The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-07

The dIgnincd Philadelphia lady pro-
tested Will not tell you the reply
tHat sn' received. but IT was not in
words alone.
Another typical case Is that OF the
Misses Lowry OF san Francisco. tour
ing up from Marienbad In their own
Packard car in company with the Dc
In Balzc family of New York, a name
well known formerly in the American
wholesale drug trade. Mrs de la Balze.
who is past 10 years OF age. had hsr
daughter and a girl friend in their new
- horse power Panhard.
wv" had arrived at StrassburG from
Stuttgart, on July 81" says Mss de
10 Bal2e. al the hotel where we got
our mail ard unched they let us go
Off about . l.. VI. without a word. To-
ward the French frontier. however We
met a French couple returning in their
automobile NO use to continue they
said no automobile can get through
We ar" going 10 try Switzerland
but We are Americana, We said
"'No matter they replied, 'youll
see.'
$50 we turned also" contirued Miss
de In B1lze. I'VE got as far as Colmar.
where German ldicrS stopped ne.
with orders To return 10 Strassburg
and get papers from the Governor.
They searched as. a. he Rhine bridge
and made MS walk across. with soldiers
on each sidc--a party OF ladies' They
Jet us mount. again. to reach tho gates
VI StrassburE- whore We found n lot
OF other automobile parties, many
Americans"
Amol- thcm were members Of the
Sprcck family Of San Francisco
Iand Paris and tho Lowry girls Of San
Francisco alrc1Gy mentioned.
1--WE went .wn Ye cars IN a process
sion. 10 The Governors palace says
Mis-, IL a Belize. where W" were tod
simply. Won cannot leave StrassburS
with your autos We asked permis-
sion 20 return to our hotel. There We
met French party who SAID they
were going 90 the railway station 20
~ to get away anyhow.
we followed them IN our cars. but
IT the station there were thousands.
and one woman said she had been
waiting thirty-siX hours. 1t was no
use So we started to hunt the Amer
cen Consul iss s.-.' uuf chSGSeuTs,
who were Fr,nChmcn. gave MS notice
that they must get away that night
W else 10 made prisoners OF war. On
.noulry We learned that there was
no American Consul in Strassburg
In despair they went TO the automj-
bile garage.
"a man At the garage gave Us re-
CENTS FOR the Cnrs-jus; papers saw
INK tha. lac had them. |, was under
stood that they were wanted for NJ
army-yc' tho dat" was Juiy II, DO
fore the war which = the thing that
makes me 80 mad
The next morning the hotel propr!c-
tor told them that they were sup,
posed 10 be out OF Germany by =
/ r. NJ"
do not try to so by Switzerland,
/ he said, 1T Is too crowded
For some reason or other they wef1
put into a train Cor Cologne. register
| ing their six De Ia Balzac trunks with
them. ON arriving the trunks could
not be found
! If war iS not declared YOU may get
| them in a month" an cmp'oyee In
| formed them a.. il there is war you
may never get them
Arriving late in the evening at
! Cologne they hurriody took enothcr
train for the frontier. near which 4
/ \. NJ. they had to get out and walk.
I'VE arrived in Paris late the next
dly,G says the American girl, arr
nave never heard a word OF our
trunks or automobiles since"
Recently she interviewed the Inter
| ,ravc Company on the subject. L
! has not hecn able to learn anything
Two weeks ago sh" wrote H." Amer
lean Consuls At Cologne and XIII, bu
! has not We. received an AnaWer