Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-26

daughter, Miss Mary Harris OF Brook-
line, Mass Isidor Bernstein Of New YORK.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Levin OF New 1olh
and Mrs. Paul Guenther and her oaush-
ter of Dover, N. j.
Howard Edwards party left Lucerne
Saturday and Joined the special tram
which was run in three sections at
Geneva. Leaving Geneva Sunday, tney
Americans had to get out Of their tram
in order to facilitate the passage OF
troops From midnight until o'clock
in the morning they spent the time on
MT. Wanamaker. who left Basic Sat
urday. said there were many Americans
still in that city. but they were COM
Portable.
had to leave their trains at frequent in
tervals. Fortunately they had been
warned as to lack of eating facilities, and
had brought their. own food with them
There was. however, little opportunity
to sleep.
Many Americans are still waiting at
Boulogne for boats for England. Great
quantities of baggage. lost by Americans
on the continent in the last three weeks,
are now reaching England
Say There Are $4,000 In Europe.
A dispatch from Amsterdam says the
flood of stranded Americans to the
Rotterdam. the only place where it IS
possible to. get steamers direct for the
United States. is crowded to its utmost
capacity.
The steamer Rotterdam is scheduled
to leave Rotterdam next Saturday with
1000 American passengers on board.
The remaining Americans must wait
for other ships.
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that there are even now something like
5000 Americans in Europe. It says
that most all of them seem to be trying
to return home by way OF ROTTERDAM,
where the hotels and private houses al.
ready are overcrowded. The baggage or
these tourists is scattered all over tine
continent The Holland-Amer1ca line mas
offered free transportation OF baggage 10
America for all of their passengers.
Some Americans at Rotterdam are seek
ing to return on the United States cruiser
Tennessee.
Take Over Relief Work.
The American residents RELIEF commit
tee met the members of the dissoivlng
American citizens committee and ar
ranged to carry on the work OF caring
for stranded Americans. Herbert Z.
, Hoover, chairman of the residents COM
mittee, ordered an investigation into a
charge that the employees OF a steamship
line were demanding fees for reserVlns
perths for Americans.
The rush of Americans from Italy.
Switzerland, France and Holland to Lon
don continues undated, and the limited
steamship accommodations here indicate
that many weeks will elapse before the
congestion in England is relieved.
The committee plans to meet all boat
trains from the continent and to care for
Americans until all desiring to get home
leave London.
The committee which is handling funds
deposited with the State Department at
Washington for Americans in Europe
continues to pay out thousands of dollars
daily.
Reach Geneva on Foot.
GENEVA, Switzerland, August 20,
Tuesday, via Paris, August 49, 11:45
am.-Four Americans made their way
on foot across the German frontier at
Basel yesterday. They were without
money and had been without food for
some time. Their names have not been
learned.
Fragmentary information reaching
Americans here by letter from Germany
indicates that there are still many
American tourists stranded in hotels
and boarding houses in German cities.
They are mostly women, and IN many
cases their financial resources are limit
ed Some of them have no money at all.
They are described as not unfrequent-
lily living on suffrance. subjected to dis
courtesies and occasionally put out upon
the streets without their baggage. In
some extreme cases they have had to
sell their clothes for food.
All Tourists Have Left Antwerp.
T. ANTWERP. via Paris, August 90
(1:25 am.).-All the American tourists
have left for home by way of Holland
and England. The majority of Ameri-