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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN. PORTLAND, JUNE 3, 1917.
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An Old New England School, by Claude M.
Fueis. $4. Illustrated, liougktoa. Jkllfriia
Co.. .boston. Mam
There Is much in this book of a New
England school Phillips Academy, An
Mover, Mass. to interest Western peo
ple. The message in the book is pol
ished, informing and eminently read
able. The school in question 1s Na
tional in scope. There are Phillips
Academy graduates in this section.
The school, since its inception in 1778,
has helped materially to make the Na
tion.
"In 1915-18 there were In Phillips
Academy young men from 38 states
and seven foreign countries," writes
our author, his preface being: dated
January 1, 1917. "Of the 1 players
who won their 'A's in athletics a year
or two ago, eight were from Massa
chusetts, and others came one each
from Maine, New Jersey, Illinois. Ten
nessee, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming,
Oregon, California, Iowa and Canada.
In this mingling prejudices are soft
ened, provincialisms are softened, sec
tionalism disappears; in such a Na
tional school boys are taught the great
lesson that local partisanship must be
subordinated to the glory of our coun
try as a whole.
In preparation for this book, It Is
rioted that material has been gathered
from many sources, a large part of
mem documentary. More than 200
graduates of the school have sent anec
dotes and reminiscences of their school
experiences. The pages are 625, and
there are E4 Illustrations, many of-them
full page. Notable among these Illus
trations Is the picture of the president
principal. Dr. Alfred Ernest Stearns,
who was appointed to that office May
23. 1903.
Chanter heads are: A Puritan Family:
;The Founders; The Founding of a
School; An Eighteenth Century Peda
gogue; Pemberton, the Polite; The De
cline Under Mark Newman; The Found
ing of Andover Theological Seminary;
The Regeneration Under John Adams;
Zion's Hill and Its Men and Women;
An Educational Experiment; The
Teachers' Seminary; A Scholar Poet;
Osgood Johnson; The Reign of "Uncle
Bam" Taylor; Student Life Under
"Uncle Sam";The School and the Hill
In the Mid-Century; The Interregnum;
Frederic W. Tilton; Cecil P. F. Ban
croft: The Period of Expansion and
Reform; The Centennial Celebration;
Material Development Under Dr. Ban
croft; The Days When "Banty" Ruled;
The End of An Era; Student Societies
find Enterprises; Some Baseball Stories;
Football and Its Heroes; The Lure of
the Game; Phillips Academy In the
Twentieth Century.
Z Wonder Why, by Elizabeth Gordon. Illus
trated. CO cents. Rand, McNally & Co..
Ohlcag-e.
Mrs. Gordon's latest gift to child
hood Is a new book, In verse, called "I
"Wonder Why?"
All parents and big brothers and
sisters will recognize the significance
of the title. Children often say, when
perplexed why dolly won't behave and
why the stars won't fall from the sky;
"I Wonder Why?"
Mrs. Gordon Issues a new book for
Juveniles every now and then. The
present one is In every particular up
to the standard of excellence of Us
predecessors. Simple verses are fur
nished, each of which seem to express
a. thought which at one time or an
other Is in the mind of an Inquisitive
child.
The Illustrations are quaint and pret
ty and are in colors.
One little verse says:
The child who lives the othar Bids of moth
er's looking; gaas
BmlJes out at me whenever I see her as I
pans. '
Bho -wears my hair as I wear mine and the
same kind of clothes.
I wonder why? She thinks that mine are
pretty. 1 suppose.
Mrs. Gordon, who visited friends in
this city last Tuesday, has now in prep
aration another new book for child
hood, entitled "The Wild Flower Chil-
l-tlren." which may be issued in the Fall
or kept until next Easter. It will be a
t'"i'i i" .virs. uoraona famous "Flow
r Children." now in its 30th ediiton.
Mrs. Gordon is busy also writing songs
find one or these has been set to music
by Charles Wakefield Cad man.
