The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 30, 1913, Page 1

VOLUME NO MAINE MEMORIAL STATUES UNVEILED 15 19 The battleship Maine memoria! group of statues designed by St and standing at the Broadway entrance of Central park, New They are to be unveiled today HUD SOLDIERS AND YOUNG MARCH SIDE. BBYSIDE IN PARADE by av. and Bh the old joined by tans of the Spanis war, the F ty from F bington naval resery Washington American Re nal orders, jal day at ilo’ Preceded le on] bere w < r Coat of Decorate Graves tion . te the grave Give Patrictic Program 8. F. Street delivered a playe Sn Which was ¢ y @@temon? of the James S of the G. A ] Ore gave a 3 vies tem Mobin Welts read the Gettys-| sist ‘ MALKAN WAR OVER; SIGN PEACE TREATY MN, May 3 P mino Twhey and the After Signatures to » With the cons t Millinery at Prices | That Must Appeal ! Quite often the public is given exceptional “pportunities to buy various merchandise, not gh any desire on the part of the retailer, Owing to conditions which he cannot avoid. his the case with the D, M. Blackman Hat ) Who are being forced out of their loeation at 608 Second av. by their landlord. In this dilemma this concern is forced to their stock on the market at prices which must appeal. The sale is being conducted by well known sales specialist, J. P. Burke, has orders to sell the stock regardless and t ~ 0 states that he proposes to do so. Full par- x8 will be’ found in the large display ad , it appears on page 9 in today’s Star. Look fs Up. ; | The Seattle Star THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRI SEATTLE, -WASH., FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1913 NT THE NEWS ONE CENT HOME EDITION AND ON NEWS PHAINS WTA PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES HIMSELF PENS STRIKING MEMORTAL DAY M THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON ot a a a 4 W Rando Va @ Gitte, aad Me east Met han net heat bef we Mofo Y Hf fore By Conky otodf a Data + seemaest tt Loom rane’ i ow Sore Mare a Sieh G barony Cheer! For the veterans are marching to the drum again! Shout like a schoolboy as the line sweeps by Look at the style of them, their old pride has come again, See it in their vigor and their heads held high! Smaller, ever smaller, grows the grizzled living roll of them; Just a little grayer as the swift years fly; nm taken toll of them, heads held high! Age has wrought its havoc and the reaper Still they’r briskly with their e marching Uncover your head as they pass To the battered old colors they raise. Uncover your head as they pase- They are worthy your tribute of prai For they fought for the soul of the land That the nation they love might endure, That the dream of its founders might stand And thelr faith be fulfifled and made sure. Uncover for those who are dead, The comrades whose marching is done. Let the stately old service be sald, Let the laurels be placed that they won, And then, with a thrill in each heart, Let us turn from the graves and depart, While the Flag floats in heaven's blue dome And the Old Boys “break ranks!” and go home. And what of us? There is no war, No danger worth the fighting for, No Menace growing perilous, For us to face? WE need not fight? There never was such time of need For Soldiers of the Truth and Right As there is now Shall we find peace, So long as Selfishness and Greed Hold carnival, and take no heed? We cannot cease From battle with our country’s foes While Freedom wanes and Mammon grows! All honor to the Boys in Blue Whose work is through, Whose war is won, But our grim fight is just begun They fought in storms of shot and shell For Union and for Liberty, And made a nation strong and free, Humbly we pray to do as well And win at last to victory, Though fighting foes we cannot see! MORNING GAME CLEVELAND AT boat.—Adve. crank shafts and other trouble morning and returned home, ety but unquestionably the J Bish usta a Ky A P thoutd be fremmaila ESSAGE TO READERS OF THE SEATTLE STAR igiten te kaart Gp rl new we he Clock E he Serve dp-a Ral RA Khao: neE toque tive Tipe hes, hon nol Rew Stet Sed? fone Olen a ty Slats 20 Cpeoidnt by the frefpte-d) de Clad ADMIRAL SIGSBEE TELLS OF HORRORS THAT FOLLOWED | (Editor's Note—The new memorial monu to the heroes of the U. S. battleship “Maine,” built a { s from the people of the Unt #, 1s to be unvell ew York city Maine in H a harbor bruary, 1898. Her his own. personal story of © horrible: exe ) written by Rear Admiral Chas, D, Sigsbee, who was in command of the battleship n at