Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1916-07-27
TRICKS WAR FOE;
WALKS 40O MILES
Detention Prisoner Dupes Cana
dianS After He Is Held for
Months.
MAKES LONG TRIP on So
Two Loaves of Bread Day Is Ra
tion Of Austrian In Journey From
Buffalo to New York-Doesn't
Like Canada.

New York A bedraggled, oil.
smeared, ruddy little man with some.
thing akin to fear in his big, brown
eyes, stepped softly into the Office OF
Arthur Concors, superintendent Of the
Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant
Aid Society, recently.
"lch bin hier," he announced calm
ly, as though that were the most i'm.
portant thing in the world. And it
was, to him, for twenty -three-year-ol0
Eugen Spitz, Austrian reservst ana
expert upholsterer, had walked all the
way from Buffalo to New York with
deadly fear of the Canadian army
squirting him on.
Twenty-four days had Eugen been
on the road, and his expenditures 10,
food during that time had been just
the three dollars, all that he had Oh
starting. For eight months before he
began his 4S0-mile walk he had been
a prisoner in a Toronto detention
camp, and his hike was inspired by
the overwhelming desire to put just
as much territory as possible between
himself and Canada.
Within the Enemys Lines.
Sptz came to the United States
from Brunn, which is near the Ger
man border of Austria, on June Is
1914. He went to Buffalo to work in
a dye factory few months later.
The most peculiar part of his stor!
is that last fall German offered him
good job of indefinite nature, anC
took him to Toronto without letting
him know they were entering Can
ada.
AS soon as we got off the train,
SpitZ explained in broken English
that man disappeared. The police,
man came, and they took me on trai1
To Il biz stone house where were tive
or three hundred Germans and Aus
trianS.
There | lived in a room with sixty
others for six months We slept OF
the floor, with blankets for cover, ano
we had soup and bread to eat but the
only work we had to do was clean VI
the camp. But all the time was
afraid, and then three of our number
tunneled under the outside wall and
tried to escape,
One man got away, but the soldiers
killed one Of the others and captureO
the third.
"All the time | kept telling the
guards that was Roumanian, anc
at last they believed me. So finally
they told me | could go. | walked tc
the railroad, where a lot Of Italians
were working, and told the conduc
tor | was an Italian. He let me ride
on the train to Buffalo
why didn't you get Job in Buffa
10, then, instead Of coming here" he
was asked.
"Too Near Canada"
"Buffalo-no, no." Spitz exclaimed
excitedly, his face flushing. Too neal
Canada.
Il sell my suit for SO and put or
my overalls. Then | start to walk tt
New York along the railroad tracks
Sometimes | slept in freight cars ano
sometimes in watchmen's houses, but
all the time | walked and walked.
ate two loaves of bread every day, be
cause had money enough to buy that
and at Syracuse a poor Jew took me
to his house. made me stay all nigh,
and gave me food.
81 got tired, but | walked-becausf
Canada was behind. Now | am here
am glad
Mr.. Concors examined the little
mans papers and found they bore out
his story. Then he gave the refugee
some fresh clothes and bed, ano
within a few hours Spitz was ready tc
look for job.
But not near Canada" he warned