New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-08
TO SEEK WARBOUND
ARMY OF TOURISTS
Mayors Relief Committee
Asked to Find Host
Lost in Europe.
PLANS MADE FOR AID
HERE AND ABROAD
Anxiety Felt for N. E. Mack
Loft and Smith Safe-Miss
Annie Morgan Safe.

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The first day Of activity on the part
of the Mayors relief committee, APP
pointed to look after the welfare of
Americans abroad resulted in several
thousand inquiries from New Workers
as TO the whereabouts Of friends and
relatives in the war zone.
The committee opened Offices yester-
day morning on the third floor Of the
Chamber of Commerce Building, at 90
Liberty st. Edward Porter, of the
Merchants Association, is in charge as
secretary of the committee. Although
the service is nominally for New York
ers, inquiries will be entertained from
all over the country.
A representative of the committee
in Washington will be appointed to-day
or tomorrow.
The work of the committee will be
threefold In addition to advising rel
atiyes of the whereabouts of tourists
it will make arrangements for the trans
fer of funds to those travellers who
are in need. Incoming vessels will
also be met, and those needing funds
will be furnished with money with
Which 20 reHcn their homes.
Ex-Mayor Low, chairman of the COM
mittee, yesterday telegraphed Secre-
tary Of State Bryan, Secretary of War
Garrison and Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo offering the services of the
committee in any local emergencies
that may arise. Replies were received
accepting the offer.
The committee contemplates establish
- no
of getting into communication with in
coming vessels.
Railroads to Give Aid.
A. H. Smith, president of the New
York Central lines, received cable
message yesterday from the London
committee which is trying to relieve
stranded Americans by obtaining pas
sage home for them. MIR. Smith was
asked if the New York Central and
other Eastern lines would honor the
committees vouchers for transporta-
ton. After consulting with other
roads, he replied by cable that prac-
tically all the Eastern lines entering
New York City would cooperate with
the committee.
A cable message received yesterday
from r. A. G.. Smith, Dock Commits
sioner, who is in Genoa, says that he
has succeeded in chartering a ship to
bring back stranded Americans, many
of them women and children, who were
left without funds at the Austrian
frontier.
Anxiety for George w. Loft, Tam
many treasurer, Representative from
the 18th District and candy merchant,
who had been automobiling in Ger
many, was dispelled yesterday after
noon by a cable message from Halifax
announcing the safe arrival in that
port Of Mr.. Loft and John II. Carl, who
is president of the First National Bank
of Rockville Centre.
The two had been automobiling in
Southern Germany. According to the
message, they were courteously treat
ed, but it was frequently necessary for
them to disguise their identity. They
secured passage on the Naconic, of the
Canadian Line.
Norman +. Mack Missing.
Friends and relatives of Norman T..
Mack have asked the State Department
to try to find him through Ambassador
Herrck in France. Mr.. and Mrs. Mack
left four weeks ago to visit their daugh-
tiers, who we're in school in Paris. A
week ago they were at the Hotel
Europe, in Aix-les-Bains. Since then
nothing has been heard from them.
One of the first private cable mes
sages received here from Europe from
any of the American tourists abroad
since the beginning of the war came
to Edgar S. de Wolfe, assistant man.
ager Of the Hotel Biltmore, yesterday
from his sister, Miss Elsie de Wolfe,
who left New York early in the sea-
son to spend the summer abroad with
Miss Anne Morgan and Miss Elisa
beth Marbury.
Mr.. de Wolfe got a cable message
from Bribes-le- Switzerland,
stating that mis- sister, Miss Morgan
and Miss Marbury were "all we'll and
happy, and would remain at that
place indefinitely unless the situation
changed" Miss de Wolfe, Miss Nor
gan and Miss Marbury came there
from Baden-Baden.
The Board OF Foreign Missions Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church yesterday
received the following cable message
from John L. Nuelson, resident Bishop
at Zurich. Switzerland, for the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church:
"Bishop L. B. Wilson, of New York
City; DR.. t. S. Triple, president Of
Drew Theological Seminary, and DR..
Samuel Dickie, president of Albion Col
lege. have gone from KonstanZ, Ger
many. % England. Bishop =. F. An
derson, Of Cincinnati: DR.. ". 3. Hol-
lingshead. apportionment secretary Of
the commission on finance OF the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, Philadelphia,
and Mrs. Frederick f. Lindsay. CORE
spending secretary Of the Women's
Foreign Missionary Society at Mime
apolis, are in Switzerland. American
missionaries are respected in fields OF
action. Urgently necessary that the
Washington government provide for
return transportation of thousands Of
Ar,ariran tourists"