American Jews and the War, by John W.
Schmidt, and Cromwell Chllde. IS cent.
Joint Distribution Committee of the Funds
for Jewish War Sufferers, 20 Exchange
f.rr, a3W 1UIJI V i I y .
It has been well named, has thin lit
tie book. It Is the eloquent story of
"the human slfle of America's outpour
ing of relief for the suffering Jews of
other countries."
The editors have done their " work
skillfully and tactfully. They have per
formed public service in Informing the
iworld of the noble work done by Amer
ican Jewry in raising more than J8.000
000 for the relief of the Jews of Europe
end in Palestine affected by the war.
.The collectors who have taken rhirr
:f the weekly collections of small sums
have been chiefly women, who usually
call at the donors' homes Sundays. It
Is related where Jews met to hear ap
peals for funds to help co-religionists,
wives even gave their wedding rings to
be turned into money, and children
their little baubles and trinkets. Men
tion is made of the princely gift of
i.uuv.uuu irom Julius Rosenwald on
condition that a certain sum was raised
tbe proviso being that for every $1,000.-
ouu collected after March 1. 1917. Mr.
Ttosenwald promised; to contribute $100,-
wuu. xne money was forthcoming.
Aia to jews nas Deen sent to them
In Russia, Poland. Austria-Hungarv
Palestine, Greece. Turkey. Syria, Egypt,
jtoumama, aervia, Bulgaria. Tunis, Al
.Tiers, Switzerland. France, Spain, etc.
' But even tbe Jew workers are not
satisfied. The cry has come from Europe
and Asia for more help. The Jews an
nounce they wish to raise $10,000,000
more.
Bnssell IT. Conwell and His Work, by Aran
Rush Burr. Illustrated. l.a5. The John
C. Winston Co., Philadelphia,
It has been a great pleasure to read
such an informing book about a great
American. Russell H. Conwell, D. D.,
the famous preacher or rnlladelphia.
His Baptist Church has a membership
of more than 3000; his great university
for busy people has a rollcall In its 27
years of 90.000 people; the hospitals he
helps; the lecture tours he undertakes .
It's all activity, restless, never-ceasing
activity.
The story is modestly, interestingly
told; 438 pages, and numerous illustra
tions. "The Family Alhnm." illustrated. Drawings
snn text oy KranK Wing. The Kellly A
Brttton Co.. Chicago.
A new book of positive fun. calculated
o win many laughs. It is another
totygraft album, supposed to be
shown to the new preacher by Re
becca Sparks Peter, aged 11 years. Miss
Rebecca is a wit. but doesn't know it.
When she describes one photo often
In terms of scorn she says: "Turn
over."
Cap'n Abe. Storekeeper, hy James A. Cooper.
Illustrated. 1.20. Sully Kieiiutelch.
New York City.
A healthy, well-sustained novel of
r Cape Cod. New England, a novel that
fairly radiates the ocean.
One Thousand Literary Questions and An
swers, by Mary Kleanor Kramer. si.
L Bully & Klelntelch, New Yorlt City.
This volume will provide teachers
of classes, in literature with material
for varying the regular lecture or rec-
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itation work. First, we have 78 pages
of questions, and then 95 pages of
answers. Quite a book of unusual In
terest. The Battle of tbe Somme. by John Buchan.
$1.60. Illustrated. Oeorge U. Ooran Co..
New Tork City.
Mr. Buchan shows the skill of the
true reporter trained to record events
as they happened, according to the
liFht and vision given him.
In bis book of 284 pages, of which
174 pages are used to tell the story of
the recent battle of the Somme, on the
French front, and the remainder from
pages- 175-264 used for military dis
patches, orderB, etc., our author is on
the British side. He shows a wonder
ful grasp of detail. He is of the opinion
that before July 1, 1916, J'erdun had
been the greatest continuous battle in
the world's history.
