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<r WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1918 NewY ork Girl Sharpshooters Can Hit the Bull’s-Eye and Make an Auto Zip, Too Marvellous Proficiency Has Been Attained by Group Forming Motor Corps of America, Not Only in Automobile Opera- tion but In Marksmanship and the Business of Being a Potential Soldier—Train Themselves for Any Emergency Country May Face. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Wont): Women Who Can Really Shoot MEMBERS OF MOTOR CORPS OF AMERICA TRAINING HARD FOR WAR DUTY. Foe, DESspArc HDperTy, Vo WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, My Own Experiences In the ‘Battalion of Death” After Six Weeks of Training, Companies of Women From the Battalion Were Assigned to Guard Kerensky at Hls Meetings in PetrogradThen Came the Night of Rioting When the Bolsheviki Arose. By Eva Zaintz Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publighing Co. (The New York Evening Wort Chapter 1V.—THE BOLSHEVIK UPRISING. a ve sharpshooters are here, Almost every day a squad of young women from that ex- tremely efficient and patriotic group, the Moter Corps of ef the new markswomen. America, marches Police Headquarters to practise shooting at a target with the heavy, wicked looking police service gun and plenty of real ammunition, Already the mem- bers of the Motor Corps of America have shot the bull'seye or one target to ploces, so perfect have been their scores Helen Bastedo scored 97 points out of a possible 100, and seven other women made etter than 90 points. The crack marksmen of the Police Depart- ment are frankly enthusiastic over the proficiency into the shooting gallery at At the first shooting matoh Capt. sey a Regiment of Death being prepared for the United States?” 1 asked myself. To obtain an answer, I went to the headquarters of the Motor Corps of America, at No. 21 Bast 57th Btreet. “Ot course, we're not preparing to fight,” Lieut, Florence Walton smiled. “American men can be trusted to do their own fighting. But we have enlisted for war service, and wo believe in being at least six months abead of the game, “We may be called upon te do work in which the possession of a pistol and the knowledge of how to use it will be of great protection and service to our women. We all want to be ready. ‘Then, pistol practice 1s of real value in increasing steadiness of nerve and concen- tration, We decided that work in the shooting gallery would help us to be fit.” But shooting is only the latest accomplishment of the Motor Corps, which {s now composed of about 120 women, officered by Capt. Bastedo, Firat Lieut, Irma Mopper, First Lieut, Walton, four Second Lieutenants, #ix Sergeants and twelve Corporals. New York has got almost accustomed to the spectacio of a young woman in trim khaki and a blue-banded, visored motor cap, piloting a big seven-scated car about the streets. I doubt if New York fully appre- ciates the extent and variety of the service of the Women's Motor Corps, and the stern preparation which it demands. ‘The corps is now operating four war ambulances in New York City. They carry 1] and wounded men to and between the Navy Hospital, the Park Hospital, which has been taken over by the Gov- ernment, Base Hospital No, 1, at Oth Street, and Rockefeller Hos- pital. There never has been an ac- cident nor even a delay since the women's ambulances went into service. FFOR months the women have been doing despatch duty for Governor's Island, the Royal Fly- ing Squadron, the United States Marine Corps, the Department of Justia, the Aviation School of the Signal Corps and various staff officers of the United States Army. The Paymaster of the Sub-Treas- ury and nobody knows how many dollars have been convoyed about New York by a member of tho Women's Motor Corps. The women in the corps really perform hard, gruelling servico every day and night, They work from 9 to 1, from 1 to 6 and from @ to 10 in the evening, no matter what the weather, no matter what small ailments or enticing social pleasures beckon them away from duty. I felt an atmosphere of tensity, ef true soldierly efficiency, as goon os I stepped inside 67th Street headquarters, The mem- bers of the corps are such slim, trimly belted, high-booted, busi- ness-like younr persons, and they salute with military correct+ ness. HO aro they? V most of them have to > ef more or less leisure, in order to prepare themselves for Motor ter their women Corps work and do It 1 achooling is done, Many of them have driven thelr own cars for