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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1917)
THE SUNDAY OEEGOXIAX. PORTLAND.. FEBRUARY 11,-1917. 3 PERSONS AND SCENES OF "NEWS INTEREST ARE HERE .DEPICTED Mxiff led Sentries Sleep in Terrible Cold, Despite Presence of Enemy Great Dreadnought Mississippi' Is Launched Society Girl Rides "Vicious" Sea Horse at Palm Beach. r At . V-4V 3 'y I - Ilk'. If . ..mm ' tT - i J 1 I ;r rfc --- -rr-v - , .C:1: 1 rL 1 - tin it . 1 14 I ' " 7 iw A If? vv-S 1 :", IN IT? - - AW f. , 111 I- 5 Wi-C f 44 , r - " II - - yTfcC-' 111 4 . 'V . , Is 1 'Tf? h?Ih Troops- on nay io Trencfies:.-OTc.,: A; 1 1 itf St.:.' 'Z American BeaiZ College. Boys Cut Z.zvmy. Co&.' TERRIBLE cold Is reported along the various European battle fronts and conditions almost Arctic prevail on the eastern front where the Russians an A Teutons' battle in heavy enows, " The soldiers, especially those in the trenches and on sentry posts, are suf fering' severely, although the general (health of the armies continues amaa ingly good. Soldiers with cuffs meet ing and heads snuggled into great coats fall fast asleep, forgetful of the enemy on the other side of "No Man's Land." A number of French soldiers, direct Irom the trenches of France, arrived in New York recently in their grayish blue uniforms and a great variety of helmets. They are here on short fur loughs. Several are non-commissioned officers, and some had been wounded. As the liner passed the Statue of Liberty the soldiers stood in groups about the deck and waved thetr helmets. Fourteen students of the University of Pennsylvania have banded together to solve the high cost of living problem by pledging their living expenses in a general fund. By this means they have reduced the weekly expenses of. living to S, which cum included everything. Most of the other students at the university pay from $10 to $12 for board and lodging so better than these boys provides for themselves by their co-operative house keeping plan: The "co-operative fraternity" have rented a house and have stocked it with foodstuffs of the non-perishable kind, euch as potatoes, groceries, etc. suffi cient to last them the entire term. Such foodstuffs as meat and other per ishables are bought each day. one stu dent purchasing one day, and Another the next, and so on In rotation. The great dreadnought Mississippi, the largest in the United States Navy, was launched at Newport News Janu ary 25, while 20,000 persons cheered, and scores of craft of every descrip tion welcomed her with shrill blasts from their whistles. Miss Cummille McBoath, of Meridian, Miss., crashed a gaily decorated bottle of champagne against the vessel's starboard and cried. "I christen thee Mississippi." The launching was wit nessed by Secretary of the ' Navy ra.niels, and many persons high in Kaval affairs. The most striking feature about the Mississippi te her clipper bow. which will enable her to speed through huge seas without throwing large volumes t of water on her decks. The clipper bow'J win waie lub uaiuesnip an aoier ves eel in rough water. . - The 33.000-ton Mississippi win tft about $16,090,000 and will have 12 four-teen-inch guns mounted on her- f re ward end after decks, three in a tur ret. She will have a maximum spoed of 21 knots and is 624 feet long rver alL Like the other latest battleships, the vessel will be an oil burner. In addition to the 14-lncb guns, there, will be 22 five-inch rapid guns, four t&ree lnch anti-aircraft and two 21-inc'J tor pedo tubes submerged. Even on their way to the tr tenches andto death, the English Tomn (ies are a merry, happy, smiling crew. Every one is a fighter, happy, but grim in His purpose. ' Simon d'Harlys, one of th famous French beauties of the chonfcj of the "Century Girl," posed for a , painting hy Emil Fnchs, who believes her to be the true type of French y American beauty. Mr. Fuchs is internationally famous and his pictures may he Xova;, In every If hut, - 4 ' : . t V W : mm v ..vX' "v'WK. ' it. b iL : I I MSB ! i Sumner onhoal svnJ.r. - t K f"3 . . f4 ! v L.ri 1 ? fin. t K L, J k" . r lit A?' - AiV, A t . li'vivV art collection of note In Europe and America. He was private painter to the King of England and is the only artist who ever painted the entire Eng lish