The evening world. Newspaper, March 1, 1917, Page 3

BEFORE LAST Priest Tells of Heroic Deaths, of Two American Women of Te rrible Exposure, SU FFERED. SURVIVORS Prayers $ Said Before Bodies of | Dead Were Cast Into the Sea. By Floyd P. Gibbons. (Copyright, 1917, by the Chicago Tribune.) LONDON, March 1.—The story of the death of Mrs, Hoy and her daugh- ter, victims of the Laconia sinking, was told to me last night by one of the occupants of their lifeboat. This survivor {s Father Dunstan Sargent of Grenada, West Indies, a Catholic priest, returning to England to enter the army as chaplain. “Our boat was No, 8," he said. “We were on the starboard side of the| Laconia—the high side—as she was isting to port. Our boat was one ot the last to be lowered. There were twenty-three of us in it. Mrs. Hoy and her daughter and Miss St- Kost were the only women. Mr, Frotheringham, an Australian; Mr, Naylor, an Englishman, and Mr. Robinson, a Swiss, and myself and tho three ladies were the only pas: | gengers; the vost were members of the crew, mixed black and white “The boat stuck In the ¢ On account of the list, its side scraped against the f the ship. I we 1 by the bow if al tim 1 ove SECOND TORPEDO FIRED BE- FORE LIFEBOAT LEFT “Then With went out and the came the second torpedo. the deck lights ship gave a sudden the explosion lunge to port, and at the same time the stern roves parted. and our boat i 1 \ . , W 1 full ¢ ow be “ float from the Just then the conning tower of the submerine appoared right at the back of us and a man from the tower directed a flashlight against the La- conia’s sinking stern, evidently in an effort to read the ship's name. We realized our he ss and called loudly, trying t the attention of nearby b escap of steam und the rumble of the inter nal explosions as the Laconia sank from view must have drowned our ertes. We made avery ¢ the oars asx paddies. ffort to use We fought the seas 1 to get within haling distanc one of the small boats whe Kit we saw Our efforts were fulile. We cried out fn unison at the toy ir-volees but received no answer, Little by little we were swept further away from t BOAT DELIBERATELY FIRED SECOND TORPEDO AT LACONIA | of them, jing wave |to hang on the sides of the | cal. LIFEBOAT LEFT lights and finally passed out of sight of them altogether. “We were all sitting in water up to lee waists and every swell that struck us went over our heady, We had great difficulty keeping the boat at even keel, she derived her only bioyancy from a awash that there wal no stability. “Mrs, Hoy and her dau, in the middie of the boat I sat back | our energy could resist exposure, | To me it seemed that each succeed- that colder than the one before. struck us seemed |and body became entirely numbed. “It took almost ali one’s etrength boat to prevent being washed out. Mre. Hoy and her daughter were never hye With their arms about one an- n the icy water | other they sat there battling one another that relief would soon be coming. | “Mr, Robinson, the Swiss scientist, was the first to go, His head dropped over on my shoulder and It seemed as if he was sleeping, ‘The fireman a I held him between us for some tims, | but in a subsequent buffeting of the boat he slipped out of our grasp and I did not see his body until some time later when I feit it flouting under- neath the seats. Two firemen in the bow went overboard, whether de liberately or by accident, I don't kno: “Then Mrs. Hoy died in her daugh- ter’s arms, | do not think the jh ter knew her mother was dead. did not tell her. Miss Hoy patted her mother on the cheek and kept urging her not to go to sleep. She kept repeating that we were about to be picked up. PASSENGERS SUFFERED TOR TURES IN OPEN BOATS. gh: We All of us felt sleepy and the numb- jess reached our very bi It was 60 very easy to giv but new hor ame With the sight of distant arch} We saw the relief ship comin yur direction, but we were fu of I We bad no igints ey could not us. We yelled until our throats were hoarse, butt ould not hear as we drifted yn aud on away from them. When 1 looked 1 Mrs. Hoy and iter, the latter with) her ut 18 r woman, were € 1 tried 4 think lu-} reasing general abs Ww H board s peated a simple burial service as we lifted the bodies of Mrs. and Miss Hoy and one dead fireman out of the boat. Those that died later were washed out because none of us had sufficient strength to lift them out Miss SI , n he to him. wit ich was so hysterical 1 from telling her 1 away {no relief. We by pounding each her's faces with our numbed hands. We huddled together for what wa we could Ket, but there was little n we saw trol boat co! un fea that w in. r. It f