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HOSTESS HOUSE
FAMILFREUNION
Hero Mine i
How It Happened to Entertain
Only A. L F. Mother Who Visit­
ed Army of Occupation.
B y R. R A T BAKER
(Copyright. IMS. by McClure Naw
Syndicats.) .
But 'the flames bad been there first
l t d there was nd stairway. By this
time she waa really excited. She ran
to the elevator entrance and pushed
frantically and vainly on the b elt Baf­
fled. she stood In a daae In the midst
of stifling fumes which were becoming
more dense with every minute that
0BBMI
“Dan will save me I" she cried, and
she struggled to her feet and ran
back Into the office, throwing open a
window.
Indistinctly through the
anyth e she made out a crowd as­
sembled across the streeL Bells were
clnhglng as fire apparatus darted op
and down the thoroughfare.
“D a n !" she cried, with all the pow­
er of her lungs. Repeatedly she called
the name, while flames stole closer
and doeer to the fourth floor.
Presently she heard an answering
shoot, and a hog«, light-haired fire­
man stood out in the center of the
street sod waved a hand at her the
same as he had waved It countless
times from hla red demon.
He disappeared from her view. The
beat grew more Intense and the smoke
got thicker. The flames were having
a feast; they were gorging them-
selves..
Suddenly she saw something rising
before her—an extension ladder. I t
wabbled and quivered before the win­
dow and than slowly the ends settled
against the ledge. She looked down,
and there* be waa—the man— fighting
his way np, Inch by Inch, through a
shroud of yellow flames and black-
“S u rest T h in g Y o u K n o w ,1
sa y s th e G o o d J u d g e
SUBS PERILED
Were Constantly Harried by Their
Own Warships.
It’sacinch fogetareal
quality chew and save-
part of your tobacco
m oney at tne sam e
time.
British Submarine Nearly Destroyed
by American Vessels While
Being Tested.
London.— One of the greatest perils
to silled submarines daring the w ar
Yerua Pomeroy bad a mania for he-
qn-K.
was attach by friendly destroyers. A
submarine was assumed to be an ene­
“1 will marry the man who goes
No Knightly Courtisra E v*r Acted W ith through fire, water, blood and Iron for
my when sighted by the ships of any
allied nation and It was op to the sub­
More Qallentry to Lady F air Than
me,” Was the way she expressed IL
marine to show recognition signals If
Many there were who would have been
Did He and Hie Doughboy
willing to go through water, provided
she was not German.
Paia to Thia Little W hite.
It was not too deep; and also through
But If It waa a destroyer that sight­
Haired Woman D
blood, aa long as It was not of their
ed the submarine she was always mak­
ed Exquisitely In
own or their shedding; but as to fire
ing for the little craft by the time the
Black.
“Greatest Naval Offensive of the
and Iron— well, the former was a lit­
recognition signals could be shown. A
gllght hitcb in getting up a flag or fir-
tle too much to expect aud the latter
War,” Say Naval Author-
Put up in two itjles
By G R A C E G O U L D E R .
lng a r a k e t would mean the aubma-
was difficult.
(W ith tha American Y. W. C. A. Over­
’ ¡ties.
rtna woui<i b« forced to seek safety
I f Verna had waited a few years
R IG H T C U T is a short-cut tobacco
seas.)
| beneath the surface.
she would hkve experienced no diffi­
Coblenx, Germany,
culty In finding a hero for herself.
Probably the last attack of thia sort
March 28 (By M ail.)
They are plentiful nowadays, but they
was made by American destroyers on
It happened right here In Coblenx.
were scarce when Verna was twenty-
a new British submit rine of a large
A big corporal came Into the T . W. one and the “pretty stenog*’ In Jones
type.
