Evening Star Newspaper, June 14, 1924, Page 8

ROMANCE OF CIVIL WAR REVIVED BY DISCOVERY ‘Bottle Containing Girl’s Name, Dug Up by Shovel, Recalls Story of Bride. By the /ssociated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., June 14.—A bottle containing a oit of parchment with the name “Prudence Bainbridge," dug up by a steam shovel in the down- town district yesterday, has revived the civil war romance and tragedy of a New England bride who followed her soldier husband through Sher- man's campaigns, but died while her husband marcred from “Atlanta to the sea.” He searched in vain until his death, in 1903, to find her grave, says the Atlanta Constitution today. Many of his letters to acquaintances here con- tained money to be used in an effort 1o locate her grave, and the finding of the bottle recalled the story. Pru- dence, aged nineteen, successfully «oncealed her identity throughout Sherman's campaigns up to the cap- ture of Atlanta, but when the north- ern army cut loose from its base, Pru- dence was left behind in Atlanta. The strain of her hardships brought on a fever, and when her husband could return to Atlanta the house where he had left her had been burned and all trace of her was gone. A skull found near the bottle was saved by J. J. Kelly, the excavating contractor. DREADNAUGHT MEN APPEAR AS HEROES IN DISASTER STORY _(Cont from First Page.) knots). 1 was not watching the sal- vos closely, as the ship was turning. Just as we completed the turn I no- tieed No. 2 turret fire. 1 don’t know how many guns. In five or ten sec- onds No. 2 fired again, and she seem- ed to fire on time. Noticed Brown Powder. “Then 1 noticed brown powder eoming out of the periscope holes and from between the turret and the barbette, “The navigators called to me: ‘It looks like fire in No. 2 We had received no word over the phones up to that time, but just then Chief Quartermaster C. O. Martin call. ed: ‘Fire in No. 2, sir.’ “Thinking he m have heard us talking about fire, the navigator call- ed back, ‘No, no’ but the quarter- “'lt was reported over the phone, sir.' Gave Orders to Halt. “In the meantime the salvos from the other guns were continuing. I tmmediately gave orders to haul out of the column and halt the ship. We sounded fire quarters, and cut all electric power. I got out of the con- ning tower “1 then saw the fire was serious and ordered flooding the magazines. “The turret continued to turn slowly to port, and came around to extreme astern to stop. We attempt- ed to get Mto the turret {from below and from hatches in the rear, but powder fumes made it impossible. “About this time the powder fumes began to slow down and white smoke came out of the cracks. Men with masks and oxygen tanks got forward and attempted to open the hatches They succeeded after ome hour and ers entered, but could not re- inside on account of the gas. Gun Fired Unexpectedly, “The division commander then ordered the ship to return to base. On the way back some of the bodies in the turret were removed. After we had anchored and Admiral W. V. Pratt came on board 1 was talk- ing with him when one of the guns in No. 2 turret fired, from what cause T am unable to say. This was while bodies were being removed to the hospital ship.” i Officers _aboard the Mississippi expressed the opinion that the man at the phone who reported the fire in No. 2 turret was Stanley S. Skrynas, chief boatswain'’s mate of West- brook, Me. List of Injured. The names, home addresses and ex- tent of injuries of men hurt in the disaster aboard the U. S. S. Missis- sippl yesterday were announced from official Navy headquarters late today as follow F. J. Rines, chief-turret captain; burns; condition serious; 1810 Henne- man avenue, Baltimore, Md. W. H. Ball, seaman, first class, burns; condition serious; route No. 6, Monroe, Ga. Joe 'Smith, quartermaster, third class; burns; condition serious; 638 West 2d street. Paris, K: Herbert O. Whited, chief quarter- master, burns; condition serious; San Diego, ‘Calif, Clyde S. Bentley, seaman, first class: {102 West i7th stréet, Kansas Mo. n L. Karlo, seaman, first class; burns; condition favorable; 4661 Grant street, Denver, Colo. Russel E. Sherer, machinist’s mate, second class: burns; condition fa- vorable; Washington Springfield, ) Victor A. Wilder, engineer, second lass: burns: condition favorable; 48 comb street, Webster, Mass. Ralph E. Harrison, seaman, class; burns; condition Greensboro, Ga. V. B. Smith, seaman, first class: mrns, condition favorable; Buckner, R. J. Maurod, seaman, first class; gontused wound apd abrasions; condi- on favorable; 2: rant avi 3 Rockford, TiI. Shue G. E. Martin, chief quartermaster; burns; condition favorable; 543 53d street, Brooklyn, N. Y. BIRDS THAT HIDE NESTS, avenue, first favorable; Meadow Lark Is Clever at Conceal- ing Place Where Eggs Are Laid. L. H. Soyder in American Foresta and Forest e. Although all birds hide their nests more or less, some seem to take espe- cial pains to do so. The meadow lark, which builds on the ground in the midst of a field, arches its nest over the grass, so that it is invisible from above, and can only be seen from close to the ground, and then only from in ront. The oven bird uses a like method on the ground in the