The evening world. Newspaper, February 28, 1917, Page 8

(Continued from First Page.) Corner—an allusion I don’t quite fully understand. This group had about exhausted available discussion when I projected a new bone of contention “What do you say are our chances of being torpedoed!” T asked “Well, drawled the deliberative Mr. Henry Chetham, a London solict tor, “I should say four thousand to one Lucien J. Jerome of tne British Diplomatic Servier an Kouadorian valet from South America, interjected: “Considering the zone and the class of this ship, U should put it down at two hundred and fifty to one that we don’t meet a sub.” At this moment the ship gave a gndden lurch sideways and forward, ‘There was a mufiled noise like the slamming of large door at a good returning with distance away. The slightness of the shock and the meekness of the report compared with my imagination was disappointing. Every man in the room ‘was on his feet In an Instant. Eetabliahed 1860 125th Street, West ey | GREAT RUG OFFERING | $39.50S. 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VIVID PEN PICTURE OF THE SINKING OF THE CUNARD LINER LA “We're bit!” shouted Mr. Chetham “That's what we've been waiting for.” said Mr. Jerome “What a lousy torpedo!” said Mr. Kirby, a typical New Yorkese. “It must have been a tizzer. 1 looked at my watch 1 ps 10.30. Then came the five blasts on the whistle hip dark on the landing leading down to the promenade deck, where My pocket flashlight, built like a staterooms were located. in handy on the} d the lower deck. I rushed into my stateroom, grabbed life pre and overcoat and made my way to the upper deck un that same dark landing sory J saw the chief steward opening turning on the an electric switch box In the wall and ewltch Instantly the boat decks were illuminated. That lilumination saved lives, The torpedo had hit ns well astern on the starboard side and bi missed the engines and the dynamos, 1 had not noticed the deck lights before. Throughout the © our decks had remained dark at night and clamped down and all voy all cabin port holes were opaque paint The illum ness of the windows covered with! vation of the upper deck feet below over the edge at my station boat, No. Already tt the ropes. 1 bue® We and down on which [ stood, made the dark water, sixty app 10, boat was Ic ling up tarted to help near a davit that seemed to be giving trouble. | s stoutly ordered to get out of the way and get into the boat were on the side passenger bort prac Y opposite the engine well. Up throwing the deck and crew were donning life on overcoats and taking position sin the boats, There were a number of women only 7 one appeared hysterical—little Miss Titsie Siklosi, a French-Polish actress, who was being cared for by her manager, Cedrle P. Ivatt. appearing on the passenger list as from New York Have to Cut Their Boat Loose: Second Torpedo Strikes Liner Steam began to hiss somewhere roaring swish as a rocket soared up- ward from the Captain's bridge, leav- ing a comet's tail of fire. 1 watched it as it described a qraceful arc in the black void overhead, and then with an audible pop it burst in a flare of brilliant colors. Suddenly there was a Rub Musterole on Forehead and ‘Temples was lating to alarhonrd at sunt th A Headache remedy without the would make It necessary | heete of “leadahe raediciin’t t ort to enable one to heves headache and that mise In the mean time iceling from colds or congestion e his—large white en-| it acts at once! Musterole is a clean 4 ¢ ning clusters white ointment, made with the oil of | of been suspended from 1 promenade deck mustard, and does Better than a must not blister, L and iMuminated ter dark water that rose and fell on externally, Cannot affect sto the slanting side of the ship heart, as some internal medicines do. “Lower away,” some one gave the} f ent for re throat, bron- | order, and we started downward with| hitis, croup, § nec asthina, nee jaf toward the seemingly hungry ralgia, congestion. pleurisy, rheuma- | rising and falling swe! tism, Jumbago, all pains of the ba Then we atopned with another jerk or joints, sprains, sore muscles, brits: | and remained suspended in midair es, chilblains, frosted feet, colds of | while the men at the bow and the the chest (often prevents pneumonia) tusselled with the The stern of the boat was down, the bow up, leaving us at an angle of about 45 degrees. We clung to the seats to save oursely from falling out. Who's stern swore and lowering ropes. got _a_knife knifet a ? A nding | the blacker when I peered | ¥ and men and boys were busy with| “ [knife" bawled @ sweating seaman tn the bow, ‘Creat God! Give him a knife,’ hawied a half-dressed, gibbering negro stoker who wrung bis hands in stern, ind I fo! We rushed down the corridor ing from the smoking room at the stern to the lounge, which was amid We were running, but (here was no panic, The ocenpants of the lounge were just leaving by the forward doors as we entere It was the first clas fountain pen, came We reache nto my hand There crashed One warded ft to the 4 flash of sparks as holding pul 1 of the r pe parted and down unged the too quick for tern men, We came to a jerky stop, with the stern in