fatal night | : BY REAR ADMIRAL CHAS. D. SIGSBEE. (By Special Permission From the Century Co.) On the night of the explosion, the Maine, lying in the harbor of Havana at the buoy, where she was moored by the Spanish pilot on her entrance into the port, was heading in a direction quite unusual—at least, for the Maine. In this connection it should be explained |that Havana is in the region of the trade-wind, which, however, farther to the eastward, especially in the winter months. On the night of the explosion the Maine was heading to the / northward atid westward; im-the general direction of the Ma- china, or naval “sheers,” near the admiral’s palace. Some of the watch officers said afterward that they had | not before known her to head in that direction at Havana. Stated simply as a fact, the Maine was lying in the position in which she would have been sprung to open her batteries on the shore fortifications. If an expert had been charged | with mining the Maine’s mooring-berth, purely as a measure } of harbor defense, and having only one mine available, it is believed that he would have placed it under the position that the Maine occupied that night The atmosphere was heavy, and the weather unusually hot and sultry. All but four of the 26 officers were aboard and the members of the crew, 328 in number, were on board as usual. The crew, excepting those on watch or on post, were turned in I was in my quarters, sitting on the after-side of the table in the port or admiral’s cabin. About an hour before | the explosion I had completed a report called for by Theodore Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy, on the advisability of continuing to place torpedo-tubes on board cruisers and battleshiy I then wrote a letter home. At taps (“turn in and keep quiet"), 10 minutes after 19 o'clock, I laid down my pen to listen to the notes of the bugle, which were singularly beautiful in the oppressive still- of the night I was enclosing my letter in its envelope when the ex- plosion came. To me, in my position, well aft, and within |the superstructure, it was a bursting, rending and crashing |sound or roar of immense volume, largely metallic in charac- ter. It was followed by a succession of heavy, ominous, metallic sounds, probably caused by the overturning of the central superstructure and by falling debris. There was a trembling and lurching motion of the vessel, a list to port and a movement of subsidence. The electric lights, of which \there were eight in the cabin where I was sitting, went out. Then there was intense blackness and smoke. REAR ADMIRAL The situation could not be mistaken: the Maine was blown up and sinking. For a moment the instinct of self-preservation took charge of me, but this was immediately dom- » tes Bt Sta ness SIGSSY Cleveland game | rain | The Champs took the morning|inated by the habit of command. I went up the inclined deck into the starboard cabin, 5 P game from Portland at «|toward the starboard airports, which were faintly relieved against the background of the At Philadelphia: ark before a fair morning wd leky. Pee With the score tled,. the Seattle At the turning some one ran {nto me violently. I asked who it was, It was Private Willlam Anthony, = € to Micon Suge | ne P at the cabin r He said something apologetic and reported that the ship had beea blown and lent aad’ wascieea the beards, 1 ah om sinking. He was directed to go out on the quarterdeck, and I followed him. He hung near me clghth a 1 ba ered be boards | wien inflageing zeal and watchfulness that night until the ship was abandoned At Pittsburg - fh Saapale h pgie citbae ag aha patency toed The question has been asked many times If | belleved then that the Maine was blown up from the Chicago 1 5 ie cae a ak he Ph | guteide. My answer to this has been that my first order on reaching the deck was to post sentries Pista 4 0 3 7 1)nine and the s the Franklin | about the ship. | knew that the Maine had been blown up, and believed that she had been blown up Bat Rue h 1 Bresna EL oe Michel sin frat from the outelde. Therefore t ordered a measure which was Intended to guard against attack. There han; ( t ! ( and come! tattle on tha home| was no need for the order, but | am writing of first impressions. There was the sound of many - } ode neta Volces from the shore, suggestive of cheers At Boeton . \« ae ¢ ‘ore | L stood on the sta ard side-rall of the poop and on to the main-rigging tn order to see over the poop- Bre "i 2 7 1 At Washington: portland ..000100202—5 12 3 | awning, which ba 1 and covered with debris. I was still trying to take in the situation more com- Be F 9! noste ‘ a 4 1] ens 00021005%—8 12 nletel T) were near me a showing & courteous recognition of my authority and responsi- Batterie R nl arecs 1 7 | Seattle 5 : given in a low tone to Executive Officer Wainwright, who himself gave orders Mille 1 aling Batterte Wood and Numamaker;| Mahoney and Williams; Melvor - Uroom ar enry Jand Cadman | amidships. Orders were given to flood the forward magazine, but the fore nm and Hen he for At St. Loute | | - - | nd to be under water. Inquiry as to the after-magazines and the gun-cotton Chr 1 Pes 5 18 1 : the ship showed a like condition of those compartmen as reported by bee 210 0 | It ed from the ward-room and juntor officers’ quarters. In the captain's spare pantry Oe. sacs | re there was spare ammunition, It was seen that this would soon be submerged, and ‘erie Ate Packard, Kling | } tha 4 respect to the magazines were unnecessary f anid ee Ge Harmon | | | ei f iife was not then fully realized, Our eyes were not yet accustomed to the darkness. and Clarke Re, come from the glare of the electric Hghts. The flames ‘increased in the centr | litcacture, and [ directed Lieut, Commander Wainwright to make an effort to play streams on t it FE int g: | lis I lorse PORTLAND, May 30.—The Vat neticable, . He went fo ward on. the poop-awning hoe be anted by Met Hood and Naval Cadets Boyd < . K S@| Portiand Daily News and Dana | jand ¢ erius, ma vlan spectic ithe on o 6 fire, but was soon obliged to re th da LD» =| porn ang alan N ASN tit INDIANAPOLIS May O—| coe : ©. The fire-mains and all other facilities were destroyed, and MEN WERE NO al Hi H i t {Driver Tower.and his mechaniclan AILABLE THE ERVICE alkad 1| completely vindicated of AVA ’ . 4 akes im flome|} Creator criminal libel on ac. {Were hurt at noon today In the 500 We thet to realize more clearly the full extent of the damage, One of the smokestacks was | count of the publication of an | Bille » race at the speedway,| tying in tl starbo lo. Although {t was almost directly under me, I had not at first iden- Although ¢ ¢ Morrison, 4 article In the News, January 16, wi en their car upset along the back} qifjed it. A re accustomed to the darkness, I could see, dimly, white forms on the wa- ewman for the Grand Union Yoa| !n which the official conduct of {Stretch.’ Tower sustained a broken | tor and hea *p: ie ' P . County Judge Cleeton and |! ind his mechanician had three I rms were our own men, boats wee lowered at once and sent to the assist- com el va faint! County Commissioner Lightner |t!bs fractured. ‘Tower's Had anne t ng men. Orders were given, but they were hardly necessary; the re ing spe hile driving a wagon,| Was arraigned demolfshed ‘ eful the officers suggested t measures tn the emergency. Only three of our | t od t { 1] 7 Later Bob Burmaf’s car, which | 1 oata We y e barge, the captain’s gig and the whaleboat, The parge was badly injured the horse , usual | The jury returned a verdict by offf r 9 | ( ‘ had led all the way, caught fire as a| Two of these were manned by officers and @on Jointly, How long thoy were gone from the ghip | cannot piace in f ( compan of acquittal last night, after de rt I lock| berating six houre, most of |Tesult of careless filling of the tank. | recall, but f 15 minute Those of us who Were left on board remained quietly on the poop-deck tore, 71¢ p mt, at © o'clock t She At the 160th mile Guex, Anderson | until everybody took to the boats hich time was consumed i Thuraday_ night lhe maknINAlER of Valumninaus (aba ald in the order named Lieut, Commander Wainwright stood om one side and Lieut, Holman on the other; each offered mo Here Patrolmen Little and Mc records and numerous exhiMts, | Trucco withdrew at the 40th lay a hand, I suggefted the propriety of my being the last to leave, and requested them to precede me, Graw found the unconscious man After finishing 70 miles, Zucarelll,| which they did 4 he was sent to the Clty hos-| memit-» & Pine, has} De Palma, Grant, Jenkins and Endi- | After the first muster that night it was reported to me that only 84 or 85 survfvors could be found pital. He recovered early this |{he, Tepuration of vei oe rene: wah cott withdrew on account of broken} Later summary shows that only 16 of the crew were wholly unhurt. Two officers and 250 men were Be killed, One hungred and two people were saved, but later eight of these died at Havana, o . BLOWING UP OF BATTLESHIP | ee ee :a a a x Be nanmecsi