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HUN PIRATES SINK U. S. !
VESSEL IN PACIFIC OCEAN
American Captain, Taken Prisoner,
Is Later Forced to l*"iro
on Other Craft.
ADVENTURE ON SEA ROVER
Thrilling Serial, Written by Master
of Sailing Vessel R. C. Blade,
Brings World War to Very Doors
of United States.
ny CAPTAIN HAlUOIl SMITH, |
I.ate >1aitfr of the American Sotting
Vessel, II. Sladf.
(Copyright. 1017. by Ilaldor Smith. In
ternational Nws Bureau.)
(Captain Ilaldor Smith, late mastor
of the San Francisco sailing vessel. ,
It. C. Slade, which was sunk l>y tho j
Gorman Hca raider Seeadler In tho Pa- j
clflo Ocean a few months ago. was |
taken aboard tho raider and held pris
oner for many weeks, being forced to
witness tl>e sinking and burning: of 1
many other American vessels. He final- j
ly escaped f-om n small South Sea ;
island on which tho Seeadler was linal- j
]y wrecked, and with three other Amerl- I
tins made a thousand-mile dash In an j
open boat to a friendly port. The
Tirncs-Dispatch herewith presents the j
tirst Installment of "Haiding in the
1'acltlc." tho serial written by Captain !
Smith describing his experiences with
and on the German freebooter Seeadler
in the South Pacific. 1
I want to hay first off. I'm not much
of a hand at writing. The sextant is j
a good deal easier for rne to handle
than the typewriter, or the pencil j
either, for that matter. But I guess
that after all these yearn of practice
I ran write a log. and maybe that ic
all that Is needed to net the facts down '
?hlpt!iapc ?o you will know the truth
of tho business as well as 1 do, who
went through it.
There arc many things to toll; things !
which wouldn't havo r.eemed possible
to mo not long a?o. though I've seen
a good bit of tho Pacific and know its !
ways and those of tho m?*n on it. 1
waut to tell you why I'm positive the
German?, after th< ir commander had
put out from Mophea Island, destroyed ,
their own grounded vessel so that help
would corn?- quicker; I want to toll
about the dissatisfaction among the j
German sailors, that were near mutiny
many a time, and never left the brig ,
of the sea raider ern;>ty, and how ?
but I musn'l K?t ahead of my story;
going into all that now would get
things eskew.
There ha\ o be?n statements made
which aren't exactly 59. and a good deal
has been left unsaid, and it seems to
mc that tho American people, and es
pecially the readers of this newspaper,
have the. right to know just what did
occur and hc>w.
So here. go?>? to give you the straight
of It. and 1 hope T won't run afoul of
any cenoor, for there's been no pratique
given for tbis account.
If AYR I.ITTI.B COM PL'NCTtO N
A DOUT HANGING ANY ONE
If it's a log that's being written
now It'll bo like many another log.
with the words filled In long after the
event, in apite of the way they should
be. at the time. But the reason's good
enough; you can't write long, detailed
account?, even if they're needed, when
threescore or more of the enemy have
toil on the.ir ship and make it plain
they don't like such writing, and prob
ably wouldn't have much compunction
about hanging you to the yardarin.
If these piratical terms that come
occasionally seem out of place, 1 can
only ?sk your indulgence. It isn't
any love of book words and book
thoughts that brings them up, but we
who make our bread on the waters call
a plrato a pirate. I haven't much use
for school mastery words, but there's
one that stands for a thing I havo
less use for. and that's euphemism.
You can call a German ship a sea rover,
if you want to; that's a good enough
t<rm for landsmen. But all the quib
bles of international law that ever
were can't change the fact that the
Seeadler wa& a pirate nnd nothing
short of it.
