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Zeppelin Raid on London As
Described by An Eye Witness
ON the night preceding that of the
big raid in September of Zep
pelins on London there was a sort of
scouting visit during which bombs
were dropped in the vicinity of the
Woolwich arsenal, 5 or 6 miles from
the center of the metropolis. Motor
ing out with a friend to see the rath
er inconsiderable damage wrought in
this vicinity, the writer was shown
by the police a sheet of iron dropped
from the visiting machine, on w r hich
was stenciled in white letters about
an inch in height, “We are coming
back to give you English swine a
good blowing up tomorrow night.”
This “bit of ‘strafing,’ ” as an of
ficer called it, was treated entirely
as a joke and a bluff, but it was des
tined to be made good with a ven
geance.
Alarm Sent for Emergency Workers.
Phone messages calling out volun
teer firemen, constables, nurses and
other emergency workers, began to
be sent out before 10 o’clock on the
following, but the first the general
public knew of the coming of the raid
ers was through the nearing detona
tions from the direction of East End.
Instantly, from tenements, hotels,
and theaters, garbed in everything
from bath robes to evening dress,
London’s millions began pouring into
the streets and squares to “see the
fun,” and to not over one or two in
a thousand of all that multitude did
the raid sink home as anything more
than a tremendously dramatic and
highly diverting spectacle.
Searchlights Find Zeppelin.
From where I watched at my win
daw I saw one searchlight after an
other swing up and fasten on the Zep
pelins, much after the way the reatas
Of a band of cowboys accumulate on
For the year ending March 31, 1916.
GROSS RECEIPTS.
Balances in treasurer’s hands April 1, 1915.
Contingent fund $ 98.34
Pauper fund 191.48
Bridge fund 68.99
Road and bridge fund 3987
Special road fund 15.23
Road taxes and dragging fund 2,135.87
Road district N. 1 18.90
Road district No. 2 14.34
Road district No. 4 83.74
Road district No. 6 212.63
Road district No. 7 39.93
Road district No. 8 158.76
Road district No. 9 29.35
Road district No. 10 21.85
High school tuition 353.00
School district No. 1 452.86
School district No. 3 2,686.52
School district No. 5 646.80
School district No. 8 88.40
School district No. 9 18.47
School district No. 14 306.50
School district No. 17 76.63
$ 7,661.46
Road district No. 3 overdrawn 38.01
Total balances on hand $ 7,623.45
State taxes $ 3,068.68
Special charges 156.50
County taxes 3,702.95
County Superintendent salary 113.65
Soldiers’ Relief 83.94
School loan No. 5 115.03
County and state income tax 49.40
State school tax 679.25
District school tax 4,044.14
High school tuition 448.00
Road taxes 2,136.36
State auto fund 142.32
Amount raised by town 142.32
Pauper fund from county 28.00
Sale of dirt and bridge irons 45.80
County school tax 698.56
Contingent fund 100.00
Salary fund 275.00
Bridge fund 900.00
County aid 786.50
Road and bridge fund 400.00
County aid 555.00
Permanent road fund 1,150.00
By subscription 867.00
Under-run in tax roll 15.79
Total $20,703.69 $28,327.14
DISBURSEMENTS.
State tax $ 3,068.68
Special charges 156.50
County taxes 3,702.95
County superintendent salary 113.65
Soldier’s Relief 83.94
School district loan No. 5 115.03
State aid road tax 2,000.00
Orders paid out 12,033.51
Delinquent taxes 12.07
High school tuition 353.00
Income taxes paid county 10.72
$21,650.05
Balances in several funds March 31, 1916.
