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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-14
BOY-ED'S AMERICAN JOB WAS
TO CREATE LOVE FOR GERMANY

CAPTAIN Boy-Ed is superlative In all his
nursniits lust as he Is In love.
The country at large came to know him
soon after the war started in the summer
of 1914 as the most aggressively partisan
NJ all proponents of the German cause.
Rut before that official and social WASH
ington knew him as the most delightful or
ali men in the diplomatic set and In the
cluhs he was the incest of all club-fel-
lows. He gave the most enjoyable dinners
he was the best entertainer, the ablest
dancer. There was no doubt or II, what
ever Boy-Ed figured In he dominated
So Il is easy to understand how the
neonle who knew him socially had 20 gasp
when his name came creeping out so con-
sistently In one plot after another as soon
as England entered the war.
"Surely not Boy-Ed. Not Captain Boy
Ed. that superbly attractive man." But it
was fact all the same. 1t only showed
how true to form he ran. When II was his
iob 10 play and entertain he played and
entertained with all his might When It
was his job to do more serious things for
Germany-and that, of course, was why he
was over here-he did them with all his
might.
The war was not very old when there
came demands by the press from all sections
Of the country for his recall He was al
wavs seeming to get into hot water. Every
thing that happened when II should not
have happened was being traced back TO his
door He didn't seem to be able to cover
the traces, and yet this was his big Job, too
For when you get right down TO essentials
Rov-Ed was over here as a press agent
His was the task of influencing public senti-
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TELLS OF BRITISH
SUBMARINE LOSS
Engineer of Channel Steam
ship Says Boat Was Grip
pied While Maneuvering
ENTIRE CREW PERISHED
English Admiralty Hunts Ger
man U-Boats With Own Fleet
of Undersea Craft

The loss of a British supersubmarine,
with its entire crew of close to 100 men.
was disclosed in letter received by Chief
Engineer RenthaII, of the British Steamship
Doonholm, which until today was tied up
at Pier 16 South, The communication tell.
ing of the disaster was sent by close
friend Of Renthall, himself a chief engineer
of an English Channel steamship. t
The letter told briefly of the sinking Of
the big submersble. which the writer In
formed Chief Engineer Renthali was a.
long as the Doonholm, which measures
close 10 315 feet. He told of the subma-
rine's successful launching and Of her ma
neuvring in the River Clyde. Then the
operation Of sinking. the new submari
was attempted The boat sank, and when
she failed to make her peappearance II
was discovered that she had become Grip
pied
Gables were finally attached to the sun<en
craft and she was brought to the surface.
Every member of the crew had perished. the
letter stated. The writer did not make
known the purpose to which the British
Admiralty was putting the big submarine
nor did he say whether any others were
being built. He did mention however that
the British navy is hunting the German
Submarines with submarines of their own.
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Written for thc Everir0 Ledger
BY ELLEN ADAIR

t-boat campaign-accounts chiefly in
tended for American consumption-were
also commented upon. particularly the fol-
lowing extract from German wireless: AT
first the increase in sinking will not be very
great, for the submarine scare has been
thrown into the English with paralyzing
effect and the whole sea was as If swept
clean by one blow"
To this statement a fat contradiction
was giverS In the House Of Commons
Twelve thousand British ships went in
and out of port in the first eighteen days
Of the ruthless U-boat campaign" said
Sir Edward Carson dryly, admid much
laughter,
II am letting neutrals know the truth"
he continued, and hiding no losses In face
of all the sinkings and their accompanying
sacrifices and trials-and heaven knows II
is wearying to read of the boats with their
frozen corpses from vessels torpedoed
without warning by nation that states II
will not shrink from sinking our hospital
ships and drowning our wounded-I am
encouraged by one fact, and that is that
have not yet heard of one sailor who re-
fused to sail!
That is what is going to win this war.
And. however neutrals may have been
nervous and frightened you will see how
go on that the neutrals will resume their
sailings,"
BLOCKADE" OLD GERMAN WORD
distinguished German philologst has
entered into a dissertation on the exact
meaning of the word blockade" He states
that blockade" is a good old German
word" and in its original form denoted a
thing used to punish criminals.
The military censor did not allow the
writer to pursue the analogy to its logical
conclusion namely to point out that the
British blockade of Germany is being car
red out with the Identical purpose repre-
sented by the ancient high-German word"
The discovery Of the meaning OF the word
blockade" was made because Of a contro-
versy as to whether or not II was pa
triotlc" TO use the hated English word. II
was finally decided by German students that
its derivation came from bloch" or block
"a piece of wood used for gagging or bind
ing wrongdoers and lawbreakers--and that
the term, having been in common use in
ancient high-German" long before the Eng
lish blockade the italian "blaccata" or the
French "blocquade," may be indisputsbly
regarded as patriotic for all good Germans
to use in the form blockade"
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WASHINGTON. March u.

