Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-10-02
AMERICAN TOUR
lists CONTINUE TO
REACH ENGLAND
The Varied Types of American
Citizenship Represents All
Europe = Relief Committees
Work Has Been Very Adj
mirably Conducted-Pathetic
Hard Luck Cases

Correspondence of The Associated
Press.)
London, Sept 15-American tourists
for the last month have continued to
arrive in large numbers from the con-
tinent by every boat and train. Some
have come here completely stranded.
Others, have been able to travel first
class and get through from various
parts of the continent without other
Inconvenience than delay due to move-
ments of troop trains.
Most of the regular routes-Dieppe,
Flushing, Calais, Ostend, Havre and
Boulogne are open but owing to mines
strewn by German vessels, Channel
boats have only been allowed to cross
by day.
The Flushing boat trains have
brought hundreds of German Ameri-
cans. some of whom can hardly speak
word of English. Their passports
have been closely examined at the
ports of entry and all incoming trav-
elers have had to submit to a strict
to strict medical examination.
London, in fact. has become the one
great City of Refuge for Europe and
Americans and refugees of all types,
whose origins are to be found in all
the nations of the Continent, are fly
ing from the devastations and trials
of the war.
How varied are the types of these
American citizens can only be realized
by those constantly meeting boat
trains. The Relief Committee Work
ers have had to help German, Austrian,
/ Belgian, French, Polish, Roumanian
and Russian Americans and North
American Indians, picturesque party
in full war costume, whose trials and
privations after touring in Austria
with a German circus, have been re-
lated in previous dispatches.
only two days ago a Galician, who
has been an American citizen for over
20 years. arrived with his wife and
her child. He had gone to Galicia to
marry her and the women and child
arrived clad in their artistic national
costume, top boots and all. The
measures taken by the Relief COM
mittee to deal with those without
money have been admirable. All those
stranded have been put in taxi abs
and sent to hotels for the night. The
next day they have been taken over
by the Relief committee workers at
the Savoy Hotel and sent off, almost
within the day, TO America. The
Committee has taken in hand many
cases of lost trunks for poor travellers
who were obliged to go to America
by the first boat and trust TO luck to
their trunks being found and for
warded. In one instance the commit
tee, after searching for three days
for a womans package" found thai
it was bedstead she had left in
Antwerp.
Some pathetic hard luck cases have
come to light One poor woman who
reached London with her little boy anG
wished to get to Liverpool where hel
husband had booked her passage, broke
down completely with gratitude when G
member of the committee took her il
her off to Euston in a taxi-cab. A
party of variety artists who had hac
a hard time in Brussels were delighted
at finding willing and prompt aid fol
them here. A rich woman who haC
lost her maid abroad had had NJ
change of clothing for three weeks
and could get no money from tht
Banks, found personal friends immed
lately she arrived in London and wa:
rescued from a most embarrassing anC
awkward position. Two we'll known
women each with two children. hat
not even one penny between then
on getting to Charing Cross.
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