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

ADOuJ JHe lHluUlc OI June MlSS
Helen Nace-or Nell as her Nc
Connellsbuag schoolmates am
friends know her best-left hel
home in Chambersburg in com.
pany with a number of Other
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.
fence as might be expected un.
der the circumstances.
At the earnest solicitation of
her McConnellsburg friends, she
in company with her father, Mr..
ID. 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 t
three of the stories ''in the base
ment." She led her audience
through the luXuriously furnish
ed halls, parlors, and state rooms;
she had them listen to the sweet
music of the orchestra, or to the
martial 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
steerage department; on down,
went, until it seemed we must
be near the bottom of the ocean,
and here in the closeness of a
dungeon, we saw the stokers
shoveling coal into the great fur
naces, that made steam to keep
the giant ocean monster plough
ing its way through the waves.
Eight days passed with nothing
but the great eXpanse of water
for the eye to rest upon, except
the now and then cloud of smoke
from some passing steamer, when
an object in the dim distance was
sighted. 1t was not easy at first
to tell whether it was a little
cloud lowering close to the hori-
zon, or the faint outline Of land.
We did not sail much farther I'M
til we were sure that one of the
Azores vas really in sight, and
then, for several hours, we sight
ed one after another of those
beautiful islands. Two days la
ter, we sighted the wonderful
rock of Gibraltar, and were per-
mitted upon reaching it, to exam
inc this wonderful fortifcation
that has for so long guarded the
to Southern Europe,
Asia, and Egypt. Onward we
went until we reached Naples,
thence to the ruins of Pompeii
and Herculaneum, with the de-
stroyero Of these ancient cities tow
his head as threateningly
toward the sky as when the ashes
rained down that buried these
places.
Miss Mace, then took us to
Rome, across to Florence, on to
Heidelberg, and into Paris, stop
ping at each place long enough
to tell of the many wonderful and
interesting things seen.
1t was not, however, until Par
is was reached, that her party
learned that they were in
the presence of a terrible war.
1t was in this city, that they saw
the marching of these troops
through the streets on their way
to the front. And the marching
of these thousands Of troops
maant tha MARCHING of the ,uork