The evening world. Newspaper, July 12, 1918, Page 11

AN oe ae \ ‘S , \ \Y . r \\ A\\ \\) \\ \\ Wits NN _ FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1918 \ The Romantic Life History Held Prisoner in Germany _Of Pauline Kruger Hamilton » Fully Clothed and Well Fed How the Red Crose Insures Prisoners’ Relief Cs A Sheaf of Fiction Plots ~ Supplies Sent to Prison Camps From Base in Switz-|REPOS!TORY AT BERNE, SWITZERLAND; RETURN CARDS WHICH PROVE RECEIPT OF SUP- | erland end Return Receipt Cards Show That PLIES, AND NEW YORK MEN AIDING AT ONE OF THE PRISON CAMPS. Beautiful Young American Art Student Merrtes Mak \ Men Are Being Reached. Provision Already ERI ee 1 ae Loves Devotedly. He Kills Another in a Quarrel, ~ Made to Keep 10,000 Men for Six Months, With none me "Prowe Wolke Ps Fen toe Bio Relonse, “ye Greater Preparations in Prospect. Is Restored to Her Only to Die. i By Hazel V. Carter PLOT NO. 2—“ROMANCE.” i Meee hoy phe oe - on = York Drentng Wort. Young American Widow of Striking Beauty Ambitious é Germany to Become Painter Studies in Vienna, Then Takes Up Thi the | NUE ct genie ge eae dune Frotaoh and Ineve Once Pacteweghir Ge Perhaps are wondering what will be the fate of their boys and what they nme Freneren = eee ee an do toward alleviating their imprisonment with supplies, money, &. @ Favorite at the Austrian Court. The American Red Cross is ready with the information. PLOT NO. 3—“MYSTERY. “If the Germans should capture 10,000 Americans,” the Red Cross Charming American Woman, Member of the Austrian states, “we have enough food, clothing and comforts to care for them for #tx months, sending weekly packages to the stockades in Germany from Court, Comes Here as Personal Representative of the Empress Zita, Interested in a War Charity. She Is the American Red Cross Prisoners’ Relief at Berne.” And assurance that these supplies are reaching the Amertcan prisoners Shadowed by Federal Agents, Suspected of Being a Spy. She Dies Before Charge Can Be Proved. @omes from no leas first hand testimony than from two New York boys ‘who, prisoners themselves in Tuchel, West Prussia, have been constituted By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Coprrieht, 10L8, by ‘The Prem Publishing Os, (The New York Drening Wort, FRIDAY, ULY 12, 1918 Red Cross Keeps Americans PLOT NO. 1—“LOVE. W YORK Bovs PRISONERS: Ce ait a GERMANY: < WARE MOUSE AT BERNE, SWITZERLAND ® Red Cross committee for tmmediate relief of American prisoners. They are Corpl. Frank Upton, formerty a member of the New York || Police Department, and Private Charles A. Geoghegan, both of New York City. Corpl. Frank Upton of West 22d Street, who was one of the famed engineers who threw aside the pick fense of his country, writes home to “We are getting everything we could wish through the American Red Cross at Berne, and we are see- ing to it that the other fellows get their share. Don't worry, and tell the children to be good, for I'll be coming Bome before long.” Geoghegan, also a captured en- gineer, writes home to his mother at No. 611 East 185th Street: “1am dotng my duty here by my fellow prisoners and my country by taking active participation in all pro- jects for the advancement of our matoal welfare and at present | am Beeretary of the American Prison- ere Committe: here in Germany, which ts located in this internment camp.” ‘The word “missing,” so dreaded by families who sean the American easnalty reports, ie a signal to the American Red Cross in Washington fand to its foreign branches to insti- tute immediate inquiries, Official lists of prisoners are scanned and search for the missing men ulso may be started through the International Red Cross. The American Red Cross dots not cease this search until tt can cable to his relatives that he has been lo- cated in some German prison camp or until evidence of his death is estab- lished. The moment one of the missing Americans is located at Tuchel or} some other German prison camp, the Rea Cross warehouse starts packages