LEFT ON ISLAND TO STARVE
AFTER SHIP WAS FIRED
Go through what I've gone through.
i*ee. your ship fired and eunk. see an
old friend come over the side of your
captor after you've watched gunners
fire shell after shell at his command,
s<?e me.n by the scorc swarm over a
little _Freneh schooner with a Kanaka
crew and take possession from keelson
to masthead, be left without oven an
oar on a coral island no more than five
fest above the sea at its highest?go
through that, and then tell mc if any
thing less than pirate (and I'll leave
out tho adjectives here, though if any
one would liko to hear them. I'll be
glad to express them in private) If
any softer term will do.
By tho grace of God. hero I am
again, with my little boy making a
holiday from school of papa's home
coining, and hrf no happier than my
wife, but looking back It is easier
to sec now than at tho time how fre
quent and how oloso were the narrow
squeaks.
However, what's past is past, and a
mins is as good as a mile. That's only
part of tlio day's work In times such
as= these.
To the log.
1U is- In a fashion, a real log that
is beside mc to refreshen my memory;
and the day6 went so fast with ex
citoment and din, or dragged so long
In fear and tedium at once, that with
out the little book it might bo im
possible to trust to memory.
It's a vory llttlo book, for the good
reason that, a big book would have
aroused suspicion where that wa-sn't
the thing to do if you valued your life.
Here, on the Inside of the covers, there'
is a calendar?for 1903 and 1904?and
the criss-crossed leather of tho bind
ing Is pretty shabby. There's tho name
of a tailoring firm on the outside, and
unless you have a good memory you'll
get an odd little sensation from tho
telephone number that's printed In
small gilt letters: Mint <581. It's a good
many years since a San Franciscan
asked central for a connection through
the Mint exchange-. And all during
those years, from hack before the fire,
tho little book had been knocking
about with my things, in one part of
the world or another, till in tho acurry
to get away from the Slade, whil<?
the Seeadler had her guns trained on
It, I popped it into my pockct and at
last found a u?e for file small piges
ll?cd?very faintly, with ^he fading: of |
th<i yearn?with a network of little
blue-checkered linen. |
In that io tho record, as terse as^ a
telegram, of what befell me and others.
Jotted down au possible, for tho most
part furtively and sometimes In the
dark, on tho Seeadler. on the Island,
at Pago Pago.
NAMES AM) KNTRIEM COVER
PAGE OF LITTLE NOTEBOOK
There are Just a few names and
?omc other entries, dates, which cover
hardly more than a page an^ a half ?
pages no bigger than those of the little
books they sell postage stamps in.
Here la the record:
June 14?A. B. Johnson.
June 17?Sladc.
July 3?Manila.
July 31?Mophca.
August 2?Ashore.
August 23?First boat leaves.
August 31?Steadier burns.
September 1?Wireless Pago Pago.
September 5?Took schooner and left
September 8, 3 A. M.?Left for help.
September 16. 8 P. M.?Returned.
September 13, 7 A. M.?Left for Pago
Pago.
September 29?Arrived Pago Pago.
Then, undernoath. written afterward.
when I was putting the whole thing
together in my mind, arc these, in a
different pencil:
I I^eft Sydney April 24.
July 22, stood south.
The note of the arrival at Pago Pago
is another afterthought; believe me.
I when we made landfall there aftrr
i the ten days in the open boat, and the
i hill's of the Island grew above the
crater harbor, and we could fairly
] smell food and feel clothing that wasn't
, stirr like a board from the brine, we
? weren't in any mood to bother about a
i record of It.
There are red letter days in that list.
' T could write a thousand cheers and
yet not give you a tithe of the Joy
that came when we heard the distress
guns that told mo the Seeadler.
anchored in part of my forethought at
the proper disastrous point, had
grounded. Nor could I smile now the
way 1 dId when I wrote: "August 23 ?
First boat leaves," for that was tho
*>nd of the pirates commander, Count
von Luckner, as far as we were con
cerned. or his cruising, cither, for It
wasn't long before hi* motor-boat was
captured by the British and he was
started kicking about from one prison
plate to another?Auckland by now, oi
perhaps farther.