woods, covering its nest with dead leaves, so that it is one of the hardest of all nests to find. The humming bird saddles its tiny nest to a branch, and though no leaves may hide it, it is all but invisible. The outside is covered with small pieces of lichen, fastened with spider web or plant fibers, so that the nest, which measures only about an inch’ across, looks exactly like a bump or excrescence un the branch. The wood peewee and several of the Nycatchers use a similar means of con- realment, saddling their nests carefully in_bare branches. The marsh wren builds a bulky glob- ular nest in the reeds and uses a unique method of concealing it. .Since the nest is large and not easy to hide, the wrens build several, only one of which is used. The other serve as “dummy” nests. The nighthawk lays its eggs on the #round, on a flat rock, or a gravel roof, and they match their background so well as to be nearly invisible. The whippoorwill lays sit eggs on _the ground in the deep woods, where both the bird and eggs match their sur- roundings to perfection. The hornbill female nests in a hole In a tree, and during incubation the taale imprisons her by sealing up the sntrance with mud. Only a small ope: ing is left, through which he suppl! her with food. The tailor bird sews e edges of a large growing leaf around “he nest, completely concealing it from biew, sav, LisT e ! IF THERE S A GAME WiTHIre A HUNORED miLES OF Doc HE LL BE Y 1T, WIFE OR MO w Here's Ten BLUE ¢ CruiPs To BaCK UP My JUDGMENT AnD VLL G WWE You 000S OF Two To ONE Now THAT OLO Doc DoRSEY’S MARRIED 1 s'PoSE WE LL NEVER S€EE HIM IN A POKER GAME AGAIN 1T'ee BE TouGH OrM Him Too FoR BE-LIEVE ME THAT BABY SURE DOES LOVE H'S PoKER. 14 Star Athletes Perished in Blast On the Mississippi By the Associated Press. SAN PEDRO, Calif., June 14.— Fourteen star athletes who had contributed many points toward winning the athletic trophy em- blematic of the fleet championship four consecutive vears for the dreadnaught Mississippi, perished in the fire aboard that vessel Thursday. They included twelve of the fourteen members of the all-navy whaleboat crew cham- pions, the base ball team's first baseman and one of the best foot ball players. TUndeveloped Coal Fields. England, one of the greatest coal producers, estimates her total supply of unmined 209,000,000,000 tons, writes Washburn Nature Magazine. Germany’ sources are supposed to be 467,000,- 000,000 tons; France has 19,000,000,~ 000, The greatest coal producers of Europe combined have less coal than North and South Dakota combined, and barely more than the state of North Dakota. There are single counties in North Dakota which probably have as much unmined coal as the total estimated in France. It is only within the last few dec- ades that the realization has dawned upon the northwest that in the lig- nite coal there exists an adequate alternative to the use of anthracite and bituminous both for power and domestic use. e Getting Back at Dad. From the Pittaburgh ChronicleTelegraph. “Papa, why can't we see the other side of the moon?” inquired Tommy. This was about the fortieth ques- tion he had asked on that particular night. ‘Because we can't!” answered the parent somewhat abruptly from the depths of the armchair, where he was vainly endeavoring to read the eve- ning paper. “Well, why,” began the little fel- low again, “why can't an elephant climb a tree?” . Father threw down his paper and jumped to his feet “What a boy vou are for asking questions!” he exclaimed. Td like to know what would have happened if I had asked as many questions as you when I was a boy.” “Perhaps,” suggested the young hopeful, “you'd have been able to answer a few of mine.” The Lure of Golf. An old Scotsman and a youth had spent_the whole day on the golf links and had had some remarkably close and exciting games. As they left for home the old man remarked: “Hey, mon, but it's been a gran’ da; It has” the youth assented. “Think ye could come again on the morrow, laddie?” ““Well,” the young man answered, re- flectively, “I was to be married, but 1 daresay 1 can put it off. PERPETUAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION Pays 6 Per Cent on shares maturing in 45 or 83 months. It Pays 4 Per Cent on shares withdrawn be- fore maturity Assets More Than $9,000,000 Surplus More Than © $950,000 Corner 11th and E Sts. N.W. JAMES BERRY......President " JOSHUA W. CARR...Secretary STUDEBAKER Just Drive It; That’s All ), "\ FE! | KNOwW ! X WHAT'S MATRIMONY Go™ Yo 9o WITH T ArywAy 7 7 Z1 Mississippi By the Associated Press. SAN PEDRO, Calif., June 14.—The explosion that killed fort aboard the U. S. 8. Mis: terday was not loud enough heard outside the gun turret in which it occurred, according to R. J. Mac- Avin of San Francisco, boatswain of the U. S. 8. New Mexico, who was one of the crew who escaped from the steel death chamber. “The big guns in the other turrets did not stop firing for at least ten minutes afterward,” MacAvin added. Like Lightning Streak. “What had happened in No. 2 tur- ret was not known around the other guns. There was a small explosion like a match being touched to a pile of celluloid, just a puff, then a little | then a bigger one that filled | flame, the turret like a continuous streak of lightning, suffocating smoke. “The turret was filled with sweat- ing, heated men and was crowded than usual, because, in ad- dition to its regular crew of forty- seven, our party from the New Mexico was there. Empty Powder Sacks. “The big guns had been fired and a shell had just been taken out of the gun in the third compartment. Along the wall were empty powder sacks. 