Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-18
LINER LUSITAN|A.
IN PORT, RUSHED
FOR HALIFAX TRIP
Cunarder Is Said to Be Under
Orders to Transport Troops
from Canada.
BY tho Asaociated Press.

NEW YORK. Sept. 1S-The Cunard
liner Lusitania, from Liverpool,
reached her pier here early today IN
der wireless orders received last night
as she was nearing port. according to
passengers, ordering her to make ali
possible speed. unload her passengers
and be ready to sail for Halifax to
act as a transport for Canadian
troops. The officers would not verify
this report, but offered no explana-
ton for rushing the big liner to her
pier at / o'clock in the morning.
Prominent among the 1902 passep-
gers, the majority of whom were re-
turning Americans, were Sir James
NJ Barrie, author and playwright; a.
E, w. Mason, the English novelist:
Mrs. George Vanderbilt and Miss
Cornelia Vanderbilt George de For
est Lord, Madame Jomelli, Marshall
Field Sd. Professor William Gardner
Hale, of Chicago; Chauncey M. De-
pew, jr., Major Talbot Aldrich, II. r.
Shelley, organist and composer; DR.
William c. Carl, organist of the First
Presbyterian Church, of this city, and
William Dudley Foulke, of Richmond
Ind, president of the Municipal
Leagues of the United States.
''war WIN Last Long."--Barrie.
Speaking of the war, Sir James NJ
Barrie said:
1.-THE real ultimate cause of the war
is militarism. The nations have been
arming themselves and loaded gun
always goes off sooner or later. In
my opinion the war win last a long
time. The issue involved Is as clear
as the cause which brought 1t about
I'll go
to rule in Europe
80 far as England is concerned the
most striking feature of the war is
the way in which the young men OF
Britain are enlisting.
"One hears the kaiser generally
blamed for the war. This is some
what less than fair The kaiser was
young man in 1870, when the war
spirit was very strong, and he is
merely the product of system.
1T is too early TO talk of peace
negotiations. No peace would be
lasting, nor would 1t produce the re-
suits which we all hope for. unless one
side is thoroughly beaten"
William Dudley Foullte and Mrs.
Foulke were In Nauheim, Germany.
when the war was declared and wit
messed part of the mobilization. JUS
tice Joseph Il. Newberger of the New
York Supreme Court, another passen-
ger was at Marienbad, Germany, at
the outbreak of the war and proceed
ed to Nuremberg. where he became
one of the American relief commit
tee.
Well Treated by Germans.
Justice Newberger spoke in the
highest terms of the treatment he
and his companions received at the
hands of the Germans. In Germany,
Justice Newberger said, there was lit
tie war news to be had, but less in
England.
| DIR. William c. Carl brought news
of musicians well known in America,
who. he said, are now doing military
duty. Fritz Kreisler, the Austrian.
violinist, was one of the first TO Join
the colors, he SID. Other artists
mentioned by DR.. Carl as having en-
listed were Chaliapin, the Russian
basso; Rachmaninoff, the Russian
composer; Muratore, the French
tenor; Dohananyi, the Austrian pian-
list, and Maurice Aliamet.
In Switzerland, as soon as the mo-
bilization was effected, music in the
parks, cafes, boats and even the
churches was suppressed, DR.. Carl
said, and at Bayreuth, when the cur
tain closed on the first act of an opera
the day the troops were called
out, the stage hands, art
lists and all who were eligible for
military service made dash to re-
spond and the audience was forced
to leave without the completion of
the opera.