The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1914-12-19

Cl llt severe kNkt VI lll' blllttl NlV
examined out lmpeccable passports,
and took our sehts IN first class com
partmeht Pretty soon an army officer
entered.
All Spoke Kindly.
Good morning. he said In Ger
man, following that excellent rule Of
courtesy one finds on the continent and
does not find anywhere else. We
said Good morning In German that
was chiefly marked by pathetic
willingness to Ohlige The officer had
placed his coat his sword, package
" sandwiches and despatch case IN
the luggage rack lie turned and view
ed us. Then he took his things out ana
went away He did not say good.by as
he went out.
Other Germans came In. Each IN
turn spoke kindly to us, and then saw
that We didn't belong and went away
without firing any salutcs. From time
to time men and women would walk
past the door Of our compartment IA
the corridor car and look IN NJ the
strangers nnd pass on. II was not
that they thought we were English.
men. My companion wore an American
flag on the lapel Of his coat and an.
other on his oyorc0al wore anoth-
er--an enamel brooch. which was the
hest | could get on the pinch and
showed nv much Solicitude over II ~
hotel clerk with yellow diamond
There was nothing doing In the fellow
shin way.
Don't Warm Up 10 Americans.
We had that compartment Hll I'd
ourselves almost all the way to Berlin
a journey Of about eight h0urs once
natnralzed American came In and
told ny and ngain Il very tired officer
sat with us FOR while, They really
had no choice. All the other compart
ments In the ear were playing tC
standing room only. Az Berlin no on,
paid the least attention to iis In spite
~ the fact that our German was ~
deficient that II II had not been fol
aid we would haycs been obliged Il
live on weiner pchnitzel. We found
Americans who had no more German
than we. hut who wore no American
flags. The EXPLANATION was simple.
IAN Enrllshmen are under arrest
40 that persons sneaking Englisi
must he Americans"
We got along because almost ever
city German has some English. A
Hamburg we found more intense Mt
mosnhere NJ hostility Hamburg 4
the third port IN Europe and II IL do
Ing no business
The English fleet made II impossi
hle Only neutral vessels can get IN
and they arr having n hard time. Jus
before we reached Hamburg, neutra
vessel had sailed for America with
cargo OF German dyestuffs These ar
NOT cOntrnhand Of war Under the con
ventions there was no excuse for Inter
fering with their shipment. hut Ems
land IL trying 10 throttle Germal
commerce. Ambassador Gerard an
Consul Morgan had worked hard Z
gain permission for the passage OF thi
vessel. The Hamburg attitude towar
| English speaking foreigners was eas
~ understood.
Played y Little Trick.
Possibly II was mere indifference
and possibly II wRs humor---but th
lady who sold us our ticket for Flusl
ing. Holland, played us little tricl
She routed us through every practica
! ly unused town In northern German
We would ride little while and the
we would get of and walt q htt
while. We probably made eyery come
tion II II possible 10 make, Germs
railroads being what they are.
took us two days to do fourteenrho'
tourney. To 10 the railroad men ju
tlce. thcy were kindly and helpft
They evidently regarded Ne an two 70
e,gn fatheradr. We coincided In tn
oninion. having compared the rai
road map with the railroad { old
which had been sold n a. ticke
II II hadn't been for the guards v
would be IN Germany still. wandsrir
around and around, making come
tions every little while, like pair ,
Flying Dutchmen