New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-10
Plight of 500 in Bergen and Christiania Reported
by Perry Tiffany Causes Prompt Ac-
ton Toward Their Relief.
GERMAN LINES ALLOW NO REFUNDS
Citizens Committee to Disburse 100000 To-day to
Aid Refugees on Continent-Judgc julius Mayer
Among Those Returning in Storage

prevented from making the trip 20
America on board the Celtic, while her
husband, the Ambassador 20 Spain, was
coming here on board the L. S. :.
Tennessee.
Mrs. willard was journeyinC to
America to be with her i'll daughter,
who is the wife of Kermit Roosevelt
Several weeks ago Ambassador Willard
went to America with his daughter anG
son-in-law. Mrs Willard had sailed
to join them. when word came to the
err bassy throuGh the Secretary OF
State that Mr>. Roosevelt was mucn
better and that Ambassador Willard
was on his way TO Europe. Mrs. Will
lard got off and is returning to Eng
land to await her husband.
number OF American passengers
on board the Kronprinzessin Cecilie
and the Prince Adalbert. two Hamburg
American liners in Falmouth. arrived
in London tonight having been sent
on by the American consul there on
orders from Ambassador Page. Ac-
cording TO the stories Of some paSsen-
gers on the Kronprinzessin Cecilie its
captain would not let them land, al
though the British government was
willing. while passengers on the other
ship said the captain ordered them Oft.
some being made uncomfortable be
cause they had only German money.
Cabin de Luxe to Steerage.
Anxious to get home to his business,
a wealthy American negotiated to-day
for steerage compartment given up
by another person, and stated his VIII
ingness 10 pay extra If the steamship
company newly painted that part of
the steerage where he must sleep. Ac-
cording 10 a story told in the Amer
can committee rooms in the Savoy to-
day, Howard Carroll, who, it is said,
had the sisers suite for the return
trip on the German liner, is so deter
mined to go home that he and his fam
lily are willing to go steerage If shey
cannot get other accommodations, while
Judge julius Mayer is one of those
booked in the steerage. One doctor IN
sists he must get accommodations i'm
mediately. for he has promised to per
form an operation on a patient a.
certain time.
Conhscate Hudson Films.
Somewhere in Germany are a patch
Of confiscsted moving picture films
which originally were destined to be
displayed before audiences this fall
under the auspices of the New York
Board Of Education. The films include
one thousand feet of Hudson River
scenes, battleships figuring prominent
"; also many feet of film showing the
environs of Washington's home in
England. and many feet Of film show
ing the Rhine.
These pictures, taken by the Rev.
c. Seymour Bullock, of Cold Spring,
~ h.. If
ficers Near Frankfort few days ago.
DR.. Bullock is a member Of the Ameri-
can committee here at present. He
told his experiences to-day, saying:
81 had taken pictures of much Of the
Rhine scenery before the war broke
out. On my way out of Germany
German officers, in searching the
railway cars, found my outfit, which
they Immediately contiscated, and de-
tanned me six hours, until they felt
satisfied that | was not spy. They
took the Hudson River films, | sup
pose, because they had battleships in
them" AS irony would have it, the
confiscsted Washington films were to
form part of lecture series or
hundred years of peace, scheduled for
the public schools of New York.
Many of the Americans who arrived
in England yesterday on board the
White Star liner Oceanic already are
applying to the American relief COM
mittees for cash and return passage
TO the United States The passengers
who were released from the Hamburg
American liners Kronprinzessin and
Prinz Adalbert, interned at Falmouth,
also are applying for aid.
The German steamship lines refuse
10 grant refunds on ticket deposits,
travellers being given only non-trans-
ferable orders on the New York Offices
Of the companies.
Berlin, via Copenhagen, Aug. "a
letter from Bad Nsuheim says the
Americans in that watering place are
all well. They have encountered GER
tain monetary difficulties, but the no
tells are giving credit
At Munich there are 5000 Ameri-
cans, who are receiving every courtesy,
but they are having trouble, owing TO
the fact that checks are not accepted.
Modena, Italy, Aug. 9.-Many Amer
leans en- route for Geneva are arriving
here in automobiles. Travel by rail-
wsysis prohibited.
The American Consul General at &C.
noa, DR.. John Edward Jones, has an
nounced the sailing Of steamer for
America next week.