The evening world. Newspaper, September 7, 1914, Page 4

L. B. Kendall, Kendall, “Captured” ‘by Germans in Chateau, Bécame a Nurse. BOOK FOR THE ENEMY. s on the Rotterdam and ‘With Other Passengers Praises Kaiser’s Men. 5 rere fs the story of a New York 2 Mrs. L. B. Kendall of No. § Park avenue, who, with her bus- lived a lifetime in fourteen days | returned to the chatea' Abe battle about Cirey, French | mear the Alsatian border. Kendalls, accompanied by their ‘were among she ‘aboard the Holland-America » steamer Rotterdam, in to-day, the greatest number of cabin ever brought to New York. Kendall told ber story with a regard for detail. Kendall, our maid and I were through Germany when th Neaught us at Carlsbad. to Nuremburg and there Machine was seised by the mill- forces anid a receipt for It given } We took the train for Paris on 1. At the border town of Avri- $ im Alsace we found ourselve: in the heart of an immense was already and ready to strike at Were told we would have t» go/to the border on foot, and since not get any conveyance we drag our trunks over to the town of the same nate, Avri- | #604 horse. ‘There we got @hort distance, and finally Mr. rented « horse and cart for ‘which we reached the village Not a ttaia whe run-/ stuc Right Americans who had |*! the border with us started thirty miles away, on Ewo others who stayed were ©) b v @ fourteen-year-old | travelling alone. The child said jaime was Haines and that she yon Park avenue, in New York. bagh we planned to take the two im eur care and try to get them fh to Paris, they disappeared nl and we saw nothing 70 ‘RAT EXCEPT FOR ‘we reached the village of 80 fatigued we could hardly A ap, our heads, we went to the Ytmn and there because we had 7 the landlord refused to admit Mr. Kendall offered him te for a bed and a the inmkeeper stubbornly iter- }' that Americans Ought to have plenty of Me gold, no bed, he declared the door in our faces, ‘We sat on our trunke all] on ¢! dawn came unexpected suc- in the person of the | 40 Turckbeim, Mayor of the He had heard that three were shelterless ‘and he came down from his to investigate, ane ONL AN IN UNE OF BATE AND UNDER FIRE DAYS AT CIREY foreigners who had been interested in @ Vahderbilt cup race some years ago and whom Mr. Kendall had met at the time. The Baron, recalling the meeting, was kindness itself. “He took us to his chateau, whieh Stood on a high hill on the outskirts of town, and, after giving us @ change of clothes and arm meal, offered ‘us tho use of his aged horse—the only one spared by the French requisition- ing officers—to take us to the railroad. started, but the horse eat down five times in as many miles and fin- ally lay down in his harness. Then we decided to put about to the cha- teau of our kind friend. The return Journey was inspiring from the point of view of that ancient horse's speed bursts. BATTLE RAGING BEFORE HER Eves. “It was at noon on Aug. 4 when we and the ai tack of the Germans began within an hour. From the windows of the cha: teau, #0 high above the plain and the masses of woods, we could see the skirmishers deploying. First a aca’ tered line of gray-green—those wi the Germans; then, to meet them, @ line of blue, the French. Fire and fall back—fire and fall back; that was the way the battle had its beginnin, “Then came the artillery and the puff balls marking the bursting of the rapnel over the French line: For eighteen hours the crash of the big guns continued and, since the chateau was in line of fire, the Baron and Baroness led the way to the cel There we lived for four days. The Baron began to be wor- ried, for he feared the Germans would take the chat and since a few days before he had humiliated a German officer captured near the town, he feared what the Germans might do to him if they captured | father-in-law him.. The Baroness persuaded him| by the war. file, assuring him that, should the| Poslt of $12,000 to cover th Germans come, they would not harm/ allowed to hav. her. The Baron went—on a bicycl mseit to thay| And Dutch borders a military guard he didn’t dare trust bi I bat of the country they were to cross them. As soon as the passengers di ‘At| Played American flags at the station thre eRe Cage y i rown to them, and on out a table in the Iibrary| see ecial runuitis shew ¢ exhausted the supply of through 1 ney tion eating houses sai igh Ito the rooms’ 18. was coffee were brought to. etoned e ai “That left us alone in the Paw —for all the servants had fied. . o'clock that evening as we ul lance suddenly sha’ the glass in one of the windows “and nious announcement of arrival. WANDS UP BEFORE