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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-28

signals and crashed into each other. One
was a ship belonging to the United States
Steel Corporation 1t contained 1000 tons
OF iron ore. The other which was owned
by another company, was going up with
an equal amount of coal The coal and the
ore came together in head-on collision
and the ships sank as one body They are
now getting out the cargoes, and when
the vessels have been emptied they will
force air into them and thus raise them to
the surface. Ships of this kind are worth
hundreds Of thousands of dollars and there
is a fortune there, half buried in the waters.
1t has been charged that these ships were
sunk by the Germans. doubt it, although
changing the lights.
And just here | want to tell you some
thing about the steamer on which we are
travelling. 1t is typical of the traffic of the
Great Lakes and of the enormous business
these waterways are doing in behalf of the
war. The vessel is the James A. Farrell,
the flagship of the United States Steel com
pany, which has more than a hundred other
steamers engaged in carrying iron ore from
the mines of Minnesota, Wisconsin and
Michigan down to the steel plants of Penn
sylvania, Ohio and Illinois
The James A. Farrell makes from thirty
TO thirty-four trips every season. travelling
ries 1900 tons of ore every trip and it has
that much in its hold as | write 1t makes
the round trip from Lake Erie to the head
of Lake Superior within seven days, and
it will carry down more than 100000 tons
of ore this year.
There are other ships like it belonging
to other great companies, and the whole
forms fleet of more than 5000, which
does more in less time than any other fleet
in the world The greyhounds anil
freighters that cross the Atlantic work all
the year round, but they lie idle in port
half the time to do their unloading and
make their repairs. These ships of the
lakes are in service only seven or eight
months, but they keep up steam from the
beginning to the end of the season, and
their loading and unloading is so rapid and
efficient that it is one OF the miracles of in
dustrial progress. The vessels start run
ming as soon as the ice mets in the spring,
their way being aided by ice-breakers, and
they continue until along in December.
when Jack Frost locks the upper lakes tight
in the arms of the winter Within the past
season the steamers have carried down the
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-28

lakes 100000 tons Of iron ore, and more
than 100000 tons have been transported
each month. There are 500 steamers now
carrying such freight.
The James A. Farrell is OF the best type
OF these steamers. 1t is one of the largest
OF all that ply the lakes and it is in service
day and night, week days and Sundays from
one end OF the season to the other. The
vessel was built at the Cleveland shipyards
in 1918. 1t is made of steel throughout. 1t
is a great steel shell, almost 600 feet long.
about sixty feet wide, and so large that it
would fill the roadway OF CITY street from
one end of the block to the other rising to
the height Of the third story of all the build
ings. There are engine houses and smoke
stacks at the stern and pilothouse at the
PROV, which extends considerably higher;
but the main part of the vessel is the great
hold, more than 500 feet long and over 20
feet deep. which carries its vast cargo of
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-28

Uncle Sans Mighty Downspout Which Carries
Arms and Supplies for the War The Vast Ore
and Grain Traffic and How It Is Handled Mir
acles of Efficiency in Cheap Transports ton
Freight Rates Rising and Ships Doubling in Value
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-28

have said that the Great Lakes form the
most valuable inland waterway on the face
Of the globe. During the past thirty years
have covered almost every waterway of note
from the Rio de la Plata to the Yukon, from
Zambesia to the Nile, and from the Gauges
to the 1angtse Kiang. I have been on the
great lakes of Central Africa, and have
steamed around Victoria Uyanza which is
almost as large as Lake Superior. In all
of these there is nothing tlfat compares
with the mighty bodies of water that lie
here on the apex of our continent The
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-28

The Great Lakes are remarkable in that
they lie on the roof of North America east
OF the Rockies, and this Notwithstanding
their basin is equal in size to one-sixth of
the United States. They lie on the height
OF land half way between the Arctic ocean
and the Mexican gulf and tilt so gently to-
ward the Atlantic that they form the
smoothest and safest of WATERWAYS. The sur
lace OF Lake Superior is less than fifty feet
above the aluminium tip of the Washington
Monument, and only trife below the level
of the roof of the Singer building on Broad
way, New York. The altitude is only 600
feet and the most of this descent is made in
the Niagara and St. Lawrence rivers The
tall from the head Of Lake Superior at Du-
luth TO the foot Of Lake Erie at Buffalo S
only thirty-five feet, and of this a drop of
twenty feet occurs at. the Sault Ste. Mary
canals. This leaves only sixteen feet of 4
tall from Duluth to Buffalo, distance OF
almost a thousand miles, or less than one
fifth of an inch to the mile 1t is so small
that there is no perceptible current, and
practically no change of steam is needed in
making the way back and forth.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-28

