The Monmouth herald., November 23, 1923, Image 3

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Destroyers Wrecked on California Coast
GROUND WIND INDICATOR
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Dayton, 0., Jurist Tells of Expe­
riences on Trip to Orient-r
Saw Upheaval in Java.
Ibis remarkable photogniih show« four of the seven wrecked destroyers smashing to pieces on the rocks off
JViru Honda. <’at. The IVlpliy crushed on the rocks first and the steady |x>undlng of the sens soon split the vessel
In half. The how of the Delphy can be seen further up the coast line with the hull In the foreground. In the reur
Is the Young which was the second vessel to smash. Farther out can he seen two iud » of the fleet of seven.
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Many Slaves Still
Held in A frica
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London.—The revival of the
slave trade In Africa was re­
cently discussed by John H.
Harris, the well-known author­
ity on slavery.
“There Is still,” he said, "an
appalling amount of slave own­
ing In the world.
Probably
there are not fewer than 500,000
slaveb In the various territories,
north, say, of the Zambezi. At
the outbreak of the war there
were more than 100.000 slaves
in German East Africa, and it
will take a good many years be­
fore they are all set free.
“In Abyssinia u large part of
the population of lO.OOO.UUO are
slaves.”
The League of Nations has
agreed to try to solve the Abys­
sinian problem.
New York.—For some time tho re­
gion which tma Juat been swept by tbs
great cartliquuku bus had lessor
quakes, according to Judge ( buries \Y.
Dustin of Dayton, Ohio, «ho recently
returned from a trip uruuud the world.
Judge Dustin spout much time lu the
Orient and hud many thrilling expe­
riences.
‘ My trip wus all without uccldent
or mishap of any kind, although 1 hud
several narrow escapes,” auld Judge
Dustin. "In Chino, I eras on one
steamer that had shortly before been
captured by pirates and lienee wus
provided with un armed guard. The
passage from the second cluss to the
first class cabins was, also, burred by
an Iron door, Tbe plan of the pirates
had been to ship as second class pus-
sergers and, at a signal, to attuck and
rob tbe first class. Another steamer
was. a week or so after my passage on
her, captured, robbed and beached.
Later she was fioated and resumed her
voyage.
Was On "Mllllon-Dollar Train."
"I was also u passenger on the cele­
brated ‘Mllllon-Dollar Train.' which
was, two weeks luter, captured by
bandits and Its occupants robbed and
held for ransom.
And, strangely
enough, that train wus held up ut
about the same locality, not by bun-
dlt.s, but by a wreck. \Ve were de­
tained for 12 hours and hundreds of
natives came down from the moun­
tains and looked us over, flnully con­
cluding that we were not worth rob­
bing and let ns alone.
"I w h s In Peking when the police
struck because their wages hud not
been paid, and In Yokohama. Japan,
when there was a very distinct earth-
quake shock. While I wus In Java
there was an upheaval and an Island
thrown up In the neighboring sea over
which I had but recently snlled.
“So I wus not without thrills—
mostly of gratitude— for the continu­
ing care, may I presume, of guardian
angels.
China On Verge of Chaos.
"I urn not Beared or discouraged by
the dangers of truvel In the Orient und
I hope soon to rnuke another tour to
more out-of-the-way places. I shall
probably, however, omit China until It
has a stable government. At present
there Is one government In the north
| with a parliament and an official class,
but without credit or an efficient per­
sonnel. About the only tax which It
Is able to collect and use for the most
necessary purposes Is the ‘salt tax.*
I “In the south there Is only a tenta­
[ tive government, with a few soldiers
and no parliament. Able men are at­
tempting to establish a government
there and overthrow the one In the
north, but It, too, has no credit and
little cash.
"Fortunately the leading men of
China were educated In American and
English universities, are high-toned
gentlemen und even religiously in­
clined ; and as n race the Chinese
people despise war. They admire
scholarship ubove everything nnd not
military genius. *A soldier Is classed
with the butcher. They have bandits
nnd outlaws like other nations, but
they are few in proportion nnd when
caught are summarily dealt with. A
more belligerent people would have
been In revolution long before this.
