The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-03

who Is perhaps the oldest in the bust
ness turned upside down while bringing
a load Of passengers from the transport.
Life guards. army officers, beach comb.
crs, sailors, all kinds and conditions of
men. dived into breakers running ten
feet high and every mothers son was
saved.
A launch from the cruiser Columbia.
trying to get to the shore side of the
transport. kicked or Its propeller as the
stern was uptiltcd almost to the perpen-
dlcular and rode helpless in the sea
The seven sailors aboard. struggling to
keep her headed to the wind, were
sloshed 10 and fro the length Of the
craft Black life preservers hoated
away and in the foam were mistaken by
those on shore for tossing men. The
sailors we're flung or jumped into the
ocean Side by side "A bea ;hcomber and
young aviation I.eutena nj from Brind-
ley Field plunged IN and each came
back with two sailors. ard each was just
as reluctant as the other to say who he
ives.
Red Cross nurses just from Queens.
town or Brest. on the Northern Pacific,
CARRIED in raincoats and sou westers
but with only common storm rubbers
covering their shoes, stood half way to
their knees In surf to reach out for SOL
dies carried ashore from the llfeboat and
hand them drink of coffee or some
thing stronger. and to hlazes with reSu-
lations. There were no regulations for
anybody along that boiling beach yes
tsrday afternoon.
Women Nurses Taken on.
There are no women nurses left on
the Northern Pacific. The tenth trip OF
the lifeboat brought the last of them to
Iand and on the eleventh trip the boat
Spslzed There are plenty of male
naval nurses aboard to attend to the
LOO sick and wounded still aboard. of
whom 900 are what is known as litter
cases No attempt was made yesterday
to take OF any OF the latter although
stacks of canvas stretchers ans splint
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF wire that give a
little but do not bend-were on the
beach ready for them. Few OF the
wounded men brought to shore were
badly OF: a bsndaged head -or-hand
here or there WAS the only sign OF dis
ability.
Now to pick UP the adventures of the
Northern Pacific at the point where Sun
readers left her yesterday morning
During the night there was much pound
ing by waves and many OF the men
could not sleep, II was not anxiety that
kept them awake. for the general feeling
is one of confidence, and besides many OF
the soldiers had been through far worse
hiBHe' tiidn tIllS mere was plenty OF
FOOD. but water had run very short One
ofiicer said he had not had a drink since
Wednesday morning
One of the ships boilers had been put
out of commission by sand sucked from
the bar through the intSie pipes The
snip could not have moved under her
own power In any circumstances There
was shortage OF light-the usual bril-
liancy since peace came being reduced
to tho few and long intervalled electrics
Of the moon circuit"
Plenty of OIL for Fuel.
There was plenty OF oil fuel. although
some oil had been poured on the waters
soon after the ship struck in an effort
to quiet them--a means of relief also
tried by some OF the destroyers yester-
day. Part OF the hold had been flooded
to stabilize the whole structure in its bed
or sand. The usual movie show was
abandoned Wednesday evening, but
there was a concert. Soldiers who are
strong and well went out OF their way
even further than usual TO entertain tho
ailing and divert them from possible
worry over their plight
During the night the expected shift OF
the southwesterly wind to northwest did
not take place. 1t kept on ramming the
ocean against the windward side OF the
Northern Pacific until the bow was
logged landward about fifty yards, MAX
ing the ship point slightly toward the
beach instead of exactly paralleling 1t.
This jogging caused the keel to sink
deeper in the sand. Yesterday morning
the seas were tremendous, but about
10 80 there was sudden calm and
then what wind there was shifted
abruptly TO the northeast Thirty yes
sells were standing by the Northern
Pacific. flock Of submarine chasers
and the hospital ship Solace having been
added to the group OF the previous day.
Lieut-Col- Pierce and Major Reming-
ton. in charge Of the relief expedition
from Hoboken. passed the night on Fire
Island with a detachment from the Bay
Shore naval station. They established
headquarters IN the summer home of
DR. George King of Babylon, this home
being cottage near the pier at Lonely
Vile. Meanwhile at Bayshore there
waited Capt. r. W. C. Francis, assist
ant medical officer at Hoboken: thirty
five medical officers, twenty-five Red
Cross nurses and 100 enlisted men, most
Of them from the Greenhut army hos
pftal IN Manhattan There We're also
guard detachment from Camp Mills
DR.. Dorothy Smile OF the Red Cross
Motor Corps and seventy ambulances
The hospital of the naval station was
ready to receive 500 men.
Army Hurrics Supplies.
II was o'clock yesterday morning
when Mrs, Louise Orr and fifteen other
members OF the Babylon Red Cross and
OF other Long Island chapters began
their vigil beside a driftwood fire on
6he beach abreast OF the transport.
The army was chartering boats and
barges and hurrying its supplies from
Bay shore across Great South BAY
Later in the morning deHtroyers and the
dancing submarine chasers tried to get
close TO the Northern Pacific, but gave
u up as impossble-and when the skip
per OF a destroyer or an s. c. boat saws
a thing Is impossible that means II
can't be done. The best they could do
was to get a few small boats up 10 the
stranded ship and put some supplies and
stretchers aboard.
When the weather moderated, Life
boat 81, the pride of the south shore.
was hauled down the beach 10 the
waters edge. II wac in command Of
Capt Charles W. Barker, for thirty-four
wears a lifeSaver. now emeritus, but
pulled back into harness for this special
occasion. The capn has white whiskers,
and In his sllcker and sou'wester would
DO for n picture OF the gentleman who
advertises cod liver oil
From the davits Of the transport two
lifeboats were lowered fun OF soldiers
who were TO be transferred TO the soa