She was being tested when
C. A. Hostess House and asked for the & Jones( real estate office on the fourth
sighted by the destroyers and they
I t was Am erica’« Solution o f Subma
director, Miss Ruth Woodsman, who floor of the Ashton building.
made for her fa ll speed. Something
rine Problem and W l a So Effec­
Somehow Verna figured that Dan
comes from Colorado springs, Colo.
happened to the signal system, and
tive It Rendered Hun U-Boate
“Could my mother stay here?” he Williams was destined to be the man.
the under-water vessel submerged aa
began at once, trying his best to cover He was a fireman In the station bouse
Almost Impotent.
depth charges began to tear up the
three blocks down the street, and he
his excitement
water. One charge shook her until
“Your mother!” gasped Miss Wood- clung rather heroically, she thought,
Fort Monroe, Va.— Lying at anchor
the crew thought she waa doomed.
m.
in Hampton roads off Old Point Com­ small. “How did your mother ever get. to the red Juggernaut that roared and
The submarine waa constructed to
In
a
few
momenta
he
would
he
at
screeched past the Ashton on an aver­
fort Is the United States mining cruis­ here?”
dive 820 feet, but that waa forgotten
“Well, she Isn’t here yet, but If she age of at least four times a day. There the window and she would be saved. aa charge after charge exploded near
er squadron whose commanders and
was a man who would at least go A dense cloud reached ouL envel­ by. Finally she struck bottom at 800
c ews performed what Is now termed comes will you keep her?”
“Of course I will, but— ”
through fire, and certainly through oped the ladder and blotted out the feet and it Was found she was not
> naval authorities the world over
She
didn’t
finish,
for
the
boy
had
water,
and probably meet the other re­ fireman from alghL When It rolled badly damaged. She was kept on the
us the “greatest naval offensive of the
smashed bis cap back on his head and quirements.
He was a strapping away there waa Dan on the ladder— bottom until her commander waa cer­
was
out
of
the
door
on
a
run.
blond
young
man,
with strength rip ­ faltering. As she watched he shook tain the destroyers had gone. Then
The feat which these men achieved
The corporal’s visit remained a mys­ pling through every muscle, and he hla head, pointed at. the flames above she was cautiously brought to the sur­
wns the mining of the entrance to the
tery for two days. Then one evening was very good for a hero worshiper to him. and slowly began to descend.
face.
North sea from Scotland to the coast
Just at dusk a little white haired wo­ look nt. ,
Verna fainted.
“ She don’t need any more testing
of Norway, a distance of 240 miles. It
man dressed exquisitely In black ap­
The next aensutlon she experienced after that experience," the comman­
Some day he’ll prove to be my
was an undertaking unprecedented In peared in the sitting room of the Host-
hero,” she had decided on the day was one of being Jolted. She opened der reported to the officer In charge of
naval history.
,
*ess House, and the corporal was hover­
her eye. and discovered she waa in a the submarine base.
It was America’s solution of the ing behind her, trying to be beside her Dan followed his pet maltese cat In
street car which waa bumping swiftly
German submarine problem, a solu­ and back of her and in front of her Its wanderings from the station house
across the street to the Pomeroy res­ over the rails. She waa half reclining
tion -.o thorough and effective that It
all at once.
He was carrying her
on a seat— aud she was the only pas­
rendered the German submarines al­ coat—a big fu r one. W ith them were idence, where Verna happened to be
Ready Cut, Only $1500.
seated on the porch reading “Brave senger.
most Impotent.
three doughboys, pals of the corporal.
Thera was a step In the aisle and Invention of Naval Officer Enabled
Men
I
Have
MeL"
The British previously had mined They tried to keep in the background,
Ships to Push Into Helgoland
That’s the way they got acquainted, she saw a bedraggled figure In a blue
the English channel, but the enemy but their eyes were glued on her face.
R ig ht
uniform standing over her. I t was
and
since
then-Dan
had
wooed
Verna
submarines came out from the bases
Everyone In the sitting room sat at
Ben.
through
the
fourth
floor
window
every
r t Gstend and Zeebrugge and Into the attention.
There are no English
London.— Mines and mine fields were
How’d I get here?" was her first
week day and In the parlor of her
North sea, there to work their havoc. speaking men or women out of uni­
question a fte r a silent moment of con­ rendered obsolete by the development
home
every
night
when
he
got
time
form In The Third Army area. Yet
Invite Yankee Aid.
of the “paravene,” the Invention of
templation and wonder
The British naval authorities, reallx- here was a woman In civilian clothes. off.