"But the Somme surpassed It both in
numbers of men engaged, in the tacti
cal difficulties of the objectives, and
in its Importance in the strategical
scheme of the campaign. The battle of
the Somme was no less a victory since
it achieved tbe purpose of the allies.
It relieved Verdun, and enabled Nivelle
to advance presently to conspicuous vic
tories. It detained the main German
forces on the Western front. It drew
into battle, and gravely depleted the
surplus man-power of the enemy, and
struck a shattering blow at his morale.
The allies dislocated the whole of the
enemy's military machine. The Ger
mans had claimed that their line was
Impregnable; we broke it again and
again."
Yet In tbe midst of all this lauda
tion, it is instructive to read Sir Doug
las Haiga sober opinion: "The enemy's
power has not yet been broken."
Mr. Buchan was appointed, recently,
director of publicity in Great Britain.
Elizabeth Gordon. Wk Wrote I
Wonder tjl"
His book has 35 maps, and 34 illustra
tions of war scenes.
The Story of a Toiler, By Andrew Franzen.
KOO Madison street, this city.
Here we have Quite an ambition
clever bit of literary work. The pity
oi it is inai me story is so somber and
pessimistic and deals so much with the
dark side of life.
We are treated to an Intimate de
scription of a worker's domestic life
somewhat after the style of Walt
" tinman. The tale is in ooetrv and
extends to 24 pages. Nothing so daring
has been published In this city for
a lone time.
Mr. Franzen protests and rails
against the existing social order. Yet
he says, page 6. that he is not a
Socialist, and that he has no love for
the "blood-red anarchist." He Is SI
years old, and has a wife and child.
Page 13 has this message:
Yet sometimes while Z breathe a sigh.
I think if I were God on htKh.
I'd make a better world than this.
All void of ill and full of bliss.
With plenty for each man's desire
A world which angels might admire.
Our author adds that his "workshop
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is in the paper mill." and very wisely
opines that "happiness is a state of
mind."
The Huadreth Chance, by Ethel M. Dell.
$l.SO. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York
- City.
We are informed that our author
has written such novels as "The Way
of an Eagle," "The Knave of Dia
monds," "Bars of Iron" and other
novels. But the reading world at large
does not know them well. They are
not in the ranks of-big sellers.
'Here comes a great surprise, a new
novel that is most satisfying. "The
Hundredth Chance." It is that rare
gift, a medium of delightful entertain
menta perfect, human love story.
Lady Brian is an aristocratic widow
left in Impoverished circumstances, in
England. She has a grown up daugh
ter, Maud, and an invalid son. Bunny,
who had suffered from spine trouble
since the days of babyhood, when he
had a bad fall. Maud has refused va
rious would-be-husbands, saying that
she did not love them, and is the de
spair of her match-making mother.
Maud had refused to marry Lord Salt
ash. Lady Brian, to the great wrath
of her daughter, marries a hotel-keeper.
Giles Sheppard, who Is often drunk.
A humble horsetrainer of tbe neighbor
hood, Jake Bolton, impresses Maud as
a man of silent force, a man who had
a magnetic control over horses. For
silent determination, Bolton is made up
of the Iron elements of General U. S.
Grant. One night, Sheppard gets half
drunk, and in such a fury against
Maud, that he spanks her. Furious
with pain and shame. Maud runs away
from the hotel and asks protection of
Bolton, honest soul. Bolton loves her
and persuades her to marry him. which
she does. She insists that she Is a
wife in name only.
Lord Saltash comes home and starts
making love to his old sweetheart, Mrs.
Bolton, bride. Jake Bolton discovers
that his wife and Lord Saltash love
each other, and out of this an amazing
plot follows.
Dr. Capper, an American surgeon,
cures Benny's spinal deformity.
The name or title "hundredth chance"
has a twofold meaning: Bolton's meth
od in winning His wife's affection, and
tbe name of a colt.
The creation of Mrs. Bolton, wife, is
a curious one, that of an Ul-balanced
woman. What Jake Bolton saw to
love In her. only goodness knows. She
is nearly Impossible.
