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some sort Of shape at a Hoboken yard,
a first sailing. with reasonably low
cabin rates. was advertised. and a good
response encouraged the new owners.
who had about Shot their last financial
bolt, in getting her ready for seass
\ crew. rather nondCscript. it is
true. was shipped under the American
flag and officers were signed. Tho On.
CINE room crew was not all that could
have Icen desired. In it were eleven
nationaitioH. including some full
tedged BolShcvils and some American
representatives of the |. W. W., who
carried along with them n large guam
tity of piOsclytins literature. which
later found its way into all the fore
castles and aggravated the trbuations
OF Captain Mclean. tn" skipper.
When trouble began to brew. after
The voyage began. those aboard. who
we're h"ariShly inclined on capitalism.
Wreakcd their vengeance IN owners
whose greatest fault was that they were
not sufficiently provided with capital
Few voyages "f modern times can
show such Il log as thar which was set
down rs true account of the happen.
!ngs aboard the old Philadelphia. After
q day or two ont of New York, with
personnel functlonlng anything but
bccaus" of its nondpScr!pt and
in part unframed character. trouble
popped up in the engine room. The
ship began to lag. until she was run
ming only few knots. for the boilers
wouldn't hold steam nor make it ut
pressure no matter how much coal was
rhovelcd beneath them by the porspir-
ing tyr"s who wanted 10 see Italy.
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Disappearance of Ticket
SUindier a Wystery

'It must be understood that there
was no money aboard Oftentimes the
boys had to resort to barter to obtain
their needs j was no uncommon sight
to see ono Of them exchange II knife or
spoon for a couple of pairs Of socks at
II street vendors and then 60 off, while
the vender closely sCrutinized what he
had received IN exchange. The guile.
less natives always thought that they
were getting silver; It was white metal
zone Of the stewards ublninpd
number of forms with thc ships name
printed upon them. These he took
ashore and sold lis steamship tickets 10
America. For a week or su he lived in
splcndor AT TN" Nesuvio, one Of Ma
rlcs' moro expensive hotels. lie tipped
the bcllboys literally and was treated
as the star guest. Meanwhile he was to
be found in the waterfront cafes every
evening,
"'Why >houldn the New York Ma
pIcs inc be down on me-" he would
say, 'Ain't undersellng them on their
own shipT
"And then he suddenly disappeared
for good. Perhaps he had sold the last
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ing. Now it would be Friday that the
ship was to leave; then it would be the
next Tuesday. When the blu" peter
went up slgnifying that the shlp was To
sail that day all were happy Then III"
word would be passed around that It
was a. mistake, and the blue peter
came down.
Came Il day when the tugs towed the
steamless, waterless, lighllrsa and al
most foodless steamship out from her
pier and brought her up against II
breakwater, whore number of other
ships seemed to be tied up with an air
Of permanence. 1t looked like marine
boncynrd, The crew got gloomicr. Al
though there was no hint Of insolvency
ns yet, the crew and the passengers be-
gan to wonder. The printer got busy
and got out another rhyme which be-
gan:
IT was payday on the Phily,
Not 'lirie' was in sight = ="
Soon after this, according 10 Avrutis,
who was interviewed as he was mntric.
unting for Columbia University this
fall, things began to happen Collcgiau
Ayrutis tells 1t in these words:
"One morning the head waiter came
into the saloon to And ali the table sill
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italian Battleships
HOUered Near Liner

