New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-13
REFUGEES ARRIVE;
ALL PURSES LIGHT
500 American Tourists
Reach Here on POtSdam
from War Zone.
DOCTOR CLAD IN
EVENING CLOTHES
Many Others Have Scanty Ward
robes-JerSey City Merchant
Misses His Family.

With more than eight hundred pas
sengers on board the Potsdam, Of the
Holland America Line. arrived here
yesterday. one day overdue. The refu-
gees brought stories Of anxious hours,
in some cases nardships, in their eff
forts to reach port OF safety and
obtain passage home. The Potsdam
did not sight a vessel after leaving the
English Channel until she arrived OF
the Long Island shore.
Many Of the passengers arrived with
nothing more than their hand baggage,
and few had any money left. Among
the passengers was julius p. Meyer,
first vice-president Of the Hamburg
American Line. lie had intended to
return 70 his duties here on the I'M
perator. but. like many other passen-
gers on the Potsdam. he was forced TO
make ether arrangements when the
German government took over the
HamburC-American vessels.
Mr. Mover said he had been out OF
touch with business 50 long that he
did not feel qualified to discuss 1t.
However. he took occasion to deny en-
phatically that his company was en-
pertaining am idea of disposing of its
vessels, as had been reported. There
was no need Of selling the vessels, he
said. He declared such a report was
circulated bv persons bearing enmlty
toward the line.
Left with IS Cents.
Another steamship official on board
nas ". II. Vordorne, general manager
Of the Holland America Line. He would
no. disclose the nature of his hurried
trip to this country, and left the pier
in haste.
Never Steinbrinck, Of Brooklyn, who
was i'm Germany with his wife and chill
oven when the war began, recounted
the difficulties they experienced IN
reaching Holland. He said he had Just
26 cents in his pockets when he
reached the ship. The banks in. both
Germany and Holland refused TO honor
the checks or letters of credit he car
ried. After Offering a handsome pre-
MUM. he said, he was finally able TO
make a loan Of $50 IN Holland.
Joseph II. Bernstein, a merchant OIL
Jersey City, said he was obliged 10
hurry home and leave his wife and
children abroad. He had left his ram
liz in Baden Baden and had gone 10
Zurich on business. where he hrst
heard Of the declaration Of war. lie
was unable to communicate with MS
wife. even by wireless, and he took tn =
last train that crossed the frontier TOR
Paris. He said he believed his wlte
was we'll supplied with money, and that
she probably would have TO remain IN
the war zone indefinitely.
Wore Evening Clothes Over.
II has been a long time since pas
senger arriving here drew more atten-
ton than did DR.. II. X. Fahey, physl-
clan. of New Haven. He came all the
way over in evening dress. DR.. Faney
was attending a convention OF physl-
clans in London, while his wife went
on a shopping trip to Paris. There she
heard of the war and hurriedly re-
turned to London. At the hotel where
she and her husband had been stop
ping she learned that the doctor was
attending banquet.
Mrs. Fahey rushed to the banquet
hall and informed her husband of the
situation. He telephoned for informa-
ton. and learned that they had Just
time to reach a train connecting with
q boat bound for the Hook of Holland.
They we're among the last persons to
board the Potsdam. Neither brought
back any luggage, but Mrs. Fahey SAID
she, luckily, was we'll supplied with
money.
The Potsdam was commanded on the
trip by Captain Cornelius De Kerver'
Captain Won Walraven, who usually
commands her, together with a number
of the crew, had to leave the ship at
the call for the mobilization OF the
Dutch troops.