Tbe World Hoax, smd tbe Tnaltlasloned
Oenlus. by C. A. Paul Dachsel. 50 cents.
Portland bookstores, and a-t 70 East 2oth
street North, this city.
Here we have two deep, studious,
thoughtful poems extending In all to
63 pages. The first is serious, not
humorous, and Just a trifle difficult to
grasp In meaning. It is like digging
into a deep well.
The first poem. "The World Hoax."
extends from pages 7 to 63. and is an
honest, well-meaning effort to decipher
the problem: "What Is Life?" There
are three characters in the poem and
each tells his own particular story
Emerson Shop, a dabbler in philoso
phy: Claude Cord, an amateur poet, and
Mike, a brewer forced into retirement
by prohibition. Tbe scene is Mr. Shop's
study In one of the larger cities of the
Pacific Coast, and time. Thanksgiving
day, 116. Mr. Shop talks the most,
and says:
All matter Is but synonym for Force.
Electrons, atoms are the fruitful source
Of all that Is or ever will exist;
Although, perhaps, to us eternal mist
Will shroud the secret of how force can act
The bard has the last word and pro
tests against "the mummeries of those
who on a mouldy wine-cask feast their
nose."
"The Disillusioned Genius" is easier
to understand. It mirrors cleverly the
musings of Don Quixote, and Is decid
edly agreeable ' to read. It extends
from pages 69 to 69.
Present-Day Europe, by T. Lathrop. Ptod
dard. X -The Century Co., New Yerk
City.
"The story of the events leading up
to the great war has been told and re
told ad nauseam, and need not be re
peated. We recollect all the moves in
the diplomatic game. We remember the
varied setting of the historic back-
ground: The rivalry of Briton and
Teuton, the feud of Teuton and Slav,
the vendetta of Gaul and German, the
Roman dream of Italy, the Balkan
bear-garden, the awakening East. This
book is not a story of current events.
It la a study of Europe's states of
mind. The point bere emphasized is
Europe's incredibly volcanic psychol
ogy when tbe cataclysm began. The
reactions of the various European peo
ples to that cataclysm will be the' sub
ject of the succeeding pages."
So writes tire author in his Introduc
tion. Following the method outlined,
and In a style of unusual trenchancy
and brilliancy, the author treats Eng
land. Germany, France, Austria, Hun
gary, Italy. Russia, the Balkan coun
tries, Turkey or the Moslem East.
Scandinavia, Belgium and Holland, and
Spain and Portugal.
Mr. Stoddard must have Tead exten
sively to get together such a mass of
condensed information. His knowledge
of books and newspapers is extensive.
He does not Indulge in any guessing
about the future of Nations. He is
rather a wise reviewer of events as
they have been, and are. "To weigh
the present and take counsel of the
past is wise," we are told.
Tbe 3mi Imw In Belgium, by Arnold
J. Toytibee. $1. Ueorge H. Doran Co.. cw
York City.
Here we have an historical record
written by a late fellow of Balliol Col
lege, Oxford, England.
Some folks doubt the truth of the
German atrocities In Belgium. This
book describes the treatment by the
Germans of Belgian people during the
first three months of the big war. The
evidence consists of first-hand state
ments. some delivered on oath before
a court, others taken down from the
witnesses without oath by competent
legal examiners, others written and
published on the witnesses' own Initi
ative, as books and pamphlets. The
revelations assert acts of brutal cruel
ty, shocking in the extreme, done in
many cases by drunken German sol
diers.
Tbe Heart of the Balkans, by Demetra Vaka.
tl.fio. Houghton. Mlflln Co.. Boston.
In private life, Demetra Vaka Is Mrs,
Kenneth Brown. To get materials for
this descriptive book of the Balkans,
she traveled recently through Albania,
Montenegro, Servia. Rumania and Bul
garia, snaring the hardships of folk in
war-ridden and partially devastated
villages, to get 'color. She talked to
many people she met in these wander
lngs, and the records of these conver
sations now presented give food for
thought. .
