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hooks when they could reach them.
l noticed that there were red kegs In
the German boat.
When the lifebeat reached the ia
cOb's ladders went over to the port
side of the Georgia and then the Ger
mans came over the side and hoisted
up the kegs. The Germans were
armed with bayOnets and revolvers.
Some of them went down into the en-
CINE room and opened the sea cocks.
About this time some of the Limeys
came up from the poop deck and !
told them to stay where I was and
that the Germans would take us over
III lifeboats. Another squad of Ger
mans hoisted eight of the dynamite
kegs on their shoulders and down into
30. 5 hold with them.
Mean time the Germans saw us M
on the boat deck and came up after
us. And over went the Limeys. But
| waited and one or two more waited
with me. When the Germans came uu
To us they had their revOlvers out
!; I'd were waving them around and
Hing. ''Gott strafe England!" and
/ L kina about "schweirhunde," Then
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as that made it practically alright the
only air the $50 of us got was through
the ventilators. That hold was, Ger.
tainly foul.
They next day some OF the men had
got cigarettes somewhere. In a few
minutes they as well as the rest had
lit up and were putting away in great
style divided cigarette with an
other fellow. Remember, we were siM
ting and standing on ammunition all
this time. 1t shows how much we
cared whether school kept or not.
The Germans saw the smoke com.
ing out of the ventilators and they
were crazy with fright A gang Of
them laid below and rousted us out
with whips. :. - =
They lined us up ON deck and. read
us the riot act.
They drilled us down into the coal
bunkers. It was Simply terrible thera
Coal dust to breathe and eat and sleAM
On.
CTo BE coNTuuEDs
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ten RATS Rrs1 when they logan to place
tins Of harltacA on the RATS, tin to
each, we imagined they were going to
on the RATS. But instead they began
telling us we would land in the States
and then they rousted us between
deckS~again.
!. We had only been there short time
when some of the German officers came
down and. asked If any of the men
would volunteer to go firing on the
Yarrowdale and we almost mobbed
them to take us. They began putting
down the names of the men who were
to go and talked them into putting
mine down too. Then I felt about
five hundred pounds lighter.
Five O'Clock came and by that time
/ had forgotten to do any worrying.
We received our usual rations and
most of us who had volunteered fig
ured that we would receive clothes
and shoes. In the morning an officer
came down, below and read out the
names Of those who were to go and
felt even lighter when he called mine.
We were each given life belt and
mustered. on deck.
The sea was pretty nasty and some
of the men had narrow escapes from
falling between the Moewe and the
lifebOats when the .swells rocked us.
One man fell from the ladder and
broke his neck ON the gunwale of the
lifeboat. They took over boat after
boat to the Yarrowdale until finally
we were all there Then they mus
tered US on deck and warned us not to
start anything, because they had a
time bomb in the engine room and two
on the bridge. Meantime they had
brought over several boatloads of hard.
tack and we threw it into no. hold.
This was to be our food for some time.
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CHAPTER XVI.
cantured bv The Moewe.