The Johnson captured and left a dere
lict, the Sladc sunk, the Manila wiped
ofT the register, the Lutece seized ?
i mayb'i she's j-till at the piracy v ork,
for all we know, or niaybo the crew
has shown Itself dlsnruntled to tlio
point of ending control and starting
home; all that is told in those few
lines of writing in the notebook, and
a great deal besides.
And yet there is no telling in what
waters they are at this minute, or
what mischief they are doing. The
i Lutece. it is true, was not much of a
i craft, and overcrowded to boot, but
! the f>rmans armed her afier a fashion,
and for desp*rat* men. doubtless she
would ?erve for making a capture, with
luck, and the prize boat be turned into
a new pirate.
Here on the ede of the table is
to-day's paper, and on tho topmost
page there is a report of ships over
due. For all we know, they may be
.it the bottom of the sea or blushing
around In trade lanes, derelicts, thanks
? to the Lutere and its men. Th?
j schooners Beluga. Incore and Wlnalow.
the steamer Waittna, the Japanese
i freighter Nichigo Maru where are
they? And where are their officers
and crews?
A.s to the Nichigo Maru, 1. doubt 51
It could have run afoul of the raiders;
seventy-six days out from Mobe is
cause for anxiety, Indeed, but tho
; freighter s run was pretty far north:
from all 1 saw. the Germans would b?
more apt to avoid the waters the Jap
anese would bei apt to ply.
Felix Graf von Luckner is disposed
of. thanks tq the British, but he was
I by no means the whole spirit of the
enterprise, and tho party with him
? was comparatively email.
His name is the first on my list in
j the diary, and a queer fish he was. hold
1 Ing his men in check like a martinet.
? and yet as easily flattered, and as cross
' when not given soft soap, as any little
? prince in Europe.
' Here in the list of the names, as
1 written during the first day? on tho
Seeadler. when I was getting ac
: rjuainted with the officers and the petty
1 officers?and good fellows they were,
many of them, human for all they had
: done and were doing, and at heart In
i many cases none too pleased >th
i their Job:
Felix Graf von Luckner, active cap
tain lieutenant.
Alfred Kling (reserve lieutenant)
. fir&t officer. ,
Richard PrieMi. prize officer.
K Ircheis.
Krause.
i Ludemann.
Doctor.
1 Kling it was who proved the direct.
, Ing mind of the expedition: a craftj
! follow, with brains?of .a kind?but no
i executive. He would not be one to
j abandon the campaign if he could help
? it, and he was one of those who put |
I out from Mophea on the captured traJ
I Ing schooner Lutece. Prless went with i
I him. With Kling and his men at large,
there's little doubt the work Is prob
ably going on.
Kling. whose mother and brother
live in Youngstown, Ohio. was. from
all that could be gathered, the man
who had originated the idea of tho
expedition. Pries* was formerly second
officer on the steamer Cleveland, which
used to put in to San I* ranclsco.
KircJieis?his Initials were A. E.?was
navigating officer on tho Seeadler, and
Pricss, who was rated In the. navy
records as "help officer" when he was
in the Hamburg service, was prizo
officer. Kirchcis was a lieutenant,
Ludemann al?o. and Krause tirst ma
i ehlnist-enginecr, It would be, if the
' engines hadn't been Diesels.
j These are, in the main, the men who
I figure In this account.
i NAME OF DOCTOR PROVES
| DEEP, UNFATHOMABLE MYSTERY
The doctor, however, must not be
' overlooked. What his namo was
J couldn't he found out. Tt was somo
thlng quite unpronounceable, and as
for trying to spell it?not for me! The
Germans themselves didn t seem to
know what It was exactly. The first
lime 1 saw him. when he came aboard
the Sladc with the boarding party, was
i the last time, as far as my knowledge
! goes, that he was sober. Maybe he
j wasn't well that day.
j l had no idea of ever,running across
such a lot when the Sladc. of the
Pacific freighters' service, loaded lum
ber In Willlpa harbor laet winter. And
at heart, the idea was still as far from
rne when wo cleared from Sydney
April 26 with copra.
