Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-18

Wafsnlp shouted through a mega
phone:
Doesn't anybody on board speak
Engiish?'
Eyes, shouted almost everybody
on our boat.
BE very careful in the English
channel the man shouted back;
there are many dangers Sorry to
have delayed you. Bon Voyage
Mrs. Fuld thought that this was
SO interesting that she made a tran
script of the officers words. Our ship
was then provided with a special
channel pilot. and we moved care
FULLY along. conveyed by a pilot boat.
| Our captain was compelled by the
naval authorities to disable his wire
less apparatus while going through
the channel, but he had 1t readjusted
as soon as We left
Then when We arrived off this
coast just outside the three-mile
| limit, the English cruiser Essex gave
US a chase. She ordered US to halt
| put. as the captain did not do so. shA
| fired shot after us We then turned
and bore directly down on her Then.
seeing who we were. the cruiser
directed us to go ahead. and we came
on in without further trouble"
Saw Scenes at Railroad stations.
f. e. Haley. of Summit. vlce-presi-
dent of the American Thread Com
| pany was another passenger in the
Nieuw Amsterdam. Mr.. Haley his
wife and daughter were in Hamburg
when the trouble began. He said that
there were a number of pathetic
scenes in the stations. where mothers.
eicfprc a. xs-txr
| by to the men bound for war While
| declaring that a great many of the
| narrowing stories of the plight of
American tourists were either false or
| very much exaggerated, Mr. Haley
said that there were great number
facing actual privation. He said that
he met two young school teachers
| from a town in Indian while they
were appealing to the American con-
| sui In New Amsterdam for aid. Mr.
| Haley was one of the men who drew
up cable message to President Will
son, asking for government aid for
stranded Americans.
| Another Newarker in the ship was
Dr. Frank Lehmacher. jr., of 166
! Springfield avenue.
Mrs. A. ]. Sachtleben. of East Or
| ange and Miss Lottie Sachlteben. her
!
/ of the beginning of the trouble. They
were to stay in Europe until Septem-
| Der Is. but decided to come home at
once and went to Frankfort. They
| were routed out of their train while ii
! was at Cleve and lined up with the
other passengers for inspection.
Mrs. John W. Griggs. of Paterson,
wife of the former Governor of New
j Jersey, and Misses Elizabeth and
! Janet Griggs also were passengers.
| Other New Jersey passengers were:
| Mr.. and Mrs. T. Louis Hansen. of
/ Montclair who were In Pyrmont Ger
many Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Floersch,
] of Plaintield; Mr.. and Mrs. L. c. Bob
blink, Miss d. Bobbink and Master J..
| Bobbink of Rutherford.
| With every cabled report of Amer
| leans who are safe aboard ships
| bound for this country or who are
| about to sail come the names of many
Newarkers and other New Jersey
| people.
/ The family of DIR. Charles L. Ill, of
1873 Clinton avenue, is included on the
| cabled passenger list of the Ameri-
can liner st. Louis, which left Liver
pool for New York last Saturday.
Besides DR.. and Mrs. Ill, there are
also Edmund III. Carl Ill, Herbert
i Ill and Miss Helen I'll.
Harry Levy, of 1863 F'airmont ave-
nue., learned today that his sister,
| Miss Ella Levy, who has been abroad
more than a month, is aboard the
steamship France in Havre waiting
to sail for the United States. B. ".
H. Schultz and family, of Short Hills,
also are aboard the France.
Alfred G. Scherer, a member of the
| firm of Oscar Scherer & Brother.
leather manufacturers at Ill Berlin
street, today was reported to be
aboard the steamship Mafalda, which
! will leave Genoa for these shores on
! Thursday. With Mr.. Scherer are
his wife and two daughters. The
| family had booked passage on tho
Mauretania, but was forced to give
up hope of sailing in the great En-
glish ship. Mr.. Scherer lives at 1O4
Cartridge avenue, Summit.
No Word from Monsignor whalen.
| No word has been received from
Monsignor Whelan, rector of st. Pat
rick's Cathedral, or DIR. John F. Hag
| erty, of 80 Wallace place.
| Among the passengers who reached
Boston yesterday on the Red Star
| liner Marquette was Professor Alex
ander H. Phillips, of Princeton Uni
/ VtTS1IY. GTO1tSSOI L LidNCiT0
from Trieste to Antwerp on troop
trains in his effort to reach this
| country.
Miss Mary CARAT, of this city, So
cial secretary to Mrs. d. A. Thomp-
son, of Rhinebeck. N. Y, yesterday
cabled to her sister, Mrs. e. ]. Strong,
of 81 Fulton street. this city, that she
was safe and well'' at, the Lord
Byron Hotel, Paris.
No word had been heard from Miss
CARAT since July q. At that time
she wrote that she was going to visit
Germany Miss CARAT has been
abroad since January is.
T. H, Craig, of Claremont avenue,
| Montclair, who arrived home on the
steamship Celtic Friday, was to have
spent nearly two months in Europe
but the war cut his stay short He
was in Switzerland when the HOSTILE
ties began. He succeeded in making
his way to England.
Miss Mary A. Lathrop, of 126 Clare
mont avenue, Montclair, is pas
senger on the steamship st. Louis,
which sailed for America from South
ampton on Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. A. c. Pearson, of 176
Bellevue avenue, Upper Montclair,
have cabled that they will sail from
London today, but do not mention
! the name of the steamer on which
they have engaged passage.
On the steamship Campania, which
sailed from Queenstown Saturday
are several South Orange residents.
In the list are the names of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. G. Campbell, of Raymond ave-
nue.; Miss Helen Leach and Mrs. An
drew S. March and her daughters,
the Misses Gladys and Natalie March,
of Scotland road; Mr. and Mrs. Harry
C. Sinner, of Prospect street; Mrs.
Irordipand rrhierof and her DAUGHTERS,