THE. UH- LANS. Mr. Kenda)l threw bac the door and volvers at the cock. our hands while they searched us, b Mr. Kendall turned over a revolver checks a the Baron had given him before his| But it was soon at hasty departure. That was the only! Frankfort serviceable firearm e “Then the officers of the invading are i army followed in and told us, vei politely, that they would have to wake Pieel tad aati the chateau their headquarters, They were surprised to find three Ameri- cans in the America. They dinner for them, cooked « dinner sted on putting of the table me Joat into the. spirit of the he could. es were cleared oe. the officers laid their war ma) tabi They explained to id myself what the plans of the past day's action had been and just how their army had moved across the border toward Cirey. Next day I went to their field hospit and voluntarily became a Red Cros nurse, CAUGHT BETWEEN THE FIRING ‘LIN “Because they feared our continued ecoupation of the chateau would bi roun to ul following day ve a party, including the on, through the lines to the village of Rupais and a guide to take us there. ‘We started, but found ourselves im- mediately on the firing line between the two armies. There was no_re- treat; it was as dangerous to turn back as to go forward; so we pressed T can never forget the scenes of that trip to Rubais—the bursting shrapnel and the sit-sit of bullets, I saw men torn with shells and limping to the rear from bull ‘wounds. We passed mounds of ¢ dead. ‘At Rupais, which we finally gained a an ternity of suspense, T again went into hospital work, and there | T saw the dreadful aftermath of ba! tle, For three days I was with the field hospital, then the Prince of ‘Wurtemburg, hearing of my presence there and something of our adven- tures of the past fourteen days, wi gocd enough to thank me. He said pass Mr.: Kendall, the maid ny EVENING wounn, most wonderful pase It w: lerward learned. Armed w we took our places op a military train bound for Strassburg. “There were 2,000 dead and wounded were officers in the action at Cirey. Imost stunned pasa who examined it, #0 complete and 5 im @ went to Rotterdam by irain AK WG&LL OF THIE + of made Rees manufacture! misrepresented the ai mans toward America: these passengers were so indignant that instead of giving interviews they launched Into he at the reporters, a pet responsible for reports the other side of the said that he and hi ught in Lucern On making a sonally were pre i “Open!” came the ofder in French. | Red Cross. “On the first day of. Vitis ed in trooped several uhlans, thelr re-|said Emanuel Felsingheld of No. 99 place that their The twelve-year-old daughter of Henry Ringe, of No. lace, and several of them, |avenue, Brooklyn, who apoke English Muently, said they had ‘dear friends and. relatives. in| twven’ Hier tether hect hee oer 166 Clarkson ‘old of her advan- Her father kept her close to sked us—the three |the hotel for a few days after the declaration of wai we and an officer came out and talked to me and patted me on the | head end told the sentry that I was an American girl and a friend of Germany, and gave mi papel ywhere I liked.” very much wor- ried because the wireless operator of the ship had told h man reservists who sailed for Hol- 4 on the Ryndam were to be in- ted by a British cruiser and made prisoners of war. INSIDE STORY OF GERMANY'S SIEGE GUNS. A hitherto unpublished story of the great siege guns with c which the Germans have been drag- Ing across Belgium and toy you with and battering to pieces it; 1 it My hawe heat aeons been gullty of the greatest cruelty nable came from A. L, that 800 Ger- ‘pillar feet man army was tremendous effectiveness implest of tricks. he guns were delivered hy the Krupps| nurses, They also shot at German they were tested and at once de clared failures and ostensibly set aside for, the scrap heap. charged against them that they were | wife and their son, Daniel E. Willard too clumsy to be moved because five flat cars were required for the rail- road transportation of one of them 0 given out that they power to throw their enormo: with certainty and were more dang ir own artillery men t! It was ms that ae taken of bis esteem he ip Agents of foreign armies wer ceived into ignoring the monat: no Government in t rai Hons for defense a are moved rapidly and Mr. Bournique nd myself through the military lines id back to Germany. So he gave moe 0 pass, signed in his owe hand | and vised by all the officers of his | They throw a ‘double shel waa told, the outer section of which exploded at two miles, the other go- plode at from ten t It ds the jocult boast of Berlin