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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-29
of U-53 Recalls
Feat of the Tacony Oft
Atlantic Coast in 1868

burned eight American vessels. BY June
| "a the Tacony had reached a position
| to the northward of the track of YES
sells bound from Europe to the port of
Boston, and when at a point about 10
miles east of Portland, Me-, she cap
tured the schooner Archer. Read, ap-
| preciating that many vessels must by
this time be in search of him. decided
| to quit the Tacony. This he did by
| transferring to the Archer, after which
the Tacony was fired.
Read now planned to slip into Port
land. Me-, and cut out a steamer at
that port. He passed into the port with
the Archer without being challenged
and about 8 o'clock of June 26 he car
ried by boarding the cutter Caleb
Gushing. This was two-masted SAIL
ing craft. Before cutting out the Cush-
ing the alarm was sounded and Read
found it expedient to get to sea AS
quickly as possible. Manning the
Cushing he made sail, and managed 20
clear the harbor, but by morning the
wind failed and the Gushing lay be-
Gained few miles beyond port. In
this predicament the Cushing was sur
rounded by several excursion steamers
filled with troops from the port ana
at 1880 a. m. of June 81 Read sur
rendered to the military on the steamer
Forest City.
The advent of the Tacony on the
American coast produced record OF
alarms seldom parallsled in history
, The navy department was deluged with
kilograms for a fortnight.
The commandments at the Philadelphia,
New York, and Boston navy yards were
ordered to send out every availaDle
craft. to charter and seize, II need De-
| any suitable craft capable of steam
ing As hours. A week after the nrst
! instructions were sent out the navy
department wired to charter more yes
sells. In all moro than 40 steamers
| cruised in search of the Tacony put
| not once was that vessel sighted. Tne
whole occurrence indicated, naval men
saw. that it is of little use to lnausu-
rate a search unless 1T is done In an m
itelligent manner and there was every
indication that the search of the Tacon9
in 1863 was without any central CON
troll.
The racony affair has been used as @
,str;l,ine illustration in naval problems
lin matters having to do with Scout
natrols. 1t was afterward shown tna'
| several of the searching cratt wei.
al times very close to the Tacony' Pu,
lowing to a well-established system "a
control th.a Confederate was able 70 SIP
Through the Gordon that IL WIS ~
tempted to form. ,,;s.,
Ta1lahassee made a dash out OF WI
r,ington. n. c., cruised as far north
as Halifax and after an absence OF 5 al
most 20 days until her return to WI
r,inston burned or scuttled 81 Amerl
nan vessels The work OF destructio.
was accomplished in 10 days OF ac.un.
time. the remaining 10 days being spen'
in cruising. ~. FLOR
,aa ynaaa q rapid passage over the At
iant;c coast. and then reached over on
q long leg to the Azores. ne mse
nassed over the coast but at no instances
r,,ass he CONSERVATION created SO grea
as in the case of the raid as MAJ.
hy Read with his 20 men In the Tacons
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-29
A Speakers Idiosyncrasies

From affairs at Washington" Joe
Mitchell Chapple, in National Magazine.
Shorthand reporters soon discover the
idiosyncrasies of various speakers and
writer's. They become familiar with the
pet words and phrases of public men and
can follow debate almost from men,
DRY. Every writer and speaker has IA
vorite phrases and words that are re-
peated over and over again like an end
less refrain. The vernacular of the av-
erage person is singularly prescribed. A
man who uses unfamiliar words is looked
upon as pedantic, and close student of
the dictionary.
In the Senate the Hon. J. Hamilton
Lewis OF Illinois is difficult to follow
because he has way of saying things
entirely differently from anyone else and
makes use of words usually omitted from
modern dictionaries. His classical allu-
sions and quotations are likely to be con-
fusing in these prosaic days. Senator
MARITIME of New Jersey has a penchant
for the old-fashioned Fourth of July
oratorical style. A stenographer would
easily forecast the words and phrases
he would be likely to use.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-29
SUBURBAN TROLLEY.
KNOCKED Off TRACK
BY A MITCHELL SIX
Lives Saved by Sturdy Con-
struction of Car i'm Col
lision in California

