being rushed to help stem the Russian flood of troops. From Trieste| cans numbering thivten MACE GERMANY TALK,"| the war began, Their mother was in| ¢ntitied to @ bunk had to sleep on| america, as personified by the school- ry , the actress, 0 girls under ber charge. Miss Whitman's party, which tn- cluded the Mises Ruth and Belle Skin- ner, Rose Kollman, Irene Stanley, May Brooks, Celine Neptune, HelenNeptune and Charlotte Davis, were in Munich on July 26 when a riot occurred in their hotel, Several Servian students were living there and a hastily gather- ed crowd called upon the management MET NO ADVENTURES AT SEA Her Refugees Included Statesmen, Financiers, Actresses, Singers, Dancers, PriazeFighters,and School Girls, All Loaded With Experiences, 1,772 ABOARD, railroad affairs enabled him to get dway with it. He was in Villars, Switzerland, with his daughters, Mar- guerite and the Duchess of Cheul- automobile tour at points remote from the telegraph. “The next train north left in half an hour and we were some distance from the station,” id Mr. Shonts to-di T got my tickets just before the train pulled out. The ticket agent refused to take my French money. but I grabbed the tic threw the money at him and boarded the train “Our tickets took us to Lausanne. There we found a train just about tr leave for Paris, but it was jammed. There wasn't room for aftother per- son. I went to the biggest railroad official I could find and learned from him that another Paris train was about to be made up. Then, by questioning the station attendants, { located three cars that were to on that train, Our party got abo: one of the ca: nd we travelled to Paris in comfo: Harry Pollok, the manager af fighters, and Freddie Weish, his new champion, were in the steerage of the Olympic for two days after she left port. theatre was dead in London and she was glad of a vaudeville engagement here. Vernon Castle and his wife, the dancers, had trouble getting out of France and had to sleep on deck on the crowded Channel boat. Morgan Kingston, a Century Opera Company rr. tenor, was a nger. lenry Reresford, Capt. the Hon. , who is Kitty Gordon's husband, felt greatly grieved because the English Government would not let bim rejoin his old regiment. The War Office, he said, wag taking nobody above the age of thirty-four; it did not realig®, Capt. Beresford believed, that soon such discrimination would have ta be given up. SENATOR OLIVER FOUND PARIS. A DEAD CITY. Senator George T, Oliver of Penn- sylvania, who was four days in get- ting trom Switzerland to Paris, said: the Csar, th Mr, Bonnett was told that Count Fayal princeases eooey nt aut tel von Bornstorff, the German Amb cony, seemingly unafraid of the pos-| dor. and all the Germar. publicists sibility of assassination, The Caar|!n the United States havo asserted called upon the crowd to be loyal to| that Japan's entrance into the war him and to Rusala. is a menace to the United States, Noxt day was one of terror in the| He replied, laughingly: capital, A mob, entirely beyond police}, “That is ‘made in Germany’ talk. restraint, blocked the street before|They are great manufacturers, the the German Embassy and wrecked |Germans.” the place. #ome daring men climbed| ‘Tne Baroness Kieydorf, who was to expel them. When the hotel people refused to turn the Servians out a mob made a rush on the place and, the police faliing to clear the hotel, soldiers had to be summoned to save the Servians from assault. The party, not realizing how close war was, started from Wiesbaden to Cologne by boat on the Rhine. When drove them out of City Hall Park and they turned up Centre atreet to the Criminal Courts Building. Assistant District-Attorney Waseer- Yoel met them jn the absence of Dis- trict-Attorney Whitman, They showed him bruises and cuts which they sald had been made by policemen in pre- Venting the parade and Mr. Wasser- wer in Carlsbad, but managed to get to London without great hardship, though without any baggage except hand pleces, “This war cannot last long, Mr, Harriman. “Germany The war is costing day and at that rate she cannot eurvive the drain. I do not think the United States will profit travel in the steerage unless you have a strong stomach, an elephant’s hide and the disposition of an anke The appearance of the Adriatic tn port with six-inch guns on her decks may raise @ question of her status in @ neutral port in the mind of Collector Malone and the Treasury Department authorities at Washington. The White claim that the Adriatic z a = = Se TO POLICE ON GUARD greatly by the troubles in Europe. “Paris was a