Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-22
MISS STTCKNEY AS WAITRESS
Helps Out When All Servants in
Hotel Hustle to War.
WAS WITH THE DrETz PARTY
interesting Letter Tells Of wierd
Experiences in Getting from
France 60 England After
War Actually started.

War Actually started.
The Minneapolis Journal prints the fol-
lowing interesting story concerning ex-
periences abroad OF Miss Evelyn Stick
ney and Mr.. and Mrs. c. N. Dietz:
Two plates Of fried potatoes on her
arm, coffee dripping over her evening
gown, jostled right and left by men in
formal black and girls in ball dress
rushing about Miss Evelyn Stiokney
1912 Irving avenue S, in a dinner hour
panic at the Cecilia hotel in Paris on
the night war was declared. acted as
waitress when the men and women SER
wants left the hotel to answer wars
alarm. Mr.. and Mrs c. N. Dietz OF
Omaha, aunt and uncle OF Miss Stick
ney, were with her in their suite when
the tension broke, Paris went mad and
pandemonium reigned.
Outside the hotel. Mr.. Dietz with a
bundle OF 20-franc notes in his hand
vainly tried to hire, lease or buy a
taxicab Into the great salon Of the
fashionable hotel. where everybody dimes
in formal evening dress, a frantic Gallo
manager came running. wild with excite
ment. wild with the thought that France
would fight Germany. Vainly the guests
called out for some attention.
Landlord IL Frantic.
" The food In here" the manager
shouted. I can do nothing nothing.
We will fight Germany we will fight.
1 Ladies and gentlemen, do what you can
for yourselves France is going to fight,
my men are gone to the ranks do the
best you can
Miss Stckney made her way with
other women 10 the kitchen where the
food lay on the ranges. Engiishmen OF
title. millionaire American business men
and women OF social distinction at home
and abroad. were carrying out food to
their ELDERS. Men collided with other
men and food was spilled and walked
upon. Confusion was everywhere. But all
the manager could say was that France
was going to fight. the men servants had
gone TO the army and the women SER
wants had rushed TO get the soldiers
ready or to the hospitals to volunteer for
service as nurses
All Paris Goes Mad.
"All this came In a letter received
yesterday by Miss stlckney's mother
Mrs. Edward NJ, Stickney. in which in
graphic manner, Miss Stckney told OF
her flight from Paris.
The Paris populace, men, women. lit
tie children, everybody surged up and
down the boulevards singing lie Mar.
sellaiSe. shouting cheering, saluting the
tri-color OF France, embracing and kiss.
ing the soldiers Foreign men ard womer
vainly tried to get away. Railroad sta,
tions were In military hands.
Railroad trains were already filled
with troops Men whose private for
tunes might have bought whole railroad
trains piled into freight cars. Outside tn,
hotel Mrs. Dietz apd Miss Stickney wit
messed such scenes of excitement as mad,
IL seem that all Paris had gone mat
With patriotism.
I'm the touring car for the use Of which
I he paid $3.50 gold. Mr.. Dietz came back
The women got In. Only one hand
baggage, said the chauffeur. The wo
men whose travelling trunks wero aban'
, doned. hastily put their hats and some
few pieces OF finery in gunny sacks, and
the automobile started.
where is your pass?' asked th'
chauffeur. They had none. Drive e
the foreign ministry shouted Mr.. Dietz
and the ministry, alright, although 4
was now late at night. issued an identi
fication pass to the Americans and tn
auto started
Money Fails 60 "TRIk."
miss stickney's letter DESERVED the rur
to Boulogne $50 miles from Paris, tn,
crowded road. the automobiles and car
riages broken down. men. miles iron
!. Paris. still in evening clothes. standing
at midnight. on country roads. wavinl
handfuls of bank notes or holding GU
. handouts OF gold coins. offering them 10
l. passage TO the coast. Hundreds of Amer
! cans got into Boulogne together mex
|. day and many travelled across to Eng
|. land, sleeping on the decks. One English
!, man, anxious to get back because h
was an army officer, still In the even
ing clothes that he had put on for din
ner In Paris, walked off the boat a
. Folkestone. Eng. where II landed. read
to report to his superior officers for duty
. I'm London we stopped at a raiiroa'
hotel at charing Cross. perfectly fright
!. full place, worse than a bridge squar
lodging house in Minneapolis.' Mis-
stiokneys letter said. but we were gla
: to get into It until such a time as Mi
!. Detz could make other arrangement
We finally registered at the Hotel Jul
and got good quarters
Miss stickney described the impressiv
= stiffness OF London. compared with eI
Il cited Paris. and the calm. steady pSssln
y OF troops. on the way she judged. TO en-
8 bark. although II was impossible to q
any information from any source wha
e ever as to where they were going. BIZ
l. under the outward calmness. all Londo
, was keyed to war.
d Miss Stiekney had intended comm
II back on the Olympic. August 10. but no
', expects TO sail instead on the cedrl
l. leaving August a."
!; MaZatlan Again