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WSS LIBERTY LOOMS UP AS LADY BOUNTIFUL
TO AMERICANS WHO CHASED RAINBOIV ABROAD
Thousand Repatriates, Disillusioned and With Fortunes Gene, Return
te United States Through Aid of Relief Agencies After Finding
European "El Derade " Empty Dream and Strug
gle for Existence in Vain
filHEY followed the end of the rainbow te England and France and
J. beyond, and there they struck their tents and bent themselves te the
Ink of gathering the riches they dreamed would be theirs.
But the geld they hud visiened was gilt and the silver, tinsel, and
precious stones were se many cobbles laughing in hollow mockery.
And it came te pass that they became "broke" and destitute
ttrangera in an old world a pretty muddlcUe be sure for 1000 whole whele whole
leme Americans, thousands of miles from home and homeless destitute
desperate, if you please.
The El Derade they had seen at the end of that rainbow was a beau
tiful thing en the horizon nearly 3000 miles away, but the close-up turned
the sunlight te shadow and the blues te sorter grays and the scarlets and
pinks were flaming reds that warned "Ge back."
Yet they heeded net. American
ipirit was net te be conquered in
Any such fashion as this, but along aleng
ttme the old law of supply and de
mand and competition with 'the pee
le of the old world who could live
fir a day en a few paltry francs
trtiile these foreigners from the
New World, schooled only in the
standards of a prosperous nation,
seen felt the pinch.
American relief workers abroad
found these people crowding in
upon them, clerks and mechanics,
doctors and actors, gardeners and
financiers and just plain men who
had arrived with fortunes and lest
them in the fascinating chase for
mere.
A thousand men and their wives
and babies, wholesome Americans
all, ex-service men some, soldiers
who saw Europe after the war,
their star of hope, and who stayed
there or came home and then re
turned te gather a harvest of
wealth.
Eggless El Derade,
a Bacenless Heaven
Net a bad let decidedly net but
rather an average thousand Amer
ican men well able in their trades
and professions and callings at home
te earn a comfortable living a
thousand men used te their bacon
and eggs for breakfast who dis
covered that eggs at the end of that
rainbow were eighteen cents apiece
the bacon priceless the coal for
their heaters a painful $70 a ten
and the shoes for their babies be
yond their reach.
8e they scratched their IieshIs and
ptttzlrd, nnd while the old world moved
en, its cgglrss breakfasts and shoc
k's tots finite the tiling In this disap
pointing ?',l Derade Amerinnn.-'mcn
nnd llielr wives could net descend te
levels like this, nnd the tank wns te get
tack home.
Rut hew?
Ilow could ii man who could barely
exist en his earnings serape together
the francs nnd the sovereigns nnd marks
ind lny them away for the tiekets te
take them nnd theirs te the ether side
where the rainbow's colors nrc true and
teal wheic the geld is geld and bacon
and eggs are bacon and eggs?
"It couldn't be done," you say and
that's quite right.
And Paris and Londen nnd ether
tenters of the Old "World, painfull
4 ignorant of the wnys of America which
uade It impossible for these men te eke
ut their existence where standards
were low nnd prices high, began te leek
apen them ns the stnndnrd of stock in
the United Stntes nnd truly they were
reason enough nlone why they could
net get along but the impression they
wade was had exer there in tlmt mis
understanding Europe, with its per
Wtual peerty that centuries have
taught its people is a thing te be ex-
peeled and conquered.
And here were a thousand Americans
wnndcring in their midst giving Eii Eii
repcuns their most Intinmte contact
with the United States, and se thev
thought :
" 'Like mother, like ten' Is a saying
se true that the world must judge large
ly of mother by you."
Certainly this would net ily, and
slowly the Individual problem of the
unfortunate developed into a question of
international Importance.
Slowly the famous red tape of the
Government of the Putted Stntes begun
te unwind ever se slowly it must have
been nnd still must be for these men
and their wies ami their little balder
who crave the milk from American
tows and the eggs aim the wlunt from
American farms and the coal from
American mines.
Hut finally the dcclien came, and
t.ie cry of "Hepatrlalinu!" sounded
through France and England and tier
many nnd fell like n zephyr from heaven
upon the ears of the men and women
who had had their fill of Europe nnd
wanted te go bnck home.
," .J,'10 morning of December
J.I, with a bitter wind howling
down the Hudsen, the curtain of day
light n rose nnd let its beams shine upon
the great hulk of n vessel which had
slipped In during the night and dropped
Us anchor off quarantine.