Sinking Of the American steamship AL
gonquin by a German submarine simply
has brought the United States CLOSER 10
actual hostilities"
That is as far as officials would go to-
day The loss Of the AMERICAN star
liner has been expected. Sinking OF half
n dozen other craft will surely come. But
none of them are armed They do not in
clude i'm their sailings the armed neutral
ity" which President Wilson has outlined
will he the reply Of the United States to
German aggression and ruthlessness."
Germany must accept responsibility for
the next move by this Government, When
she sinks an armed American lher-armed
under international law for defense--she
will commit an act OF war. officials made
this very plain today. They pointed out
that up to the present the attitude of the
United States was one OF tolerance.
That tolerance will end when American
vessels protected by American sailors are
attacked. Secretary Of State Lansing
when asked today whether the sinking Of
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ment in favor Of the Germanic allies what
ever else he could do on the side was we'll
and good his chiefs thought, but primarily
and principally he was supposed to be
news influencer. He had a good record be-
hind him, record made when he was chief
of the news division of the Naval In
teligence Service in Berlin. II was in 1910
while he was doing that work that the
Reichstag put through a 800, 100000 ap-
preparation for the navy, and the success
In obtaining this tremendous budget
tremendous then, anyway-was due to his
work in preparing public sentiment in its
favor. OF course, Admiral Won Tirpitz got
the credit but Boy-Ed did the work. He
fed the newspapers and magazines with
pamphlets such as THE Coming Naval
War" Germany and England" and no.
where more than In England did he get
the due recognition that was coming TO
him.
Boy-Ed came to Washington on March %,
1918. He had entered the German navy
October 4, 1891. He was nineteen then ;
that makes him forty-five now, He was at
sea almost twelve years, and after that
until he came to the United States he was
In the Naval Intelligence Office, where he
made his great record for originality and
enterprise His chiefs figured that he would
be an admirable aid TO Count Won Bernstorff
in making American of1cialdom like the
Germans, and they sent him here What.
ever conclusions may be drawn now Il
must be said that until the war broke out
the choice seemed perfect There was not
a man in washington's diplomatic circles
better liked. or even as we'll Many a proud
person went to humiliating lengths to get an
invitation to the dinners he gave
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MYSTERY IN SHOOTING
OF VIRGINIA STUDENT
Young Man in Critical Condition and
Professor in Polytechnic Institute
Under Bond

BLACKSBURG, Va, March l4-Mys-
terry still shrouds the shooting OF Stock
ton eHth. Jr., in the home Of Prof, Charles
E. Vawter, of the Virginia Polytechnic In
stitute early yesterday while eHth, who re-
sides near here, was guest in the home
Bernard williams, Virginia Polytechnic In
stitute student, who rooms in the Vawter
home, refused today to make any state
ment in regard to the affair. Vawter and
his wife are equally reticent Vawter is
out on $1,000 bail bond pending Grand
Jury action. having waived preliminary
examination. Mrs. Vawter is beautiful
Young woman and a native of this section.
Heth who is at a Roanoke Hospital, con-
tinues in a critical condition with three
pistol bullet wouds in his abdomen. His
father. who was in California when the
tragedy occurred. Is reported 20 be hurry
ing back TO Virginia
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School Election
Trickery Charged
Continued from Page One

