New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 14, 1917, Page 5

15 Cents a Day Buys This GrafonolaOutfit Only 100 homes will get the advantage of this “PAY AS YOU PLAY” Easy Payment Plan. Saturday Only Order Yours Early Immediate Delivery Columbia Favorite Grafonoa, Finished in Oak or Ma- hogany, with 12 Sel ections of Music, 300 Needles, 1 Record Cleaner, $54.50 15 Cents a Day At The Cash Price PRICES MAY ADVANCE A Word to the Wise Is Sufficient. ! medicine chest. There were no white | Hallinan Bldg. RAPID FIRE GUNS PLAY PART IN ITALIANS’ ATTACK ON AUSTRIANS TAUANS USING RAPID FIRE GUN AGAINST AUSTRIA All of the accounts of the fighting ; difficuit battlegr 5 13 n the Austro-Italian border tell of | rapia fire gu:solul;:d JaEarope gine the work of the Italian amuer,v.[ ? e the one in the WMhile the heavy work is done, of' picture have their honorable share :ourse, by the huge guns transported [ in the fishting. This depicts Italians vith so much difficulty up the moun- | serving a mitrailleuse or apid i win sides which form ‘“the most i gun el 2 MONGOLIA 1§ SUNK IN SHALLOW WATER Tips of P. and O.Iiner’s Masts Protrude Above Sea Sydney, Australla, Sept. 14.—Sur- vivors of the sinking of the Peninsu- lar and Oriental Company's steamship Mongolia by a German mine off Bom- bay on June 23 have arrived here with further details of the disaster, which cost the lives of about 20 white persons and Lascars. The survivors' stories Indicate that the mine was one placed by the German raider ‘Wolff. The Mongolia sank within 20 minutes, in water so shallow that the tips of the masts remained unsub- merged. Australians on the vessel included Brigadier General Sir Robert McC. Anderson and Lady Anderson of S§d- ney; Major Norman Robertson and Mrs. Robertson of Sydney and Jus- tice Rooth of western Australia. Gen- eral Anderson had been on military duty in England and Major Robert- son in Egypt. They agreed that had the Mongolia struck the mine at night instead of mid-day the loss of life would have been heavier. “The wireless apparatus was shat- tered by the explosion and we were helpless,” said Sir Robert. “Al- though the lifeboats had everything aboard—biscults and water—demand- ed by the board of trade regulations, if we had been unlucky enough to have been out for some days there would have been a greater number of deaths. ‘“There were two deaths in my boat. | One of these was from burns. Life- boats should be equipped with a hos- pital chest and first-ald outfit, and 1 think a proportion should be fitted with engines. With ordinary life- boats it is not always possible to reach a man in time. We had one poor chap taken by a shark.” 51 Adrift in Gale, ‘“When we took our places where our lifeboat should have been,” said Mrs. Robertson,” there was none. “It had, not been launchd because its crew had been killed in the engine- room. Some passengers and others tried to launch it but were driven ‘off by escaping steam, which was worse than the explosion. ,The captain called to us to get into another boat. Ag three of the men were getting into this boat their fingers were caught in a block and taken off. In entering the boat someone knocked out the rudder and sail, so there was noth- ing for us to do but drift about. Then a monsoon sprang up and there were 51 of us in a boat intended to hold we managed to attract the attention of a coolie boat by hoisting a woman's | white underskirt flag-wise on an oar.” ' Justice Rooth said that the whites, including several women, and the Lascars were crowded into the boat in which he and Mrs. Robertson were. He added “We had a number of hadly-wounded men with us and no officers In our boat, no white sailors and no one to direct us or tell us! | what to do. Tt was luck more than anything else that we were not, all drowned.” TIn this boat, as in others, wounds were bandaged with pileces of feminine underwear. The Mongolia's T.escar crew were criticised by the passengers. “They rushed the boats,” said Sir Robert Anderson, ‘““and their next act was to rush the biscuits. They would not row, put up sails or do anything else.” UBOAT IN DETROIT BEFORD THE FORD iAt Least It Could Have Operated There Many Years Ago Washington, Sept. 14.—There was once upon a time when submarines would have been much more useful in Detroit than automobiles. Many thousands of years ago the receding front of the great continental ice sheet blocked the eastward outlet of the Lake Erie basin and forced the lake waters to find an outlet west- ward to the Mississippi Going to the Grand Circus at that time would have been about the same as plunging be- neath the sea at the foot of one of the|great tidewater glaciers of Alaska, for a great cliff of ice hundreds of feet in height rose above the like wa ters not far from the present site of the city, while north of this a vast ice field, like that of Greenland, stretched away in unbroken whiteness to the polar regions. The waters of the lake, first known as Lake Maumee, covered the whole plain Aobthwest of the city as far as Farmington and a mile beyond Plymouth. Traces of the ancient shore lines are still visible, the high- est at an elevation of 812 feet above the sea, or about 237 feet above De- troit River. Between this outer heach and the river are no less than 12 dis- tinct shore lines