This was the President Polk, another
of the Shipping Heard fleet, decks and
riatging frozen with the morning ice, but
ins de the cabins warm and cheerful
and thoroughly nlive with the second
cargo of reclaimed Americans. 201 this
time mnde happy and brought back
home under this repatriation scheme,
devised nnd put through by the Allien -can
Aid Societies in Paris and Londen.
Traveling De Luxe
in "Near" Steerage
The plight of these men and women
had been recognized for some time nnd
after much effort the arrangements were
made which would enable them te re
turn te the United States. The State
Department ngreed te furiii'h t!ie
transportation. Collections were mnde
in Europe te ptowde for the sustenance
aboard ship nnd Americans eveij where.
who long had been established nnd
settled in the centeis of Europe gave
guiereusly te the fund. Se it was that
the migration te America began.
Helow decks en the President Polk
were the thiid-clnss stateioenis, shin
ing white, linens clean, attendants
sympathetic and eager te help n
vastly different traveling cempnttincnt
fiem that which is popularly plctuied
as "steerage." On a leel with the
cargo hatches was tiie third-class pas
senger cabin, a spacious room, warm,
well lighted, bookcases about the wallB
and a spirit of comfort throughout.
The air buzzed with the voices of the
occupants and a phonegrn.h near the
wall sang out its syncopated jnzz while
three or four couples were gliding about
the open space cleared in the center of
the crowd.
A score of baby caninges f strange
European design were crowded In one
corner, packed with bundles and pack
ages ready te be wheeled neliore. An
assortment of luggage and trunks con
sisting of everything from hut boxes te
packing cases were outside en the deck
holding the few treasures and comforts
of the people within.
Nine out of ten of the men and
women there were without a penny.
The prospects at the moment were that
they would be dumped in New Yerk
City te wnlk the streets In the cold nnd
depend upon the tender mercies of the
goddess of chnnce who hnd been none
tee geed herself during tlie Inst lew
yenrw, but despite this It wns an
extraordinarily happy let faces bright
forgetful of everything but the fact
that in an hour mere the great steel
sides of that steamship would scrape
along the piling of a llobeken pier nnd
there under their feet would be the
United States surely a paradise, a real
El Derade compared te the xveity
stricken existence that almost had
erowueil tnc mere pieasani tilings irem
their memories.
Yes, tha way hnd been paved te bring
them here advertisements suddenly
hnd appeared In the papers of the
European centers instructing Ameri
cans who wished te go home and who
Incked the means te lile their applica
tions with the American Aid.
$2000 Changed Hands
in One Evening's Game
And it would hardly, be unexpected
that among the group would be found
a few charlatans and fakirs who saw
In this a chance te make the United i
States their next step and de se without
expense te themselves although they
might well afford it, and the very fact
that the click of dice nnd thctlirie of
cards sounded nightly in the thiid-clnss
cabin was proof thnt in the group weie .
a few with money and apparently
plenty of it according te ethcers of
the ship who observed the games.
In one evening game with the gallop
ing ivories. $'J(K)(I was said te have I
changed linnds and the less of a hun
dred or se at the poker tame wns
frequent enough te develop a thorough
dropping off of comment.
A few of the men who saw n chance
In the cnrls te raise their last S."
or se te a fund that might take them
home from New Yolk, succumbed te the
temptation and lest. When the final
tnlly was m.idc It was geneinlly agreed
that one particular man whose con
fidential Identification card which
accompanied the party listed him as
"a bad actor" and "an international
creek," hnd gotten nearly all. He
had served time in Pails jails anil the
most definite information that could
be gained revealed thnt the police of i
Paris had agreed te turn liim out of I
jail if some way could lie found te get I
him te return te the United States. '
With him was his wlte. fair anil .Miiiug
nnd pretty and a genuinely cunning
baby, whose smile was in marked con
trast te the cynical features and poker
face of the gambling fnther.
