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Show AEFlij IB !' IlSl American Liner p phia Brmgl Persons, AH MANY ARE MONEY OR BAo Pilgrims Overjoyed Home, Crowd. Shore to Exteai Welcome, NEW TORK, Aug J od of Ame ,, , Europe when the , clared war a tj " n ht The e we , g cab nana 309 , tt(, al of them er , of them wihout mm, ato ies of hardshp! m The Ph lade phi. m . , amptOi, a few houn,, c ared war on Ge manj iv out seven F ench torpej w submar nea e e Bghd o pedo boats hu rled ids , liner the rest of e flee u ly Final y the torpedo In. came a ones de and onhn de ph a to s op The ar vessel eWtJ 4 eral times Its off en Itot the faces of the pantmd the decks When the ptttf f ce s we e su e thi PbMji was an American vetulu passenge 1 we e Amalanjl shouted in ce en Enfj Ph ade ph a m ght procett 1 gers chee ed the Renci tbij v. as returned and tht Hj 1 steamed away Given Freedom of The efugees n he It: gl en the 1 eedora of Ihit we e sepa a ed from r eve and In some casa to) separated f om the j l u at on. Ba he than ilteifc age scores of these &nk$ the smok ng room on the hf der the boats and li e i s earner chairs. Fou Jem eH e y cab n The pa sengers were ewe to get back 0 the MM Qua an ne they chee ed u the hea h off ers boa nil cu ter T ey shou ed qnefiiJ s de about he whereabooa vesse s on whi h the rienfc posed to have sa ed, b rt qu stioned by the VHrioui pi Crowd Waiting on SW As the Ph ade phia newt 4 the iNorth r ver he m s o e shou ed a we me Ii Then for a quarte of u toe r e resounded w h heea The regu a on p e nrJn( f ar ves at Quaran e h from p 0 eed ng 0 th jMi next mo n ng waa ml e " Ptu ade ph a d d not reset i 1 1 af er 9 0 c 0 t Tb am d d e erjthrng ta he ) sh p and ts oad of ("J qucky and an hour aid i arrived in the lowe bar passenge s had gone ashore. Hund eds of passeng n rushed from the nterl t' Germany Traeeafrenrn (Continued on FjP REFUGEES FROM WAR ZOIF REACH HOME (Continued from Page Two ) the mobs swarm ng through the s ree s break ng w dows and oot ng Ge man shops Othe s to d of Germans caught n the French capita be ng beaten by gen darmes and the exc ted clt zenry T e streets near the rai road stations were piled high with abandoned baggage o great was the rush of Ame cans from Prance to England that sma 1 steamers H the Eng sh channe constructed to accommodate fron 600 to 900 persons carried 3000 men women and ch ldren on every tr p Abandoned Her Baggage Mrs B B ackmo e of C ncinnat one of the passengers was n G etach Swltz er and on Ju y 31 S e left for Pa s on that date She had a f rst c ass cket but was forced to occupy a th rd c ass compartment w th a crowd of so d e s and peasants She &at on the floor of the car during t e ent e t p In Paris she was informed by another American that s e had just time to catch the, last tra n for Ca als where she cou d get a boat across the channel She aban doned her baggage n the street and reached a rai way stat on a few m nutes before the tra n left Five thousand American and Eng s men and women were t y ng to get on the train she said Some of them rode between the coaches a,ther t an be eft behind There was no water on any of the trains Upon arr vlng at Ca a s Ms Blackmore was fa nt f om want of food and water An American she had never I seen before obta ned bot for her Germans Roughly Handled Howard L W lett of Ch cago left Pa s on t o tra n w th Mrs & ac mo e He to d a slm ar s ory and'added t at t e , tra was stopped several t mes by sol ! d ers who wet through t search ng j they said for Ge man sp es In Par s before he left he saw a gendarme seize ,a German who he said was act ng: s 5 j plcious y and march him towa d a po ce I s atlon. A crowd of excited Frenchmen followed n the wake of the pa r A pass ng German p o ested and someone n the crowd s ruck h m in tl e face and knocked h m down At the same t me t e gendarme seve e y punched the man he had arrested T e German protested mi d y against t s but d d not fight back Mr Wi ett said because of the menacing crowd A loaf of bread ?el ng for 8 cents was b nging 22 cents on the day he left ParlB Other foodstuffs were oar ng proport onately I met Jack Johnson on the bou evard said Mr "W ett H s face was wreat ed n sm es Crowds sur ounded him ask ng him to fig t for T ance Conditions Desperate A comm ttee formed on board tl e Ph 1 ade phia th s after oon with the exp essed purpose of assist ng An erlcans abroad ssued a sta ement t oug its secretary Thomas P G lroy of Isew Yo k No words can exaggerate the desper ate cond on of stranded Ame cans a over Eu ope ou s d of Eng and t e state nent says Many of t & passengers said they 1 ad been stopped n Germany and forced to prove that thev we e Amer cans and not Eng s men O ers 1 ad been stopped in France and asked whether they were Germans Wth a few e cept on& a vere eated cour eous y when t ey p oved the r nat ona tj One or two cases ere repor ed w e e so d e s searc Ing tra ns had been u necessar y ude So d ers were stat 0 ed a a ong the ra roads and sq ads of hem were g a d ng e ery tunnel and b dge M tary guards w th oaddG r fles were on every ra lway coach and engine and n a I the stat 0 s Some of the Arrivals Amon0 the passengers were C ax es Ad cl and fan y of C eve a d whom someone London offered $1000 for the r stateroom or $a00 if a owed to travel w th hem John A Wl son a coub n of P es dent W son and Mrs James T Harahan widow f t e forme p esident of tl e II no s Centra al road who w t her n ece M ss Martha Harr a of Mem phis Tenn fled f om St Petersburg on August 1 Among the member of the e ef com m ttee is Bishop J W Atwood of Arl zona Jo n A Wilson of Franklin Pa Pres! dent W lson s ous n sn ng y an oun ed o t e p e hat e be leved he ad ess money a d mo e sun mer c othes than anv o he man n New York He a r ed wh n a s ogof ubs p eBented o P eede W n h e C t,un J e wou k o o h j go c ubs o p 3 |