Tbe Livable Honse Its Garden, by Rath
Dean. 12.50. Illustrated, Moffat. Yard &
Stories and pictures, exquisitely done.
Miss Dean, a landscape architect of ex
perience, presents us with views of
aristocratic homes located in the East
ern States, many of them in New York.
Massachusetts, New Jersey, etc. There
are more than 100 pictures, full page
ones. The book is an artistic delight.
Household Organization for War Service, by
Thetta Quay Franks. SI. li. P. Putnam's
Bona, ftew i oric t;tty.
- A plain, sensible talk addressed to all
housewives, and women generally In
America. We are told about what food
will give us the most strength, about
calories, protein, etc. Advice about
home management is splendid. This
little book has a great mission for good
before it. May it succeed.
The I-lvery ef K-re. by f. W. Bain. $1.50
i. p. Putnam s Sons. Mv xork city.
Mr. Bain presents us with the grue
some, startling tale from the Hindu
about a soul that shifted its habitation
from the body of a King to that of a
common barber. A tale that will stir
the imagination.
Tbe Token Trail, by William MacLeod
Kalne. $1.35. Illustrated. Houghton,
Mifflin Co., Boston.
Delightful to read, and read again. A
story of the North, and well done. The
drawing of the character of Colby Mac
donald, Scotch-Canadian. big and
strong. Is splendid and along Viking
lines.
Tbe Man In Evening Clothes. y .Tohn Heed
iscoit. SI fro. U. P. Putnam's Sons, New
York City.
Written with great taste and tantal
Izing interest. We have a Jewelry thief
story, in which the robber Is a man in
evening dress. The conclusion reached
is Btartling. The man who tell3 the
story is an English aristocrat.
A Fool's Commentary of fterlptare and Doc
trine, by Pater Gulllelmus. So cents.
Sherman. French & Co.. Boston.
A book of "smart" would-be-funny
definitions, some of which are in ques
tionable taste. "Meanings" of many
words found in scripture are give. In
alphabetical form.
Sunday Church Services
(Contlnued From Page S)
Most Important Thing in the World?" bun
day school, 12, noon.
Y. W. C. A.
Broadway and Taylor street Vesper serv
ice, 4:ao P. M. ; letters from Miss Hnth Em
erson; subject, 'Japan.
M1SCELXAXEOCS.
"The Comforter" headquarters. Women's
Exchange building, 188 Fifth street Service
11 A. M., Rev. T. F. May, speaker; evening
service. Eilers Hall. 8 o'clock. Miss Edna
Bertsch speaker, topic. "The Joy of Toy
Lord." Special music at both services.
Penlel Mission. 2S First street Sunday
school at 10:30 A. M. : holiness meeting at
3 P. M.: sermon by Rev. F. Marlon George:
evangelistic service at 8 P. M. by Misses
W-iison and Revel).
BREAD LOSS IS TABULATED
Slice Wasted Dally In Each Home
Would Cost Crop of 470,000 Acres.
WASHINGTON. May 19. A single
slice of bread seems an unimportant
thing. Yet one good-size slice of bread
.such as a child liKea to cut weighs
an ounce. It contains almost three
fourths of an ounce of flour.
If every one of the country's 20,000,
000 homes wastes on the average only
one such slice of bread a day the coun
try is throwing away daily more than
14,000.000 ounces of flour more than
875.0000 pounds, or enough flour for
1,000.000 one-pound loaves a day. For
a full year at this rate there would be
a waste of 819.000,000 pounds of flour
1.500,000 barrels of flour enough to
make 36S.000.000 loaves.
Fourteen and nine-tenths bushels of
wheat on the average are raised per
acre. It would take the fruit of some
470,000 acres Just to provide a single
slice of bread to be wasted dally in
every home. .