“I pat you there," he responded Lieutenant Burnley and consistently
When
the
siren
of
the
ladder
truck
- mg late In 1917 that the North sea Mothers are unheard of with the army.
simply." “I ’m taking yon home as fast I urged upon the British navy by Ad­
would have to be blocked, Invited the But thia was a mother, everyone knew. gave veut to Its mournful shriek as I can. My machine (he laughed I mlral S ir Hedworth Meux. Thia ln-
A fter awhile someone found out Verna always would look op from her
American naval authorities to attempt
strument was officially adopted by the
typewriter and exchange a wave of dryly) waa stopped by the fire. I
to lay the barrier.
The American about this mother.
navy early In 1916 and waa so success­
you
at
the
window
and
went
After
the hand with Dan as the red demon
Had Been Interned During W ar.
navy, having Just at that time com
ful that special factories were built
you." l :
dashed by.
pleted with success experiments on
She and her husband, who were
fo r Its construction.
She
took
a
long
breath
of
relief
or
But Dun was not the only one who
mining apparatus fa r more dangerous, born In Germany, but had been nat
I t is now learned that the British
two to get her lungs full of air or
delicate, and powerful than any here­ urallxed, lived In San Francisco. Be­ wooed Verna through the window, something.
Then she noticed that grand fleet on several occasions pushed
Ben
Vincent
rode
past
the
Ashton
fore the war they left for Welsbaden,
tofore used, took up the task.
about hla forehead was a bloody hand­ right Into the bight of Helgoland,
For that purpose the mining cruiser Germany, that their invalid daughter building twelve times a day. Hla pace kerchief that hla cap could not en­ which. If mines mean anything, would
P o r c e la in
S a th
T u b .’
might have treatment at thia famous was not as swift as his rival’s, how­ tirely conceal.
squadron was organised In December,
have been a death trap for ships. Ger­
ever, because his vehicle was a street
1917. This squadronjs made up of ten health resort
man
experts
never
solved
the
mystery.
J-TLI
*
4 4
'Where’d you get that blood?" she
When he approached Verna’s demanded,
They brought their other children car.
vessels and Is under the command of
ju d d e rin g .
From the time of Its adoption to the
window
he
always
stood
on
the
rear
- Capt. R. R. Belknap, U. 8. N. One of w ith them. One was W alter, a small
He fumbled with hla transfer close o f the w ar only two warships
the officers told a graphic but brief boy, and the other was Ralph, now platform and waved one of his hands punch.
were reported having been sunk by
r'
Agent for Model Steam Laundry of The Dalles
atory of the desperately dangerous Job Corporal Stepp of the American Army. while the other rang up fares.
mines. The most recent use of the
“I
t
wasn't
much
of
a
hurt,”
he
said,
Verna
liked
Ben
fully
as
well
as
When the war was declared they
Shop in Brick Building next Observer
to which he and his squadron mates
“paravenea” was ou the occasion of
‘although it did bleed a loL You
sent Ralph back to America, because Dan, but his life was so prosaic it of­
British warships entering the Baltic
were assigned.
>
I
was
able
to
reach
you
by
running
J. C. W R IG H T ,
P r o p r ie to r .
“Navy men now call It the greatest he was of m ilitary age, and they did fered few heroic possibilities. He had the elevator, which I found standing through a closely mine-strewn area.
not want him to fight for the kaiser dark hair aud eyes and his face was
offensive of the war,” he aald.
“Il
The
steel
wire
mooring
ropes
of
the
Then America entered the war.
attractive, but he failed to come up open. There was a regular blanket of mines are said to have been cut bysthe
solved the submarine problem and It
Mrs. Stepp— Mrs. Anna Stepp she is to the fireman's shoulder and there firs In the shaft, but I guess the soak-
might have been the agency fo r the
log I got from a hose when I made paravenea as a string Is cut by sde-
— told this part of the ato ry:
was no noticeable bulge Just above the run for the building helped to keep I sora.
destruction of the German navy soon­
“U ntil a month ago I hadn’t heard
er or later had not the w ar ended from Ralph for two years and a h a l f - the elbow.