marking lower stages of the Jake waters. One of them, the Elkton shore line, passes through the city just north of the Grand Cir- cus and Madison Avenue at an ele- vation of about 615 feet above the sea; one of the lowest, the Rouge shore line, is near the Unjon Station. The outlet of the lake was at first past Fort Wayne to Wabash River. Changes in the positions of the great ice lobes and in the elevation of the land later shifted the locations of the outlets northward and westward across Michigan through the Grand River ‘valley, then eastward through the Mohawk valley to the Hudson, HIGH SEA FLEET IS BERLIN’S LAST HOPE LADMIRAL _SCHEER | Unless the German submarines in- crease greatly their depredations, many experts said, the kaiser's gov- ernment would send the ‘“high sea fleet” in a last desperate effort to gain control of the seas. The German fleet is commanded by Admiral Rein- hardt Scheer, who is considered one of the most capablé tacticlans in the German navy and is regarded as & man not only of force, but also of ideas. He was for a long time em- ployed as director of the general ma- rine department at the admiralty, and he has also held command in the ac- tive service as chief of staff of the ‘high sea fleet and as commander of a battle squadron. He succeeded Ad- miral von Pohl. and finally over the bluff at Queen- ston, Ont., where Niagara Falls was born. Names have been given by | geologists to the successive lakes that submerged this area, and an inter- esting and complicated history has been disciphered. The unraveling of the history of these positions of the ice fronts and the elevations of the land is a work of deductlve reason- ing which has occupied the minds of geologists for many years and com- pared with which the exploits of the renowned Sherlock Holmes are those 46. After having drifted ten hours | of an immature schoolboy. A recent publication of the United States Geological Survey, department of the interior, the Detroit folio of the Geologic Atlas of the United States, presents elaborate maps. illus- trations, and descriptions of all the geologic phenomena of this region. The author, Prof. Willlam H. Sher- zer, of the Michizan State Normal | College, ¥psilanti, gives the results of hi- own studies and of a long ser of investigations hy eminent scientists. The work was prepared in co tion hetween the Federal Survey the State Genlogical Survey of Mich igan. Besides the interesting lake history the folio contains a discussion of the glacial period and of earlier geologic ages. There are many rock forma- tions deeply buried beneath the gla- cial drift, as shown by the rocords of deep borings, one of which is more than 4,000 feet in depth. These rocks range from the Trenton limestone, of Ordovician age, to the Coldwater shale, of the Carboniferous. Among the mineral resources of the area are clay, sand, gravel, glass and scouring sand, building and crushed stone, lime, cement, rock salt, brine, and ocher. Concerning the search for oil and natural gas in this area, Professor Sherzer says: “There seems little justification for further heavy expenditures in this search, though the heavy flows of ‘pocket gas' from many places in the Antrim shale will probably continue to arouse false hopes and to stimu- late unwise expenditures. If this pocket gas, which at times gives pres- sures exceeding 100 pounds to the square inch, were conflned it could | be utilized. It has, in fact, been used for years in sgc. 25, Southfield Town- ship, where the original pressure was 37 pounds to the square inch. The supply from each well will be ex- hausted sooner or later, but new wells can be put down or the’ old ones caa be deepened.” WHITE SOX CONFIDENT. Coming Champions Leave for Final Dash for Pennant. Chicago, TIll, Sept. 14 —Eight games in the lead, the Chicago Amer- icans left last night for Detroit to start their final drive for the pennant there today. The club will return for a game with St. Louis here Sunday and then start East for its final games of the season. The players are confident of beating Boston. The schedule of the Boston Amerl- cans was lengthened by two games last night when Mr. Johnson, presi- dent of the American league, gave permission for the playing of two postponed games that it was thought would not be staged. One of these games was scheduled at Washington and the other at Detroit. By Mr. Johnson's permission they will be played at Boston on a date vet to be determined. The local Americans have sixteen games to play. VENTRES TO WRESTLE. Alvah Ventres, “The Berlin Black- smith,” who is matched to meet F. Ivan “Kid” Benjamin of Plainville in Turner hall Saturday evening Octo- ber 6, will tackle “Jack Raymond of Boston,” claiming to be the middle- weight champion of New England, at the Berlin fair tomorrow evening. The match will be to a finish, winner take all. The bout will start at 8:30 o'clock. BESSE-LELAND'S THE LIiVE STORE Saturday, Sept. 15th is FALL HAT DAY Sadly or Giadly, Hot or Cold, Rain or Shine, Exit Mr. Straw Hat ew Fall Hats Have Made a Concentration Camp Of Our Hat Department Prices: $1.50 to $5.00 WE WILL ALLOW YOU (Fifty 5 OC - Cents) FOR YOUR Old Straw Hat ON ANY OF OUR $2.50, $3,.83.50 or $4 HATS FOR ONE WEEK ONLY As heretofore this is a genuine allowance Besse-Leland Co. 38 Stores 38 Citie