years, and contribute the cars, along with their services, to the corps work. Some are young girls; others aro married and the mothers of children. All are fond of outdoors, all have mechanical ability, and all are perfectly will- ing to leave knitting to the inva- ids, shut-ins and home women to whom such work properly be- longs, No youthful hunter for romance or thrills is numbered among the members of the Motor Corps. Thelr work indubitably has plo- turesque features, but the road to these ts so hard and stony that the emotional and the fad-swayed stray off to easier tasks, HIS ts the oMctal course of preparation: A State chauf- feur's license, an ambulance course in emergency work at St. Luke's Hospital (which means agsisting directly In the out-patient clinics); an army infantry drill twice a week at the Seventh Regiment Armory, a certificate of gradu tion from a standardized automo- ile school (this implies the ability Uterally to take one's car apart and put It together again); the corps surgeon's certificate of phys- teal fitness (based on special teats for heart, eyes, ears and nerve re- flexes); two carefully investigated references and the taking of the oath of allegiance to the United States. Any woman 1s eligible to the corps {f—she passes those drastic tests of fitness, All the headquarters work—even. Window washing and sweeping the sidewalk—is done by Motor Corps Privates {n order to keep organi zation expenses at a minimum, Of course, all the motoring service of the women Is given free, DOUBT $f there ts a sterner test of patriotism than the willingness to take your turn at sweeping an office floor whilo your chum and corps comrade drives a dashing ambulan Be- cause the women of the Motor Corps are disciplined, 100 por cent, efficient and willing to per- form dull, necessary duties here, I belle w York will be proud of the unit they soon hope to send overseas. Among the members of the Motor Corps of America ar Ir a Lindheim, Sergt, ny Sergt. Dorothy yma Burnham ewer, Sergt., Clara Onatavia, I, Mary Hilthouse, Corp. ps, Corpl, Dorothy ‘orpl, Dorothy thea Dickenson, There ts an ed corps in Brooklyn com- nded by Lieut. Ogi) lacking {n many oth terials, control. supply of this mineral, w' @ispensable in war mun’ tulture and an endless lint of ot industries, There 1s no other similar Gepoult anywhere on earth, In 1918] these mines, employing 42,000 men, produced nearly 12,000,000 tonn, enough to build twice over the pyra+! Cul, only equi mid of Cheops, anys Popular Beience| for one year and in mixed with moo | | Home t* obtained from aon kolp; oa. ment works produce a litt Monthly, In that year the United States Im ported ! 033,127 tons, furnishing car ih peoured from the refuse of beet goes for 268 whips, euch carrying) wugar refineries, Potash waite are 000 tons, Growing crops must have| found In Utah, but no soluble potash Potash, besides which it entera Into) The problem {# a difficult, one, but (he wanufacture of uvaitions, glass,! must ve volved. ° World Search her potash mines Germany, sadly, raw ma- the only cheap On f h is in-| platt ns, agri | develop a the total amou or Potash baking powde: fs, drugs an any ¢ 4 in refrigerat PRIVATES SHOOTING HEAR QUARTERS: jand carried ourselves smartly | had learned to load, aim and fire our The News in a Crazy Quilt From the Weather to the Latest Styles in Coney Island Dogs It’s All Covered, Briefly and Breezily—Includes Discoveries by Scientists and Explorers and Takes In Some Political Vagaries and Observations on Prohibition, Bill Bryan and Some Freaks of Nature. BY ARTHUR (The New Yo “BUGS”’) BAER. A Souse Sea Islander’s {dea of sharing @ drink 1s tor him to take the lquor and you to ¢ of spring was n¢ 1918, by Tho Press Publishing Co, © first soprano vote ever crocheted by t! rk may chang Sea Islander, Evening World), ink the chaser, n in Central Park, but one violet g0 your red flannels in midstream, So many men are staggering home from atags in our Prohibition y thinking of taking an anal- the complexion of Congress, They know th n right back again with a ttle pe flat-footing through Milwaukee and other cities a White mittee realizes that you can lead a horse to wa him a Prohibitionist The first viole' ain't no bouquet, change tho ¢ counties that the Government Is serlu ysis of the air in those localities, New scheme for testing recrult's eyes is to stand him near the If hia pulse does not quicken about March winds, a breezolet othesline into the rigging of an ies fresh alr gets too fresh. ladies’ shoes will be Umited to