Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 8, 1914, Page 10

Norwich was more directly con- cernsd in the tuking of the city of Vera Cruz than was generally sup- posed or known until word received on Thursday showed that Nestor J. Sulli- Mr. and Mrs. Bugepe F. this eity, coxswain on the T. §. S. New Hampshire, was in the fray. short letter told way of the danger he was were wounded. Ti Mexican Herald of Vera Crus, under date of April 2, of the lina, Vermont, and New Jerse a battalion ef artillery, under the command of Captain Edwin A. Ander- son, U. 8. navy, as regimental com- mander, and of Lieut. Commander R. Z. Johnaton, UU. S. mavy, as adjutant, in the morn- ‘was formed in the open near @ocks where it rested until As only the custom house and im- mediate vicinity was then in comtrol of the U. , the naval commander, and Admiral Fletcher, to march te the southward of the city and take possession of the Naval Academy, the artillery and infantry barracks, which was in possession of the Mexican forces. At elght o'clock the regiment start- ed on the march to the Naval Acad- emy and the artillery barracks which is adjacent. Captain Anderson and staff and the New Hampshire bat- talion led this attack. The [Naval Academy and barracks are huge stone structures with walls about a foot thick. Machine guns were mounted behind these walls and rifiemen. sta- tioned on the roofs, at the windows and in_the stome buildings on both sides of the street. Under Heavy Fire. As the regimental staff and the New Hampshire battalion turned the cor- ner of the street a terrific fire was opened on them from svery angle, and it was only due to the poor marks- manship of the Mexicans that the staff and battalion were not mowed down. The New Hampshire battalion return- ed the fire, dropping prone on_the pavement and taking shelter behind the facades of buildings. Under cover of the New Hampshire’s fire the other battalions of the regiment retired to an open fleld, and deployed as skir- mishers, firing at the windows of the buildings nearest them, The U. 8. S, Chester anchored close ashore opened fire on the Naval Acad. emy and other buildings. To avoid the danger of shells from the Chester falling among the regiment, the New Hampshire battalion was directed teo withdraw to the open field. Carrying their dead and wounded this battalion retired to the field near the Light House tower. At this time the artillery of the Second regiment under tbs command of Lieutenant Grady was brought into action and opened with shrapnel on the stone building. These shells ex- ploded upon striking the stone, Kill- ing mnearly evervonme inside the build- ings. The regiment was assembled near the Light House tower, and the dead and wounded attended to while the Lfi.runery kept up the bombard- men| Signal Station Established. At 12.10 o'clock in the afternoon, the Second regiment s!gnal corps un- der Lieutenant McNair established a | station in the light house and com- municated with _all the ships in the . Through this station was| sent the signal to the Chester to hold the Mexican steamer Goherna- dor as she had fired on the rear of the Second regiment’s men. i As Liutenant Johnson of the New Hampshire and iwo men from | his company bringing a wounded man | from the field fire was opened on| them from three buildings near the water front, one of which was flying the Greclan flag. A shot from this house wounded Lieutenant Lanno who | was assembling his- battalion. Artil- lery and rifle fire was directed at these houses and they were silenced by &| company sent to capture the occu- pants, one of whom possessed consul- ar papers. Rifles and ammunition were seized, and the inhabitants made prisoners. The steamship Haaff anchored in the inner breakwater, near the light “ouse began a sharp rifie fire <ipon the regiment drawn up at the water front. There was constant fire upon the dir- ferent battalions from the -roof tops As they advanced on this duty, Near; the Cla. Dablado a sharp fire was di- | rected at the advancing batallion by native policemen and _irregular | troops, killing two men and wound- o e artillery battery in charge of Ensign Hammers of the South Carolina was brought to the front of the bat~ talion and fired upon the shipers sileneing them. Ensign Lee, of the New Hempshire battalion wso is a member of the Navy Rifle’ team, shot several snipers dead in their tracks as they fired ‘rom around the corners of build- ings. Wherever firing,occurred from buildings the building’ was fired upon, then charged, and