three We waver ell, but no sound came from our ats, We saw them tum tow and lower nall boat, in which were removed to the vessel's si and carried on beard ‘The ship lane t Bantry Claim THE WEWINE WORLD) THURSDAY, MAROH 1, 1917, ENGLISH ‘GETTING U BOATS IS BOAST OF BRITISH NAVY tc Be Send in “Most Colossal Shark Hunt in Nistory of the World.” red were | cree reas) By Lowell Mellett. LONDON Feb. any 13 (by England has sunk and cap- vastly greater number of tanks in the bow '|German submarines since the under. | and stern, and she was £0 completely | sea war went fnto full effect, than at ma i, United Feb. 1, time preceding that de- It is known that more than one sub- h naval vessels It had just simmered down | marine supply station has been dis- j to @ question of how long the boat| covered and put out of business by would keep us adrift and how long | pritia! Evidence is plentiful that the Brit- My tens | Nigh poles UNBEA The World’s Best Coffee ROASTED AND PACKED SY stin.Nichols&@. NEW YORK One whiff of the aroma from a steaming consume it, ing and delicious. Try Order from your grocer, | cup this chilly weather and your whole being thrills with the desire to get at it and Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded i] | | ach wave and reassuring | 4nd knows it, and it is safe to believe | ‘Modern Cave Woman Is the Flat Woman; 1; BASE FOR cers and seamen. Between Rosalia and Punta Arenas there — even large freighters of the U BOATS Reamer reporeed | She’d Make Tie That Binds a Slip-Knot i ean atlpped "i a And an Empty Life a Perpetual Picnic THE WOMAN WHOSE LIFE MUST BE PERPETUAL PICNIC ‘So she may develop the supreme redible selfishn for which t is always oppor ty 1 i addition ts pon ah unselfishness, kor her iife must be « REPORTEDON WEST COAST OF MEXICO Gerinan Steamer, Flying Hon- duran Ensign, Collecting Supplies There. | 200 feet in length ANOTHER LACONIA VICTIM \ AMERICAN, OFFICIALS SAY Flores estimated the craft vo Beak, j a Veteran of Confederacy and? a Citizen, Cunard Line Declares. Pe Willlam Eva, who was lost on thr Laconia, was an American citiees | SAN DIDGO, Cal, M h 1—Fresh| according to an announcement fs" reports that a German steamer has| to-day at the Cunard Line plied along the west conat of Mexico| here. Mr. Eva was a second nd Central America for the possible| passenger, listed as from Mont purpose of z fuel and stores | and |t was supposed be was a Bri for German submarines or a German | subject palder eived here to-day ¢ Ne sailed with an emergency pase Federal authorities, The author! port issued by the British Consul aiso loaned that a powerful wireless |B Which be obtained to go to Fale | atation, the operators of which trans-|M0Uth on the Holland-America liner mit messages in the slow, methodical | "Adam. When the Ryndam arrived back here Eva engaged passage on the Laconia, It was discovered that he had ap- snanner typleal of the German naval radio service, has been in service at a point several mnties’ south of Turtle! ica tor the emerge ro ish navy, engaged in the most colos- Bay, Lower California, Lp sltarensc Jeal shark-hunt ever known to tho| The myst ter Wiksa ke Giyeiied 06 anneal | © mysterious German ateamer | which he travelled to England is making a successful firat was reported/by Enrique Flores, | ago, nad been cancelled by the hunt of it. Jefe politico of Magdaleng Bay. This! Department in Washington In other words, Engiand is getting steamer, flying the flag of the Im-| ne was unable to furnish a birt the German submarines. perial German navy, entered Magda- | tncate | How she is doing it, where and how | Hay Dec, 10 last, again on Feb.| afr, Eva served in the Civil Wi | many she has got thus far, the censor | and on Feb, 24 was reported to| a marine on the Southern side, Itme | does not permit one to tell—but Eng ve coaled and provisioned In the | said, His home was in Big Pine, ‘ harbor of Acapulco. At Acapulco,| where he was interested in mii that Germany ts beginning to know 4t. | however, the vessel was flying the) properties, He wae seventy: If in no other way, Germany is learn-| | ye mopern Honduran ensign | years old. ing it through the great number of | CAVE WOMAAT © United States patrol fieet re-{ = the urdersea crews that fail to re-| WIFE Vu wep THe | ANOTHER ——_—— tly has been increased. Three tor- tirn wate ome st TYPE 1 Thee Wer Fie & do boat destroyers left here a wee BEAUTY DOCT “Leave it to Jellicc sald the | Divorce 6 vs / under sealed orders, at night British the day of Germanys anizrae fe the Opinion of| : s became known for the tirt time! “TELLS SECRET nouncement of unrestricted submarine | Dr. Wise, Who De-) Jay that German