the air and the bow down, but the stern managed to lower | away until the dangerous angle was | eliminated. Then both tried to lower together. Th ist of ater, but 1 bow wn on the bow, the ship's side became ad of our boat slid- jown it, Ike a toboggan, the taff- rail caught and was held. As the low ering continued the other #lde dropped 1 we found ourselves clin a new angle and looking stra non the water. Jown a ind slipped Into mine and a 1 huskily close to my ear, was the Httl German Jew trav nan who was disliked in. the room because he used to speak of things he was ur 1, "My glasses slipped and 1 am vlling. Uf pleas L managed to reach out and join erm the other Md man and together we He hung heavily over our arms, grotesquely grasping all he had saved from his stateroom—a goid- headed cane and an extra hat. Many feet and hands pushed the t from the side of the ship and we aged dow in, this time smack equarely on the pillowly top of a Ing swell, It felt more solid than nid east, But we were far from being off pulleys twlee tern, and the one axe passed forward and back, and with it my fla ti & ropes that he onla were cut away, nut from that confusion of nd ea me to look up, and I really did so with the fear that one o nearby boats was being lowered JUMPED INTO TEE SEA, A man was jumping. us T presumed intention of la in the and I pr d to avold the Im pact, but he passed beyond us and plunged into the water three feet from the edge of the boat. He bobbed to the surface immediately. “I's Duggan,” shouted a man next I flashed a Ig on the r Ing face and water p ad hair of fellow saloon CANDY CATHARTI ompet-| dimmed slowly from white to yellow, uesenger, We pulled him over the | pant became a thing’ @i ‘ », He spluttered out a mouthful, ing fireman, | then tot sihakd Ait Abed: Ae t water and the first words he said |W GGL AA Aka daliet A aclec os Ae beat of pr the confusion | which hung over all like a pall, | LIGHTS FADED OUT. oe , red crescent of re: “1 wonder if there is anything to DY that lighting three cigarettes of the ursing every one It was the give way of nerve ten- same match? T was up above trying sion. It was bedlam and nightmare. | wcruvented’ to loosen the rope to tt a eking to establish some author | a moon reveated loosened It and then got tangled up| !ty In our boat, 1 ma ae wl counions pel nd in ft. The boat went down but I was|the atern and there found an old,}A rim of blackness ed ore |Jerked up. I jumped for it." white haired sea captain, a ud 4 Ne eenttts a His first reference concerned our|cabin passenger, with whom LT had] era deliberate tempting of fates early in talked before, He was bound from] the day when he, Kirby and I lighted | Nova Scotia with codfish. His sail- STOMACH MEDICINES three cigarettes from the same match | N# schooner, the sbhifbilalc tha ailt ts s w had been taken back | in two, but he and his er taken off by a tramp and to New York. He had sailed and Duggan told us that he had done the same thing many a time. As we pulled away from the side of the ship its receding terrace of ARE DANGEROUS OOCTORS NOW ADVISE MAGNESIA, from there on the lighte stretched upward. The ship] Ryndam, which, after almnie crack, | dust Row dangerous it te to Indl was slowly turning over. We were inate hace miedo ; + Tee ae nee werraten sere naa thie third attempt to | ately dose the stomach with dru i ut pa : get home, Tia name iv Capt, Dear, | Medicines {8 often not reaitsed unttt too engine rooms, There was a tangle of &° late, It seems #0 simple to ewallow « but L can steer “LT will take You'll phe rudder’s gone, with an oar,” he sald. ch: but pars, and spars and rigging on the seat done of confusion considerable before my voice 1s gone, f this dr four of the ble sweeps could be é 7 perhaps yea wi 1 Mr behind me and 1| There was only one way to get the] it is in tne early stages when Indigestion, turned to quiet him as his frantic attention of the crew, and that was dyspepels, he ar ura fle ulenee, ot tae reaches With his oar were hitting me by an overpowering blast of profanity. Malice Of feed Gouteute CRED in the back, In the dull light from |! did my best and was rewarded by e upper ka I ked into hig. Silence while 1 made the announce- “ face-—hig eyes were all whitew ment that in the absence of the ship's ind his lips moved convulsively, Be. | officer assigned to the boat, Capt. being frightened the man was Oeat would take charge. te n that thin cotton shirt that, 'V® rested on our oars, with all patente, bland and acd his entire upper ering. | °%e8 “ e rhted Laconia, The eves ponte wa ‘ ording to our ship's time, It wa nat Hinge “Get away from 1 ret away thirty minutes afterward that an- from her," he kept repeating. “When |other dull thud, which was accom- panied by a noticeable drop in the hulk, told its story of the second torpedo that the submarine had de- spatched through the engine room and the boat's vitals from a distance of 200 yards. We wat next the water hits her hot boilers she'll af blow up, and there's just tons and tons of shrapnel in the hold.” EXCITEMENT SPREADS, His ¢ all Advt the during minute, as the tiers of lights ° ° Uric Acid! 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