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New-York tribune., 1918-08-04

blooded as a fish, and would take the
temperature Of the sea except for
the heat generated by the human
bodies, storage batteries and gas en-
glnes in her. And they ell lead the
outlaw life their ship leads. They
know that the gunner's mate on q
destroyer with whom they drink on
the beach tonight will do his con-
sclentlous best to kill them if he
meets them at sea tomorrow.
They are also older than other
navy men. They average twenty
five, which makes them the oldest
crowd in the navy. They have also
been shiDmates longer than other
navy men, and there are no more in
innate shipmates than submarine
shlpmates. Before the war, when
the navy manned its submarines
with petty officers exclusively. it was
unusual to find a submarines crew
which had not been shipmates two
years. To-day, however, the subma
rines take recruits, but weed them
out for "ineptitudc" in a long and
hard schooling. And practically ali
OF them are regulars, professional
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04

fter captain and a lookout mounted
the bridge. And the machine shop
roar OF her engines mounted the sky.
With no unnecessary talk, she
moved out under the battery of ko-
oaks at the rail of tall, camou-
tagged mari-ouche of a transport and
sidled handily through the break
water. At ten knots she cut a deep
bow wave in a smooth and startled
sea, setting a sleeping fishing boat
with a lateen sail suddenly to bob
bing crazily off her quarter. With
rudder amidships, she ran for an
hour straight out into an empty sea
rooted by a blue sky, with one tow
ering white coral of cloud in it.
Two hours out the captain sight
ed steamship.
Let's be accurate in these details.
Strictly, there was no ship. To the
landsman's eye the horizon was
empty. But with the glasses one
could make out the nerest soil of a
gray which suggested coal smoke
two points off the starboard bow.
And when a landsman stops to con-
slder the matter it must be evident
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04

to under slow, slogging motion to
discharge her ballast and charge her
batteries, with oil the crew off watch
waiting their turn at the cruising
hatch ladder in the after battery
compartment below. to go up for q
smoke on the coming tower fair
water.
Submarines are divided into three
sections, with sixteen army cots for
crew of twentyfour. They stand
the usual four hours on and eight
off at the base, but at sea their
watches are cut to three hours. For
when a submarine clutches her main
engines into her main motors to
run the juice into her batteries she
heats up occasionally. And il she
does 55-degree roll occasionally
it's nothing to brag about at the
base. It's because she has no hilces.
and she can roll as much as she
likes and welcome. Of course, her
crew says that she has "an easy mo-
tion," "a deep, slow roll" "about a
six-second roll" but that proves
nothing. Destroyer crews say the
same thing about their craft. But
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04

that smoke at sea ordinarily can
come only from the stack of steam
snip, even though that steamship be
completely hull down. But nobody
loves submarine, and any subma-
rlne knows II. She knows that when
she sights smoke crash dive is the
better part Of valor.
"Stationsl' said the captain.
Down from the vast sunlit spaces
OF topslde one dropped through the
manhole-like hatch into the conninr
tower, straddled past the helmsman
and hurried on down the iron rungs
TO the deck OF the central operating
compartment-crowded,~ = electric lit
and hot as a Turkish batll-with the
lookout all but stepping on ones
hands and the captain all but step
ping on the lookout's hands.
"Flood ballast tanks. ahead both
motors, five degrees dive, take her
down to 60 feet, change course to
22o degrees and keep it for five min
utes, said the captain. And as the
mann motors were clutched into the
sha1t the noise Of the main engines
gave way to deafening silence.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
| he Worries Of the
Submarine Crew

And the submarines crew is like
no other crew in the navy.
During the first four or five days
Of patrol they sleep all the time
off watch. After that, when they're
completely slept out, there's nothing
to do but to hang on. They can't
sit down. because they'll fall Off.
They can't play the gramophone, be-
cause they'll wake up somebody.
They can't smoke, because they NAV
set off an explosion. If they want
to smoke they have to go up topside,
and the more men topside the more
time Is lost-when time is most val
uable-ln securing matches to sub
merge. For this reason only two men
besides the officer OF the deck and a
lookout are permitted up topside at
cnce, and these only long enough for
one smoke. SO ordinarily she spends
ali day on perscope patrol with
everybody below but the helmsman
at the eye ports in the coming
tower, and at night she does a dive
just to get her trim C"somethinr
happens every time you do down")
Then she blows 1000, comes stream.
ing up into the moonlight and lays
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04

