The Prescott daily news., 1914-09-23
FORMER NEVADA COUNTY CITI-
 ZEN WRITES FROM ROTTERDAM
J. L. Wilmeth Writes to NJ. l.. Moore. Brother-in-Law, of this City From Rotterdam, Holland. With
 Relief Expedition


 orother-ln-law, and one of Nevada county's young men. Mr. Wilmeth married Miss Alpha Moore, M. L. Moore's sister and one of our young ladies. They have been in Washing ton City, where MT. Wilmeth has held a position Tn the treasury department for the past twenty years When the war began in Europe there were a large number of Americans there who needed financial aid and congress ap- propriated $2,500,00O for them. The Secretary of the Treasury selected Mir. Wilmeth as his official representative lr the foreign country His letter is as follows:
 Rotterdam, Holland, August 21, 1914. Mir. M. L. Moore,
 Prescott, Ark.
 My dear Levi:
 You will perhaps be surprised to re- celve letter from me at Rotterdam, Holland, l am with the American Relief Expedition on board the United States Cruiser Tennessee. Congress made an appropriation of $2,500,000 for the relief of American citizens in Europe, and the Secretary of the Trea- sury selected me as his official repre- sentative in charge of the funds. We sailed from New York on Thursday, August 9th, and arrived at Falmouth, England, on Sunday, August 16th. We had an uneventful voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, and excepting three days, the weather was very pleasant and the sea smooth. had no trouble whatever in the way of seasickness; that was probably due to the reason that most of my time was occupied during the voyage with work incident to relief measures.
 On Monday, August 17th, a party of us went to London and carried with us $400,000 in gold. 1 spent two very busy days in this great metropolis holding conferences with the American Ambassador and with the Citizens Re- lief Committee, looking out for the deposit of the American gold and se curing conversion into English money. During my stay 1 had luncheon with the American Ambassador at the Hotel Carlton. We found the situa. tion in London, so far as American citizens were concerned, to be very good. There is no actual distress and the business of getting people away from that country is progressing sat sifactorily and in businesslike way.
 I saw some very nice sights while there; visited Westminster Abby where all the English royalty is en- tombed; saw the House of Parliament, Buckingham Palace where the King lives; the Bank of England, where l did considerable business; St. Pau's Cathedral, London Bridge, and a great many other points of historic interest.
 We were located at Falmouth near the extreme end of the island. It Is over 300 miles from Lon don. The run from London is very beautiful and is through the most highly developed country l ever saw. There is no waste land of any des- cription and the country through the entire trip looks like series of gar dens. The roads are the finest l ever saw. There are no unimproved high ways. English roads are as smooth as a paved street and almost as hard. The land is generally owned by large land holders who rent it out. This comes down from the old feudal sys- tenn of many years ago. The Lord of the Manor lives in great style and his lease holders seem to be a fairly lot of people. There are no fences; the farms and pastures are separated by hedges grown on em- bankments so that it is impossible for cattle to pass from one field to an other. These hedges give the country a fine appearance, especially from the distance.
 We left Falmouth for Holland on Thursday afternoon at two o'clock We expect to be here only few days; we will then return to Falmouth Tor coal. and the chances are that we will either 20 north to Norway and Sweden or we will go southward to the Medl- terranean Sea. The trip has been very enjoyable and very helpful to