Contingent fund $ 83.67
Pauper fund 128.48
Salary fund overdrawn 25.00
Bridge fund 46.65
Road and bridge fund 65.24
Special road fund 15.23
Permanent road fund 17.00
Road money and dragging fund 2,185.69
Road district No. 1 57.32
Road district No. 2 4.22
Road district No. 3 8.91
Road district No. 4 overdrawn
Road district No. 6 8.39
Road district No. 7 66.29
Road district No. 8 overdrawn
Road district No. 9 overdrawn 14.93
Road district No. 10 134.71
High school tuition 448.00
School district No. 1 156.24
School district No. 3 2,543.66
School district No. 5 362.57
School district No. 7 117.13
School district No. 9 21.79
School district No. 14 301.21
School district No. 17 61.36
$ 6,729.76
Less overdrawn 61.36
ANNUAL REPORT TOWN OF SOUTH LANCASTER
(R. J. Bjurstedt in Popular Mechanics)
an especially refractory steer. But
there w’as no entangling, no stumbl
ing, no pause. Swiftly the raiders
came on, and presently the eastern
heavens were alight with the fires
that had sprung up in their wake. At
first there was no apparent connec
tion between the sudden bursts of
flame from the earth and the explos
ions, but as the machines came near
er, I began to observe that the latter
follow'ed the former at gradually de
creasing intervals. Every flash of
light heralded its corresponding deton
ation, and presently I noted that the
least lurid of the flashes were always
followed by the loudest explosions,
due, I soon decided, to the fact that
these were the explosive bombs prop
er —the ones loaded with the power
ful “T. N. T.” or trinitrotoluol — and
that the brighter bursts, with the dull
“knocking bombs, were the incendiar
ies, filled principally with “thermit,”
or powdered aluminum. This conjec
ture was quickly verified when, as
the bombs began to drop within half
a mile, I was able to identify the in
cendiaries beyond question by the
train from the L’jhted fuses.
No Anti-Aircraft Guns.
By this time I was able to see that
there were two machines, one follow
ing the other, but not quite in line. I
was especially astonished at the com
paratively low altitude at which they
seemed to be flying, and off-hand, at
that moment, I shoul probably have
estimated this to have been about 2,-
500 feet. Later reflection convinced
me that this false impression was
traceable to the fact that I had never
before seen an airship of over half
the size of the average Zeppelin, and
that as a consequence—there had
been nothing to compare them with
as a linear unit —the great length of
GRANT COUNTY HERALD, LANCASTER, WISCONSIN, WEDNESDAY APRIL 12, 1916.
Balance on hand April 1, 1916
$28,327.14
CONTINGENT FUND.
Balance on hand 98.34
Appropriated 100.00
L. N. Vesperman 17.00
L. N. Vesperman 2.00
L. N. Vesperman 14.00
Grant County Herald 4.00
Andrew Zenz 14.00
H. Macke 19.50
No. 68. Wm. Pink 3.00
No. 74. H. E. Rothe 6.00
No. 88. Andrew Zenz 2.00
N. 89. Henry Macke 2.00
No. 90. Wm. Pink 2.00
No. 91. C. A. Case 3.50
Interest Peoples State Bank 24.31
A. R. Dewey mileage 1.36
Balance 83.67
Total $ 198.34 $ 198.34
PAUPER FUND.
Balance on hand 191.48
No. 44. Mrs. F. C. Basford per
Gardner 10.50
N. 45. Gus Posey 17.50
No. 50. Mrs. Basford per Gardner. 7.00
No. 70. Mrs. Basford per Gardner. 7.00
No. 73. Mrs. Basford per Gardner. 7.00
No. 75. Mrs. Basford per Gardner. 7.00
No. 76. Mrs. Basford per Gardner. 7.00
No. 77. Mrs. Basford per Gardner. 7.00
No. 78. Mrs. Basford per Gardner. 7.00
No. 79. Mrs. Basford per Gardner. 7.00
No. 80. Mrs. Basford per Gardner. 7.00
No. 86. Mrs. Basford per Gardner. 7.00
By county 28.00
Balance 128.48
$ 219.48 $ 219.48
SALARY FUND.
Appropriated 25.00
A. R. Dewey, treasurer 100.00
J. C. Bailie, assessor 100.00
C. A. Case, clerk 100.00
Amount overdrawn 25.00
$ 300. $ 300.00
BRIDGE FUND.
Balance on hand 68.99
Appropriated 900.00
County aid 786.50
No. 63. Burns Bros. 1,708.84
Balance 46.65
$ 1,755.49 $ 1,755.49
ROAD AND BRIDGE FUND.
