New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-31
Girl Who Had Missed Her
Boat and Boy Scout
Win Friends.
80 AMERICAN GIRLS
TURNED OUT OF CLUB
French Woman Ordered to Ellis
Island-Alma Gluck and
Zimbalist Back.

/ ne fTtNCn liUtT LspdEh's NNiN' -
rived in Havre on August 20 from
Vera Cruz and started out on her jour
ney to this port two days later, ar
rived here yesterday with 769 passen-
gers, 600 Of them Americans. She
sighted no warships, and apart from
cold and rough weather her passage
was uneventful.
The most cheerful Of all on board
were two young Americans, girl oil
six and a boy Of thirteen. Both mad
come from France and were aware
that a dreadful conflict was in prog
ress, but their optimism and buoyancy
we're an inspiration to the detected
adult passengers on the Espagne.
The girl. Cecile Scharf, parted from
her parents about five weeks ago IN
Bordeaux. where she had been visit
ing with her mothers relatives. Her
parents had gone to Paris before the
French mobilization began. On learn
ing the difficulty Of getting back 10
America they hurried to Havre and
booked passage for the child and
themselves on the steamship France.
Meanwhile they Wired to the chiids
aunt. Miss Charlotte Lacoste, to has
ten with the girl to Havre.
Victor Hammer, thirteen years Old,
of 1883 Washington av., The Bronx.
had more difficulties than Miss Scharf.
He spent much time with the Boy
Scouts of France, and said yesterday
that he enjoyed the experience.
Lad Befriends Women.
Master Hammer told his own story
Yesterday. carefully emitting his kindly
acts aboard ship. These, however,
were recalled by many OF the women
passengers he had assisted
81 left New York on July B." said the
boy. accompanied by Uncle Alexander
Gomberg He vas born in Russia, bat
is a citizen Of the United States. He
has the agency for the Ford motor cars
in Kief, Russia, and was on his way
there when the war started. His father
and mother live in Paris with sister
and another brother.
81 live with my father, Dr.. julius
Hammer, at 14S8 Washington av., The
Bronx. and attend Public School AZ.
Ny parents wanted me TO study French
and German and the piano III Paris, 50
they let me 90 over with my uncle
Ny relatives i'm Paris wanted TO get to
Russia and help fight, but. finding they
could not get away. they offered their
services to the French government.
Ny grandmother and my aunt joined
the French Red Cross service and my
two uncles Joined the French army.
"My relatives wanted to send me
home, but 1t was hard 70 get trans
portation. / cabled my father for
money and he sent me this check for
$3.50. but ! could not cash IT, and nave
brought il back. | spent two weeks
with the Boy Scouts. We were camped
outside the city. and did whatever we
were asked to. II ! had been unable to
get home would have stayed with
them and helped the women OF France
with the crops
Master Hammer spent 81 for cap,
81 for a deck chair and 81 for tips to
stewards lie was one OF the 200 per
sons booked IS "special accommodation
passengers" who were allotted sleep
ing quarters in the steeragc and had
the freedom of the ship and saloon
fare at table. The rough weather made
many travellers seasick, and conditions
in the steerage became so unbearable
that the Specials" elected to sleep on
deck. Master Hammer, in his efforts
to help his seasick female neighbors,
made eleven trips TO the steerage,
bringing up mattress each trip. His
eleventh effort, however, was too mucn
for him, and the lit,le chap tainted
from exhaustion.
Lived on Bread and Wafer.
Miss Ethel TraphageD. Of u Brook
lyn ay.. Brooklyn. returned on the
Espacne after several weeks of hard
shin in Switzerland and France She
W. in Lucerne when war threatened
AID vas advised to get out to the sea-
coast. For two days and nights she
Travelled on a train that was twenty
hours late, subsisting on bread and
water.
She is an art teacher at Cooper
Union. and, having been in Paris be-
fore, she applied for accommodations
AZ the American Girls Art Club, a
Rue Chevreuse, which is in charge
of an English woman named Shields.
She was refused admission, and the
thirty American girls then staying at
the club were ordered out by Mrs.
Shields, August ,. The following day,
Miss Traphagen said, wealthy Amer
lean woman motorcd 10 the club, asked
for accommodation and was admitted.
During the voyage Miss Traphagen
befriended Miss Sara Tsurtran. a
young French woman from Chicago.
who had gone to Paris to visit her
parents. Having only Sl25. Miss
Tsurtran was ordered to Ellis Island
TO face deportation; but on the in
tercession Of Miss Traphagen she
was released in the latter's care.
Dr. Richard Gottheil, professor OF
Semitic languages at Columbia Uni
versitv. returned with his wife on the
Espagne, after a trip to Algiers, Spain
and Germany. lie lost much OF his
baggage. but made light OF his trou-
blcs. saying he was thankful to get
home again.
Alma Giuck the singer, accompan-
led by her husband Eifrem Zimbalist,
the violinist. were passengers ON the
Espagne They will make concert
tour Of this country in the fall, under
the management Of Henry Wolfsohn.
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