Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-05
HEARD RUSSIANS
HAD LANDED BIC
ARMY IN FRANCE
Or. Elliott Returns from Abroad
With Several Other
Ed NeWarkers.

DR. Daniel Elliott. of Al Blocker
street who returned home from
Europe yesterday afternoon, was in
formed Just before sailing from Liver
pool that 1900 Russian troops had
passed through England on their way
TO France Other Newarkers on the
Cedric. on which DR.. Elliott was a
passenger, were John f. Stanley, Jr.,
his nephew, and DR.. John f. Hagerty,
of 80 Wallace place. DR.. Hagerty was
compelled to come home as a second
class passenger, as there were no ac-
commodations in the saloon for him.
While waiting his turn in the
steamship office in London, DR.. Ell
lott lost his pocketbook, containing
SIS in English money. He said that
the loss did not inconvenience him
very much, as he had been very con-
siderately treated by business men
and hotel keepers in London.
DR. Hagerty was in Switzerland
when the war began, and made Tor
London, where he secured his passage
in the Cedric after considerable trou-
BILE. Like DR.. Elliott he enthusiast
tica1ly praised European business men
for the courtesy they extended to
tourists.
when | arrived in London l had
but two shillings in my pocket said
DR. Elliott. After ] had registered
went to the clerk of the hotel and told
him of my plight. 1t was night and
the express company's offices were
closed He promptly advanced me ten
pounds. The next morning | cashed
a check in the express office and re-
turned to the hotel to make good the
sum / had borrowed. The clerk told
me not to mind, that | probably would
need the cash and that the loan could
be charged against my account with
the hotel.
Many Were Broke"
81 certainly did need the money, for
there were people all around me alb
solutely broke. While on Picadilly
one night, an American lady spoke to
me She told me that she had no
cash and had been unable to obtain
anything to eat that day. | gave her
$3.50. That lady had a room in the
i.otel where | was stopping and was
being charged $40 day for it.
1.-THE hotel and ship rates were not
lifted at all A wealthy American
wanted to obtain passage in this ship
and was told that he could have a
others. He found that the other
berths in the cabin had not yet been
assigned and asked that the whole be
assigned to him.
This was refused, although the
man offered as high as a thousand
dollars a berth for the reservation.
The manager of the office told him
that he must remember that he was
not the only American who wanted to
get home; that the White Star line
would not raise it's rates under any
circumstances, nor would it accept a
premium. He was told that if he did
M ai1n ulo harth ba
wait. He did refuse the berth, and 1t
was snapped up before he left the
counter. t-..
II expected to come home on the
Vaterland, the ship on which Mr..
Stanley and myself went to Europe
did not know that it was tied up
at Hoboken here. The morning after
my arrival in London l went to the
ufnces of the Hamburg-American
line. and there ! found 1t boarded up.
A crowd of curious Americans were
in front, but no employee of the line
appeared. 1t was shut tight, and the
Office force had disappeared.
1T was Just before we boarded the
ship that I was informed of the
passage of Russian troops through
England. There was an air of sup
pressed excitement everywhere. Moth
ing has been given out for publica-
ton, but 1t was said that 900 troops
had been landed at points along the
Scottish coast and had been carried
in trains through England They
were then embarked for Ostend. This
news was afterward verified when I
boarded the ship"
Met Other Newarkers.
In the two weeks taken by the
Swiss troops to mobilize DIR. Hagerty
was compelled to remain in Berne.
While there he met Mrs. Margaret
Thompson and Miss Stella Ambrose.
teachers in the Waverly Avenue
School, and Supreme Court Justice
l<alisch.
DIR. Hagerty made II plan that
everywhere the people treated tour
lists with the utmost courtesy.
Though informed in Switzerland and
afterward greatly Inconvenience by
the length of time it took him to go
from Berne to Paris, the doctor said
that his return home was practically
without incident.
Among the passengers in the Cedric
was Justice Isaac NJ. Kapper, of the
New York Supreme Court. He said
that while he was in train at Dion,
France, five men were taken from it,
soldiers who arrested them charging
that they We're German spies The
roar of the people demanding that the
men be Immediately put to death was
terrifying. said the Judge. The shout
was SO great that it seemed to make
the train rock