royal family. He has a private album of pen and Ink sketches of Queen Victoria, and the late King Edward and members of the family, which he has willed to the British Museum upon his death. - The TJ. S. Army transport SuWer, which went aground . on Barnegat shoals, N. J., is broken in two amid ships by the pounding of the waves against her sides. The boat has been practically given up by the Govern ment as a total loss. Her machinery and much of her equipment has been ruined. Beautiful Monte Carlo is to have an other same than those that have made It famous, and it is just plain American baseball. However, the grand old game will have an entirely new setting on grounds that lie within sight of the famous casino, where fortunes are won and lost, mostly lost. The capital of the little state of Monaco, which nestles between France and Italy on the Mediterranean, will be in the new league of Southern France to be established after the war. The beautiful home at Paignton, England, of Mr. Singer, a wealthy American member of the sewing ma chine family, has been given over for a hospital of the British army. - - Miss Ethel Campbell, a Philadelphia society girl, was one of the first to ride the vicious sea-horse at Palm : Beach, It rtjulrea uulte a little skill to be able to hold the horse steady and i to keep it from overturning when caught in a "rude" breaker that has no qualms about overturning one. The throng of society folks at Palm Beach is daily increasing and the sea son is in full swing. . AMERICA'S FIGHTING MEN (Cpntlnned From Page 2.) "Rough Riders," it is interesting to note that Wood was commanding Colonel of the "Rough Riders" in the campaign in Cuba. He was military governor of Cuba until the transfer of the government in 1902 and was governor of the Moro province in the Philippines in 1903-06, and' afterward was in command of the Philippine Division. la 1910-14 he waa chief of staff at Washington and since that time has been in command of the Eastern Department. His successor in the office of chief of staff is Major-General Hugh Scott, a - "first-class fighting man" who belongs in the field rather than in the swivel chair, according to the opinion of many who have known him. Not only has he proved himself a first-class fighting man. but he has shown in the past a great deal of dip lomatic ability, as when he retrieved the renegade Piute Indians in Utah and when he placated the Mexican bandits on the border. His military record bristles with achievements in practically all of the Indian cam paigns, both in the line of fighting and in the line of bringing about settle ments of the difficulties with various Tribes. Scott was a 3? est Point man. .'71, and reached the rank: of Major-General April 3, 1915. What may happen In the Philippine Department in the event of war is a matter of conjecture, but it is possible that there may be some lively devel opments there. Brigadier-General Hunter Liggett is in' command there at this time. He is a graduate from West Point in '79 and attained his present rank in February, 1913. ,His principal active service was in Cuba in the Spanish-American War and later in the islands. Brigadier-General Frederick S. Strong is in command in the Hawaiian Department, a West Point cadet in '7fi, and raised to bis present rank in 1915. He served in the Spanish-American War with distinction. If space permitted one could cite the records of a long list of other men who are in positions that are certain to JforrLe Carlo throw them prominently forward ia military affairs in case of war. Snch. men are General Pershing, who headed the expedition into Mexico. Colonel W. A. Glasford In command of the aviation section of the signal corps? at San Diego, by the very nature of his po sition will probably be called imme diately into prominent service, for this arm of the service must inevitably be one of exceptional importance in case of a large war. Moreover tbere Is a host of men in minor rank, as there are in the Navy, who are likely to be brought into the center of the current of events in a. moment under war canditions. In the Army as in the Navy, it is up to the people of the United States to prepare to learn an entirely new "Who's Who" as compared with the one that they, developed in the Span ish-Americau War.