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CHAPTER XVI.
CAPTURED by the MoeWe.

When the tugs had cast off and after
while we had dropped our pilot,
said to myself: "Now we are off, and
it's the States for me-end of the
line-far as we go-IF-" But the
did not look very big to me,
though I could see 1t with the naked
eye all right.
got up about four o'clock the next
morning, which was Sunday, Deem
Der 10, 1916-a date I do not think I
will ever forget.
As soon as was dressed I went
down to the forecastle peak and from
there into the paint locker, where
found some rope. Then back again on
deck, and made myself hammock,
which rugged up on the boat deck,
figuring that I would have a nice sun
bath, as the weather had at last
turned clear.
AS soon rs had the hammock
strung I went down to the baker and
had nice chat with him-and stole q
few hot buns, which was what l was
really after-and away to the galley
for breakfast. l was almost exactly
amidships, sitting on an old orange
box. had not been there long when
Old Chips, the ships carpenter, stuck
his head In the door and sang out,
"Ship on the starboard bow" I did
not pay any attention to him. because
ships on the starboard bow were
no novelty to me, or on the port
either. Chips was not crazy about
looking at her, either, for he came in
and sat on another box and began
SOOTHING. He said he thought she was
a tramp and that she flew the British
flag astern.
! ate all I could get hold of and went
out on deck. l stepped out of the gall
ley just in time to see the fun. The
ship was just opposite US when away
went our wireless and some of the
boats on the starboard side, and then,
boom! boom! and we heard the report
of the guns. I heard the shrapnel
whizzing around US just as had many
time before. jumped back in the
galley and Chips and the cook were
shaking so hard they made the pans
rattle.
When the firing stopped I went up
to the beat deck. / had on all of my
clothing, but instead of shoes was
wearing pair of wooden clogs. The
men and boys were crazy-rushing
around the deck and knocking each
other down, and everybody getting in
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particular charge happened to be de-
fective. The shell split and caused
back fire and the cordite, fire and gas
came through the breech, which the
explosion had opened.
1t must have been a piece of cor6ite
which did it, but whatever it was, it
hit NE in the right eye and blinded it.
The ball of the eye was saved by the
French surgeons and looks normal, but
1t pains me greatly sometimes and
they tell me it will always be sight.
less.
l was unconscious Immediately from
the blow and from the quantity of gas
which l must have swallowed. This
gas did me a great deal of damage
aud gives me dizzy spells often to this
day. l do not know what happened
during the rest of the engagement, as
l did not regain consciousness until
three days later at sea. But heard
in the hospital that the French super
dreadnaught Jeanne dare and the
light cruiser Normandy We're in it as
we'll as ourselves, though not at the
time l was wounded, and that we had
all been pretty well battered. The
Cassard lost 96 men in the engage
ment and had 48 wounded. Some of
our turrets were twisted into all man.
ner of shapes and part of our bow
was carried away. One of our lieu
tenants was killed in the engagement.
l was told that both the VERT and
the Kaiserliche Marine were sunk in
this engagement. have seen pictures
of sailors from the VERT who were
prisoners at interment camps.
When we arrived at Brest the
wounded were taken from the ship in
stretchers and after we had been rest
ed for about fifteen minutes on the
dock put into ambulances and rushed
to the hospital. On the way those who
could leaned out of the ambulance and
had great time with the people along
the streets, many of whom they knew
for the Cassard was Brest ship. And
of course the women and children
yelled, "Vive la France!" and were
glad to see the boys again, ever
though they were badly done up.
Some of our men were bandagei
all over the face and head and it wa.
| funny when they had to tell theil
names to old friends Of theirs, WHIT
did not recognize them. AS soon a.
one of the Brest people recognized {
friend off he would 60 to get cigarette.
and other things for him and some O.
them almost beat US to the hospital.
do not know, Of course, just wha
the surgeons did to me, but l hear,
that they had my eyeball out on m.
cheek for almost two hours. At an,
rate they saved it. The thigh wound
were not dangerous in themselves ant
If it had not been for the rough treat
ment they got later on they would b
quite healed by this time, I am sure
I really think got a little extra al
tention in the hospital in many ways
for the French were at all times anz
iOus to show their friendliness t
America. Every time my meals wer
flag on the platter and always larg
American flag draped over the bed.
had everything I wanted given to m
at once and when I was able to, a
the cigarettes I could smoke, whic
were not many.
While I was still in bed in the ho
pital 1 received the Croix de Guerr
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everybody else's way. Weslowered our
Jacobs ladders, but some Of the men
and boys were already in the water.
Why they jumped I do not know.
Then the German raider Moewe
headed right in toward us and I
thought she was going tOfram us, but
she backed water about thirty yards
away. She lowered a lifebOat and 1t
made for the George, passing our
men in the water as they came and
crashing them on the head with boat
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The Why Of a Volcano.

