New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 27, 1917, Page 14

FENDS HIS ]mmmcnms WUST ANSWER TO | . CHARGES OF VIOLATING OUR LAWS ! ls Practicable gton. Clark, one of the ‘who first proposed’ the . bullding ' program and |’ iy been removed from ment’s emergency fleet by ‘Major General Geo. becauss of hls criticism Gosthals' attitude toward , hag Wwritten the follow- Of the ‘wooden ship fight the official organ of l congtruction of an emer- | of cargo carrying craft we Wwere to defeat the | : wu'ln.numd last spring ahipping board ‘with the ap-'| 2 411 the authorities in Wash- and with hearty endorsement | 6 preas and ‘public. It start- | favoring wind ana tide, but, ; . an obstruction and: stopped : | a off and continue its voy- ‘& succelistul conclusion rests public. qih was brought ‘to -the ship- d last March by two en- " The board, and especially nen, Mr. Denman, were ‘to sse the possibilities in wood- D nstroction and at once re- two, engineers to make de- {nvestigation ‘as to the coun- le put-put of ships, en- 8 &ccessories. " inyestigation proved eonclus the propased fleet of & poden =hips could easily Uk)yfi!mflt Tt is to e | mind that this program for uction of . wooden . ships 'this service. Captain lln Thierichens, known all ‘over the world for hid exploits while commander of the German sea raider Prins, Eitel Friedrich, which sbught refuge in the United States after her raiding career, was brought to Phila- delphia from Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., fo stand trial on the charge of conspiring to, amuggle nineteen chronometers from his vessel and. the Kronptins ‘Wilhelm while both raiders were at League Island. Two other = charges are held against the captain, one in- dividually on the smusgling charge and the other for violation of the Mann white slave act. He was indict- grand jury in Philadelphia on the three charges. The picture shows'ap- tain Thierichens as he left the jail in Atlanta, Ga., to begin his trip north, B e Sy D e e S view to their quick construdtion. Yet they were good for & #peed of 103 knots and they were seaworthy as_ their approval for insurance showed. ‘'Their peculiar design had the distinct advantage of making it possible to bulld them with the use of ordinary carpenters and . bridge bullders, and only a minimum num- ber of skilled ship carpenters. Also a very large proportion of the total eut of lumber could Be used in thelr construction. : Definite information had _been sought as to the number of ships of these designs that could be built in It waa the idea of the shipping board not only to call upon the services of the ship builders, but 1| wpon those of general contractors as ly fitted for the job, He had ex- d Rimsel? ¥s in sympathy with jand his splendid record on ‘Panama csnal had given him the nos$ of the country. When undertake the.work, how- ri'he refused, saying that he knew ing of shipbuilding, and felt that 3 not the man for the place: said that his success on the Canal been due: to the one fact that svery /detail of the work anyone else—that he did Kknow anything about -hl»ulld #nd that it would take him & to learn. When it was urged him that he could employ ex- he .insisted that no-. concern A succeed whase ‘head depended ‘subordinates. for information. o' board felt that he was the ‘saan. who should be entrusted this work and, a little later, the ent also requested him to un- /e It. General Goethals there- i patriotically put aside his per- 1 ‘objections. and acceded to the st, albeit, he did so Nluetlnfly ynder protest. § The preliminary iuve-tlnt(vn had de it ‘eyident that wooden ships of ordinary.or conventional design, rze emough for economical trans- [ Atlantic service, would be dimcult to jbuild ‘rapidly in large quantities. To of highly specialized >lhlp &t work on each ‘hull, and | But fortunately the board secured two designs ‘obyisted these difficulties. One by ‘William ‘{‘ ‘Don- of New York, and the other by . 