The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-23
100000 BRITISH
GOLD HERE ON LINER
Philadelphia Brings 100 Who
Left England to Escape
CONSUMPTION.

Sunday. August Is. was The date set
by the British Government for the regis
tration OF all males OF military age In
the kingdom. AS a result the American
liner Philadelphia reached New York
yesterday afternoon with n steerage list
of $50 passengers, Of whom 120 were
men who had left the country the day
before the time expired in order to es-
cape what they believed to be the first
step toward CONSUMPTION.
According to several Of the passengers.
CONSUMPTION is imminent in England.
Louis NJ. Gutierrez. who vas secretary
to Victoriano Huerta when the latter
was in control in Mexico. said the
forcible enlistment of soldiers is coming,
and Edmund l.. Bayliss said II IL "a
question not of months or weeks but
Of days"
The Philadelphia carried a consign-
ment OF 81 600, 600 In gold for New York
bankers. presumably in payment for
shipments Of war supplies.
Among the passengers In the second
cabin was william II. McComb. an
eighteen-year-old Pittsburg college stu
dent, who ran away from home last
June and enlisted in the First Canadian
Mounted Rifles. He was discharged
from the regiment after two months in a
training camp at Shorncliff. England. at
the request of his relatives. through the
United States Government. after the
Colonel of The regiment had refused to
accede to the youths own pleading in
Canada
McComb said the British are pessi-
mistic. They expect ultimate victory.
but have abandoned all hope Of ever in.
vading Germany. The best plan. they
have decided. il to wear the enemy out
without sacrificing men in a drive. To
this end England has gathered "A vast
reserve OF fresh troops within her bor-
ders, sending them to the front only to
fiji vacancies. one-tcnth of his regi-
ment, McComh said, was composed of
Americans.
He added that dissatisfaction Is break
ing out In the trenches. An average Of
six or seven men are shot every day
for refusing to go to the trenches 10
fight, These figures. he said. were given
to him by one Of the stan officers. In
England the people, dreading conscr'p-
ton as a disgrace, are making every
effort to keep the enlistments up. Vet
Grams with the Victoria Cross and women
solicit recruits in the public places OF
london.
Capt. Charles Bertun. commander nj
Mortimer +, Plants yacht. the Iolanda,
which was chartered to a Russian fam
lily three years ago. returned to this
country. He said the yacht has been
chartered by the British Government TO
serve as flagship of the fleet OF patrol
boats which scout for German SUBJ
marines along the coast.
Marshall Field Sd and his bride. who
went to England on their HONEYMOON
trip, returned with Mrs. g. w. Marshall,
who Is Mrs. Fields mother, They had
been at Cadland, the estate Of Mrs. Maid
win prummond. Mr.. Fields mother.
near Southampton. The house has been
turned into a convalescent hospital for
the Tommies, accommodating fifty OF
them at n time.
Among the other passengers on the
Philadelphia were Col. A. II. House, DR..
Edward II. Nichols of the Harvard Red
Cross unit, who has been relieved after
serving six months Charles w, Short,
formerly assistant secretary to the
American Ambassador at London, with
his family NJ, g, Rosenbaum OF the
Strand Theatre, and Miss Anna Wheaton,
a young American variety actress, who
has been appearing at the Hippodrome
in London.
The Philadelphia had six stowaways
on board. They We're discovered the
irst day out OF port, hiding In the
potato bunker, They had gone to Eng
land by working on n cattle boat, and
ON reaching there had been left stranded
although their passage back was due
them from the ship companies, 1h,
Youngest was W j, Wooton, II. of 55l;
Fifth venue brooklyn. The other.
were Thomas /" Ncill Of Somcrville
Mass r. 7. Ferguson Of sig Eight
avenue, Now York Thomas Raynes
llG7 Thirty-third street, Camden. n. J..
Vpham iillIs, Breton, Ala. and Albert
cox, The first five are American citi
zens and were landed az passengers
hut Cox was In n different predlcament
%h"cauS" he Is "A West Indian negro ant
"A British subject,