The Washington herald., 1919-04-06


ascending to a platform built at the
ships bow.
"Oh. can tell you that" she vol
unteered. ''The word 'strath,' you
see. means valley. and strathnaver
was a valley through which my father
used to wander In Scotland when ne
was a little bit Of boy. The name
of the ship means the Valley Of Nav
err"
Because of the violent rainfall not q
great number of persons assembled
for the launching of the frebshter. Mr.
Carnegie himself did not appear. out
Mrs. Carnegie and Charley Schwao
said the veteran metal king would
have been at the launching had the
weather been anyway decent.
Invitations had been sent out to Loo
persons. but not more than one-third
OF that number b-aved the elements.
Miss Carnegie stood out in the rain
for half an hour or more while the
ways were being knocked from be-
Eeath her ship. She wore blue vel
vet hat, q blue tailored suit and
ma ckintosh of Scotch plaid.
The ship slid smoothly down the
ways at about $40. and Miss Carnegie
properly slammed the champagne
bottle against the bow as 1t went
away. All the whistles of the neigh
horhood cut loose as the Strathnaver
got into her proper element
Throughout the ceremonies there
was drench of rain. so much speech
making was cut out. But Charley
Schwab said:
This shows the genuine democracy
which has come to our United states
since the war. Here we have the
dc lighter Of one of our richest men
christening vessel just as the
daughters of Mr. Downey's own work
men have done in the past We are
all alike now-all Americans"
Charley Schwab called for three
cheers for Miss Carnegie, and they
were whooped out. Also three cheers
for Mr.. Downey. Then somebody call
ed for three cheers for Charley him
self, and they were more than whoop-
ed. Several OF the workmen even
shouted: Charley Schwab-the next
President of the United States. :"
Whereupon Charley waved q depreca-
tory hand and said: Hay! Nix"
In the shelter of the Downey Cor
poration's Offices some pretty cere-
monies were gone through later. Miss
IdIhcsc pftStHltu " lilc snip EhN
had just christened a beautiful set of
silken flags and signal colors- Mr..
Downey presented to Miss Carnegie as
a gift of the corporation a handsome
gold mesh bag and vanity case.
Then. on behalf OF almost all the
shipbuilders of the United States, Mr..
Schwab presented to DR. Eaton a col
lection of checks-offerings from the
ship men to the fighting parson" who
had gone about and encouraged their
men to top efforts-amounting to ap-
proximately $1,000. Both men-great
pals they are through the work they
did-were deeply affected by this. But
they provided a comic contrast to all
the seriousness by saying they would
meet In the evening at Forty-second
street and Broadway and start out
to spend the money.
Mrs. William Gibbs McAdoo is still
chairman of the National woman's
Liberty Loan Committee During each
campaign she did the executive work
of holding the organization to its
job. 1t was announced a few days
ago from the committees headquar-
ters in the Treasury that she will
come to Washington to conduct the
Victory Loan drive.
Members of the National Women s
Liberty Loan Committee are assem-
bling their forces in Washington for
the Victory Loan drive. which is to
begin April 81. The extent to which
the work of selling liberty bonds has
been taken over by women Is set
forth in the report of the woman's
committee for the Fourth Liberty
Loan campaign, issued this week by
the Treasury Department,
More than 10000 women served