Continued from Page One
mask his chagrin al the boards action in
ignoring him totally in the appointment of
Miss Punchheons successor, under y phio-
sophical acceptance of a situation he can
not alter
The board has elected person" said
Doctor CARRIER with an infection on the
world person that revealed more eloquent
Iy than any TRADE his private view of the
matter, "and for me to issue any state
ment or criticism, now that the matter is
settled, would be, in way, to undermine
his work at the high school. which I have
no intention of doing.
II made no personal attack on Doctor
Gowing How could II" a thin veil of
irony shaded his tones 81 know nothing
whatever about him. He has never been
connected here with the schools My OBJ
lection was in regard to the method of
filling the resignation But the board has
decided now. ! am merely the superin-
tendent employed by them and I shall
do all in my power to foster the work of
the man whom they have selected. 7 made
my statements to the board yesterday.
PLEASED WITH HORNOR PURCHASE
At Doctor Gowing's Office today. in the
Stephen Girard Building, II was said that
he was out of town and would not return
until the end of the week. Doctor Gowing.
who Is the agent for the u. G. Heath Pub,
fishing Company. was at one time presi-
dent Of the state Teachers Association of
New Hampshire and principal of the Rhode
Island State Normal School.
General satisfaction was expressed at the
purchase of the Hornor Building for a new
administration building, the other important
business settled by the board meeting yes
terday.
William +. Deakyne, an expert on realty
values said today that the Board of Edu-
cation acquired bargain in purchasing the
Hornor Building for 100000.
Before the board voted to make the pur-
chase there was strenuous opposition he
cause Edwin Wolf one of the members,
said the building was only worth s500,o
and In neghborhood that was going
down"
Mr. Deakyne said this view was wrong
IF I was again young man looking
around I'd buy in East Chestnut street." he
said. at will come back. Merchants Will
soon find that they can't crowd around a
little hub from Thirteenth to Broad streets,
and they will take up Chestnut street again.
"Merchants rent in Chestnut street near
Broad is now SO high that single merchants,
those with simply the small stores, are find
ing Il hard TO pay. one Of them told me re-
Gently that when he moves he is going to
move east. Now he is near Juniper.
THE only thing that holds some Of them
back Is on account of the class of buildings
on the south side of east Chestnut, The
location is good. really fine. But the build
lngs are not modern and the old estates
which own most of them seem 10 be in no
humor to make improvements. II only a
group of men get together and put up some
modern shops east Chestnut street will be-
come the most popular business street in
town"
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enemy submarine, and as events showed
killed the captain. The submarine dlNeo
She was injured In a way that compelled
her to come to the surface. She was cap
tured and her officers and men taken pris-
oners
Two British patrols reported they mad
engaged two German submarines and sunk
them both. There were no casualties in
the patrol boats and no survivors from the
submarines.
Hardly a day passes without some re-
port of injury to German submarines But
the world at large, and particularly the
neutral world. only hears continuous ru'
mors Of the havoc wrought TO the British
by the blockade, and the reverse side OF
the picture is but little known
BRITISH NAVYS VIGILANCE
As a matter of fact the people Of Great
Britain have suffered less privation than
any other combatant nation. For this the
British navy. ceaselessly vigilant amid the
bitter gales of the North Sea, must be
thanked
"The Grand Fleet, though never advertls-
ing. has never done working" said the
FIRST Sea Lord the other day in .the House
of Commons. "The great volume of trade
In and out of this country has gone on un-
ceasingly and unremittingly, while the
great mercantile fleet of Germany still lies
idle in its harbors and her ports are DESC
late and deserted"
The extravagant German accounts or the
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BOY-ED ASKED KAISER'S 0. K.
TO WE'D MISS MACKAY-SMITH

His Majesty graciousy accedes to your
request"
A Jealous young American Army officer
was. guarding the neutrality of the Say
willie wireless the day this message came.
He read into IL some secret code that he
felt the German Embassy oughtnt to get.
SO he resolutel& threw the message into
the waste basket.
Boy-Ed went home alone and then he
packed again and found his way back
here to Philadelphia to be near Miss
Mackay-Smith.
I'D to now, and even now, the engage
ment of Captain Boy-Ed and Miss Virginia
Mackay-Smith has never been admitted
Heretofore whenever any one of the family
condescended at all TO listen to question
there was denial of any engagement. Mrs
Mackay-Smith personally gave her authori-
tstiye denial so did one OF the daughters
the eldest, Mrs. Charles Lester Marlet. OF
Washington. Virginia, Captain Boy-Ed's s
choice, is the second daughter, and the
other daughter is Mrs. William Bell Wat
kins. of this city. -
Virginia is a granddaughter, Of the late
Commodore Stewart u. S. N. She was
presented to Washington society In 1901
when her father was rector Of the fash
ionable St. Johns Church there AFTER his
death here in 1911 she lived In washing
ton with her mother There were rumors
of her engagement to the German naval
attache in 1919 when he was so popular
in the bachelor set, but so the story goes.
the Kaiser really did frown on the match
then. That, of course. was before the war.
SO the Kaiser frowned.
One OF the things which was repeatedly
charged against Boy-Ed after the war
began was that he was sending spies into
France and Great Britain, getting American
passports for them. German reservists
we're used as the agents 10 go abroad. r.
p. stegier, 4 German reservist who gave
away the scheme. said II was Captain Boy
Ed who sent Carl II. Lody to London Lody
Furnished one Of the hrst inaivicuei tnr1iis
o( ~ Eraat Nar. Lody vrs not y ue
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President Names
NeU Tariff Board


