Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-09-07
Scraps and facts.

pacity Of l,400,0 900 bushels Of grain
and at the time contained more than
Il million bushels awaiting shipmen,
for the use Of the Allied armies. The
fire had spread from top to bottom be-
fore it was discovered, anG two British
steamers that were loadinS were badly
damaged before they coulc he removed
The railway offices ard & number OF
surrounding buildings were swallowed
up in the flames.
The Allan line steamer Hesperiar
(Britlsh) was sunk of the coast Of
Ireland last Saturday, presumably by
a German submarine. The passengers
numbered $50 and the crew 300. AL
on board were saved. There were nc
American passengers in the list, blu
two members of the crew were Amerl-
cans. The passengers included many
wounded Canadian soldiers, homeward
bound from Flanders. 1t IS said that
the attack occurred about dark; bu
no one saw the submarine or the tor
pedo. There was no warning. How
ever there seems to be no dispute owe
the fact that the ship was armed with
a number of heavy guns which were
plainly visible.
TO date 425, 900 horses and mules
have been shipped out OF the Unltec
States for the European belligerents
and their purchase has been a big
boon in the market for Medium class
horses, department of agriculture Of
ficials said last Saturday. Govern
ment experts find that very few high
bred horses have been exported, with
the result that prices for ordinary
equines have increased. Most OF the
horses have gone to England, but
many shipmens have been made TO
France and Italy. The supply is not
being seriously depleted, government
officials estimating that there are to-
day approximately 21,OO0,O 900 horses
and 1000, 600 mules in this country.
-Adjutant Berth, Of the French
aviation corps, says a Paris dispatch,
has been cited in the orders Of the
day and awarded the decoration of the
Legion Of Honor for alighting behind
the German lines and bringing back
safely Adjutant Boyer, who was COM
PEELED to set fire to his machine as the
result Of an accident. Both aviators
were engaged in accommodating eXpe-
ditions in the same direction. Bertin's
landing point was about four miles
beyond that of Boyer. On returning
after executing his mission, Berth
saw Bowers machine in flames. He
landed in face of a heavy fire, picked
up his comrade and flew back to the
French lines, with a fragment of a
shell in his thigh. The %aeroplane was
struck in SO places by bullets and
pieces Of shells.
up to three weeks ago the British
navy alone. without regard to the
navies Of France and Italy, had sunk
or captured AZ German submarines.
This information is contained in a per-
cnnol latfar from Eial6 Marshal Sir
John French, commander-in-chief of
the British army in Flanders. The
letter was written to one Of the best
known officers in the American army,
who is an old friend of Sir Johns, &C
cording to a Washington dispatch.
This information would indicate that
Germany had lost from all sources at
least half a hundred submarines since
the wal began. Three weeks 6 ante
dates the sinking Of the Arabic by a
German submarine, and the list, there
fore, does not include that boat, which
is reported to have been sunk the day
following, August 20. The French
torpedoboat destroyers are known to
have accounted for several submarines
and Italy may have accounted for one
or two.
More than IL, 200, 900 acres Of and
were eliminated from the public do
main during the past fiscal year by
homestead and other entries and sales
to individuals, the annual report OF
Commissioner Tallman, of the general
land Office, will show. There are still,
however, open now or will be 297,-
544,404 acres, 'unappropriated and I'M
reserved, of which 172,9S7,9 12 acres are
surveyed and the rest u~nsurveyed."
All this is in the twenty-five public
land states, and in addition to this
enormous area there are approx
which will be available to American
citizens. Nevada is shown to have the
most public land, 55,417,746 acres, Of
which 80, 900, 900 acres are already sur
veyed, and Missouri, with only S23
acres, reports the least public land.
Public lands remaining in southern
states embrace: Alabama, 47,940 acres:
Arkansas, 27S.133; Florida, 26S,4S4;
Louisiana, 101,O16, and Mississippi,
36,SS2.
During the visit to the British
battle fleet in the last week a CORES
pendent, after boarding all Of the
nor important ships, witnessed a
magnificent spectacle-that of all the
forces heading out to sea-, according
to a London dispatch. All the places
the Lion was hit were not discernible
owing to reconstruction Of the section
where the shells burst. In other cases
The location was evident, patches
having been placed owe the damaged
plates. The Tiger, sister battle cruiser
of the Lion, had fewer scars to show.
On.the Queen Elizabeth the only signs
Of her experiences at the Dardanelles
visible were a section of new planks
on deck, where a shell penetrated, and
a dent from a glancing shot OF one
of her 15-inch guns. The I%nfexible,
the flagship in the Falkland Islands
battle, suffered less injury there than
at the Dardanelles. where h was
struck by a mine and was under
heavy fire from shore. A piece of the
mine is kept in the ward room as a
souvenir. The correspondent heard
repeated and sympathetic remarks
of hardships during the gruelling year
at the Dardanelles. The only color
visible in that vast assembly Of ships
were the blue uniforms of the crews
and a signal flag flying from the ship
yard. While the correspondent was on
board the flagship of Admiral Sir John
Jellicoe, a message was brought to
the commander in chief. Word was
passed around that the whole fleet
had been ordered to proceed to sea.
IueStS on DOaru Il destroyer at the
mouth Of the harbor watched that I'M
~precedented procession of naval power
make its exit. led by it's graceful light
cruisers and fiOtillas of destroyers.
Twenty dreadnoughts were counted
as they went and out of other smoke
clouds in the harbor more dread
noughts were coming before the King
Edward VII and pre-dreadnoughts had
their turn. The commander of the des-
trOyer which the correspondent was
aboard looked at his watch and said
it was time to go, as he must take his
appointed place in the fleet. At 80 knots
an hour he cut across the bow of a
battleship. taking his guests to the
landing place. AS the destroyer round
ed the headland the correspondent
had a last glimpse of that seemingly
endless column of ships. still not free
from the harbor, on it's way on an un-
known errand in the North sea.
That the warships of the United
States navy are only half manned
and have o enough officers to handle
them properly in time of war. is the
criticism in a report of John Hays
Hammond, Jr., who represents the
conference committee on national pre-
paredness at the recent conference of
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