Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-16
nY RALPH d. P.AIsE.

paint and anthracite coal in the war
zone.
Product of Melting Pot.
There was no loss of life on the Navy
list untiI the freighter Aztec was tor.
pedoed without wafning. early in April.
She was slow ship. laden deep with
merchandise. 1t was then that John n
death by drowning while in the service
of his country. A tried man with three
enlistments, unknown until then. he
won remembrance because he was the
immigrants flung into, the melting pot;
and he was a true American.
Akin to this episode was the loss of
the tanker Vacuum in April The
disaster was commonplace enough to
the bestial annals of the German sub
Of men were set adrift in open boats.
and many of them perished of cold and
exhaustion. Commanders of imperial
u-boass were winning iron crosses for
The tanker was torpedoed in the
morning before the lcokouts had
glimpse of q periscope. Two minutes
after the explosion tore the steel hull
apart the stern of the ship settled
under water. throwing the after gun
crew overheard. These men were
picked up by the captains first boat
Somehow two other boats were dropped
and pulled clear before the steamer
one boat capsized twice in the heavy
seas loainr four MO-, ,,,ho FsfIaS ~
hold on IL tbe p,,nwaies whiie ,he
others were righting il. ~ s'
Died in Icy Water.
Eighteen men had been in the boat
when 1t left the others. Besides the
four drowned, eleven more died upon
H. II ev~4<r
that half filled fha boat Anonp thesa
were Lieut. Ciarnnoa n rhnroa 800
mandinr the armed Guard ths rn;t-
adj States Navv ths Nrst nftscar ~ Al.
IN the y.r ~ III on,cs ~ die
Ioupser Wsa mar o. Ensign Worth
Navy dead ~ the Spanish war.
ineH rates We're very different.
1ouhB naSiey went into Cardenas bay
~ the daAtfoyeg WinslpW against heavy
IN his tracks y YVES give and take
between honorable fpemen, and Bag
ley's finish was such a. brave sailor
would chooga for himself The Span
tsh PLAYED the game like gentlemen,
aHeld and aAo&t, and IL you are fond
OF comparisons set an Admiral Cervera
beside an Admiral Won Tirpitz.
Lieut. Thomas persisted of cold,
struggling to right an overturned boat
in dfenahfh9 seas =
There WaS one young seaman Of the
armed guard In whose arms q comrade
died while they were still afloat IN the
water forged boat. He lived long
enough to he cast ashore ON a lonely
island Of the Hebrides off the westerY,
coast of Scotland. Y 1T
The true tale If the arnoed ruard is
not all sadness and disaster Far from
it. Among the brighter episodes let us
schooner Giynn. Al the ontsat g,,ne
were placed aboard one or two Of these
Yankee sailing vessels. but were soon
withdrawn The big schooners were
too helpless as,p when In the war zone. for
too eager to pay the cost OF protection.
Had Heroic Record.
in port for nearly q month, waiting for
orders and loading and discharging.
Her captain and owners finally COM
planned that there were as many gun
ners aboard as sailors in the ships COM
gious They we're eating UP the profts
glad to get along without them.
This other schooner, the Glynn, whose.
record IL more heroic. was working to
the eastward under full sail. with q
moderate breeze. She was traversing
the danger zone at the leisurely rate Of
mark for submarine to discern. with
her white topsaiis soaring a hundred
feet above the deck. Twilight was
near, in the second dog watch. and all
hands were loaf1ng on deck, the skip
per a tribe nervous. the cook upper
turbed. as most sea cooks are in time of
stress. The crew of Navy Kunners had
their own lookout at the masthead.
Their chief was an Irishmap. whose
name was not Kelly, Burke orQShea. but
the next thing to 1t.
His official report of what happened
is lacking in color. To hear him tell ii
is far more diFerting. we sighted 4
submarine approaching at high speed. 2
he wrote. Csc pm, the Submarine
opened IRE a. about $500 yards. closing
rapidly to what / estimated to be from
1900 to $500 yards. The submarine
fired Ave shots before getting our
range. The sixth shot exploded at
about fifty feet nff our starboard beam
fragments Of the shell going through
our faFetopsail, faresail and jib The
seventh shell exploded about 100 feet
of dur stafboard quarter.
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