dead city. All id ‘ to the roof and with hammers dis-|Mias Busch of St, Louis, a niece of| All money spent in war te 4 they arrived they learned that war 4 ad Clty. one Yore! suid ho would do what he could mougted two, bronge horsemen who|/the late Adoiphus Busch, was on the] ever.” * dc had been declared. At the railroad | (Gown, “% fake, & wal eae eee aaah ' 2 ; 5 sian | Adriatic with her mother, who is sev- Willtam Bi i = (Continued from First Page.) pane Feeauenes onee then made tne footman found In the Embassy | enty-five years old, and her three chil-| sterch; reed, a member of the station a hysterical mob stormed the|on credit, The bill I received was carrying of light armament for de! ae Pp abbed to death was carried ria Meedie of No, 196 Clinton street | streets and so infi the ‘Blood addressed Chief Inspector Schmijt- | madness of the thousands there that berger, He was told that a permit|had not the Coss:cks charged them for 4 parade to tho District-Attor- Association of New York and treasurer of the American Cit. Epo Relief Committee formed in ndon, was among th on the Adriatic, f Perit hice dren, She has ten German servants and seventy-five trunks bound for New York on board the St. Paul, which is due to-morrow, big. It was in contrast to the amount of food we were able to get.” W. H. Newman, Chairman of the guatds for places on the last train to the frontier. Miss Whitman headed @ flying wedge of her schoolgirls and in time of peace or war, the ate: officials maintain. ——-_—_ ng board of the New York Central, Be they would not have left one stone a fo ba got them safely in a carriage. At| Haris without difficulty from South- hey's office had been refused yeater- | of the Embassy upon anothe: The Baroness was in Paris when | $10,000 worth of checks and securi SE Mi | > | Orn France, He had © litle wmeney. day at the request of Dimtrict-Attor= | “Desperate at Our plight: we de. | hostilities began, It wae imperative | which had been turned in by stranded NATE, BY BIG ARG] p | Brussels she hypnotised « bank cash and escaped some of the barrags- | that he would not allow a parade to| ney Whitman himacif. cided to get out of Russa at any | that ene should get out, By the ex-| Americans for gold at the commi ler into cashing enough of her checks i the om ments of other wealthy men. be form-4 to go to District-Attorney| Back to the Criminal Courts Butid- | cost. to a town called Giclee, oe adahuvenees Bg quarters in London; that CONFIRMS W’REYNOLDS fe carry tie party Wa Bagians By! | coatrery (0 some repocts et malee Whitman for a recital of wrongs.| ine went the buszing, shouting de- f Peters. | to got her scventy-fve trunks, her EM a feo alternate fighting and pleading Miss] 1 bavo hoard,” a ite There were many barked shine ana} fea een nae Aeht' si the tate stl her three children and her had come to London in the bes Cleared the way, to Tne | ree Hl dae gore io e neig! Li v* RO rived in Berlin gathered about the building and were nvenis from Faris to London firat two weeke of the war had been m Hague, to Flushing and nally to mbulance call was necossary. Five| waiting there, and 4 crowd entered | moving trains and killed, We bribed | Without spending a cent of money. relieved, he sald, and were either Attorney-General Seated a8 Justice) rr aetone. were taken. which filled “the first and second | # railroad official with 1,000 rubles to | 54° TM. ton "the had to apply for re- siveady in this country or reaty to] of the U.S. Supreme Court to |GUGGENHEIM8 HAD NO TROU.-|in every way. y threw open the The trouble started when a soap| "22's and blocked the corridors, have @ compartment to ¥eH. | of to the American committee, Aa |” BLE IN ESCAPING, Rath Haus for meetings of ded pox orator addrecalne a mrace meas | 4, CBB, Falconer and the reserves of | From Wolomda took @ train to Succeed Lurton, soon as matters calmed down she was ble to get all the money she needed. With her mother, children and ser- vants she rode from Paris to Calais on a cattle train, gene N. Robinson, a New York er, considers himself lucky, He Budapest the day before w. was declared by Austri enuine- bank draft e Soered, bY anmerie ns,” Mr, Breed) WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—By abig e sae eet there may have beon| majority vote the Senate this after- In the honesty of the many *'*2|noom confirmed the nomination of At- The Rev. Dr. Rapp, a Catholic priest | torney-General James C. McReynolds of Galveston, Tex. sald: “We found|to be Justice of the United Stat the Irish people heart and so Rats Supreme Court in place of the late