of food, clothing and comforts to the prisoner, These packages are made up from stores suilicient to maintain thousands of Americans for months, and held by the American Red Cros: for just such emergency. Bf the prisoners, first sent to Lim burg, as ie usually the case, and then distributed to other camps, hay ‘o reach Tuchel, in West Prussia, where most Americans are now belng sent, they are received by good old| UW. B& A, boys and made to feol at home. If they're New Yorkers, it 1s worth something to be given the “gtad hand” by Geoghegan or Corp! Upton, if they bail from down Sout they are equally as pleased to be grected by Sergt. Edgar Halyburton of Stony Point, N who is also and shovel to take up the gun in de- his wife: & return post cart such as those shown in the illustration, The Pris oners’ Relief Committee expects to| | get back one cand filled in and signed | for every package sent from Switzer. | land. Other American prisoners tn the the recipient and whether he received his consignment. If the package 1s lost the International Red Cross 1s| requested to trace the missing food or clothing. If any signature looks suspiclou: the original card ts despatched at once to the Department of Prisoners’ Relief at Red Cross headquarters in Washington and submitted to the prisoner's friends or relatives for identification, Frequent tests of sig- natures, however, establish to the satisfaction of those in charge that every American prisoner is receiving the shipments regularly and is en- Joying their contents, “Attempts to send food or clothing direct to prisoners,” said Franklin Abbott, Director of the Department of Prisoners’ Relief, “are to be discour- agod, Money and letters are about all that relatives should attempt to send to the German camps, “Other packages greatly burden transportation facilities and reach long delay. course, Red Cross packages, of receive special recognition from postal and railway authorities. Red Cross realizes the anxiety of rela-| possible to keep friends informed. We| have a staff who are kept busy trans-| mitting each item of individual news| those in this country immediately con- Jcerned. We forward money to indi- the sender's risk. For many months we have been sending as much as $500 & week—principally from Italians to |Ttalian prisoners in Austrian camps. Money for prisoners we transmit |directly to the International Red |Cross at Geneva, which in turn sends it to the prisoner through its connec- tions nearest the camp, The remit- |tance is paid over in the form of |same camp are asked to report as to| | those addressed, if at all, only after| : tives and we propose to do everything | we receive by cable or otherwise to]; |vidual prisoners, but necessarily at|% CURSE COP ARE "prisoners SELECTED AS LAMBRICAG ‘PRISONERS “ACTUALLY RECEVE: FOR SHIPMENTS “FROM. THE RED REO CROSS SUPPLIES : a ‘At the same time, the American| !): a AT PRISON Cami CUSTODIANS + RECEIPT ROSS “Foo, COmMPORTS AND CLOTHING ARRIVING FRom AMERICA AT” FREIGHT, WAREHOUSES OF RED CROSS AT BERNE, SWITZERLAND PRIVATE CHARLES GEOGHEGAN OF Sit W.1g5% st. War and Hanging Gardens The Latter Are Particular Favorites in the West, Where Lamp Post Orchards Thrive and There Are Double and Triple Crops of Pro-Berlin Lemons and OVERTY, ambition, romantic passion, the shadow of another’s crime, the favor of Princes, artistic supremacy—and at the end of it all a painful death in a public hospital, a cheerless funeral from & New York undertakers church, a memory even now under tnvestigation by the ofMfcial spy chasers of her native land—that is the strange and thrilling story of an American woman, Mrs. Pauline Kruger Hamilton, whose death has just written “finis” to the absorbing drama that was her life Apparently there was the material in Mrs. Hamil- ton’s career for a Phillips-Oppenheim no.el of beauty, intrigue, mystery and romance. What is known of her KP ries remarkable history suggests, perhaps, unanswerable questions, P She was ofictal photographer for