New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-07
CARDINAL FARLEY
LOST IN WAR ZONE
No Word Received Here
from Prelate in Europe
Since July %.

Furlhc word Of Americans caught
in tie European maelstrom Of var
came yesterday, bringing tidings of
the safety of many about whom coh-
siderable anxiety has been felt. One
message was received from Dock
Commissioner r 4. G. Smith, from
Italy. which he reached. his message
said, from Austria after an exciting
experience. His decoration Of the
Red Eagle of Germany got him through
where other Americans failc0.
He reported that he was able TO as
sist a number of Americans in danger
of getting held up through lack of
funds. He was trying TO charter 4
boat 10 take Americans in Italy TO
ports where they could sail for home.
Commissioner Smith is accompanied
By hi wife, daughter Margaret, Mrs.
J. Francis Day, of Utica, and Miss A.
Williams.
Members Of the Roman Catholic
clergy in this city are worrying abolt
the whereabouts Of Cardinal Farley,
Of whom they have not heard since
July %, when he wrote TO Monsig1or
Lavele from Paris. Monsignor la
vellc said last night that the Cardinal
expected to go TO Switzerland. lie
went TO Paris from the Eucharistic
Congress at Lourdes.
Cardinal Farley sailed from New
York April 20. He carried with him
the index volume of the Catholic In
cyclopedis. All efforts to reach him
by cable and wireless have failed; al
though MonsignOr Layellc tried 10 DC
optimistic last night and said he OK
pected word from his superior any day.
Advices were received yesterday that
the Right Rev. Thomas F. Hickey,
Bishop of Rochester, eleven priests and
more than fifty others, who went with
the Bishop to Rome. have arrived safe
~ in Paris after a sudden trip from
Luzerne, Switzerland.
Seymour y. Conger, corresp ondent of
The Associated Press in Berlin, report
cd in special dispatches as being under
arrest at the German-Russian frontier,
is in Berlin. Mr.. Conger had been
ordered to st. Petersburg. prior to the
beginning of hostilities, but was de-
tanned ut the frontier with several
other Americans, and returned to the
capital.
A cable message was received from
Robert S. Hudspeth, of Jersey City.
prosecutor of the pleas of Hudson
County, stating that he, with his wife,
was safe in London. j. Merritt Lane,
a Jersey City lawyer, also had a mes
sage from his wife, announcing thai
she had arrived at ST. Petersburg and
hoped 20 sail on the Rotterdam, of the
Holland-America Line, from Rotter-
dam on August 30. He sent message
TO her that he had sent money on the
Tennessee, and advised her to stay IN
ST. Petersburg.
Superintendent Snyder Of the Jersey
CITY schools stated that if relatives Of
Jersey City teachers stranded in Eu-
rope would give him what information
they had he would request govern
ment aid for them in the name of the
Board Of Education.
Mr.. and Mrs. August Metzler, OF
Hackensack, were 10 have started back
ere this, and relatives here cannot
even get transportation to them. They
are in Germany.
Mrs. NJ. Grund and daughter Mil
dred, of New Milford. n. j., and Mrs.
NJ. Gully and son Edwin, of James St,
Hackensack, are also in German.
Miss Gabrielle Wells, teacher, of
Hackensack, is somewhere in Norway.