The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-17
ONLY $500 IN PARIS NOW.
SDecia, cable Despatch 10 Tnr sux.

special Cdble Despatch 10 THE Sun.
PARIS. Aug. 16-Judge Il. n. Gary.
president Of the American Citizens
Committee here. said tonight that only
$500 OF the 1900 tourists who were in
the city two weeks ago are now here.
The remainder have gone to London
and the local situation is immensely
relieved.
Judge Gary expects those returning
home on Government transports will
arrive on the other side about Septem-
Der Is. He believes that reasonable
fare will be demanded from those who
can pay and that those who cannot
pay will be allowed to enter as II they
had paid
Mr.. Herrick has guaranteed the price
Of the full accommodations OF the French
Line steamships Rochambeau and
EspaEne for carrying stranded Ameri-
cans home. Together they can accom-
modate 1000 passengers. The Esr@gne
will sail from Havre on August 10 and
the Rochambeau on August %.
In announcing the sailing dates Am
ba ssador Herrick said that only persons
who are i'll and actually without money
as we'll as school teachers and others
whose work compels their presence in
America within a short time will be
taken on these vessels.
| Mrs. Thomas Bailey Aldrich arrived
here to-day.
Rudolph Aronson Is in Paris.
Former President Newman of the
New York Central railroad and Mrs
! Newman, Mrs. Wilson and Mr.. and Mrs.
Felt have left for London.
John G. johnson will leave Aix-les-
/ Bain.s for London tomorrow.
The Ritz has exactly ffty-four guests
now, of whom forty are Americans
Twelve cooks remain at the hotel The
normal number is sixty-five, but the
/ others have gone to war. Still twelve
is plenty to cook all nifty people
can eat.
Francis Wellman, formerly Assistant
District Attorney of New York, and
Mrs Wellman, who are at the Crillon
are going to London on Tuesday. They
arrived at Geneva from St, Moritz on
August and found many Americans
at the Hotel Beaurivage. Among these
were Mr.. and Mrs. Storrs Wells and Mr.
and Mrs. William Bliss.
Mr. We.lman says he hesitates 10 re-
turn to the United States as the situa-
ton in Europe is 80 Interesting
Cornelius Vanderbilt passed through
Geneva on his way to Bern to see his
children He was halted by sentries sixty
times. ah about every six miles. His
assurance that Paris was perfectly calm
and that the road to London was open
greatly treasured the Americans in
Switzerland. Everybody got his bag
gage away at once, the baggage cars
coming straight through TO Paris. but
the passengers had to change ten times
and the trip occupied thirty -four hours.
The travellers described the journey as
terrible and a con 'fnual struggle on
their arrva, in Paris some of them .ele-
graphed to those remaining: The trip
/, possible only for the strongest men:
impossible for women
There are nnety-five guests at the
Crllon eighty-five of whom are Ameri-
cans.
Theodore i, Shonts, Mrs. NJ Ihoinas
and Mrs. Howard Roberts, who were
at the hotel, left for London yesterday,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Il. Arneill of
Orange n. j., Mr.. and Mrs. +, A. Err
win of Baltimore, Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac
Keeper of Chicago, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Brother and r. II. Kalsh OF
Philadelphia, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Goldberg, Mr.. and Mrs Lorimer
Graham, Albert G.. Elias and family,
Mr. and Mrs. II. w. Peek and Mr. and
Mrs. l.. Haines will leave for London
tomorrow morning.
; MIR. and Mrs. II. O. Richards, Louis
Norris and Miss Norris, Mr. and Mrs,
Theodore Reynolds, Henry Cummings
and Mr.. and Mrs. Grosh of Chicago are
sim at the Crillon.