The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1917-03-30
San Francisco Youth Has Had
Enough Of Excitement for
a While.
WILL TRY TO FORGET WAR
Met His First Submarine In the Med
-Itsrranean and His Second In Irish
eea-No Warning Given
Either Time.

BOstOn.-JOSeph Barnett OF san
Francisco, late second saloon cook
aboard the Baron Ogilvy, il only
twenty. But twice he has been the
victim Of submarine.
Young Barnett met his first subma-
rine in the Mediterranean year ago,
his second In the Irish sea last Janu-
airy. Now he's on bis way back to
Gan Francisco, where the war seems
far away. No more Of the sea for
him, he says. until the wars over.
He shipped FIRST, when he was four
teen, as galley boy aboard a Union
Line boat plying between Vancouver.
San Francisco and Australia. Four
years later found him second saloon
cook aboard the Medic Of the White
Star line. bound from Liverpool to
Mediterranean ports and the Anti
podes with general cargo.
This was In February Of last year.
They had been 10 days out and were
somewhere on Sicily, Barnett thought.
though out Of sight Of land, when .
torpedo put an emphatic period to
their progress.
+ X - X I T. d.
Never oaw submarIns.
1--WE never did rec the submarine or
the torpedo" he said. .It was about
dusk. and the sea was fairly smooth.
was cooking In the galley when she
hit M. There was an explosion In
the engine room which wiped out the
whole watch below-about a dozen Of
them-and the ship lurched to star
board suddenly and all the dishes and
pans went sliding. The cook and ]
rushed MP on deck, and 20 did the
rest, but we were ordered back. r
Its all right, lads,' the captain
said. Don't lose your leads. Go back.
lt,l be all right now
But she began settling down at the
stern, and soon We were told to take
to the boats. It took ten minutes to
lower them-there was NO trouble
and then we pulled away and laid by
until she went down, stern first, hall
an hour later. A French torpedo boat
picked MS up and we were landed In
Marseilles the next morning"
six months later he shipped aboard
the Baron Ogilvy Of the Baron line
out OF Glasgow, again bound for Aus.
tralia. And he made the passage there
and back to Liverpool on her, with nc
unusual incident to mark either voy.
age. It was after his ship had dis.
charged her cargo Of frozen mutton
at the latter port and was on her way
to Barry, on the Welsh coast, to load
with coal for the British feet, that hs
met with his second and greater ad
venture.
For at noon Of the next day til,
stern lookout made out a periscope
sticking Its tiny head about six inches
above the waves in the wake of the
ship. He gave the alarm, and par
OF the crew was set to work immedi
ately swinging out the lifeboats. Al
most all the rest were ordered below
to help the stokers crowd on steam
Meanwhile the gun crew manned the
1S-pounder at the stern, and tht
captain started his distress rocket.
soaring.
But neither stern gun nor rocket,
brought results. And with all the ex
ira stokers the Baron Ogilvy could
make no more than IL knots. tn,
submarine discharged her first tor
pedo at II rs. and missed. Then, te
get into better position, she rose t
the surface, and In the course Of the
chase circled the freighter two OF
three times. diving and rising like 9
great porpoise.
Thought They Had Lost Her.
The Ogilvy appeared helpless. While
the submarine. whether submerged OF
awaSh, was racing ahead Of her OF
abreast OF her, her stern gun could moi
b brought to bear on its target. The
eaptain steered q sigxag course. evez
edging toward shore. The sabmarine
discharged another torpedo about threl
osclock. and missed again.