The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-10-01
INTERESTED LARGE AUDIENCE.
Miss Helen Mace Spoke in the Presby'
lsrian Church Last Sunday Even
ing on Her Trip TO Europe.

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Helen Nace-or Nell as her Nc
Connellsbuag schoolmates anC
friends know her best-left he,
home in Chambersburg in com
pany with a number of othel
tourists, for a trip across the At
lantic and through the principa
countries in Europe. Like thou
sands Of other Americans, she
happened to be right in the cen
ter of the war zone when the cal
for mobilization came, but for
tunately succeeded in getti n 9
away from the country, and max.
ing the trip home without any
loss and with as little inconven.
ience as might be expected un.
der the circumstances.
AT the earnest solicitation OF
her McConnelIsburg friends, she
in company with her father, Mr..
d. b. Mace came to the home of
her brother Cashier Merrill w.
Mace last Saturday afternoon.
and on Sunday evening in the
Presbyterian church to an audi
ence as large as the church could
comfortably accommodate, Miss
Mace, in an easy pleasant man.
ner, told the story.
She took her audience to New
York, boarded a magnificent
steamer on the North-German-
Lloyd line, and settled down for
a ten days ocean voyage. Her
Steamer was nothing short of a
palatial, siX-story hotel, wi tn
three of the stories lin the base
She led her audience
the luXuriously furnish
ed halls, parlors, and state rooms;
she had them listen to the sweet
music of the orchestra, or to the
strains of the band; she
took US to the door and permitted
us to peep for a short time into
the ball room, and witness the
whirl of the dancers; then down
to see the six hundred Italians
who are packed away in the
'teerage department; on down,
We went, until it seemed we must
De near the bottom of the ocean,
md here in the closeness of a
dungeon, we saw the stokers |
ihoVellng coal into the great fur
laces, that made steam to keep
he giant ocean monster plough
ng its way through the waves. |
Sight days passed with nothing
)ut the great eXpanse of water
or the eye to rest upon, except |
he now and then cloud of smoke
rom some passing steamer, when
N object in the dim distance was
lighted. 1t was not easy at first
o tell whether it was a little
loud lowering close to the hori-
on, or the faint outline of land.
We did not sail much farther un-
il we were sure that one of the
azores was really in sight, and
hen, for several hours, we sight
d one after another of those
eautiful islands. Two days la
er, we sighted the wonderful
ock of Gibraltar, and were per-
litted upon reaching it, to exam
ne this wonderful fortification
hat has for so long guarded the
ateway to Southern Europe,
Asia, and Egypt. Onward we
,ent until we reached Naples,
hence to the ruins of Pompeii
nd Herculaneum, with the de-
troyer of. these ancient cities tow
ring his head as threateningly
)ward the sky as when the ashes
aimed down that buried these
laces.
Miss Mace, then took us to /
.ome, across to Florence, on to
Heidelberg, and into Paris, stop
ing at each place long enough
} tell Of the many wonderful and |
lteresting things seen. |
1t was not, however, until Par '
was reached, that her party
eally learned that they were in &
le presence of a terrible war.
was in this city, that they saw S
lie marching of these troops s
trough the streets on their way c
the front. And the marching t
these thousands Of troops I