Captured by the Moewe.
When the tugs had cast off and after
q while we had dropped our pilot,
said to myself: "Now we are off, and
it's the States for me-end of the
une-far as we go-IF-" But the
"if' did not look very big to me,
though 1 could see it with the naked
eye all right.
L got up about four o'clock the next
morning, which was Sunday, Deem
Der 10, 1916-a date do not think /
will ever forget.
AS soon as / was dressed went
down to the forecastle peak and from
there into the paint locker, where l
found some rope. Then back again on
deck, and made myself a hammock.
which 1 rugged up on the boat deck,
figuring that would have nice sun
bath, as the weather had at last
turned clear.
AS soon as I had the hammock
strung I went down to the baker and
had q nice chat with him-and stole q
few hot buns, which was what I was
really after-and away to the galley
for breakfast I 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,
"Shtp 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
scOffing. He said he thought she was
q tramp and that she flew the British
flag aStern.
out on deck. stepped out of the gal
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
a time before. jumped back in the
galley and Chips and the cook we're
shaking so hard they made the pans
rattle.
WHICH, LAAC hi lug 0IOppCu L WCAL Up
to the boat deck. had on all Of my
clothing, but instead of shoes ] was
wearing pair Of wooden clogs. The
men and boys We're crazy-rushing
around the deck and knocking each
other down, and everybody getting in
everybody else's way. We lowered our
Jacobs ladders, but some OF the men
and boys were already In sthe water.
Why they jumped do not know.
Then the German raider Moewe
headed right in toward us and
thought she was going to ram us, but
she backed water about thirty yards
away. She lowered a lifeboat and it
made for the Georgia, passing our
men in the water as they came and
crashing them on the head with boat
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pieces mounted astern. The guns we've
mounted on an elevator and when tire
time came they ra1 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 a big
feed bag half full OF ship biscuit
hardtack-to us and some dixies Of
tea. After this festival we began
roaming mp and down the deck again,
because it was the only way to keep
warm. I guess we looked like some
Of the advertisements in magazines,
where they show whole family sit
ting around Christmas tree in their
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A-Armor plate drops. placing Gin. guns.
B-Forecastle peak.
C-Ammunition hold.
D-Torpedo tube rails.
STorpedo tubes.
Poop deck.
GAIT wheelhouse.
H-Deck house..
J-Holds.
K-Disappearing guns aft. mounted on
elevator.
LSea gates.
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 a good laugh IL / had not
been SO cold.
We could not 60 to sleep because
the decks were wet, nor could we sit
down with any comfort for the same
reason. Besides we thought we might
buck up against British or French
cruiser at any minute and most of us
thought we would stay up and get an
eye full before we started, for Days
well-known locker.
About two bells the following morn
grOan and shake her up q bit and we
could hear the blades jump out of the
water every once in a while and tear
away. She went ahead in this way for
some time and we were hoping she
was trying to get away from cruiser
and some of us were pulling for the
cruiser to win and others hoping the
MOewe would get her heels clear and
keep us from getting ours.
The Huns were running up and down
the deck yelling like wild men and
one of our men began to yell too. He
was delirious and after he yelled a
bit he jumped up and made a pass at
the sentry, who shot at him but
missed. The shot missed me too but
not very much. Then they dragged
the delirious man up on deck and Lord
knows what they did with him, because
we never saw him again. But we did
not hear any sound that they might
have made in shooting him.
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
way they were just bringing the other
ships skipper aboard. 1t was the
French collier st. Theodore, hove to
off the starboard side with prize
crew from the Moewe aboard and wig
wagging to the raider.
Then the Huns began shouting and
they rousted us below deck again. The
place where we had been was filled
with smoke, from what or why l do
not know, but it was almost impos-
sible to breathe in it. When the
smoke cleared up bit the Marathon
started again, for we were still in our
underwear only. One of the boys had
asked Fritz for clothing and Fritz said
the English had tough enough skins
and they did not need clothing. Then
he said: "Wait until you see what our
German winters are like
The following morning the engines
began to tear away again and the
guns started firing. After a while the
firing stopped and the engines too, and
after an hour they had the old man
of the Yarrowdale aboard She was a
British ship chartered by the French
and bound for Brest and Liverpool
with very. valuable cargo aboard
alrplanes, ammunition, food and auto
mobiles.
When they rousted us on deck again
the st. Theodore was still in sight, but
she had the YarrOwdale for company.
Both were trailing behind us and keep
ing pretty close on. While we were
on deck we saw the German sailors at
sr-srs on the main decl waking abawt
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Brain Work.

adam gave name to each Of the
animals
YES" commented the lessop-weary
small boy. Maybe having to study
all that zoology was one reason why
he wasn't happy and cOntented in the
garden"
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Roman Eye Balsam In an antiseptic oint-
nnent, applied externally and not wash. -
Il heals the inAamed surfaces. providing
prompt relief. Adv.
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Wise men make proverbs that fools
may miSQuOte them.
The Washington times., 1919-12-30
CITIZENS SHED GLOVES
IN FIGHT FOR SCHOOLS
Will Show Congress People Here
Have Rights, Says Chair
man Claflin.