WIFE, BABY MURDERED
Love for Another Woman Prompts
Husband to Commit Crime.
DUBUQUE, la.. May 20. At Benton,
Wis.. 15 miles east of Dubuque, H. C.
Campbell, an ore hauler in the sine
mines, confessed to murdering his wife
and 18-months-old daughter. He pushed
the wife Into a water-filled mine shaft
and threw the child in after her and
stood on the brink of the shaft until
their bodies disappeared. Tbe bodies
were discovered by boys playing about
the shaft.
Infatuation for a Dubuque woman.
Campbell alleged, prompted him to com
mit the crime. Neighbors had supposed
the mother and child Were on a visit
to relatives.
MEN PROMINENT IN WAR, RED CROSS AND
LETTERS CAUGHT BY NEWS PHOTOGRAPHERS
Robert S. Lovett, Chairman of Board of Directors f 'Union Pacific, Volunteers for Red Cross Work England
Appoints Commander to Advise Leader of American North Sea Fleet.
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ROBKRT S. LOVETT, chairman of
the board of directors of the
Union Pacific, has offered his
services of H. P. Davidson, at the head
of the Red Cross, and they have been
accepted. Judge Lovett's son has vol
unteered to go as an aviator. '
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Henry Bruere, formerly City Cham
berlain of New Tork, has gone to Mex
ico, and it is reported that he has been
commissioned by the Mexican govern
ment to revise Its system in the various
departments at Mexico City.
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Commander E. R. G. R. Evans has
been detailed to advise Admiral Sims,
commander of the American torpedo
flotilla now operating In the North
Sea He was in command of the
"Broke" when she and another de-
SUSPENSE INTENSE WHEN "SUB"
LAUNCHES TORPEDOES AT SHIP
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White Salmon Man Writes Friend of Experience on Board Liner Rocham
beau, Which Escaped Two Torpedoes and Shot at Diver.
WHITE SALMON. Wash., June 3
(Special.) A most Interesting
communication has just been
received by Wade H. Dean, of White
Salmon, from his former associate,
"Jack" B. Carey, commandant of one
of the units of the American Ambu
lance Service, now in France. In this
communication he gives his personal
Impressions when the transatlantic
liner Rochambeau was attacked by a
submarine, Just before reaching the
other side. Also Is given his Impres
sions of "Bleeding France."
Mr. Carey writes in part as follows:
"I send you yesterday's Paris edition
of the' New Tork Herald, giving an
account of our submarine episode; also
an outline of the Impressions made on
me. as taken from my diary. I wish
some of my pacifist friends might have
been on hoard with me and experienced
the uncanny cunning of the devils and
the plans they made to make certain
of sinking the Rochambeau with its
passenger list of over ISO. It Is beyond
words to describe.
"We are kept pretty busy, 21 In our
unit, geting our equipment ready; we
are waiting for cars to form a new
unit; the ambulance bodies have to be
built, although the cars are at Havre.
It will probably be three or four weeks
before we go 'out there, and our uni
forms will not be ready for a week or
ten days.
French Soldiers Sturdy.
"1 wish you could see the French
soldiers; sturdy, stocky men, trained to
the minute. It is no wonder they have
held the Huns and can take a rap at
them pretty often now. But France is
sad; it is pathetic to see the-women In
black. They are wonderful, too, and
can be seen working everywhere.
"In the train I got Into conversation
with a Frenchman and his wife, and
conveyed to them what America was
doing for the allied cause. She cried
and said that France was bleeding to
death, but would conquer, and cried for
Joy that America was with her now.
When -we got up to go back to our
compartment she kissed the four of us
on both cheeks, sayinsr It was for
France, kissing America for what she
was doing to help France. It was im
pressive and symbolic of the French
spirit. Should not such an Incident
make America glad to help people with
such Impulsive thankfulness?"
Then follows his diary account of the
attack on tbe Rochambeau:
' Hoc ham beau Is Attacked.