We departed from Willlpa harbor
January 16; the schooner R. C. Slndc,
Haldor Smith, master; Charles Hoer,
first mate; John Johansen, scfcond mate.
There was a crew of six ir>c?. and the
steward.
My first officer was an eldorly man.
Johansen was young, active and an
able fellow?ho returned to San > ran
clsco with me.
Tlnf voya tre SvHtvv witnOiit
event. We arrived about the first of
April. Rnd the routine of unloading and
tAking on the copra brought no inci
dent out of the ordinary.
There was talk In Sydney, however:
wild talk. Horoe of it, and In part the
kind to make a man ready to keep an
eye out for the unforeseen. They were
still telling of the doing? of the other
Pacific raider*', and (strange tales would
romo in from all parts of Polynesia
and the South Pacific, of things seen
which shouldn't bo there, and so forth.
All in all. it seemed to me that not
only they shouldn't be there, but that
they weren't. There are plenty of
liars in the world, and it's easy enough
to scare a lot of people, and so 1 didn't
take any stock in these stories. though
some of the other master* in port shook
their heads occasionally.
SHIP'S PAPEHS HKI.D UP,
MMAMJI.VU SPECIAL OKDEBS
But when it came, to clearing. It was
a different matter. They wouldn't
issue the ship's papers till I had gone
to Uusheutter's Bay to see the naval
commander.
Now at that time the commander
knew what the Seeadler had done In the
Atlantic. He knew, I suppose, that she
was in /the Pacific. Had he said so to
me, out! and out. it would have been
cjulte another affair. But what he told
mo was this: that there were sub
marines in the Pacitlc, and wed better
sail without, lights and with every
precaution.
"Pish-tush!" said I to myself. "Sub
marinee, my eye'."
Still, there was no use in taking un
due risks, and it looked wise to take
the naval commander's advice, and
avoid the trade route. But as for be
lieving in the submarines, I didn't for
a moment at any stage of the game.
We left Sydney, as I said. April 26. j
and we sailed without lights and fol
lowed an out-of-the-way course. But
the wathT wasn't- with us for any
such care; storms and northerly winds
made it Impossible to make the north
ing before we reached Tahiti, and the
winds kept blowing us toward the So
ciety Islands, till we met the south
east trades. Had we kept on that way,
it would have taken months to make
San Francisco, and while that would
have been better than seeing the ship
shot to pieces by a raider, I still
snapped my fingers at talk of sub
marines?and didn't know what the
naval inan knew all the time, that the ,
Steadier had landed at Bio Janeiro j
with 000 persons taken from captured i
v?tsels in the Atlantic. Had I been I
told the truth, the chances are the i
Slade would have made port right J
and trig.
We had gone along on tiptoe, all the |
way up to the rquator. without a sign ;
of a pcriEcopr. and then it seemed that
the danger, if there were any, was
past.
SHIP KEPT IN DAHKMISS AS
M1IE SAILED NKAK EQUATOR
After wo. crossed the line, the Slade's
lights were put out, and for the first
time in fifty-three days we ran at.
night without even a glimmer through
the crack of the galley door. We
stood north, with the wind favoring
us, and, forgetting all about Germans
and the war, got ready for a quick run
to San Francisco and a good homecom
ing. The Slade was shined up as bright
as a silver dollar: she was freshly ;
painted, all inside a glistening white. |
outside black, and a pretty sight she j
mado too. And we were glad, after- '
ward, for all the lost labor of it, for j
the Germans wanted paint badly, and j
when they found not a drop left for
their own dirty and unkempt vessel,
they were as mad as mad could be.
The Slade was made spick and span for
the arrival?but it was for a different
arrival than we expected, one that will
stand for good and all.
Two days after we showed lights
for the first time, it happened.