It was a strange thing, ten. thnt
out of a crowd et suppe-edly "desti
tute" Americans there would appear
one man who daily sent his clothes
te be pressed bv the ship's nlet and
who deposited hltm-clf each morning in
the ship's barber chair and bowled the
tonseiinl artist fairlv off his feet the
Ih. st day out by offering a SUM) 1)111
in payment for his shave and mas
sage. Hut technically nnd officially he was
"broke" and ns such he traveled at the
expense of the Government and me
American aiu et rims. ,
Quite a contrast indeed wns he te
Dr. ('. W. Dedge, a former captain of
the Medical Ilcrervc Cerps, who served
Ills ceuntiy well in Eniepe nild who
remained te work with the Graves
Ilcglstintlen Committee. It seemed as
if lie would be established there in
Trance for years and te he sent for
Mrs. Dedge and the three little Dodges,
who journeyed all the way from Cali
fornia te New Yerk and thence te
Paris, where the family found itself
nil together ngnin nnd quite happy
until word suddenly came like n stroke
of lightning thnt the appropriation had
been cut off the work wus te cease.
their native homes. And when the In
dian said he wanted te go te Sitka,
Alaska, the way was found te send
him there te the remaining members of
his tribe. He, tee, had a German
bride.
82,Ycar-Old Man Lest
23,000 in England
And surely there was no sadder story
from stem te stern of the President
Pqlk than the tale of William II. Hoes Hees
tor., a pa'thetlc old figure, who bubbled
ever with optimism despite a burden of
eighty-two years and the remembrance
that sharpers In England had stolen a
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children and his dogs were leaded I One tiling about these returning
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nectatien of ever meeting the necessity I them busy, for nearly nil of their De
of having te go te work, and the ether i lengingH were wearing apparel and
children dwn te the youngest little I the stark necessities of life which come
gill possessed of no greater experience i through duty free.
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was ull prepared te stick In New lerk, , up and whoever
it was who passed
cabin nassengers se that Hanks might
net be entirely without funds when he
tcached Xew Yerk.
There were all kinds of persons in
the repatriation group nbeard the. Pres
ident Pell;, men who had been doing all
kinds of things te keep the wolf from
the deer. ,
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Gcnnany, returns with Ills Teutonic bride te his home in Wyoming
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New Yerk were Chief Ahoue Hail
storm and his German war bride
but the ether Abraham Knlenin. nnd hi
bride (mild see no steiping plan- be
tween .Manhattan nnd Honolulu itself
nnd there lliev went nnd lteil Cress
two years age word came from England tickets In their hands.
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fertnble estate had been left te him. Se uiurmen H Ml unc H ire
lie packed up nr.d sailed abroad and
the old man. ignorant in tlie ways of the
world, trusted and lest, and although
worth a tenth of a million dollars one
nay lie wns a nauper the next. Hut
be wasn't discouraged. He found weik
around an encampment of soldiers. lie
tended the officers' gardens and they
1 made him an "honorary lance corpe-
I ml." And eight times the old mnn was
1 promoted, as honorary promotions g".
1 svdi tilings aboard, snid "f!e ahead."
and un thev came, a couple of great
big cases that the Ited Cress helped
1 him get te li Is home in Illinois.
Stranded Acter Back
With Family, Ne Funds
William Jules (iartisen. another of
tin group, want-fl te bring a few little
things, but the wife ami four children
of the stianiitfl wiuderiHc actor took
all his attention and resources and he
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In tlie crowd also was a Mennen.
Prank II. Yeung, of Salt hake City.
Utah, nnd whether or net lie was 1111
relation te tlie fntumis old Hrightim
fif the same name is something thnt was
net disclosed by the p.is,inger list of lie had been doing Ins turn throughout
tlie Pivsident Polk. He that as it iray
lie had but one wife, and theuble enough
it was te get her back te Ameiica with
le a two-striper and set out te call tt.e ' the eigiiteen-umnths-eld jeungster who
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abeut it he chuckles nnd then turns pie belonged, from Texas te California,
and asks sadlv if Ills listener doesn't I and from Flerida te Maine and In be
think it tee bail he had been deprived tween, n half hundred ex-service men
of ills education nnd therebj this I among the let, who went te Trance te
mnce te "advance' In the army of fi.-ht ami who Inter fell in lrun ,..-
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dotted bandana kerchief about his neck
his hair ami mustache snow white
and his pockets empty. And the lied
Cress leek him and investigated and
found every word of his story wns true,
and a careful and sympathetic guide
bought his ticket nnd put him aboard a
train for Portland, where the people
erl.ind, a pohglet gatheiing of women
if one ever came te the shores of the
United Statis.
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was ictiirning all alene: "I went t"
Euiepe te fight and then get mariied
and the war went right tin past the
armistice." He didn't say what hap
pened te tlie battling feminist whom lie
he sened for ears were ready te wel- j bad joined in the bends of niatriuieii.,',
(eine him home and give him back his
work.