searched. Prisoners with arms and ammunition were ar- rested. Infantry Barracks Taken. The reglment reassembled at tl Avenida Libertad, and captured the Infantry barracks and the residence of General Maas former military com- mander of the port. Several tons of ammunition and war accoutrement were captured .at the barracks. Contin- uing westward to the railroad track at the edge of the city the entire district was overhauled. Returning to the In- fantry barracks the regiment rested urtil five p. m. when orders were re- advance to the outskints of r the American Oil company 't h:d been reported that General had retreated from the city is troops upon the ianding of the .8. forces had reinforced and was sreparing to attempt the retaking of Vera Cruz. A guard of a section of artillery and ne company of infantry, in command .7 Lieutenant Bilyson, regimental ordi- officer was left at the military cks, while the battallona of the #oth Carolina and artillery advanced the outskirts of the city. The artil- was established at the railrcad k& near the Oil Co. it as a reserve and the South Car- na bataliona. Lieutenant Stanon, rageeded with the regimental com- *nder about a mile up the track and irenched. The New Jersev battalion iaving been directed to occupy the Light House tower, was not available for service with the outposts. The bat- ns from the M ‘were sent to the NORWICH BOY IN VERA GRUZ BATILE In Taking of Naval Academy—One Bullet Strikes Rifle Another Goes Through Knapsack—Story of the Fighting ed to report as there was but a small tion. talions were withdrawn from outpost duty, the artillery and sapports re- majni ssession. imental tower, which was then held by New Jersey battalion. As the adistrict under the control of the Second reg- iment occupies so much space pa- trols were established to apprehend snipers, with orders to shoot them if they had preserv. A cinity of regimental headquarters de- &an necessitated the calling out of a pa- trol company from the barracks. killed and twenty-elght wounded. All of these were carried off the field by their comrades while still under fire. None of them was left on the ground, even while the fire was heaviest from the Naval school. states ‘wes exceptional and that there were mumerous instances of personal brav- ery and that not in a single instance 4id the lowest of his men show a mo- ment’s hesitation to advance slowly into the face of the withering fusilade, escaped death as he was standing in the open directing his men circled the corner of the Naval taking deliberate aim at Captain An- derson and without waiting for fer- malities, shoved his captain aside. The next moment one of the seamen drop- ped captain had been standing. his automatic and with this he firad continually into the windows of the buildings while firing zone. to the infamntry barracks force there. Outpest Duty. During the remainder of the night ent stood outpost duty, in- and improving their posi- e following day three bat- arms in_their hands. and to e order. Snipers in the vi- firing shortly after dark, which Praise for Men. The Second regiment lost eight men nary Captain Anderson that the deportment of his men Captain Anderson himself narrowly they | sun parior! 00l One of the seamen noticed a Mexican | . o0 just_ behind the spot where the The captain was armed only with simply angelic states that bold-sulphur- in- stantly allays the angry itching and and and heals the the skin ‘has . While not always shing '~ a permanent never fails to subdue the tation and drive the Bczema away and eruption again appears on the skin.. Those troubled should obtain at any pharmacy an ounce of bold-sulphur cmme:r;‘nu-memnntrnmom~ BRINK OF THE HONEYMOON Bride Elect—'Isn’'t it going to be fun, girls? The darlingest flat, with a The work won't be any- “I am going to have simply heaps. company, because it means so much’to a yvoung married couple to start right and form a circle of friends. come this minute and see the silver set Uncle John sent me! for afternoon Photo copyright, 1914, by American Press Association. Landing American Forces at Vera Cruz Bluejackets and marines from the battleship Florida are on way to the pler at Vera Cruz te effect the first belligerent landing on Mexican soil. cure itching irri- it thing at all, with everything new, you ‘Wis! last f: 70! And, oh, ‘Won't it be teas? And when any of you get married be he was within the | sure to go to that little shop for mon- ograms and things. Did you ever see Greenville, Mich. Ten years ago he was pushing barrows of feed around