The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, November 21, 1914, Image 9

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Newspaper Page TextPORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY EVENING, " NOVEMBER 21ir'191' GERMAN MINES AND SUBMARINES HAVE GERMAN CONSORT OF HOLLAND'S QUEEN IS . CALLED TO ACCOUNT VERY SHARPLY, BY THE COUNSELLORSlTH THE QUEErf PRESENT TAKEN HEAVY TOLL FROM BRITISH NAVY iN WATERS SURROUNDING THE BRITISH ISLES Blowing Up of the Superdreadnaught "Audacious Kept a Secret for Long Time by British Admiralty, but News . Finally Came Out Through Passengers on Olympic, Prince Henry of Mecklenburg -Schwerin Too Friendly With German Officers Interned for War;- ' Netherlands re the Fate of Belgium. . ; Does Not Want to Sha ; i LATEST BRITISH SEA LOSS AND MAF OF DISASTERS 4 Despite' denials of British officials' and the silence of the British war of fice, Itts now known that the super drcadnaught Audncioim, one of the big . Idttloxhlpa of theBrittHh navy, was -llown up by a rwlne or a torp-do off the north count of IrHanrf, Ortobr 27. Her crew w ri-KCiiefl by the White Star liner Olympic, which carried a 'large number of paKnensers. They .were' kept from going ubhore for five days and before they were permitted to land they had to promise they - would net aay a word about the disas ter. - .The map shows the location of ""mines In the North sea and points .where British war vesHels have been truck by them or torpedoed by sub marine of the German navy. A rough ly Indicates the IlriUnh mine area, and B the German mine area. The British cruisers Haw he (1) and Pathfinder (2) wsre'sunk off the Scottish coast In the North sea. The Hogue (3), Creasy THE EVENING STORY , THE MARSHALLS Copyright, 1914, by W. Werner. ROSEMONT is a pleasant little sub urb, but Its residents are not oVer - burdened with cash. They bought their homes many years ago. via the . monthly payment plan. An artistic real estate man laid Rosemont out and, then sold It for considerable profit, so , that he now is able to live on Long Island himself. By the time that most of them got through paying they were a bit exhausted and didn't care much ; that front yards needed lawn seed and back yards needed fences and parlors needed curtains and houses needed paint. Everybody shambled along and " lived as romfortable as they could, and talked about what a pretty place Rose mont would be when they all got to 1 ' getter and "fixed up." ' Then the Marshalls moved out there. The family consisted of Mrs. Marshall, i a pale, tired, elegant woman; Mr. Mar shall, a . sallow, petulant, stately man; . Alice Marshall, aged 16, a slim, pale ' girt, whose underclothes were hand embrofdered and whose shoes wero f made to order; Robert Marshall, a lira, silent boy of 14, whose expensive "Then he up and confessed." wardrobe awed Rosemont. . where 'patched pants and resoled shoes were the, correct costume for young men of bis ace! Before three days elapsed Rosemont Was flushing with shame and feeling the stings of ' poverty as It had never , felt tbera In all its laboring but un- sensitive past. The" Marshalls had bought the old Lane place, a shabby, large bouse. In It they moved two Carloads of mahogany furniture, ori ental rugs of every beautiful, -dull shade, ""cut glass," tall.- expensive Vases, Imported lace curtains and im ported silk curtains. Rosemont gasped Rosemont sometimes had lace at bar- gain sale ; prices snd sometimes had I'- silk, .mostly mercerized. But no single ' bouse In 'Rosemont ever flaunted the two at once. The Marshalls had other things which Rosemont seldom saw ex NO, MRS. BUNGALOW'S NOT CRAZY 1 -. , ' ;7;- V) JQ 0-V '. Wrong again.. -The lady's not llke' Per,:nndetaQd8 l. LJew dre68. n one (3) and Ahoukir . (3) were sunn by a Oernwn submarine off the Dutch coast. The Amphion (4 ) was sunk off tiro Kngllh coast and the Hermes .ri) and the Niger (Si were unk in the Knglish Channel. The point where the British superdreadrtought Audacious is' re ported to 'have teen sunk is indh atel by 7. ' " : . . The Audacious was 596 feet over oA and" ner displacement was ,24,000 .tons. Her engines, with a Horsepower of 31, 000, pave liera speed of 22.1 fcnota She was put .In, commission two years ago and ranked wJth the Ajax, Centur ion, and King George V. She was Krupp armored, with a - fj Inch" belt amidships, tapering to .four Inches at bow and