more fuel tanks under the deck. the
main engines NOW sound asleep
the main pumps, the main air com.
pressors, the after trimming tank
control and the main motors gal.
though there are motors all over the
ship").
But it is in the central operating
compartment that one finds the hear,
of the ship. This IS the bridge
house and chart house, and here the
log is kept. SIX men crowd to their
positions here when the captain says
stations" and on any one Of them
depend the lives of the submaria.
and everybody aboard when shss
submerged. They vary in importance
from the man at the main kingstons
Qevers for operating the flood
valves up through the man at the
main motor controllers. the man at
the water manifold and gauges and
the man at the air MANIFOLD ana
gauges to the two men who whirl the
wheels Of the stern ana bow diving
rudders, with their eyes continually
On the depth and angle gauges, on
whom depends most of all.
About them in white compart.
ment some ten feet square and not
much higher than a mans head 2re
all the wheels, levers, gauges, bells
and speaking tubes, al the clocks
showing the pressure in the air
TASKS, the weight Of water IN the
ballast tanks, the submarines dis
tance below the surface and the
amount Of angle on the diving rue
ders, all the chronometers, COM
passes, revolution counters, engine
room telegraphs and other bridge
gear, including steering wheel the
size OF a dinner plate, which control
the submarines torpedoing, sub
merging, navigating and motive
power
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
The Cold Nerve
Sticking Out Of Him

U. S. S. KIT carries two officers
and twenty-four men. Her senior
two -striper is her captain. Her
junior is her second, combining the
functions Of executive officer. chief
engineer, navigator and torpedoist.
Ten of her crew are her black gang,
seven are gunners' mates and five
are electricians. The rest are her
listener and her cook.
Her captain is a herring cho!ler
from Maine, who takes butter on his
potatoes, and you can see the cold
nerve "sticking out ali over him."
You gather the impression that if
you were to walk up to him with a
revolver and begin shooting at him
it wouldn't necessarily annoy him
unless you kept it up too long, in
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
In Danger From
Frenzied + 'riends

Now, the submarine is like moth
ing else in the navy.
Since U. S. S. Kit and her sis
ters of this fiotilla have been on the
base there has been no enemy sub
marine in these waters. But she's
just as likely to get shot up by one
of her frenzied friends. so that her
first rule at sea is When in doubt.
duck. Play helldiver.
She has always had her own pecul
lar little worries. When she makes
a quick dive. she may leave hatch
open, or when she makes a quick
porpoise she may lift hatch; and
in either case, if the sea gets to her
storage batteries, she gets their
gases. Or her diving rudders may
jam. Or she may leak, and the
deeper it goes the worse it gets. Or
gas may accumulate in her crank
pits.
But on top Of al these little wor-
ries, she has 10 lead the life Of an
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Cook Calls Out,
Wha d Yuh Sav }"

In the after battery compartment
are the main and auxiliary switch
boards, the hand pump overhead
with the safety helmets, by which
the crew can escape if stranded in
shallow water; the after periscope
the work bench, the cruising hatch
opening onto the coming tower fair
water and more air TASKS. alone
with more battery cells under the
deck. Here are also the electric
cooking range, the icebox and the
mess lockers. They dine at noon in
the submarine on cold storage stulr
mostly, and they get along without
either bugler or 'bos'n. When the
cook is ready he rigs the mess table
from the stanchions, serves the Off
GERS and calls out "Wha' a. vub
say" to the crew.
And IN the engine room is the
petroleum smell which comes from
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Diving 90 cet
In 60 Seconds

SO one elbowed out Of the central
operating compartment into the
emptiness and battery gas of the
forward battery compartment,
ooughed couple of times. wiped the
perspiration off ones forehead and
composed ones self to gather in at
ones leisure the new experience
which presently would be coming
along. And, almost at once ma
chinlst off watch stepped in from a
glance at the depth gauges and said
to the listener at the radio board.
Sixty feet. Eddie. :"
And that, take it from me, is all
there is to it. The down express
reaches so feet in about 60 seconds
For lack Of anything else to do |
took look then through the cigar
shaped world in which we were Sc
cured for better or for worse. In
every compartment those of the crew
VINO were on watch We're standing
at their diving stations without IN
necessary talking. For stations"
and the thud of a hatch sound gen
eral quarters on the submarines.
Only the captain knows whether
she's going down for battle drive.
q drill or mere hideaway. For
the crew responsibility begins and
ends with aye, aye, sir"
In the torpedo compartment are
the four torpedo tubes, the torpedo
reserve, the torpedo loading hatch.
the tall locker containing the torpedo
tools, The anchor slowed overhead
the submarines arsenal of six
Springfield rifles, the officers lock
ers, and under the deck the fue,
tanks and air TASKS, of which the
latter not only supply breathable
ar, but also blow the water out of
the ballast tanks.
In the forward battery compart-
ment are the crews lockers and
'helr submarine sized gramophone.
the radio apparatus and a varying
amount of battery gas.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
First Story of the Work of Ameri-
can Submarines i'm the Haunts
cf the "Tm Shark"