A volcano is yet one of the great
mysteries Of this good ship Earth" up
on which we are sailing through the
shoreless sea of space. Ever since
man first began to think he has been
awed and mystified by the volcano,
vomiting smoke and ashes and white
hot lava. At first the volcano was re-
garded as the chimney from the in
ferno beneath the earth. Then SCI
ence concluded that the center of the
earth was yet molten mass, that
must burn out and overflow once In
awhile; and many learned men yet
cling to thatebelief. There are other
theories, which anyone may get from
n school book, or an encyclopedia but
they are yet theories. No one knows
the why Of volcano.
Red Cross dollars play no fayoriteS
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CHAPTER XIV.
le Suis Rkesse.

AZ usual. when we got to Brest there
&as rush work day and night on the
cassard to get her out and supplies of
I n kinds were loaded for our next
5 Wit to the Turks. The French gar
hies were always keen for the trip
hack to Brest-they were sure of load
/ M up on tobacco and other things
fhey needed.
Ny twelfth trip to the Dardanelles
v1s different from the others. The
oassard was doing patrol work at the
tine in the neighborhood of Cape
WALES Those of us who had served
the Peninsula before were thank
10 our stars for the snap we were
Msing- just cruising around waiting
something to happen.
Ne had not been there very long be-
IRE something unexpected did happen,
IN we ran into two enemy cruisers
I mich afterwards heard were the
MefA and Kaiserliche Marine-One OF
- estarboard and one on the port.
q lN they had managed to sneak up
"a 81 near us l do not know. They
od up on us at not much more
~ thousand yards and gave us a
time from the start, though with
~ kind of gunnery they should have
4 done for us thoroughly.
' FL We came right back at them and
Nere getting in some pretty good shots
sSFI in fhn sro f,rPrnf SfQ r.
board b0w-my old hangout-and we
were letting them have it about -four
shots every five minutes and scoring
heavily.
III do not know how long we had been
lighting when part of our range finder
was carried away. It was so hot
though, and we were so hard at it that
3 such little thing like that did moi
bother us. 1t is hot in any gun turret
but have always noticed that it is
! hotter there in the Dardanelles thar
IN my other place: The sweat would
simply cake up on us, until our faces
we're just covered with film of pow
{ derry stuff.
s ss But the range finder was carried
way, and although it locked bad TO
IS was feeling so good that vol
enteered to go on deck and get an
ether one. I got outside the tnrre
eoOr and across the deck, got the nee
essary parts and was coming bacl
Nth them when l received two ma
ntne-gun bullets in the right thigh
U1es went clear through bone and al
md drilled hole on the other side
alle the other came within an incl
1ofng through. The peculiar thin
eAat these two were in line abOv
wound got at Dixmude. The lin
Alnlost as straight as you coul'
~ 1t with ruler.
"a course it knocked me down an,
g my head pretty hard crack Of
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jumped into them to get warm, but the
Germans came down with their re-
.volvers and bayonets and took the
hammocks away and poured water on
the decks and told us to sleep there
They could not have done worse
trick than that.
Then they put locks on the portfolios
and told us that anyone caught fiddling
with the locks would be shot at once. |
This was because we might sight a
British or Frehch man-of-war at any
time and as the Moewe was sailing un-
der the British flag and trying to keep
out of trouble they did not want us
at the ports signaling our own war
ships for help. If they had bucked
any of the allied ships and had fight
we would have died down there like
rats.
The MOewe had already captured
the Voltaire, Mount Temple, Cambrian
Range and the King George and had
the crews Of these vessels between
decks with us. These men told as
how the Germans were treating them
and it looked to me as though the eve
ming would be spent In playing games
and pleasant time would be had by
all-nOt.
The crew of the Mount Temple were
on deck working when the raider sud-
denly opened fire on them. Two or
three men jumped into the water and
the Germans turned gun on them
while they were swimming and killed
them. That was just sample of what
had happened to them.
The men now began running up and
down in a line to keep warm, but
took little run on my own hook and
treated myself to as much of once
over of the ship as could. I do not
believe the Moewe had more than a
three-fourths-inch armor plate, but be-
hind that she had three rows Of pig
iron, which made about foot in thick
ness. There was nothing but cable
strung along the deck and when l saw
