The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-10-09
United States Naval Observer
Keeps Track of Ger
~ man Subs.
KNOWS ALL THEIR TRICKS
Murphy's Negligence Leads to Success
Of College Crew In S~eaplane--
relis Them Where to Look
for u-6oats.

game OF life and death with Hun 'tin
Ash" was Interestingly told here re-
Gently by q member Of the committee
on public information as follows:
"A short, thick, temporary ensign,
n T. III. Murphy. with red face and
very blue eyes. sits day and night In
his Office In a little shack at a United
States naval air station. porting
over raised maps with coIored strings
stretched on them and queer red
headed pins stuck I'm them.
"His job is to keep track OF every
Hun submarine that Is In operation.
Being a former submarine man him
self, his instinct for them is that of a
ferret after a rat.
HE knows when they need air. how
badly every depth charge has tickled
come to the surface for the skipper to
smoke his cigar, as there Is no smok-
Ing inside a submarine.
1Murphy's knowledge decides the
uccess or failure of the many young
reserve ensigns Of the naval flying
force now at stations where there are
young men who have left the ball
rooms Of New York or the battlefields
Of Yale and Harvard to take a whack
at the Hun.
take. for instance, Ensign Il. J..
Schieffelin OF New York city and of
the Yale class. 1919. He Is direct de-
ncendant Of John Jay, OF Revolution
airy fame, and his father left home
for the Spanish-American war In the
same ship that carried his son to this
ona.
Murphy Was Right.
"SchisfEelin was in Murphy's Office
early one morning when that expert
took the pipe from his mouth. stuck
: pin In the middle of the North sea
end then blew out a blue cloud of
smoke.
"sTheygl be needin' one." he said.
right about there
"tOne what7'
"A smoke. Of course They've been
under 80 many hours on such and
such q course. In three hours they'll
broach and the reason win be tobacco.
Search area-and-and you1l find a
sub
"Schieffelin was the first pilot. The
second pilot was Lieut.. Roger w. Gut
Ier, stroke and captain of the Har-
ward varsity crew OF 1917. The crew
u the big seaplane was completed
~ Bernstein, the machinist's mate,
and TaGgart, electrician and champion
1O0Lyord sprinter.
'Three hours later a bright. her.
r1ngbone sea was creeping under
them. Through the mist the visi.
bllity Wi bad. but suddenly both
eMcern made the same exclamation
under their breath as the seaman
called to his mate:
"a large Hun is going north. one
oun,' Schieffelin remarked. Say. Muir
ply vas right, only I don't see anyone
snc>1ng.'
~fI6 plane got itself between the
eub and the sun. Then, for two
whole minutes 1t bore down on the
Hun shark. She doomed up through
the mist big as a house, Schieffelir
oaid afterward.
Within a half minute she started
to submerge with
sCrasht
SNOW said Cutler, we will give
them = light
Brought Home the Onions.
He tripped his bomb release at the
instant the big plane was directly
over the enemy's coming tower
which was exactly awash. Schieffelir
threw the machine into q vertica
bank to observe the effect Of the ex
'p1osion-
"A white geyser spouted fifteen fee
On the enemy's port beam. The della,
had been just right.
"TOOk. her propeller's out,
laughed one Of the men. They knew
then that she was damaged and tina
bar diving planes had been SO injured
hat she could not submergc. The.
knew she had to cling to the surface
that III her advantage In being a sui
wos lost and that she was a prey Il
any patrol.
sAs the plane was short Of petrol
having forty-mile wind to lgh'
against. the American lads set sal
a. home Win q sense Of . deed wei
0o0A The rest was routine. TIL,
p1nno Gsnaled q drifter: There is 1
dannood sub I'VE miles northwest o
go
~1Ae drfftsr. knowing that a sui
q the surface would start to rul
HI ! ocared cat. a. damaged subs do
ut they couldn't catch her. re
1o1oo re news to certain destroyers
xA1 destroyers did the rest
1GE51od up. rammed the U-boat, ant
49, Wego only six survivors. He
61V1ng rudder had probably been dam
~ H. d~estroyers put her down
~ ~ NJ the prize Of Schiefelil
@ xolo and Cutler Of Harvard. !
wos o1tlers nrst Az as 9 pilot on
WF pafrol
- 1rut bombs be ever droppet
oCeDon 1eouCht homo The onions.s'