The Sentinel=record., 1914-08-13
FIRST REFUGEE
 SHIP ARRIVES
AMERICAN LINER PHILADELPHIA ARRIVES IN NEW YORK WITH
 NEARLY 1000.
These Americans Left Southampton Just Before England Declared War on Germany.

New York. Aug. 12.-TAe American | liner Philadelphia with the first great | crowd of Americans who rushed from Europe after war was declared, arrived in New York tonight There were 703 persons in the cabins and
 3O9 ia the steerage. Virtually all were without baggage, many without money and all told stories of hard ships. The Philadelphia sailed from Southampton a few hours after Eng land declared war on Germany The
 first day out a fleet of seven Frencl, torpedo boats and three submarines
 was sighted. One of the torpedo boats and three submarines was sighted. One of the torpedo boa.s hurried after the liner, the rest fo,-
 lowing slowly Finally the torpedo boat, the B-7, came aloongside and ordered the Philadelphia to stop. The was vessel circled the iner several times, it's officers looking closely at the faces of the passengers crowd ~ | the decks.
 | When the French naval officers were sure that the Philadelphia was an American vessel and that the pas sengers were Americans one shouted in excellent English that the Phila- | delphia might proceed The passen | gers cheered the French ships. The | cheer was returned and the war yes | sels steamed away
 Refugees in the steerage were given the freedom of the ship. The men were separated from the women, however, and in some cases hus bands were separated from their wives by this regulation Rather than sleep in the steerage, scores slept in the smoking room, on the boat deck under the boats and life rafts and in steamer chairs. Four persons were in every cabin.
 As the Philadelphia neared her pier the crowd waiting on shore shouted welcome to the refugees. Then for a quarter of an hour the whole river resounded with cheers.
 The regulation preventing a ship which arrives after suadown from proceeding to her dock until tie morning was waived tonight The Philadelphia did not reach quarantine until after 9 o'clock. The port au- thorties did everything possible to have the ship and it's load of passen- gers move quickly and an hour and half after sine arrived in the lower hay the last of her passengers had gone ashore
 Hundreds on board had rushed from the interior of France and Ger many. Travellers from Paris told of mobs swarming through the streets breaking windows and footing Ger. man shops. Others told of Germans in the French capital being beaten by gendarmes and excited citizens
 streets near the railroad stations were piled high with abandoned bag gage so great was the rush of Am eficans from France to England that small steamers constructed to ac commodate from six hundred to pi.e hundred persons carried 5000 men women and children across the chan. mel
 Mfs. B. BlackmOre, Of Ci1cinnati q passenger, left Gletsch Swjtzar iahd July 3l for Paris. She wac ioFced to occupy third class com. partment with soldiers and neasa,ts ahe sat on the floor of the ear throughout the trip. In Paris she was informed she had just time te catch the last train for Calais where s1e could get a boat across the chan. mel. She abandoned her baggage is. the street and reached railway station few minutes before the train left.
 Five thousand American and Eng hsh men and women were trying to get on the train she said. Some rode between the coaches rather than be left. There was no water on any of the trains.
 Howard Willet, of Chicago. who left Paris on the train with Mrs Blackmore, told d similar story and added that the train was stopped several times by soldiers searching they said, for German spies. Ia .Pa- ris he saw gendarme seize a Ger. man and march him toward a police station. Excited Frenchmen follow ed. A passing German protested and some one in the crowd knocked him down. At the same time the gen darme struck the man he had arrest. ed The German protested but did not fight back. Wilet said. A loaf of bread selling for eight cents was bringing s2 cents the day he left Paris.
 T met Jack Johnson on the bou'e. yard" said Mir. Wlllet. his face was wreathed in smiles. Crowds sur. rounded him asking him to fight for France"
 committee formed on board the fIal l..I,.