and spit it out into the steel furnaces at the
ports of Lake Michigan and Lake Eric,
while we take account of one of our greatest
national assets. The Great Lakes form a
big item in Uncle Sans balance sheet. They
are the largest bodies of fresh water in the
world, and in cheapness of freight and ettl-
cheney of transportation they are equaled no
where upon this great round globe.
Just now they are loaded with traffic.
From the foot of Lake Ontario to the
head of Lake Superior yon cannot get out OF
sight of mighty steel steamers.
These vessels 60 back and forth by the
hundreds, and each carries its load of thous-
ands of tons. Some are bringing down mil
lions of bushels Of wheat and millions OF
barrels of flour to feed our armies on the
other side Of the ocean. Others, like that
ON which we are standing, are filled with
iron ore, which, almost as soon as this letter
10 published, will have been turned into
armor plate for Our Navy and guns and pro-
jectiles for our men in the trenches.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-28

| have been travelling over the lakes for
the past few weeks The canals and rivers
which connect them are of remarkable in
terest. In. passing from Lake Erie into
Lake Huron | went through the Detrot>
river and from there into the ST. Clair which
cuts the St. Clair flats, passing through hun
dreds of little islands upon which are sum-
mer homes that remind one of the floating
houses in the Menam river at Bangkok,
SIAM The cottages have verandas hanging
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-28

On the shores of the Great Lakes are
dozen shpyards turning our merchant YES
sells of steel and wood to beat the subma-
rines Of our enemies, and the great cities
pendent upon them, are beehives of war
industry, without whose supplies we should
have but little hope for victory over the
Germans. In Buffalo they are making air
planes for scouting the skies, and at Niagara
Falls, nearby, nitrates for explosives, abra
sives for grinding the shells and alloys of
all kinds for the steel needed in machines
and munitions of war At Cleveland they
projectiles in vast numbers, and all sorts of
war wares of iron and steel At Detroit and
Toledo the automobiles ambulances and
other motor vehicles swarm forth like bees
from hive Farther UP the Detroit river
there are huge oil refineries which are max
ing gasoline to supply the airplanes and
motor transportation of France, and in
Chicago, at the foot of lake Michigan, di-
rected by the government, the largest steel
plants of the world are laborng away night
and day. might speak of other lake ports
not only in the United States, but in Can
ada as well, which are engaged in making
war products; and going to the head of
Duluth and Fort William, show you how
the lakes form the downspout for the wheat
fields through which pours a great part of
our food supply.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-28
SOMEWHERE ON THE GREAT

STAND with me on the
steel back of one of the
fresh-water leviat h n $
which gulp down iron on
the shores of Lake Superior
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-10-13
MONEY MUST
BE HAD EVEN
# LOAN NOT
SUBSCRIBED
SENSATIONAL TALK
BY CARL VROOMAN
Does Not Believe Drastic
Measures Will Have to
Be Taken.

eve can conScript dollars as
we'll as we can conscript lives, and
if it becomes necessary to do so
to win this war the government
will do it. -
These were the opening words
of Carl VroHman, assistant Secre-
tarv Of agriculture, in an inter
view with newspaper men last
Night.
1T is true that the Liberty loan
is not receiving the spontaneous
response it should continued the
secretary. "but the same condition
prevailed during the first loan.
Most Of the money was SubScrib-
I'd in the last three days and I
suppose that this will be true Of
the second loan.
THE fact is. however, if that
Continued on Page Eourteen.)
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"y -Four Years In Germany -An1bassad0r CerardS Boo1


was n measure only taken IN the Mid
die Ages. and I believe that he remon-
Stratcd with thu authorities and ar
"angrrl for. n cessation Of tho arbitrary
arrests of women.
Frederick W. Vile. thr well-knewn
American correspondent Of the London
Daily Mail. was To so out also with the
british party. on the ground that he
Ind been u correspondent Of British
newspaper. In the evening l went to
the Foreign Office to get his passport.
end while one Of the department chiefs
was signing the passport he stopped
In the middle OF his signature. threw
down the pen OF the table and said he
absolutely refused 10 sign passport
for VILE because he hated him so and
hecauSe he believed he had been. largely
instrumental in bringing about the war.
or course. this latter statement was
quite ridiculous. but 1t took me some
time before I could persuade this Ger
man official to calm his hate and COM
plete his signature.
l have heard few persons say that
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AnOtherDraftCall
Planned at0nce
j, S.REDMEN
To THE Front