AvrutiS explained the presence of the
| two Italian battleships. one outside the
breakwater where the Philadelphia lay,
the other inside. 1t appears that some
weeks before the arrival Of the phila-
delphin. the New York, her sister ship,
also formerly Of the American Line,
! had com" into Naples. Repairs had
been made on board the New York and
| then il was found the owners were m
able to pay their bills. The New York
| sneaked out one night under cover of
darkness and left for Constantinople.
When things began to look dark for
/ the Philadelphia. the Italian Govern
ment took no chances, but sent the
warshipS TO prevent n similar occur
renee
The newspapers of Naples and the
entire populaCe of the city enlarged on
the New York and Philadelphia Incl
dents. II J"urno and La Mattina and
other NeArotitAn dailies gave lavish
space to tho series Of articles they pub
lished on the Philadelphia $ predica-
Ll"nt.
The last troubles Of the Philadelphia
will doubtless wind up in the admiralty
courts of Italy. 1t is doubted in New
York that the old vessel will ever be
seen on this side of the Atlantic again.
And the old timers of the Maritime Ex.
change and the pilots that IN years gone
| by took the famous craft in and out of
! New York harbor shake their heads
while they sentimentaIly recall her bet
ter days.
All good sailors believe ships have
personalities. Two ships may be of
the same mold and build and equipment
and general specifications and perform
absolutely differently This is the basis
of the old superstition Of personality,
and 1t applied fully in the case Of the
Philadelphia. Her history on the At
lantiC proves il.
The veteran ocean greyhound's ca
reor has been one of the most notable
and marvellous in seafaring annals. In
/ her first eleven wears of existence as the
/ City Of Paris she had crossed the At
lAntic 100 times, and as she was one
of the finest liners ahoat in those day,
her cabins were always filed. As the
Paris she was fauous and called an
"unslnkab!e" ship. She also held the
! Queenstown Sandy Hook record Of those
/ times. five days, fourteen hours and
| twenty four minutes There are few
| slips even today that Surpa>s her one
. time teCtness
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ingly required attention were under.
taken. After eight days in port, pms
sengers for the return voyage TO the
United States began coming aboard 4
day or two passed, but still the ship
did not depqrt. The crew began to get
uneasy, for they had not been paid off
and all sorts of rumors ran through the
liner
After the passengers had been aboard
ten days the ships printer got out n
bulletin. in verse:
"ShcS a YGnkee ship mith Yankee
creD,
But rotten bdthtuh through and
through,
The boilers are rusty the meats all
dccdycd,
The mattresses ripped. and the pH-
lors all trHycd;
She's flthy and hungry aud in dark
ness, too,
But she's a Yankee ship with a Yankee
creW.
Life on board the liner at this time
was not all beer and skittlcs. thouGh
vino was by no means lacking, The
messengers were now getting as reNilrss
as the crew, as what passenger wouldn't
in such circumstan Every following
day brought Its new rumor % 70 sail.
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boats. Those Of the crew not put In
Consul at Naples, who provided them
with subsistence and money until the
arrival of the :. s. Cameronia two days
later, when he arranged to send 175 of
them back to the United States.
1t was Yankee ship with q
Yankee crew
Thank God. a Yankee Consul, too
when the crew were ordered ashore.
}eftain Of the officers were left aboard
to take charge Of the Philadelphia.
With the aid Of marines from the two
battleshps stationed nearby, they tried
20 keep things going. But no one knew
how TO operate the bilge pumps. so
that the ship took in so much water
that she slowly sank. Finally tho
anchor cnain was cut and six tugS
rushed her across the bay to shallow
water to prevent her sinking farther.
] suppose that the Italian Government
Is now pumping her out at its leisure.
Those on board when the marines
came say that the latter smashed in
locked doors and despoiled everything.
including the personal property Of
members Of the crew. 80 that certain
Of the crew were left with only the
clothes they wore at the time. There
was general carousal. Canned fruits
were sampled and then left in their
opened cans in the passageways. The
sugar supply was opened up and strewn
on the decks wantonly. The ships wine
was found and also opened up, but not
poured on the decks -
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CoHegidns Regarded
Trip as Il Huge Lark

