The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-03
AMERICANS FIGHT TO GET
OUT OF PARIS AND LONDON
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second not a gold coin was left in sight
on the tables"
An American woman, Mrs. Barnard
Lntott. arrived In London this after
noon from Etaples. France.
People are leaving there" she said,
"and are being told It is their last
chance. Every year there k an Ameri-
can colony Of artists from Paris and
America at Etaples and similar colonies
at the picturesque fishing towns Of
Picardy and at Trepied and nearby VII
lases among the pines and sand dunes.
The tension for the last few days has
been growing moro painful. The Eng
lish speaking persons on meeting have
been asking. What are you going to
do?'
Artists Have Hard Time.
I'm this artists district we'll known
American painters have transformed
the neat. quaint farmhouses into sum
mer homes and studios. Americans like
these. with all the we'll known attri-
butes OF artists and with the artists
general Disregard for affairs Of the out
side world. ut first regarded the Euro
pean situation rs an interesting topic
Of conversation and no more. The banks
were closing and no one would give
them silver or gold and 70 change their
20 franc notes became difficult. hut still
these Americans felt safe. as 'Pcrc
America would look after them.
when therefore they heard that
some OF the boats sailing for America
had been stopped they argued that
these would be flied with business men
who had to return. Their sy1npathies
wcre all for their French neighbors. the
peasants, whose sons were saying fare
we'll before going to the front. Oven
when news Of the mobilization came
early yesterday morning no American
seemed ready to stir. Instead they all
said: We shall see In a few days that
after all war In not really declared
Then this morning the Mayor posted
a notice that fell like a thunderbo,t on
TIC american dIIlSlSi ~ Shlu Vfld1 HI
foreigners resident IN the town must
show their papers Of identification to the
Mayor before o'clock Tomorrow or
that they otherwise would he arrested.
All Hurry to station.
soon after s o'clock this morning I
made my way to the bridge over the
Canche River. met American artists
wearing something OF the same tense
expression on their faces that had be-
come general among the French people.
7 met Bill Noble. the painter. al the sta =
ton. Every one bound for the station
stopped to see the notice Of which he
had heard.
But papers Of Identification and pass
ports? None had them. Some had let
ters of credit Others. students from
Paris In the country for few weeks.
had lust enough French money for their
summer trip. Our crowd hurried on,
picking ND other alarmed foreigners and
hoping to get 10 Poulogne by the morn
ing train In time to catch the boat TO
England.
ether, was CONSERVATION when We
reached the station; not ticket OF any
description could be issued. The ticket
Offices were closed and the station was
entirely given UP TO the army, The last
train for Paris had left the night before
and the luggage of the crowds who had
departed within the last two days had
been left behind. blocking the station
yard and even the roadway, with nc
one responsible for protecting II.
From La Touquet and Paris PLACE
fashionable resorts. a tram ride distance
had arrived omnibuses from every large
hotel. all filled with Americans Other
omniouse, brought their baggage. All
were being turned back. One train only
would come through the station before
Il would be entirely closed and that wal
going for Boulogne within a few hours
Few ,Ha~e Tickets.
we held up the stationmaster and
told him We would dash back to Etaples
and Trepied and warn the artist crowd
and urge them TO get away on this one
train. The stationmaster threw cold
water on the plan, asking, Have you re-
turn tickets for Boulogne? II you have
and there IL room on the train you may
pass, otherwise It is utterly impossible
by good luck I had my ticket Some
one went posthaste 80 call up any one at
| Trepled who might have return ticket
10 Boulogne. None had such a ticket
at the house Of II. o. Tanner, the fam
Gus American painter of religious pic
lures. Roy Brown Of Chicago made the
same reply. Myron Barlow said he was
going to stay anyway. Bill Noble had
no tickets. A visitor at the house Of
Austen Brown. the English landscape
painter, whose wife Ia now lecturtng In
America, had ticket. as also had .
guest OF Murray Mackay. the portrait
painter Of Detroit and New York
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