The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-10-09

lais, so ours must have been the very
last train carrying passengers. We
had no idea Of the conditions until we
began our journey, or we would have
left a few days sooner.
1--WE got our photos taken and our
passports Of safe conduct the very
day we left and did not have even
time to put up the shutters TO our
house The agent has promised TO at
tend to it. bnt with the fright they
must now be having who knows ii he
will do it? Anyway, managed TO
get all Of my best furniture packed and
stored III the garage last week pre-,
paratory to our returning to Rome
later on If we ever sec ID again is
a question; but the old man who pack
cd it (for all others are at the war;
said that he would send it when the
war was over. ."-. Err
O.. Bribed the Way
con Monday in Paris we could get
neither cab nor automobile to carry
our trunk, etc, and we were two hours,
Offering anything, in getting to the
station 1t, was. frightful A big
bride got us thare, but to get q scat
Fwas again awful We managed it but
pcople were iammcd aud the corridors
filed SO no one could pass. Such a
| fight g.. ,+H
"At Marseilles we had to meet more
wounded and see the crude arrange
ments and sufferingi After wait Of
five hours we tried TO board a train
for the frontier but our trunk was
missing and we only found II tho last
moment after the signal had gone. But
the station master, with the usual ban'l
of his regiment around his arm, tried
to force open door for MS but the
crush was too terrible, when an officer
Oh the next car took my arm and pull
cd Clarence and me in. Our trunk was
not with US but il gave us night 3
4 rest at Mention waiting for II. The
next morning it arrived and we got
4 into Italy in few hours, and getting
at last something to eat we got fine
train with compartment to ourselves
and went to sleep.
Among Friends
at nine next morning we reached
Romn-never in. our lives so thankful
and happy, for here we have friends
tamong the finest Italians. We, knew
they would not 90 far from home, now
or at least would get back as soon al
possible. If war is declared In Italy
3 VIC are not alone and friendless. VIZ
: shall be protected, not with money
! Of course, as money is tight also, here
: but in overy other way.
D -.. Clothes in Tatters
I'll aOur clothes are in tatters and blacl
I with dirt, Clarence knees are through
. and would Just like you to see nov
! the silk waist ] made and hoped Il
! pack but had TO wear it.. 1t rs sll
3 and every button and ribbon wrench
i cd off. Friends are getting us some
!, thing TO put on pro tenn. We are bot
!. so unnerved that we can hardly con
e tain ourselves, and Clarence $ poor le
suffered terribly all those hours q
a standing at the Stations and in tn
J, trains. -..-. ..r -.
/. 1--WE hope we are safe here. Man
a think SO, because if war is DECLARE
Z and it seems unlikely, Rome is so ia
u from where il would take place tina
4 we feel comparatively safe No on
" who reads about the war can form an
b idea of the terriblG menaGing atmoi
phore Of it, Every one In France lool
ed crestfallen. The first laugh "
,s heard was on the frontier. 1t is liz
" terrible nightmare from which theI
Il is no loophole Of escape.
e - Aeroplane Boonbs
y o'The having to show your passport
" and the getting Of them for each III
= ferent direction you want TO take, II
y locking of your doors at nine y. n
/" and evory noise you hear wondering
a, III Is not cannon. An aeroplane tire
y, bombs on Paris while we were ther
y and that night the Camps Elysees WI
II in pitch darkness for safety, All Il
le poor dwollers in houses near the 10
~ tifeations came streaming into Par
~ after the military had set fire TO thel
IT, A lady the first night Of our journ'
was fleeing with hor two boys fro
10 her home, which the Germans h'
Il burned down She had had no 70,
in for four days and was i'll. We hi
OF none to give her and ! suffer ey'
~ now TO think Of IL. go. .ft. 49,.
in Clarence unites with me in mu,
at love and hopes you will receive tn
ts promptly. We had no letters fro