The gltarante" engineer went below
on n hurry cnll, and h" stayed there,
with little sleep for many days, until
! the ship mad" Gibraltar. Meantime
| thirty college boys in the crew. shipped
as stewards and for cabin service, who
regarded their trip to the Mediterra-
mean in the nature of a lark, were vio-
| Iating the rules Of Il we'll disciplined
ship.
1t was reported that some of the ire.
sponsible skylarkers when off watch
wandered above and mingled with the
fair first class Passengers, promonaded
ON deck and frcqu"nted the smoking
room. In the latter haven. where Vol
stead regulations were unknown, they
freely partOok of beverages provided by
the amused passengers. and even sat
in poker games,
On the return lately Of such Of the
officers and crew a> got back to Amer.
| lea, New York ship news reporters
were inclined to assign the collapse of
the Philadelphia 5 voyage and the be-
ginnngs of her troubles to the de.
moraizing influence of the non .dsci-
pined college men, who insisted on
donning their flannel trousers after
hours and stealing forth on deck, ukulele
in hand. TO dance with the girl passen-
gers and generally play at being pas
scngers themselves.
According to William j. Avrutis
class of 1922, College of the city of
New York. who had been graduated in
June just before shipping himself for
the fun of the trip, this was II gross
cxaggcratiou. The crew, he said num-
bcrrd 3IG, and the onls collcgians that
did occasionally sneak on the dance
floor were the deck cadets, numbering
ten IN all The others had jobs which
kept them busy.
Officers of the ship who were sent
bnck with 10 Of the crew by the Amer
lean Consul at Naples as distressed
American Scamen" had their say on
arriving at New York, and what they
said, since three Of them were British
ers was not nt all tlattering to an
American merchant marine. The for
mer purrcr said it WAS 1.-THE most dis
graceful thing that had ever happened
under the American ilas,'
Everybody agreed it was disgrace
ful, But it all came about from one
cause. that of trying to run a steamship
company on shoestring. the string I
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'nr gone This was very strange. for
n" saloon had been guarded by two
Neap"Iitnn watChmen all night The
mHStcry was never quite cleared up
although many offered as n possible so
luton tho theory that the watchmen
had lont n hand in getting the silver
over m" side and into one Of the many
harbor humboats.
'The theory was probably n correct
ono, for the wNtrhmcn were a genial
SORT and We're known to give any one
h"lping hand when il cane to shou!-
dortng n bundle or catching n heaving
line. They were. above all things,
anxious to please When the shin re-
ducod the number of watrhmcn from
twelv" to two. mHnv were loud in COM
mandatory comment, for here was real
"ronomy-two watchmcn could not steal
as much as twelve.
"Not thar the crew mererv stood by
and observed. Oh. no. Ships coats.
blankets and sheets were sncaked ashore
and disposed of at popular prices. 1t
vas a poor Neauolitan family indeed
that could not obtain at least n linen
napkin for itself
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Creditors Round Shin
Seeking Their Due

IN" very u">t day the company was
declared bankrupt It had admitted IT
couldn't make III" grade. 1t is un-
necessary TO state that in tho mean
time creditors from ashore had been
visiting Us with great regularity to learn
about their repair, fuel and food bills.
The night of that day the bank
ruptcy announccmNnt was made. men in
the crew found brand new blankets
slowed in the hags of laundry which
the steward had ordered to be taken
ashore, Then the captain lost his tenn
per. He shouted
up the deck with him, Wait n min
ute, men--dont Kill him! Bring him
up the bridge
The crew raced down the deck like
a pack Of wolves in chase of prey. But
the chief steward was in hiding and
couldn't be found, They brought up
~" second instead. The skipper paccd
the bridge while he explained 70 the
covering steward what he thought of
him. Handouts were produced, the
steward was ironGd and led away to
the ships brig.
Later tn" chief stew ard WAS found
III Tue cnlet engineer room The cap
tain. big automatic projecting from
his left hip pockrr, personally brought
him to the bridge The captain came
down and spoke to the crew and dis.
played the pistol. lie said;
See what | took from him. Hes
IN my room now crying like kid.
Leave him alone, boys, now. III take
this up I'm the morning The captain
had the second released then and told
him to go to his room and behave him
self
No further artion was taken against
the two principal stewards, so they
must have cleared themselves.
Then the passengers took hand.
They assembled on deck, where they
had spent 20 many weary days, and held
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Modeled Along Lines
of q Graceful Yacht

One Of the few remaining trans
Atlantic liners with the old-fash-
Toned cutaway bow, figurehead and
sporting a stubby bowsprit, she had
the lines of big yacht. For her
spars, rigging, two stacks and low
decks she was familiar Of aspect
as a crack boat in the European
lanes.
Her last regular season in the
service Of the American Line was
that Of 1920, when the patched-up
old Liner, with part of her second
class converted into first class and
selling for 1925 per berth, was
pressed into service to accommodate
the great tide of travel from Amer
lean shores to see the battlefie!ds of
Europe.
1t was her last effort for her old
tlme owners. Even then it took no
guarantee engineer expert to de-
tect that her engines were fed by
Wheeling, leaky boilers. Her wood
work, though freshly painted, showed
traces OF a hundred previous coats
and her accommodations were too
out-of-date for the fastidious latter
aay traveller, The American Line
aid not consider that she was worth
the expenditure of a large sum of
money, and because of variety of
other reasons the winter of 1920
1871 saw her laid up in the Hudson
River.
A. ihe Cptimists who took hcr over for
me tourist and immigrant business Of
s. ."s last season got the old liner fyr Il
Mors chantey, the figure having been
ported as $4,000. They thought her
rs wor.h that as a gamble IL $50, 200 more
"ee spent on repairs. Whipped into
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Once Most PdidtiaL
Craft on SeUen Seas