ndieates that shoes will be worn a ter but you can’t make Canadian soldiers cheered whon Bill Bryan stopp eoch or because ne Iding on a windy March ¢ can't figure whether they cheered the » 's near sighted and exemy » from a Riverside Dr are wearing promonading somewhere In an Atlant will be almort comm Explorer has dt drops or an they drink coffee Cincinnat! man Allied cruiser in the Owing to the se fourteen buttons In height, nt without tho restaurant proprietors are again permitting patrons to have 4 little sugar with the orchestra, f thelr saucers bread on Wheatl cabaretting and foxtrotting, y last year, fair and warn , beniga and sinister influenc has been convicted of « but a year earlier, « both prevail to-day, Jupiter Inventor has day to eat unopened oysters, ethod of sprinkling t champagne corks or Greeks Fought First Naval Battle. Peloponnesian , this year's crop of ( soap, dye her articles. mn, electro- Dienching, weaving and pho- | tography, In 1918 the price por ¢ won $80 sausages will be off eleven tn HE first naval battle re the world's history was that| "“" Corinthians the Coreyrans, fought 2, island off the n the world was pin N THE KITCHEN, {cal shortage of tal- ut Britain, a commit- tee was formed to collect kitchen » butchers’ fat God We Trust Visiting days examined for and] WAR SAVING | since the embargo of 1918 {t has advanend to $480 | Vigorous efforts have been made to mo aupply of potash, but | t in Bearles Lake, a the German output | dodges blank cally because !t automatically if Shi Kanans cycl Coreyrans de work that the value of the t exceeds $400,000 a Enough soap is being pro- us for the publi uces fat, which an ine manufacture of| hold the same princip: candies and fertilizers, to say| arnment, recognize the same ide ng of glycerine for high explo, | ernment, recognize the same ideas of production of this, source to anc | And some] wriskera to dofraud The birds are fly! are Just starting Rou Vo dinnovered the Kateer's tdoa night which let loose the first red ripple of the sea of blood W* had been six weeks in the barracks at Petrograd on June 6, a which now rises to submerge Russia, It flowed upon us in the streets of Petrograd. It touched my garments and {t left a horror in my heart. T am as strong as any man, but when I think of that night my lips fre closed and I cannot speak, For weeks I could not tell about it. But I could not cease thinking about it. It was the picture of it—the ever- | vivid view of the mad, awful night in the streets of Petrograd—never fading from my mental vision, that decided me to leave Russia, It made me abandon my dreams of a Russia saved by her sons and daughters. I fled as a child might from some sav- age beast aroused from sleep by @ kindly touch, I fied back to my home from Petrograd, and then, with the two helpless, hopeless, starving old people there, I fled on and on, through @ journey of weeks, wi every day fresh miseries before me, sceking only peace and safety, Al- ways the scene of Petrograd, with {ts people transformed to howling bears and slinking wolves, was be- fore my eyes. During the six weeks of our train- ing in the camp at Vassilifaki there was no lessening of the ardor we felt for our cause. It was, in fact, in- creased by the passage of time and even by the return of the matmed and wounded alsters who had pre- ceded us to the front. We visited them in the great hospital and spoke to them as heroes whom we envied, We resented the report that Ker- ensky would allow no more of the women of the battalion to go to tho front. Wo wore the badge of death upon our arms with growing pride, as something of increased signifi- cance. In tha great hospital visitors spoke with deep pity and commiser- ation to our wounded, We spoke as soldiers, to comrades who had en- Jcountered a necessary risk in the line of duty. Nearly always we spoke thus, Once Nussa Popova found among the wounded a girl she had known, The wounds of her faco were terrible. Nussa wept when the nurse described the wounds. We re- buked Nussa when we had left the hospital, In six weeks our training had made us well taught and well disciplined soldiers, We marched with pr heavy French rifles, and we had been taught the intricacies of attack and defense in bayonet practice. In this last exercise I was especially proficient on account of my strength, and I was set to lead files of our soldiers as an instructor. I had great pride in this, I did not realize then that I was soon to owe my life to my skill, and that it would not be against Russia's foreign enemies