8. Hough of S8an Francisco. of these designs had been care- studied by the American Bureau Hhipping and had been given the rating for insurance. That roval attests the seaworthiness of e two designs. The curved lines the conventional ship design were nated as far as possible. These were not designed for beauty .Digh, gpeed, but solely with & rms with enormous orgenisa- ‘who could undertake this emer- gency work on a vast scale. Writ- ten offers were recelved from ten contractors alone, offering to bulld 498 ships of these designs in twelve ‘months, and 786 of them in eighteen: months. Other well known contract- ors had previously offered to build ships '0f one or the .other of th de- stgns, X Major General Goethals was un- willing to accept either the Hough or Donnelly type. He was reluctant to depart from the conventional lines of ship design, and shortly after he as- sumed “office as head of the Emer- gency Fleet Corporation, which is the subsidiary corporation of the ship- ping board charged with the con- struction of the merchant ships, tel- ‘agrams were sent to all of the build- ‘ers and contractors telling them to stdp. the bduilding of ways and other preparations they were making to get ready for the construction of the Hough or Donnelly type of wooden ship. ' Naturaily this raised a storm of protest from those firms for their men were thrown out of work and they suffered heavy financial loss by this disruption of the business they were entering for the government. No attention was paid these protests and everything was suspended pend- ing the completion of a new conven- tional design of wooden ship. It was at this time that the project for the construction for the govern- ment of steel ships was developed. The steel companies were enabled by government action to put aside exist- ing private contracts and offer steel for the building of the govern- ment ships. Plans were developed to standardize this construction and to fabricate parts of ships in bridge shops. This development undoubt- edly promises to increase construc- tion of steel ships. But in the exist- ing grave emergency this cannot pos- #ibly be offered as a.reason for aban- doning the construction of wooden ships nor even of curtailing the number of wooden ships that eould, by’ resort to evesv means, be built. ‘The offers -on wooden ships, ag I have stated above, were for the de- fivery\ of five hundred of them within twelvé months and deliveries would commence next November. Deliveries on the stee] ‘ships prastically would not commence until April 1, 1918, It is an axiom amongst firemen that the first filve minutes at a fire are worth the next five hours. And so it i» with regard to the submarine menace. The members of the Brit- ish War Mission told the Council of the National Defense that one ship before January 1, 1918 was worth six ships the following spring. They sald that if they could be assured of adequate tonnage through the winter they felt that they could weather the storm. However, few steel ships can -be_produced in. time, 3708t .0f .the ships on which quick deliveries could be obtained would be the wooden ships, and they might decide the issue of the war. The program of General Goethals apparently contemplated about three mfillion tons of shipping in eighteen months. Even if all of the wooden ships that possibly could be obtained in addition to this were built it would only be a total of five million tons in eighteen months and that would not be nearly enough at the present raté of 16ss. Discarding the Hough and Donnelly designs, General Goethals decided upon a design drawn by The- odore E. Ferris, & well known ma- rine architect. The Ferris type of ship conformed to the conventional design: Unquestionably it was a bet- ter ship than the Hough or Donnelly type. But for the purposes intended, it had this one great disadvantage— that it could not be bullt quickly nor in large numbers. Its construction required a large number of ship car- penters and these are nowhere avails able in this country today.» In decid- ing upon the Ferris type of ship General Goethals cut down the wooden ship program to about one- fifth of its original size. I wish to note here the fact that Mr. Ferris himself as consulting arch- itect for General Goethals approved the Housgh design. The adoption of the Ferris dldcn only meant that to get a needlessly better type of ship—in other words, to play safe—it. was proposed to abandon about four-fifths of the wooden ship program, and, more im- portant still, to postpone the date of delivery of the ships. In this grave war emergency the two controlling factors are time of delivery and the number of ships It is a question of how many ships you can get over to the allied ports and how quickly. In this issue' there As no question of comparison of steel ships and wooden ships. There is no question of whether the Ferris