sympathy with that party. though never
active in politics; Roper Lewis and Kent.
While Kent was campaigning for Wilson
last fall his wife was on the stump in Cali
fornia urging the election of Charles r.
Hughes M
AS a matter of fact there are no out and
out high tariff advocates, so called, on the
board. Ostensibly it includes two avowed
Democrats, two Independents. one Republi-
can and one Progressive Republican. giving
the commission a complexion regarded as
very elastic on the tariff question. n
Professor Taussig is designated as chair
man of the commission. He is member Of
the faculty of Harvard University, but
has obtained leave of absence from his
post until September, 1918. He is an
authority on economics and has written ex-
tensively on the tariff. f~
Roper. the President. second NOMINEES,
has had much practical experience in deal
ing with the tariff question. After serving
in the South Carolina Legislature he be-
came identified with the census bureau In
the collection of cotton statistics, making a
trip to Europe to study the question. When
the present tariff law was framed Roper
was connected with the House Ways and
Means Committee as an authority on statis-
tics. Until last fall he was First Assistant
Postmaster General.
william Kent was a Representative In
Congress from California until March L.
didate for reelection. Kent was born In
Chicago, but has spent most of his life
in California. where he has had extensive
experience in banking and other forms OF
business He was elected TO one Congress
as an nsurgent Republican and for two
terms as an independent He supported
President Wilson during the last campaign
and headed the Wilson Independent League
Costigan is a Denver lawyer. Originally
he was Republican. but in 1919 and again
in 1914 was the Progressive candidate for
Governor Of Colorado. He was one of the
founders of the Progressive part In hfs
home State and has taken a leading part
in the campaign for social and economic
reform In the West
David j. Lewis who was defeatsd Tor,
election to the United States Senate from'
| Maryland. is lawyer Of considerable repu-'
| tation and enjoys a lucrative practice.
Cuibertson, who acted as a tarif exper<
| for the Senate Finance COMMITTEES durinG
| the consideration of the Simmons Underwo01|
| tariff act in 1919, has made a careful study;
| of the various tariff systems OF the world.
| He was connected with the former tAr11
| board and wrote the frst volume Of ~
| report on the wool schedule. tt[
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-14
u. S. VESSEL,
TORPEDOED; ALL SAVED
inu from pase One
ALLEN HOPKINS, Isleworh, Me.
Each of making the trip
amount ranging from S25 to S100.

London reports twenty-seven persons aboaf4
the steamship the officers OF the lire here
state positively that there were but twenty-
three persons on the ship The chi9f
engineer Of the Algonquin was F. Schults.
a native OF Germany but a naturalzed citi-'
zen OF the United States. Most of the
crew are said TO be naturalized Americans.
officials Of the American star Line were
congratulating themselves upon the safe ar
rival OF the Fredonis at Genoa at the time
when the cablegram from Captain Norberg
reported the loss of the Algonquin!
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SINKING OF FIRST ARMED CRAFT
WILL BE CALLED ACT OF WAR