but against Russiana themselves that I should tight with the bayonot, In May we had reached such a satisfactory state of training that companies of our battalfon were as- signed as escorts to Kerensky at the meetings in Petrograd when he spoke. On the night of the 16th of May it was our company which was given this duty. We felt a great pride and exaltation as we marched to the city and, during the whole hour which was required for the march from the barracks to the meeting place, we were greeted with cheers and hand- clapping. We ailgned ourselves with ease and precision about the speakers’ platform and the people cheered again and again. On the night of the 6th of June, Nussa and I were among the soldiers of our battalion who were permitted to go into Petrograd on leave, There were more than a hundred of us, and ‘e@ walked to Petrograd together, scorning, as soldiers should, to ride {n the trolley cars, In the centre of the city wo separated. Our own party f ten or twelve went to @ moving ture theatre where a film was to displayed showing the operations of certain troops at the front, among which was a regiment commanded by itive of one of the soldiers of our battalion In the t tre we sat near each other and gave ourselves to an ine tereste view of the war scenes on Before the presentation of tho films was halt over, one of our party who had gone to the entrance of the theatre for some purpose re- turned and whispered a message which made us suddenly lose all in terest in tho scenes upon the screen, “There is rioting in the etreete near the Winter Palace," she said, “Phe Rolsheviki have arisen to overthrow Kerensky, They say that people have been Killed and that Kerenaky has the secre ordered soldiers to put down the dts. order.” . (To Be Continued) - Copmright, 1916, by the Rell Syndicate, Ine How Our Submarines Are Tested 11H problem of the submarine builder is not merely to con- struct @ boat which will dive, but to make it strong enough to with- stand the constantly increasing and tremendous pressure an it sinks, Re- cent reports say that many German crows have gone to thelr deaths in un- dersea craft, hastily built and sent out before being thoroughly tested, which have succumbed to the crush- ing weight of the water, A dock for testing submarines, de- signed by an Italian, Major Laurent, is now being used by the United States Navy, writes Robert G. & rett, in Popular Science Monthly, The test 1s made without risking either boat or crew In deep water, The dock ts a long stec ble of resisting a pressure trom with. in equal to that at a depth of 300 feet. One end ts permanently closed, the other fitted with a ! wa gate, The boat to be tested apa Into the dock, the gate es made fa then powerful pumps fo ee 1 tube, capa- ree water the tube until the pressure Crean hull ts as great as if the sub au submarine deeply submerged, While the test crew wate betng made, the sely for lea measure the extent to which the mail yields to the external force, ‘The are always in con 5 fab mun, fon with “HANDS ACROSS THE SEA.” HE first Important “hands across the sea” movement, designed to cultivate more cordial relations between Great Britain and the United States, was launched forty-seven years ago, when the Anglo-American Asso- chation was established, This was sup- plemented in 1898 by the formation of tho Anglo-American League at Staf- {ora House, in London, for the purpose of securing “the most cordial and von- stant co-operation” between nations “which are closely allied in blood, inherit the same literature and laws, 8 of self-gov- freedom and humanity, and are drawn together by strong common glycerine from Oty 19 very sea struggle resulted over two cen-|suiticient to propel 17,000,000 shell, 1V'q Ike collaborating on @ drink with a Souse in many parts of the world.” the officer in charge of t ‘ , of the pumps, ao may be easily rescued if an acoid, occurs, nas ——.. Most influential of the Present. societics of this kind {s “The oy grims,” organized in London in 1999, with 400 British members g America, * 9nd 600 te —>——___ AMERICA HAS SWEET TooTy, O meet the Amoric, . i qneet the American consump. of sweetmeats | ats last required betw year en made confectionery, ‘The Industry embraces more than 2,500 atlas ments, represents the investment of $110,000,000 capital and turns out con. fections of various sorts having td total value of $185,000,000, On ni basis of a population of 102,000,000, this means @ net expenditure of $1.66 @ year for every man, wombn and ]cbild in continental United States,