THE SUNDAY OKEGONIAN, - PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 16, 1917.
HOBBOR OF U-BOAT
WAR VIVIDLY TOLD
PORTLAND VISITOR WHO WAS UNITED STATES CONSUL AT
QUEENSTOWN WHEN THE LUSITANIA SANK.
Ex-Consu! Frost, of Queens
town, Reveals How Lusi
tania Met Fate.
SLAUGHTER IS MERCILESS
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clares "Coyotes of Ocean" De
light to Kill Victims Who
Are Unable to Escape.
ATI spindrift and great sullen waves,
with a chill wind driving over the vast
immensity of ocean. The open boat,
with its freigrht of perishing passen
gers and sailors, is drenched with
spray and tossed like a toy at the
caprice of the eea. It is an hour since
the unseen submarine launched its tor
pedo and the ship went down. Land Is
a hundred miles away in the murk, and
death will tak; its toll again and again
before the boat i beached.
Such a picture is the mildest, the
kindest in treatment and tone, that
"Wesley Frost. ex-Consul of the United
States at Queenstown, Ireland, has to
offer in his ghastly gallery of German
"kultur" at Bea. There are others,
vivid word sketches from which the
hearer shrinks as at unendurable hor
rors. Yet none are overdrawn, for
Wesley Frost was Consul when the
boats brought the dead of the Lusi
tania to Queens town, and when the
highway of ocean traffic off the Irish
coast was rife with daily enormities.
' Actual Conditions Recited.
As a special representative of the
committee on general information, of
which George Creel is chief at Wash
ington, D. C, Mr. Frost is touring the
Northwest. He arrived in Portland yes
terday and delivered an address at the
noon luncheon of the Oregon Civic
League. His mission is to present the
submarine situation as it is, that Amer
icans may realize, by the word of one
who interrogated hundreds of surviv
ors, the appalling horror of German
frisrhtfulness at sea.
Reft of all gallantry and romance of
war at sea. to ex-Consul Frost the Ger
man U-boats are "coyotes of the ocean,"
and the crude cruelty of their com
manders is remindful of "the loath
some tomfoolery of a troop of playful
gorillas."
Of the Lusitania's sinking and the
scenes which subsequently transformed
Queenstown to such a stage of dark
drama as the world never had wit
nessed, Mr. Frost told his auditors at
the Civic League. Lantern slides of the
survivors and the dead of the Lusi
tania. of great ships going down at sea,
the water dotted with struggling men.
women and children, were flashed as
he talked.
'The scenes in the improvised morgue
at Queenstown were unendurable." said
Mr. Frost, "when friends and relatives
sought their dead. I saw one woman
recognize her sister. And the sister,
cold in death, clasped in her arms the
bodies of her twin babies. I saw the
face of Charles Frohman, with that
emile yet upon it that he wore when
he undertook the 'last great adventure.
Upon the faces of many was a. curiously
puzzled and aggrieved look, a-t though
some friend had played a rude joke they
did not understand.
Corpseei Piled Illch.
I saw the ghastly procession of
rescue vessels as they landed the living
and dead that night under the flaring
gas torches along the Queenstown
waterfront. Boat after boat came out
of ' the darkness, discharging bruised
and shuddering women, maimed and
half naked men, and a few wide-eyed
little children whose innocent minds
were wrestling blankly with this
strange new manifestation of life. Piles
of corpses, like cordwood, grew higher
and higher among the coils of ropes
and ships' stores on the dark old
quays."
Three masterpieces of German sub
marine f rightfulness, said Mr. Frost,
were the sink in g of vessels without
warning, the sinking after nightfall,
and the refusal to give towage to boats
of survivors, abandoned without re
source hundreds of miles from land.
The attitude of commanders, in their
callous disregard for the lives of women
and children was termed "a consum
mate manifestation of savagery."
He told of boatloads of survivors,
seeking only to comply with the de
mands of the submarine officers, and
leave the vicinity of their sinking ship,
who were shelled in lunatic sport by
the gunners of "kultur"; of women and
children who died in the dark and cold,
and of the mutilated flotsam that the
sea cast upon the coast as tribute to
the efficacy of the submarine.
Columbia Hishway Viewed.
T have been telling you these revolt
ing things, not idly, but because it is
my earnest conviction that you have
a right to have them brought vividly
and unforgettably to your attention."
said Mr. Frost, in conclusion. "The
American flag today is streaming from
our. warships on those horror-sick
waters, and it is you who must main
tain it there and see that it shall even
tually brighten into triumph."
