Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-09-20
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Continued,

Almost at once came the CO, CO,
CO, III, III, III, which told that
Poldhu was calling for all sta
tions and on every ship within L.
coo miles of that point Of rock,
the wireless man tuned up his in
strument. and waited. The COM
mercial messages came first, and
there we're a lot of them four for
the Ottilie, three for the Adriatic,
five to be relayed far ahead to the
Mauretania, one for the incoming
Majestic, and one for the Rotter-
dam. Then the Poldhu man an
noupced that he was ready to re-
ceive, and as many more were
sent out into the night to him, for
relay on to London, and from there
to far separated points OH the con-
tinent. At last there was a mo-
ment' S silence. and then the SIP,
SIP, SIP, which told that the news
service was about to start. And
every man within hearing picked
up a fresh pencil and made ready
to write, as from dictation.
ESP. SIP. SP," snapped Pold-
hu. Cline u AS G. Three hun
bred wds.
"War between Italy and Tnr-
key seems inevitable stop Italy
Italy gives Turkey "a hours to
agree to Italy's occupation of Tri-
poll stop Six thousand troops at
Palermo ready to embark stop
Turkish munitions and reinforce
mont already landed stop Board
Of inquiry into La Liberte disas-
ter goes into secret session stop
Rumor of attempt to destroy La
Patrie also stop Moroccan situa-
tion grows more serious stop Ger
many demands equal rights with
France abrogating Algeciras
treaty stop Directors steel trust
declare company is legal corpora
ton and will not take voluntary
steps to dissolve stop Officially
announced at Chicago that 100, 600
men on Hartman lines will strike
Saturday stop September coffee
sells ut 1928 New York exchange
srecord price stop Boy Scouts
called out to fight plague of wasps
in England stop "*s"
And so on to the end of the mes
sage, And when the end was
reached, the mnn at Poldhu waited
10 minutes and then started all
over again and sent the message
q second time, so that every one
would be sure to get it all. Then
he shut off and went to bed.
Thursday dawned clear and
warm, and the Ottilie's passen-
gers, appearing on deck by twos
and threes, rejoiced that the day
Was to be'a fine'one. They found
the world news of the day before
awaiting them ON the bulletin
board at the head OF the main
companion way, and had great fun
deciphering it, very few of them
stopping TO think how wonderful
1t was that it should be there at
oil. And then some Of them cele-
brated their first morning at sea
BY . three mile tramp before
breakfast; others, less strenuous,
lounged at the rail, waiting inn
patiently for the breakfast gong;
4 few, finding themselves dis
turbed BY the slow and. even mo-
ton &C the ship, bundled them
selves up in their steamer chairs
and hoped that nature, would soon
readjust itself. Then til gong
sounded and the deck was de-
serted, except by the bundled up
occupants of the chairs, to whom
the SOLICITORS deck steward
broughe more q less vainly,,
various light articles of food.
Anhoglllr later, the: decks were
4ull again. From the upper deck
eame sclaek 81 shuttle board;
onSthespr0tnenade deck theschair6
we're full 81 novel xesd6tx and
S1ittleagyonps here and there were
making each Others acquaintance.
Th6life of 6hipboard had begun.
OnSthe boat deck. various pas
1lG61zltooss1sl Angly or ia tWos and
threSs pAnled ia listen tosthe
scflee sIectricity which came
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