a store In that town for a dollar and & half a day: and after a few menths at that he saved the sum of $40. With this sum he set up in.busi- ness in a small store for himseif, and daid so well that at the end of two years he began to put into practice an immense plan, which succeeded so well that he 1s mow the president of a large men's clothing concern. Hia force, when he “set up” eight vears ago, consisted of himself and a second- hand machine in the back of his store. Today there are ten girls simply to sort the mail received, which every day amounts to thousands of letters. ‘When the contest was ore than a year ago, in !flchg“ juist deter- mined to come to He want s an 3 that passed for pute food. To make himself known he sent out by mail hun- dreds of thousands of personal letters, and the result placed him in Congress. hing to enlist the ald of the Presi- dent, Linquist wént to the White House all with a box of samples of adul- Carter Glass of Lynchiburg, when & nickname of Pluck. No game was too rough or work too hard for his indom- itable energy: and when the other boys beat him at a game of ball he generally chased his victori- ous foes ' off the ground with his bat. And “Pluck” he is today to most of his old friends in the hilly eity. 0dd, but true, that Glass, chairman of the currency committee of the House, and Owen, chair- man of the same thing in the Semate, are both Lynchburg boys. Mr, Glass gets some interesting letters from his constituents, as the following will show: “Please send me a span of mules from the Agricultural Department— also a pair of crutches for my rheum tism.” When Mr. Glass ran for the Virginia senate and was beaten by what is known as the “machine” in the state, his boy was a college student of great achieve- ment on ‘the athletic fleld. One day the lad went to Baltimore to attend a track meet and came home with a medal. When he entered the dining room in which his paternal ancestor sat discussing some old ham and waffles, the boy threw terated goods. But the secret service officer stopped him at the door, and it was only Dy displaying his wares that he _secured an entrance. , “The next time I £o,” he explained, Wil take my goods im Xamner.” his trophy on the table in front of his father, saying: “Well, dad, you see thers is some one In the family who can run if you can't!” Glass has worn that medal on his watch chain ever since. ‘The war was at its height when he was a big boy of eleven, and as his father was in the army, and dozens of friends and relatives had gone forth to battle against the dreaded ‘‘Yank,” John Sharp one night decided that his country called him to arms. The fact that he was only eleven, and about the only road he knew was that to the candy shop, did not deter him. Out in the darkness of ht the “call” of country d_as the dinner horn to young llams arose and set forth down the road in early dawn. And as he tramped down the ianes of dust t the still farmhouses over which ung the early smoke from the kitchen chimney, he dreamed dreams of how he would come back on a prancing charger cavered with glory, Then suddenly behin lope of an approaching horseman. Lool ing back, he saw it was old Uncle Zeph on the biind mule. Uncle Zeph pulled up the mule with & jerk beside his youns master. “John, your maws says as how you better be gittin’ back home in a hurry. She ain’t’er goln' ter stand fur no sich ) exploded Zeph. “You jest ol up here hind me on dis mule and he’ll tote us home ter breakfast! So John climbed aboard the mule and turned his face homeward, leaving in the ashes of a dead past his high bopes of military glory. e !l < Ht il é it g8 i ei?i il coat buttoned up to his throat. *“When the court was opened by the marshal Reaves jumped up and made a told to g6 and sth no more. “Several years hte;.'v?;n n{n prosecuting attorney, I fou R had been up to his old tricks and in cqurt, for trial on another violatiom of the revehue laws. When he took “You were my lawyer.’ “You were poce indicted in the United| States court, were you not? I asked. ““You ought to know that, too,’ repl Reaves. T pald you a fee to get me off." “"Yes?