Luring his stay in Portland Mr.
Frost, who is a graduate of Oberlin
College, met several former classmates
as well as friends from his boyhood
home at Berea, Ky., where his father
is president of Berea University. At
the conclusion of his address he was
taken over the Columbia Highway as
the guest of Mrs. Elliott Corbett on
behalf of the Oregon Civic League.
Mr. Frost left last night for San
Francisco, where Monday night he will
speak before a mass meeting.
COLLEGE WORK ATTRACTS
Inquiries at Agricultural Institution
More Numerous Than Ever.
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE,
Corvallis. Sept. lo. (Special.) Inter
est in college attendance throughout
Oregon is more general this year than
ever before, as indicated by the corre
spondence reaching the registrar's of
fice to date. Many letters contain ere
dentials of new entrants, more than 40
having arrived last Saturday.
Many other letters make inquiries of
some phase of Oregon Agricultural Col
lege work, the average mail being
about 50 to 60 letters daily. This phase
of the work has grown so much that
it has become necessary to detail two
clerks Instead of one. as heretofore, to
attend to this part of the correspond
ence. Sweet Home Physician Is Officer.
LEBANON, Or., Sept. 15. (Special.)
Tr. Ivan Bellinger, who was a star
football player at Willamette Univer
sity some half dozen years ago, and
who has been practicing medicine at
Sweet Home. Or., for the last four
years, has received a commission In the
medical department of the Nattional
Army and expects to be called Into the
service at any time.
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DEATH IS FELT DUTY
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert's
Note Explains Suicide.
MIND SHATTERED BY WORK
Tender Message Left for Family
Declaring That Inability to Go
to Front With Troops De
mands Sacrifice of Life.
Lieutenant-Colonel H. H. Robert,
Corps of Engineers, United States
Army, who was found dead in bed on
August 31, at - Vancouver Barracks,
Wash., as a result of a gunshot wound.
elf-inflicted, was an officer of wide
experience and of high professional at
tainments. Immediately after gradua
tion from West Point in 1904 he was
commissioned a Second Lieutenant in
the Corps of Engineers, and assigned
to duty in the Philippine Islands in re
sponsible charge of engineer work. His
close application to the difficult work
in that unhealthy tropical climate un
dermined his health to such an extent
that he never entirely recovered from
the effects of it.
Upon the completion of his tour f
tion as I have, but I must think of my
country, my corps and my regiment
TROOP A MAN AND HIS BRIDE, WHOSE WEDDING WAS
SOLEMNIZED ON EVE OF DEPARTURE FOR CAMP GREEN.
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foreign service he was placed in
charge of the construction of The
Dalles-Celilo Canal, a work which it
was his dream to carry to completion.
While at Fort Riley his health com
pelled him to be taken to the hospitaL
He would not remain under the doc
tor's care, but accepted a commission
as Lieutenant-Colonel of the Fourth
Engineers, stationed at Vancouver Bar
racks, Wash. He proceeded at onoe
from the hospital and took command
of the Fourth Regiment of Engineers
on August 24. His death occurred one
week later.
He was a man with the highest sense
of honor and duty, and no greater
tribute to those sterling qualifications
could be paid than his own interpreta
tion of them, written in a letter left
by him on the day before his death.
"VANCOUVER BARRACKS. Aug. 31.
Realizing, after consultation with
the surgeon without my request, that 1
am in a state of .mental and nervous
exhaustion, I believe that I am more
of -a menace than a help to the regi
ment. The doctor says that I am a
nervous and mental wreck from inten
sive work and worry for the past four
years or more.
'Being unable to bring myself to as
sume responsibility for the lives and
welfare of so many others and the suc
cess of military operations, I feel that
I can best give my life for my country,
my corps and my regiment by remov
ing myself from a position where my
condition, brought about by years of
nerve-exhausting work for my country,
may prove disastrous to our cause.
God knows I hate to leave such a posi-
even at the expense of my own life and
my family's welfare. As I stand before
my Creator. I believe I am doing the
best thing for my country at the great
est sacrifice in the world to me and
my dear wife and boy. The surgeons
have ordered a change for me, I am
sure In my own interest, and I have
tried to collect and muster together my
nervous energy with a view to reach
the goal of my ambition active serv
ice at the front and, O God, how I re
gret to lose it! But I cannot bear to
give up and remain behind when others
go to the front.