I was in the cabin, at supper, and
the second mate. Johansen, was on
watch. He came to the door?he wasn't
clattcring or hurried, it wat Just part
of his duty to report a sail sighted? i
and said:
"Captain Smith, r sail astern."
I went above and aloft, taking my
glass up the mizzen rigging, half
way to the crosstrec. From the deck
not much was to be made out, but
from the rigging, with the glass. It
was easy to sec a full-rigged ship, a
three-master. She was coming up vcTy
fasL?faster than the wind, for we
were making only two miles an hour,
the wind being very light.
But more than that, I knew there j
were no full-rigged ships like this in
the Pacific. All those one knew of
could be accounted for, in Sydney or
in other port*:. Had we been a thou
sand miles farther east, she might have
been a ship bound for Portland for
grain, from around the Horn. If it
were a different time of year, she might
have been one of the Alaska packers.
But time and place weren't fight for
that, and 1 knew something was up.
And all the time she was coming up
entirely too fast for any proper ship. 1
"(iET OUT YOUR BEST RAfiS,"
ADVICE TO THE SHIP'S CREW
The crew were staring at her as she
rose bit by bit above the horizon;
somehow they seemed to think It was
a joke. Why, can't be told. Maybe
my manner led them to think they had
a joke on ine: maybe they thought it
was a lark of some kind; maybe they
were just glad to see a sail. As my
foot touched the deck again they
started to laugh.
"Some of you fellows had better put
on your best rags." 1 said, turning
forward, and they laughed again.
But in a moment or two they weren't
laughing, but scrambling into the fore
castle and digging into their chests
for the. very best of their clothes, and
anything else they might think worth
saving.
While the three-master was about
eight miles off, when the hull was
beginning to raise, as we could see
without going aloft, there was a heavy
flash.
There had been occasional squalls,
alternating with bright pieces of sun,
for wcj wero in the beginning of the
doldrums, between the southeast and
the northeast trades. .Vow the weather
continued broken, but dusk was clos
ing in: it was about 5:30 o'clock in
the evening. The. flare of the gun on
the raider stood out clear and red in
the* shadows.
Two miles astern there was a splash
and a fountain. It was plain they wero
firing at their extreme range; beyond
that and the rig. not much was to
be made out. for tho strange ship
hadn't come, near enough for us to
see the hull from the deck.
WI.MI CURSED FOR LIGHTNESS
AS SPOOK SHIP CREEPS .NEAR
There never wbh a light wind that
got cursed for its lightness as that
one did. Two miles an hour was the
best we could do, and this three
master coming down like a spook ship
with moro speed than anything in the
nature of sails could account for.
But whatever ia to be, will be, said
I, und I went below again to finish my
dinner. It's a good thing to lay in
suppllee whllo you have the chance.
The officer on watch cama down
again.
"What docs ho want?" he asked.
"Well," said I, with a mouthful. "T
can tell you this much: he's not salut
ing."
OVERTAKING THE 8LADE,
RAIDER CONTINUES FIRING
When 1 got on deck again it was
eienr she was overtaking the-Slade.
? **
Tho shell* weren't railing far behind i
now. slammiiiK up with a lazy splash;
they wore skipping ami bouncing on 1
tho water, knocking spray aside. as
th??y passed by us and fell ahead.
I learned something then that I
hadn t known before. Vou can see a
shell fired like that. In tho beginning
they ?'came at us. dark spots as big ns
a pea?five fcf*t trill, on end. they were,
with their cartridge casing. 1 m eaa
ured them on tho rniflrr. As long ti3
the Slado was beyond the maximum
ranee we could sen them wabbling and
then pluiiginu into the water, thick
end first. And wj could sn> them as
clearly wh?n they came lively and
sung past us.
The man at the wheel was a Rus
sian Finn. At every phot ho ducked
and dropped ttio wheel, like a new
soldier under rifle fire for the first !
time.
And the re?t of them didn't have any
time or thought to laugh at him. It
was no Joke to thorn now.