that ! would have given anything to
have had crack at her with 14-inch
naval. And sure wished hard enough
that one of our ships would slip up on
us. whether we were caught between
decks or not. went aft as far as the
sentry would let me and I saw that
| she had three spare six-inch guns I'M
| der the poop deck and two six-inch
pieces mounted astern. The guns were
mounted on an elevator and when the
time came they ran the elevator up
until the guns were on level with the
poop deck, but otherwise they were
out of sight from other ships.
For our first meal they slung big
feed bag half full of ship biscuit
hardtack-tO us and some dixies of
tea. After this festival. we began
roaming up and down the deck again
because it was the only way to keep
warm. l guess we looked like some
of the advertisements in magazines
where they, show a whole family sit
ting around a Christmas tree in theil
underwear and telling each other that
Whosis Unions-the ROomy Kind
were just what they wanted from
Sanity. Only we did not have any
Christmas tree to sit around. We must
have looked funny, though. and would
have had good laugh if had not
} been so cold.
We could not 60 to sleep because
the decks were wet, nor could we 81,
} down with any comfort for the same
reason. Besides, we thought we might
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There were twelve other naval OIL |
GERS who were present and they and |
all the other people did lot of cheer
ing and vived me to q fare yOu-well.
1t was great stuff, altogether, and
should have liked to get medal every
day.
One day received letter from
man who had been in my company in
the Foreign Legion and with whom l
had been pretty chummy. His letter
was partly in French and partly In
English. It was all about who had
been killed and who had been wound
ed. He also mentioned Murray's
death, which he had heard about, and
about my receiving the Croix de
Guerre. I was wishing he had said
something about Brown, whom I had
not heard from and who knew would
visit me if he had the chance.
But two or three days later I got
another letter from the same man and
when opened it out tumbled a photo
graph. At first all l saw was that 1t
was the photograph Of man crucified
with bayonets, but when looked at
it closely I saw it was Brown. !
tainted then, just like girl.
When I came to could hardly make
myself think about it. Two Of my
pals gone! It hurt me SO much to
think of it that I crushed the letter
up In my hand. but later on I could
read parts of it. It said they had
found Brown this way near Dixmude
about two days after he had been re-
ported missing. So three Of us went
over and two stayed there. 1t seems
very strange to me that both Of my
pals should be crucified and If / were
superstitiOus I do not know what
would think about it. 1t made me
sick and kept me from recovering as
/ fast as I would have done otherwise.
Both Brown and Murray were good
pals and very good men in a fight.
I often think Of them both and about
the things we did together. but lately
I have tried not to think about them
much because it is very sad to think
what torture they must have had to
stand. They were both of great credit
to this country. =.
The American consul visited me
quite often and got to calling him
Sherlock because he asked SO many
questions. We played lots of games
together, mostly with dice, and had q
great time generally. After became
convalescent he argued with me that
l had seen enough. and though really
did think so-however much disliked
what l had seen-he got my discharge
from the service on account Of phys
ical inability to discharge the usua
duties. After / had been at the hos
pital for little over month wa:
discharged from it, after little part,
In my ward with everyone taking par
and all the horns blowing and all thu
records except my favorite dirg'
played one after another.
Sherlock arranged everything TO
me-my passage to New York, cloth
, ing, etc. I ran up to st. Nazaire an,
, saw my grandmother, loafed aroun,
, while and also visited Lyons.
| After q short time I returned t,
: Brest and got my passage on tn
! George for New York. l had tire
, trunks with me full of things l ha,
picked up around Europe and ha'
been keeping with my grandmother
). Among my belongings were severa
things should like to show by pho
: tographs in this book, but no one bu
mermaids can see them now, for dow
to the locker of Davy Jones they wen
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any part of the world beats Iceland In
the average length OF life of its inhab-
itants. On an average the people of
that island live to the age of 61.8
years. which is very nearly double the
mean duration OF human life as 1t was
computed a generation ago.
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Substitutes For Potatoes,

