New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-24

tee are still meeting alt boat trs ms anu
assisting American, Belgian and Eng
fish women 20 find friends or accom-
rrodations in London. They have M
vcStcated lists Of hotels and boarding
houses and advise uuchaperoned WON
on concerning lodgings. Detectives arc
co-opcr3tiug with tho committee and
also protecting refugees.
Tho Hague via London. Aug %
train from Luccrne. Switzerland. ar
rived horc this afternoon with three
hundred American refugees. Ihey
brfv, a number of interesting stories
regarding their experiences on the Con
rrcut and report that the utmost cour-
tcSv was extended 20 them Throughout
Germany. AZ one large town crowd
OF pcoplc assembled and waved Amer.
can flags as the travellers passed
through. The refugees report that no
body is In actual distress in Swltzer-
land. A considerable fund has been col
Iccted to aid distressed Americans IN
Switzerland. among whom are a great
number Of school teachers.
Among the Americans now IN iiol.
land are President Harry CARRIED oil
Williams College. NillamstoNn Mass
and his family; Professor Schneider
Of the University Of PennsyIVania'
Judge Spiegelburg, of New YORK; Judge
Irving Lehman. OF 81. Louis; irving l..
Clark. Of Lynn. Mass; Stanley SILVER
OF Cleveland; Clement Petit, OF Mi.
waukce: CAPTAIN May Mannheim, OF
Kansas City; Thomas A. knight; oil
Dallas. Tex: Mr.. and Mrs. j. +. Aus
Tin. of BRYAN. Tex; Mrs Josephine
Thomas and daughter of Topeka. Kan;
Mrs. Lucinda Johnson and Miss Mary
Warren. of St Louis. and Simon SPIN
garn. Of New York.
Refugees Highly Nervous.
MANY of the American refugees ar
rived in Holland i'm a highly nervous
state. due 10 their experiences IN Ger
many. Mr.. and Mrs. Neil Satterlee. Of
Chicago. were looking out OF their
hotel window i'm Munich when two
men. presumably Russians. threw
bomb under an army wagon. mob
gathered and quickly battered the OF
tenders out Of all semblance 10 human
beings.
Clement Petit went 10 garage in
Berlin 20 get his automobile. lie
found the attendants cleaning up the
floor where a Russian, pursued by
mob from the street. had been kicked
20 death. Mr.. Petit'S mother was pres
eut in the Adlon Hotel in Berlin when
the police rushed in and arrested two
American journalists who were sus-
pcctcd of being English spies. She
tainted at the sight and is still suffer
ing from shock.
Simon Spincarn witnessed the shoot
ing Of g. suspected syp in front of the
Anhslt railroad station in Berlin.
The Americans here, without eXcep-
tion. declare that their treatment in
Germany was courteous, except on the
evening of and the day following Great
Brita;n's declaration Of war. On these
days hundreds Of Americans, because
they talked English. were arrested or
otherwise moleSted by the populace,
whom anger and disappointment had
for the moment transformed into a
raging and unreasoning mob.
German Officers Protect Americans.
Even al the height Of the excitement.
however. German officers interviewed to
protect Americans Stanley Silver was
sitting I'm a Munich cafe with a woman
friend when Great Britain's declara
ton Of war was announced The other
ncople i'm the cafe assumed threat
cnirg attitude toward him, but Ger
man major. sitting at an adjoining
table. ordered the crowd back and es-
corted the two Americans TO police
station. Here they were IN safety, and
they were soon released.
Not the least Of the hardsmps SUI 4
fered by Americans have been the eX-
hausting railroad journeys. II takes .
more than thirty hours 10 20 from Ber-
lin 10 Rotterdam. and the trains are
without sleeping cars.
Rotterdam )via London, Aug. 20
Among the passengers who saIIed lot
New York Yesterday on board the
steamer Ryndam are Dorothy Canheld'
Grace n. Cannon, Mr and Mrs. }. r.
Crommelin and son, X. II. Crommelln;
Lieutenant and Mrs. James II. Cunning
ham. the Misses Jessie and Marion
Dawson. Miss Edith Dorland, Miss
Katherine Vandyke Mrs. lansing and
Miss Edith Hansling, Mr.. and Mrs. '.
r. Kellogg and their son and daugh-
ter; DR.. and Mrs. Robert Lovett, MI
and Mrs. VI. G.. Palisser and daughter,
Mr. and Mrs Lawson Purdy, Nj. ana
Mrs. A. Purdy, Mr.. and Mrs. ;. r. van
and Allen +. Webb.
Naples via Paris, Aug. %. The
steamer San Guglielmo has LETT mere
for the United States. There are on
hoard 700 Americans. including Walter
Poultnev. of Baltimore; the Rev. +. +.
Achison. of Middletown; Miss Eliza
beth Washington, Of Philadelphia;
John Boyle. the sculptor, OF New YORK.
and his wife; Professor Nicholson, of
Wesleyan University, and Singer Beck,
of Chicago