The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1917-04-10
San Francisco Youth Has Had
Enough of Excitement for
a While.
WILL TRY TO FORGET WAR
met His First Submarine in the Med.
iterranean and His Second in Irish
Sea-No Warning Given
Either Time.

boston.-Joseph Barnett of San
francisco, late second saloon cook
aboard the Baron Ogilvy, is only
twenty. But twice he has been the
victim of a submarine.
Young Barnett met his first subma-
rlne In the Mediterranean a year ago
ms second in the Irish sea last Janu-
airy. Now he's on his way back to
San francisco, where the war seems
Sar away. No more of the sea for
MIN, he says, until the wars over.
lie shipped first, when he was four
teen, as galley boy aboard 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.
Ihey had been Is days out and were
somewhere off Sicily, Barnett thought,
though out of sight of land, when a
torpedo put an emphatic period to
their progress.
Never Saw Submarine.
we never did see the submarine or
the torpedo" he said. 1T was about
dusk, and the sea was fairly smooth.
L was cooking in the galley when she
nit US. 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 1
rushed up on deck, and so did the
rest, but we were ordered back.
ats all right, lads the captain
said. Don't lose your heads. Go back.
It'll be all right now
but she began settling down at the
stern, and soon we were told to take
TO the boats. 1t took ten minutes TO
lower them-there was no trouble
and then we pulled away and laid by
until she went down, stern first, half
an hour later. A French torpedo boat
picked us 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 no
| unusual incident to mark either voy-
age. 1t 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 fleet, that he
met with his second and greater adj
venture.
For at noon of the next day the
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 part
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
13-pounder at the stern, and the
| captain started his distress rockets
| soaring.
But neither stern gun nor rockets
! brought results. And with all the ex-
| ira stokers the Baron Ogilvy could
make no more than IL knots. The
| submarine discharged her first tor
| pedo at u 10 and missed. Then, to
| get into better position, she rose to
the surface, and in the course of the
chase circled the freighter two or
| three times, diving and rising like a
great porpoiSe.
Thought They Had Lost Her.
4 The Ogilvy appeared helpless. While
4 the submarine. whether submerged or