1 noticed a 450-pound sack in accompanied by hot, | more | LU GwE YA 2005 oF Tem B OMNE THAT TW OLD oC Wit BE HERE WiTHIN Ar HOUR ! wHy Ourss YA CoutoNT KReee TuaT Boy AWAY WITH A SHoTGum! vou'LL NOTICE V¥ VE PUT A CHAIR AT TH' | TABLE FOR T DoC An CoumTED OUT A STACK OF CH1PS FOR 1M, LM NOT GIVEN To WASTING (1Y ENERGY, NOw. THAT'S SETTLED LE S PLAY PoxeER Ve GoT To GE T oM VELVET BeFore TH OpC GETS HERE An' COT Down MY Losses Ssoa SN Explosion Unheard Outside Turret, Survivor Says the corner nearest the gun carriage just before the trouble occurred. ‘Realizing the danger, we jump- | ed for the two hatches leading to the lower deck. Some of us were lucky only a few though—for the fire ran | all over the chamber and blocked the e who escaped could hear the shouts of the boys pinned in the com- partment They were not burwed to death nor mangled by the explosion. They were, most of them, just suf- focated.” — —— Efficacious at That. From the Loulsville Courier-Journal Mrs. Wombat, losing some sequins from her party gown, gathered them up and put them in a pill box until she could find time to sew them on Wombat, rummaging in | medicine closet for something for his found them and took two of REPAIRED $3 |} sa2 a written Guarantes | BRADLEY’S 3101 14th 8t NW. 1211 N, Y, Ave. N, the | Doumergue, Modest Little Man, Holds First By the Associated Press. PARIS, June 14—Gaston Doumergus, France's new president, a stocky little white-haired man, about 5 feet 3 inches in height, stood late this afternoon in full evening dress, with a much wilted white shirt, in one of the magnificent salons of the “Sun King’s” Palace re- ceiving the congratulations of members of Parliament and the newspaper men on his election. M. Doumergue's demeanor was’ as Turret Captain, Surviving Blast, Is Lucky Again By the Associated Press. SAN PEDRO, Calif., June 14— In 1907, when a turret aboard the battleship Georgia blew up and many men were killed and in- jured, F. J. Rhyne, now a chief turret captain, was a survivor, Today, swathed in bandages, Rhyne lay on a cot aboard the hospital ship Relief. one of the few survivors of the turret explosion which Thursday claimed the lives of forty-eight men aboard the U. S. 8. Mississippi —_— Can You Make a Palindrome. From the Boston Transcipt. A western columnist recently in- vited his contributors to send in some new palindromes, phrases which spell the same backward and forward. A classic example of the palindrome is this speech put imto the mouth of Napoleon: “Able was I ere I saw Elba.” Among the new ones sent in answer to the columnist's request was the following, purporting to be a sign which a stors manager placed over a rat-catching preparation composed of Dutch cheese and tar: “Rat trap made a la Edam, part tar.” Not half bad this, though we rather suspect the explanation about the sign. Not 50 in the case of another which comes to mind at this moment. Years ago, when “Red root” was popular as a cure-all, a druggist’s sign ran: “Red root put up to order,” which, in our opinion. is one of the easiest running, most natural and best of all the pal- indromes. Doctor’s Orders. From London Punch. Doctor—Your master is decidedly better, Thompson, but very irritable. He musn’'t be thwarted. Thompson—He expresses a wish to wring my neck, sir. Doctor—Well—ah—humor him. Official Reception modest as that of a person receiving congratulations on his election to the presidency of some local chamber of commerce. There is something pleas- ing, reminiscent of the American southern gertleman of the old_school, in France's new president. He was born in Nimes, not far from the Med- iterranean, and also not far from the home of Alphonse Daudet's romantic hero, Tartarin of Tarascon, which, it was declared by some of those pres- ent, augured well for his possession of a sense of humor and harmless exag- geration in story-telling. DUSE CREATURE OF WHIMS. Late Italian Actress Outdid Eccen- tricitiesof Bernhardt and Mansfield From the Kansas City Times. While she was still touring Amer- ica there appeared in the Tacoma Ledger a miniature character sketch of the late Eleanora Duse, who was “sald to outdo all the famous eccen- tricities of Bernhardt and Mansfield combined.” “Duse travels in state, with a pri- vate car full of friends from home, and never tolerates a strange face around her,” said the Ledger. Friends and managers obey her slightest word without question, though she is always upsetting plans. “Her whims are original. She re- fused for weeks to play in Detroit or Chicago because she thought those cities were so far north that she would freeze to death. She refused to pass through Colorado, though she was booked for Denver, because, read ing altitudes in meters instead of feet, she imagined she would be sev- eral miles up in the air and could not breathe. 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