The Detroit times., 1914-08-13
REFUGEES GREET
MISS LIBERTY
WITH KISSES
returning Americans Wild With
Joy on Entering New York
HarbOr
FELL EXCITING TALE
OF CALL TO ARMS
French Walters Left Food on
Tables and Rushed To Join
C0l0rs

NEW YORK. Aug. 12.-Throwing
uses 70 the statue OF liberty and
singing America" refugee Americans
arrived In port today on the Holland
american liner Potsdam from the
wartorn countries OF Europe.
All had experienced difficulty In
Getting to ROTTERDAM and Boulogne
sur Mer, and many lost everything
put the clothes they had on.
MI. and Mrs. w. c. Keen and w.
4. Howard. all OF Boston, told q
graphic story Of the call to the colors
n Paris.
paris went Wild" said Keen.
Frenzied people marched through
he streets. When the call to the
eolors was announced, walters who
were reservists threw of their aprons
and rushed to enroll, leaving food on
he tables and waiting patrons. The
city was paralyzed by withdrawal OF
men from their usual occupations and
crazy for war Even before the mo-
bihxation We had an awful time try
Ing to get large bills cashed. Res
taurants refused to accept them. All
Of the boulevard cafes were closed,
he authorities fearing that In their
chairs, spoons and chinaware around.
I'VE left Paris on the last big ref
ugee train-and left all our baggage
behind"
DR.. and Mrs. George C. Fahy, of
New Haven. Conn, considered them
selves the luckiest of any Of the ref
ugees. Mrs. Fahy was in Paris while
her husband attended convention Of
dentists In London. She left Paris
without baggage, got to London, rush.
ed into hall where DR.. Fahy was
delivering lecture, and the two left
at once for Rotterdam. The dentist
wore his dress suit across the chan
mel. II was all he had.
Mrs. M. s. X. Swift. hat importer
| of Los Angeles. managed to get out
of Paris on the last train for Bou-
logne. after the call to the colors, by
lavish expenditure Of money. She
brought one trunk which was the
pride Of her life. Mrs. Swift had a
ticket on the Imperator, but believed
that vessel would not sail, SO went to
Rotterdam. She could not get accom-
modations on the Potsdam, but slipped
aboard as q stowaway.
"The captain was lovely" she said
"He took my Imperator ticket and
even offered to have me reimbursed
for It."
Calvin Smith. a lawyer, OF, Easton,
Pa, was In Sarajevo, Bosnia, three
days after the assassination of the
Archdnke Francis Ferdinand and his
wife-the act which was the direct
cause OF the European war.
''Sarajevo Is all pro-Servian," he
said today. 1T takes 5000 Austrian
troops to hold them In check. For q
week following the assassination
there were constant bomb outrages,
the missiles being thrown at Aus
TRANS. The same spirit OF antagon-
ism against Austrians exists through
out Bosnia"
Smith had an arduous time getting
out Of Austria, despite his passports.
One day he was forced to leave the
train IL times for examination by
army officers.
M. Steinbrink, Of Fuller-st.. Brook
Ign. lost all his baggage In hurried
escape to Rotterdam. His little girl
lost all her dresses and came over In
picturesque Dutch clothes.
None of the passengers or crew OF
the Potsdam sighted any war vessels
on the way across. except the United
States cruiser Tennessee. When the
liner passed the dreadnaught Florida
Just outside New York harbor, the
passengers lined the decks and cheer
ed the gray sea warrior.