Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-30
TWO LINERS BRING
THOUSANDS HOME
The Olympic and Adriatic Ar
rive at New York From
England.
MRS. OLLIE JAMES AND
SENATOR OLIVER ABOARD
Daniel Guggenheim and DR.. Charles
Ritter Also Describe War Scene
in European Capitals.

NEW YORK, August o9.-Three thou
sand or more Americans reached New
York today from England aboard the
White Star liners Olympic and Adriatic
the latter reaching port with an arma-
ment of four six-inch rifles mounted two
on her bow and two ON her stern. Ihe
Adriatic brought 1,762 passengers. the
Olympic LIP. Nearly all were Ameri-
cans and hundreds made the voyage as
steerage passengers.
Both ships made the trip without un-
usual incident, although passengers
aboard the Adriatic were badly scared ny
the appearance of vessel, Wh'ch thes
first nistook to be hostile warshlp' out
later found to be the French iiief
France.
Among the passengers on the oiyihp.4e
was Mrs Ollie James. wife or the Jill
ed states senator from Kentucky. MIS-
James said she was in BeInH INC ua'
before war was declared she & .i'a
formed by Ambassador Geraro tnat sae
might do we'll to leave the country. -
arrangements were made IoI
her and party she was win ~ so ~
ST Petersburg by rail-
Train Diverted to Copenhagen.
Ambassador Gerard secured accom-
modations for US on the finest tram
leaving Berlin for the Russian frontier
said Mrs. James I'VE thought we were
we'll on our way when the train sud
denly pulled into Copenhagen. None OF
the passengers on board had been IN
formed that the train had been diverted.
We never were told why II had oeeh
done.
Il remained in Copenhagen four days,
while awaiting a chance to cross to Lon
don. Finally l managed with twenty
small freight steamer that drew put
twelve feet of water. But even with that
light draft the captain of the freighter
was afraid to proceed at more tnan
mines had been strewn along the coast
and through the English channel we
managed to get through the mine helds
without mishap. but every one ABOARD
the ship was extremely nervous.
Senator James boarded the Olympic
at quarantine from a revenue cutter.
Senator Oliver of Pennsylvania, an
other passenger, was In switzerland
with his wife and grandchfid when
Austria declared war on Servia. He
and his family hurried to Paris and
thence to London. reaching the French
coast with much difficulty. 80
T. p. Shonts Was in Austria.
Theodore P. Shonts, president Of the
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Of New York, was in Austria when that
country declared war on Servia. He
hurried with his daughters to Paris.
There he became member of the COM
mittee formed to care for Americans.
when left Paris there were, rough
Americans who were in urgent need
of help" Mr.. Shonts said This is the
greatest opportunity the United States
has ever had. The next six months
should see the entire nation engaged
in caring for a tremendous commerce.
The whole country should become rich"
Daniel Guggenheim was abroad. He
ran out of money while in Paris, and
his son i'll the United States cabled
him $1,000 from the United States.
Austria at the outbreak of the war
While crossing from Ostend to Lon
don a French cruiser fired two shots
across the bow of the Belgian mail
boat he was travelling on. Officers came
aboard and smashed the wireless equip
ment. Then they informed the cap
tain of the steamer that he might pro-
ceed.
When the Olympic reached her dock
in the North river stewards were set
to work to remove hundreds of sheets
of heavy black oiled paper that had
been placed over every window, port
hole and door. Windows on the sun
deck had heavy coat of black paint
over them. Not ray of light was al
lowed to show outside the Olympic
during her voyage.
The liner brought nearly 5000 sacks
of mail
Describes st. Petersburg Scenes.
DIR. Charles Ritter of Paterson. n. j.,
a passenger aboard the Adriatic, de-
scribed the. kindling of the war fever
in st. Petersburg.
when we got there" he said, ''the
city was under martial law. Co.'S
streets, as our cowboys do in the dime
novels. Every train which arrived
poured hordes Of soldiers from the
country. Although the officials theoret-
ically paid for everything they seized.
it amounted to absolute confiscation in
practice. One man there. for instance,
owned a string Of race horses valued
at 100000. They were all taken for
the army, and he received about 800.
Il went out to the Winter Palace
least 10000 people there. After the
proclamation had been read the czar,
czarina and other members of the
royal family stood out on the balcony
overlooking the crowd for at least
twenty minutes.
Two days later a mob. which must
have numbered many thousands.
surged through the streets of ST
Petersburg. They finally stopped in
front Of the German embassy. On the
top of this building there are two
huge iron statues of Uhlans About a
hundred Of the mob climbed up to the
roof and broke the statues to pieces
with sledge hammers.
This was the sign for the whole mob
to get busy. They swarmed through
the building, smashing everything they
could On one of the floors they found
a Russian footman. He had been stab
bed three times and apparently had
been dead for several hours.
I'VE at last managed to get a train
to Wolgda, August 1. BY tipping a
railway official literally / secured a
car exclusively for our party So great
was the mob at the station that six
people were pushed under the wheels
Of the train and killed as the train
pulled out"
Athletes Return.
Among the passengers on the Olympic
were two noted college athletes -
"Hobey" Baker Of foot ball and hockey
fame at Princeton, and Herbert P.
Ketcham. who captained the Yale eley-
en- last fall.
Alfred g. Vanderbilt, another passen-
ger, said the British government took
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