The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-06
AMERICAN WOMEN HUNGRY
AND HOMELESS IN EUROPE

men. washers. liftmen and dining room
walters have left me FOR the mobliza-
ton. mostly Swiss, some Austrians, Ger
mans and Italians, and | can hardly
find boys and old men to replace them
1t is not food that 10 lacking at present.
l could feed the clients l now have for
four months. But am | to set up cot
beds in Railways and attics for refugees?
1t is great problem tPasche is u
tender hearted mani.
My tea house refugees told me that
Ave American families had sat up all
night with them in the Lausanne sta
ton. We'll bred women sitting ON
their trunks" they said, with young
girls in the party. Others had no bag
gage. The train got In nine hours late
at midnight. Most of them expected
TO draw money in the morning. What
has become OF them?"
Surely they did not get much money
Even In "A neutral land the people sud
denly went wild for gold. Bcsieging the
banks they demanded gold, gold. gold!
The banks refused to give gold. They
offered bags of silver dollars Then
the people went wild for silver. Be
sieging the banks. they demanded I'll.
yer. silver silver,
The banks refused to give silver.
Then the people went wild to get their
money out in Swiss bills. There were
runs on the great banks of Switzerland,
as solid as Gibraltar, their vaults
Crapmed with German and French Citi-
zens' deposits Merely to stop tho
panic" they shut their doors half the
day, and subjected Swiss and foreigners
| to many rigors.
1t is the boarding period (what
will II be after?)
Among the best known Americans
| living in Florence are the Rs of
Boston; but each summer. To avoid the
heat, they come up to Switzerland. For
convenience they opened "A rather large
account with the Naudols Cantonal
Bank. Well. in the first days of the
panic, there came weeping To Mrs RI
an American woman acquaintance. II
must get through To Paris" she sohh.d.
my husband is 10 land there, and If
| wait for him To send me money I
can't get through. To-night's train is
the last before French mobilization"
| w lhl Npulu ANTS II 10 Nll' lf'l'
her $3.50 in good gold and Swiss bills.
When Mr.. R. learned Of 1t. he said:
You did well Matilda. but try not to
do it again right away" Then he told
! her how. with $4,000 in the Cantonal
Bank ton deposit at per cent it is
true. and drawn on only for current ex-
pcnses) he had been allowed to take
out only $500. II made Mrs RI very
4 no. lu,
self" she said; and she did. At the bank
she bumped against squad of Swiss
/ soldiers and "a clerk who snapped:
CLOSED for to-day" But by side
door she caught the director, drew a
check for $4,000 and stuck il under his
nose. The great man smiled indul-
gently. "Of course. 1t don't apply to
you" he said. "you want more money,
you shall have It." With which he ran
his pen through the fifteen thousand
francs" and wrote 1.-TWO thousand
francs above it on her check. "Nuw
you've got lots" he said. lie had
given her 5000. III you need more.
look In later"
DO you call that bad luck" in
quircd Mrs. l. of tho American
colony Of Paris Here am caught In
Switzerland with all my money IN the
Credit I.yonnais Of Paris and tho
French have passed law forhiddng
banks to pay out more than = per cent
| OF deposits at time"
And me-" said my tea room lady
the German bank would only Civ, nc
500 for our railway tickets and all
They have passed a similar law"
and me" said Mrs C. If Evans.
villa Ind Shn has kpgp " D., ,, ,
these two years past educating he,