Balance on hand 39.87
Appropriated 400.00
Appropriated 555.00
No. 5. C. A. Case 25.50
No. 7. H. M. Brown 15.00
No. 8. C. A. Case 135.38
No. 19. Ed Taylor 13.75
No. 20. John Morehouse 2.50
No. 21. G. F. Robbins 7.75
No. 22. Harry Swab 1.15
No. 28. Ed Taylor 65.25
No. 29. L. Vesperman 3.00
No. 31. Martin Reynolds 350.00
No. 34. C. A. Case 7.75
No. 35. John Heinrichs 75.00
No. 36. Wm. Pink 35.00
No. 37. Wm. Krohn 70.00
No. 41. John Heinrichs 25.00
No. 51. Henry Carroll 17.00
No. 52. Brittingham-Hixon Lumber
Company 48.20
No. 43. S. M. Kerr 2.26
No. 55. Pat May 1.85
No. 58 . J. M. Wunderlein 6.10
No. 59. Ziegelr Bros. 3.51
No. 60. Fischer & Pagenkopf 5.70
No. 63. John McMahon 9.90
No. 82. Brittingham-Hixon Lumber
Company 23.10
Fuestenberg 4.50
Town of Potosi 14.50
Burns Bros. 20.00
C. A. Case 6.80
C. Fischer 16.70
Lumber Company 9.0 S
Balance 65.24
$ 1,040.67 $ 1,040.67
SPECIAL ROAD FUND.
Balance on hand 15.23
PERMANENT ROAD FUND.
Raised by towns 1,150.00
Raised by subscription 867.00
Paid county treasurer 2,000.00
the raiders made them seem much
lower than they really were. It is
probable that on this occasion they
were flying at about 6,000 feet, con
siderably lower than in the October
raid following. It is revealing no mil
itary secret to say that at this time —
September—London did not have a
single high-powered anti-aircraft gun,
such of these as had been manufactur
ed up to that time having been rushed
to the fleet, the east coast, or to
France and Flanders. This state of
things, was, undoubtedly, known to
the Germans, and they took full ad
vantage of it in venturing nearer the
earth than they are ever likely, vol
untarily, to come again in the course
of an English raid.
Incendiary Bombs Start Fires.
The way in which the fires were
mastered was one of the most remark
able features of this raid. For three
or four miles, across the very heart
of London, bombs had been dropped
on an average of something more
than one to the block. There were
intervals of three or four blocks here
and there that were untouched, but
on the other hand, several bombs of
ten landed close together in a single
block. Probably over half of these
were incendiary bombs, and among
these —because they were lighted be
forehand —there must have been few
failures to explode. Indeed, all of the
several unexploded bombs which were
shown me after each raid were of the
nonincendiary type, containing eith
er T. N. T., or picric acid. These
rarely, if ever, started fires, even on
explosion. From a short distance, the
explosion of the T. N. T. bombs was
marked by a sudden brilliant flash,
while a warm, flickering, red glow al
ways followed the dulled detonation
of the incendiary bombs. If the latter
struck in a street or square, the g’ow
died down in 20 or 30 seconds; if a
building, there were usually flames
bursting from the roof inside of a
minute or two.
Fire Department Works Hard.
At the moment the last bomb was
dropped, the glow of countless fires
stretched away to the northeast as far
as my eye could see. Ten minutes
later —when I came up again after the
firing had ceased —there were only 4
or 5. One of these was from a brok
en gas main in an alley, and another
from a celluloid factory in the East
End, wnieh burned all night. This
most creditable work was due entire
lyto careful previsionary measures.
The London fire department was al
ways an efficient one, and care had
been taken not to weaken it by en
listments for the army. A large num
ber of volunteer firemen had also been
taken on and trained and these were
summoned by telephone as soon as
the Zeppelins were reported from the
coast.
Freak Effect of Bombs.
Like all high explosives, those used
in the bombs dropped on London dis
played a characteristic “freakiness.”
A bomb which struck almost exactly
in the center of Queen’s Square, shat
tering the fronts of several hospitals,
and breaking every window within
two blocks, only made a hole about
four feet across and three feet deep
in the soft earth of the lawn upon
which dropped. Similarly, in Kings
way, in the October raid, a bomb
which killed or injured every passen
ger in a motor bus passing at a dis
tance of 100 feet hardly cracked the
pavement 200 yards away made a hole
almost big enough to drive an omni
bus into, at the same time exerting
enough force upward to break everv
pane of glass in India House, Lon
don’s largest and most imposing office
building. The tons and tons of plate
glass fragments falling to the side
walk at this point literally cut to
pieces several men who were passing
at the moment of the explosion, their
remains having been found half buried
in the sharp fragments. I was at the
door of a theater on the Strand when
Balance on hand 17.00
Total $ 2,017.00 $ 2,017.00
ROAD DRAGGING FUND.
Balance on hand 2,135.87
State auto fund 142.32
Raised by town 142.32
Road money 2,136.36
Road district No. I. 228.22
Road district No. 2. 224.62
Road district No. 3 225.62
Road district No. 4 227.62
Road district No. 6 327.62
Road district No. 7 319.62
Road district No. 9 219.62
Road district No. 10 384.62
Balance on hand 2,185.69
$ 4,556.87 $ 4,556.87
ROAD DISTRICT NO. 1.
