The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-28

The story of an American woman's
VAIN struggle to make a living abroad,
her fruitless appeals to the representa-
yves O her government. her detention
IN an English workhouse, and her de-
portation from that country is told by
Miss Julia Adelaide Hubbard, now lodg-
ed at the Methodist Episcopal home in
State street. She is II years old and
broken in health by her hard struggle.
Miss Hubbard had only one cent in her
pocket when she arrived here on the
New York a few days ago.
she went abroad in 1908 on the ad-
vice of her physician, as she was then
suffering from a nervous attack. Then
she had means enough to enable her to
i've, but her income was so slender that
she gave music lessons to exc it out.
She went abroad confident that she
would be able to make both ends meet
but she got few pupils. and the interest
upon the money she had invested not
being enough she had to use the prin-
cipal. In this way she saw her small
fortune dwindle to nothing.
Miss Hubbard was born at Elgin. ILL.,,
where her father was a practicing
physician He died in 1892 and she
found herself the possessor of some
property in Maryland and $4,000 in Sc
curities. She moved to Washington in
1893 and lived there until 1908, when
her physician advised the European
trip.
NCAAl GlAcl " DCIllll, taking Win
me- besides my property deeds and
stock certificates, q passport and letter
from the state department. l strug-
gled along for seven months in Berlin.
wrote to Ambassador Hill appealing
to him to assist me in getting music
pupils. No attention was paid to my
letter.
Finding it impossible to get along
in the German city, I went to Paris.
There 1 made similar appeal to Am
bassador White, and later to Ambassa-
dor Bacon, who succeeded Mr. White.
Mr.. Bacon was nice enough to reply,
but said he could do nothing for me.
After Is months of struggle to Obtain
employment I had to begin to sell my
stocks. Some one told me Brussels
was a cheap city to live in, and I went
there, taking with me what was left
OF my small fortune. There I met with
the treatment had become accustom-
ed to from Ambassador Bryan ana
Consul Watts. I gave up the struggle
in Brussels in three months, and went
to Bruges, and thence to Antwerp.
I'm December was unable to meet
my bill at the Grand Hotel Terminus,
at Antwerp, and my trunks were seized.
went next to the Hotel de la Paix,
and the maitre d'hotel Of the Hotel Ter
minus, who took an interest in me,
arranged to send me to England, where
hoped to obtain passage back to this
country. 1 had to leave nay handbag,
with my papers and deeds, at the Hotel
de la Paix, as I was unable to pay my
bill. 1 arrived in London on Deem
Der II with only 10 francs, and went to
the American society in London. The
secretary, f. c. Vanduser, helped me
for two weeks, then I was sent to the
Paddington workhouse, where. after
nine weeks, I asked for and obtained
my release.
MY situation then was desperate. I
had a few rings, and these I sold. I
wrote to Ambassador Reid and King
George. The former did not reply. I
received reply to the second letter
from a cabinet minister. The king re-
GREETED my case, but would not inter
fere between an American and the rep
resentative of her government"
Miss Hubbard then went to the St
Giles workhouse. There she remained
for some time, until told that she must
choose between returning to America
and three months at hard labor She
chose the former, and was taken 10
Southampton and put in the steerage
Of the New York.-New York Times.