The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-05

course. From that time I kept receiv-
ing kilograms from the embassy one
or two or three almost every day.
First the kilograms said we must ap-
ply for passports to the consul at
Frankfort who would forward them to
Berlin for signature. Then the ambas-
sador telegraphed he had authorized
the consul to sign these passports him
self, then, that passports were not nee
essary; then. that we could not get
out either with or without them: then,
tnat Holland was the best place of
exit; finally, after all of US had made
our applications for passports, he sent
on to me 300 application blanks with
the request that 1 get them filed out!
Such was the confusion occasioned by
the war, and the delays and Interrupt
tions of messages. Nobody could tell
anything about anything. Then the
ambassador asked me to see about
getting the wife of the Brazilian min
lister and his family of for Berlin, as
il had any means of doing it.!
Represents U. s.
Then he sent a similar letter to ask
me to get out the family of the Cuban
minister to Brazil and the latter show.
ed ME letter saying that l was the
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government at Nauheim and demand
ed that 1 secure passage for them!
Then a letter from the ambassador
was posted at the hotel asking all
Americans to send their names, ad-
dresses, ETC., to be registered at the
embassy at Berlin. About two hun
dred letters were written in response
to this and all these letters in patches
of some twenty to fifty each were
theFeupon forwarded to me from Ber-
lin without a word of instruction as
to what l was to do with them. How
was l to register them at the embassy
of Berlin hundreds of miles away!
Then at last the passports began to
come, some of them were not signed
at all, some of them left out the
names of the wife or children, some
didn't arrive. l had to go up to Frank
fort for mine, tho they had telephoned
to me it would be forwarded at once.
Even getting to Frankfort was no easy
matter for you haa to get a permit
from the police to leave Nauheim.
And it toon half the day to go there
and back though the place was only
thirty miles away. Then the passports
all had to be vised by the Dutch con-
sui at FranA.ort and finally another
! certificate hao to be procured from the
local police authorizing us to leave
the country as we'll as a permit from
the commanding general at Frankfort
just on the eve of our departure. All
these blessed formalities seemed to
occupy the greater part of our waking
hours.
Thank People.
Before they were completed and be-
/ fore any of us had begun to move we
had another meeting of the Americans
at the Grand Hotel to express our
gratitude for the kindness of the Maui
helm police and to raise fund for the
| relief of suffering both in Red Cross
| work and to help those who were
! stranded there without means. 1t
seems that good many of the Rus
SLAMS were in a very destitute condi-
| ton. We were many of us willing to
| be quite liberal in our donations pro-
vided they could be paid in checks on
American banks which were then and
there quite uncollectable. But they
! took them all the same and there was
lot of gush and oratory and the
fund was placed in the hands of the
mayor who will realize on it as best
| he can!
Then came the question how were
we to leave? There were a lot of
! schemes to charter a boat down the
Rhine, etc, etc. but at last the au-
trains for Americans leaving Munich
for Amsterday and Rotterdam and
taking on some extra cars at Frank
! fort on the way. These cars were
packed and few passengers had to
sit on their valises in the aisles. The
journey which usually takes nine