Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 26, 1917, Page 2

+r 4 rs Be cape eens ee 2 By CARL D. GROAT IMERICAN FLEET, NOW AT SEA, IN TRAINING TO GAPTURE SEA TITL anim Dreadnaughts at Work Grinding Out Gun Crews | ~ Who Will Defend Merchant Ships; Hundreds ' Instructed in Task of U-Boat Defense while the of ship proceeds, and other drill | waters, cleaning includ- task United Press Staff Correspondent WITH THE AMERICAN GREAT|2£.@ Snappy setting up physical ex *LEET—America'’s great fleet for |°TC!S€ are under way he moment is a human factory Once ar as the secret orders call srinding out gun crews by the score |for, the war vessels spread out in ’ Boys from every corner of the land |#iant circle, targets are put overboard many of whom never saw a gun | and the gnunnery proceds ger than a Fourth of July pistol, ar In squads, the lad getting cured of “gun shyne re beside the guns, prac learning to point, sight and fire bi ghting, and firing the bigger can guns, upon which merchant craft rely for defense Germany's sub- marines. non, while the pop, pop of one-pound ers at the distant target gives a touca of realism to it all. against SCENE FROM “THE WHITE RAVEN” AT THE LYRIC THEATER SUNDAY Boys by the thousands are learning Aft, on all the ships, other crew ; é and many oth essons which are training with dummy guns—ont Juvenile Voices Blend hall make them better men, menjpounders and five pounders. The 5 2 5 with the stuff that enters into herc-! shell and the powder bag go in lik With Operatic Stars in ism and national vigor. For thre: |clockwork, and with a smash t Fi Bek days I have seen Uncle Sam’s grit!makes it seem as though these N. Y Red Cross Sing’ dreadnaughts with their men at work were in deadly combaat with a + : ors = and at play It is hard work and | enemy. . —— Good discipline. It is also good whute- | Up in the turrets with the tremer By the United Press some play—a well balanced progran dous 14-inch guns, other drills pro- NEW YORK, May 26—School boys na ane ee lees jand girls of New York will blend their a 8. . Most of those abroad are boys, but Ensigns, fine clean cut chaps, dir |yoices with those of opera stars to ect these tasks. er Mot all. There's a grandfather sign. There’s a Wall Street bri scrubbing decks and polishing brz There’s a Buffalo business man. There are college lads, boys out of grammar | sthool—folks out of every walk of life, to whom the lure of the sea and the call of patriotism sound louder than aught else. This is the story of three day the fleet. Later we shall see those great hulks night at the “Red Cross sing’ to be Their gun crews from maguzine to|.taped at the College of the City of _|turret run up close to 100 men. The}. York S hich h crews work like the great machines} Casa Sad igh sschool they man. The shell, the powder, th |Singing organizations wanted to par ramming, all go ahead like magic. | ticipate thet the number of voices w ; eae eer ee Src Wore out Cn | limited to 125 from each school. The charts just the range, elevation andj.) y on Ret Oe : lso on of the target. Th ensign yell |New York City orchestra, the Metro his directions down a multitude of |politan Opera House orchestra tubes, pushes buttons, flashes lights, | the Philharmonic to be blend ‘and then up in the secret “fire con-|into one immense organization for the ew many and i with are by day and by night, a sight to thrill trol’ tower, a man pushes some more | 0¢casion Governor Whitman wiil the most blase. We shall go with the |buttons and the whole thing shoots |Sperk. men into their daily work and play, |-—all the big guns at once, } ; = their waking and their sleeping, but! I sat up in a 14-inch double tu ann awhe gidart Ret uke lent wea today we are gunning with the lads,/ret with 2 chap named Erickson, taf Gay, te Alay ewe he ats shooting up imaginary German U-/|fresh from Annapolis only a short }“70UN4@: firing at the tagets, and whip . ong t shape te Hi P sf . time ago. Clean cut and commanding |0& me into shane us pols cf appearance, he had that gun crew] | Tt é ¥ toca) vorking like the captain of a football |®0°S- | (ne gun crews develop in- a baseball nine would have his men. |"i4¢ three months into expert marks- “Load,” he shouted, and the crew pee They go out now by the score, from the below ships men to the load- prey 43. do battle with any U-boat rs and rammers in his turret would |*™#t Sticks its nose ou of the waters Gunnery training constitutes the boats with a gusto and an accura.y that augure ill for any they may run cross in later days. We start at 5 a.m. The gre Greadnaughts roll a bit, with their yawning gun turrets sharp against the brightening sky. The ships seem straining to be “up and at ’em!” et off like fiends. hee 2 Hundreds—yee, thousands—of| “Good.’’ “That took——seconds,” nee ie: irs ebthe Rreae flect men are astir at the call of receille.;he’d yell back after a_particulalr! len ne Aas an ae an tt Ge They pile out of hammocks from ev |good performance. oubancsiZorjal the workithatilie ry nook and corner of the great! crafts. They must attend to their | that call of so many seconds, and it! ‘sual early morning labors, scrubbing|was the call to battle. The second te jahead of America in naval warfar- Over in the other turret, they heard And, it has willinghands and clea: heads for the jub cut out. ' 8000,000 Brazilians Are Japanese Freighters to Relieve Congestion of Shipping on the Pacifi: By the United Press TOKIO, May 26—In order to re- lieve the freight congestion on both the Japanese and American sides of the Pacific, the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Japan’s largest steamship company, {announced today it was prepared to 'pYace five newly chartered vessels on |the run from Yokohoma to S More than 80,000 tons of goods, vz lued approximately at $5,000,000, are piled on the docks at Yokohama and Kobe, awaiting shipment to America. Afflicted With Hookworm Says Rockefeller Board | . By the United Press RIO DE JANEIRO, Eight hundred thousand May jcommission( which is studying tropi- cal d es here, there are that num- ‘ker of “ankylostonmaise”’ cas state of Rio de Janeiro. This known as hook-worn in the United tatees. When members of the com- ission tried to doctor the natives, jthey fled into the jungle, believing |they were going to be taken for mili- }tary duty. iy The great anchor chains rattle and | / @mash, as they heave the anchor out|did it in- @own docks, shining brass, peeling po-|turret crew was a little greener than | Yatoes, getting everything ready f» |the others. Bn establishment which is a floating | down in itself. |splotches of freckles sang out. “Come on there. seconds, “ef the deep. The engines puff, a.|/up and give ’em h—ll.” gen below ships ‘down in the subcel Let’s pep chunks of coal or turn on gallons of oil. Bells and buzzers sound. The mevigator gives his orders and the ships are off, a line of ugly warrior , streaking the sky with black smoke clouds. Flags bearing strange devices sig nal out to the patrol ships, which “Well, he’s not so scurry forth to open the way for the | can’t see, he?”” dreadnoughts. 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