Evening journal., 1914-08-01
TWO DELAWAREANS
OUT OF WAR ZONE
Mr.. Rodney and Mr.. .Boyce
Home, Are Anxious About
Friends Abroad
FEAR GOVERNOR
WILL BE DELAYED

James l. Boyce son Of Judge I
Boyce and Richard s Rodney, mayor
Of New Castle, who arrived in VIII
mington last night after a trip abroad,
related an interesting story OF the
scenes aboard the giant steamship
Lusitania when the news arrived on
the ship by wireless about the war
tumult in Europe.
Mayor Rodney and Mr.. Boyce spent
Is days on the British Isles and were
two days out on the homeward bound
voyage when the wireless told of the
European war troubles. According TO
the statements of the two Delaware
lawyers, scenes on the great ocean
liner were intensely dramatic and the
wireless room of the ship resembled
miniature floor of the stock ex-
change on a black Friday as the
instruments we're called into play by
! hnanciers TO hurl selling and buying
orders through the air lanes Ac-
cOrding TO Mr.. Boyce, later wireless
reports received from abroad set
/ forth that American tourists who in
clude number OF Delawareans. are
panic stricken and arc Offering pre-
mums exceeding $1,000 in addition to
their regular passage money for ac-
commodatiOns aboard returning
steamships
"Tho newspaper published aboard the
Lusitania carried complete accounts of
the turbulent conditions existing upon
the smouldering European chessboard
of war;" said Mr. Boycc, "and the entire
ship, from those in the stoke hole TO
the occupants OF the elaborate prone
made deck suites, were thrown into Ia.
tense excitement as the horizon WAS
continually swept by field glasses for
the slate colored sea fighting machines
Of the powers
The lawyer said that the scenes ON
the decks OF the ship and down in the
steorage, where scores of sons of the
warning nations were huddled were be-
yond description. Bankers and brokers
whose names are legion upon Wall
street battled fercely for the first
privilege of filing lengthy messages by
wireless with the same intensity that a
panic.strcken horde might storm the
lifehoats upon a sinking ship.
"rhere was but little sleep aboard the
ship after the first news was received,
said Mr.. Boyco.
, "All ON board congratulated them
selves upon having left Europe before
e. the smouldcring spark Of war burst into
) flames, which all OF us believed would
/ sweep Europe with unparalleled devas
- tation. Our first thoughts were foi
K those Americans who had been left be
hind, many of them touring interio
towns, and our first wireless informa
ton was soon followed by detailed re
..I l44 Hf taN
stornfng the offices of steamship com
panies and pleading TO be brought I
this country or assured Of some have
out Of the war zone.
ct seems as " our war vessels ma
eventually have TO be pressed into sci
v vice as transports of tourists who ha'
\ been left stranded in Europe contiT
y ued Mr.. Boyce
.. "Down in the steerage the officers ha
difficulty in quieting the surging mol
d which demanded news from their wal
. stricken homes. The wireless operator
- were compelled 10 90 without sleep !
continuous sending and receiving an
!, many millions of dollars were represent
" ed In transactions which were culmi
mated in the small white-paintcd roor
= beneath the nerials which continued da
a and night during the remainder Of th
4 voyage.
n Roth Nj Rodney and myself wcr
!, aware that Governor Miller was passn
a us somewhere out upon the sea road
n bound for the other side and felt gray
doubts ~ TO his ability to return aito
the Danube was thrashed into blood
/. necxed foam by the rain Of shot an
II she'll. Officers upon the bridge tre
l. quently gazed skyward through The
d marine glasses as il searching for th
/. airships which, viii be used with dead
Ir effect IN this war.
y "A large majority Of those on boar
e. had left loved ones where the fus
'e was spluttering hotly and woul
s, gladly have given fortunes or thei
own lives II they could have been as
sured OF some protection for then
II seemed mighty good 'tc know tina
" we should soon be In Wilmington an
le 10 seems strange today TO witnes
l- ouch scenes of peace here In our cit
4 after our brief stay. IN the crimso
rs atmosphere Of war
a Somehow that atmosphere arouse
Il every drop Of patriotic blood in bot
In Mr. Rodney and myself. No on
Is can realize the thrills provided b
r that wireless apparatus when eac
Of series Of clocking and clacking an
,e flashes OF blue fame might record tn
r changing Of the European map
In Mr.. Boyce said the situation i
d egard TO Americans In Europe wa
10 more grace than was generally rea
az ICED. He said that even the of
.. GERS OF the Lusitania we're In doul
"a as TO how the various companie
~.
~ home because OF lack of ships an
p the possibility that = barrier {
er @ aH,es" ,ho a ianos bristl,ro w,,
az helching guns.