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On June 15 Richard sailed on the Utah for New York, arriving there on the 22d.

For a few weeks after his return he remained at Mount Kisco completing his articles on the Mexican situation but at the outbreak of the Great War he at once started for Europe, sailing with his wife on August 4, the day war was declared between England and Germany.
On Lusitania--August 8, 1914.
DEAR CHAS: We got off in a great rush, as the Cunard people received orders to sail so soon after the Government had told them to cancel all passengers, that no one expected to leave by her, and had secured passage on the Lorraine and St.Paul.
They gave me a "regal" suite which at other times costs $1,000 and it is so darned regal that I hate to leave it.

I get sleepy walking from one end of it to the other; and we have open fires in each of the three rooms.

Generally when one goes to war it is in a transport or a troop train and the person of the least importance is the correspondent.

So, this way of going to war I like.