Green bananas. peeled under water,
boiled until mealy and served with
drawn butter. salt and pepper. are said
to be satisfactory substitutes for pOta,
toes
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Agreed.

I'D give anything almost II ] had
Mrs. Toner'S SAVIOR fairc."
II think II much more patriotic tn
own an American made car."-Ex.
change.
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: The Species,

"Are there men on Mars. POpT
"Some people say so, my son."
'"Then if there are dogs, too, sup.
pose they are moondogs."
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0E For rs cents lnch display advertisement
@O~ of the
the sixth rs week The holds for
2-inch and including
than six weeks 2nch ad longer than four weeks the
The field
cost much advertise Why advertise what
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Gunner
Depew-
BY
Albert ". Depew

e,cunner and Chief Petty Officer,
n q Navy-Member Of the Foreign
.s;cn Of France - Captain Gun
fnret. French BattleshiP c assard-
Winpsr Of the Croix do Gu eE ref
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Then the Huns began Smelling and
they kept it up for some time.
Then they ordered us up on deck
to see the ship they had been firing at
and when we came up the companion
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,s.s.~ht. lOls, by Reilly and Britton Co.. Th1oug
Hnseial Arrangement With tho George
sas - Matthew Adams service.
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Red Cross dollars play no fayorites.
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Iona Lived lcelandera.

lcontinued in nert reek's Banner.
The sun., 1919-04-05
REALTY MARKET
NEWS AND COMMENT
Portman Buys 500, 900 Worth
pf Apartment Properties
on the Heights.
M'CREERY'S TAKES LEASE
Rents Space in Acker, Merrall
h Condit Building-Fifty
Bronx Lots Sold.

]. Portman, president of the Union
Chemical Glassware Company, yesterday
reported the purchase of apartment
house properties on the upper West Side
and on Washington Heights worth in the
aggregate about 100000. The principal
building involved in the series of trans
actions reported is the Towers. an eight
story elevator structure at tho northwest
corner of Central Park West and Nine
ty-fourth street
The Towers occupies a plot 6Sx100. 1t
was sold through NJ. Salmon by the
Globe Realty Company. Dudley Harde
president. The building returns an an
nual rental OF $4,000 and was held at
s35o,oQo. 1t is probable that the new
owner will alter the structure, breaking
at up into two and three room suites.
Mr.. Portman purchased the six story
apartment house at the northeast corner
OF Broadway and Nth street. 91.2x100,
recently reported sold by Conrad Stein.
He also bought through S. Simon from
Jacob Bubser the two five story new law
houses each 50x1o0, at 266 and 270 Au-
dubon avenue, near 17sth street, held at
3150,000.
The sun., 1919-04-05
TRADING IN CURB
GROWS LESS ACTIVE
Long Advances in Several OF
the Specialties Made in
Light Dealing.

Dealings in the Curb market yesterday
were less active, but a firmer undertone
was in evidence Large advances in
several specialties on light trading were
recorded. Endicott-Johnson common
rose 6 points higher than its previous
closing. and the preferred stock was
dealt in for the first time Famous
Players Lssky was strong with a gain
OF ( points, and there was a good de-
mand for motors in late trading. Key
stone Tire established a now high in the
last hour. Chemical stocks we're about
a point higher.
Independent oils were active in spots.
International Petroleum came into
prominence In the afternoon with a gain
OF almost a point, while Midwest Re-
flning advanced more than four. Island
Oil was steady. while Metropolitan
Petroleum was subjected TO heavy sell
ling in the late trading. Rangeburnett
Oil advanced to a new high.
Interest in the mining section was
turned to Manganese Mines Of America,
which sold to a new high above /.
Russian Government securities were
again under pressure.
Total sales and range of prices follow
INDUSTRIALS.
The sun., 1919-04-05
FAMOUS MONTROSE
POINT ESTATE SOLD
Frederick Fox Sells Dwelling
at Far Rockauay.

