The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-20

NEW YORK Aug. 20.-On the steam
snip Trave. Which arrived here from Bre-
men Saturday. were the first Christian En-
deavor Socisty delegates to return froaI
their European travels under the guidance
OF the Crawford & Floyd Tourists Agency.
In the party were about 200 persons, mora
than half Of them being women
w H McClain. Of St Louis, editor of
the international Evangel." was in
charge OF this division, which is the sec
ton that was known as Tour A" In
speaking OF the way in which Crawford &
Floyd had treated them MIR. McClain said:
When the St Louis delegation of Chris
tian Endeavcrers wanted to 90 to the Lon
don convention l was asked to arrange
the trip. Crawford & Floyd persuaded me
that their tour was the proper thing so 1
paid them something over $50, 900 in adj
vance, securing, as l thought, trip
through Europs for each of the 102 per-
sons whom / represented. For the money
we were tO have railway and steamship
travel, hotel accommodations everywhere,
and all the ether things that are to be con-
sideTed as. expenses en- a journey such as
this one was to be-
''0f course, we received printed an
nOunceme4ts Of the itinerary. The hotels
at which we were to stop were listed, and
they were the best in Europe. But from
the first we found ourselves lodged in cheap
quarters. with very few exceptions. and
the food We ate, both in railroad trains
and during stops, was usually of second
class kind.
Tour a was grossly mismanaged from
! the beginning. We went first TO South
ampton, thence to London, Paris. Amster-
dam, Brussels, Germany, Switzerland, and
France. On the railroad between Geneva
and Paris We were informed that Crawford
& Floyd were unable to meet any further
financial obligations from then on. and that
we would have to pay all our own ex>
| penses TO CherbOuTg There. we were told,
! a steamship would be ready to bring US
! home.
| LAS the people in our party had money
! enough TO last for q day, We got along very
/ well, those who had cash lending it to
! those who had not, Yet some Of US had
/ very little 10 cat that day and it was with
! feeling Of relief that We sailed for New
/ York the next morning
Although Mr.. MCCIaip's division had
/ the good fortune 10 be near their sailing
port when they received the news OF
/ Crawford .; Floyd's lack Of cash, there
were other parties which were caught
far away from their homew2rd- bound
/ steamships Among these are Tours B
. and c. ana number OF small parties.
[ Mr. Mccain, upon reaching here, rec=ivSd
{ a cablegrarn stating that the two main di-
/ visions were III Luzerne ard Paris. re-
! spectively, the latter section having tTay-
+ elsd 10 the French capital On their own
! resources from the provinces
Those people" said Mr.. Mccain, ARE
doubtless in hard straits, but I hope they
have money enough among them TO pull
through all right"
As TO the alleged mismanagement of
/ the trip, other members OF Tour cor
/ robordted their leaders story Jose de
/ AIivares. who came with them from
Paris. said that Mr.. NcClain was man
. OF wealth. and that this had accounted
| for the pTedicament Of the party being
less disagreeable than il would otherwise
| have been
Charles H. De Kroyft. q delegate from
East Orange, \. J.. was also on the TraVe.
as were many more from various States,
| who mad been attached to the section con-
| trolled by the ST. Louis delegation All
of them declared that their lot had been
| a hard one
There is 10 tellicg" said Mr. De Kroyf-.
''what troubles have befaIlen the Chris
! tan EndeavoTeFs who are now scatuGr5d
throughout Europe Besides the main
tours there are many subdivisions that
went of in all directions under the guar
dianship of Crawford & FIoyd's agents.
| Where these small groups are nov no
body knows. but they have probably be Z
notified. like the rest Of as, Jhzt what
money they need in future is TO come out
Of their own pockets
The Office of Crawford c Floyd IS at 800
Broadway. Their agent, y. II. Emmons,
returned from Europe Saturday on the
American line steamship s.. Louis
According to the New York representa-
tive Of the agency. all money expended
by the travellers viii Re refunded, and
Mr.. Crawford, who is in Europe has ca
bled that he is doing the best he can to
straishten out the mixed state OF affai-
and collect his wandering charges.
One member of Tour \ died in Paris OF
heart disease. She was Miss Mary Emma
Dickey, Of Oil City. Pa.