Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-31
PERIL OF TOURISTS
IN WAR TERRITORY
Americans Just Landed at
Home Ports Recite Expert
ences in Europe.
SOME ARRESTED AS SPIES
ARE THROWN INTO PRISON
Trains Stopped and Passengers
Searched-Many Lose Their Be-
longing+Storm at Sea.

NEW YORK, August 31.-The Anchor
Line steamer Columbia arrived today
from Glasgow and Neville with 500
passengers, all of whom except forty
five in the Storage were Americans
who had been delayed In returning
home from Europe.
The steamer San Giovanni from
Naples, with GIT American refugees
from Italy and Switzerland, also ar
rived this morning. Many of the San
Giovannfs passengers owed for their
fare across the Atlantic when the boat
locked today. Each passenger was
charged 500, and If he could not pay
his promise to pay upon reaching New
York was accepted instead of money.
A number of the passengers signed
promissory notes for their fare on the
way across. No satlantic vessels
were due to leave New York today.
Upward of 1900 American refugees
arrived here yesterday from Europe.
They came on the steamship ST. Paul
of the American line from Liverpool,
which carried a total of 925 passen-
gers, and the Espagne of the French
line from Havre, which had 1853 pas
sengers. OF the st. Paurs steerage
passengers 1877 were returning Ameri-
cans.
Advises Young Woman to Faint.
H. H. Paneck of New York, who
came in the ST. Paurs steerage, told
how he got twenty women out of Paris
by a ruse. The women had gathered
from the interior of France and were
anxious to get to England, but found
the trains of cattle cars crowded.
Il told one young woman to faint"
said Mr.. Paneck, and she did it we'll.
Those aboard the trains rushed out to
see the cause of the trouble and by a
arrangement the other nineteen
made for the places left vacant, while
| carried the fainting woman aboard
in my arms"
DR.. George w. Gerwig. secretary OF
the board of public education of Pitts
burgh. Pa, returned with his son and
daughter land five Pittsburgh school
teachers he found stranded in Vienna
and Berlin.
Shipping authorities said that at no
time in history has there been a
greater number of Americans west
bound on the north Atlantic than at
present Twenty vessels are steaming
toward New York with every avail
able inch of their passenger accommo-
dations. 1t is estimated that 26,000
Americans are on board these twenty
steamships.
1t is said that $1,000 passengers en-
barked from British and continental
ports for New York from August to
August 90, inclusive. and that $1,000
will leave aboard vessels booked to
clear early this week.
1,7OO Refugees Reach Boston.
BOSTON, August 31-The Cunard
liner Franconia- with 1900 American
refugees from Europe aboard. arrived
last night. With her tunnels painted
a battleship gray and her portfolios
blanketed, the Franconia was conveyed
by two English torpedo boats on the
first day of her trip. Seven times dur
ing the remainder of the voyage the
liner was hailed by Warships-five
times by English and twice by French
cruisers.
The ship was running slowly Friday
night with all lights above decks ex-
tinguished when there was crash.
and she came to stop. Many passen-
gers thought she had encountered a
German warship. but their fears were
allayed when they learned that she
had hit a fishing schooner a CHANGING
blow. The damage was slight. That
night storm put the wireless appa-
ratuS out of commission.
Edward NJ Newman of Chicago, a
passenger, said the night England de-
clared war on Germany he was arrest
ed at his hotel in Berlin by German
soldiers and hurried to Jail. charged
with being a British spy. Photographs
he had been taking of the city were
used as evidence against him. For five
days Mr.. Newman sat in his cell while
in the prison yard outside he said he
could hear the shooting of other men
charged with being spies.
Fearing a similar fate" he said,
II bribed a jailer to send his wife to
American Ambassador Gerard. Once
my case was in the amba ssador's
hands l was released.
Gentle Old Lady" Spy.
Another of the passengers. Miss May
Leverisch of Brooklyn. N. Y, said that
on a steamer from Genoa to Liver
pool she made the acquaintance of a
person who appeared to be a gentle
old lady and was greatly surprised at
Gibraltar to learn that her friend had
been arrested and taken ashore as a