"I want all my effects and my estate
to go to my darling wife for herself
and the boy.
"My God, how I hate to leave this!
God knows I am doing what I feel my
duty to my country. - I am a nervous
wreck, and have exhausted my energy
in the service of our country before the
time now making such demands that
I'd dearly love to face.
"God help m v precious family.
(Signed) "HENRY H. ROBERT."
PEAR CROP BELOW NORMAL
Hood River Yield or Bartletts and
Dairying Is Reduced.
HOOD RIVER. Or., Sept. 15. fSpe
cial. With the harvest of Bartletts
winding" up, local growers are just be
ginning to pick and haul to sales
agrency warehouses D'Anjou pears. The
yield of both varieties has been far
less than last year. While the Apple
Growers' Association " shipped 20 car
loads of Bartletts last season, this
year's crop will be less than 15. Forty
cars of D'Anjous, sent chiefly to the
Sr.uth American market, where fancy
prices were received, were shipped last
year. Not over 20 cars are expected
by the association this season.
Miss Helen Axelson and Clay Elwood
Walborn surprised their many relatives
and friends by their marriage on Mon
day, September 3, which was solem
nized in St. Helens. Private Walborn,
of Troop A, was on duty in St. Helens,
owing to the L W. W. troubles, and
his fiancee joined him there. They
were married in the Courthouse by
the presiding judge. Mr. Walborn
is a son of Mrs. Edna R. Dobbins, ma
tron of the County Jail, in Portland,
and he is now in training at Camp
Green, Charlotte, N'. C. As soon as he
learns where he is to be stationed his
bride will join h.m.
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CITY URGED TO HELP
Support Held Necessary
if
Livestock Show Continues.
PRIME NEED IS MONEY
Emery Olmstead Points Out That
Portland Allows Exhibition of
Great Value Practically to
Shift for Itself.
"If Portland cares to have the Pa
cific International Livestock Show con
tinued here the community will have
to support the Institution better than
ast year, said Emery oimsieaa.
chairman of the Oregon development
Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce,
yesterday.
"A great livestock industry has been
brought to the city,' continued Mr.
Olmstead. "With a packing industry,
as established elsewhere, there has al
ways gone a large, successful livestock
show. These shows are pronounced by
experts the most useful single effort
made to develop production of more and
better stock. They prove a powerlui
incentive to the breeders, standards of
the highest type are developed and in
formation about the same given wide
distribution, and the public as a whole
is led through the workings or the
shows to come into close contact with
the industry and lend the' hand need
ed in making a great mausiry.
; "Portland received her large pack
ing industry without bonus or aid from
local sources. The industry nas result
ed in clearing through tne DanKs oi
this community tens of millions oi dol
lars a year. Since this initial step by
heavy capital, this has become the chief
center of the entire Northwest for the
livestock industry.
"Since the industry came unaided we
are prone to let it fight out all devel
opment problems alone. This is a mis
take, especially when we consider the
future.
"Last year we left the Pacific Inter
national to fight its battles practically
alene. The livestock interests nave de
cided that they will suspend the show
until Portland shows ita active inter
est in Its maintenance. This year we
must begin manifesting such interest.
The first step in such procedure is to
srn out and secure the needed funds
f riT- the show.."
. a meeting of the finance committee
named by Mr. dlmstead is to be held
Monday noon in the rooms of the
Chamber of Commerce, Oregon build
ing. Fifth and Oak streets, to start
the campaign for funds. At 2 o'clock
following this meeting, there is to be
a meeting of the stockmen, breeders
and local business men to perfect
roorranization of the Pacific Interna-
tir.r.ai and to lay all plans for the
great work of the future.
TEACHER HAS HIGH RECORD
I. K. Tressler. Chemistry Instructor
o . C. Comes From TJ. S. Bureau.
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE,
Corvallis, Sept. 13. (Special.) D. K.
Tressler, newly appointed instructor in
agricultural chemistry at Oregon Agri
cultural College, holds the record as
the vountrest graduate of the Michigan
Agricultural College, where he took his
bachelor degree at me ago oi 10. ne
then was made chemist of the Pennsyl
vania Salt Company, or wyandotte.
Mich., and later teacher of chemistry
in the Flint High Schools. He was next
assistant chemist at the Ohio experi
ment station, which position he gave
up to take three years of graduate
work in agricultural chemistry in the
Graduate School of CornelL During
this time he taught chemistry at Cor
nell. He went from Cornell to the
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United States Bureau of Soils, as chem
ist, which position he resigned to come
to Oregon. He has considerable repu
tation as a writer for popular and sci
entific periodicals, such as Country
Gentleman, Kimball's Dairy Farmer and
the Ohio Farmer. He will succeed Pro
fessor R. A. Dutcher, resigned.
