Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-05-11

!, exercises were over, we returned on
the steam launchs of the North Da
kota back to the Hotel Chamberlain
at Old Point Comfort. a
at is historic ground in and aronud
Old Point Comfort. Only a short dis
lance from the place where the
North Dakota was anchored is the
place where the historic battle be-
tween the Merrimac and the Monitor
was fought over fifty years ago AT
Fortress Monroe, at Old Point Com
fort, Jefferson Davis, president Of the
Confederacy, was confirmed al the
close of the Civil war. We were
shown the magnificent battries. NOR
tars and disappearing guns at Fort
ress Monroe, as they are there now,
for the defense OF the harbor, and we
IWere also shown some of the old guns
Hin use during the Civil war.
II, On the Prinz Eitel.
s%"We also made a trip over to the
Norfolk Navy yard through the cour-
tesy Of Hon. Norman Hamilton, who
is the collector Of customs for the gov
eminent at Norfolk.s III .ls,ta.,.
AT the navy yard We had the op-
portunity to go on boiard the two Ger
man warships interned there, the
"Prinz Eitel Friedrich" and the "kron
Prinz Wilhelm The officers and
men Oh those informed German ships
were very vourteous TO us and showed
us all through their boats. The
Friedrich" only mounted two guns
but the Wilhelm had quite a good
many cannon, although none of them
were of a very large size.
Both of these ships had been used
in passenger service. They showed
plainly the effect of the hard service
to which they have been put and we
were told they had sunk twenty-eight
ships belonging to the different allied
nations at wal against Germany. They
also advised us that there had not
been a life lost of those that they had
taken prisoners and that they had
taken all of them aboard of their YES
sells before the yhad sunk them.
Money for College.
From Old Point Comfort l went
with President Hansel of Fargo Col
lege TO call upon DIR. Sage of the
Rockefeller Foundation and DR.. Prit-
chett of the Carnegit Foundation III
the interests of Fargo College, We
were very courteously received and ]
hope some good may come from our
visit for the college. From there
President Hansel and myself went up
into Maine to see Judge Stewart, a
brother of the late Elder Etewart
of Minneapolis. and received a good
deal of encouragement from him and
| believe he will do something to help
the college.
"A part of ~ party are still in the
east but most of them have returned
now to North Dakota.
Glad to Get Home.
Mrs. Hanna and myself had a most
delightful trip all the way through,
fine weather and l do not believe ]
have ever seer the country look bet
ter than it does north, south and east.
There is a good deal of complaint in
the east because so many men are Out
of employment. The factories that
are running or full time are those
manufacturing ammunition and NUM-
tons OF war and the shoe factories
seem to be doing a large business as
they have a lot of foreign orders, but
other lines of business | thought were
very!dull and | noticed between Phi.a-
delphia and New York that fully a
third of the factories seemed to be
closed. People are hoping and be-
lieying that times will improve.
1T seemed very good to get HON.
again and to find crop conditions so
favorable in North Dakota and ! sin
cerely hope that this year may be a
good one for all parts of our state and
the prospect at the present time is
certainly most fattering."