The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-08-23


party, as he was In Italy and she diu
not have enough money to act inde-
pendently and lose sight of him, so
there we sat and saw all the other
people going to England and other
places OF safety. We found out later
though that we did exactly the right
thing. We finally heard from him
INT. PratD and he told us to find out
from the boat authorities II our host
would sail and II 30 to go to Antwerp,
II not to go to London. We tried to do
this but the authorities could not tell
us whether our boat would sail or not.
80 we spent another afternoon In try
ing to decide what was the best
course Of action to take. That p. M.
all the Americans in Paris met at the
Grand Hotel and had meeting to de-
eide what to do. Some OF our party
went and saw there many people we
knew. among them Maidelie Boat
wright and Mr., l. B. Murray from
nome. Jean had seen them on the
steets there before this.
We heard at o'clock Tuesday p.
M. that there WAS probability OF our
ooat sailing and we decided to take
the risk and leave Paris. We now
realize what an awful risk we ran.
Tor we had only enough money to last
uS to get 10 antwerp and take care OF
us until the boat did sail and If It had
not goodness only knows what would
nave become OF us Then, too, our
guide had another party to meet In
Paris and could not 60 on to Antwern
Win uf. so there We wcre-16 .girls
alone-going around tho country at
'uch time. Miss lIildreth four
suiae) though. was very anxious for
us 10 get out OF Paris as she consid
cred 1t very dangerous. Mails could
oe sent, and they said further down
town several persons were killed ore
nisht: German shops were being
smashed and general disorder wah
prevailing.
we left Paris ct 8 o'clock and trav-
eiled all night long and never viii,
we forget that night. VIE could hear
the soldiers in other cars cheering
ana laughing and talking and We heard
the Marscillcs saung until we
thought we would scream We turned
out the light in our compartment ana
.ried to sleep but 1t was inpogsible.
me moon wac simply lovely and the
country this silvery grey, and as we
ncared the frontier we could see the
sentinelE marching on duty. etc
every one was 80 silent, and deprcs..
ed-yet you could not help from feel
ing how very thrilling our exneri.
ences were. We would wecn n while
and then sing THE Good Old u. 8. A."
and Il Want to See My Home ;n
Dixie" You will see pjrI w,tt,
o ecars IN her eyes say We've got
sooo q nome. and why in this world
..u ~ we ever leave It," At o'clock in
.ne norhing we were dumped off at a
pace ana mad to walk three miles
asloss the town to another station.
s'hs through the lines showing
our passports Of course. We would
pe walking calmly along when >,
happy little soldier feeling his impor-
lance would call out to "Halt and
you bet we halted too! That was one
Ime we sure saw the SUN rise ana
we were all too choked for words FOR
none Of us knew what the day wonIo
orIng forth. Each town that we ston-
pea at the stations would be crowded
win soldiers and their weepinr wive.
ano friends Each place that we ston,
pea we got only bad news OF the war
ana not to go on, ETC., but we wer,.
determined to get to Antwerp We
were warned in Brussels that Ant
~erp was tn a state of siepe and M,
70 go on but we did anyway. Brussels
!s lovely city and it Ia very sad to
LINK 81, OF what is going on there now
we got TO Antwerp at II the next
- .uorhihg and we met a cook man ar
eue station who said II nothing han
penea our toat sailed the next dar
Out II would not be sure until the
very minute OF sailing. Well von
can't imagine tho happiness and iov
tnat was ours and the nrayor. ~
thanks that was said We rot re ,,s.
iidly. u splen-
Lei me tell you before forget 4,
now extremely nice every one wag r.
us: every man you saw, woman and
chlid' did everything in their powor
80 give us aid. They helped US with
our baggage. gave us seats. and were
80 Kind we will never forget II. Thres
travelled from Paris to
antwerp with us. spoke Englich ana
were TOO grand to us. They helned ns
'ut IN more ways than I can tell Won.
sou Know our trunks were to be
seHt 70 us from London to Antwern
Oat we did not really care very much
~ course we hated to lose them but
.HSt was small matter. Imagine our
Ieitgnt when, we heard Cook had sent
lasm over the wosk before the war.
everyone : tokes fun 80 at Thos! Cook
= son. but we'll always be- their
[rAends, They. always looked like an
oasiS In the deSert to the "Pratt- Per
ySRarty aa We called ourselves.
aye were down at the boat :. IN
oGiock the next norning and II did
a9t sail until o'clock. We were two
tifkets short, People were Offering
thousands OF francs for passara ovar