WASHINGTON, Oct. ia regi-
ment of Oklahoma Indians may be
one of the American fighting units in
France. Some $50 or more drafted
non-English speaking Indians are to
be transferred TO the first Oklahoma
national guard. which already has a
considerable number of Indians in its
ranks, and ii is now proposed that
4: enough additional Indians from Okla
homas quota Of 900 be assigned to the
same regiment to fill it to war
strength If this is done. an order
consolidating the First Oklahoma and
the First Texas guard regiments Will
! be- revoked.
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BIG DEFICIENCY
TO BE MADE GOOD
Second Increment Expected
to Be Sent Forward With
in a Few Days.

WASHINGTON, Oct. ia dis
cussion Of the ACCESSIBILITY Of eX-
prditing the call for the second
increment of the draft army now
is in progress at the War depart.
ment. and 1t appears likely that
the date may be fixed for some
time in December or January.
Mobilization Of the first mere
ment of $4,000 men is now far
enough advanced To show clearly
that there will be- hig deficiency
for the seventeen national army
divisions. Mnre than. 250.0D0 Of
the first increment are still! 10 be
assembled, but il already is evil
dent that there will he available
at the sixteen Canion,nrnts. quar-
tors for IN additional regiment at
each post and at some for Il full
brigade Of two regiments.
The strength Of the new regi-
mental organizations is $500 men.
With a regiment lacking at each
cantonment. this alone would mean
a shortage Of nearly $4,000 men.
In addition there has been author
lied n separate division Of negro
troops, which means nearly 10000
men Withdrawn from ihe original
number assigned TO tho sixteen
cantonmpnts.
The shortage is due partially
to the necessity Of taking. out OF
national army men 10 fill mp ma
tional guard divisions. Two COM
pleto national army divisions OF
southern troops have been ab-
(ConHnued on Page Fife M
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-10-13
DUTY OF PATRIOTS IS POINTED
OUT BY ADMINISTRATION MAN
LARGE MEETING AT
THE CARROLL CLUB
Substantial Citizens of Wheel
ing Hear Vrooman' S APP
peal for Liberty Loan.

