Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-25
ARRESTED Assay
IN AUSTRIAN CITY
Titus UIke of U. S. Patent Of
flee Picked Up While
Sightseeing.
IN EUROPE ON BUSINESS
FOR THE GOVERNMENT
Passed Through Servia Soon After
the Assassination of Austrian
Crown Prince.

How he was arrested as a spy just
because he was caught looking at an old
tower in BregenZ, Austria, was told to-
day by Titus Ulke, an assistant exam
liner of the patent office, who, with other
Washingtonians, reached New York yes
terday from Genoa aboard the steamer
Principe de Udine, which was chartered
for the voyage.
Mr.. Ulke, in company with John Boyle,
also an assistant examiner of the patent
office, went abroad to conduct an IN
vestigation for the government. Both
Mr.. Ulke and Mr. Boyle took prominent
part in the organization of the commun-
ity or wanderlust hikes in the country
about Washington early in the summer.
II was at Bozen, Tyrol, when Austria
declared war Against servia. sald Mr.;
like today John Boyle and l had
been commissioned to investigate the
procedure and equipment of the Ger
man, Austrian and Hungarian patent
Offices had completed our 1nVeslga-
ton in July and had travelled through
the Balkan states to Constantinople
and thence to Smyrna, Athens and
Cairo.
Preparations for War.
I'm passing through Servla, soon AFTER
the murder Of the Austrian crown
prince, we noted that the country evil
IDENTIFY was preparing for war. Mill
tary roads were being constructed,
bridges strengthened and troops were
evidently being massed at strategic
points. From Alexandria. Egypt, we
sailed to Brindisi, Italy, Boyle going
to Naples. while 1 proceeded north by
steamer to Trieste and thence wa the
Tauern line to BoZen. Every railroad
bridge and tunnel l saw en- route was
guarded by soldiers.
AT Bozen a letter from Boyle reached
me. dated July %, at Florence. stating
he had joined party of jolly American
girls who were travelling leisurely
through northern Italy and hoped TO
join me in Munich. en- route to Paris
and Havre where we had arranged 10
take the steamer La France. August 8.
for New York In view of Boyle's letter
l decided not to wait for him and to
proceed to Sudden; near Mount ortIer'
which 1 desired to climb. Sudden is a
picturesque little Tyrolese village over
G. 900 feet above sea level, surrounded
by the glacier-covered giants OF the
a coy room at comfortable inn in
Sudden and engaged a sturdy young
guide to assist me in traVers1ng the
glaciers and in scaling Mount Ortler.
Guides Answer War Call.
| LAS the following day was Sunday.
and as each of the Tyrolese guides is
| strictly bound to attend early mass.
was obliged, Notwithstanding excep-
| tionally fine weather, to postpone the
ascension of Ortler until Monday moIn-
ing. We utilized Saturday in ascending
the valley as high as the Staubbach and
| Beckman refuge huts and in studying
the wonderfully rich and lovely Alpine
flora. Sunday morning my guide IN
formed me that he and the rest OF the
guides between seventeen and forty-tWo
Years of age had been called in to go
| to the war He was an exceptionally
strong fellow, but his eyes were DIM
med with tears at the thought of leaV-
ing his young wife and little ones at
home.
| cat the nearby village substitute
| guide was obtained. We hit the trail
Sunday afternoon and reached the sum-
NIT, nearly $4,000 feet hlsh. me view
| was magnificent, but the temperature
was below zero and the wind biting
cold.
From Payer hut. a refuge at the
elevation of 10000 feet, in the com
pany of a young girl mountain climber,
| / descended on the same day to the viii
lage of Trafoi. To my CONSERVATION
found the village almost deserted of
Il BILE bodied men, and the tourist hotels
that had been nHed Win tIdVeters up
| to a day or two previous either closed
| or without guests. ] felt time was
| pl essing and Immediately secured a
seat on about the last day coach bound
for Spondining, the nearest railway
station The driver expected the stage
horses would soon be Communicated
| for war purposes.
Passenger Traffic Blocked.
proceeding by rail to Bozen, where 1
had slowed my two grips, 1 found the
railroads in Tyrol were to be closed for
ps ssenger traffic on the morrow. There
| was difficulty in cashing travellers
checks, but 1 finally succeeded in OBJ