“Ancestor worship continues In
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Plate Marks Pew
Used l>y Harding
Juneau, Alaska.—A
brass
plate now marks th« pew In
the Indian Presbyterian church
ut Bitkti where tho lute Presi­
dent Hording attended public
religious service* for the last
time before lit* death ut San
Francisco. On tho plute ure in­
scribed tho words: “President
Harding occupied this pew o»i
Sunday, July 22, 11)13; his last
attendance ut public worship.”
Only u few* members of the
President s Immediate party ac­
companied him to the church,
nnd It wus not ifcnernlly known
he was to attend services there.
When the collection plate wus
passed, the President dropped
In a gold coin. Tho sermon
wh s
preached by lie*. It. A.
Buchanan.
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China. There 1. a temple at Cunton
especially devoted to It.
Country Dotted With Graves,
"There ure no general cemeteries In
Chinn nnd the dead are burled wher­
ever It Is most convenient for the fam­
ily. The very poor of u city are bur­
led In the city ‘commons.’ The sur­
rounding land may be cultivated, but
the graves themselves, usually conical
mounds, ure sacredly preserved. The
consequence Is that tbe whole country
Is dotted with graves, the veneration
for which Interferes with the eonstruc-
tlon of rullroads and hlghvvuys. When
a Chinaman dies away from home his
remains are cared for until It Is con­
venient und sanlta v to remove tbe
This g r o u n d
wind Indicator at
Omaha air mall
field automatical­
ly pivots with
the breeze giving
the hovering avi­
ator valuable In­
formation as to the direction of the
ground wind currents.
same to the family neighborhood. The
principal use of undertakers is In car-
! tng for bodies pending removal.
"In the great city of Peking there
| are no tramcars. People get about In
carts and Jinrickishas. Motor curs are
In nse. und tear through the few wide
streets with reckless Indifference to
pedestrians. Oriental chauffeurs are
generally speed fiends.
“The Chinese have a convenient
plan for meeting the rise and fall In
temperature.
When winter comes
they simply put on more w its—suits
to suit, so to speak. These are peeled
off In the spring and by summer they
are almost down to ’bedrock.'
"Japan shows great progress since I
was there 20 years ago. I okyo had
some great office buildings, like those
In American cities, Hnd a new Impe­
rial hotel that attracts much attention
and comment on account of Its novel
and nrtlstlc features. There Is noth­
ing quite like It anywhere In the world
and It Is much discussed In the press
and In private by architects nnd trav­
elers. It Is a great pity that It was
destroyed."
Tennis Star Has Thrilling Adven­ rapid and anxious calculation nnd
found that with luck I could pull
ture in Lone Voyage From
through if I rationed n iy S lf to one
cup
of water l>er day for all purposes.
France to U. S.
Needless to say the ’all purposes’ were
New York.-—Because he wanted to drinking.
“My staple diet was potati>es at this
see New York, Alain J . Gerbault, In­
ternational tennis star, crossed the time. I soon found that they tasted
"Atlantic single-handed In a 30-foot I delicious when boiled In sea water In
ten-ton racing cutter built 31 years their skins. That's a fine dish. .
"Except for the loss of the water
ago by the late I »lion Kemp, famous
sailor and designer of King Edward’s everything was Ideal. I slept regular­
j
ly eight hours anil spent the greater
private yacht.
Gerbault
started
from Cannes, part of the morning Idling on deck.
France, and landed late tit night at So passed 1,000 miles In day dreams.
the foot of Fort Totten, 1» I , after Sometimes I fished for bonltas, twenty
■ a W U M U I S I 4uiHUIU.;iU.