type of ship ia generally speaking a better type than that designed by Mr. Hough or Mr. Donnelly. It is solely and entirely a question of whether the ships can be built in time to aid our allies and Qur country in this war. The shipping situation is constant- ly growing worse. The submarines sank 3,000,000 tons of shipping in the first' four months of this year. Italy's fighting power is crippled by lack of coal. It is sald that ten ship- loads of coal In Italy would release an army corps for fighting. Italy needs 250,000 tons of shipping ‘per month and is recelving no more than fifty thousand tons. The French and Ital- ijan navies suffer for lack of coal. Russia has bought in this country 800,000 tons of material which she wishes to ship. It is =aid that 380,- 000 tons of this is now waiting on our wharves for ships. The British situation has been made clear by the words of Lloyd George that “There are three things needed to insure victery, the first is ships; the second is ships and the third is more ships-” Under these circumstances can we af- ford to overlook any avallable re- source that will help us in the quick* construction of ships? It is not & questiop. of how Ilong these ships will last -or what value they will be after the war. It 1is solely a question of getting as many ships as we possibly can and 'as quickly as possible. Sooner or later we will awake to our need of ships— and when we do we can have them, but we must awaken to this need be- fore it is too late. Let us hope that Germany will not be able to say of us as she said of her enemies early in the war, “Too few and too late.’ NEW BRITAIN HEARS | CALL FOR SOLDIERS (Continued from First Page) ceived by Corporal Boudouin yester- day afterrioon, six more had been re- ceived up ‘to 11 o’clock this morning. They are Adam Sochocki of 50 Sexton street, Frank Kordek of 11 Orange street and Jacib Lysokowski of 99 Gold street -(these two ' men applied for enlistment: in the National Guard ' yesterday, mistaking it for the regu- lar army) Antoni Keklewski of 39 Silver street and Joseph Okula of 87 Gold street, who are to leave Satur day,and Dany Degrissati, who left this afternoon. Corporal Boudouin states that he can enlist men only for the fleld artillery, the Infantry aor the medical corps. | Up to 11 o'clock this morning the Company E recruiting detail had re- ceived eighteen applitations for en- listment. They are: Joseph Kalan- chos, Joseph Cm,mke. Lauis H, Wil- cox, Matos Baba,!Samuel Belfry, Wil- liam Hoffman, Joseph Okulir, Frank Pasiquale, Stephen Heslin, John Burns, Jaseph Grasso, G. Salvatore, Santo Motta, Baba Kasbarian, 8. H. George, - George - Sinamarié, Harry Schroeder, and Frank Burda. Home dum to Help. At a meeting last night of Company H, First Regiment, Home Guard, it was decided that this organization should lend active aid to the recruit- ing committee appointed by the mayor in the conduct of this week’s celebra- tion. To this end the entire company will take part in the mammoth cele- bration tomorrow- (Thursday night.) The membership of the company wiil meet at the Armory promptly at 7 o’clock. They will then march to the green at Central park, where they will join the parade that will precede the patriotic meeting and rally at the Grammar school. More This Afternoon. Up to 2:30 o'clock this afternoon four more men applied for enlist- ment. Two of them, Jacob Zypko of 77 East Lawlor street, and David Mel- lan of 25 Lyons street, applied for enlistment in the regular army and the other two, Willlam Gregory and Herbert Hitchcock, applied for en: rollment with Company E. Little Response Throughout Nation. ‘Washington, June 37.—With re- cruiting week half gone, war depart- ment officials estimated today that the regular army still is more than 50,000 imen short of war strength. On the face of the returns no far it is apparent there has been no gen- eral response among men of military age to the president’s call for 70,000 volunteers during the week to fill up the ranks of the regular establish- ments. PICKETS ARRESTED AT WHITE HOUSE Women Threaten to Go to Jail Rather Than Pay Fines Washington, June 27—The war fund of the militant Suffragists of the National's Woman’s Party was depleted to the extent of $225 yes- terday for nine of their pickets, ar- rested for their activities at the gates to the White House, were required to deposit $25 each at police head- quarters to guarantee -their appear- ance before Judge Muilowney in the police court today to answer a charge ot violating the Peace and Order Act The pickets taken into custody were Mrs. Annie Arneil of Wilming- ton, Del Miss Maude Jamison of Norfolk, Va.; Miss Virginia Arnold of Asheville, N. C.; Miss Lavinia Dock of Philadelphia; Miss Hazel Hunkins of Billings, Mon Miss Gladyce Greiner of Baltimore; Miss Vivian Pierce of 8an Diego, Cal.; Miss Ka- therine Morey of Boston and Miss Mabel Vernon of Reno, Nev. ‘The six first named were arrested in front of the White House shortly before noon. They had .marched across Pennsylvania avenue from their headquarters on Madison Place, car- rying the yellow flaming banners which have been the cause of most of the disturbance in front of the executive mansion during the week. A bit of unavailing strategy was practiced upon the police force In the hope of throwing them off their guard. While suffragists without banners went in the western gate of the White House another detachment flying banners aloft, were rushed to the east gate. No sooner had the women taken their stand than several policemen, assisted by two police women, grabbed the banners and placed the pickets under arrest. In automobiles they were taken to police headquarter: GERMANS IN PLOT TO RUIN NORWAY’S TRADE (Continued from First Page) but no explanation was given as to why it had remaincd hcre so long. The explosives were found in all manner of articles, including glass vials, fountain pc pencils, ciga- rettes and tobacco. At the examination of Aron Rau- tenfels, a German citizen, and others arrested In conhection with the case, it was admitted that explosives were also to have been placed on steamers bound for America. ANXIOUS TO WORK AT MUNICIPAL FARM N Here is a husky young recruit for the “hoe brigade” of the municipal farm who says that he is willing to 80 out there and do his “pit.” He \may be little, but this young farmer has big ideas. He is John Howard Payne, Jr.,, aged 19 months, and to him- belongs the credit of Being one of the city’s youngest “back to the soil” enthunluu. Baby Payne is the son .of 'Mr.’and Mrs. Payne of Linwood Farm better known as the Webster Farm. The little fellow is distantly related to John Howard . Payne, n.uf.hor ot “Home, Sweet Hom: RED CROSS OPEN T0 CATHOLIC NUNS Acting Chairman Denies Rumor| in Letter to Cardinal Gibbons Baltimore, June 27.—To offset ru- mors which has been put in circula- tion to the effect that the American Red' Cross was discriminating against the, nursing sisterhoods of the Catho- Mc church, Cardinal Gibbons took up the matter with the. Red Cross and has received the following letter from Ellot Wadsworth, acting chairman of the American Red Cross: “Your Eminence: The question of the attitude of the = American ° Red Cross toward utilizing the services of nursing sisterhoods has been raised several times lately. It might almost appear from the form of some of these questions that a rumor was be- ing deliberately circulated that the American Red Cross was in an unfav- orable attitude toward allowing the sisterhoods to assist in the care of wounded soldiers and sailors. “During the Spanish-American war a number of ‘members. of dmhocdu wore garbs while ser nurses. in -military hospitals-in:: !'lorlu and elsewhere. Such a service is pro- vided for by the rules governing the nursing service of the Red Cross. Raule 9, of the duties of committees on nursing service of the -American Red Cross, adopted nearly 8 years ago, recites it is the duty of the commit- tee to keep on flla lists of sisterhoods and othr orders and women volun- teers available for Red Cross relief work involving the care of sick or wounded, either in time of war or calamity. “It seems advisable to state un- equivocally to you at this time that members of the nursing sisterhoods may wear their official dress while serving as nurses under the Red Cross and that the Red Cross has no desire in any way to debar the sisters| on account of their dress, or on any other account, from serving their country as all other nurses will de- sire to do.” ? at the close of business on the 20th day of June, 1917 ABSETS Bills Diséounted $2.534,949.73 Overdrafts ... 16,037.39 Stocks and Secur! $34,896.98 Premium Account . 5.867.08 Furniture and Fistures 35,500.00 28,541.95 ase,411.09 paid Due to Banks, Bank Due from other Banks. 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