Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-06
AID FOR PRELATES
SCATTERED IN WAR
ZONE NOW SOUGHT
anxiety Felt for American Cath
Ole Archbishops and
Priests.

NEW YORK, Aug. 6.-Marooned
Americans in the European war zone
include between forty and fortv- We
Catholic archbishops and bishops and
100 or 800 priests. This is the wear
when American bishops made their
I'D limina visit to Rome The ma.
1orlty of the prelates and PRIESTS
nave left Italy, it is believed. and
are scattered through Switzerland.
Austria, Germany and France. No
advices have been received from
them, and there is much anxiety
among their friends.
Joseph II. Meier. editor of Kenne-
oys oficial Catholic Directory. wrote
Yesterday to Joseph p. Tumulty,
PRESIDENT Wilson's secretary, asking
nm to take UP with the proper Off
Gals the matter of the marooned
olergymen.
cable message was received yes
terday from DR.. e. e. Pratt. presi-
dent of the Institute of Educational
Travel, that the institutes entire
party has arrived safely in London.
Inc leaders Of the party besides DR.
Pratt, who is manager of the indus
trial bureau of the Merchants Assoc
citation of New York, are Frank A.
Fetter, head of the department of
economies, Princeton University. and
Robert S. Binkerd, secretary of the
City Club of New York.
The members of the party include
DR.. c. r. Atkinson. professor of eco
nomics and politics, Lawrence Col
lege, Appleton. Wis: Everett Domi-
nick, New York banker; Miss Mary
y. Gearing. professor at University
of Texas; w. F. Hardy editor of the
Decatur, Ill, Herald; A. B. Hide
brecht. Yale senior; Prince C. Hop
kins, an editor, Santa Barbara, Cal;
Miss Phebe e. Hoffman, instructor
at Barnard College; Frederick r.
Howe, secretary of Greensboro Cor
poration, New York; Miss Mary Fl.
Ingham, secretary of the Progress
sive Board of Pennsylvania; Mr.. and
Mrs. William B. Ittner, ST. Louis,
Mo-; William B. Ittner, jr., Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. N. Jersild, Neenah, wis. !;
Miss Carrie H. Lyon, Carnegie Insti-
tute of Technology, Pittsburgh;
Henry H. McHenry. a Yale senior;
Mrs Clara K. Madarasz, New York;
Miss M. Alice Matthews, librarian of
bureau of labor statistics. Washing
ton; Mayor Frank J. Rice. of New
Haven, Conn: Miss Georgina Rob-
erts, New York city; Mrs. L. G. We
nard, welfare secretary, of Denver
Col; Edward n, Allen, Yale senior;
Mrs. r. S. Binkerd, Mrs. r. E. Pratt,
Miss Marcelle Delattre, Washington;
Miss Marjory Driscoii, assistant see
rotary Of the City Club, New York /;
Colonel and Mrs. T. d. Gardner, st
Louis; Fred W. Reed, a Minneapolis
lawyer; Miss Gertrude r. Stein sec
rotary of the Hudson Guild, New
York; Rev. Holmes Whitmore, secre-
tary of the Social Service Commits
sion of Milwaukee,, and Frederick
Van n. Lane. Property Interests, AS
sociation OF New Jersey.
LONDON Aug. 6.--The thrilling es-
cape of Rev. Waller Laidlaw and
Rev. Riyington ID. Lord, pastor of a
Baptist church in Brooklyn. was told
Yesterday by Rev. Frederick Lynch
trustee of the Church Peace Union,
which has been meeting IN Germany
and majority of whose members are
returning to London after much hard
ship.
According to DIR. Lynch, DR.. Laid
law. and DIR. Lord are still in Ger
many. Their whereabouts are un-
known, according to DR.. Lynch, who
told how the kaiser had given a spe-
cial order that the conference mem
bers should be conveyed out of Ger
many. but, despite this assistance, at
one place soldiers lifted DR.. Lynch
and others out of berths by the back
of their necks until they found out
who they were.
Many made the journey from Con-
stance to Flushing, others went i'll
search OF relatives, and these are now
magooned in Germany, including the
Revs. Peter <Ainslie, OF Baltimore;
William f. anderson. of Cincinnati;
Eugene A. Bartlett. of Brooklyn; W.
C. Biting, of st. Louis; Nehemiah
Boynton. of Brooklyn, Howard A.
Bridgeton, of Boston; William Adams
Brown. of New York; Samuel Dickie,
of Michigan: James l.. Good, Dayton;
Thomas c. Hall, New York; John w.
Hamilton, Boston; Bishop e. r. Hen
dirk and George Is. Horr, Boston,; Dr.
William l. Hull, Swarthmore, Pa;
Rev Henry G. Minton, of Trenton,
and Rabbi Emil Hirsch, of Chicago.