The famous Seward estate, originally
developed by the son OF the Secretary of
State under Abraham Lincoln. situated
at Montrose Point, westchester county,
consisting of fifty acres OF developed
waterfront property. a handsome resi-
dence and numerous farm buildings, has
been sold by Frederick Brown to Adolf
Pricken. warehouse owner OF New York
city. Prior to the purchase OF the prop
erty by Frederick Brown It was owned
by Charles L. Duval, who exchanged 1t
with Mr.. Brown for an apartment house
on 126th street and Broadway. The
property is ono of the few waterfront
estates on the Hudson River where the
railroad tracks do not intervene between
the property and The water. It is oppo-
site Stony Point and is said TO have been
the landing place of Major Andre.
George Hove and the Charles F. Noyes
Company were the brokers.
Frederick Fox has sold for tho Inter-
ocean Realty Company the stucco dwell
Ing and one-half acre OF land at 2 Bay
view Terrace. Far Rockaway, to Mira
Agnes NJ. Huges
The sun., 1919-04-05
BUSINESS LEASES.

Herbert Hecht & Co. leased to Bernard
Cohen the four story building, 20.2x100.
at 80 Second avenue for a term Of
twenty-five yeara The total rent for
tho term aggregates close to 100000.
The lessee was represented by Morris
Meyer as attorney. The premises will
be extensively altered and offered for
rent. Herbert Hecht & Co. have been
appointed renting agents of the property.
Dwight, Archibald 4 Perry. Inc.
leased the store 66 West Forty-fifth
street to d. T. Owen Company, Inc,
manufacturers Of the Daven-O beds q
floor in ~ East Twenty-third street to
Kramer Bros. floor In S6 East Twenty
third street to Edwin Tully, floor In
2s5 Eighth avenue to Martin Shoe Com
pany. in ia East Twenty-eighth street
to Thomas Liguoy. A. Varian, Morris
Eliot and William Sloane in 80 East
Twenty-third street to Mufson &
Schwartz, store II West Twenty-fourth
street to Morris Steiner and space to
Jacob Falinsly. store ia East Twenty
eighth street to Benjamin welnstein,
floor in EOS Fifth avenue to A. NJ. Collins
Manufacturing Company and Century
Trading Company. space in 221 Fourth
and 241 Fourth avenue to Morris Cahan
street to Jacob Scheiner.
Frederick Fox & Co. Inc, leased to
Samuel Wekser the parlor store at s1S
Broadway. to Rubin & Kaplan the sec
ond loft at 20S Greene street. to Morris
Bessen space at $50 Broadway. to World
Rubber Products Company fifth loft at
20 to 20 Washington place and first loft
at 523 Broadway to Charles Witt
Henry Brady leased to the Hanover
Lunch Company. Inc, the store at AL
Lexington avenue, opposite the Commo-
dore Hotel: also the store 10 and ~
Ninth avenue, running through to 259
Hudson street, to the Sunglo Company,
Inc. for showroom purposes.
Cushman & Wakefield, Inc, leased the
seventh floor at SIS Fifth avenue to
David Harvey. director of publicity bureau
for various Government organizations.
will use the entire space for executive
ofices.
Michael z. Upset leased to Al Gold
ston & Co. 1900 square feet in 90 to 1903
Madison avenue, and 5000 square feet
to the Lifton Manufacturing Company in
Is and Is West Twenty-seventh street.
NJ. & l. Hess, Inc, leased the second
floor at 80 to 81 West Seventeenth street
to the United Toilet Goods Company,
and the third floor at 176 Madison ave-
nue. to the Bud Smolens Company. Inc.
Pease & Gilman leased a loft. 5Oxlo0,
in 81 and 3S East Thirty-second street
to Adoiph S. JANE. and offices in AZ West
Thirty-ninth street to John J. Kelly and
Leon Cammann.