outlaw, ready to open valves and
alter course at the first sight of any
thing bigger than pulling boat
And when she sees one of these new
American hydroplanes, no matter
how far off, take it from her captain
she goes down to mine hundred
feet. And on darl, night we get
away with it"
She is war craft without guns
True, some submarines have guns
but her captain says guns don't be-
long on submarines. Give him only
d submarine that will dive in moth
ing flat, short range, high velocity
torpedo, a bottom at fifty fathoms
and an enemy.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04

navy men, men who can drown with
out crying about it. They know their
captain can sacrifice any one or more
of them to save the submarine and
the rest of them. And their only
answer is "More power to you"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
An Empty and
Silent World

The forward periscope, ending N
two long handles by which it Is
turned, comes down before is after
bulkhead with the torpedo firing gear
close by, and up its forward bulk
head runs the ladder mo The con-
ming tower. And above, a the eye
ports in the coming tower, one sees
quite unexpectedly the world ou:-
side.
1t is green and empty and silent
world.
As if the submarine hoyered mo-
tionless by her fms in sohd green
wind.
Although outside the after eye
ports her colors were Tapping busily
as if just outside the port half .
gale We're raging in pale green 81
lence.
Close in front of the eyes pin point
diamonds started across the port TO
its centre, where it was their whln
to vanish. The outer rim of the
port was a-sparkle with a million OF
them. One reflected in time that
they might be bubbles OF course
bubbles. Air bubbles as small as PIN
points. Bubbles diamond hard.
SO one watched the Stars ana
Stripes flying out beyond the dartins
diamonds-its red. white ard bluee
lonely colors in a pale world o.
green-absolutely inevitable coiorS
Copyright 1919. by Edward MArshs''
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
By Clair Price

W. lTH an American subma-
" rine tlotilla at European
base tby U. S. naval cou-
rier), July 25.-Having completed
her patrol at sea, U. S. S. X-17 came
home to mother early on Tuesday
morning. While she was yet long
way off the breakwater U. S. S.
Mark, to whom all submarines look
alike, sighted her.
H Hell'sbells- e-it-is-pen-
eral--quarters,' said the officer of
the deck, all in single breath. The
captain bolted out of the cabin in
his pajamas, made the bridge in a
jump, ordered full ahead and
started out to sea, dragging his
mudhook and calling out to his Of
ficer of the deck:
"Where is he now Where is he
now"
But U. S. S. X-17 paid no heed.
She knew that every binocular On
every ship at the base was Watching
her, but she was wearing the rccog-
milton signal of the day and her
Sunday go-to-m&eting colors, and
there her responsibility ended. SO
her captain sat on the rail of the
little chariot bridge around her tall
periscope fairwater and conned her
inside the breakwater with all her
matches open and the machine shop
roar of her engines echoing to the
hills back Of the admiraps house.
She sidled AROUND the buoy as han
dily as canoe, jigglcd her bow rud-
ders, took line from her 10000
ton mother and presently snuggled
up and went to sleep in a vast 81
lence.
And in time u S. 5. Mark quieted
down with pair of socks in his sue
ton and hot condenser For life
is never dull when there are sub
marines at the base
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
I orpedo a Jewel
Of Delicacy

Now, the torpedo is in reality a
immature submarine without crew.
Looking at a number Of them with
their dull red warheads on, strapped
by steel bands into the side of the
torpedo compartment, one imagines
that d torpedo is as tough as the
rickelled steel Of its long body-its
long, slim body ending in twin
screws and small rudders. But it is
not. Within it is jewel of delicacy,
adjusted with microscopic precision
and as exquisitely fashioned as a
chronometer.
The submarine itself is not exactly
delicate. but every little handle in
her central operating compartment
has meaning all it's own. She aims
her torpedo with her own helm, and
whenever it plcases her captain at
the forward periscope to touch the
torpedo key she sends it away with
10000 pounds Of compressed air, a
reluctant "whoosh" and farewell
nod at the bow. And she says, as
she flees to fifty fathoms with ten
tons negative buoyaNcy and no bot
tom:
There's my Youngest daughter.
Take look at her, take a look at
her. y
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
How Our Boys Live ON Their Hunts
for the Seagoing Hun Mid
Danger and Hardship
All, one thought:

