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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1914
Page
16
The speaker notes a change from a previous place where the maid took things easy to current living where everything is kept locked, implying higher security or stricter routines.
The Cunard liner Franconia arrived in Boston harbor in a heavy fog after a 10 day voyage from Liverpool carrying 1775 passengers. Seven warships halted the liner 100 miles off Newfoundland and a collision with a fishing schooner occurred in fog. Passengers described fear and relief as they reached safety with British and French warships guiding the ship into port.
Miss Victoria le Maire a Toronto public school teacher and British subject with French Canadian roots, recalled wartime Berlin hostility after the declaration of war. She fled to Ostend with Americans, facing German officer contempt and suspicion due to her French appearance and lack of passport.
Charles H. Conover, president of Hibbard Spencer Bartlett in Chicago, said he drove 700 miles by car across Austria after war was declared. He reported numerous arrests, imprisonments, threats, and indignities before arriving aboard the Franconia yesterday.
Chicago figures Mr. Conover and daughter Margaret with W J Chalmers and wives and Frederick Owsley and wife flee by car from Carlsbad after Germany and Great Britain declare war. They endure arrests, searches, and hostile guards across Austria and Switzerland before crossing to Paris and London.
Edward M. Newman of Chicago, a travel lecturer aboard Franconia, was arrested in Berlin as a spy and held five days in a military prison where rifle volleys were heard as other spies were executed. A bribed guard helped him reach the American ambassador and he was shipped under guard toward the Belgian border. He left the continent on August 1.
Frederick A. Shepherd of Waterville Maine, a Prohibitionist candidate for Maine governor, was mistaken for a German spy in Newcastle upon Thames while touring Britain at the outbreak of war. A mob pursued him for two blocks until he proved he was not German, later convincing an English army officer as well.
An unnamed narrator describes strolling near the Eiffel Tower when soldiers at a fence corralled them. After struggling free, the visitor brandished seven passports to claim they were merely a disinterested guest. The scene ends with intent to return and a mention of Mr. Burdick being German.
Miss Mae Wiegand of New York, part of a tow party in Heidelberg, denies Americans faced cruelty in Germany. She defends Ambassador Gerard and his wife, praising their relief work and the Embassy staff who remained on duty.
John T. Burdick of Cincinnati was seized twice as a spy in Paris and later told aboard the Franconia that he was thankful to be back in America. He recounted traveling with the McGrane party in Lucerne when war broke out and facing burned bridges and detoured trains to gain passage.
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