* I returned, ‘but did you not gol in court and play the fool to get out of _ sir’ said Reaves, quickly. ‘As| Ing the fool, it was you, sir, “I anything prettier than these initials? “Yes, all my household stuff is pure think it's just as well tb get the best and then you have it. Mother groans about laundries ruining it, but then mother is so fussy. She thinks the washerwomen rub holes in things with a file, I believe. “No, I got satin for the wedding dress. It was pretty expensive—3$S a yard, but I think it lovely to hand down a dress like that. Think of having your great-great-granddaugh- ter wearing it and every one exclaim- ing over its richness! “I'm goirg to have oriental rugs over the whole place—and coffee after dinner on the sun porch, always! I can do the dinner dishes mornings. Come and see the chiffon and lace negligees that I have to wear morn- ings when I'm doing the work!” Mnen- Bride Elect's mother—* t Geral- dine is going to do when she gets to | keeping house by herself goodness knows! Look at this room of hers! I never saw such digorder in my life! What a shock it will be to her to di cover after she walks out, leaving six dresses, ten pairs of shoes, a tipped over box of gloves and a lot of mixed stockings scattered about her room that they’ll still be there when she gets back! “T've spoiled Geraldine waiting on her all her life! She really didn’t need so much silk underwear—with | ber father so hard up for money How T'm going to find $260 to pay for mon- oograming her things, I'd like to kno I had no idea she'd given such an order. If they aren't in the poorhouse salary and their extravagant ideas, they’ll be inluck. Wait till she finds what cream costs a quart and price of steak and what it means to have company! “Mercy, the company Geraldine has always brought to the house! I sup- Ppose she has never realized the work I've done on that score. And she wouldn't let me ask the Moreys—old family friends. too—because she said they were frumps and she wasn't go- ing to start out with frumps on her calling list. I don't know where Ger- aldine gets such odd ideas. “I hadn't got over my shock at her adding up what she estimated the wedding gifts to be worth. How on earth we are going to pay all the bills I don't know. Geraldine would have this big wedding!” Eridegroom’s Mother—"It may have cost double what it should, Henry, but I was going to have a dress to wear to my son’s wedding that would make Geraldine’s people sit up and take no- tice! Her mother's airs have always annoyed me! You would think they were conferring some sort of grand favor upon our family by permitting Geraldine to ma#fry our Albert! I guess if they knew how the girls have always run after him they'd appreci- ate him more! “The wedding presents from our side make a better showing than the wedding presents from theirs. Look at that trumpery tea set from her Un- cle John! I expect poor Albert will be starved or poisoned to death with her cooking—she is absolutely ignorant of everything useful! Her mother has brought her up so foolishly! “Well, I'll have to keep an_eye on inside of a year, with Albert's small their flat and go over every day and the | keep Geraldine u }cnv.nnt have Alber to the mark! I digestion ruined!” Bridegroom Elect—"If dad doesn't loosen up that wedding trip to the Bermudas goes glimmering! And Geraldine has told every one that we are going! Stacy White shoved me into those expensive presents for the ushers—I could have.got something as good for half the money if I'd been alone, confound it! Friends are a nuisance when a fellow’s getting mar- ried! They think the show is just for them! “I don't see why Geraldine’s moth- er has such a fit at the idea of Geral- dine doing her own work in a six room fiat! It looks all shiny and clean now and I expect it will be kept that way! Getting meals is rnothing—Geraldine says so. “Ill have to hock this diamond frat pin for car fare if dad doesn't come across!'—Chicago News. Pure Gold. Pure gold is considered as divisible in respect to purity into 24 parts, each called a carat, (or karat), an old term for one-twenty-fourth of an ounce, Tzoy. Hence the phrase 18 carat fine means that 18 cwenty-fourths is pure g0l4, and the remainder an alloy mate- rial. Ordinary gold chains and jew- elry are usually only 14 carat fine, but wedding rings are 32 carats fine. Wireless telephoning between Paris and a suburo of Brussels recently was accomplished. Curse of Luxury. The most judicious histcrians, the most learned philosophers, and the profoundest politicians, all lay it down as acertain indispensable maxim, that wherever luxury prevails, it never fails to destroy the most flourishing states and kingdoms; and the experi- ence of all ages, and all nations, does but too clearly demonstrate the truth of this maxim.—Charles Rollin. 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I know of its good qualities and re- commend it cheerfully.” ASK YOUR HYSICIAN