French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-03-01
RAN DEATH ZONE
BLOCKADE ON THE NEW YORK.
Correspondent Makes Thrilling Trip
From Liverpool to New York; Life
Belts Laid Beside Eeaeh Berth.

and write the story of running the
blockade was cabled to Miss OReluy
and she bravely accepted the T1sW.
Here is her story
With the Stars and Stripes at the
tafrail, but no barber poles stripes on
the sides or -checkerboard flags on the
mastheads, / have just passed through
the submarine zone of f-rightfulness on
tbe American liner New York, the last
ship for home.
A vast landing shield held by col
diers; one table at which Br1t1shers
sit to be questioned, another at which
Yankeesstand or the same ordeal. A
| final interrogation, a grudging, stamp
ing of departure cards, a swift passage
| aIOn the last gauntlet: and l with zOO
other American citizens are safe" On
the last boat home.
No parting cheer to the towering
ship. no final greeting to the empty
dock, as the first blockade runner
slipped into the stream. Such are my
Hast impression of Liverpool.
Passengers are carefully cabined
near the gangway stairs and life belts
are laid open beside every berth.
Was on Titanic.
I take nv orders for the trip from
a calm-eyed stewardess from the lost
Titanic.
"Madam will dress warmly with fur
coat and sea rugs laid ready" she tells
me. There is a hand bag for money
and jewels, the stateroom will be hook
open and you will have n nights
sleep fully. dressed lying upon the
added.
Obviously the orders come from the
captain on the bridge-the c~omprehen-
sive non-committal rule of the sea.
There is no mention Of raiders or
submarine.
Gray, murky and .fogbound sea
shrouding the graves of the Arabic and
the Lusitania. Gaudily painted ships
shrieking their nationality from water
Inc to topmast. The Philadelphia
into port with a smashed screw. Two
slim. black, torpedo-boat destroyers
sneakfng to sea through the deepening
gloom. That is the picture the har-
Dor presents.
Then a zone of broken water, a
course inside the fastnet to avoid vast
mine fields. a glimpse of the guardian
ring of trawler Observation-Disclosures.
unhonored M unsung, fishers and
fighters too.
Here. if anywhere, pirate subma-
rines lie waiting. If we get through,
other American ships a follow in
safety.
Women glance at eah other in ST.
lence, mems faces grow grim; children
are tied into life belts.
No one mentions either the Germans
or the English. War-weary and war
protesting, We are Americans going
home.
Then, of a sudden, the ships log,
lean hull lungs through hills of water.
The blockade breaker is conveyed
through the fire danger zone by the
God of storms.
A wild night. On deck, the tireless
tramp of a double watch, through the
; dark, from the sea-swept bow, the
!. lookouts "All's Well" lonely as a cur
> few's call.
| News of Break.
s From the silent chamber whert
o whispering wireless drips the world
n news, a messenger speeds to the cap
tain. He rises, tired-eyed, but conf
}. dent. r.
It yellow citizens, the United State
y has severed diplomatic relations wit
d Germany"
/; The flag under which we sailed j
IS no longer a protection.
An elderly lady slips to the piano
If Her cameo face, flushing family, sh
= begins to sing. Not Columbia, no
My Country, but that nobIer cIario
ID call, the Battle Hymn of the RepubIi
lie CAS- He died to make men Holy, let u
C die to make men free" 1t is til
ut creed of Americans facing fate on th
IL last boat home.
he The ship heads into a new cours,
tn southwest for Hatteras, along a lar
shipless to its dimmest horizon. Til
ocean, green and sullen, is a vast LON
illness.
q This charting .evades the Iurkin
= German raider comments a New Yor
banker. Where escape is almo.
easy, threats Of attack prove the fol-
- of frightfulness."
in "And the futility'' add the dozen di.
"a ciples of destruction. American eI
"a gineers returning from exploding RI
manian oil wells for the British Go;
+ eminent.
ut S~hufieboards and Quoits have 10.
IN their interest. The latest pastime
to searching for undersea cruisers. II
newest pastime is finding those signif
n cant holes In the deck p1anking whfc
If mark the position of a scout-ship
lie quick frers.
a Racing Home.
TO "The old warship is racing home
IS cast Of civilian gear. comments
De bearded boastwain. Eighteen yea
81 ago this month somebody mined OF
a, battleship Maine. Before you cou.
/; lay a our from the Narrows to MAJ
10 tucket this Greyhound New York W;
u a scout cruiser.
That's what frightfulness doe
quick as a flash. and meant to spref
- panic. We may be too proud to fgI