Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-29
CITIZENS OF CAPITAL
ARE REPORTED SAFE
Several Return to Homes
Here, and Word Is Received
From Others Abroad.

Word has been received through the
State Department that Mrs. Walsh,
wife of Senator Walsh of Montana,
and her daughter. Miss Genevieve
Walsh. are at The Hague, Holland
Miss q. K. Brandenburg Of Wash
ington has returned to her home here
via Quebec. Miss Brandenburg. who
Is a teacher in the Western High
School, was in Freiburg. Germany,
when the war opened and reached
Paris on one OF the last trains passing
through Alsace and Lorraine before
the troops Communicated all the rail-
roads. Reaching London in safety. she
sailed for this country on the steamer
Corinthia.
canal Office of this city has arrived
home safely from a trip to Scotland.
by the way of Montreal.
Among the washingtonians still in
Switzerland are Mrs. Juan Atwell and
her two children. Mrs. Atwell was Miss
Estelle Hynek Of this city.
Chatards Not Heard From.
Although queries have been made by
friends as to the whereabouts OF DR..
and Mrs. Thomas M. Chatard and Miss
Williams of Baltimore, who expected
to return to Washington August 1,
after one year in Europe, nothing has
been heard from them directly. When
last heard from they were travelling
in France
Through information which reached
Washington late last evening. 1t is
learned that the party of Washington
ministers who, since July, have been
touring Palestine, have reached Rome
on schedule time. They will not be
able to leave Italy for the United
fact that the White Star liner Cretic,
on which their passage was booked. Is
being used as a British troop trans
port. The party expects to remain in
Is Chairman Of Committee.
Rev James H. W. Blake, pastor Of
Christ Episcopal Church. this city. is
chairman of the relief committee on the
steamship San Giorgio, which will leave
Naples this evening for New York city
with 107 Americans on board, Of which
number % are in the first cabin. Word to
that effect reached the State Department
today from Consul White at Naples.
The Misses katherine, Frances and Ella
May Sullivan, nieces of Edward ]. Walsh,
all of Washington. and Miss Lillian Con-
nell. with whom they nave been travelling
on the continent, have reached London
from Switzerland and are to sail on the
American liner st. Louis, September 5.
Following is a list of those teachers
with Washington schools from whom
word has been received, and the places
where they are at present:
Miss C. C. Dessez, Interlaken; Miss
NJ. 7. Mckee. Berne; H. w. Draper. on
the ocean; A. G. Alden, England; Miss
Margaret Stockbridge. on the ocean;
Miss Lillian Burroughs. England; Miss
M P. Bradshaw and Miss Margaret
Graham. both in Holland; Miss Mildred
Dean, near Paris; S. S. Catella, Hol-
land; Rene Samson. Clery. France;
Miss NJ. o. Dean, near Paris; Miss
Flora Freyhold, Berlin; Miss Ethel
Ridgeway. England: Miss Ruth Oberly,
Venice; Miss Clara Burroughs. Eng
land
Those who have not been heard from
are Miss Katherine Lowry, Miss C. p.
Dulin. Miss B. P. Galiher, Miss N. j.
Mcknight, Miss NJ. r. Wallace, Miss
r. c. Stutz. Miss M. B. Merrill. Nine.
B. ]. Buinout. Miss Ruth Rizer and Miss
Marie Sfebert