His acquaintance she had formed me from burning up. I got‘ the blood
when It did. We mined almost direct­ even before America got In the war
when she moved to a residence in the when I rammed my head Into the Iron
ly across from Bergen on the coast of mall was held up. I didn’t know
suburbs and was obliged to use a trol­ gate at the fourth landing, thinking It
Norway to the coast of Scotland. The whether he was In the army or not—
was open. The blow sort of dated me,
ley car twice each day.
length of the mine field was 240 miles, but I was sure he was, because— well
Ben’s dark complexion was another but F managed to open the gate,
and we made It 25 miles wide.
It because he la an American." Here
handicap. Verna had hair that she picked you up in the office and beat It
was so complete that no ship could she stopped a minute to smile up at
liked to hear called “raven locks" back down the elevator with you. I
pass either over or under It without him.
an<L her ayes were of a similar hue; bet I made an awful dent In that gate.
“A fter awhile we heard from some an (T she had read that a person should My head feels like it had busted right
absolute destruction.
“We have a record of about twenty friends th a t he was In the army—and
through the iron.”
marry an ‘opposite.
submarines that we know were de­ that he had come over here. That wns
Verna reached up and clasped one
That’s the way things stood when
stroyed, and often in^runnlng parallel all I ever knew. I t ’s nearly five year«
£
the rivals met one night a half block of his hands.
with the field we came upon the bodies since I have seen him I
“Ben,” she said, “do you know you
from
the
Pomeroy
home.
The
conduc­
"O f course It was awfully hard— I
of dead German sailors, so probably
tor had been calling on Verna and the have all the qualities of a regular
many more thqn we actually figured couldn’t get word to him and he
fireman knew It and waited for him. h e ro r
couldn’t
to
ine.
My
husband
used
to
on were destroyed.
.
They
both happened to be off duty,
“Our men, In fact the entire fleet, tell me It wouldn’t help Ralph any for but Ben had been the first to ask her
me
to
cry.
I
tried
not
to—
before
the
faced a constant danger of being
for an engagement.
,
blown off the face of the seas, for we rest of them anyway. My daughter
“I ’ve been waiting for you an hour,’
carried on the ships 2.000.000 pounds got worse steadily— she Is no better
We couldn’t get the proper food for Dan announced as he stepped out from
of T. N. T., which Is the most power­
her after awhile. And she hated to the tree against which he had beep
ful explosive known.
see me worried about Ralph, so I used leaning. “You’ve been In Miss Pom­
Exposed to Germans.
eroy’s parlor altogether too tong. I
to try to keep up before them.
“Despite all this, we kept at the
"iMSt January my husband came to can’t stand for that.“
task, and at the end of about five
Ben had no relish for a fight— not
Ooblenx about his cttlxen papers. An
months had completed I t We stayed American soldier In Ralph's company with those six feet of muscle— so he
constantly on the Inside of the field, who was in the office heard his name kept his temper In leash.
that la, on the side nearest Germany. and asked him If he was any relation
“Sorry I don’t please you,” he re­
W e left only a narrow passageway to Ralph. - He didn’t tell him Ralph plied with sarcasm-sprinkled coolness.
near Pentland F irth between the O rk­ was In Ooblenx, bat went after Ralph. “I didn’t know Miss Pomeroy and you
ney islands and Scotland for our own He didn't tell Ralph his father was were engaged.
passage o u t
here. When they met they couldn’t
The fireman knitted his brows Into
• “Our roost dangerous task strange­ believe their eyes.
a savage scowl and looked dlsdninfnl
ly was not the laying of the mines, as
“Ever since then I have been trying ly down at the pebble In his highway
The most to see Ralph. He couldn’t come to of lover
dangerous as that was.
dangerous one came a fter the mine I Welsbaden because It was out of the
“Well, we aren’t,” he declared.
field had been completed. I t was an | American area, and I couldn’t get
“There Is no engagement yeL but there
attempt to draw the German fleet out through until today— more than two Is going to be. She wants a man, and
Into the North sea where we were to months.”
I ’m It—see? She Isn’t going to tie
They asked her If her Ralph had
engage IL no tl^ t the British fleet
up with a shrimp like you. so you bet­
could get In behind the enemy to de­ changed much In all that time.
ter make yourself scarce around her.