years at the most exclusive court in Purope—the court of Frans Josef of Austria, Did her friendship and ad- |miration for many members of the Austrian tmperial family overbalance her loyalty to the land of her birth? Before hor death she had been shad- owed by men from the Department of Justice, and on the day of her funeral one of them was standing guard out- side her home, She was @ passion- ately devoted and loyal wife to the |American who married her, before | ner triumphs at foreign courts, Is it ‘| true, as reported, that the portrait of | man of Teutonic appearance wns inserted in her coffin? And, as « gen- Jorn! proposition, does a woman's loy- jalty to her country change with her * |hoyalty to a man? | Perhaps some day keen-eyed men |in Washington will solve these prob- ‘tems, on which, it 1» sald, they still are wo +. Meanwhile here ts part of the story of Pauline Kruger | Hamilton, She was born in @ typical “poor but honest” home in the Middle Weat some half century, more or less, 46° |self, and his wife, Archduchess Tea« Her parents were Germans who lived | bella, who was a Princess of Croy. in Wisconsin, She grew up with the | Many of her photographs were made Intense desire to become an artis’, /at the Hapsburg Palace at Pressburg. and, a young woman tn Minneapolis,| For five years she held the posl- she did attain @ certain amount 9f/tlon of official court photographer, In wuccews asa painter--the Insular suc-|the spring of 1915 she returned to cess of @ bustling Middle Western America as the personal representa- se tive of the favorite war charity of So far her story @iffers little from | the Empress Zita, then Crown Prin- that of many American girl, The|Cess — the Austro-Hungarian War first dramatic chapter comes jeith Sponsorship Association, The object her marriage. When I saw her thifee of this society was to take care of years ago she was @ tall, distin~ @tarving Austrian war babies, chil- veined looking woman, Aa a giriahe|4ren of men at the front, | have been a beauty of tbe] When Mrs, Hamilton arrived The sie 6, blue-eyed, firm-theéat-|World sald: “The Austro-Hungarian Va at tye at She became the|Ambassador in Washington, Dr. od, magmine Dumba, is Mrs. Hamilton's sponsor wife of Frank Hamilton, a writer in . Ba al eeianes sant “| In this country.” She travelled about he Red Cross Ameri-| prison camp script, good at the Ger- ; A : ; ; 5 ‘ ae) ieemmesinn! fe man prison canteens, but not money Slacker Quinces—Your War Garden Should Provide You With Plenty to Eat, ? ramtiton kimed a man in a{tt® United States, organizing benefita ean Prisoners’ Relief. ) Frank Hamilton kite: a : ; sutside of the stockades,” 7 tose AY . and soliciting funds quite frankly for From their stock of 300 Red Cross a pee pens prey fears take That Is, if You Live Near a Delicatessen Store. quarrel, was arrested and tried fOr ae aes which abe wae ine da stock of emer-| Red Cro tho a , . His devoted wife re- f gli ne Seay tar issuance |t8e Americans have none of the “lean BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”’) BAER. sai pied Ie olde during the trial ts pa I mat her at this time -~ gency cloth ith |@nd hungry look." Here is the Y maine asdheged | she spoke, with apparently simple ani Rpay supply. the new prisoner with /St” SN Kn Oe toed mes ree ye Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening Worlf. and worked desperately for Peer bode genuine appreciation, of America and puffcient to last bim until the ruuiar| The packages of food want twloe ROVIDED that the next door chickens haven't pawed the nap off wo choke something, s0 why not let ‘em choke on the cucumbers? If | quittal so tong aa there remained | A morican women. Sb also praised ual shipi begin to reach ort ou planted your see slightest hope. nen he was ennese, individ ey cei inte bes | ments of food, Bach grouping has been your war garden, your old seed terrace should be some vege- they don’t, you will, This is July, and if you planted your s in var #4 Priscn ane eat up