All, one thought:
Presently we shall be diving.
For, as the captain himself will
explain to you, flooding her ballast
tanks changes her from positive to
negative buoyancy.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04

central operating compartment, the
after battery compartment and the
engine room. The officers hang out
in the torpedo compartment. The
crew hangs out in the forward bat
terry compartment. And they all
mess together in the after battery
compartment, where the cook hangs
out.
1t ought to be mentioned, how
ever. that her captain says the air
is usually good from the coming
tower aft. There may be an inch or
two of pressure, although eve try
to keep the pressure down.
Fatter Than Other
Navy Crews
Yet the total effect of it is that
the heat and sleep they undergo
make submarine men fatter than
other navy men. Although they are
given waterproofs and "submarine
clothes" for protection against ex-
tremes of heat and cold, they all
wear dungarees except the captain,
who wears dungarees and dancing
pumps. For submarine is as cold
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-22
HOLD LIBERTY "SING"
IN SHERWOOD TONIGHT
Hundreds Participate in Weekly
Songfests at Smith
Home

Between 500 and 1000 persons are ex-
nected to take part tonight in the Sherwood
Liberty Sing, which will be held at Fifty
ninth street and Willows avenue. In addition
TO the community songs rendered under the
direction of Albert f. Seymour, song direC-
tor, selections will be given by Il double quar-
tet composed of members Of the Pennsyl-
vana Railroad Glee Club Edmund w. Kirby
will deliver an address.
The first Liberty Sing in the Sherwood
section was held on the night on which the
news of the victory won by the americans
on the Marine front reached this city. The
residents of Willows avenue were asked by
Mrs. Dolie Rathbun Smith TO meet on the
porch Of her home and sing patriotic songs.
4 few responded after Mrs. Smith had sung
several selections alone.
Then other patriotic citizens in the neigh
borhood offered their assistance, and an
other sing held the following night.
Preceding the singing tour of the section
made by party in an automobile and
the announcement of the event was made by
megaphone. That night about 500 were pres
ent and the announcement made that
the sings would be conducted every Thurs
day evening thereafter.
The following Thursday night about 600
residents of the section participated in the
sing. and the next week the attendance
jumped to $50. For the last two weeks it has
exceeded 500. and is increasing. The sings
are conducted and the speaking takes place
from the porch of Mrs. Smiths residence.
They will be conducted long the
weather permits and during the winter If a
suitable place be obtained for holding
them indoors.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-22
ARMY COOK HEIR TO SI5O.OOO
Was Known Here as Sailor Evanselst'
While in NAVY

Camp Sewer. Greenviiie. :. C., Aug. 22-
Organization of the new Twentieth Division
is going forward rapidly. Colonel William NJ
Connell, for many years in active service in
the army, has reported for duty as chief of
staff.
II. NJ. Miles. cook at the pa tents kitchen
at the base hospital. was surprised To receive
a notiica ton that distant relative had be-
uueathed him sl56.0O0 Miles is pursuing
the even tenor of his way and says il has
not caused him to wish TO change his career
even If he could.
Miles is from Tarboro. y. C., but has spent
seventeen years in the army and navy, the
greater part of which time he was in Phila-
delpha He says he was ordained minister
of the Methodist Church and during his stay
in ladclphia he mnstered to the spiritual
needs, Of his comrades well to their
dietary needs and earned the title of the
Sailor Evangelist
He got into the army again about thirteen
months ago. on June ) he married Miss
Mildred James of Greenville.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-22
MANUALS TELL HOW
TOPRESERVE FOODS
National League for Women
Service Distributing Helpful
Books-COnservation Prizes