Johnny Wilhelm Objects to
''German Thrusts."
"Kaiser" Hopes Some Yankee Soon
Will Take a Shot at Other Kaliter
' So Portland Soldier Boy Will
Have Some Chance nt Happinena.
TACOMA, Wash.. Sept. 15. (Special.)
There are hosts of Bill Joneses
and George Smiths at Camp Lewis, but
merely one "Kaiser" "Wilhelm, and he
is from Portland as a member of pro
visional Field Hospital, Company B.
'Kaiser" Wilhelm objects to the name
given to him. He, too, is a big man
and believes that he should be entitled
to fame, but he does not "care to have
it confused with that of his enemy, the
ruler of all the Teutons.
Kaiser" Wilhelm is in training at
Camp Lewis, just so that he can get
back at the old German who mars his
happiness, although as yet their laun
dry and grocery bills have not become
confused. He, with his company, ex
pects to leave this week for Allentown,
Pa., where he will get further training
before going overseas, to get a crack
at the man who has stolen his trade
mark.
Im not a German, anyhow, and,
doggone it, everyone kind of sniffs and
says: 'Are your sympathies really with
the allies, Mr. Wilhelm? complains
Kaiser." "My rather was Swiss and
I'm proud of my Swiss blood, but I
don't want to be called a German. Now,
really don't object to being called
Kaiser Wilhelm, because I have had
the nickname ever since I was a little
chap. The fellows out here know how
stand on the war proposition, and I
get aiona all right, but, hang it all. I
would be happier if some Yankee would
get a shot at the other Kaiser."
'Kaiser Wilhelm s real name is John
Wilhelm and his home is in Portland.
He is known throughout the West as
the champion golf player of the Uni
versity of Oregon and a brother of
Rudolph Wilhelm, holder of Northwest
champion gold records.
TWO CHINESE AT 0. A. C.
Both
' Students Are Registered
Forestry Department.
In
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
Corvallis, Sept. 15. (Special.) Among
the foreign students arriving here are
two Chinese indemnity selections. These
students are educated in American in
stitutions on scholarships provided out
of the remitted Boxer indemnity, and
last year was the first time that any
of them stopped at 'a Western institu
tion, having preferred Harvard, Yale
and other leading Eastern universities.
: One man registered in forestry here
last year and this year returns, bring
ing with him another forestry student.
Many of the foreign and territorial rep
resentatives had not learned of the
postponement of the opening to Octo
ber 8 and made hurried Journey to be
on time for registration next Monday.
CHROME ORE BEING MINED
War Prices Slakes Concentrating of
Iron More Profitable.
GRANTS PASS. Or, Sept. 15. (Spe
cial.) The Dorothea mine, owned by
Mrs. J. K. Pteddy. of Medford. and oper
ated under lease by S. S. Wolf son. is
successfully concentrating chrome ore.
believed to be the first such process in
this state.
The strong demand for this metal for
war purposes has stimulated its pro
duction during the last year. The
Dorothea has been worked as a gold
property and was fully equipped with
concentration plant for that purpose,
but the chrome market has made it
more profitable to turn attention to the
iron capping, which is now being mined
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exclusively. The market is Niagara
Falls and Pittsburg, Pa. Sales are
made on the basis of $105 per ton for a
50 per cent ore.
STUDENTS ATTEND COURT
Law Class of High School Witness
Municipal Judge's Methods.
A much larger audience than usual
attended the proceedings In Judge
George Rossman's court " yesterday
morning:. Among: others, a class of
elementary law students from a local
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Mis Myra Banka, Principal, Room 711
Corbett Bids- 10-.3O-12 A. M. Dally.
Transportation X urnisbed to and From City.
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high school was present, together with
the instructors.
Harry Kelley, a youth charged with
the larceny of an automobile, waived
preliminary examination and was held
to the grand jury.
Joe Ettinger and Gaorge Franklin
were fined $2.50 each for driving a junk
wagon without a license. Patrolman
A. C. Anundson made the complaint.
W. Louie pleaded guilty to conduct
ing a lottery game, and was fined $35.
A. G. Spaniel, charged with visiting the
game, was dismissed. Officers Sebum
and Spaugh made the arrests.
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