ner|tne © ane , but she wae rather rite om Berne, . er encyclopacd he young cro tence o al - ies o e) him from Bete then supplied with |@PProved by the Surgeon General, the table bazaar by now. If you followed the arrow in the mail Sore, per directions {9 the mail order encyclopaedia, the young crows, | tenees © 1 in walle ag |feml of Garman types B00. wed ae Rolaives 8 to ways of com-|Army Commissary and leading Ameri- should be cutting ther first teeth on your corn, The next step In the |Home as neal {he prison WAN All attegotive, wall-bred woman, whe exact instruction fol e vaye vind the /can dietary experts as supply food in| OT8eF indictment your watermelons should be large enough to wet war garden {s to have your picture taken with one elbow leaning on | POSMNS & Ne ie wag provide knew how to dress, how to smile, how municating Wit ne pein transmit |PFoper variety and quantity, both your ears, ‘The early June peas should be big enough to roll off the asparagus, This should be possible providing tho asparagus has |)", enna with such comforts as]'° modulate her voice, Mee mesmaie oF epending Vor exampo—here is package A: | any knife in the U.S. A, The flapjack bushes should be almost ready | followed the directions in the mal) order booklot was vermited to eed him, |. Nhe died on Buadey at Fiowen.tiees eae bahar Con sf, 1% he, Sugar, 1 Ib 5 2 ae tat oa “ 1 hy coord The prisoncr’s friends in t ‘ an A es Ont ka to flap, while the succotash trees and the hash bushes should be Of course there will be other things {n your war garden, including tved only for the ume whee a Gubllas ad vetecata: & (cena treat ioe end b Py mbleased . el the , ogether - try, however, are advised not Co $eNd | pry fread, 3 ibe Woe 5 ib, official and under control. slightly vacant bottles, busted tomato Onna subl d ogg shells, ney cou Ve ent ae Sther pris. {Department of Ju Seer. i] food, clothing or comforts, Ls " Bie wi, be i. ae) phe, of 60, There were two classes of war gardens launched in April when exempt straw hats and a fine young crop of non-essential accessories, fortunately, ve vl tuberculosia, Aa]! her for months, It is said that i ample supplies of everything bi The rations, which also| Uncle Sam decided to make the suburbs safe for democracy, The | But you can’t blame that on the seeds from the mail order pamphlet | « ae oes released she hurried |#2€ Associated with pro-Germane and | mee eT eT eae @ ise 1o- | Supply vid « half to ten| hanging war gardens were very popular in the West, and quite a few | MY more than you can blame instalment agents on acorns, The | soon as he was friGhind Nl UA nae sho was under suspicion, ale | Hee ee ae Garman, Leraeh pounds of f ubstitute salt pork,| lamp post orchards were planted. There was a bumper crop of pro- | mighty instalment houses spring from tho mighty oak dining room change of climate would save hia though an American citisen, of being | , prisoner signs the receipt card|¢r bacon or canned salmun for some} Berlin lemons and slacker quinces. Some of the hanging war gardens sets, the mighty oak dining room sets spring from mighty ouk and | 16. iy did not and he died not long ae A iagpopy '’ or vide for his supplies and reports the size [of the beef and include rice, jam, dried] yielded double and triple crops, There wasn't a chance of the crops the mighty onk springs from the tiny acorn, after Nmuece Gea a Blaaren. anak nade of his hat, shoes, coat, trousers, fruit, evaporated milk, cheese, dried falling off, as they were securely tied on by the neck. Quite a few But that ain't the acorn’s fault. As a struggling patnter Mrs, Ham'‘l- wanes Gian aka 4 shirts, gloves, underwear, pajamas, | beans, canned tomatoes, canned pexs,| geres were also planted in tar and feathers, if - en —- ‘ton lived on, for @ Sit Poked mr which emphasised the suspicions ef &c., so th sloshing he reooives |cpaued corm soup apt OE tea in- The Eastern war farmletsa were of the stationary brand, being \| ady of St Balmont a Second Joan of Arc griefs and b sR saath hee ene | the authorities, Perhaps the officials will fit salt, popper and vinegar are turnin, | quite close to the ground. ‘These are better than the hanging gar- | cn ae Mame Neer as went abroad Oe sc eusband’s grand.