The evening world., 1914-08-31
us. PAYS $4,000 TO Bring
678 REFUGEES FROM EUROPE.
Of These 652 Had to Come Storage, to Their
Great Observation-Disclosures on Pier With
$4,000 to Help Distressed

The FIRST wards OF Uncle Sam to
come from tho war zone with pas
sage guaranteed by him. arrived at
Pier No. %. South Brooklyn, to-day
on tho italian steamship, San Gio-
vanni. OF the Slcula- Americana line.
There we're 67s aboard In the first
cabin and steerage. all Americans.
and this afternoon Martin Vogel.
Assistant Treasurer OF the United
States In charge of tho sub-treasury
tho line In New York $4,000. which
the Government had promised to pay
for the tickets OF destitute Americans.
On Thursday tho San Guglielmo will
bring more stranded Americans
whose passage money to the extent
OF moro than $4,000 has been guar
anteed by tho United States.
Tho Bankers Association. as we'll
as representatives Of the Sub Treas
ury, had active agents on the pier
to recover and convert into cash tho
securities OF the coin-poor passengers
who had come home as temporary
guests OF Uncle Sam. Six repre-
sentatives OF the Bankers Associa-
ton. with $4,000 In gold. circulated
among the passengers as fast as they
came down from the ship and re-
deemed bankers checks and letters OF
credit as soon as presented. by this
provision all whose passage had been
guaranteed were able to make imme-
date settlement with the agents Of
tho Sub Treasury.
The poorest man on the ship was
N. Is. Lightford. Of Perth, Ont. Ho
had just sixteen American pennies
when he came down the gangplank.
But Lightford had done a tre-
mendous amount of gambling aboard,
according to his own admission, and
had increased the three cents he had
on boarding the ship at Naples to the
sixteen In his possession to- day by
plunging at penny ante.
No more happy lot Of people from
stricken Europe has landed In New
York than those from tho San Clio
sea, and for the 652 whose hard fate II
was to come In tho steerage the rigid
schedule was one towel per person
per week, one napkin ditto. and one
thousand feas every minute Of tho
day and night. They called those
vicious hordes italian uhlans."
Among the passengers was James
Grow, an actuary OF the New York
Life Insurance. Company. who had
been sent from London by Ambassa-
dor Page to arrange with the Italian
steamship people to accept the
American Governments guarantee of
passage for the destitute. Twenty
eight Cleveland. o.. school teachers
under the protection OF T.. A. Hotch-
kiss and Henry c. Muckley, Assistant
Superintendents OF Schools there,
told of short living In Rome while
awaiting much desired passage homo.
The Misses Lucy and Ruth Sher-
man of San Francisco had been taxi
en- Off a train and detained as sus-
poets for a day In Metz while the
film packs In their cameras were
being developed and examined. They
were told at last that they were too
pretty to be- spies and were allowed
to 20 with the commandments bless
Ing.
Morris Cukor, a lawyer. with Offices
In The World Building. had the expe-
rience of being arrested as a SOY and
riding several score miles on a gun
carriage as Incidents In a honeymoon.
He and his wife were In Berne when
tho general war spread and were given
orders to leave within twelve nours
because of imminent mobilization of
the Swiss army. They started for
Paris, but got no further than the lit
tie town of Pontalier. near the French
border.
There all passengers were turned
out on the station platform and troops
took their places. Cukor, because Of
his Hungarian name. was arrested a.
IA spy. Mrs. Cukor raised such a pro-
test that both OF them we're carried to
the nearest commandments office.