Nine shells they tired. and uncom
fortably .-lose they ^..t. Why we
weren't hit. Lord knows?and what a
shell would have done to that carco
of copra; it would be like a match
to celluloid! I
Nearer and nearer they edged, and
thir ship drawing up all the while, and j
the Stars and Stripes hanging limp |
over us in the brcezi-, ?o at last there i
wasn't any hope or Retting away in '
the darkness, and there wan nothing '
to It but heave to op i>e blown to bits. I
It wa,s- ilark when the ship came |
abreast, five or six ship length* away,
on the starboard side <>f us. There was
a moment of stillness, and we heard
voices from her above the rustle of
the waves. They were voiccs giving
orders to clew up the Hails and bring
the ship to six ship lengths away.
And they were German voices. Then
I knew our gor.-?e was cooked.
Who tho Ftrange ship, which sailed
faster than the wind, was, I still had
no definite idea a:i she ]a.v there,
scarcely more than a biscuit tos? from
us In the dark, but ccrtain it was that
she had overhauled us fnr no good
of ours.
She put off a motor-boat, and In a
few minutes the II. C. Slade. from
Sydney to San Francisco with copra,
was formally a prize of the German
commerce raider Seeadler. with a prize ;
crew of ten aboard under Prize Officer '
Preiss. and the German ship's doctor. '
who fell to promptly on my Scotch
whisky.
"Are there any wounded aboard?"
the doctor asked, and while he took
my answer that there was none with
out comment, it was clear he wouldn't J
have been surprised if there bad been, I
and except for the work it would have |
given him. wasn't especially overjoyed
that there weren't.
CAPTOH OVERHAULS PAPERS AMI
THE.'* ORDERS SHIP DESTROVED
Meanwhile the prize officer was i
rapidly overhauling my papers. When
he had ascertained who we were and
what we had, he Informed us we were
captured and that the Slade would be
dentroyed.
So much for the formalities; they
didn't take long.
And then the Germans turned to the
matter of utmost interest to them,
after the professional business in hand,
and they first question was:
"Have you any potatoes?"
^ e bad half a ton of them, and good
potatoes they wore, but the question
raised doubts among us as to what
we had to face on the Seeadler.
ALL EAfiKR roit newspapers
TO HEAR OF WAR'S PROGRESS
? Even before we were rounded up to
be taken to the pirate on the motor
boat, the Germans, officer, doctor and
men. were hunting for newspapers and
magazines?for everything that would
gi\e them word of the war's progress
This hunger of theirs was more in
teresting than the stomach hunger.
And after they had taken a glance
at the latest doings in Europe and In
the naval and submarine warfare, what
do you think they grabbed next?and
that with a zest of a youngster after
a new toy?
The funny papers.
There they were, pirate* by all the
rights of the sea. aboard a captured
schooner they had done their best to
sink when it seemed darkness would
let her escape, and their first thought
after finding if they were still at war.
were of "kartofele" and comic supple
ments.
One great fellow, with ham hands
and the hair of a gorilla, stood in the
light from the galley, and all grimy
as he was and with the sinking of
many ships behind him. he guffawed
and chuckled and snickered and nudged
his fellows over the doings of Polly
and Her Pal.-:.
COOK STtVS REFUND AND
SERVES EGGS ROILED AND FRIED I
Of all hands, only the cook was j
left ori the Slado. and from what ho '
said afterward, ho got less sleep that !
night than the rest of us. The Ger
mans had come upon the Slade's eggs
and for the time being funny papers
potatoes and everything else was for
gotten. Eggs?they had an appetite
for them after weeks of eggless cruis
ing?a passion! All night long they
kept at the cook, like children, giviric
him little chance to turn over and
It63 ul?wSieep' Nevrr ,fkss than one in
the half-hour they called him to cook
eggs; eggs fried, boiled, scrambled
bacon and eggs, ham and eggs ?every
way that a schooner's cook could do
them, and sonu- that he couldn't
"I got sick of it." he told me. "l
started in once to tell 'ein I'd give 'em
Increases strength of
delicate, nervous,
rundown people 100
per cent In ten days
. in many Instance*.