THAT light weight can be accompanied
by sturdy construction was proven re-
Gently beyond the shadow of doubt,
says John w. Bate, engineer and eff
cheney expert of the Mitchell company.
MY attention was recently called to a
peculiar, though not fatal, accident that
proves to me the worth of the present
use of lighter but tougher steels in auto
mobile construction.
The toughness of present day con-
struction has often been tested, but never
in so vivid a way. In Juniata, Cal, an
accident occurred recently one evening
about o'clock.
Mr.. d. e. Parker, president Of the First
National bank OF Juniata, collided with
and knocked a large suburban trolley car
completely off the track.
The automobile was only slightly dam
aged, but the trolley car was derailed and
ran almost into the entrance door of ex-
Sheriff Hugh's store, doing about 500
damage.
Mr.. Parker was driving his Mitchell
along at a rate of about 10 miles an hour,
and with him were his daughter, his two
grandchildren and some friends. The
Mitchell struck the trolley just ahead OF
the front trucks, causing it to leave the
tracks and crash through six-inch iron
post in front of Hugh's store and only
brought up at the entrance. to the store.
The occupants of the Mitchell miracu-
lousy escaped injury, with the exception
of Miss Alice Jones, who suffered a slight
injury to her nose, caused by being
thrown against the front seat. The
Mitchell proceeded under it's own power
to a garage, where the hood, Tenders
and lamps, the only damages to the car,
were repaired.
Mr.. Parker says the sturdy construc-
ton of this Mitchell saved the lives Of
the people in the car.
John W. Bate says if "the proof of the
pudding is in the eating then this must
tell the story OF Mitchell construction.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-29
HUPP ON IT'S WAY

The following telegram was received
from J. S. Patterson, who is one of the
Hupmobile party who are touring the
country in what is known as the capitol
to-capitol run. The trips is being made
in a regular stock model Hupmobile. The
telegram, which was received by The
Age-Herald last night follows:
Fighting the gumbo of Iowa and
Minnesota, the unknown roads Of the Da-
kotas, the snow and mud of Montana,
to say nothing of climbing the mountains
of Idaho, Washington and Oregon, was
easy in comparison with trying to get out
of California without traversing the state
highwaystto Los Angeles for the Hupmo-
bile good roads car which J. Walter
Drake of Detroit is sending on a 10000
mile trip around the United States, the
machine driven by c. Il. Salisbury and
George Lipe, with Bill Krohn. moving
picture man and j. S. Patterson, news
paper man, who rejoined the party after
a temporary lay-up at Pendleton hos
pital, arrived at Sacramento late last
evening.
Making the twenty-ninth capital Wis
tied since the start from Washington
on August Is, the tourists were met here
by A. E. Morrison, manager of the Hup-
mobile company, who insisted that the
party take in southern California rather
than go straight to Carson City, the next
capital, In order, he finally convinced
the party, they should take in both
San Francisco and Los Angeles imme-
diately.
f. j. Iintz of San Francisco arranged
for a big reception in that city, and the
Pathe people made preparations to take
movies of the arrival of the-capital car
at the western terminal of Lincoln high
way. P. o. Davis. general manager of
the Universal Film company, wired, ask
ing the tourists to visit Universal City,
where the details of the moving picture
business will be shown. The party car
will leave San Francisco Thursday
morning by the coast route for Universal
City, and after the ceremonies there will
proceed to Los Angeles, where they will
be the guests of p. Fl. Greer and A. c..
Robbins at the opening of the Los Ange-
les automobile show Sunday. The good
roads workers will start north again for
Carson City"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-29
67HERE have been many openings
BY ALLEN J. KREBs.

