Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-04
VIVID DESCRIPTION
OF SUBMARINE WARFARE
(Continucd frnm Eirs, i,anA1


sailing. For'ard regular niX-up-
brazilian. English. one OF three
Americans. one Finn-our hest seaman
-NorweEians. Swedes--the rest Ger
mans. The grub was good stood I'm
with the cook. mostly on sundays, when
we had plumduf for dinner, and lie
taught me Norwegian With a little
hGhting among us youngsters. VIC all
got along together. and looked for
ward to pleasant voyage
BECOMES ORDINARY SEAMAN
At $50 A MONTH
There was Jimmie. II lanky, pimply-
faced, snoopy kid Of a cocknev. with
the greatest capacity for doing nothing
lie passed himself off as an ordinary
seaman. hut didn't know tho game
w men Jimmie said he might have fits
II sent a!ofi and would rather work
indoors. asked the mate TO let us
swap jobs. And. two weeks out from
oregon ! became an ordinary seaman
IT $50 month. Jimmie. win the fits.
ShuHied aft to wash dishes and he a
rhanhermmid and beer opener for the
skipper
Hove-to for seven days in a hurricane
off Chile--we passed through thc
snorters off Cape Horn. We'll into the
Atlantic. We learned hy signaling mass
ing steamers that the war was siil on
Dig cargo steamer came close aboard
ana megaphoncd us that Germany was
sinking neutral vessels
We then first heard of the submarines
playing the devil with shipping. This
was bad news for us When we icft
Portland we thought We were. safe. he.
ioC neutral
All We're keen for more war stun. bur
the skipper didn't want it, rerul,r
farmer-and that WAS his nickname
he could hardly make out u signal
. Upon sighting a vessel wed Law afr
and press him 10 signal Almost i'm
mutiny-citins the Norwegian law-,bc
crew forced him 10 prepare the life
boats and III them out with sails, pro-
visions and water in case of :; sub.
marine attack And We OF the crew
started arguing about what We wou,d
do If blown UP. VIC got our ,biur.
ready. but the mate shouted that any
one bringing up a bis bundle of clothes
when abandoning ship would h. ar
dered to drop II overheard a, Tho min,
of pistol. SO sneaked into tho
fo'castle house and undid my clothing
bag and stuck my No. i suit and few
warm things and the embroidery uas
making in pillow ca se-also a fash
light, because ! had learned the Morse
code, and ] thought il might be uscfv,
in the open boat wasn't ,o y.
caught mapping
WARNED TO BE on LooI<oIT
For GERMAN SUBMARINES
ON slanting course. east bv sou,h
we were on June IS making for ,hc
Fastnet Rock on the Southern Irish
coast An auxiliary cruiser in battered
war paint. flying tho white ensign
looms up--fres a blank shot and ",
heave-to. boat comes alongside ,wo
armed officers climb Oh board and ash
Tor the ships papers. presenting tha
compliments OF the commander of "
NJ. s. woodruff Our Germa, s.tlo,.
are told that they viii he ''piuched'
upon arrival. Giving US "a course clo..
10 shore for Queenstown and a warn.
ing to- be on the lookout FOR German
submarines. the lime juicers" shovrI
or. That afternoon we sat down n
dinner, a sorry lot.
The Germans were scared of the ter
rors OF the Enalish prison camps AND
All Hands chinned gloomily about be.
ing torpedoed anidshps
The following night, about s bells
~ felt like having a bath and got nv.
d self ready for the beach Got ho,
water and clean underwear AND