Balance on hand 18.90
Tax 1,96.60
Dragging 31.62
No. 39 Road work 39.00
No. 13 Road work 142.90
No. 64 Carl Brandemuhl 7.90
Balance 57.32
$ 247.12 $ 247.12
ROAD DISTRICT No. 2.
Balance on hand 14.34
Tax 193.00
Dragging 31.62
No. 14 Chas. L. Day 22.45
No. 27 Road work 123.20
No. 49 Road work 78.69
No. 87 Chas. L. Day 10.40
Balance 4.22
$ 238.96 $ 238.96
ROAD DISTRICT NO. 3.
Amount overdrawn 38.01
Tax 194.00
Dragging 31.62
No. 16 Road work: 115.60
No. 51 Road work 63.10
Balance 8.91
$ 225.62 $ 2255.62
ROAD DISTRICT N. 4.
Balance on hand 83.74
Tax 196.00
Dragging 31.62
No. 9 C. A. Case 81.00
No. 15 Road work 74.65
No. 32 Road work 119.37
No. 38 Road work 29.75
No. 46 Matt Manazek 9.00
No. 80 Road work 9.85
Overdrawn 12.86
$ 323.62 $ 323.62
ROAD DISTRICT NO. 6.
Balanceo n hand 212.63
Tax 296.00
Dragging 31.62
No. 4 C. A. Case 4.60
No. 18 Road work 324.26
No. 23 Wm. Udelhofen 2.25
No. 33 Road work 161.00
No. 43 P. J. Fuerstenberg 6.75
No. 62 Road work 13.50
No. 72 M. Snyder 9.00
No. 85 Road work 10.50
Balance 8.39
$ 540.25 $ 540.26
ROAD DISTRICT NO. 7.
Balance on hand 39.93
Tax 288.00
Dragging * 31.62
No. 12 Road work 171.87
No. 25 E. L. Holzinger 18.25
No. 56 Road work 103.14
Balance 66.29
$ 359.55 $ 359.55
ROAD DISTRICT NO. 8.
Balance on hand * 158.76
Tax 182.00
Dragging 31.62
No. 6 C. A. Case 180.00
No. 24 Road work 55.90
No. 48 Road work 136.98
Overdrawn .50
$ 372.88 $ 372.88
ROAD DISTRIICT NO. 9.
Balance on hand 29.35
Tax 188.00
Dragging 31.62
No. 11 Road work 88.30
No. 42 Road work 57.25
No. 54 Road work 102.05
this particular explosion occured.
and the sound —half road, half tinkle —
of the plateglass falling from the
great office buildings along Kingsway
w r as one of the strangest, wierdest
noises I ever heard.
Fifty Killed Within Three Blocks.
It was in this district that the
heaviest loss of life so far inflicted in
any of the London raids occurred.
The driver of the motor bus I have
just spoken of was blown from his
seat across the broad sidewalk, and
up against a billboard, leaving a
bloody smudge across the smiling fea
tures of a popular stage beauty whose
poster was affixed there. It was at
this point within three minutes of the
explosion, and the dead and injured
were being laid in rows along the
sidewalk. Several of the trunks were
dismembered, and two or three of the
bodies were so limp as to suggest
that most of the principal bones were
shattered. The fact that practically
every person on this bus was either
killed or badly hurt has led me to be
lieve their injuries resulted from be
ing blown against something by a
current of air rather than from frag
ments of the bomb. The police had
thrown up barriers before I could get
to the point where the worst damage
had been done, in front of a public
house or saloon, but even from a dis
tance of fifty yards I was able to see
a long row of dead that had been
laid out on the sidewalk. In all, I
must have seen close to a score of
unmistakably dead in this one district
and I am inclined to believe that the
popular report that fifty were killed
within three blocks is not far wrong;
this in spite of the fact that the offic
ial bulletins admitted a total of only
fifty-six killed by this raid in all of
London.
Ordered Not to Talk of Raid.
From my own observations, and
from conversations with doctors and
volunteer firemen and constables —
the “regulars,” I might explain, are
under strict orders not to talk —I
have formed these general conclu
sions regarding injuries inflicted by
Zeppelin bombs: That the very large
majority of these were received on
No. 71 Road work 4.50
No. 73 Road work 11.80
Overdrawm 14.93
ROAD DISTRICT. NO. 10.