i have been ar mnny openings po Rs
q mingham. Many of these OPEN
ling festivities occasioned by the NOV
ling into a new building, or acquiring
new agency. have been all that the
most optimistic observer attending
could expect.
! Paul Crawford. the man who has put
Chandler on the may in Alabama, a
prince of a good fellow. a gentleman,
a scholar and a real automobile man,
had his opening in celebration of the
II new home of the Chandler and an I'm
usually successful year with the popu-
I lar six last night. 1t was a real cele-
bration. 1t was different from a lot
| of openings that have been held in
Birmingham. No one could have inter-
tanned in a more royal fashion than
this Chandler representative for the
state of Alabama.
From the time you stepped into the
front door until you had fingered until
the dolefu1 toll of the court house clock
reminded you that 1t was midnight, you
felt, knew, and appreciated the fact
that you were a welcome guest Of the
Chandler organization, and nothing
was too good for you Paul Crawford
has had many friends in and out of the
automible game since he first came to
Birmingham, but, last night he made
friends and boosters by the score who
had the pleasure of enjoying the hos
pitality of his excellent organization.
Congratulations were showered upon
the head of this firm. They were sim
Icere. One who has pinned his faith to
the city of Birmingham and has showed
that he was for progress in the man.
ner that Paul Crawford has, deserves
success. That he will have it is a fore
gone conclusion.
If some of these speeding young men
who have recently acquired new auto
mobiles paid more attention to the
valve action OF their car instead of try
ing to gauge the horsepower of some
coy young thing walking on the side
walk, there would be fewer accidents,
not near so many narrow escapes, and
a noticeable decline in the habit of dis
playing multihued hosiery ala
stream line fashion.
The Capital Motor company has re-
Gently remodeled their garage and
rented the front section of the build
ing to the Wofford Oil company.
II took the trouble to count the num-
Der of Hudson Super Skies that were
in front of the Tutwiler hotel during
the meeting of the Drama league Sat
,urday afternoon" said Tom Morris
"Out of total of SO automobiles, ~
were Hudson Super Skies" Yes, Tom
sells Hudsons and is doing very well.
E. r. Graham, representative of the
National company, has been in the city
for the last few days.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-29
'CROSSSTATE RUN IS
WON BY CADILLAC
Makes 331 Miles i'm z Hours
and 40 Minutes and Hangs
Up New Road Mark

A recent Cadillac eight performance in
Iowa adds another road mark to the long
string of records already standing to the
credit of the car.
A type SO touring car--this being the
newest model, was driven from the east
ern boundary of Iowa to it's western boap
dairy. distance of Ss1 miles, in hours 43
minutes, setting a new record for the
CROSSES state run. The average speed was
42.37 miles per hour.
This record is the most coveted in Iowa.
Only two weeks previous to the Cadillac
achievement, new mark of s hours 81
minutes was set by 12-cylinder car
averaging 3S2 miles per hour. The Ca
dillac carried four passengers, and ths
top and windshield were UP.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-29
Motor TOrpedO Boats

From the Popular Science Monthly.
According to Edward f. Chandler,
engineer inventor, there is no reason
why the high powered motorboat
should not be employed to carry and
discharge torpedoes. To accomplish
this Mr.. Chandler has devised a spe-
cial type of motorboat to which tor
pedoes may be attached to the hull,
one along each side Of the keel. Thus
supported the torpedoes neither add
nor subtract from the weight Of the
vessel; for the torpedoes have neither
positive nor negative buoyancy. The
motorboat need only be pointed at its
target to be fired accurately. Imagine,
then, q fleet of these motor torpedo
boats collected at intervals of about
100 miles along the coast, each sta
ton harboring from 10 to Is boats And
then imagine a veritable swarm of
these tiny boats sent out to attack
the enemy's battleships and troop
Transports \ dozen boats are sent
against single battleship; one at least
will strike a telling blow. What
chance has big ship against a swarm
of these low-lying motor torepdo
boats?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-29
Mar-Steered Torpedo

From the Popular Science month";
Would you pilot 500 pounds OF gunco..
ton toward a hostile battleship ana pray
the fire of it's powerful guns IN oraeh ID
ms riner there is ample opportunity lor
YOU to attempt it. A resident OF WASH, y,
ington has devised torpedo controllea leu
by pilot carried along on Its flignt. ne
builds the torpedo SO that the part IN
which the pilot sits may be detacheu
after the explosive charge has been re-
leased to proceed under its own auto
matic control At this point the portion
of the torpedo in which the pilot sits
separates from the portion containing the
explosive material and the pilot paddles
back to his ship, the enemy ship In the
meanwhile having been destroyed. Would
you care to attempt il?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-29
Meerschaum as Building Material

from the Popular Science Monthly.
Even the most aestheticalIy inclined of
our American millionaires would hardly
consider the luxury of living in a resi-
dence built of meerschaum as within the
range of their fortunes, yet there are
many ,unpretentious houses of this ma
terial in the Spanish town of Vallecas,
near Madrid, where a coarse variety of
this substance may be found.
Oddly enough, just across the Straits
are the Moroccans, who have discovered
that still another variety of meerschaum
fathers freely and makes a good substi-
tute for the ordinary toilet soap.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-29
PASSING THE BUCK ON THE
p, ALLEN J. Nnrns 5a- FLIVVER ROUTE