agents, alleged warfare. Thetr confidence in the gray | to have b at one time in the pay | it Beauty Doctor Gives Sim nace sa RUBIA: Gere | elena State of Present-| ot rail Hepp) convleted German | Reine te Dacken Gray Mele ai whom Britannia is “rufing the Day Wife of the $30-, nsul at San Francisco, h een | Make it Soft and Glossy. at S particular period, appears to | actively engaged at Mazatlan, Man-| ava’ bled: SOREA $50 a Week Man, for) zanilio, and even Diego, "tn at-| “pttes Alles Whitney, © watlhibWn What proportion of the number ot} She Abandons Child-| Pe OMe Ta AAS ee EINE | beauty doctor of Detroit, Mich. re German submarines mastered by the B * t Earl lines “Of crude ol! hag been {cently gave out the following state navy may be catalogued as captures fearing at an Early ahips rtain German tiem at | ment. “Anyone cam prepare. a simple and what proportion as sinkings can- i Maz Pedro, Cal, 7 mixture at home, at very little cos! eeignatine shat Lig b lta ba Age So She May De presence. of the radio. station. near|that will darken gray hair, aud make AP LL GETROERoe iis| Cote Hepeell t0 Ihorad: Turtle Hay hus been known to local /it sft and glosy. | To a half pint of ion of nava cers just now ts to, Y é port als for some time. Steps| water add 1 oz. of bay ram, a smal ink rather than tb eapture, but the ible Selfishness—‘‘ Cave! Jaye been taken by the lower Calt-| box of Barbo Compound and 14 ox zo of the captive hauls stowed away fy | rnia authorities, it ts said, to seize! of glycerine, ‘These ingredients ean in one-OF two Diridalharboramaise| (man. «8 (vo Longer) jand confiscate the radio plant. |e hought at any drug store at very difficult to believe that more tha yy Ave little cost App to the hair twice Ue ER aeeee: nine ‘ and | a week until the desired shade ix ob- ae tas — |lower coast ix admitted Ni tained, ‘This will make a ray haired . Aone # By M i =| authorit At Si | person look twenty years younge t More than one reason is given for y Marguerite Mooers Marshall. ems te oven more sinister, The] alone t tt even ( Vee. {is not sticky of greasy and does ag the unquestioned success of the war The last exclusive role of the lordly male is his no longer. Poor|giri in this ease told me ver en | sels manned by more than off rub off.—Advt of extermination against the subi jdear, when women took his jobs and his vote and his place in the sun, he|4Mement. 1 said chat she must | es, One is that the always v0 ve wppy und shoe replied, a ines. One is that the new untersee always fell back on one reassuring recollection He—|or course were fond of each. ot! ° ’ A be ar ley cent of themselves, Hobobdy lac badl veen A Gave, man, vit he wanted bal WaTh Wad & reat that We SSA Friday’s Arrivals AA by’ Feuson of hasty construction to to, he could be a cave man again. No woman could | {9 be free if either of cit mot § Tele’Gea we bos tock Umer becca deprive him of his cave-mantiness. And now, accord-|could see that she way marryini Sq beaee einine Hel 4 ing to an acute observer of social phenomena, Dr,|the freedom sho hadn't thy "@ ca ‘ ' Stephen S, Wise. that's exactly what she's been and |‘ Brash outside of marria r any naval Pek eer | She would combine all the re smething new and nd done wards of respectability with all J ie iain: the Wa. Gh under “The hideous cave man,” Dr, Wise recently told a| the so-called joys of lawlessness Sat Tt eRUM Iie eaten nurenal seas! MShaasules Maabe She would dance without paying ater fghtiog when Berlin an-| ag WY x, congregation at the Free Synagogue, “looked upon| fe weuld dance withe heat rin erno nounced the policy of ruthles ri gS the cave woman as his personal possession, his prop-| is worse than. divorce. man ‘ ness, there ia reason to believe they | f “_ orty. The apartment house woman regards her hus-| and woman who marry with oa | p found b t ‘ ster {f ST bat with exactly the same selfish sense of owner-| ‘They de not even contract a trial Frocks in the Full at than we r predecessors. | ship.” marriage, for they refuse to give | | seth 4 _ Another reason us a good In short, the cave worm—I mean woman—has turned { marriage a trial.” , Sunlight of Style Hbetentiate| ie authe icity, He MODERN WOMAN'S LIFE!” =| And what suggestion sd 1a ew and fra a an eterna) dalliance hd vettertn the rt ee eer 18 TOO EMPTY. P an qternal dalliance | onan and her marria nounced extension of the British mine! «wnat ig the matter with the Let her ecltivate some 4 flelds has thrown a ba across the | apartment ‘house woman?” | asked Bice aneee 1 some definite purpose ports of departure of nes) Dr, Wise, when 1 found him tn t Hr eateong anthers aie Wine Ute nat ha dig | office of