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 I left Goett!ngen, l had an American
private check cashed for German gold
without any trouble. | had 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 10 chop their way out
of the situation. BclGians l have talked
with are bitterly hostile 10 Germany and
disguised with the allies. They say the
French did not help them quickly
enough and that the English have mere
ly stayed at Ostend."
PHILADELPHIANs1 IN TROUBLE.
Three Philadelphians had got In trouble
with the British authorities. A. c. Bird
sail, of the Bureau of Municipal Research,
whose family i've at swarthmore. had
accepted a raw recruits invitation on the
drilling grounds at Aldershot, to snap"
him, and was Immediately surrounded by
a bowling mob II look just little bit
like a German" he said, land that was
no way to look" officers came up, and
avertcd hostlitles, but took Birdsall and
his camera away for an examination.
When he had satisfied them that he was
an American. he was allowed TO go with
a warning
In a little village in Wales, Wallace
Stilz. of 329 Hanover street. Germantown,
and W. $. Jopson. Of 31+ High street,
Germantown, were examined a. spies
Mr., Stilz's name was against him, but
their detention only lasted d few hours.
These young men were in Brussels on
August l and 2, They saw bowling mobs
in the streets and heard the jeers which
greeted a German Attaches announce
ment from the balcony Of the German
Embassy that Germany intended 20 pro-
tect Belgium's neutrality Brussels was
uuing up with refugees from Liege, they
said. Late on September they caught
"a train for Ostend ana made their way
10 England on a jammed channel steam
ship.
J. J. Wicker, Jr, Of Richmond, Va,
insisted that plotting a party Of SO tour
lists, including E women between the ages
OF II and 7S, from Milan Italy, through
Paris 10 England. was fun. Mr.. Wicker
i= still IN his twenties and the party had
oriciuaIly started out under the Ch1peron-
a1e of his father, Rev, Dr., ]. J. Wicker,
one Of the leading Baptist clergymen Of
tho south. for a trip OF the Holy Land
and the Mediterranean.
we sailed from New York June l3"
Mr. Wicker 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 i'm life preserycrs
and thought for a few minutes 1t was all
up with MS. But We We're spared for
better things
Among which was the smash We gave
the worlds record for lightning train
changes at Dijon, on the way up from
Milan, Without the help Of "a single
porter-there weren't any I'm all France
the 50 Of Us changed cars In Pa 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 f2 hours They changed
cars fourteen times. In Paris they ar
ranged for transportation 10 England
without difficulty.
HORRORS OF WAR
Mrs, Samuel IMmpkin, widow OF a
former Chief Justice Of Georgia: Miss
Evelyn Jackson, a leading music teacher
I'M Atlanta, Miss Kate Richardson and
Miss Corrie Brown. all of Atlanta, were
in the Wicker party. On their trip
through France. they said, they had
seen all the horrors Of var EXCEPT 9~AsSl
fighting.