The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-09-01
Letter from Abroad.

On Thursday letter was received
from Miss Carrie j. Kingdom. AS there
have been several inquiries with refer
ence to her whereabouts we feel that
possibly it might interest some of her
friends to know something about her.l
The letter was dated August 2, and
stated that on the previous night the
party arrived at Brigue, which is the
end of the Simplon tunnel. Instead of
going through the tunnel under the
Alps from Italy to Switzerland, thew
drove over the Simplon Pass. The
scenery through the mountains she de-
scribes as beautiful, and lunch was taken
at SimplOn village. At first she was
sorry that some of her many friends
were not with her to see the beautiful
scenery, but on going down the noun
tain the road ran so close to the edge
and the preeipices were SO deep that she
sort of wondered whether she wanted to
be there herself. 1t had been intended
to leave Brigue for Montreux Saturday
night, August l, but when they reached
the latter village they discovered that
war had beeu declared, that all trains
were late and that it was impossible to
get to Montreux until very late at night,
if at all.
Switzerland had called out her troops
to defend her borders and the party that
Miss Kingdom was with was the last to
drive over the Simplon Pass. A party
from Philadelphia got through the Sim
plon tunnel Sunday morning and then
that was closed, and there was no way
of getting out of Italy except by water.
The Temple Tours, with which she is
travelling, had over 200 people in Italy.
On Tuesday morning, August A, the
party was still at Montreux, with pros
pect of staying several days. Lots of
rumOrs were afiOat but it was next to i'm
possible to get an English newspaper
and discover the true state of affairs.
Having seen no papers of any account
since leaving home the news of the war
came like thunderbolt out of clear
sky. The party was quartered very COM
fortably in pleasant hotel on the Lake
of Geneva, with pleasant weather, and
adjoining the hotel there is Kursaal
where one can go and read papers and
magazines and hear the band play, al
though the latter is not complete, sever
al of the members having been COM
PEELED to join the army.
The party got rid of all the Italian
money the members had before they
crossed the boundary line, intending to
cACudnSc lilciT CleCkS lOT SWlSS money,
but nobody cared to deal in the paper
The tourist agent, however, made ar
rangements whereby cash came in a day
OF two. Swiss money-silver and gold
and in some cases, Swiss paper-is all
that will be accepted. Outside of hav-
ing to give up large part of the trip
and that part consisting of places es-
pecially desirable to be seen, the party
does not feel any inconvenience or cause
for alarm.
A message from the Boston office of
the Temple Tours, dated August %, said
that the tour on which Miss Kingdom
was travelling, reached London on
Thursday and it was expected that the
party would sail as at first arranged.
If this program is followed out the tour
will leave Liverpool on the steamer
Laconia today. 1t was at first expected
tina the boat would land at Boston, but
there is some uncertainty on that point
and the steamer may come iuto New
York.