The sun., 1919-01-04
TAKE ALL BUT zoo
OFF STRANDED SHIP


Sagcs Of their own this flashing eN-
change of salutations. inquiry and reply
reflected the feeling OF those on shore
that there need be no further ana
icty for those who still rest aboard the
transport.
Team work of the army and ravy
was OBVIOUS throughout yesterdays pro-
ccediugs. Very heartily Col. Valentine.
representing Major-Gen. Shanks. com
manding the port OF embarkation, said
last night:
1T would he impossible TO give too
much praise to the navy for its me
work. Cooperation between the two
branches OF the service has been perfect.
am confident that deoarkation and
transshipment will have been completed
by tomorrow afternoon, which will be
a real achievement considering the
number of seriously wounded
Dawn made II evident yesterday 10
the army and coast guard men and Red
Cross women who had kept an all night
vigil beside a peach bonfire that the
PROV Of the stranded ship had been
pounded a good many yards nearer
shore during the night. To the wreck
ing sharps this indicated that the whole
keel was not embedded. as had been
thought, and that It might not be so
difficult to free the vessel at high tide
as had been supposed. Wreckers were
whispering that II was all a matter OF
money.
IF the Government will allow us 60
per cent. Of her value we'll pull her on
at any time, day or night" one o! them
said Probably It ought to be done at
night SO folks couldn't see how easy It
was We'd swing a hawser around the
whole ship. protect her sides with boards
| so the steel plates wouldn't bend in and
with three or four good tugs asteSn we'd
| have her in deep water in no time"
| shifting Wind Helps Rescue.
| Yesterday morning the wind came
moderately from the north. which means
| that II was almost an offshore wind.
comblng down the breakers. as the
! mariners say, and improving the pros
| pects OF the rescuers over those OF
| Thursday. Later. however, 1t shifted to
| the northeast, sped UP to thirty-hve
| miles an hour, put white caps on Great
South Bay for the first time since the
! Northern Pacific went aground, and
sweeping diagonally down the beach got
the combers TO quarrelling and spuming
among themselves.
1t was colder than on Thursday and
drizzle fell most OF the day. Early in the
| morning the transport spilled lot o'
black oil on the water alongside, which
| smoothed out some OF the kinks. Wave:
, were breaking pretty far out and some
of them were lifted nine or ten fee
above the bottom OF their troughs.
Down the inshore side of the Northern
Pacific twenty-four sea ladders wer'
dropped-things of rope that splashec
their lower ends In the foam. Astern o.
the transport appeared a low gray boa
that Seemed the same color as the water
II was submarine chaser 2s3, on
of those 10 foot light draught speed
sters that the war has developed.
4 draws about ten feet OF water. Thu
q commander is Lieut.. lie Salvage
f. The channel through which It wa
trying TO reach the Northern .Pacifi
was not more than twelve feet deep
Also 1t had to creep around three hawser
whereby the transport was anchoret
and slide past one of these great rope
within three feet Of 1t before 1t coul
slide alongside.
With soldiers cheering on the deck
Grizzle and all. and the soldiers an
nurses and Red Cross workers asher
waving such endorsement as the
could and the coast guardsmen SILENT
, watching the maneuvres with a col
professional eye, the sub chaser dis
appeared for an instant between tw
prodigious waves and then slipped int
? the still water to the starboard of tn
Northern, Pacific.
Down swaying rope ladders or IN
accommodation companionway, which
! begging everybody's pardon, is the ship
front steps, carefully, holding fast I
rome or rail. swarmed men in KHAKI
: " hen seventy-five or 100 of them wer
I aboard and others had been lowere
r in splint stretchers made OF strong wiz
: the :. e. 293 retreated stern foremos
? The instant che got astern Of tn
: | transport she was rolled and douss
. her full length by A wave. but up sh
/ | bobbed and sprinted Off TO take he
: passengers to one of the larger Graf
= in the spreading fan.
Three other Sub Chasers Help.
Meanwhile three other sub chasers-
: the 29l, 292 and 29f--lifeboats of y
= | coast guard, whalehoats and launch,
: from naval vessels and the dories of u
, I Northern Pacific herself were rangr
a 4 alongside Before noon between 81
! and g0o men had been taken OFF ar
: from a cross ballard above the tran
+ ports deck a sliken American flag Ia
been swung as a token of victory.
= 3 o'clock eight destroyers or other tran
shipping vessels had departed for Hob
a ken.
q Whatever Is most fragile could not
;. handled more delicately than were Il
litter Caees'-rnen unable to move II
der their own power--as all the watc
ers on the beach could see. They We
. lifted In strctChers very slowly al
u carefully over the rail, and then. with
Il line AZ either end of the stretcher. 10,
e cred by inches to whatever boat W
re waiting for them.
n With the same care they were receiv,
e aboard tho Submarine chasers and ca
nj n hA