The twin-sclrw Philadelphia, $50
feet long, with a beam Of sixty-three
feet three inches and depth Of
forty-two feet, was in her day
and that was for many days-one
Of the most palatial craft on the
seven seas. In her palmy times
she made twenty-one knots, or
twenty-four land miles, an hour, and
that is still travelling some," even
in these days of big, fast ships.
She was a scouting cruiser and
troopship in two wars, ran the Ger
man submarine Gordon in British
waters and had often encountered
storm, fire and all of the perils of
the sea in both war and peace, but it
is doubtful if the historic Philadel-
phia ever had more exciting or
eventful passage than that which
began at New York on the first day
of last July. The tale as told by
Survivors, who recently returned
to America by a Cunard steamer
was one that set the tongues of
owners, shippers and old salts going
In two continents. 1t was also
subject for investigation at Wash
ington.
talian-American spectators, look
Ing with a favorable eye on the
heavy outbound tourist traffic of the
last season and estimating even
larger returns from the westward
bound emigrant traffic from Italy,
cast about and hit upon the Phila-
delphia. She was still good to look
at outwardly, although in bad peed
OF extensive repairs to get even a
few more seasons out of her.
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giving out. Many such venture has
cone on the rocks for the same reason.
but this was small comfort to hundreds
Of patrons and employees of the line.
with sufficient money. there would
have been no mutiny. no threatening of
the lives of the captain, chief steward
and second steward, no set fires on
board. no pillaging and no seizure for
debts by a foreign Government.
The voyage of the once swift vessel
to Naples took seventeen days. includ-
ing two days stop at Gibraltar.
Three days out of New York trouble
developed with the ten boilers. not more
than seven Of which were sefviceable.
and usually for the rest of the trip not
more than five were in use. The chief
engineer and his first assistant went
into the engine room and virtually lived
and ate and slept there until Naples
was reached, but they got the laggint
vessel to her destination
The real troubles. however. began at
Naples. where. after the passengers had
been disemharked. repairs on the boilers
and other parts Of the ship that press
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n lively Indignation meeting. They
were largely mountaneer Italians and
Albanians, who had come aboard on
July 20 It was now August u. Pas
sengers mounted chairs and tables and
delivered themselves Of their anger. and
disgust in excited Italian. shaking theil
fists and uttering curses and threats.
Nobody blamed them much. Hystcri-
Sal women burst into tears and we're
led to their cabins. Many Of these folk
had spent their all on tickets to reach
America by this vessel. The meeting
broke NO into groups for individual dis
cussions. Things might have gone fur
ther but for the presence Of two hesv-
lily armed carabinieri
THE fremcn in the stokeholes, who
for time, though unpaid, had kept
fires going so the ships dynamo and
circulation pumps could be kept going,
had recei, ed the news of the company''s
insolvency with disgust. On the fol.
lowing night some of the BoIsheviki
element among them piled up the mat
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Eiuded Capture When
Spanish Var Started