Carl Vrooman, assistant secretary
of agriculture, addressed a gathering
: composed largely Of prominent bust
ness and professional men at the
Carol club auditorium. last night.
and in a speech which it took him an
hour to deliver. pointed out the duty
Of every patriot In the great world OF
democracy against the atrocious ty-
ranny Of autocracy.
Col. Carl ". Oglebay OF Wadding-
ton. was named as chairman OF the
meeting, but at late hour he notified
, the committee that it would be i'm
possible for him to preside and W. Is.
Irvine. vice president Of the National
! Bank Of West Virginia. acted in his
stead.
! Johnson Mckinley. whose guest Mr..
Erooman Is during his stay In Wheel
ing, apd the Right Rev. P. ]. Don.
ahue, Catholic bishop Of Wheeling, es-
co7ted the speaker of the evening to
the stage whore he was introduced TO
the audience by Mr. Irvine.
Praise For Vrooman
Mr.. Irvine said that Mr.. Vrooman
was completing a tour OF the country
which had taken him to two thirds Of
the states In the Union, in behalf Of
the Liberty Loan. and that he had
gained the reputation of Daniel
Webster. and was. known as the Billy
Sunday Of the administration. so
something intensely interesting could
be expected from him.
The chairman made no error in his
announcement, for the speech deliver
ed by Mr.. Vrooman was interesting
and patriotic. and he was interrupted
again and again by outbursts of APP
plause as he made some remark which
reached the hearts of his audience.
The secretary is fluent speaker and
brought out the salient points Of his
address in telling manner.
Beginning his talk. Mr.. Vrooman said
that one Of the most pleasing sights that
he had seen on his tour over the coun-
try was the fields Of corn which wcro
ripening to harvest. for the thought
, came to him that like the rich man IN
Norris novel. who Was engulfed. and
| finally died In great pit Of wheat which
! he was gathering in order to corner the
market. that 1t was the corn I'm the fields
which would cngulf and finally wipe the
kaiser from tho earth.
farmers Have Responded.
The government. he said. had asked
the farmers to increase their acreage of
food products and they responded nohly.
many Of them rtsking bankruptcy. Rut
the crops have been gathered and they
CONTINUED on Page Fourteen)
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calm md pnlilrly declined thu refuge
which offered them in cur Embassy.
! rhHtlrd with them for Il while. and.
a& 1 WAS starting 10 leave. servant
told mr that thu crowd IN the street had
greatly increased and were watching
my automobile. ! sent cut word by
the servant Ia "rrn tho nutumnhilc rs
il WA Il landau. and tell the chauffeur.
when ] got i'll. to drive very slowly.
drove slowly through the crowd. on
ly assailcd by the peculiar kissing word
that the GicrmauS use when they ar"
especially angry and which Is supposed
To convey the utElnSt contempt. This
word IL "pfui." and hnS n peculiar effect
when hisscd out from thousands OF Tcu-
tonic thrOats.
As We left the outskirts Of the crowd
4 man OF respectable appearance jumped
on the running board IF the automobile,
srat Mt me- saying "Pfui!" and struck
Harvey III the face with his hat. 7
stopped the automobile. Jumped out and
chased this man down the street and
caught him. Then my German foot
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wan came running up and explained that
was the American Ambassador ana
not nm :nglshnan. The man WI"
struck Harvey ,h&"upon apoloEtzrd
and gave his card. liz WAS Berlin
lawyer. who came 10 the Embassy next
morning and apoluGized again for his
'uIistake."
The following day. August 3. spent
mart Of the time taking over from Sir
Edward the british interests. Joseph
e.. Grew. our first secretary. and | Went
10 the British Embassy. seals were
nlarcd upon the archives. and VIC re-
:eivrd such instructions and infnrmn-
ton AS could be given us with reference
To the british subjects in Germany and
their interests. The British cores
pGndents were collected In the Embassy
and permission was obtained for them
tn leave on the Embassy train.
During tho day British subjects with
,ut distinction rs to age or sex. were
seized. whenever found, and sent to the
fortress Of Spandau demonstrated
with Won Jagow and told HIM that that
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but were at no time In sufficient num-
bcTs TO hold the crowd in check.
Hunting of British Correspondents
Aftcrward ] went around IL the Uut"r
den Linden. where there WAS II grcut
crowd in front of the Hotel Adun. y
man standing on the outskirts Of the
crowd begged mo not 10 ~ int" tho hn-
tel. as he snid the crowd was looking
FOR English newspaper correspondents.
So threatening was the crowd toward
the English correspondents that Vile
rang up the porter OF the Embassy after
we had gone tn bed. and. not Wishing
In disturb us he occupied the lounge IN
the pOrter'S rooms.
believing that possibly the British
Embassy might BE- in such II condition
that Sir Edward GuSchcn. the British
Ambassador. might not care To spend
the night there. I ordered IN nulum"-
bile and went up through tn" crowd
which still Chokrd the WIlhclnlSI rasSr.
with Roland Harvey the second Sccrc-
tary to the British Embassy Sir Ed
ward und his secretaries were perfectly
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For the first time since hs4
started his series Of attAfk1ss
against the German positions. mi
Flanders, Field Marshal Haig -hAaf
had to cease an operation befores
all the detectives were attained,
It was not the German guns, hoy
ever, that stopped the BritiSht
was a more than usually HAY
rainfall which started durinGsh
battle and turned the alrsAAZ1
.swampy region over which thGs
men were supposed to pass int4a
a vertiable quagmire from Nhtc9
they could not untrack thAm,
selves for a forward movemS1tSs
The drive, which has been eu1S
tomary in Haig's strategy, Na1l
started In the early hours Of lH.s
day morning and extended. froms
near the Houtholst wood to below;
the Ypres-Menin road. At seyerlfS
points the British troops succee4ss.
ed in gaining ground over froueDs
ranging up to a thousand yardty.
but here the rain INTERVIEWED; lAA
the fighting ceased for. the dr.
During the forward movonNnkt
over the six mile front the EDFi4a
ish captured the total numhetsa
about 600 prisoners. srkil ,.Ss
The struggle was particularly;
bitter to the north Of PoelcGpNliSs );
and around Passchendaele. NE
the latter region the GeTu
apparently have massed
strongest array OF troops, hof
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-10-13
SLOW PROGRESS IN
LOAN CAMPAIGN IS
AGAIN EMPHASIZED

