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

Because Of the illness OF oeHa'oi
Lodge. who is now improving, the lat
Ter could not 60 after his daughter
in-lsw and grandchildren.
Nr. Gardner. who is the son-in-iaW
Of Senator Lodge, came TO the Amerl-
can Embassy late to-day 20 let them
.now for the benefit of others how ne
travelled from Havre 10 Dieppe so that
others who had TO make the trip
MIGHT profit BY his experience. MI.
Gardner said: 81 took two taXlcabS al
Havre. in one carrying gasolene Tor
both. which was obtained for us by
John 3. Osborne. our consul had
20 Get permit from the chief OF po-
Ice. then be photographed, then get
The approval of the Mayor and also OF
the general commanding the district,
frsliy reaching Dieppe. $50 miles
away. ,-,.....
SCI coming back. Also, Mrs. Lodge
and the three children had TO have their
pictures taken and placed on passes.
Mr.. Gardner said that Mrs. j. ). ay-
Ior. wife of Surgeon Taylor, Of the
Trited States battleship Illinois. was
s,sc IN a house In Dieppe and would
remain there. He said that If England
had not declared war IL would have
beer extremely difficult for English
speskinc people In France, because
France would have been so incensed.
Marooned in Germany.
The citizens committee IS now try
irr 20 provide means 70 remove strand
Cd Americans from the Continent ne
cause the situation here Is not CON
sdered so acute now as there' &C
corsirr to statements made by rail-
Dad and steamship officials, it Will be
Eve DAVIS before il is possible TO get
people out Of Germany and SWltzer-
land. although communication with
France is much better.
Every person able 10 get out Of the
Continent has the same story OF hard-
shin and of the impossibility for many
Americans 70 leave there because they
are stranded with little money and all
-oeds are monopolized for military
prrposes. Baggage is piled roof hlgh
ir many stations throughout Germany
and France, with small possibility OF
.p..le recovering IL In the near future.
% John A. Logan. IT.. who was az
tho embassy to-day, told Secretary bell
that she had seen ms motner' VINO Is
r,erooncd in Carlsbad. Mrs Logan
lost her baggage in one place, her au-
+omobile in another and her chauffeur
elsewhere. and returned only with the
cio+bes she wore. She told of noun
tains OF baggage everywhere In Ger
MANY. Her daughter, Nine. Henri ae
Sncay. is in Brussels
Pertram Griswold. wife and four
children. of Baltimore. have returned
from AiN-la-Chapelle. having lett their
motor there in the care OF the Amerl-
can consulate. Mr.. Griswold sald tnat
German officials told him that children
were the best passports ne coulq nave
Frederick p. Morris, of Long Island
,,ss aided 10 leave Paris through the
assistance Of Henry ". Thornton, gen
srsl manager Of the Great Eastern Rail-
way. an American.
r. W. de Forest Arrives.
Robert ". de Forest, Of New York
arrived from Holland with his WIFE,
poesesgine only the clothes they were
wearing. Their baggage was lost, and
they are worried because their SON.
Harry. is somewhere in Southern Ger
MANY. Nr. de Forest said: 81 feel as II
had lived a thousand years IN the two
weeks since I arrived in Europe. one
reason WHY I believe we got 70 the
coast In an automobile is because we
had two small American flags on our
car" Mr.. de Forest visited the Ameri-
can committee rooms at the Savoy TO-
day and offered TO help in every way
possible. He met there many 1riehos'
also the ambassador, who was IN con,
ference with the committee. Samuel
Untermyer has recovered all MS hSs
lost on the Continent through a BEL
gisu who had the hardihoOd TO go
through dangerous territory TO get
them. Mr.. Untermyer has paid the
wav back 10 America for four stranded
nrofessors. Mr.. Untermyer cabled Sec
retarv BRYAN to-day TO ask # IT was
possible 20 have special envoy APP
pointed who could 20 TO each country
and get marooned people out.
Woman Loses Her Mind.
Unbalanced by excitement and the
bsrdships Of getting away from Ger
many. an American woman whose
name the embassy refused 10 dlvulge,
but who proved 10 be Mrs. Katherine
Peck. Of Minneapolis, is now IN an
infrnarv here under treatment, being
cared for by friends. According to
an embassy official, an American fam
ilv. near Dusseldorf, met the woman
Who later became hystericai.
During her journey across Germany
she said she saw spies dragged from
the trains to be shot and now she
imagines she NAV be taken as spy.
N was thOughl hht MVu.N Nv -
when in comfortable lodgings in Lon
don. but she disappeared yesterday
morning and Scotland Yard nothed
the embassy that she was found IN
Iudgate Circus in an irresponsible
condition by a policeman VINO was un-
aware she was being sought. Later
Yhe was identified and taken 10 the IN,
Urinary, where il is believed she VIII
recover. She had a large sum OF pa
per money and letter Of credit when
found, but was weak from hunger.
From the South Of France.
Senator Duncan Fletcher, chairman,
:,d Dr. Clarence Owens. director gem
Crsl Of the American Commission Of
Municipal Executives, arrived in Lon
don to-day from France, having trav-
elicd with other members Of the com
mission and their families on a troop
train from Paris 10 Dieppe.
Senator Fletcher told Of their hard
ships In getting from the South Of
France and also Of how many members
are scattered about Europe. He and
DR.. Owens will remain here, hoping
eventually 10 assemble the commission
again in London, meanwhile providing
Tor the homeward trip. Their work Of
Investigation was cut short by the war.
Nicholas Brady, Il is reported to-day,
is willing 20 have his yacht, which is
row at Southampton, used as a refugee
ship 20 bring passengers from the
Continent. while Henry Phipps is un-
derstood 20 have offered 20 aid the
American committee.
Refugees More Contented.
much better feeling among strand