Americans, I saw Archangel, on the White Sea, t ot extreme north of Russia, and the: we chartered a 260-ton boat to take to Norway. “Two Germ merchahtmen had been sunk at the mouth of the harbor, but by paying the skipper of that awful little steamer 2,000 rubles we finally persuaded him to try to get the Elizabeth street station w. 7 Gf depositors in the square shouted: | called to drive them into the street, » “Let us go ip there and make those | There lawyent who have boon inter- ¥ ested n ha case made soothin, ; eer Se) we, when they will sive ches to the crowd until 1 melted ~)" ‘Phere are 15,000 depositors of the 1 bank, which holds $1,700,000 of their| jens acted every- Daniel Guggenheim, Mrs. Guggen- which I copled: beim and their son,’S. R. Guggen- e heim, who with two manservants and three maids occupied first cabins, had no trouble in escaping the war zone. Mr. Guggenheim believed that unpar- A i "alfred G, Vanderbilt, whose wife eeadnd ae Cy the Celtic a week the English in this war, alleled prosperity was due to bit the ; Money, The Banking Department an- | around them. He succeeded and Servia and started for don't bellave in going to wae (4 Justice Lurtoa. United States in leas than six months, be stable, inoludit a nin caatiee an oe ordering a liquidation were out en the Wrate 8 Then § ee vat tas wie e | fight, but ther fn staying home to| ‘The Senate later confirmed Thomas | 11, gaia; coaching team. In payment he had “Aug. 3 that the real ostate holdings | stewards began to charge us for every | two protect Ireland. And the [rish Nn 9 er ‘ od $250 aplece—about one-tent! Sige the Jarmulowskys wil bring $e T0 MOBILIZE AT ONCE! mouthful we ate—and bread waa |no thrililing experiencos, but haven't beon idie these day: men |W. Gregory to be United States At- | =rnig country has the greatest tenth mostly all the menu. They robbed us unmercifully, “Then the ship began to leak. Only ne then were we told that she bad been like a condemned three years before, Every was safe in London he found tt #0 to Paris on busines: r was on then. Parts was ity b torney-General. vote on the McReynolds con- firmation was 44 to 6. Four Republi- Cummii Clapp and . Thi Tajded German shipping on numerous occasions and taken valuable prizes. Se: In Dingle Bay, County Ki Trish, fishermen descended upon an 600,000 in a normal market und that "the depositors would be paid in full Nafter business conditions became set- “thea. fy James, the wife of @en- s'amea of Kentucky, was met by her husband at Quarantine. She had chance since the civil war to build up an export trade. The Government Message Received Here by Paper should help create a merchant ma- au j through rine either leged. Mr. Robi dy or by thought to ascend the Eiffel Tower vag Hanaged to get out of Berlin th; Tr ry eamer and took off th Jones; one Progre: Poindexter, | actual participation partner in if The depositors have charged| House Says Political Move- |aeam appeared to open and water came and look over. tho. deserted metrop: [crow ia tone as prisoners a cgens | and one Democrat, Vardaman, voted| the eig undertaking, and the Gover-|Geraren Crores OF Ara ° Fepeatediy that this is » subterfuge ts A . in so fast the engine room firs lia, but he found the tower au: Limerick Harbor against Mr. McReynolds. ment should act at once. " Even if in- ‘to keep the). money. ments Are Grave. threatened. We three Americ ded by a high iron fence and a] shoremen boarded a pis’ Acca {tial mistakes are made the chance |had to spell members of the crews at ithe hand pumpe—the steam pumps would not work--and day and night for three days nothing was heard on that sinking ship but the Peis of) the pumps and the swash of water in the scuppers, hae so i ‘The parade in the middie of the ‘was abandoned, guard, Mounted on top ofthe tower are several guns designed to destroy aeroplanes and balloons. At night ights mounted on the tower Hea eoeeds Batley, ALBANY, N. ¥., Aye. 29.~The Gen- servation Commission to-day announced ls wonderful and will not walt.” The railroad experience of Theodore P. Bhonts, President of the Interbor. captured her and jc Deelt $83,857,000, pier, a prize of war. heard| ‘The statement of the average condi- that the Irishmen hav ured louse least half a dozen Govan ohne fa te of Gaaans 2 Denke, snd hice ough system, was of great value to the eppointment of Da He of bim in getting out of the war sone, a ic It became necessary for him to do Te 3 Jot ot biuting, and bie knowledge of est ea re A leading paper house in New York received the following messag day from its agent in London: but @ great