The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-08-12

bic Of the White Star line has sailed
for Liverpool with her three cabins
nearly full and 1900 tons of print pa
per beside other cargo in her hold.
Among her passengers were a number
who had intended to sail on the Ley
land liner Canadian, which has been
detained.
San Francisco, Aug. 1.-THE Amer
lean Hawaiian steamer Nebraskan put
out for New York via the Panama
canal. She will be the first merchant
man to pass through the canal from
the Pacific coast. The Arizonian Of
the same line left New York in the op-
posite direction Aug. 4. Traffic will
be received beginning Aug. Is.
The Nebraskan bore many tokens Of
good will and was uprcariousfy
greeted by the whistles of all the ship
ping In the harbor as she got under
way. . ..-r,
New York. Aug. 1.-TWO American
steam yachts are being fitted out here
for Atlantic trips into the war zone to
rescue parties of Americans stranded
abroad. n is the Alvina. owned by
Thomas +. Cole, the other the Column
bia, owned by J. H. Ladew. a wealthy
New York leather merchant.
The Alvina, her skipper said. will go
" Hehoa' 1Ldly, 10 get A. w. Mellon,
a prominent Pittsburgh banker, and
seventeen other Americans who have
been vainly awaiting transportation
home from that port. She is a vessel
or 526 tons, has a speed of fourteen
knots and is taking provisions aboard
to last her three months.
The Columbia's exact destination
was not announced, but IL is under
stood that she will also go to the Itali-
an port. She registers $50 tons and
her speed Is twelve knots. Both. yachts
expect to get away within a day or
two, 1t vas said. Their first stop will
be the Azores for coal.
London, Aug. 12.-The American re-
lief committee expects that today ar
engagements will nave been made with
Walter Hines Page, the American am
bassador at London, to seud a COM
mlttee to Germany with money for the
relief Of Americans there. The COM
mittee will be headed by John p. Fin
ley of New York, and will go to the
continent under the auspices of the
American Red Cross society.
The cancellation of the sailings of
steamers taken over by the British
government, n the lack Of definite
news concerning the dispatch Of
American TRANSPORTS have caused
many Americans whose business COM
pels their immediate return home to
book at greatly increased prices,
some as great as from $500 to $500 ON
steamers making special
The regular lines continue TO charge a
maximum price of $85 for first class
cabin tickets to the United States. The
American committee has refused To
have anything to do with steamers for
which higher prices for passages are
charged,
A troop of boy couts has volunteer
ed to assist the American committee.
acting as messengers n escorts for
women n they are doing valuable
service. at the railway stations, where
they accompany the subcommittee
to. welcome American arrivals and
take women travelling alone to approx
ed hotels and boarding houses.
There are comparatively few visi-
tors at the American embassy and
consulate general today, the commit
tee having relieved those officers OF
much work..
Washington, Aug. 12.-Prof. Thomas
Preston of Wells college at Elmyra, N.
Y, with his wife. who was formerly
Mrs. Grover Cleveland, reported to the
state department today that they were
safe at st. Moritz. Rabbi Ablam ST.
mon of Washington reported that he
was safe at Geneva.
Paris. Aug. 12.--Detailed instruc-
tons were issued by the French min
lister OF war concerning newspaper
correspondents accompanying the
French armies in the field. Only rep
resentatives of the French press who
are of French nationality and not SUBJ
jectt to military duty, and c~orrespon-
dents OF newspapers published in al
lied countries, will be allowed to fol-
low the operations of.the armies in the
field. American newspaper men prob
ably will enter the service of English
papers and nave their matter cableda
home simultaneously with its publica-
ton in Great Britain.
Washington, Aug. 1.-TWO of the
American navy's four new dread
noughts now building, were nearly
three-fourths completed on Aug. /.
according to comparative igrres is
sued by the bureau Of construction.
The Nevada at the yards of the Fore
River Shipbuilding Co. and the Okla
homa, under construction by the New
York ~shipbuilding Co, are most adj
lVanced.