food in an open field
surrounded by soldiers with fixed bayonets.

"Then they were placed in dirty cattle wagons, about sixty men, women
and children to a wagon, and for twenty-eight hours were carried about
Prussia without food, drink or privacy. In Stettin they were lodged in
pig pens, and next morning were sent off by steamer to Rugen, whence
they made their way to Denmark and Sweden without money or luggage.
Sweden provided them with food and free passage to the Russian
frontier. Five of our fellow-passengers went mad."

The steamship Philadelphia--note the name, signifying brotherly love, so
completely lost sight of in the conflict--was the first passenger liner
to reach America after the beginning of the European war. A more
remarkable crowd never arrived in New York City by steamship or train.
There were men of millions and persons of modest means who had slept
side by side on the journey over; voyagers with balances of tens of
thousands of dollars in banks and not a cent in their pocketbooks; men
able and eager to pay any price for the best accommodations to be had,
yet satisfied and happy sharing bunks in the steerage.

There were women who had lost all baggage and had come alone, their
friends and relatives being unable to get accommodations on the vessel.
There were children who had come on board with their mothers, with
neither money nor reservations, who were happy because they had received
the very best treatment from all the steamship's officers and crew and
because they had enjoyed the most comfortable quarters to be had,
surrendered by men who were content to sleep in most humble
surroundings, or, if necessary, as happened in a few cases, to sleep on
the decks when the weather permitted.

Wealthy, but without funds, many of the passengers gave jewelry to the
stewards and other employees of the steamship as the tips which they
assumed were expected even in times of stress. The crew took them
apologetically, some said they were content to take only the thanks of
the passengers. One woman of wealth and social position, without money,
and having lost her check book with her baggage, as had many others of
the passengers, gave a pair of valuable bracelets to her steward with
the request that he give them to his wife. She gave a hat--the only one
she managed to take with her on her flight from Switzerland--to her
stewardess.

The statue of Liberty never looked so be