"A few minutes before 3 I had gone
into the writing-room to drop a line to
friends, to let them know we had come
through without Incident, being then
about two hours from land. I had no
sooner gotten this far than the first
shot rang 'out. which it afterward
turned out had been fired at the tor
pedo. 'I rushed out on -deck In time to see
the torpedo disappearing. having
passed 25 feet behind the stern of the
ship and going through the water like
a streak. Realizing this was all to be
seen on that side of the ship. I went to
the port side, and could see apparently
nothing. In tbe meantime we had
swung around, bringing the sub imme
diately astern.
"Two of our boys happened to be
looking at the spot where a school of
porpoises had been playing and saw
something pop up out of tbe water and
back under. Just as a porpoise' Jumping
toward you might appear. An instant
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stroyer defeated six German destroyers
In an engagement. He was an officer
of the Scott expedition to the South
Pole.
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One of the first results of the as
sumption of the direction of the Red
Cross by H. P. Davidson was the ap
pointment of Harvey D. Gibson, presi
dent of the Liberty National Bank, to
be chairman of tbe New York County
chapter. It is expected that he will be
In charge of the branch office In New
Tork, which will have the shipping of
supplies abroad.
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8. R. Bertron Is one of the commis
sion to Russia appointed by the Presi
dent. He is a New Tork banker of
prominence.
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- The world of literature suffered a
loss In the death, recently, of Adrian
later a white wake was rushing for
the ship from a distance not over 250
yards, and appearing to be going to
strike us amidships.
Second Torpedo Misses.
"Providentially the ship's rig-rag
course had been changed simultane
ously with the firing of the torpedo,
and by the time It had reached where
thes hip would have been the stern
had barely swung clear.
"All this happened so quickly that no
one thought of danger, and all hands
were anxious to see the sub. No ob
servation point was overlooked from
20 feet up in the rigging to anything
else that promised a clear view. Up to
this time the stern gun had not fired
a shot.
"In a few minutes the sub started to
submerge under headway; the peri
scope apparently telescoped and possi
bly a foot of the conning tower and a
couple of feet of her bow showing, and
not over one-fourth of a mile away in
line with pur stern.
"Rogers' and I were standing togeth
er, he having his glasses on it. and both
of us shouting. 'Why in hell don't they
firef the conning tower being in full
view. The sub had part'y submerged
again. After an apparently endless
wait the stern gun opened fire, the
first shot going wide of the mark, but
the second seemed to hit plumb over
the cut-water of the periscope and
caused a violent explosion, and the
water was colored instead of white.
"The body under water seemed to
continue Its momentum and the gun
continued to pour four more shots into
It; then the moving object seemed to
discontinue its momentum and the
water behind seemed flecked and
broken; then all was quiet, we of
course getting farther away and stllj
zig-zagging.
Suspense la Indescribable.
During all this experience the help
less suspense was almost Indescribable;
my throat was parched and I could
hardly swallow; my heart beat like a
triphammer, but mentally I felt per
fectly calm. The feeling of suspense
held oo by the fact that we fully ex
pected another sub to be in the vicinity
to make sure of getting us. as the Ro
chambeau was a great prize for them to
get. the cargo being worth about $17.
000.000. we were told, and the ship in
war time worth around $5,000,004 and
loaded with munitions and supplies.
"As far as we knew, nothing further
happened. There was constant cheer
ing and 'singing of 'The Marseillaise'
until on the horizon patrol boats began
to dot the sea, and when tbe first one
came alongside was the first minute
we really felt safe. About an hour later
we passed the lighthouse at the mouth
of the Gironde.
MLaM Swept Away.
"Before leaving Bordeaux we had an
opportunity to learn from an Influen
tial gentleman connected with the Du
ponts in the service of the French gov
ernment that the patrol boats had
dragged the scene of our exploit and
picked np two mines and two torpedoes,
showing that we were meant for Davy
Jones' locker as certainly as the Huns
could possibly plan, and that grease and
oil were found on the surface, making
the sinking of Fritz a certainty.
