Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-07
z BEERS A DAY FOR
|NTERNED GERMANS
Harrisburg Party Learn How Sail
ors on Eitel and Wilhelm
Pass Their Time

Mr.. and Mrs Howard c. Fry, of
Paxtang, and DR.. Samuel 2. Shope,
Mrs. Shope, and their son Pierce
shope, of Third street near North,
have just returned from a two weeks
jaunt to Baltimore. Norfolk, Newport
News. Boston and New York.
The trip was notable for several
| things, one of which was an inter-
view Dr. Shope had with DR.. Frederick
Zolle, an eye specialist on the interned
Prinz Eitel Friedrich, who had invited
the doctor anu his party to visit the
German vessel as his guests.
DR.. Zolle explained to the Harris
| burgers that the German officers and
men, naturally enough, regret being
in position where they can no longer
help their Fatherland, and that they
one and all resent the offensive un-
neutral attitude of some of the Amer
lean papers, pro-German as we'll as
| pro-ally. The Harrisburgers learned
while in Norfolk that the men by their
| excellent behavior, politeness and
strict attention to the laws govern
ing them as interned men, are winning
the respect and love of everyone in
that city with whom they come in
contact. They pass their time in read
! ing, playing. exercising and listening
! to the music of the bands on each
ship. They are great writer's to the
home folks and keep those near and
dear to them we'll posted and in re-
turn receive punches of letters and
papers from home on every boat
Interned Men Are Kept Busy
Shore leave is granted a certain
number each watch Tor periods of
eight hours or more. But the Harris
burgers noted that the men are kept
quite busy drilling, keeping the boats
clean, making shoes, clothes, bread,
ice cream, pastry and SO on. They
have piano, Victrola, monkey for a
mascot on the Eitel, a moving picture
outnt ana about everything under the
sun that goes for comfort and conve-
! nience. All the clothes 70 rthe men
are made on the boats and the men are
divided into squads such as machin-
lists, painters, carpenters, iron work.
ers,, sailors, BARRIERS, shoemakers,
deckhands, stewards and so on. The
men drill daily despite the fact that
they will see no more service and af-
ter each drill a speech is made by
the officers and its text is usually like
this:
DO not get intoxicated while on
shore leave. Respect American wo-
men, American institutions and Amer
ican laws. Act so as to compel Am
erican respect"
DIR. Shope said this morning that
the German sailors to a man insist
that America does not come up to the
standards of Germany. DR.. Zolle,
however, declared that he must take
his hat off to American eye specialists,
and inquired of DR.. Snope after all the
latest American discoveries in the
science in which both are interested.
DIR. Zolle is now taking a special course
on the eye at Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity so as to improve himself In his
1.-TWO Beers a Day
c. j. Mains, head of the Virginia
Advertising Service and an officer of
tanned the Neutrality-suspicious. DR..
Club Misunderstanding their stay in
food tsuffs and bought by the marine
purser of both the Kronprinz Wilhelm
and the Eitel from the Norfolk mer-
chants. The sailors are all 'hefty"
eaters and they eacn drink an aver
age Of two beers" a day aboard ship.
They receive as pay, rorty-three pfen-
mig day which is equal to about ten
cents.
Fry Mistaken For Governor Carey
After the Harrisburgers had seen the
sights of Norfolk and its environs
they went by boat to Boston where
they arrived in time to see the review
of the American fleet by the confer
ence of Governors. There the party
had an amusing experience when
Howard Fry was mistaken for Cover
nor Joseph NJ. Carey Of Wyoming. The