Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-31
HOME COMING TOURISTS DESCRIBE
FEAR-STRICKEN EUROPEAN PEOPLE
Weeping Women Be Seen Everywhere in England and
France as Men Prepare to Depart to Join Armes-cour
eous Treatment of Americans by Germany Is Told.

The number of people whose homes
are in Newark and New Jersey re-
turning from Europe increases daily
as the ships come up from the sea,
and though none of them bring home
stories of battle scenes they picture
wildly the poverty and sadness of
the war-ridden countries. In every
station and public place they saw
mothers and wives bidding farewell
to their soldier men. Where before
war merry makers had gathered,
women whose faces were tear-stained
and drawn, and men, grave and stern,
were making preparations to go to
conflict.
More cheering, however was the
news of the conditions of Americans
stranded in the troubled places. The
financial situation has taken on a bet
ter aspect and travellers are better
able to cash their checks and realize
on letters of credit than in the first
days of the war. Beside, in each
country an effort is being made by
the authorities, in order, perhaps, to
obtain or to keep the friendship of
the United States, to make tourists
as comfortable as possible. Hotel
keepers and business men vie with
one another in showing travellers
courtesy
There are still a number of people
whose presence in the city will be
very much needed who are marooned
on the other side. Included with these
are a number of teachers in the public
schools. They are still away and will
not be able to return in time for the
opening of school next Tuesday.
Newark School Teachers Return.
Three young women, teachers in
the schools came home yesterday in
the steerage of the steamship st.
Paul. of the American line. All three
had interesting stories to tell of their
experiences.
Miss Florence w. Disbrow, daugh-
ter of Hamilton T. Disbrow, of 541
Parker street; Miss Stella Schoon-
maker and Miss Anna Sutton, of IA
Roseville avenue, were the three ar
rivals. Miss .Disbrow is a teacher In
the Elliott Street School, Miss
Schoonmaker in the East Side, High
School and Miss Sutton in the Ann
Street School.
The party sailed from New York
on the Aquitania on July l, and were
booked to return on the Berlin of the
North German Lloyd line. but the
war upset their plans and they were
kept in London and the vicinity until
ltlt 9is c1ut CuAC0s Ivy WtIO COli-
PEELED to choose the steerage to come
back so as to arrive in Newark in
time for the opening of the school
term. First and second-class book
ings could not be obtained before the
last week in October or the first in
November.
All three declared that they had
never In their lives seen so many
women crying. Miss Schoonmaker de-
scribed a railway trip from Newcas-
tie to London as "heartrending. At
every stop, she said, women and
children were seen kissing husbands
and fathers goodby.
Everybody sorrowful.
"As the passengers in the train, peo-
pie like ourselves, having ne direct in
terest in the var witnessed the scenes
of grief, tears came to their eyes,"
said Miss Schoonmaker. 1.-THE crying
women, pleading with their men folks
to come back safe, started everyone
thinking and when one began think
ing of the probable fate awaiting
these men, it was hard to hold back
the tears.
"In London we found women and
mere girls, who had gotten over the
first sorrows of partings, busily en-
gagged in making many little comforts
for the men at the front Here and
there they sat in the doorways knit
ting or sewing. One little girl, who
said she was an orphan, told us that
she was making socks for the Eng
lish soldiers
Each of the three Newark women
praised the work of the American
Relief Committee in London. 1t had
done great deal more for our citi-
zens, they said, than the American
embassy. They excused the govern
ment officials, however, because or
the fact that an unparalleled situa-
ton had arisen, and that they were
tied, to certain extent, by the gov
ernmental red tape.
Miss Sutton said that many Amer