The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-01
Senator James Wife

Three thousand or more Americans reached New York Friday from Eng land aboard the White Star liners Olympic and Adriatic, the latter reach : ing port with armament of four six-inch guns mounted two on her bow and two on her stern. The Adriati brought 17s2 passengers the olympic 1772.
 Nearly alr We're Americans and made the voyage as steerage passengers. Both ships made the trip without un- usual incident, although passengers aboard the Adriatic were badly scared by the appearance of vessel which they first mistook to be a hostile war ship but later found to be the French liner France.
 Among the passengers on tho Olympic was Mrs. Ollie James. wife of the United States senator from Ken lucky. Mrs. James said she was in Der lin the day before war was declared She was informed by Ambassador Gerard that she might do well to leave the country. Accordingly arrangement $ were made for her and party she was with to go to St Petersburg by rail.
 "Ambassodar Gerard secured accom- modations for us on the first train leaving Berlin for the Russian from tier" said Mrs. James. We thought we were well on our way wien the train suddenly pulled into copenhagen. None of the passengers on board had been informed that the train had been diverted. We never were told why it had been done.
 l remained in Copenhagen four days while awaiting a chance to cross to London. Finally l managed with 24 oth- CT Americans to get aboard a small freight steamer that drew but f2 feet Of water. But even with that light draft the captain of the freighter was afraid to proceed at more than a snaiis pace. He had been informed that mines had been strcwn along the coast and through the English channel We managed to get through the mine fields without mishap, but everyone aboard the ship was extremely nerv- ous"
 Senator James bearded the Olympic at Quarantine from revenue cutter.
 Mir. and Mrs. Post Wheeler
 MI .. 'difttS iell NcW lork about tw n months ago in company with Mir. and Post Wheeler. They were on their way to Japan. MT. Wheeler was on his way to his post as the first secretary of tho embassy at Tokio
 His wife was Miss Hallic Erminie Rives of Kentucky, an authoress of note She is lifelong friend of Mrs. James, who was to accompany her and her husband to Japan as their guest
 Mrs. James lost all her trunks and baggage and about $2000 of wearing apparel Post Wheeler and Mrs. Wheel CT were with the others on their arr rival here. They will leave New Yorl, on Monday for San Francisco from which city they will sail for Tokio. Mrs. James will return to Washington on Monday with the senator Among those who were at the dock with Sen ator James to meet Mrs. James were MT. and Mrs. Urey Woodson and their daughter who came on from Kentuck V to be with Senator James at the meet ing of his wife and MT. and Mrs Wheeler.
 One of the passengers on the Olympic was Mrs. Charles II. Anthony of Muncie, Ind, and her son Harvey. Mrs. Anthony it will be remembered, notwithstanding her diamond-heeled shoes and her 5r and more trunks, was unable, as were many oiutIS, to tdSI d uTdll III IsOnQOfl or Paris. Mrs. Anthony arrived here with 53 trunks and 10 cents. That was in English money. She is glad she is alive, and spent the 10 cents getting up to hotel on a street car. She will spend a month visiting the various resorts in the east before returning to her home in the Hoosier state.
 Paul A. Staley, an attorney of Spring field, O., who arrived on the same T him as the most novel sight in London was the aeroplane guns mounted on the admiralty arch on the war office and on the roofs of other buildings.
 They have put them on platforms" said Staley, 'and they are prepared to bring down the Zeppelins right in their midst have heard that the guns were tried out in their new positions, and that they created disturbing racket l do not know whether the report Is true or not, though I heard that Englishmen in alarm f1ocked in Trafalgar square and Pail Mall.
 q think the oldest glimpse of war I caught was of my friend, a German. leav- ing me at table in a restaurant, his coat tails flying, because he had to re- port at Scotland Yard at p. m. I went over on the Oceanic. and six Germans were taken off the ship and sent to Win chester prison for few days They were released on parole. with the requirement. that they should report at 1 and p. m. at Scotland Yard every day. l understand that the Germans are keeping their parole to the letter. I know that my friend, whom I met after his release from Win chester, is doing so. We were seated in a restaurant and the time was passing rapidly. Suddenly he looked at his watch, jumped up and left me without any more ceremony than the exclamation. Ach, Gott! I must report at Scotland Yard in 10 minutes.
 Senator Oliver of Pennsylvania. another passenger, was in Switzerland with his wife and grandchild, when Austria de- clared war on Servia. He and his family hurried to Paris and thence to London, reaching the French coast with much diff ficulty.
 ShOnts' Activities
 Theodore P Shonts. president of the In- terborough Rapid Transit company of New York was in Austria when that coun- try declared war on Servia. He hurried with his daughters to Paris There he be- came member of the committee formed to care for Americans.
 When I left Paris there were. roughly speaking. between 15Oo and 2OOO Ameri- cans who were in urgent need of help" MT. Shonts said. '"rhis Is the greatest opportunity the United States has ever had The next six months should see the entire nation engaged in caring for a tremendous commerce. The whole coun- try should become rich.
 Daniel Guggenheim was aboard He ran out of money while in Paris and his son in the United States cabled him $o000 from the United States.
 Nathan Eisemann of Boston fled from Austria at the outbreak of the war. While crossing from Ostend to London French