stern. ' " She carried 10 13.5inch guns, lo cated In pairs in the turrets, aii on the centerMine; 16 four inch runs in casements In the superstructure1, 14 of which were forward ami four aft. She had five 21 Inch , torpedo tubes sub merged in the stern and broadside. cept In department store windows or on the stage. And the stage ' was mostly the "movies" decanters, stat uary, lovely upholstered, wicker furni ture for the porches, a bed hammock, oil paintings that Rosemont' looked at a bit sullenly .they were so very big and the frames were so" very goldly and wide. And all the other articles that you'd like to buy if you had money. . Rosemont looked and was cast down. In a week it knew that it was shabby and poor and shiftless, , "Just shiftless, that's the only word,' said Mrs. Cary bitterly, first to Jennv Cary, who retorted, "Mamma, I, got to have new hair ribbons.. I'm sick. 1 was so . ashamed yesterday. Alice Marshall has got 'em 12 Inches wide, and she wears different ones' every day." And Mr. Cary retorted, "I know it. But I don't see how I can do .any airrerent. with the high cost of llv ing and there's always 20 bookkeepers to take a fellow's place if he asks for a raise." And then Mr. Cary, stoop shouldered and with hair getting gray, rushed to the "L" and enviously saw Mr. Marshall swing down the avenue In a glistening new roadster. Bo Mrs. Cary said it again to Mrs. Wilson across the street, who said In reply. "Sure we're shiftlesB. And Door I told Mr. Wilson 15 years ago to buv some lots by the river and now he could have been rich. But will a man ever take a woman's advice? No, my dear, aid ypvr see their dining room wall paper? It cost $2 a roll if It cost a cent. I Just cried last night. But. goodness, what's the use of papering our dining room when the paint has all peeled off outside of the house, and goodness knows when we'd ever buy the paint, let alone getting it on." Which tirade somehow comforted both Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Cary. The Marshalls were not purse-proud nor' stand-offish. They were friendly, sociable, almost wistfully sociable it seemed. jOtherwise Rosemont could have solaced Itself by ignoring them. But Mrs. Marshall joined' the Ladles' Civic club and paid her dues three years in advance. Mr. Marshall wan generous with seat room in his, road ster, and Baker, Cary and others saved "L" fare once or twice a week. Alice Marshall never seemed to know that she was in a class apart from the other high school girls. Robert Marshall stone kept to himself . and evidently didn't like to spoil his expensive clothes by playing with the other boys. Yet for all the Marshall's condescen sion they never quite bridged the dis tance between themselves and the others, A gap remained. And it was a gap lined with envy, walled with mean feeltaig and floored with discon tent. The folks of Rosemont had, of course, always known that the world held rich, satisfied people, but they had never been brought in such close contact before. And the envy which had been abstract with luxury a long way off became specifically rankling with heavy luxury stuck under Rose mont's nose. Rosenfont at first tried to Improve Itself, but very soon sat down idly. It simply didn't bave the money, it was all Rosemont could do to buy going' through a new series of reducing Trei3 . Knt at ail Vnn ean't PerfecUy, although Bungalow, like that any. oman could understand. IIHBIHI IHIBIIUM . mm irtgfc I i I . . ' v -.-j.......... -.r-. -rv.T r -air.f ilTMl W lTfi i T tw r if. lac. tjij jjf 1 1 II I tllll ill I moiograpii vjopyrisrn oy inicrna-i fc - - --- . Ha .. ttJt r I . 1 h " i 'f - ' . rr-i ajrk 1 s f-r jAriAtr . H I iionai. news dci t iui:. , i . . ,, jjnmnnw. j --yjv tnintmnrt jg i ' j" S 'TO . I - ZiiSt of British Losses. Here is a list of British w'ar vessels , sunk by mines or sub marine since tbe outbreak of the war: Amphion,' light cruiser, sunk by mine August- 6. 