WASHINGTON. Oct. 1.-THE Liberty
Loan has moved only s1S,730."jO nearer
it's s.. 900. OOUD0D goal or approximately
onc-third Of one Ter cent.
The total for tn" entire cumpaiEn thas
tor. as officially announced tonight
St,nds at less than per cent on the
isis or returns received today and in
Guiding subscriptions reported TO all re-
serve banks except Minneapolis. up 10
the clos. of business yesterday. At the
reate OF subscriptions reported today. II
would take from eight to nine months
to obtain the sJ.Cn0. 200 desired.
al the end IF eleven days sale ot
second Liberty Loan bonds" the treas
ury: departments announcement SAID.
the tota! subscriptions Of sS44.l93.5op
had, been reached to eleven or the twelve
reserve banks in the United states. inns
is less than per cent Of tho maximum
amount vi subscriptions expected by
Secretary McAduo before the close az
the drive for S5.C0n,0Ue.0o0 on October
81.
official returns. which are up 10 the
close OF business October IL:
Boston. S4S.GUD.n00.
Continued on Page Two.)
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Will that Five Billion Have
To Be Taken BY CONSUMPTION
From an Unwilling People?
What Are You Doing For Your Country?

has gone the camp and getting ready t" Lace
the BocheS i'll the trenches .
Dick has joined the Navy and is somewhere at sea amid
the dangers of U-boat warfare.
Harry is in the Ambulance service and will soon be succornS
the wounded in the Il that fires the Rcd Cross
John in the Medical Service and ready to brave all the
hazards of to help the boys who fall.
Mary Red Cross and preparing to risk her life to
save victims of the kaser's Huns.
But
What r;J done for the Of your country and the
defense Of Democracy:
YOU go the front like yon, friends and neigh
You back them up with money in the purchase OF
Liberty bond and will help to win victory and shorten
the
Lend your money Uncle Sam and help Tom and Dick and
Harry and John and Mary win the and end the danger OF
PrusSian domination in America.
It's Liberty Bond German tax receipt for us!
Which will it be? It's up to YOU!
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CLEVELAND, Ohio. Oct. IL
Attorney Homer H. Johnson. Of
Clrveland. late this afternoon ac-
copied the post of Coal Admins
traitor for Ohio, offered him BY
federal Coal Adminlstrato Harry
A. Garfield, who was in Cleveland
today looking into the coal short
age here.
F. c. Baird. Of Cleveland. who
has. been in charge Of the pooling
ARRANGEMENT BY which coal has
been shipped from here to other
lake ports, has been appointed
coal distributor fo7 the northwest
and Canada. ii was also announc-.
cd late today.
Retail dealers in Ohio will be
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-10-13
CROWD SMASEES WINDOWS IN BRITISH EMBASSY
HATRED FOR CORRESP 0NDENTS OF ENGLISH
NEWSPAPERS.

Jules Cambon. I went for walk about
Iirrlin. soon becoming involved in the
great crowd in front Of the British En-
bassy on the Wilhelmstrasse. The crowd
threw stones and other missiles ana
managed TO break all the windows OF the
Embassy.
The Germans charged aftcrward that
people in the embassy had fnfur'ated
the people BY throwing pennies to the
crowd. did not sec any occurrences
Of this kind. AZ the Inter den Linden
and the Wilhelm Platz are paved with
asphalt the crowd must have brought
the missiles which they used with them,
with the premcditatcd design Of smush-
ing the Embassy windows. Few
mounted police made their appearance.
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JOHNSON; Of CLEVELAND, COAL
ADMINISTRATOR F0RIlIHU|

licensed. Garfield announced md
the government will revoke sthas
licenses of any dealers who sell atS
higher prices than those 70 boz
named by local committees. md
in extreme cases, Garfield; .1at6z
tonight, 1t may ultimately b.
necessary for the government fos
step in and run a local zetail eoSls
business. &;
Closing his day In Cleveland.
Garfield tonight announced. The
Coal needs OF the Navy and Af1R
would have to be met first Andtat
ter those the needs OF domoGt1
consumers. II any industries d
fer, he said, they would be ma
ers of luxuries and other Illnesses
tials. !, : a,S; 80