The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-05
Refugees, Among Whom Are
8l8 Americans, Have I'm
eventful Passage.
RUSSIANS ARE IN ENGLAND
Queenstown HarbOr to BE Closed
and Mined, According to
Passengers.


only steamship that brought American
refugees to this port from Europe yes
terday. She came to her pier at West
Eighteenth street about 4 o'clock In the
afternoon with 1850 passengers. s4s OF
whom were Americans There were 2ss
Americans In the nrst cabin, 3is In the
second and 2b In the steerage
Max Rabinoff. who manages the pro-
auctions OF Pavlowa and her dancers In
this country. said he left the stock for
two productions In Berlin and will have
10 get new stock In this country. Pavlowa
got out Of Berlin with difficulty, he said.
and went to Paris and finally to London.
where she is now rehearslng with her
company. He said the Russian Ambas-
sador 20 England told him In London on
August % that one transport from Russia
had landed a regiment Of Russian troops
at Aberdeen, scotland.
The Cedric's passage was uneventfu!'
Her passengers reported movements OF
Russian troops through England and some
of them brought tire Information that the
harbor OF Queenstown was to be closed
and mined and that no more liners would
/ be allowed TO touch there.
William J. Kinsley said he was told by
the White Star officials in England that
the Cedric would DO the last ship to
touch at Queenstown.
Mrs. Colgate Hoyt said she was in ST.
| Petersburg with her husband when war
was declared and stayed there until
August 10. She saw the mob destroy
the German embassy. murder an under
secretary who resisted and burn the
! furnishings in the street From 81. Peters
burg Mrs Hoyt went 20 Raumo. port
| In Finland. and succeeded in getting a
| small steamer for Stockholm which
picked it's way through the mined waters
Of the Baltic. She went from Stockholm
10 Bergen and there took small steam
ship to Leith. Scotland.
Mrs Hoyt SAID that Jules Cambon
French Ambassador at Berlin. was on the
lrma and related to her how he had beer
insulted before leaving Germany The
German mobs in Berlin had spat upon
him In the street. he told her
J. o. Jennings. steward OF the Cedric
said his brother-!n-law. James Wiley, VIII
is in command OF the water supply TO
$1,000 British soldiers camped on Sails
bury Plain, had found two German spie
near the tanks with enough poison I
make the whole water supply deadly
They were captured and held for tria
He said also that the soldiers there hav
shot two carrier pigeons with message
for German officials, giving information
regarding conditions In England
Mrs f. Sutcliffe OF Cohasset Mass
said she had been In Halifax, YORKSHIRE
since the war began, and, with othe
women there had been sewing shirts 70
the soldiers. They made 1000 shirts !
two days, she said.
w. IL Crane, the actor, who was on
of the passengers on the Cedric, returne
to MI engagements which open in "A shol
. time Mr.. Crane was IN Belgium whe
hostilities began. lie was not one OF IN
excited ones, however. but proceeded a
hest he could TO the seaboard and theme
made his way to London and Liverpool
, He said he had no thrilling adventures.
Junius Morgan OF the Paris bankin
firm. a nephew Of the late j. Iicrpor
Morgan, was "A passenger on the Cedrt
He was not In the passenger list and cam
3 aboard without ticket just before Il
$ Cedric sailed but found accommodation
! Mrs W. Pierson Hamilton, daughter
the late J. Pierpont Morgan. and her son
I Pierpont Morgan Hamilton, L. Morga
Hamilton and Alexander Hamilton, an
? bar daughter. Miss f. 5. Hamilton, wei
, also on the Cedric,