Severn! of the stranded ones were
men who went aboard te collect the es
tates willed te them by departed rela
tives, only te find when they get there
that tilings seemed te lime dwindled
away, and between the depreciated val
ues of foreign exchange and the expense
of ndministrntien, the fortunes which
loomed large with tlie sea between were
nothing in actuality, but disappoint
ment nml sorrow.
Staggering through the gTeup In the
cabin of tlie Piesldent Polk was an
elderly man whose hands shook like a
leaf in a gale. His shoulders were bent
and his face drawn, a fine-time pros-1 much
porous Chicago linker who sold his busl- Daily
nut h" Ioe'ud relieved as the outline
of the Statue of I.ibeity liieke tlireugn
tlie haze of Xew Yerk H.iy,
Philadelphia Soldier
Among These Returning
Mrs. Delia Kline, of Philadelphia,
was pointed out among the passengers
as n war bride coming te America te
meet her hu-br nil in Philadelphia, who
had come back some time before. 'I.
''. Dally was another jeung soldier
from tlie citv of I!retherl Iixe. win
wns biingms n war bride back te his
people, a former Jean Audicn, who
beamed with the thought of undine in
tins ceuutrj et waicu sua hail heard suinicr the stern tu
! tbefr lifMirl snill v
nan neen nnreau since
Repatriated fatnll b.uli in America wails at tlie Miiuiclp.il LuIglnB Heuse in
New Yerk while- father limits a Jeb. .Mis. Ernest Geunlt and children
William, two j cars,; Carl, four; Arthur, sl and Fred, eight
Dedge Finds Odds
oe Great Against Him ,
vain Dr. Dedge, jeung and vigor- I
nud in the piime of lite, sought
ceniHte with the inlier he found en1
ill. The odds were against
ness with the signing et the armistice, lillS. serving ever there with the
'and leaving his wife and children at American Expeditionary IVrce nnd
J home, took himself off te Euiepe with a later sti iking out as a Chilian among
.comfortable fortune of S.'O.OOO tucked Europeans bifere the drop in et hange
, away in ins pecKei.
Chicago Plunger Lest
His Fortune in Paris
I At last opportunity had ce.ne, lie
thought, and in a few mere months,
j witli the plan he had in mind, lie would
return te his burned Chicago with
hundreds of thousands of dollars in
place of the "meager" .f.'iO.CKIO accu
mulations of bis lifetime of labor nnd
energy.
Se he went te Pnris and te the
Hourse and theie he plunged into spec spec
ulntien in German marks. And while
he was waiting for his millions te ac-
I cumulate he traveled thieugh tlie I.u
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heed" te
, usual talents as an entertainer at the l'0!"'?11 watering places, glung little
eilthliMk (il the war. and it uns fWnlen I "ecu te ex pens,, ami no muiium. uuu ine
Y. M.
illlng war
dance nnd a collection of stories and
Indian snugs.
The armistice came and Chief Hail
storm decided Europeans should eh
him. The saings dwindled uway and I Wllr p.mit and started in en the
although he was entitled te a first-'.-. .. circuit with a thrillln
cuius passage iieiiie mere, was no pio pie pio
lsien for Mrs. Dndgu nnd the childieii
and then when the American Aid nder
tiseiuents appeared, lie waived his own
right te a comfortable vojage te
America and packed up his family and
his few remaining tilings ami be'arded
the thiid-clnss cabin of the PichIiIciiI
Polk for the letuin te the United
States with his wife ami his fumilv,
Tlie A merit a n Aid placed him in
chuige of the patty for the ejagn and
ether membeis of the repudiation
group thanked him heartily for all lie
did te nnke them mere comfnitable
then and then, thaf this high-cheek- future would bring nil) thing hut wealth
boned ai.d etlginal American would be , and a mansion en the Lake Shere ilme
Useful lis un entertainer te ic!iee the ' and cei.uhing he had drcamty of ami
lighting lads of some of their thoughts ' wlslusj for.
of the trenches. Se ever he went The President Polk brought hit -tk
Cluei Hailstorm, with ids feathers and ' te the 1 nitcil States with net a
healthv v
wreckefra
penny in his pocket. Ills liealtl
gene, his neneus system
true derelict, drifting back home in the
' arms of charity te a future us uticer
1 tuin as hfe itself
nut even his respeiiBiuinties wet
serve ins talents, lie nintle a hit in nntning te these et l.iiwnru lonnsen
(icimain- a big hit nud esneeinllv with ' naturalized Amrilcmi, who had In
a fair-Inured lierman girl who beenmr . in Europe for jears. The President
tet ('
iceil
relK brought him home with the re-i
pntrltitien group, .hihusen and Mrs I
lohusen nnd the nine little Johnsons!
