The Washington herald., 1914-08-13
AMERICANS ALL
SAFE in EUROPE
Reassuring News Received at
State Department for Re
lations Here.
U. S. TO CHARTER SHIPS
Foreign Agents Get Orders to Hire
Neutral Vessels to Bring Back
10000 Refugees.
U. S. TO CHARTER SHIPS

Reassuring messages are. being received
daily through the state Department from
Washingtonians in Europe.
Every day the LIST grows, and more
names are tabulated of those whose
anxious. friends and relatives have haunt
1 ed the secretaries Offices to receive word.
To date comparatively few persons about
whom inquiries have been made at the
State Department have not been located,
| and II is the opinion of officials that all
Americans will be safe during the war
| II they cannot return to this country.
The HuntinEtons safe.
The American consul at Nuremberg.
Bavaria. yesterday wired the State De-
partment that Archer NJ. Huntington and
Mrs. Huntington are safe in that city.
Third Assistant Secretary Of State Phil
lips said that he believed the Hunting
tons are no longer being detained by the
German authorities
From the list OF Americans Who sent
messages Of their safety to the State De-
partment yesterday were taken the foi-
lowing Washington names Mr.. Burg
hardt, reported safe in Walls, Holland;
Mrs. E. B. Blair, safe in Naples; Miss
Lillian Seers and party, Rome; Miss Ruth
oberly, Rome; Mr.. Pennybacker and
daughter, Leclxie Moorings, Suttoncold-
field. Walsall; Mrs. w. H. Claggett, Co
logne, en- route from Vienna for LopoOn;
Eugene Ferran, at the American Mega
ton in Madrid. Mr.. and Mrs Theodore
w. Noyes and son. Miss Ethel Norris,
Miss Nancy johnson. Miss NJ. ]. Rath-
burn, Miss Grace F. Babbitt, W. B.
Richie. W. H. Saunders. Mr.. and Mrs.
O.. T. SimingtOn, DR.. and Mrs. ]. H. Sell
by, DR.. and Mrs. John Crayke Simpson.
Mr.. and Mrs ]. P. Simpson, J. E Easily
Smith, Mrs. Smith, Miss Mary Smith,
N. Steenerson, J. Blake Tally. Miss G.
S. Temple, Mrs. J. W. Thompson, Mrs.
Allen Lee Thurman, Miss Mary B. Ty-
son. and Miss Elizabeth Timlow.
J. p. Blair Sought in haIy.
Friends requested the State Depart
ment some time ago to search Europe
for ]. P. Blair, but to date no trace has
been found of him. When last heard
from he was in Italy, and the consul at
Naples has been urged TO look for him,
as well as for a man named Breen.
Washingtonians reported TO be safe in
Rome, but with no registered address at
the State Department, are Luke Shoton,
Nelson Stauffer, Leonhardt Ellis, and
Wilcox Ranshaw.
Orders to charter all available neutral
steamships in order to bring these
stranded Americans home, were sent to
European diplomatic and consular Off
GERS yesterday. following a conference
between Secretary of War Garrison and
Secretary of State Bryan. Secretary
Garrison stated that the latest official
advices from abroad indicated that the
United States would have to superintend
the return Of from 1900 to 1900 Amer
leans, a majority OF whom are destitute.
Orders to all foreign missions, both
consuls and diplomatic officers, instruct
ed them to charter every available neu-
trail vessel without loss Of time and to
start them homeward," said Mr.. Garrison.
THE companies owning the steamships
will be guaranteed payment for all pas
sengers by the United States government
Destitute persons will be allowed to travel
free or with the promise Of payment when
they get back"