Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-14

money easily enough when their checks
couldn't be cashed. But the financial
crisis Is past. On the 26th of August, the
day l left Goettingen. had an American
private check cashed for German gold
without any trouble, ! had u hard time
getting a room at Amsterdam on my way
TO England, but that was all,
THE Germans are in this fight To their
last man. They feel now that the Kaiser
waited too long to attack Russia, but
they are resolved to chop their way out
of the situation Belgians l have talked
with are bitterly hostile to Germany and
disEusted with the allies. They say the
French did not help them quickly
enough, and that the English have mere
ly stayed at Ostend."
PHILADELPIIIANSI IN TROUBLE.
Three Philadelphians had got in trouble
with the British authorities. A. c. Bird
sail Of the Bureau Of Municipal Research,
whose family live at swarthmora, had
accepted a raw recruits invitation on the
drilling grounds AT Aldershot to SNAP
him, and was Immediately surrounded by
a bowling mob. 81 look just Il little bit
like German" he said "and that was
no way to look" Officers came up, and
aycrtod hostilities. but took B!rdsall and
his camera away for an examination,
When he had satisfied them that ne was
AN American he was allowed 10 80 with
a warning.
In a little village In Wales. Wallace
SuIz, OF 329 Hanover street, Germantown,
and W. $. Jopson. Of 3li High street,
Germantown, were examined as spies.
Mr. Stilzs name was against him, but
their detention only lasted a few hours.
These young men Wee in Brussels on
August l and 2. They saw bowling mobs
in the streets and heard the jecrs which
greeted a German Attaches announce
ment from the balcony OF the German
Embassy that Germany Intended to pro-
tect Belgiums neutrality. Brussels was
hnine up with refugees from Liege, they
said Late on September they caught
"A train for Ostend and made their way
10 England on a jammed channel steam
ship.
j. J. Wicker, Jr., Of Richmond, Va,
insisted that plotting a party of - tour
lists including 81 women between the ages
of II and r. from Milan, Italy, through
Parts TO Ens land. was fun. Mr.. Wicker
is still in MS tWeuties. and the party had
originally started on. under the en- lperou-
a-o of his father Rav. DR.. j. j. Wicker,
one II IN. leading Baptist clerEymen Of
tho south. for a trip Of the II IL Land
and the Mediterranean.
we sailed from New York June 49,"
Mr. W., Eer sighed. "and we had our first
hard luck experience a few minutes out.
when our steamship. the Pretoria. was
rammed on the way down the river. We
were ordered on deck in life pTeseryers
and thought for a few minutes il was all
up with US. But We were spared for
better things.
"Among which was the smash we gave
the worlds record for lightning train
changes at pijon, on the way up from
Milan. Without the help of single
porter-there weren't any In all France
the SO OF us changed cars In ga minutes"
The party had been stranded for a
week in Milan before they could get
trains north. Every day" said Mr..
Wicker, the hotels raised their prices.
The journey 10 Paris. when they finally
started took = hours. They changed
earn fourteen times. Ia Paris they ar
ranged for transported tion to England
without difficulty
HORRORS OF WAR
Mrs Samuel Lumpkin widow OF a
former Chief Justice of Georgia; Miss
Evelyn Jackson. leading music teacher
IN Atlanta; Miss Kate Richardso and
Miss corrie Brown. ali Of Atlanta, were
in the Wicker party. on their trip
through Franel they said. thsz had