"I mention my feelings without any
qualms, as soldiers aboard, four ef
whom had been decorated from three to
five times for bravery, said they felt
about the same way. There Is some
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J?.s.JLcye.
Schade Van Westrum, one of the most
noted literary critics In America. A
native of Amsterdam. Mr. Vn Westrum
came to this country more than SO
years ago. Son of a family widely
known In Hollarrd. he had received a
broad education and achieved a mas
tery of many languages. He had stud
ied the literature of many countries;
and he arrived in the United Statee
thoroughly equipped for one of the most
exacting of professions. His first work
was done on "Book Chat." Afterward
he was connected editorially with "The
Critic" and other literary publications,
and with the book departments of daily
newspapers, becoming five yearn ago
the assistant literary critic of the
Tribune. He succeeded about a year
later to the control of the literary page,
which he conducted In a way to com
mand the respect of the literary as well
as the publishing world.
thing about one's jutter helplessness
that ma.Mccount for iC
"The article mentioned by Mr. Carey
as being in the Herald, tallies very
closely with his detailed description. It
recounts an amusing incident of the
voyage across from New Tork to
France.
"During one of the boat drills the
passengers were highly iraiiwil by tbe
appearance of a tall negro parson In a
missionary's black frock coat and trou.
sers. He carried a life belt. The Amer
ican ambulance boys spotted him and he
had to run the gauntlet of their cam
eras. Nothing more was seen of hint
after that until the first gun was fired
at the submarine. Then he came up
once more from the depths of the ship,
still in full black, but his suit was na
ture's own. At the shout of derieion
he disappeared again below. The Her
ald article was written by Burr Price,
of the New Tork Herald editorial staff,
while on board. Just after the French
liner encountered the German subma
rine within sight of the French coast.
Incidentally we notice that the price of
the Paris edition . of the Herald is 15
cents; abroad, 25 cents."
SUBWAY CAVE-IN FATAL
Workman Cauglit Under Iebrl
"When Shoring Gives Way.
NEW TORK, May 23. One loan wss
killed and six were injured when 100
feet of tbe shoring of the subway ex
cavation in St. Felix street, at the cor
ner of Hanson place. Brooklyn, col
lapsed. All of the property damage
was confined to the two buildings at
the corner, 145 and 147 St. Felix street,
the front walls of which ripped off and
fell Into the cut. No damage was done
to Hanson place, although a consider
able section of the roadway Immediate
ly. in front of the Hanson Place Metho
dist Church was precipitated into the
hole.
The mortality at first was supposed
to have been much greater, as a num
ber of workmen employed by the Cran
ford Construction Company, contrac
tors for this part of the subway, were
caught by the deluge of brick, earth,
and timbers. It required two hours to
release the last of the trapped labor
ers, and then It was determined that
only one man. an Italian known as
Domintck. had been killed.
Six Injured men were taken to the
Brooklyn Hospital.
Mrs. Margaret Sheppard, Miss Lil
lian Holland and Miss Mary Kllburn,
who were working In a laundry In the
basement of 147 St. Felix street, had
a narrow escape when their front wall
was stripped off. They were buried
under a pile of debris, but were not
seriously hurt.
Harry E. Lewis, District Attorney of
Kings County, and representatives of
the Public Service Commission and the
fire department are making an inves
tigation of the accident.
CHEAPER FOOD PREDICTED
Chicago Banker Thinks Government
lias Stopped Speculators.
CHICAGO. May JO. George M. F.ey
nolds. president of the Continental &
Commercial National Bank, returned
recently from California with the pre
diction that food prices soon will drop.
"I belitve the firm stand of the Gov
ernment, the attitude of the leading
food men of the country and the aroused
public interest have done much to allay
anxiety." he said.
"The sooner the hoarding of food
articles ceases the quicker will prices
go down."
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