eve are going to stand up, as red
blooded Americans should. take of
our gloves, and impress our fellow
citizens 'on the HILL in good old Var
kee fashion. that the people of tn,
District of Columbia have rights tina
Congress is obligated to respect"
This is the attitude OF the scroo
betterment committee, appo nteL
from representatives OF four of the
largest District organizations, ac-
cording to a statement made today
BY Roy c. Claflin, chairman OF tie
schools committee of the Board of
Trade.
I'VE have a right to a sound pub
lie school system for educating our
children" says Mr.. Claflin. "If we
were a self governed city, we would
be able to rise to the occasion and
put our schools on a respectable basis,
which Congress has utterly ia led to
do.
II trust we will be pardoned IL VIC
use unusual methods IN our campaign.
but our needs are unusual and cor
responding means are reQuiced 10 Sc
cure relief"
The Washington times., 1919-12-30
CONTRACTORS SURETY
SEEKS INJUNCTION

The National Surety Company of
New York, represented by Attorney
Bynum r. Hinton. today filed a suit
in the District Supreme Court against
William H Maxwell. a contractor, of
Lakeside, Wash, and Secretary of
Treasury Glass, TO restrain them from
receiving or paying out any money
which may be due TO Maxwell on &C
count Of the construction OF the Fed
eral post office building at FL Paso.
Tex
The New York concern alleges that
II went surety for Maxwell for the
proper carrying out of his obligation
concerning his building contract, but
that the latter refuses to pay for
certain material and labor, amounting
10 $4,000, and that he owes other
creditors. The surety company de-
clares that unless the money which
- due Maxwell from the Govern
ment. amounting TO 500. 1896, is turn
ed over to a receiver. the former will
be forced to assume MaNweTs obliga-
tions. The New York concern asks
that Maxwell be restrained from re-
ceiying any money due him from the
Government and that Secretary Glass
be entoined from signing the voucher
for the payment of the amount, and
that a receiver be appointed to take
charge of the matter.
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2,5OO OWAR R|SKERS
| TO co NEXT month
force to Be Cut Until Only Seven
Thousand Clerks Will
Remain.
Continued from First Page.)

his 1920-2l budget to be presented
June 80 the end Of the fiscal year.
Director Cholmley-Jones announced
today that notice would be served on
1000 clerks on January / giving them
Two weeks to look about for further
employment or provide for leaving
Washington.
On January IS notice will be served
on another 1000 and on Janusry ~.
approximately 500 will be notified.
Similar reductions will continue u1 II
the 1000 mark is reached in June.
Must Work Out Time.
OF the clerks who are being let
out all will receive two weeks notice
but they will be compelled to work
the full two weeks, Mr.. Jones said.
Under no circumstances will they be
given the two weeks advance pay and
allowed to leave.
Thomas ]. Fitzgerald, chief clerk Of
the Census Bureau, said today that
all Government clerks listed with the
civil service will be given preference
or work in this bureau.
The bureau now has approximate
ly 1900 employees, and 5000 more
will be added to the rolls by March
80. or this number, all will be
chosen from employees let out by
other bureaus, he said. The work
will last for several months, when
gradually reductions will begin.
Hand-to-Mouth Existence.
Investigations made by the wom-
ems bureau OF the metropolitan po-
lice and by other civic organizations
disclose the fact that the conditions
faced by the girls who are soon to
lose their employment border on alb
solute poverty. Many of them have
been leading a hand-to-mouth exist
ence and will be unable to pay trans
portation to their homes, 1t Is said.
Furthermore 1t is pointed out by
bankers and business men that the
loss of so many clerks will necessarily
cut a big slice out of the prosperity
# Washington business houses and
neccsSitate a cut in the number OF
employees now engaged in private
business.
1t is generally admitted that the
reductions in the clerical forces of
the Government will have a far-reach-
ing effect in Baltimore as well as
Washington, but leading business men
hesitate to express decided opinions
n the matter. That business will
suffer IS the concensus OF all opinion.
but the extent of the hardship is pure
~ problematical.
The Washington times., 1919-12-30
WAR DEPT. SCHEDULES
TYPET EXAMINATION

An examination for stenographers
and typists to fill temporary positions
In the War Department, will be held
Tuesday. January 6, the Civil Service
Commission announced today.
Only those who are able to take
dictation at a speed Of 14O words per
minute are eligible for the examina-
tion. The positions will last at the
least three months and not more than
six months. Pay Is from 81, 800 to
$4,000 per year.
Candidates for the examination will
apply at the Civil Service Commits
sion, 1924 F street northwest.
The Washington times., 1919-12-30
PLANS FOR DE- VALERA
RECEPTION COMPLETE