the Algonquin meant any sudden action
by the United States, characterized IL -
"an additional straw TO the camels back"
That is the attitude OF the United States.
There can be no deviation from the plans
as outlined for the United States by Presi-
dent Wilson. The policy of the United
States absolutely hinges on its enforcement
of lis plan OF armed neutrality. support
OF this plan is indicated by the action Of
China I'm breaking Off diplomatic relations
with Germany. Other neutrals will shortly
do the same, information reaching here
says. And the outcome will be far-reach-
ing.
The only Significance seen by legislators
in the destruction Of the Algonquin is that
Germany has no intention OF abandoning
her announced intention TO conduct ruthless
submarine warfare. and that clash Of
arms between the United States and Cen
many is inevitable. Within a week 1t u
expected that the first American merchant.
man with an armed guard" aboard win
he in the barred zone, and that the hrat
meeting with = German submarine will re-
suit in an exchange of shots. *.
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When Boy-Ed first came here he had a
nnk Of what corresponds to the American
nayai commander. Just before he was sent
nome ne was made captain.
NOT until the war broke out did Phila-
uepnia begin to evince a particular inter-
~ In him. Then this community began
% read about him with especial zest be-
esuse his name was being coupled with that
MSS Virginia G. Mackay-Smith daugh-
~ Mrs Virginia Mackay-Smith, whose
husband was the late Right Rev. Alex
slesr Mackay-Smith, former Bishop CO.
solntor Of the Episcopal Diocese of Penn
sylvania. -
penials Of any engagement came re-
ptsstedly from the Mackay-Smith home at
t1s ta,s sixteenth street. N. W., in the cap
.a ~, put nobody believed them. The gen.
sr;a. IDEA was that an engagement did
- = ana that was why 1t was SO hard
u. NJ yteuit the truth Of the rumors of plot
~ against this country's neutrality, which
~ =, 20 continually being alleged against
Sx1 II he is going to marry an
"a can girl, surely he wouldn't lay him
~ open to recall" people said But the
49, reports came so thick and fast that
VIM VIZ seheral public soon came to be con-
thsv 80 hat ne was as guilty In this as
iea. ne was contemplating marriage
~ .no government soon convinced them of
Se one; the other leaked out from berlin.
~ ster the recall had been Accomplished
ms.rnoy- Ed was home in Berlin, he was
Ne bridef" - '''e ''e's but where is
@rhaI @rhI much chagrined, he had to answer:
Saiser refused me permission TO wed Z"
u1nssaa tne story came out as Boy-Ed
~-aea ea II to come out. As a personal rem
AZ s.,suve and appointee Of the Kaiser.
n,<..sa, ne had to obtain that noteworthy's
/. - II was duly asked for. asked
carefully BY Some secret wireless
OF communication the German en-
R Washington had maintained with
u 'cs s ts:, ssss 9: Z 1n'':z 2 ': sssts. e g
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The Algonquin was a three-masted freight
steamship and was placed In the American
registry last December by the American
star Line OF New York. John d. Step
hanadis. the actual owner of the ship Is
director OF this line The Algonquin was
245 feet long. with a beam of 40 feet and
a draft OF 20.6 feet. Her gross tonnage was
1906
She was built In 1883 at the Glasgow
yards OF Napier, Shanks & Bell for the Port
Colborne and st. Lawrence Navigation
Company. Ltd. The vessel was n steel-screw
steamship. with three-cylinder triple-expan-
sion engines
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shipping. .
"The arming or
merchant ships is
going on better and
better each week.
said Sir F. d W a r d
Carson. First Lord
of the Admiralty
"Of armed merchant
ships attacked by
submarines, seventy
to seventy-fve per
cent escape"
Although 1t Is not
W lY known, a
considerable number
of submarines have
heen sunk by the
British.
Only a few days
ago a British de-
atroyar attacked an
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Retired Gunsmith Dead

William Stein. Jr., retired gunsmith and
prominent in sporting circles in Camden.
died at his home 3os Arch street. today
from hardening of the arteries. He was
born In Camden in 1881 and succeeded his
father in the gunsmith business In 1891
He returned In 1915. He was Mason and q
member OF the Philadelphia Rine Club The
funeral services will be held Saturday. sfter-
noon at o'clock IT his late home Inter-
mqpt WA ~ uade q HsxleiGh Coulp pter3k
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BOY-ED MAY HAVE COME BACK
ON DEUTSCHLAND OR U-53

est OF the German merchant submersibles.
She steamed slowly up the Patapsco from
the Chesapeake and anchored at quarantine
at IL o'clock that night, near where the
North German Lloyd steamship Neclar was
ne sahmarine crosued he Atiaatsc -.