' „¡111 T . u i j t
traversing 5,000 miles of ocean In 142 to thirty-pound monsters, with har­
poons. Sometimes I would fish over
days.
the
side
of
the
boat
and
nearly
fall
An examination of the past history
the churt indicated. For 20 duys I
of sailing shows that Gerbault created asleep in the warm wind which met gales and winds of unprecedented
caressed
me.
a record for a transatlantic voyage In
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"Like all sailors, I love reading. I force. The winds were head winds,
small craft. In the summer of 1913
and a terrible struin was put on the
had
brought
with
me
a
fair-sized
li­
Capf. Thomas Drake, an Englishman
Aged Resident of Lewiston, Me., loot they secured from their victims
brary, mostly hooks of adventure nnd sails and spars.
of Gravesend, near I»ndon, In the Sir
In the Sheepscot river. He left a will
“All the time I had to repair broken
those
connected
with
the
sea.
Some­
Says He Saw Captain Kidd's
Francis sailed 25,000 miles In a 32-
In which he gave the treasure to the
gear.
Every
day,
almost
every
hour,
times the sea was a little rough, but
foot boat, and was assisted by a five-
fourth generation of his family. This
something
fresh
was
broken.
Accord­
Chest
in
Sheepscot
River.
the wind was astern the whole time
horsepower engine.
brought It down to the man who went
and there was not a shadow of a ing to the Beaufort scale, in a period
Wanted to See New York.
Lewiston, Me.—Moses King. Jr., with father nnd me to hunt for It
strain on my tiny vessel. But sud­ j of three weeks, the best denotation of
When he arrived he had not cjosel denly Nemesis descended upon me. I 1 the wind was force eight, which Is
ninety-odd years of age, of this city, more Ilian seventy yeurs ago. Accord­
his eyes for 30 hours, yet he was able
has seen part of the lost treasure of ing to the map and will, or whatever
had with me a carefully prepared wind about thirty-five miles un hour. Most
to unfold the narrative of his trip in chart, which Indicated that the wind of the time It was force ten, fifty miles
Captain Kidd and bus now Invented a other directions Trask had, the spot
unfaltering English, which he speaks should be following for the rest of the an hour, and for quite a long time It
dredge with which he expects to re­ where the treasure was buried was
and writes with ease.
blew me under extreme hurricane
cover the lo$t gold from the mud of about four miles above the town of
voyage to New York.
“My only home Is my boat, The Fire-
force, which meant that a head wind
the Sheepscot river, Mulne. The con WlBCasset, Me., In the bottom of the
Unconscious for 51 Hours.
crest.’’ said Gerbault. “In the Inter-
was
hitting
the
Flrecrest
ten
miles
structlon
of the dredge and the pro rlrer.
“This chart led me In wrong. In the
"W e went to the place ns near ns
M i l s of playing.In International tennis
faster
per
hour
than
the
speed
of
the
posed expedition In search of the bur
space of 45 minutes the wind from
tournaments on the Ulvlera and In being astern begun to blow In the op­ average express train. I can only give
led treasure is being financed by a Dr. j was possible nnd for a period of about
Spain I have lived continuously on It posite direction. Then followed 14 , you a true picture of this period by
Wing, whose place of residence Mr. two months the diver searchul the
iver bottom hut without success.
from the moment I purchased It three days of calm, and after that terrific j presenting extracts from my log. Here
King refuses to divulge ut this time.
years a g o . It Is a typical British rac­ squalls of rain, with the wind still In ure two typical days:
Chest Found by Diver.
"When I was about twenty years of
ing cruiser cutter of the early W s. the wrong direction.
“ ‘Aug. 20. I write this during the
“This diver, who wus a Scotchman,
age,” tells Mr. King, "I was one of the
It Is 29 feet 11 Inches long, with a ton­
company which my father took to the In addition to hunting over the bottom
“I was soaked to the skin. In the worst storm I have encountered In my
nage of !UV4, has an 8 foot G Inch beam cabin was a foot of wuter, not from twenty years’ knowledge of the sea.
Sheepscot river to hunt for this pirate nnd probing into the mud in the hope
and a 7-foot draft.
gold of Captain Kidd. With him, be­ of h eating the treasure, used a device
the sea, but from the ruin. The pump There has been a hurricane blowing
“I set out on my 5,000-mlle voyage broke and the water rose higher and all the night. How the boat lived
side myself, was a man named Trask which he hud lnve&ted for locating
because I wanted to see New York.
nnd a professional diver.