131 lives lost. . Speedy, torpedo gunboat, sunk by mine September 3. Pathfinder, light cruiser, sunk by submarine September 6.; 250 . dead. Wounded and missing, ' Aboukir, ' Ilogue and Cressy, cruisers, sunk .by submarine in North sea September 22; 1400 lives lost. Hawke, light cruiser, sunk by submarine October 15; 387 lives lost. . Niger, torpedo gunboat, sunk by submarine in the Downs No vember 12; no lives lost. Hermes, light cruiser, sunk by submarine November 1; 40 lives -lost. D-5, submarine, sunk by mVie; 12 of crew of 16 lt)st. Audacious, superdraead Rought, sunk by mine or sub marine October 27. shoes and school books and milk tick etc. For most of Rosemont was young and newly married when those homes were bought. And why should you buy a home unless children are com ing to fill it? Most of Rosemont' homes were well-filled. The Bakers had six. The Carys had four. And Mrs. Baker and Mrs. Cary and Mr. Baker- and Mr. Cary and their respcctlvechildren and most of tne other parents and children of Roae mont began to have a dreary, forlorn lee li4i g that life was a poor business and living hardly worth while. Why, pray, should Mrs. Marshall have that quiet air of haVit -;il u'jance? Mrs. Cary asked herself nd looked fiercely at her faded house dress. Mrs. Mar shall had crepe de chine negligees. "It isn't fair," said Mr. Baker sul lenly to Mr. Cary. "Look at that old chap spinning along in his ease. I "They looked aristocratic!" wailed Mrs. Cary. don't suppose he ever did a day's work in hia life -ever knew what it wa.s to get up on a cold winter morning and build a fire." "What I can't go," said Mr. Cary ' you. didn't get the idea until he gaw; the missus rigged out in the new togs. By looking at Only thing that now purzles us is how Mr. Powers got all this inside dope, , X V tmiw.srE : Above The sinking of the British superdreadnought Audacious offthe coast of Ireland. The photo was taken from the deck of the Transatlantic liner Olympic, one of whose white lifeboats i seen in the foreground, bringing rescued sailors from the: sinking ship to the liner. Two torpedo boats are standing by. This remarkable photograph ' and ihe news of the sinking of the Audacious reached New York almost simultaneously on Saturday, November 14. The port deck of the strick en vessel is partly awash and the crew can be seen gathered on the starboard side. fcotly, "is his arlsfecratic air. He offers you a ride, by George, but he does it in such a condescending way. As Uiough he wanted to inspect a poor devil at close range and see what h is like." At high school Alice and Robert finally had come to be let alone.' Not that there was any tangible reason, but the other young people felt un comfortable wth two who did not know what it was to be poor or with out carfare or ice cream money. Gradually Mr. and Mrs. Marshall came to be let alone. They didn't mx. somehow. Of course they didn't care, Rosemont observed. With all that money they doubtless had plenty of friends elsewhere .and they rather wondered why they had selected so unimportant a place as Rosemont to live in. " . ' Then Mr. Cary bustled home one night with important news fairly ra diating from him. He rushed from the "Li" station. IT stopped Baker on the corner. Together they sought their" wives and told. Rosemont the next day went around grinning sheepishly. And it patted Mr. Marshall on the' back, and the women ran over informally to see Mrs. Marshall. And at high school Alice and Robert were generously allowed to treat the entire four classes. "You could have knocked me down - ; h. rtAf Bet you with a feather," said Mr. Cary to his wife that night. "Old Marshall walked In rather uneasylike, and said -he'd like to go to lunch with me if I didn't mind. That sort of made me mad that affected humbleness of his al ways got my goat. It didn't go with his irritable 'eyes. But I said 'All right; where will we go? And he said be didn't know places. I laughed sarcastically at that. And I said I gxiess you know plenty of places. And he said, 'Oh. yes, cheap ones.' But he'd like to go to a tony place. Well, I know where they are, though I've NEW WILLIAMS BOOK Advance sheets of text and pic tures of John II. William's forthcom ing work, "rosemite and Its High Sierra, whet , the. appetite for th complete volume, which the author announces is almost ready to come from the makers. In binding,- the new volume will be in styles uniform with Mr. William's other books of the northwest. "The Mountain That Was 'God,' " and "The Guardians of. th Columbia." The ad vance sheets show some especially beautiful illustrations, of which tberc will be mpre than 200, Including eight four-color plates from paintings by '.Chris Jorgensen, California artist. your wife or daughter got it the never been In any," Mr. Cary laughed. It., was a genial laugh, unhampered by the harsh note of envy. "And