The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-08
REV.T. .VILLERSRETURNS
MET AT THE UNION STATION BY A
LARGE PARTY OF FRIENDS.
He Describes in an Interesting Man
ner His Recent Travels i'm COM
pany with Nj. A. Potter.

England, the continent and North Africa.
He was accompanied by NJ. A Potter. of
the E. c. Atkins Company who made the
trip with him. c. S. Dearborn. Of Ward
Brothers Drug Company, who left here
with Mr.. Villers, returned on April IA and
the Rev. r. L. Van Deman. who accom-
panied Mr.. Villerss party as far as Rome,
remained in that city and will not return
to this country for some time. Mr.. Villers
and Mr.. Potter arrived in New York on
Tuesday on the Kronprinz Wilhelm from
Southampton.
A party Of forty friends, members Of the
First Baptist Church, met Mr.. villers and
Mr.. Potter at the Union Station yesterday
afternoon and after Mr.. villers arrived
at his residence he was beseged with
callers. He presided at the prayer meet
ing last evening and the largest congrega-
ton In weeks was present.
The Kronprinz Wilhelm was delayed
twenty-four hours in one of the worst
storms that big vessel has ever encountered
and the return of the Indianapolis men
was therefore day later than intended. 1t
was not until the latter part of a most in
teresting trip that Mr.. vilers and Mr.. Pot
ter had anything to mar the pleasure OF
their travels. This incident occurred on
board the Kronprinz Wilhelm. which car
ried 1,75o passengers, 100 of whom were
Storage Last Sunday morning, while the
vessel was tossing in very high sea, the
nrst CABIN passengers, or rather only
few OF them, including Mr. Vilers and
Mr.. Potter, learned of very sad death
among the steerage passengers. There had
been much seasickness on board and most
OF the passengers, including those in the
steerage, had been drinking rum to relieve
the terrible nausea.
CHILD DRANK TOO MUCH RUM.
Among the hundreds of steerage passen-
gers was Bohemian woman with a daugh-
ter ten years old and a younger child.
They were on their way to Chicago, where
a son is employed I'm a bakery and where
she believes she can help support the fam
lily by doing laundry work. This woman had
bottle of rum and on Sunday she fell
asleep from sheer exhaustion. While she
was asleep her ten-year-old daughter drank
some OF the rum and became deathly ILL.,
The ships physician was called, but as
the child mad weak heart, she soon died.
one or the men on board who could speak
German went into the hold with Mr. Villers
ana MI Potter and they ascertained the
Woman's poverty-stricken condition. On
sunday evening, when the cabin passengers
| were assembled at dinner, Mr. Villers Sc
cured their attention and related the sad
death OF the child. They were asked to
| contribute small sum for the mother and
as they filed out of the big dining hall
| they dropped money into plates $l175O be-
| ing donated. Mr.. Potter was appointed
treasurer OF the money and with the in
Slz.oO or the money, telling her the sos
would be saved for her. as it was thought
best not to give her the entire amount.
| Sne mad railroad tickets for Chicago and
Mr.. Potter will send a check for sos to a
friend in Chicago to be given to the woman
Ihe little girl was buried at sea. Mr.. Viii
| lerS said the cabin passengers showed won
| derful sympathy for the woman by max
| ing up such a testimonial for her.
During the travels of Mr.. Villers and Mr..
Potter they covered between 5000 and H.
ee0 miles, visiting many different countries
| They sailed from New York on Feb 8 and
were gone three months. During intervals
between callers at his home late yesterday
AFTERNOON, Mr.. VillerS gave briefly but
| interestingly short account of his travels
| to Journal reporter.
IMPRESSIVE GIBRALTAR.
| 1--WE sailed from New York on Feb 9
and had very pleasant but uneventful
passage across the Atlantic. We stopped
at the Madeira islands and then went to
Gibraltar. Much has been written about
Gibraltar, but a person cannot appreciate
the impressiveness Of the place until he
sees it. We made a side trip and visited
| the Alhambra, the subject of one of Wash
ington Irving's most interesting stories. We
then went to Algiers and as we steamed
| into the bay we Americans felt a keen
| sense Of patriotism, for there lay four of
| our warships at anchor. / waved a small
s s, American flag to the men or. the
! (Mr. Villers took from his pocket the small
| nag and explained that he carried IL dur
| ing all or his travels) In Algiers a mis-
| sionary showed us the many points of in
| terest.
"On the way to Athens we stopped al
the Island of Malta, where Saint Paul was
er who had been at the seminary where
/ went to school In this country. We then
went TO Constantinople and viewed that
old city and saw some of the dogs and
pigeons that are so sacred to the Turks
| In Constantinople you will be imprisoned
seven years If you kill a man, and three
worth two V dogs in that tJ piace From man Cons
stantinople we went to Smyrna where we
visited the old Temple OF Diana. We
visited the cafa az in syIa ane
took carriages and went to Nazareth We
camped out during our tour through the
the '' Sea of Gaiilee. We met such Ra rainy y
weather that most Of the party returned
to the ship. but went on to Bethel an6
then to Jerusalem salem 1t recurring seven days
many historical places in and around Je.
rusalem. The Sunday morning we rode
into Jerusalem we beheld beautiful sight
We saw the Mount of Olives, the Jordan
river and the Dead sea. The Jordan river
was then overfiowing its banks and Mr.
Potter and took off our shoes and wadet
into the stream until we reached the regu
lar channel of the river. We visited Cal
vary and Jesus tomb, Solomon's quar-
ries and Solomon's pool. The quarrie:
are of special interest to masons. We made
many little side trips and visited places Of
the most interest to US.
ga VISIT TO EGYPT
I'VE then went to Egypt and saw Cairo
I climbed the pyramids and really enjoyed
the task. We then went COO miles up th'
Nile and went overland on donkeys to tn,
tombs of the kings. Those tombs arr
most interesting and cause one to wonde
where enough men were secured to hev
them out of the massive rocks 1t has beer
but recently that the tomb of Amenophi
III was opened and we saw the tomb an,
| the body of the dead King who was lai,
| away probably $500 years ago. There wer,
also the tombs of his wife and two chill
| dren. Returning to Cairo, boarded tn
vessel and sailed for Naples, where we mad
a side trip TO Pompeii and to Putioli wher
, Paul landed on his way to Rome. We thel
went TO Rome. Florence. Venice and Mi
Ian. At Milan we climbed to the top o
the cathedral. We visited the art CALLER
les In Florence. Our itinerary then tool
us 10 Lucerne In Switzerland and Mr.
Potter and / felt the party and went 4
Geneva, where we visited Chamounix. MI
Blanc and saw the wonderful glaciers. w
then visited Paris and London
Our next side trip was TO Melrose Il
| Scotland We also visited Dryh,,rp ~