the Free Synagogue Hou Ith it ware Jaw | prowstorma in Jul ’ » n the Ad-'No, 36 West SIxty-elghth Street ra, wiiite forehead. tires all worn Seintllating with smart- hoped to send forth, At the! “Why is she so uncivilized? For, Ked with me ree | ere dine areeeni neas—the newest, satellites me this barrier has prevented | outside the German Empire and ‘red nelf-suy Pr aninennaects of Fashion, —wonderful new buen te Hepa Boss of many ooded’ novels and pinya, cave tac- en: DOM Yaly catvad. But T be models, for the street, the the ruthlessness was an-| © not comme tt faut for any-| vided he had a certain income: Oe Lbs ba home and sport wear. Headed home for a fresh supply of| ‘The matter with the moderately | Hee eee ve Straight Plaited Skirts petr Mit is declared, many a Ger | Well-to-do married woman ts that} “ ‘Hut suppose y ed a mani vet remain Novel Waist Effects nan submarine has found it impos-| ene has an empty life, She is pitta | making less than tl Minuuireds lephatecs i in get rh, he Ne Tan a ne ee ere ait vece wali Ae aidi | eens bu Mude of handsome Nome have been sv and some havo) Pe le . ise, W ‘but T can't Hve on less than $40 alean ba directe t serges, . slipped hide. vehemence and in a voice like resin- | rut.) ont live on nA Ae RL oan be cirested | erges, in, blues and the at ins pin one supply station) wood. Almost a year ag 1 mot She uid give up her economic “The aoriathincate & ( smart Spring shades, with discovered and put out of business! charies Mf. Hchwab, and heard an-| independence, ‘what sis considered! her ma id the desire to » the most pleasing variety ipnties anished, sontet ties ce wt other beautiful speaking volce—two | her economic drudwery, and become a} get all she can One reason mod lg of trimmings. ‘The pretti- AD IES LOAN EY) SOP INGA (8 ne eat oapaw in an Amerioan dnaer parasite, She wanted to marry in| ern marriage go often fails is be f nat lat of 40) =i aptured or sunk themsolves by walt. | vocal eases in an American desert Of oruor that she might have a workiess| cause husband and wife treat it ; est lot of 15 dresses: tha ne Bri 1s of the Admiralty’s own, laxculine growls, grunts and chat-/ 9), | not as @ comradeship but as a ¢ have blossomed this season, lente ott dmiraity ter! t ; She an guilty of partnership, to which each con | Tene SAG OF BELEINn, SHCHaOe AREIAE has tier husband andiiier chile iniayunts Mtoe ani Weany | teibutes tiabilities inatead of a. | ; samt eee Sia { many persons attil tell her happy inarried lite f man is a| Sete, There are assots of @ sort, | No Charge for Alterations that no good little gir! should want /double life” an uptown and a dews terial comfort, her h ue | an more," I reminded him pT Lae UNE lash cabelas a m1! tated charm of appear ue ‘ ; Earanaumh aries awit life. Not to apael piteally, too often neithor man nor woman a0 Interesta wero enough ones vin a offen or er has any great permanent wealth | a | they are not enough to y” he gala H1n¢ with mn of mind or soul te offer They " ‘ i | “A generation ago the average [domicile «) A v are essentially sclf-reqardina Sale at Fashion | family numbered from four to | Tefiiae, not a cage; a happy thong I ina ! | Four Shops eight children, Therefore, from jaye a - mimeni ¢ an beable he a the age of twenty to forty-five |t , ba “ . f? the average wife was bearing and Iressed waren, | ap + 3 ; caring for emall children, To- | “tam y In ay'mpothy: with y son everybody | gpa Nineteen West 34th Street day, by the time a woman ie | 40". Pt!" peg Pipa aut ey are doing | im thirty her one or two children Dr. Wine. ‘ h f : Brooklyn Downtown: Newark: are out of babyhood. There is |rue Tie THAT BINDS MADE un " iy8460-462 Fulton St. | 14-16 West 14th St. | Broad & Park Sts,’ left her the space between thirty WITH A 8LIP-KNOT. heer ‘~ A = and fifty, sixty, seventy, to fill pow | which, if without calling, she may But the other instance of the mod~| Dr. W 1, with something ' have nothing more than tempo: |" " . aPEIERS) OF Ine i rary passions or permanent pas y times. eh wexne” vv wie oer Ome Treatment torCoughs ent house woman, whose hus C and Fi A band ns $30, $40, $50 a week, w t h re D ¢ fn : it is so tantalizingly appetiz- , lbelongs to the " a arr iL ea ess it—vou'll like it! | ca I } : wae i Public Health day—Nation-wide Crusack m PN onieue tee ), aia f © General directions for correcting these com E SKETCHED y” . mon ill Every citizen should aid) in wort IN BATTLE ee wa t Boia bata fi 9 ab oman ¢ ““ = hon SOCIETY BEAUTIES 1M COLORS era ar SPECIALLY” POSED PICTURES Maa stAt wm isKadl aad . se woman, ‘The i PICTURES OF THE Arges! . 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