The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-20

provides a pocket on the outside, i. placed right in front, where the init tened hands can reach it and where f you can keep liquid food or nourish- ment in other forms whenever you ! start for a trip across the big pond or up the river around the lakes, or any other place..
 In a jiffy is no eXaggeration when We talk of the time required to put l on this rubber suit. It is just the same l for women as for men and those who l saw the people donning the suit today :! can readily believe that 1t can be put on at any time, on land, on the boats | deck, in the life boat, or the steamers | cabin lin less than a minute.." There 1 is another thing that can be said for the padding, that is that it will not | absorb water, or that if the life suit i becomes cut or worn your life pre- server is still with you and will keep | you 'afioat just the same until res- cuers come Also, there is plenty of room inside the suit for any papers or other valuables which you may nos have tucked away in your pockets. Uncle Sam's men on the transports had occasion to learn all about the Ever-Warm Safety-Suit. After tests by the government, orders were given to equip every sick bay on the ships and they were put on the Leviathan, i George Washington, and AZ other | transports, so that when the Huns torpedoed and sunk the President Lincoln, the suits were on hand for the sick boys.
 Paralyzed men, wounded men, dis
 abled men were tucked in the suits
 and set out to sea in life boats, on
 rafts, in the water. For over 16 | hours, in the cold, dark water, they f1oated until the United States cruiser | rescued them-and the official report
 was that all were dry and comforta-
 ble, having been protected from ex-
 posture to wind and water by the
 suits
 A story related today by Matthew
 A. Rodgers, chief electrician, U. s. 1 N, R. F., of the torpeoed ship, re- | ported that when the explosion came
 "A suit was handed to me and I put
 1t on. I decided to jump to get away l from the sinking ship. I was certainly
 surprised to find that my life-suit was
 keeping me warm and dry I was finally picked up, after an hour or
 so alone in the water, by a life raft
 and remained in my suit and on one
 raft or another for over 16 hours"
 Other survivors tell the same story in their own way, but all are quite
 willing to talk about the suits tha' saved and protected those most in need of protection.
 Ambassador Gerard is on record al i n tn hn
 he enjoyed when he was making hi:
 last trips to and from Germany, ana Dr. (now Major U. S. M. e. George D. Brewer enthusiastically called the suit 100 per cent. insurance" for tht . nurses.
 8 One of the exciting chapters in tn,
 late world war was the torpedoing o = the s. s. Aurania, and now that tn, f censorship Is removed, some of tn l details are being told. B. R. Leak 3 now steward on the Cunader R. M. g ?, Orduna, is giving this account of hi - experiences after the vessel wa mortally wounded: S My duties were to see every pas 't senger safely in the lifeboats, an, = giving all assistance possible. I ' was impossible to launch the DOT | 1 lifeboats, owing to the list, but tn . starboard boats were finally Iaunche
 and every one accounted for, when = started for my life suit, which I ha kept in a convenient place on deck n I slipped the suit on in a very fe1 s seconds. and made my way to tn 1t life boats. They had all been low tt cred and there was nothing left fo 3, me to do but to jump-a distance o
 some thirty feet. I had. never trie e the suit in the water before, and d was greatly surprised at the ease wit