Plans are under way for a rousing
reception in honor of Eamon de Va
lera, president of the Irish republic.
at Liberty Hut on January Z. The
public Will be invited and there will
be no reserved seats. The committee
in charge OF the reception held a meet
ing at the Aloysius Club last night
and discussed preliminary plans for
the occasion.
Irish music will be played by an
orchestra interspersed with favorite
Irish vocal selections. A number Of
prominent men in Washington and
bordering States will speak. Presi-
dent DeValera will arrive in Wash
ington in the afternoon of January I
and viii be met at Union Station by
a large delegation of the Friends Of
Irish Freedom.
The Washington times., 1919-12-30
SAYS TOO MANY NAILS
WERE DRIVEN AT CAMPS

1t required two hours yesterday
afternoon for House subcommittee
to draw from Capt Robert NJ Bran
lett, of the War Department the
startling information that too many
nails were used" in building army
cantonments at Camp Gordon Ga,
and Camp Johnson Fla
The captain told the committee, OF
which Congressman Roscoe McCul-
lough Is chairman, that In the course
of his work Of inspection Of construc-
tion of army cantonments, he was
struck by the fact that more nails
than were necessary had been used In
the two Southern camps.
II was told that there were 20
many men at work driving nails at
these camps that they got in each
others way" the captain said.
These facts were brought out dur
ing discussion by The committee of
the evils of the cost-plus system
adopted by the War Department to
speed construction on the canton
ments.
Where there was an excess Of labor,
the committee was told. the excess
was put to work driving nails.
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d. c. CHlDREN'S CODE
WILL BE DISCUSSED

"A Children's Code for the District
Of Columbia" is to be the special sub-
ject discussed at the closing meeting
OF the Christmas Cildren's Confer
ence, to be held in the Washington
Hotel tonight at 8 o'clock
The meeting is an especially import.
ant one. not only to children's workers
but to every resident OF the District
The speakers are national leaders In
child welfare, including Col. Holmer
Folks, until recently in charge of the
department of civil Affairs of the
American Red Cross In France, and
C. c. Carstens, chairman of the ma
tional committee on the stsndsrdixx-
ton Of children's laws. An informal
discussion will follow the addresses.
The Washington times., 1919-12-30
U. s. EMPLOYEES UNION
FOR PERSONNEL BOARD

The enlargement of the Civil Serv-
ice Commission or the creation ol
some equivalent body contr bling per
sonnel was recommended in a resolu-
ton adopted last night by the execu.
tive committee of Federal Employees
Union No. ..
Continuance OF the work Of the
Joint Congressional Committee on
Redistribution of Salaries would be
intrusted to this body, along with con
troll over promotions and transfers
James c. Blackwell, first vice pres,-
dent of the union, declared the Fed
eral employees were a bulwark agaIns,
Bolshevik and radical tendencies.
He also declared that IS 900 incom-
petent government employees should
be dropped from the service and tha,
5000 others should be retired because
Of superannuation
The Washington times., 1919-12-30
'YAGOLNITzER" WANTS
TO CHANGE HIS NAME

That the name OF "Yagolnitzer" has
frequently brought ridicule upon him
and his children. and that he wishes
70 change II to wager" is the prayer
OF Louis Yagolnitzer, who filed a petit
ton in the District Supreme Court
today asking to be permitted TO as
sumo the other patronymic
fagolnitzer. represented by Attor-
ney Samuel N. Gusack, says that his
family consists Of Sdsie. David, Ma
than. Sophie and Herman, and that
they all wish their names changed to
Wager. Petitioner says he came to
this country from Russia about nine
teen years ago. and resided in the
District for the last Ave years He
said he was naturalized I'm Baltimore
In 1912 and that all his children are
0A&tVOO - fAAA AOuntry.
The Washington times., 1919-12-30
Travel
TO D. c. LIGHT
Railroad Figures Show Big De-
crease in Number of HoIi-
day Departures.