Bradley Saunders and "Red" Smith
are in Detroit looking things over.
The best bet of the day is that they
will not overlook anything.
In the meanwhile Chester Alexander
and Tom Morris are taking care of all
the Hudson business.
Ray Bolton of the Brownen Auto
company is in Pensacola. This Bolton
is one of the boys that never forgets
what he says. For instance: when l
get down on that water 1 will send
you some fish," said Ray. The first ar
rived, so did some shrimp. The red
fish was especially appreciated, this
being the specie that abounds in the
gulf stream.
Ted" Brownel1 and c. w. Nichols,
the latter with the Ford branch is
in Detroit. Their primary object in
making the trip is to try to get some
"fiivvers.' No one Knows what their
secondary object is.
The Paul Crawford agency has COR
allied live, aggressive bunch of au-
tomobile statesmen. Lou Hale, Ed Car
ney, j. D. Stewart and Tom Hightower
make a live quartet They are all on
the job and the chances are they will
mako the row" sit up and take no.
tice from time to time.
The DeShazo Motor company has re-
Gently made a haul" in the automo-
bile business. This firm has sold and
delivered more than 20 machines in the
past 80 days.
The Birmingham Automobile Deal
ers' association had another weekly
ma ut hn Tnt la ct
Friday night This organization will
undoubtedly be the means Of doing
more good for the dealer, the automo-
bile owner and the prospective auto
mobile owner than anyother one thing
that has ever been started in Birming-
ham.
The Birmingham Motor company
continues to place Hupps on the
streets almost daily. Donald Bremen
has demonstrated the fact that he
comes from a great family of shrewd
merchants.
Good days and bad days all go to-
gether. He that hath all good days
not have ambitions for the automobile
business. Nor should this trite para
graph be applied to the automobile
business exclusively.
Solution for all Ford enthusiasts
who ordered their cars and have not
seen them as yet. There is total of
5000 Ford dealers in the United
States. Thirty thousand Fords were
manufactured last month. Figure it
out. But better days are coming. Ford
will make close onto a million cars
this year.
AND THEN HE FELT DIZZY.
''Why is it that the swish of a skirt
causes the average automobile sales
man to demonstrate the accellerating
qualities of an inferior motor?"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-29
The Anti-Whispering Society

From affairs at Washington" Joe
Mitchell Chapple, in National Mag
azine i.ls
An Whispering society has been
organized, with a simple pledge: T.
hereby pledge myself that, so far as
possibly can. ] will discountenance in
myself as well as in others, the whis-
pering or talking habit, during any
religious service, concert, lecture, or
other gathering where people are as
sembled to listen"
Although George Wharton James has
appropriated all the offices, being
president, secretary, doorkeeper, jan
itor and chief high cock-a-lorum, he
suggests that the foregoing pledge be
silently taken without mental reser-
vation--and whispering will fade away,
becoming only relic of barbaric days.
Rubber cups, which any person can at
toch to the heels of his shoes to aid in
walking. have been patented by a Phil
obi nh 10 yUnJ
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-29
Telephone on the Rifle Range

From the Popular Science Monthly.
On the rifle range of the Georgia state
militia. at Augusta, scoring rs done by a
telephone system. A telephone in the
firing pit is operated from central sta
ton box on the firing line. so is an iron
buzzer box in front of each target When
the buzzer sounds, the target is pulled
down, the shot located and another tar
get set up.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-29
TACONY ABANDONED

One June II, when about SO miles east
of Cape Henry, the entrance to the
Chesapeake, the Clarence made false sig
nails of distress to a fine bark in the
distance. The bark bore down on the
Clarence. and before her people were
aware of it, Reads men had clambered
on board. armed to the teeth, and the
bark was their prize. She proved to be
the Tacony, an American craft. Read at
once saw that she was fine craft, and
not being altogether satisfied with the
sailing qualities of the Clarence, he
burned the latter after first transferring
his howitzer and crew to the Tacony.
Before leaving the ground where the
Tacony was captured Read gathered in
three more craft, one of these, the
schooner Schindel, he burned. The 9TH
ers, q brig and schooner, he bonded.
Finding himself encountered with many
prisoners, Read transferred all to the
last captured schooner and sent them
into philadelphia,
The Tacony now tsood off shore lay
ing a course to intercept the home
ward bound American ships engaged IN
the West India trade. On June Is. the
Tacony being about ESQ miles east oil
Cape Charles. she burned brig. Their
she made for the Nantucket shoals
where on June 20 mad Fl she burned
the three vessels above mentioned.
On June 90 the Tacony was off thu
Georges bank, and in that locality she
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-29