Mwrt Gellawn brims his larte (amily frew Kaianl back t'hls;ntlye'lmii(l te recoup-lest fortunes.. .Ills wife Is
slrewn lacreterjailIUsJjitrrU-Uw.irt,.,extreTO;t1rt
It was Dr. Dedge, tee. who iixsistcd
the ship's plijslcinn in the earn of
Hareld Hniilis, a former doughboy, who
went te Pi'iinee in all the vigor of
eutli nnd who came back en the Presl
dent Polk tl.xlng of tubciviilesls after
n painful struggle for existence abroad.
At the llobeken Pier sjinpatlietle uiul
leiider-hearted represeniatlvc.s of the
American Hed Cress lifted him from
the ship ami Inte an .nmbulancn and
took him up town in Manhattan te hve
his mother for a day bofero removing
him te a" hospital vhere he raliht die
In comparative ' eatr Vnd peace, . '
the seu iw of his tepee and the mother
) of his paioee.
llu-iness was grind, encniremer.te worn
excellent, but (.cumin marks could net I aml geils a gmen.
, be classed in tlie same group, and all .pieces of luggage and tin.
i the paper that Chief Hailstorm could dogs. lleit'. Indeed, wns
learn would net pa. for his feed and pinched by the eceuumle eendh
u.ef
lodging and his trtuellng expenses, se ! Euiepe
lie packed up his scenery- a puii.ted I Jehnsen himself had struggled through
dee trunk and u wing piece, and with 'years of training line horses, had be
that under one arm and the pnpoee come, adept, and branched out ns a
under tlie ether lie wnjked up the trainer and breeder ills wealth was
gang pi.inii et the rresiiient 1'elU while net great, but his famllv wns lomfert-
tlie Get man "squaw" trailed along he
lium wnii tne "p.icu." .
lie wis the sccet.d Indinn te, enme
back with the repatriation group, nu
mber member of his race landing with
the first crowd and finding at the New
Yerk end of the voyage a generous lied
Cress organization standing by te pro
vide transportation te. aU worthies te
able, first in Paris and Inter in New
market, wliere he established bis own
stables, with every piespect in the world
having the brightest kind of a future.
Hut suddenly the maiket became bad,
the properties became plastered with
mertgnges, and finally when a sale was
arranged that would have saved him the
.JecSv Club refused a permit te the
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Anether American wlw went everswis during the- war and married acruu
Bhlna la Edward, Alves, of California, who Is shown returalm with ku fa
I ' te Vie GoIdWstate. "8r
i tlie length and breadth of Hurone. He
I had tlie distinction of having each of
his children born in a different country,
and presently he expects te have them
all ti. lined te take their puit in Gar Gar
lisen's "Piivate International Quar
I tet."
I Tiie work of aiding these people fell
largelv te Miss Edna J. Wakefield,
dltecter of Heme Stniti' of the lieu
(.'less.
Miss Wakefield nnd her workers
stayed at the task until the last man,
woman and child who was worthy el
help was started upon bis win. Whole
families were mined in the Pacific
Cesst or whet ever was the place they
had pieweiish known as home, and
these whom it was found bad te be held
eer a few d.is. while tlie proper
imestigatiens could he made, were
taken trnin the pier m llobeken te the
Munipical Lodging Heuse in New
Yeik.
The Travelers' Aid Society helped,
and repii'sentatives of the Disabled
Veterans' I'.ureau were at shipside te
leek out for tlie men entitled te help
from this ipiaiter and who had neter
taken advantage uf their rights te com cem
pctlt.itjnti. Se It is that half of these xlctlins of
circumstances are back in the United
States back wliete opportunities crop
up like the weeds.
I A many mere aie te come anil they,
'tee, will find the same open arms await-
I ing them at shipside ready te help them
te get their flesh start, iirmiii tbein
of their own accord te glance back
eastward and shake
in the direction nf
the El Derade et the dreams i hat 'never
come true and if ou are standing
there alongside, jeu piebuldy xill hear
them mutter:
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