With the first holiday season under
nationwide prohibition, washington's
Christmas population was larger and
the railroad business out Of the CITY
suffered a decrease of from IS to 60
per cent in the various items, accord
ing to figures given out today from
the office of Walker d. Hines, direc-
tor general of railroads.
In the period from December 1924,
S2,163 tickets were sold at the Union
Station and Consolidated Ticket Of
fees, against 1853 In the same De-
riod of 1918, a decrease of 2s.20S.
Ticket receipts were $4Ss.s3031, a
decrease Of $263,36792. Pullman re-
period for 1919 were $54,S75.20,
against $so.sss.ss, a decrease of
s26,o21.42.
Incresase In PuIlmans.
From December 1924, 1887 coaches
were used out of Washington, a de-
crease of $40 over last years period
The number OF Pullmans showed a
slight increase-2.096 against 2,055
last year.
From December 1924, 53,4s1 pieces
of baggage were checked at the Union
Station as against 6S. 4o3 In the same
period last year. Parcels checked
decreased from 29,S58 to 1887. Ratio
of glass breakages is not given.
Business in the Washington Ter
minal restaurant December 1924
dropped from $40 ,620.26 in 1918 to s11,-
3O6.75 in 1919.
Arrivals In Capital
+ Arrivals in Washington during the
same period dropped from 26s,555 in
1913 to 1855 in 1919, decrease OF
1870. but the net arrivals show an
Increase of more than 100 per cent.
In the 1918 period 223.631 of the ar
rivals were through passengers bound
for other points, possibly in wet ter
ritory, leaving a net of only 32,924.
In 1919. only 121,407 holiday passen-
gers went through. leaving net
Washington arrival list of 57,17s.
The net holiday exodus was only
24,s75 this year, as against 7s,445
last
The Washington times., 1919-12-30
CLERKS UNION ASKS
UNFIT Be DROPPED
twenty-five Per Cent of En-.
pIoyes Are Superannuated,
States Blackwell.
Continued from First Page. }

iioHi IL o. deS.l
priations and audit of Government
expenditures, and that we recommend
The establishment of an administra-
i've personnel division to have con-
-rol over the entire personnel OF the
department. service and to admins
ter Standardization and classification
OF work and salaries; and be 1t
discourage Politics.
Resolved, That we discourage all
political agitation and class legisla-
ion and indorse the policy of strict
economy in Government expenditures
and stand for economic and efficient
administration of the business of the
'nited States Government"
The time has come, in the opinion
+ the heads of the union, "when we
an no longer cater exclusively to the
avorite interests OF it's members" but
must adopt a broad and constructive
'olicy and help to get at the common
Welfare"
There must be no batting of Con-
;ress or the public and no political
lgitation," said Vice President Black
veil today.
The most Of us never voted a dozen
THE analogy between the Govern
ment service and the efficient corpora
tion should be maintained If the Gov.
ernment is to be conducted efficiently
on a business basis.
Service Notoriously Weak.
"A most noticeable fact is that,
compared with outside concerns, the
Government service is notoriously
adm n al = q finn hnth -
personnel and plan of work. There
should be set up by Congress an
agency to coordinate and standard
ize the work of all Government bu-
reaus."
A bureau OF the budget, the Federal
Employees Union head believes, will
bring about the coordination sought.
"The joint commission on reclassi-
ication Of salaries" Mr.. Blackwell
says, has undertaken a project which
will take years to fully accomplish
and put into complete effect and
it seems clear that some central
agency should take up classification
and Standardization and continue it
and apply IL when the present com
mission shall have finished the duties
prescribed for it by the act under
which IL was created"
Entrance Salaries Too High.
Entrance salaries for Government [
clerks are too high, Mr.. Blackwell
asserts and cannot be justified in com.
parison with the usual industrial
wages paid.
"A comparison between the indus
trial wage scale and the salaries paid
Federal employees" said Mr.. Black
well, will show that the entrance
salaries for minor clerical work, the
simplest and most routine, plain copy-
ing typist and junior clerical work of
various kinds is probably higher in
the Government service than outside.
1T is a fact, however. that senior
clerical. executive and technical help.
accounting administration and fiscal
talent received much higher pay out
side the Federal service.
The range of salaries is too limi-
ted under the Government. There is
no such limitation placed on earnest
and ambitious employees of bigg cor.