Nearly half of the population of
France was engaged in farming before
the war.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-29
ONLY ONE HOWITZER

Commander Moffit approved of Read S
request, and transferred to the Clarence
% men and one howitzer. With his new
command Read parted from the Florida
and followed course for the American
coast. One month later he was off the
Carolina coast, where he burned and
bonded three American vessels. Learning
from his captors no craft were permitted
to pass Fort Monroe without strict ex-
animation, and then only in the event
that the vessel attempting to enter was
laden for government account, Read de-
elued to abandon his original idea and
instead to make a raid UP the Atlantic
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-29

Bradley Saunders and "Red" Smith
are in Detroit looking things over.
The best bet of the day is that they
Will not overlook anything.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-29

New York, October 10.--The consterna-
ton occasioned in shipping circles by
the raid of the German submarine U-5S
is a remarkable duplication, naval men
say of what happened in 1868 at New
York and other eastern ports when the
Tacony, under the command of Lieut..
C. w. Read of the Confederate States
navy, passed up the Atlantic coast,
burning and scuttling American ships
For two entire weeks Read continued
his foray on American commerce, and
Notwithstanding that more than 40 CRUZ
sers and chartered vessels were sent out
in search of him, the intrepid Confed-
crate was only captured when he ven
tured into the harbor of Portland, Me-,
in an attempt to cut out a steamer of
that place.
During a period of three days the Ia
cony cruised off the Nantucket shoals.
and in that time burned q full rugged
clipper ship, bound from Liverpool to
New York. a bark and Liverpool
packet. These three craft were destroyed
in the same locality where the U-53 on
Sunday last sent six steamers to the
bottom.
1t was in May, 1853, when the Confed-
crate cruiser Florida being off Cape St.
Rogue, Brazil, on cruise against
American commerce, captured the Amer
lean brig Clarence. The Florida was
commanded by Commander j. n. Mof-
fit. Serving on the Florida as a watch
officer was Lieut.. C. w. Read, Comman-
der Moffit was about to burn the Clar-
ence when he was approached with
request from Lieutenant Read to be per-
mitted to take the Clarence man her
with 20 men from the Florida's crew. and
proceed to Hampton Roads, Va, there to
slip in Fortress Monroe and cut out a
steamer. With the steamer, Read pro-
posed to cruise against American COM
merce. Failing in the attempt to get by
Fortress Monroe, Read proposed as an
alternative then to proceed to Baltimore,
Nd nd fra be cLinniner of that mort.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-29

AND THEN HE FELT DIZZY.
"Why is it that the swish of a skirt
causes the average automobile sales
man to demonstrate the accellerating
qualities of an inferior motor?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-29

In the meanwhile Chester Alexander
and Tom Morris are taking care of all
the Hudson business.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-29

The Capital Motor company has re-
Gently remodeled their garage and
rented the front section of the build
ing to the Wofford OH company.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-07-28
READY FOR RAID
DY VILLA BANDITS
col. GAsToN SAYS HE IS PRE-
PARED To MEET ANY At
TACK BY THE RAIDERS.
bors'cr Is strongly Patrolled by Rcg-
ular Troops and Nillltla--Rc-
ports of Raids
Current.

Ell PAsO. Texas. July as.--''If
there are any bandits planning 20
raid the Big Bend country nope
they will attack now This was the
substance OF meagagc received from
Colonel CASTOR. commander In that
district. in reply to query as to
whether he had sufficient troops.
He stated that the border patrol
is made up of the Sixth United States
cavalry, the Fourth Texas infantry,
Ia detachment OF the Texas cavalry,
La battalion of the Tenth Pennsyi-
|yania infantry and squadron OF the
Pennsylvania cavalry.
For more than a week reports have
indicated that villistas in the vicin-
|ity OF Boquillas, Mexico, were plan
ming raid on American towns.