Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-08-22 | Page 1 | Muck Quits U. S. in Bitter Mood

J T"J R. KABL MUCK, famous musi-sician, musi-sician, who was deported from tlie United States yesterday as an j undesirable. HAUGK QUITS II S. IN BITJEB HI Musician Deported; Count Minotto Also Takes Passage Overseas. NKW YORK, Aug. 21. Count James Minotto, son-in-law of Louis F. Swift, the j Chicago packer, and Dr. Karl Muck, for- mer leader of the Boston Symphony or- j chestra, both of whom were interned during1 dur-ing1 the war as enemy aliens, sailed from here today for Copenhagen, on the Scan- , dinavian-American liner Frederick VIII. 1 Asserting that he was an American and 1 not a German, but that he sailed for Denmark "a man without a flag or country," coun-try," Dr. Muck arrived at the pier with his wife only a short time before the hour of departure. He was accompanied by an operative of the department of justice, jus-tice, whose duty it was to see that the, musician boarded the liner. This done, the secret service agent warned Captain A. G. Thomsen, commanding com-manding the vessel, to make sure Dr. 1 Muck did not leave it within the three- j mile limit. ' On stepping aboard the Frederick VIII 1 Dr. Muck denied his identity until a fel- : low passenger with whom he was acquainted ac-quainted threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. Dr. Muck was in a bitter mood as today to-day he took his departure from the land j in which he' had been applauded. He left the United States, he declared, with no regrets, "as the country is being controlled by sentiment which closely i borders on mob rule." He denounced newspapers, which, he said, had attacked his Americanism on a story circulated by "jealous rivals," and praised "some people ; in the musical world who stuck by me." These, he said, were the only persons he cared about. The orchestra which once he had led was "a thing of the past," he declared. Twenty-nine German-born members had been interned, he said, and he -doubted If the group of musicians could ever again be brought together. As for himself, he said, he did not know what plans he would make on arriving in Denmark. Count Minotto was arrested In Chicago on November 28, 1917, charged with pro-German pro-German activities, which he denied. Held for investigation, he was taken in charge by the department of justice on a presidential presi-dential warrant on May 14, 1918. A few days later he was adjudged an enemy alien and interned, an appeal being dismissed dis-missed J