|Temombered one of the latest #bem While comforts enough to maintain) Ca ire itke coffee, tea, aren,| dens, as the potatoes don’t have so far to fall when they are ripe. S pinmiring has been the ea-| My lord rode with tho Duko of Lar. education, Wier busbendde grant |iock Holmes stories, in which a migge 19,000 can prisoners for ait land milk, are not included in enen| Abd provided that you have followed the dotted line in the mail order |W) Qinee utons thar the example | nein: were wee ineractiungary. Ste 2002, apened [ME Women ls nearly muugaied away mont we away tig needed, (Shipment. From time to time there| subpoena your war vegetable ranch should be as full of goodies a8 & | .¢ pussia's “Battalion of Death” wAaS|wan’ the tina me vin ney Auairaate tn Vienne, enty, while aot) sve fram the police 10 5 comin wily es : Deel cavas oil Ga nd as the boys| farmhand’s Sunday necktie Is of polka dots, And you should have | not needed to prove that if emerg-|War. Du t ; ng up her work with tho brush, | ¢ ae Col J, ubwomen mead x 5 | but candy, or perhaps plenty to eat this winter provided that you live near a delicatessen |ency called they would follow in the | castle wa t is i tthe she also devoted much time to the] 114 8 peculiarly att 4 death cere the Red Cr ais to be ready in * ba h SMOKE SBwey into &| store. | steps of their sisters of ages gone by! Lady of By t, and br AMOra aaa ‘ tificate, At all events, Mrs. Hamile Bet nks Gf ane t und it soon | #* Now and @ bottle of If you haven't scrambled the mafl order vegetable etiquette rules |and take their places on the firing| was her » 8 in a ge it, Her sucosss as “a photographer of| 10.4, body was held at the funeral ; rvptien that wil oF health salt is included. | your eggplants should be big enough to throw at the alley rabbit glee line. Notable among these feminine Again and again th ’ nt” was swift and over-| otabiishm her, orn 9 American pr a vatack Ge nuke @ made} club which meets every night and proves that a glee club contains |warrtors waa Barbara of Ernecourt, | the b < , She found B port postpone n who had any of Gern 300 odd V noth by the, malta tts 84P-| everything but glee. The string beans should be able to string along | W290 has been called a goood Jona of {pal I up valuable friend end: peste. 2 4 b watching nvineed o clothed, ed Cross funds out a crutch, wh the cabbage heads should be wearing numbe ‘ orm near Verdun in 1600 and, the pen it t the duke Fre he rick member Of) that it was and not @ a week to each of the pri ners obtain & with iS hy , i ae sie rained from childhood tn the use of|iiterary world. On the de th perial family next to the Em-|sunstitute, who lay in the casket, tt : Ags spite | seven hats, = : hughes {o bad a family of|is but just to say that the friends a package of ten pounds of 6 brushes and shaving soap, arms, she became the girl bride of (tenderly loved husband ro- peror himself, He bad a family o} to sa tu Rreniy nourishing and anpetising (vod Rothe and shoe brushes, tooth | If you have followed all the recipes In the mall order charter ing Lord of St. Balmont, and it ts as|pounced the world and entered a con- thirteen cblidren, and the young) "no finally ideniiticd her te tee goes out, Each package ts addressed | housewives: tobpen’ pinankerchiefs | your war garden should be almost ready to graduate. Providing, of |ino Lady of St Balmont that she ts vent, but died at tho ago of fifty-one, American “took” all of them maay|*uyay that the spy rumors. were $o en individual! prisoner and contains 4 and pencils, x aA mnt eee Gh eta Sa eee rin eourse, that the weeds haven't choked everything. The weeds have best known to history. before taking the veil, times, as well as the Archduke hun- surd and without foundation ta i i ott