The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-12
YACHTS WILL GO
TO AID TOURISTS
Craft Of J. II. Ladew and l.. V.
Hardness Fitted for
European Dash.
DESTINATION KEPT SECRET
Brooklyn Pastor Released From
German PrisOn-OSbornc
Party Reports safe.

Three yachts are being pu' in readiness,
at Tehos. foot Of Twenty-ihrd street.
Brooklyn. Nv cross the Atlantic for the
purpose of bringing home relatives AMI
friends " their owners. who are ma
rooned on the other side by tho war
They are the columbia. owned by ].
Harvey Ladew: the pal,iva. owned ny
T.. V. Hardness. and the Alvina, owne.
hS Thomas +. Cole of Duluth. Mimi.
Neither capt. j. II Bond. commander OF
the Columbia. capt. Grcenlaw Of the
naldva nor cant Dixon Of the Alvua
would tell what ports they intend 10
head for nor would they make known
'he names Of she passengers whom they
will TAX, aboard
Word was received Yesterday that tn,
Rev. RivinE'on u. Lord pastor ~ the
First Baptist Church Marcy avenue and
krap street. BROOKLYN. WAS safe AZ Zurich.
after his release from a German prison
in which he had been locked up as a
spy. Mrs Lord. who Is At Peabody. Mass
got a cableGram from her husband in
which ne gave no details ~ his expert
encc The Rev Dr. Lord and the Rev pr
walter l@idlaw. eNecutiv. secretary OF the
Federation Of churches and Christian
Organizations. were captured by she
kaisers soldiers iu q small German town
IS they were on their way home from the
Church Peace onion Conference at Con-
stance Switzerland They had cameras
with them Both we're held I'm prison
TWO days before the German. were salts
He'd that the ministers were not pies
James W osborne. the New York law
Yer Mrs Leila q Van Wyck Osborne
and James ". Osborne. Jr.. had an cx-
citing Journey from Lausanne. Swtzer-
land. 20 Paris. according 20 a cable mos
sage announcing their safe arrival there.
The journey took twenty-seven hours in
stead OF the customary ten hours
Mrs. Frances Pervcu OF IL Hancock
street. Brooklyn, - worrying over the
safety Of her son. Or. Albert perVril. who
landed in Belgium IN July after return
ing from an African trip He fell III
and was taken to sanltarium a few
miles from Brussels. Mrs. Pervcil has
been unable TO get word from him.
W. n. Hamilton, the Washington rem
resentative Of the committee named by
Mayor Mitchell to ASSIST New Workers.
stranded in Europe. telegraphed y'ster-
DAY that he had conferred with Secre-
tares Bryan. Garrison and Daniels and
that Secretary Garrison was very OPP
timistic as to the situation. He said that
there would probably be no need OF
Chartering transports TO facilitate the re-
turn Of merican citizens
The American emba ISLES In Germany,
Austria and Russia are chartoring small
ships for the purpose OF taking away
Americans The general plan being fol
lowed Is to get every tourist 70 some sea
port, whence small boats leaving for Lon
don can be found II is believed that
neutral lines and those OF England will
be able to take care Of all these tourists
easily once they are concentrated at
searorts.
Mrs Thomas J Preston. formerly Mrs.
Grover Cleveland, Tor whose safety anN-
lefty has been felt il reported to be at St
Moritz. switzerland.
Friends of William Harmon Black. who
was Commissioner OF Accounts under Mayor
Mcclellan. have asked the State Depart
ment to try TO locate him in Europe. He
left New York four weeks ago to tour Europe
for the purpose of completing World =
Guide which an organization OF which he
is president is preparing. lie is member
Of the National Geographic Society and as
he had with him maps Of every country IN
Europe his friends fear that he may have
had the same experience as Archer VI
Huntington president of the American Geo
graphic Society. who was arrested as a
Spy Mr. Black expected 80 he in Paris
on August l.