that thes ibe wee to bombard England world made inst them, when the Britis! t an upper ol ry . threw rth from a flower pot fo the sidewalk, "The po oil—in ao few minutes you will be & rage, tore up pa’ ye platoon of cavalry. There has been ture of rioting since he sai Mme. Schumann-Heink and her 2. dren, George Washington and Mari ‘Theresa, ali back on the Motterdam, said that she had been ainging in Pareival in the Beyreuth Wagnerian festival on Aug. 1, when war was jeclared. Rumors of it reached the audience in the middie of the first act and caused commotion and un- Then « German officer strode down the aisle and called out several young German singers. Next twenty-two of the musicians were summoned, and at last, in the middie of the third act, the performance was halted. Two-thirds of thi = left the theatre by tl “ime Schumann-Heink o) ke highly of the treatment of Americans by the Germans. She and her children reached Rotterdam from Beyreuth by automobile and train without incon- venience. The singer has a brother, three brothers-in-law afd two nephews in the Austrian army. Her brother, Carl Rossier, a naval officer, ig a prisoner now in Malta. Mme. Johanna Gadski and her daughter, Lotta, a young woman of nineteen, were passenge! and throughout the voyage Miss een f distributed circulars among tl sengers asking their sympathy P for Germany. She said Mrs. Gerard, wife of the Ambassador at Berlin, and the women of the American colony held sewing parties daily and made bandages for the Red Croi During the voyage an All-star con- cert for the benefit of the life-saving Seamen's Home of New York took place. Mmes. Gadski, Schumann- Heink and Fes Bloomfeld-Zeisler font of the small number 6? pas- sengers. in the steerage were Ameri- can women: who have been studying in Germany. . All of the women were indignant over charges of cruelty which have been made against the 3| Germans, They said that the cruel- ties were practised by Belgians, French and Russians. “I know of one German woman 1 | Whose two children were nailed feet foremost to a post in Koenigsburg by Russian soldiers, who held their mother and compelled her to watch the torture,” said Mrs, Grace Pullich of New York. “One of my servants brought to Berlin a raving maniac, I cared for her in my apartment until the German authorities were able to take her. “IT am willing to take oath that the Germans—women and children well as men—were horribly mis- treated by French, Russ! and Bel- gians. In one of the Red Cross hos: pitals in the Berlin Mitte I saw a German woman who was in Liegp at the outbreak of hostilities. “She w tripped of all her cloth- ing by Belgian men and women who pursued her through the atreets of Liege. Finally some one seized a wire broom and beat her terribly with it, at the same time crying: "Thus will we sweep the Germans out of Belgium!’ The poor woman was horribly maimed and was delirious when I saw her, “Lam an American woman and am neutral, but I believe the truth should be told. The Germans treated the Americans in Berlin royally,s 1 had no money, but a German transfer company took my trunk to the station and refused even to accept an ‘I, O. U. from w “Ruasians and French soldiers have said Miss Ruth Breytaprak of Cai- | Bournique|cago, who has been studying the himself a veteran of the! violin at the Royal Academy in Ber- Roosevelt Rough Riders and a mil-| lin. “I served as a nurse in hos- {tiaman of seventeen years experi- . Bournique aaid that he| were not brought there at the time, saw the eleven fourteen-inch mon- aters in Berlin, From a German artillery officer, « friend, he had the story that the Ger- able to conceal the pitals in Berlin, Wounded soldiors but I heard numerous stories of cruelties practised on the French and Russian borders.” “It is enough to make any one's blood boil,” said Mrs, G, Martens of of these| Grinnell, Ia. ‘I know that at Liege When the Belgian women shot Red Cross soldier Daniel Willard, President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, his jr. were among the first cabin paa- aengers, They were in Carlsbad when hostilities began. They got through to the Rotterdam without trouble. ubsoay ~ sarrausis rie iy Two New Dances by New York Masters — Will Be Seen stl ted Next Winter! § = CHILD'S TONGUE BECOMES cure IF CONSTIPATED When cross, feverish and sick give “California Syrup ed the one tgp and on Russian The president of the society, Oskar Duenweg, has arranged hich ballroom @ancers will Joy, it involves only th mplest dancin the open, the this dance th cw HUNGARIAN TROT ‘&S ‘Tas PRETTIEST AND EMWST OF Tug AGW DancRS first movement backward