' *100 forfeit If It falls
as per full explana
tion tn large article
boon to appear in
this pnper. Used and highly endorsed
by former United State.'i Senators and
Members of Onncres*. well-known phy
sicians and former Ptibllo Health offi
cials. Ask your doctor or drugstst
i.limit It.
Shoo Prices Have
Advanced?But Wo
, Continue to Undersell
G. R. KINNEY CO.,
(Two Stores)
808 E. 31 it in. 10 E. Broad.
118 Emit Rroad Street.
WARREN PAINT CO.
700 W\ Broad Street,
Glass, Varnishes. Paints.
eggs a la eufomarlnc. anil chuck the
case overboard. Hut then, you nevor
cull tell how funny a German plrato
will think a thintc tiku that is. So I
didn't."
At dawn he was still cooking eggs,
and at daw it a chicken wan hatched
for the German* that they didn't like,
liurins the chase wo hud shown our
colors;, and when the hoarding party
camo on ii' the ilark they didn't notice,
or more likely forgot. When the ?ky
lightened there wasn't an American on j
the Seeadler who didn't ring In hi* j
head. "Oh. pay. can you see." for there,
over the German's prize, the American
flag s?t i 11 floated, and a mighty tine
sight it was in the growing light, with
the sun peeping up to pick out the
colors.
The commander of the Seeadler ?aw,
too. That was the first time I watched
him in action, and. though not the last,
there's no picture of him that stays
with me longer than the recollection of
him. all dignity Jettisoned In his rage,
waving his arms, jumping, cursing,
'berating everybody in elirhU and prod
ding the two signalmen who were w|y
wagglnR frantically to tho prlzo offlcor
to tako down tho colors.
For all the .Joy It brought us?and
wo wouldn't have missed It If we'd
had to give the Germans a whole cargo
of the paint and other things they
wanted no badly?the sorrow was Just
that much stronger when the colors
wero struck at last.
Boarding thct Seeadler that first nipht.
with the Slade Just a few specks of
light as we drew apart for the tlmo
being, was like arriving in a big.
strange city. Bustle, noise, a foreign
language, doubt, uncertainty, come
fear?it won't be forotten soon.
But there wero fellow-Americans
aboard, and in the face of all their
piracy, there was courtesy among the
German officers and some kindness
among the men.
Three days before, on June 14, In
approximately 150 west longltudo and
2 decrees eouth latitude, the Ameri
can schooner A. B. Johnson, owned by
Hind, Kolph & Co., had been captured
and riddled by the Seeadler, and
she carne upon us. 2 degrees north Ov
the equator?about 240 miles from'
the adzuro It was?there w?ro Captain
Petersen and his otTlcorw aad men,
ding us welcome.
(To Bo Continued Next Saturday.)^
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To Commandeer ferrie*.
WASHINGTO N', January 4.-TIm?
Shipping Board was advised by .
Sonato Commerce Committeo to ?night
to commandeer ferry-boats and trolley\
lines in the New York City district. If
necessary to transport workers to an4:'
from shipbuilding: yard?.
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Curtailment of Parlor Car Serrle*'
IV. Sc. XV. Ry. jg
Effective January 6Ui, parlor ? oar
on trains 5 and 6, now being operated
between Richmond and Roanoke, will,
be operated only between Petersburg
and Roanoke.
Bristol parlor car now being operat-'
ed on trains 3-13 and 4-11 will not b$!
operated east of Roanoke. ,w
C. H. BOSLET, vv
District Passenger Agent, v
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<JJialfiuner J&rot/Qm
Tanuary White Sale of
Women s Undeimuslins
In Well Lilted Styles at Marked Price Reductions
Those garments arc from sources of supply acknowledged second to none. Styled after
fashion's latest conceits?chic, dainty, generously cut and superior in the work- ?
manship in every detail. And yet, despite all this, the magnitude of our pur
chases permits us to make a minimum selling price on everything em
braced in this January Sale of White.
