The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-07-13

Kings portrait was in the shops. But
portraits Of the Kaiser were more
numerous, and more buttons and
badges of the Kaiser, than of the King
were on sale.
The war correspondents were told
that the Kings mother was Austrian,
that the royal family, barring the Eng
lish-born Queen, were ~pro-German, that
the mobiles and most of the rich com
moners were also pro-German, and so
was the press; that business men de-
sired German competition with Eng.
fish, after the war.
They were told that the King, Court
Of Mobiles, further, had feeling against
two of the allied nations in particular,
France and Portugal, because these
were Republics. And then, Cumulat-
i've of all this, masses of Spaniards had
a hereditary feeling against the Portu-
gese. And there was a religious SYM
pathy for the Austrian Emperor be-
cause he was a staunch Roman Cath
Ole. Most Of these facts were new to
the war writer's, and most are likely
new to millions Of readers at home.
The captain had thought to save
some $40 or $12 a ton by purchase in
Cadiz, for though coal is high in the
Andalusian port it is still more altitu.
dinous in Genoa, where bituminous is
about $50 to $35 a ton. AS for anthra-
cite it rises sometimes to $50, $55 or
$50 a ton. Strange prices obtain in
some of the war-stricken lands.
Of Gibraltar the captain received a
dispatch ordering him to excise the
run to Naples. He was told to make
the run to Genoa. To Malaga the
track route runs almost parallel with
the coast line, but beyond Malaga it
was seen that the ship was keeping in
shore, following closely the land, hug
ging the curves. In fact the ship was
steaming we'll inside the international
three mile limit. Thus she was, at
least in theory, immune from marine
attack.
All up the coast Of Spain, for a day
and a night, the ship fitted the shore,
close as paper to the wall. Whenever
the land sprung to the west the faith
full ship swung her bow. When she
came to the broad Bay of Valencia
she put her helm a-starboard and turn
ed westward. And so hour after hour
wore by, the craft nosing along the
rocky coast Of Catalonia and OF to the
northeast until she was sailing in
French waters and no longer protected
by the immunity of neutral Spain.
Now she struck the arc of a great
circle and made a wild squirt at top
speed, with full head Of steam, with all
boilers at maximum pressure. The
sharpest eyes on the craft were in the
crows nest. An extra officer was on
the bridge with powerful glasses. Two
lookouts were on the forecastle deck
and one on the forecastle head.
At night side lights and masthead
lights were doused. All inside lights
were shaded. Passengers slept in
their underwear or in complete day
clothing. Some slept in deck chairs.
Several placed their chairs near the
life boats to which they were assigned.
At three in the morning the lights
of Genoa were seen far ahead. In an
hour the sky began to gray. The stars
paled. BY this time the giant heights
began to loom and take shape. The
sun was rising over the great mass be-
hind the city. The high white build
ings glistened and cleaned. At six
the ship made fast at the Ponte Andea
Donia.
We passed through the customs and
made our way to the Hotel Stella and
there, late at night, came the members
of the Grand Opera Company who land
ed at Cadiz to evade the submarines
and who had travelled by way of Mad
rid and Nice to Genoa. They were not
altogether happy.