in the open position, In the second movement the dancers take the waltz position and dance sidewise and to the left. They ide position for the dancing forward and back at right angles to the pre- vious position, glide, pivot, turn and But though La Russe if military, ian Society Dance is « is is the pet production of Adolph Newburger, « New Yorker who has taught four dance. Its most distinguishing f ‘ture is called the Chikoss, which more nor less than a soldier’ ringing toget! for attention. “The first movement of this ined Mr. Children love this “fruit laxative,” and nothing else cleanses the h, liver and bowels so nicely. ly will not stop playing jowels, and the result is, they a tightly clogged ets sluggish, stoma ittle one becomes cross, oct stele everieh, don't cat@sleep or act natu. system full of has sore throat, stomach-ache of Listen, Mother! jalip into the third movement, a few hours all the: id By waste, sour ee and undigested food passes out of you have a well, play- a illions of mothers give “California because it is perfectly Syrup of Figs” hermless; children love it, fails to act on the stomach, liver and | steps separately, one ec " ings tates te the left, they meet in the open dance forward, 1 for grown-ups Get the genuine, y “California Fig Syrup Com- Refuse any other kind with heel jain for the chikoss, turn quickly and dance forward, ward and sideways in the Hun- garian trot. To make the dance most effective the music should be played rather slowly.” It sounds complicated, perhaps, but it really isn't, and it somehow com- ith ballroom grace really the pyet- opvE THE PIEc bines «ypsy glee and seemliness. tiest new dance yet. SHOT HIS STEPSON FOR PROTECTING MOTHER Policeman Boctig of the Parkville station was passing No. Quick Repairing No delay by the Ehrlich way. Glasses replaced the same day. y Crystal Lens, 50c Special Lenses Y properticantaly. Lew One Is Called La Rus: and the Other Is the Hungarian Dance, Both Charming and Apparently Difficult to Learn. Hesitation and Maxixe Will Be Popular but Will Be Reduced to a Simplified and Stand- arized Form. he saw a man rush from the house and fire four times from a revolver at a youth who stood in the doorway. One bullet hit the boy cheek and came out ¢ ie and the man ran. The policeman captured the man a block away and disarmed him. Then he got an ambulance from the Norwegian Hospital and the boy was taken there. Later he was able to appear in the Flatbush Court Oculists’ Opticians New Yorks 184 thei it John St. 223 Sixth 17 West 42d Street. Brooklyn: 498 Fulton S! What are we going to dance next winter and how are we going to dance institutions of South Holland and the| !t? That highly agitating question has just been settled once for all in the 1s Edward Loughran, , of the Thirty-sixth | address, vand that the man who shot him was his stepfather, Allison Loughran said Mitchell had quarrelled with his mother yesterday and had threatened to kill her with a When he had interceded Mitchell's wrath turned on him, and left the house, “Storm Hero” Umbrella th vement, la maxixe itself. “The hesitation has only four fig- urea—first, the side hesitation; ond, the forward weaving movement to side, and ‘fourt! |hesitation step, three waltz ste lety of Professors of Dancing, which to-day concludes its thirty-seventh annual From all over the United States the Most conservative and masters of the dance have journeyed |~ to New York and in conscientious con- claves the dance laws for the coming season have been decreed. In any brief resume two points stand out prominently: favorite ballroom danc ter, the tango, the h le. Mitchell refused to say anything In explanation of the shooting, and Mag- istrate Nash ogee in $2,500 ball i “These are the three standard forma of the three standard The fox trot is simply a modified key trot, and it is doubtful if it will danced to any great extent next The lu lu fado is a variation of the maxixe and will have a certain amount of popularity, and ta tao arg better adapted to exhi- bition purposes than to the ball- - For Infants and Children Use For Over 30 Years Always 1 bears tation and the will be as popular as ever this year, but each of them will be reduced to a simplified and standard- ised form. And, second, two brand mew dances will Le seen everywhere, both invented by New York dancing masters. One of these dances is called La Russe; Hungarian Social Dance. Both were shown to the writer at the conven- tion in the Hotel Majestic yesterday. They were ound to be charming and —apparently—not difficult to learn. 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