then he up and confessed he used to be a janitor till an uncle tn Germany died and left him all this money. And he'd heard Rosemont was a pleasant place with ple&s&nt peoiple, so he thought they'd slip in and be part of us. And they lit in and bought all the stuff they thought people like us had." "They looked aristocratic:' wailed Mrs. Cary. "Sure, they did. Anyone with their background wcraJld. But they were only scared. That was what give 'em that haughty air. But, anyway, they're nice people." Mr, Cary laughed. "And, do you know, 1 like the .old gent now. I know he is no better than the rest of us" Mrs. Cary laughed guiltily and pushed a basket or fabrics under the dresser. But under her husband's glance she confessed. "That is some plush I got to fix the parlor furniture. But I don't care now. So I'm going to exchange It for fruit- Jars. So," sig, nificantly, "is Mrs. Raker. And, dd you know, Mrs. Marshall seems dif ferent, too. I really don't tare because they have better things. It seems sort of accidental on the part of fate' and not so mean toward us who are still poor.' ' ! ' '""' : -' - 't: ' first look. Simple, too. Mrs.; Bun alow is merely showing. Pearl -the - Waitress what her the last picture you can see for yourself that .Mrs. Bungalow's pantomime was full Hy Herbert Corey. S ! Amsterdam. Oct. 28. This is really! the story of a royal family in diffi culties. It goes to prove that it is mighty hard to be a king or queen nowadays. One so seldom has his or her own way. Just incidentally it shows that Holland is against Ger many to the last Dutchman and dike very irearly the last. So is Queen Wilhelmina and her consort of Meck- lenburg-Schwerin. They had to be. Before all this war trouble began Holland liked Germany very well. In deed. There were reasons for it. There are ties of blood and language and propinquity and business. The Rhino flows for a part of its course through Dutch territory. German' steamships. carried cargoes on it to and front Dutch ports. i There was also the court. Boyal Families a Habit. In times of peace the Dutchmen paid a certain courteous attention to their court. Royal families are an acquired habit with the Hollanders, as raw to matoes are with some folk. The past has shown that the Dutchmen can shuck off a habit of this sort over night. But when there is nothing of real Importance roing on a court is a nice thing to have around. It saves one from wondering whether white gloves "may be worn with a .dinner Jacket. The Dutchmen permitted the court to do a good deal of their think ing for them, along similarly lnconse quential lines. Wilhelmina of Holland has not been popular with her people, in spite of the belief that has grown up in Amer ica. The queen is a lady of singularly set Ideas. She has theories of divine right and that sort of thing that do not fit well In democratic little Hol land. Also she does not make a direct appeal to the eye. Much may be for given a lady monarch who Is tall, lis some, and has melting eyes. Nor do her mental qualities attract. "I bave attended three command performances , of the opera,'' said an Amsterdam gentleman. "I'll never go again." That called for an explanation. She Never See a Joke. "It isn't etiquette to applaud before the queen does." said he. ' "No mat ter how Well the actors work or .the hands folded in her , lap, staring hands folded in - her lap, staring straight ahead of her. She doesn't care for the theatre or opera. She only goes twice or three times a year, because it Is a custom." , Something still rankled with him. "You mustn't laugh before the queen does, either." said he. "And she never saw a Joke In her life." So her Influence has been negligible. But again contrary to what we have been taught in the states that Meck-lenburg-Schwerin consort of hers has made himself most popular. Perhaps the tender-hearted Dutch ladles were rather sorry for him. It was gen erally understood that Wilhelmina pre ferred his elder brother almost to the point of being unpleasant about it. Aleo the consort was slender when he was a youth, and had beautiful eyes. Nowadays Dutch sentiment regarding him is expressed thus? "He's a mighty good fellow." Consort Favored Germany. Naturally enough, a Mecklenburg Schwerin found the friends of his youth companionable in bis maturity. German noblemen were his favored companions. Germans 'were " continu ally at court. The court circle