Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-09

colors of life. You will see there an eno;-
nous picture of the Vindictive as she re.
turned under her own steam after the
hight at Ieebrugge mole. You. will see the
amazing column of torn white water sur.
mounted by a vast pine tree of black and
gray smoke, sent up by 400 pounds of
y exploding under water. Conveys of
merchant ships, zigzagging on a calm sea,
trace "a white webwork of foaming trails
across the blue, while the cscorting de.
stroyers are dropping depth charges for
Fritz. You will see the oily patch on the
surface that is the U-boat's only epitaph.
Tho white ribbon of a periscope or the
bubbling trail of a tin fish, flash across
the gray-green water and is snapped by
a watchful camera in the air. And you
will not forget the wonderful picture of
the Olympic, crowded with men in khaki
Americans, perhaps, though the picture
does not say SOB Dreaming her way through
a sapphire day with a leaping fan of milk.
white turmoil at her throbbing stern.
INliE photographs form a curious con-
- trast to the permanent and placid exhi-
bition at the academy. The huge likeness
of the riddled Nindictive hangs, if / re-
member right, just underneath a peaceful
pasture scene I'm the main gallery called
in the Meadow" The photographs are a
pageant of all that was magnificent, all
that was terrible, all that was tragic in
that four years sea adventure. 1t was
characteristic of British generosity TO in.
clude several very excellent pictures show.
ing the American naval forces at work;
for instance, the crew of a U-boat surren.
dering TO the United States destroyer Fan
ming. A great many of the engagements
show the last minutes of torpedoed vessels,
among others a British hospital ship with
the big Red Cross emblem on her side
just awash. Scenes on British destroyers
rescuinG torpedoed crews are vivid with
suggestions of the many who were not
picked up. On the narrow decks of the
sllarp-nosed little destroyers stand lines of
sailormen in their clumsy sea attire,
numbed and bewildered. Very striking, in
deed, is a series of three photos of a sink
Ing cargo vessel loaded with barrels. The
first picture shows her soon after the tor
pedo had struck, when she is beginning to
list heavily. The second view shows her
rolling over and the barrels floating off
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the last scene she has just disappeared
with only n boiling swirl of water where
she vanished; IA great cluster Of barrels
arc drawn into the vortex by the suction,
and the other casks curiously SUN off In
= long straight line, perhaps bv some cen.
trifugal current thrown out by the rim of
the whirling eddy. There is one very
clear picture of a sinking steamship break.
ing up as she sinks; her bow is already
under, and seems to have parted entirely
from the body of the hull. Each of these
pictures carries its own conviction to the
onlookers; a conviction which has no very
gentle feeling toward those who carried
the war into the ranks of noncombatants,
OF all the works of mans hands ships
seem the most alive, and the end OF a fine
ship is a tragic spectacle.
ONE interesting picture is that of a Brit.
" ish cruiser standing by in the middle NJ
an iridescent patch of oil, where she has
sunk a submarine by a depth charge. Al no,
stern a small boat is waiting in readiness
to pick up the survivors, should thew
come to the surface, Also she is in entira
readiness to make sure of her victim ~
he should prove not TO have been thoroueb.
] ly done in," or done under. one might saw.