“Oh, yes— very much. But do you
stroy It by gunfire or drive It Into the
Tm Just warning you, thafs all.
know, I tMnk It Is because all that
About this time Fate decided to take
mine field.
“On October 28 last the British gov­ long time when I didn't know where
a hand In the affair. So a Janitor
ernment made It known to the German he was or how he was— I got In the
went to gleep In the basement of the
Ashton building late one afternoon
naval authorities through Its agents habit of thinking of him as he was
In Germany that we were engaged In when he was a baby— I kept seeing and a cigarette dropped from his
him
as
a
baby
and
remembering
the
mining operation*. We were ordered
mouth Into a barrel of excelsior. The
way he felt when he was little. Isn't
Ashton was a frame reUc of past arch­
to lay about as though busy at the
that queer? And now look at him 1“
itectural grandeur and the flames ate
task, to act as a decoy fo r the Ger­
And the corporal tried not to see the
man fleet. We did IL but In doing It
Into It as a famished lion eats Into a I This 1« what a Waatarn E ltc-
adoration In hsr eyes.
chunk of red beefsteak.
we faced positive destruction our­
“Five years la a long time to wait
trie Lighting Plant on your
The Janitor awoke, chokod wltli
selves.
In see yonr boy," she murmured, and
“I want to hand It to those new t.opt her eyes on him. Again she had smoke, and «taggered to safety. The
plact will mean Io you:
occupants of the building dashed pell-
navy lads. There were about 4,500 of forgotten the people aronnd her.
mell to the street by means of the
them and 250 officers on the ships, and
No dark nighti.
The -corporal cleared his th ro at
while we waited through that fearful “Thia Is why I ask d you If you could stairway and the meager fire-escape
No £g* to explode.
faculties. The elevator boy deserted
day which we never expected for a keep my mother, Idas Woodsman. I
his
post
.and
fled
with
the
rest
moment to see the end of alive, they didn’t want her to come onlees she
No pressure tank to blow up.
Verne's bosses were playing golf
went about their duties, laughed, sang, had a good place to stay. Ah, e-e-r—
No water to carry.
and she was alone In the office dean
and stood to their guns as only Amer­ thanks awfully.**
ican lads can do such things.
And that la the story of how the Ing up a pH« of work. She had her­
No lamp* to fill.
♦
“Well, all that day we worked Hostess House happened to entertain self some of the qualities that heroes
No matches to burn.
along calmly, watching and waiting the only known A. E. F, mother who and heroines are made of. So she re­
mained In the office and put valuable
for the sight of the Germans that has visited the Army of Occupation
No smoky chimneys to clean.
papers In the safe, while fire crept np
meant certain death.
To Guide W orker* In Mines.
“The Germans never came out after
the outside and Inside of the building Tent a Switch aoywhare day ar night
The United States bureau of mines vnd smoke
ua. and ao here I am."
ce seeped through the floors. I
.
.
j «treag flood of light,
a lota <rf time,” .he toW her- j “ 4
1
has hsd some of Its officials working
“There
for three years on a set of rules to keif, and kept rummaging for one vary
Says He Has Leprosy.
For R ole By
Kansas City, Mo.— Shshln K ra k a r mggeat for use where electricity la Importnnt document she had been un­
used
in
mines,
and
the
work
has
been
lan. thirty, nn .Armenian, »a being
able to locate. She finally discovered
held at the German hospital h«rr published for circulation among (hoi
It on a file on the Junior partner’s
nt created.
pending the outcome of an examine
desk. Tossing It tfito the safe, she
tion by phystclnns aa to hla condition.
slammed the Iron door, turned the
D ia tr ib a
Utilising an Antipathy.
He clalma to have leprosy. Hs is em­
knob and hurried Into her coat end
“ Which are you goin’ to do?" nakfg
ployed by the Union Pacific railroad
San Francisco
hat
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As she opened the office door a wave .
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year* ago, he claimed. Several Kan
“I ’m goln’ to start In." answer*
« 1 City physicians refused to treat Plodding Pete, “by wnrkln’ a llttleu
roe coughed and draw bach for a mo
j 0«t tlw a y t makes tpe feel Ilka fightlg’,*
film, he said.
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