Balanceo n hand 21.85
Tax 353.00
Dragging 31.62
x’o. 1 Bert Keene ’ 3.00
No. 10 Road work 89.34
No. 17 John Platt 3.50
No. 47 John Muench. . 7.35
No. 61 Road workl 166.32
No. 64 John Platt 2.25
No. 84 Wm. Pink 4.00
Balance 134.71
$ 406.74 $ 406.74
HIGH SCHOOL TAX.
Balance on hand 353.00
Approp. tax 448.00
June 30, 1915 paid to R. Meyer 353.00
Balance 448.00
$ 801.00 $ 801.00
SCHOOL DISTRICT. NO. 1.
Balance on hand 452.86
Dist. tax 307.84
State tax 77.00
County tax 79.24
May 15, 1915 paid to treasurer 452.85
March 21, 1916 paid to treasurer 307 84
Balance 156.28
$ 916.94 $ 916.94
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 3.
Balance on hand 2,686.52
Dist. tax 2,231.30
State tax 154.00
County 158.36
June 30, 1915 paid to treasurer 2,686.52
Balance 2,543.66
$ 5,230.01 $ 5,239.18
SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 5.
Balance on hand 646.80
Dist. tax 387.82
State 178.75
County 183.82
April 6, 1915 paid George Wieland 646.80
March 21, 1916 paid Geo. Wieland 387.82
Balance 362.57
$ 1,397.19 $ 1,397.19
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 7.
Dist. tax 466.84
State tax 57.75
County tax 59.38
Paid March 20, 1916 Chas. Cox 466.84
Balance 117.13
$ 573.97 $ 573.97
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 8.
Balance on hand 88.40
Dist. tax 188.86
State tax 30.25
County tax 31.11
April 2, 1915 paid C. A. Bryhan 88.40
March 31, 1916 paid C. A. Bryhan 242.32
$ 330.72 $ 330.72
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 9.
Balance . 18.47
Dist. tax 16.09
State tax 2.87
County tax 2.83
\lay 15, 1915 paid Wm. Westing 18.47
Balance 21.79
$ 40.26 $ 40.26
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 14.
Balance on hand 306.50
Dist. tax 250.99
State tax 148.50
County tax 152.71
April 2, 1915 paid treasurer 306.50
Feburary 12, 1916 paid W. Krohn 250.99
Balance 301.12
$ 858.70 $ 858.70
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 17.
Balance on hand 76.63
Dist. tax 202.40
State tax 30.25
County tax 31.11
June 3, 1915 paid Chas. Day 76.63
March 21. 1916 paid Chas. Day 202.40
Balance 61.36
$ 340.39 $ 340.39
Respectfully submitted by
ANDREW ZENZ,
WM. PINK,
HENRY MACKE, Jr.
the streets rather than in buildings,
and that of those hurt in buildings,
nerly all were occupying upper rooms;
: that of those injured on the street
probably not over 5 per cent were
struck by fragments of bombs, and
that in the case of those dying from
the latter cause, death usually came
several days after the injury as a
consequence of the almost inevitable
blood poisoning.
BEING ADEQUATE.
——
A great psychologist has said:
“Life is forever asking you this ques
tion. Will you be adequate— will you
really be adequate to specific details?
and if you say, I will try to be ade
quate, you begin at shat point to be
adequate.”
It is the habit of being adequate in
the everyday emergencies of life that
distinguishes the great and successful.
I reading the life of Charles Froh
man, the great theatrical manager,
nothing impresses you so much as his
power of meeting conditions with
quiet confidence. It is said that so
absclute was his confidence in his own
ability to direct the work of his com
panies that his actors rarely even
thought of opposing him. His own
confidence, which was not a shallow
affair based on vanity, inspired an un
bounded confidence in all those with
whom he hadi ntimate dealings.
A large self-confidence is built up
by positive action and positive de
cision in the numberless small things
of life. Form the habit of being ade
quate in the small things. Don not
allow yourself the luxury of indecis
ion. Indecision makes for all kinds
of weakness and failure. Mark out
your course to the best of your abil
ity and stick to it until you see some
good reason for changing. Do not
waver even in your own mind. Be
adequate to the small things and you
will be ready for greater things.—Wm.
E. Towne in Nautilus.
You never realize how dearly you
have paid for your whistle until you
try to sell it.