Evening journal., 1915-09-14
BY WILBUR S. FORREST.
UnIted Press SAD correspondent


LONDON, Sept. 2 (by maiD-The
name of the busiest American in Eu-
rope today is Walter Hines Page.
To average Americans who may
think that an American ambassador
in London is delegated in wartime to
drink cups of afternoon tea with itin-
Grant countrymen; TO hand out faith
erly advice when they arc Il trouble;
TO hand them money when they are
broke" and perform myriad other
duties of a social nature, they have
got another think coming
For the busiest American institu-
tion in Europe today is located at
No. 4 Grosvenor Gardens-the Ameri-
can Embassy.
/ Here the enemy alien peoples in
Great Britain, of three warning ma
tions look for money to buy their
daily food look for advice when they
need it and will look for protection
when protection is necessary.
From an authoritative source. the
United Press learned today that hun
dreds Of thousands of American dol
lars have been necessary and will
in future be expended 10 care for the
alien charges of Ambassador Page.
He is the sole representative in
Great Britain not only of America,
but Germany. Austria and Turkey.
Nearly twenty buildings il London.
property of these countries, are in
direct charge OF the ambassador and
he not only has volumincus diplo-
matte correspondence of his own ma
tion to handle but the vcritable
bales" of mail and tolegr5phic ex-
changes carried on with other war
ring powers by the Kaiser. TIE En-
peror of Austria and tLa Sultan of
Turkey To make this work possible
the American Embassy has increased
its normal business ten fold. II has
employed a round dozen of extra sec
retaries to do the work that fell to
three before the war Il has engaged
a corps of expert accountants and
clerks who respectively keep tab on
the manifold disbursements and file
away hundreds of documents a day
The money thus spent for Eng
lands enemies during the war will
! be repaid 10 Uncle Sam when hos
4, tilities cease but in the meantime
Uncle Sans pocket must be the
source Of a never ending supply.
In addition to being in constant
closest touch with the S,ate Depart
: ment. at Washington. the American
Embassy. in London, is also in daily
communication with the embassies al
Berlin, Vienna, Constantinople Rome
and Petrograd which causes the cost
] ly interchange cf telegraphic cores
! pondence at least ten times the vol
.H "a al \
, kilograms cost the government 81,
600 each.
An Lmusing episode was the out
come of a series of such telegraphi'
, interchanges with the American EN-
, bassy in Constantinople it has jus
been learned. Ambassador Morgen
, thGu reported to London tfat thu
. Turks had imprisoned many British
, citizens whom they were holding 70
ransom. the sum of $4,000 being re
=, quired in each case. The American
Z Embassy in London, irnmediatel
{ communicated its information to III
= British government and word wa
sent back to Morgenthau to that e.
feet The next message from Mo-
genthau, was that he hal convince
the Turks that 5000 was a far NOR
reasonable figure than $4,000 and tn
Turks mad agreed. in turn. this fac
was Immediately communicated
> the British government and the raI
som was paid. though indirectly, 70
6 ransom Is a word of which the Bri
. isn government takes no cognizancI
However. HARD work is but a par
Of the troubles of No. 4 Grosveno
Square. The greatest are passports