New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-26
SEMBRICH WOMAN
WITHOUT COUNTRY
Austrian, Her Home in
Nice, Born in Lemberg,
Now RuSSia'S.
HELPED PADEREWSK
GATHER HIS CROPS
Singer Escaped War Hardships
Ship Picked Way Through
Dangerous Waters.

Nine. Sembrich, who arrived here on
the Rotterdam, unlike the many other
artists who ere seeking American
shores, does not come, she said last
evening, to make a concert tour or sing
at the opera. but to seek rect and re-
lief from the turmoil which pervades
Europe.
also" she added with a smile not
all one of merriment. 81 want to W2lt
here till I find out where ! belong
Just now I'm q woman without q cepn-
sry-an Austrian subject, living IN
Nice. but born in Lemberg, which Is
now under Russian control. Naturally,
my heart is full Of sorrow at the
thought OF my countrymen fighting on
both sides in the awful conflict, and
all of them. perhaps. dreaming OF the
new Poland which the warning mon
archs have promised them. VIII they
remember their promises when the
war Il over?
Visited Paderev ski.
az was my good fortune not TO be
called on 20 endure many hsrdshlps'
I was IN Chamounix when the disturb
ancos began. ard with my husband mo-
rored to Morges TO celebrate PadereT-
skis name-day, when large company
of his friends gathered. The news Or
the outbreak Of the var brought pail
Of gloom over the gay party, and the
next day | realized that | could not
safely return to Nice, where ! had left
my mother and household happy and
cOntented.
"a friend went TO Monticello for me
and managed 20 get my mother and
her maid safely into Switzerland, but
my servants were already scattered.
One had gone to join the German
Landeturm, another had returned TO
his native Italy and my cook was un-
der arrest in concentration camp.
Faithful Frieds, my maid, was Vlth
me, Of course.
Helped Gather Crops.
Eve stayed some time at Morges,
visiting Padarewski, who was feeding
half T. hundred Polish peoplc every day.
Nearly ell his farmhands having beeD
called into the ranks, either to fight or
to protect Switzerland, we all pitched
in, Padarewski with. US, to gather in
the crops
81 first thought Of staying in SwitZer-
land, but after having made home for
my mother. decided TO visit my friends
in New York. SO set out with three
pupils, travelled comfortably through
Germany and engaged passage on the
Rotterdam. Tho detention Of the
steamer by the English kept me wait
ing two and half weeks at The Hague,
but | spent the time visiting the at
galleries in the cities Of beautiful Hol-
land
Meanwhile my brother in London
had obtained a passport for me from
the British Home Office, which Min
lister van Dyke indorsed. with The sem
timeut that the realm Of art was above
all war. | concluded, however, to wait
for the Rotterdam.
I'VE had an upeventful voyage, but It
was d novel and, nervous feeling TO be
on q steamer that crawled slowly out Of
the hRrbor and down the Channel with
a big empty Dutch ship following TO
pick up the ships company, to find rope
ladders ready TO be unrolled along
both sides Of the steamer and notice
in your stateroom telling the number of
the boat you we're TO run TO IN case OF
accident.
"Morc than that, English cruisers
went ahead Of us all the way 90 Dover,
and one stopped US TO look for few
minutes at the ships papers. And now
| am going TO rest among my friends
here. Shall | sing? Perhaps few re-
citals in and near New York, but not
nov"