Denver labor bulletin., 1915-06-26
Seeing Europe
in War ir11e
BY LEO cUTHBERTsoN

defeat at the hands OF Wellington. The
numerous places of interest in this
vicinity occupied three days.
i We had the good fortune of landing
in Paris during the celebration of
yearly carnival which lasts for about
a month. Time and space will not allow
me to describe our many varied expert
ences in this beautiful city. l wish to
state however for the benefit of travel
ing printers who may be contemplating
a trip abroad that hospitality knows no
bounds among the American printers on
the Paris edition of the New York Her
aid. Especially is this true of the fore
man, man who seems to delight in
giving work to the printer tourists,
although he has sufficient force of
local printers Oh hand to do the required
work.
| Leave France in a Hurry.
After enjoying about monh of gay
life in gay Paree, learning how to talk
by gesticulations. to the fair sex, and
growing quite fond OF absinthe, thought
it due time to pull up the anchor and go
on with the journey and it was at this
time that France was making hurried
preparations for the inevitable conflict.
We did not tarry longer but availed our
selves of the first opportunity to reach
London.
We had not been long in England
when patriotic demonstrations were well
under way. 1t was not an uncommon
sight to see 10000 people in the vicinity
of Trafalgar square and Buckingham
palace demonstrating their approval of
war against Germany.
1t was not long until we were expe-
riencing our first real Inconvenience. The |
banks all closed for nine days. Travel |
ers' checks or letters of credit could not |
be exchanged for gold at any price. The |
American Express company seemed TO |
us life saver when they opened their |
bank for two days, paying a limited |
amount of money to those in possession |
of their checks.
No boats were booked for America, 80
we decided to make the best OF the
situation and look for work. Linotype |
operators seemed to be in demand, there
fore We were fortunate enough to get
all the work we wanted. About three
weeks around the London print shops
served to suffice my desire for labor on
that side Of the pond.
The newspapers of London made no
attempt TO suppress the fact that 10000
American citizens were eagerly seeking
passage on the first boat that would
venture TO sail for America, and some
of the prices offered for accommodations
by the wcll-to-do tourists were astound-
ing. Ny bank roll was far from the
four figure mark, so | was well aware
of the fact that my stay in Europe
would have TO be continued until the
masses OF more prosperous tourists had
been accommodated.
Arrested as Spies in Scotland.
As we had seen about as much of Lon
don "a could be expected under the eI-
listing conditions, We Travelled on TO
Edinburgh, Scotland. II was here, for
the first time we were arrested as spies.
We took no offense at this false arrest
and imprisonment, for II was quite true
we were overstepping our bounds by
taking numerous pictures of the mob
ilization OF soldiers Mt the old Edin-
burgh castle. as we had no credentials
for such privilege.
Shortly after being released from jail
in Edinburgh, we travelled on to Glas-
Cow Finding conditions as bad here as
elsewhere we took the first boat out for |
Belfast, Ireland. Arriving at Belfast We
were refused permission to leave the
boat, once again being held as spies.
After thirty-six hours in the custody Of
secret service agents, we received per
mission by cable from the secretary of
state in London to disembark.
few days sightseeing here along
with the liberal Use Of our camera, saw
ms on our way to Dublin by rail. Mob.
ilization was still going on in full sway.
We went out to the north wall where
10000 soldiers We're preparing to leave
for Diepe, France. For two days we were
ON the go, getting pictures of maneuvers
about the city. Once more we expert |
enced the then familiar custom of being |
arrested as spies. 1t was at this time |
that / pleaded with my travelling mate |
to change his name, even though he could |
not change his German appearance.
After an examination and showing of
satisfactory documents to prove our ma
tionality, we were released, this time |
somewhat to our surprise. A few days |
later while taking a picture OF a small |
regiment of soldiers in Lucern, n village |
adjacent to Dublin, our Photographic am.
bition was discouraged by another ar.
rest. This time il seemed more serious. |
Escape Mob in ireland.
While the population Of the town was |
apparently less than 800 II would not |
be exnggerating when ! say 500 people |
surrounded the Jail soon after our arrest. |
Of course tried to assume an attitude |
of Indifference, but as the crowd began |
to swell about the jail, my appearance
must certainly have changed, for the
thought of approaching violence was
prominently in my mind. had already
pictured the sensation of two young
men being lined up at sunrise previous
| to taking trip over the Great Divide. |
However, we are still among the live
ones.
After being released by order Of the
head secret service agent in Dublin we
journcyed down to Killarney A ride