$1.25 and $1.39 Envelope Teddy Combi
nations at 89c
Made of sheer lone cloth and nainsook; elaborately trimmed top
and bottom, with lace and embroideries; some backs are trimmed
as well as the fronts; quite a few have> embroidered organdies,
motifn Intersected.
$1.50 and $2.00 Crepe de Chine and Satin
Camisoles at $1.00
Klbbon and Lace Strap styles; also regular corset cover effects. The?e
are beautifully trimmed with laces and Insertions. Van Dyke point
and bands; in French Val.. Venice Filet; some have touches of hand
work and hand-made flowers.
\
$1.50 and $1.75 French Nainsook and Lin
gerie Cloth Gowns at $1.00
Mado high and V-neck styles; some slipovers among the collection; the**
Gowns are attractively trimmed with lino quality laces and embroideries.
$1.25 and $1.39 Gowns
at 89c
Presented fn the slipover, high and V-neck
styles; made of fine nainsook and long cloth.
Ueautifully trimmed with laces and embroid
eries, Intersected with tucks.
$2.50 Finest Nainsook Gowns
at $1.39
Quite a few of theso are made high and V
neck, with three-quarter sleeves; others are
slipover styles. Elaborately trimmed with
laces and insertlngs intersected with medal
lions.
75c Dainty Corset Covers,
During This Sale, 50c
Made of fine, sheer long cloth and
nainsook. I.ace Jind embroidery
trimmed with ribbon-run beading;
many are trimmed back, as well as
front. Some have embroidered or
gandy motifs intersected.
$1.50 and $1.75 Nainsook
Envelope Teddy Combi
nations at $1.00
These dainty garments are trim
med top and bottom; quite a few
ore also trimmed back a:ul front.
Ten beautiful styles from which to
make a selection.
$1.00 Envelope Teddy
Combinations at 69c
Only about five doten of thes*
pretty garments to offer at this low
price; all are attractively trimmed
with laces and embroideries. Made
of soft, sheer lingerie and lone cloth.
$3.00 and $3.50 Crepe de Chine En
velope Teddy Combinations
at $1.95
So?ne have touches of hand-embroidery; quite a few
are lacc, ribbon or camisole strap top; all are trim
med back as well as front.
$1.25 Crepe de Chine and Satin
Camisoles at 89c
These are attractively trimmed with laces and em
broidered organdy both back and front; quite a few
have the ribbon strap across shoulder.
Featuring a Great Clearance
of Men's Suits and Over
coats Saturday!
A January Clearance that brings to the men of Richmond
unprecedented values. Wise men will buy a Suit and Over
coat at this price for next season. They will be fortunate to
buy the same qualities at almost half again as much!
$18.00 and $20.00 SUITS
and OVERCOATS
Made by llio best Men's Cloth
ing makers in Nov York and
Raltimore!
$18.00 and $20.00
SUITS
$18.00 and $20.00
OVERCOATS
Best materials?Cassimeres, Wow
teds. Mixtures. Flannels, Military, belt
ed models and conservative styles; aln*
Bio nnd double breasted; slash and patch
pockets. All the shades of greea,
brown, gray and mixtures, $14.75
at
Thero aro Bcltod Coats, Trenefc
Coats. Ulsters, Ulsterettes, form-flttln|p
and loose coats; single and double
breasted. In all the popular soft
ishod materials and colors -? grays,
browns, heather mixtures
at
$14.75
Sizes for Regulars, Slims and Stoats.
"Wcisbcrger's?Men's Store?Main Floor?Front*
Store Open Until 9 P. M. Saturday Evening.
SISL
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"Wo Sell Moro Merchandise for LESS Than Any Other Store*