While gold.
higher in the cabin. As fast as I baled through It I do not know. Wave after
“My first goal was Gibraltar, the Im­ It out It came In again. On the fifth wave is breaking aboft'd, I have not
“At the end of two months lie one
father was the head of the expedition,
pregnable British fortress at the en­ morning of the downpour came a slept for three days. If I was not so
the whole program originated from (lay located a great chest la the mud
trance to the Mediterranean. As my fever with a sore throat. Although I wet I should fall asleep ns I am,
of the river bottom. It wus such a
the story Trask told my parent.
boat is a cutter, has only one mast and was wet to the skin, I burned like fire which would mean the end. Wind
one as would be expected to he used
Kin of Buccaneers.
a long boom. It is very difficult for j inwardly. My throat beeurne so In­ force 11. Extreme hurricane Is threat­
"According to Trask, tils great­ by u pirate In which to keep his gold-
one man to work. The second day out flamed that L could not swallow solid ening. Sea Is nearly abenm.’
grandfather was one of the bucca­ Our expedition hnd no equipment
1 got into very bad weather In the food nnd with great difficulty could I
" ‘Aug. 25. Five days of Incredible
neers who sailed with Captain Kidd. rendy then with which to hoist the
Galf of Lyons. Strong galea blew for pass liquids down my throat.
winds and rains. The elements have
This elder Trask was one of the crew chest to the stirfnee, so the spot was
43 hours, and 1 'found It hard to reef
which helped KUld to dispose of the mnrked by n keg buoy anchored there.
“On the seventh day my temjierature- not let up once. As fust ns I repair
my sails. The wind dropped as sud­ rose to 10425 or thereabouts. I be­ one piece of gear something else
The next day we returned with chains,
denly as It had' sprung up. and for came unconscious. The last thing I re­ breaks. Miserably cold and shivering
cables and windlasses with which to
clays there was not a breath of air. member Is trying to repair the niuin- fits.’
raise the ebe t. hut the buoy was
Finally I reached Gibraltar 21 days sall and pitching head-first into the I
Buried Under Huge Wave.
i «one nnd durln the night the action
u f * I had set out from Cannes.
of the wnter hat' so changed the sund
cabin. When I awoke everything was ! “I had scarcely Jotted down this last
“The Vanderbilt yacht, the Atlan'ic, awash. By making my reckonings I Item,” continued Gerbault, “when, ns
and mud of the t i e r bottom that the
a three-masted schooner, was In the estimated I had been in a state of If Impelled by some force, I went on
diver was unable t > locate the chest.
harbor. It Is the fn -s* sailing yacht semi-stupor for about flfty-one hours, deck. I was stnnding by the mast
Hoisted Up on Anchor.
I have ever seen a flout. TVe Vander­ j There had been a strong wind, heavy t when I noticed on the horizon an enor
"A couple of days later a vessel an­
bilts asked me atcoard, but 1 unfortu­ squalls and rain all that time.
tnous wave rushing toward the boat
chored near that sp>t and when her
nately had to decline as I was on the
I do not wish to exaggerate, but the
Gales for Twenty-Six Days.
anchor was hoisted to the cat head,
feet high.
point of leaving.
"Then came the worst period of the j wave was at least
there on one of the fit.”es was a great
“From Gibraltar I set my course j whole voyage. The winds still blew In ) "I had Just time to climb the rigging
chest, but It gave way ¡.nd sank to the
straight for New York, following the ' the direction contrary to that which when, with tremendous force, the
bottom before It could b • secured. Our
old sailing boat routes, such as Co­
wave broke over the Flrecrest. The j
diver searched for a tin.'* longer and
lumbus used and afterward, in the
whole boat .disappeared, entirely en
then the quest was given up.”
Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries,
BIG ILLINOIS SYCAMORE gulfed by the sea. Tons of water |
According to Mr. King Dr. Wing
the pirates who sailed the main. Short­
thundered overhead. Then the wave j
heard of this story some four years
ly after leaving port, 1 run Into an­
passed, and by a miracle the ship
ago from a friend of the la*» «ton man.
other had storm, which lasted for
righted herself.