thought and talked German. Not long ago the process of reuniformin r tbe Dutch army' in the German miJK-gray began. There were people wbft thought that significant. But all the time tbe prince consort did not neglect his Dutch pay masters. He made himself well liked. When the war began Holland was with Germany In a placid sort of way. She didn't bother herself over the huge questions of right and wrong. White ljapers and blue papers "were showered upon her by the warring governments, and she didn't bother tn read them. But when Germany began to heavy shoe through - Belgium she waked up.. In part, no doubt, she was influenced by pity for the Belgians, although Holland has never liked Belgium or tbe Belgians. In greater part she saw her self as the next small neutral to be taken apart. The Dutch say themselves that they haven't enough imagination to be afraid. Whether that la true r not. the Dutch army wj$t mobilised and ; ready for the fieldj before that of Belgium was. It hjran as a better army, and Is an Infinitely better army today than it was when' It was; first" mobilized. . J iistory allows that these , tnatterof-fact initcnnieJi fight like, hornets whose reeling have been hurt. They are ready tlie l soldiers thera- . selves are almost tops ready to fight now. If Holland everjdoes declare war against Germany shj will have 850,-, 000. first line soldier in the field ten. seconds after the 'news gets on ''the wire. " '. Xing-Consort Virtually a Frisoker. Do. not tie impatient. We are com ing to the coiirt ' : Wilhelmina is Dutch, and as a mat ter of course loyal to-her country.- But the Dutch felt tlfat her German hus band had persuaded her that the best interests of Holland could be served by preserving a certain friendliness for Germany. . The , story goes that she urged ' that point of view In certain cabinet meetings. The Dutch counsel lors heard her gravely. Then: . : - "The people." saldi the's'e, unroyalis cabinet members, "have , intrusted us with the duty of- directing the course of.Holland. Tour majesty will remem ber?' She did. For a time she made hef consort remember, too. She plunged herself Into rood- works, and .won a popularity Bhe had previously lacked' by her attention to the soldiers and their needs. Thte nrlnco eonsort . did likewise, and said nothing. It was an unpleasant position for a pair tbat rule by divine right, but' ;they couldn't help themselves. . Wilhelfnina has held to this attitude, riut 'the consort la in trouble. - a . Germv.n offfcers bean to be inferred in Holland.' Many of them were friends of the prince 'consptt. He began .to pay visits to their !f amps. He shook hands with them, and was on the most obvious terms of good fellowship. ?At the same time offloer. of the Dutch army have been enjoined not to enter upon friendly . relations with interned officers,, o.f any nation whatever. They are directed to preserve the most abso lute neutrality of. conduct. . , ,!- , ' Olven Kis Ziessea. "Your .majesty wllj remember tn th future," said-the cablet to the consort, "that you will not v)slt the camps of the interned Germanijof fleers." That Mecklenburi-Schwerln ibrtrod flamed up,- After .all,j- these were' commoner.- " j - - j I shall not subttt Ho ' this dicta tion. said he. The counsellors tonked at Wilhel mina: .Wilhelmina Ipoked-Interested, . "We shal strip youj-of your uniform. said the cabinet, after a painful pause, "And we shall confine you to jour quarters." M ' ' It was no'lnsplratfon of the moment That plan had been .hought-out before the consort was called down. The Mecklenburg-Schwerjn blood cooled. la the end a compromise was reaohed For very obvious reasons of state is still permitted to wear his uniform, but he isn't -visltlnaf any mora camps of the Interned. Nwv ndtben be re views a Dutch regiment,4' but to. all in tents and purposes he is confined to quarters. He only leaves the Inclosure of the royal palaces when he Beta leave. . '., "-.) - - It will be conceded that. this was no way to treat a royal family. But the story Is on every on lips in Holland. It was vouched for to me by a gentle man who had inveBlljsated it. X per sonally believe it, uiii even if it isn't true there Is a significance in the fact that it is widely believed and generally approved. Royalty seema to be sitting; below the political salt in Holland these : days. 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