Tho Paris hnc4no an Anpricep rtffr
IN ISo3 when iift,a NiSs Griscor
| horIai t,e Stars ma Strines N bey
neal Sha fnisheJ a memorable rmn
5cr"s, .ba ,,Iortic IN Arr,I On 1Saa
m,,Ior ,Hr,momI of Co,tain FrnGsricL
WATSON War witl Srnin having heen
i,.In.oI ,,biIa .Lo ,,,, n, tba LigS soas
sho v.o,f,I have made q Wonderful nrize
p sam. ~ ,Lo Ion. ,yhirb wern Inrk.
inc ohou, Io rI;inp far her had hcen fleet
nroucb to ro,rl her
THr sWift lirrr was immediately
.oI.o., o,.,r ,Io r-rt,od Ctotas Noyy
ana tttnI fmr fro,.>rort md crrisina
sort;ro She rorr,.l several regiment,
- Sor Iran pnr,, Rico ircIndimo
Goneror EoIs1n 4 Miles and his com.
ro,,I and also CARRIED tron,,s to Cubs
ria Saw rncautlmn. had rcchristened
to- ,io Eolo
Tho Par, came IN grios on Nav u,
1899. on rho Nnnarl,>. a dangerous reef
.ar no soutb roasr o| Cornwall Eng.
r,rd Had thc shin nor been strongly
.~,rs,rurrcl slc nevor roull have sur.
.,,,,I tho rackinr aul ,yrcrching she
r,crr,od from NE d.,v ~le grounded nm.
~ IuIv - A. the time Of the acci.
Icrr 40 md $50 cabin Messengers. not
.orn .,f yylon was Iu.f All the person,
oIoarI We're successfully transferred tc
shoro
Thr ro,sovorarro # German wreck.
or. .o,el the craft after her owners
,rn InrerI,arirnaI Nnyigation COMPANY
i,ql Surrendered hcr 10 the insuranc,
%nmuaY,., When She finally emerged
from What had been deemed her ocear
grave. and $500 coo had been ex.
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graceful, 1.-THE greyhound OF the sea.
Such is the story of the last voy-
ace and of the career Of the S. S.
. Philadelphia, stanch United States
mail steamship Of the American
Lire, ship with personality, one
of the most noteworthy ocean pas
,enper steamers that ever flew the
Stars and Stripes. In service for
three and half dcades, a long
period for a vessel of modern serv-
Ice. hers has been a history, now
drawn to an inglorious close in the
harbor of Naples, that is unexampled
IN American maritime annals.
Her recent voyage to the Medi-
terranean, perhaps to be her last,
led her to the dread fate of all IA
nous old ships-the end Of her
glory. After fires, attempted muir
ders, mutny, looting and that dis
grace to a good ship, libeling for
debt, the Philadelphia, taken over
BY Italian marines, was towed to
a ships graveyard, where, tired and
distressed, she settled into the ooze
of the harbor for rest. The Italian
Government may pump her out, Of
course, patch her up after fashion
and try to sell her, or else turn her
over to creditors as so much junk,
but her great days as a trans
Atlantic liner are gone forever.
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LVHR, ONCE QUEEN OF ATLANTIC GREYHOUNDS,
NOW LIES ROTTZNG ZW. ."NlARLVE BOWEYARZ
G1SSled Followers Of Sea Recall DAYS
When Proud Craft Mas Acclaimed
W>>onder Ship Of the Century

NCE palace of the highway acclaimed in song and
o Of the worlds swness aha victorious
heroine the emen home
beautiful hone for
thousands the Land achieve
ments in a brilliant
Now hulk keel deep Naples Bay
while
compared
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-01-02
FRENCH CITY HAS HISTORY
Tarbes, Birthplace Of Marshal Foch.
Otherwise identified With Military
Proves OF Country.

The visit to America OF Marshal
Foch, incidentally lends interest to
his native city, Tarbes In the south
of France. This town which Is des-
tined to be shrine OF France hence
forth, already has contributed In other
ways to the military prowess of that
country, according to a bulletin from
the Washington headquarters Of the
National Geographic society.
"HOnOred by conspicuous statue and
by the name OF one Of its principal
streets Is Dominique Jean Larrey, who
introduced the flying field hospitals
adopted and developed by Napoleon.
the genesis OF the modern ambulance.
More recently It has been center
for the breeding of the famous Pyre-
mean horses. an Anglo Arabian breed,
valued primarily for their light cavalry
use. 1t also has an important arsenal"
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-01-02
HUNGRY NICE SAVED COYOTES
Rodents intsr'ered Win War on
Pests in Wylm'ng by Eating
the Poisoned BAIT

Hungry mice IN wyoming have re.
Gently bGco.n' such frequent visitors
10 poisoned ,,gt spread for coyotes
that the rorh u the poison squad
seeking to kia votes has been seri-
ousiy inter.er iii, according to a
report to the ioo&!eal survey, United
States Deparfa,ent OF Agriculture
Owing to he extremely warm
weather" reads The report, coyotes
stayed In the rough and brushy places
which made It necessary to put the
poison bait in and around these places
1t was noted that mice lnterfered ma
terlally by carrying away and eating
the poison bats before the coyotes
could get to them.
poisoned grain was used In an ef.
fort to Kill off the coyotes, but In many
cases there was no end to mice coming
into poison stations"
Notwithstanding these difficulties,
the five men assigned to poison work
made satisfactory record, says the
Weekly News Teller The total mum,
Der of animals killed during one month
by government hunters IN the district
Is reported at 542.