He was interested and n> iglit Mr.
three days and was followed by strong
"At this moment the wind reached
King nnd told him that I ■ would
the greatest height of its fury. For a ;
winds. In this storm I lost my good
finance experiments In the bu ding of
short
space
It
may
have
been
blowing
weather sails and my roller boom,
a marhlne for grnppltng for thi • treas­
more than seventy miles an hour.
which had !>een repaired at Gibraltar,
ure and for an expedition to ret It.
"Ju st then another wave, not so big
got hopelessly broken. The seams of my
The offer was accepted nnd the ma­
as
the
first,
hut
certainly
24
feet
high,
main sail also got “burnt’, as the nauti­
chine now being experimented wi“h In
broke over the boat. For a moment
cal expression U l
the «leant lot near the home of Mr.
I thought I must sink, but the ele- !
“I had to take down my main sail
King In Lewiston’s suburbs Is tho re­
ments
seemed
to
have
spent
their
fnry.
J
and it took all day long to repair it.
sult.
and I was able to bale the water out. |
For the first time I did without sleep
It Is a scoop-like arrangement,
"Eighty-four days out I fell In with
that night. However, afterward I soon
tached to a powerful derrick, whl t
the
Greek
steamer
Byron.
This
was
got used to not closing my eyes for
can be lowered Into the wnter, wlt.i
the first vessel I had seen since I had
days on end. Then, for the next 1,500
Its serernl rake-like arms wide open
left Gibraltar. I semaphored and at
miles. I struck a fair wind and mod
and then, w hen on the bottom, brought
first they seemed not to understand
prate «pas. I let the Flrecrest sail
to a close. In doing whleh It digs down
me. I feared they would pass on
bersrlf under try sails and head sails.
Into the mud for some ten feet, over
without further ado. Finally they sent 1
Behind ns was a fine following wind
a radius of more than 20 feet In dlam-
a
boot,
reprovisioned
me
and
gave
me
I
and 1 went a week without touching
etet, bringing up any sizable object
ntedical supplies for my still tore
the tiller.
which may he there.
throat and slight fever.
Water Went Bad.
Alrendv Mr. King and Dr. Wing
“Making
very
slow
progress,
f
sight-
!
’1 was In no hurry and life was very
have made a snyey of the Sheepscot
ed
the
Henrietta
of
Boston.
I
went
pleasant until the disaster of the loss
river and Mr King has located the
Here Is a gigantic hemlock -tear aboard for several hours and tasted j
of the greater part «f my water over­
t , nts where h * father’s expedition
some
o
f
the
delights
of
civilization.
i
Montieello,
111-,
which
has
a
diameter
took me. How that occurred I do not
worked more than seventy years ago.
i
f
ten
feet
at
the
base
and
towers
“The
Henrietta
loaded
me
up
with
i
know, but 1 was awakened one morn­
ing to find a peculiar smell In the more than one hundred feet. It Is fresh meat and fruit. Seven days la- t
The Iir - t Lady of the I ..ml. Mrs. Calvin Co idge, 1 « go.ng about 1. -r lit.-.
Chiid Dies Under Father’s Truck,
locker where the water was stored in more than a century old and was ter I sighted the American coast. I
Bln fit on. O.—When the two-year-old
there when the first white settlers fetched up at Fort Totten quite by ; ness In life much the same as usual and In her living room In Washington was
ten-galion Jars.
found darning "Cal's” socks Just as she did In the days when they were first daughter of Harry Long ran out to
“After examination 1 found that came to Platt county in 1323. This chance. The last Wl hoars I have not j
married and getting a start. She hasn’t changed a bit, her friends say, and Is j meet him. she fell under a truck he
slept
a
wink.
All
I
want
now
Is
to
go
monarch
of
the
forest
Is
believed
to
two-thirds had gone had. I was faced j
the homiesAind most wji’ely and motherly woman In the world.
| was driving and was killed instantly.
to
bed
and
stay
there
forever.”
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be
the
largest
tree
in
the
Middle
west,
i
with a perilous situation. I made a
Hunt for
Pirateas Gold