At the request of Mrs. Edgar w. Baird,
chairman Of the National League for
Women's Service. 7oS Market street, large
supply OF canning and drying manuals have
just been rushed TO this city by the National
War Garden Commission. These will be dis
tributed to the home food conservcrs who
visit the community demonstration kitchen,
To blue ribbon winners in the canned vege-
table class at a number of fairs will he
awarded the National Capitol Prize Certii
cate. The bazaars include the following:
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, First
Regiment Armory. November to s.
Philadelphia County Fair Association, BY
berry. September to D.
Philadelphia Achievements Clubs Septem-
ber l6.
Camden is preparing to hold a big war
garden exhibit in the Armory there Septem-
Der % and IS at which National Capitol
prize certificate will be awarded.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-22
APPLICATIONS ARE INVITED
FOR FIELD ARTILLERY SCHOOL
Ban on Enlistment Is Expected 10 Be Lifted
When Draft Bill Passes

Applications for the Field Artillery Cen
tral Officers Training School are being filed
daily with the Training Camps Associa ton,
and all men interested in qualifying for such
commissions are invited TO file applications
Although no applications are being ac-
cepted owing to the order of the War De-
partment, prohibiting all enistments until
the passage of the draft bill, 1t is expected
the ban soon will be lifted, and in anticipa-
ton of the great need OF artillery officers
appica tions are being filed for the future
Six men from this city filed their applica-
tions prior 10 the issuance of the order are
now en- route to Camp Zachary Taylor where
the training camp is situated. They are:
Alexander Walker 30 South Melville street; !;
Joseph Van Pelt, Chestnut Hill Herman NJ
Hassenbruch. 3ll5 Queen Lane station How
ard s. Baker 2l19 North Twentieth street ;
Harry w. Fehling. -Jr., 5Sl9 Angora street,
and Lucien Hauslein, 3704 Barring street
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-22
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy Wynne onders il Al the Former Contentious viii
PreuaH After the WmAiss Montgomery to ed Mr.. Hal.
sey This Nonth-Inerestng Bit about Our Men

l.ouire Lirpncott. OF Burlington a. J.. and
MISS Ruth Chapman of Atlantic city.
Mr.. and Mrs Harry s. Young and their
daughters, Miss Florence Young and Miss
Marjorie Young. of t.ansdowne are visiting
MIR. and Mrs. r. II. NJ, Stuart at their cottage
in Ocean city.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles E. Shull and the
Misses Shull are at the Hotel Windsor, Cape
May, for the remainder of the season. They
VIII open their apartment AT the New Clinton
about the middle of September.
Mrs. r. Sparks Bishop and her two chill
remain until Labor Day
Miss Helen Chatham. of SSIS ca hs rine
street. and Miss Sara Mitenberger of a35S
North Twenty-frst street. VIII leave tomor-
row for Ocean City. where they will be guests
of the Phi Delta Psi Sorority House.
Mrs. f.. c. Van Sanford. Of Fulton. y. Y,
is visiting Mrs. r. A. Holcombe of Narberth
Friends Of Corporal Morris Erankel. son
Of Mr. and Mrs Daniel Frarkel. 1855 Nor;h
Twentr-frst street. will he glad to know OF
his safe arrival overseas
Sergeant Hckmond w Nash. United
States marine corps. stationed al Indian
Head naval proving grounds. Md. is spending
ten days furiough in Marietta, Ca, with his
family.
Mrs. Irene Walters. of Madison. m. has
arrived in Woodbury. for two weeks stay
wiki her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. 6. Gocring.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-22
DESERTER GETS TEN YEARS
Another Soldier Gets Two Years al Spar.
tansburg. 5. e..

tansburg- >. T..
SpartanburE. $. G., Aug. 22.-Twenty- five
years at hard labor and forfeiture of all pa
and allowances was the sentence imposed ny
a court-martial on Private Victor Scase.
OF New York. Company +. Fifty-third
Pioneer Infantry, for three attempts at de
Sertion.
The twenty-five years' sentence was re-
duced to ten years by BriCadier General Guy
Carleton. commanding the provisional! depot
for corps and rmy troops.
Private Frank Stio. Company n Fifty-1rst
Pioneer Infantry, will serve two years at
hard labor and forfeit two-thrds of his pa y
for the same length of time for refusal to
undergo an operation
Second Lieutenant Emerson e. Harrington,
Jr., SiXteth Pioneer Infantry, has been pro-
nounced unfit for military service by an
army medical examining board and has been
given an honorable discharge. He is n son
of Governor Harrington. of Maryland.
The Rev, William Stinson. of Philadclphia,
has been commissioned chaplain.
Major David 7. Simpson a former Phila
dciphian. has been relieved OF special duty as
camp postmaster and ordered to rejon his
regiment, the Fifty-fourth Pioneer Infantry.