The evening world. Newspaper, March 19, 1918, Page 16

ARCH 19, 1918 Gunner Depewon theMoewe ~ PALPALPP PPLE Drowning Victim Beaten Tells How Germans Abused |™ Their Helpless Captives Off With Boathooks, and American Boy Waa Kicked Into the Sea, but Saved Hin:self 2 Those Who Escaped Made to Stand on Open Deck for Hours in Wet Underwear. in “Gunner Depew,” one of the newest and most interesting of war yr how it feeis to be captured at sea by the Germans {s vividly told books. Albert N, famous raider Moewe, Depew, the author, w & priseser aboard the He bad previously served in the United States javy, the Foreign Legion and the French Navy, Ex-Amba: dor Gerard him ont of a German prison camp, and now he is back home telling folks about it. )» After enough adventure to fill a half dozen lives, young Depew left, / Brest aboard the Georgic homeward b May, Dec. 10, 1916—a date I do not YAs coon as 1 was dressed I went on deck. hen or? “The ship was just us en away wont our wireless and] @ of the boats on the starhourd| ae. 1 heard the shrapnel whiszin; oe us just as T had many a time | fe. I jumpod in the galley, Chips} md the cook were shaking so hard made the pans rattle. “When the firing stopped I went up to the boat deck. The men and boys rere crazy, rushing around the deck \ opposite dddOOOe DO DEIOD 00000008 and knocking each other down, We fowered our Jacob's ladders, but some of them were already in the water. “There was an oller on the Georgic famed Mallen, and though he wore Blasses he was the toughest bird 1 ever saw. Ho had been almost stone filma for a year and a half and could hardly seo at all without his glasses which were thick and powerful. He Was on the boat deck when they be Ban shelling us, and was able to hide behind a funnel. When they quit ring you could have worn that fun- pel for a peck-a-boo waist, but Mal- was not scratched. 1 guess he #o tough the shrapnel was afrald of him. “The Moewe lowered a lifeboat, and 4 made for tho G:orgic, passinr our men in the water as they came and erashing them on the head with boat Books when they could reach them. Tpoticod that there were red kegs in the German boat “When the lifeboat reached the! Jacob's iadder 1 went to the port side Of the Georgic and then the came over the side and hoist the kegs and down into No. 5 When the Germans came up tney had their revolvers out waving them around and yelling Then the first thing I knew I Kicked into the sea. I slipped off my| to us| ant | Germans for clothes, | place to dry ourselves, but Fritz could ound. “I got up about 4 o'clock Sun- think I will ever forget”—he says. I had not been there long Old Chips, the ship's carpenter, sang out: ‘Ship on the starboard Moowe When the old Georgio let out an awful roar and up went the deck and hatches in splinters. The Ger- mans were making for the Moewo in the lifeboat, and wo reached it just before they did. Up the ladder we went and over, the side, and the first thing we caught aight of was German revolvers in our faces, drilling un all Into line, The lifeboat brought back the ship's papers from the Ge and wo had rolicall. They kept us on deck In our wet underwear, and it was very cold indeed. We had ftty missing. “After rollcall some of us asked the st a or at not see us for the dust on the ocean, and we just had to stand thers and shiver till we shook the deck. Thon I sat down on the pipes that feed the deck winches. They ‘iad quite a he: of steam in-them, and I was bagi ning, to feel more comfortable, w |1 got a good clout alongside of the head. It was German garby, and he started calling me all the various kinds of Schweinhunde he could think of, and he could think of a lot, “Finally they drilied us down into the forecaatle. There were hammocks there, and we jumped into them to get warm, but the Germans came down and took the hammocks away, poured water on the deck and told us to sleep there. Then they put locks on tho portholes and told us that any one fid- dling with the locks would be shot at once, “For our first meal they slung a} feed bag half full of hard tack to us, and some dixies of tea, After this festival began roamthg up and down the deck, because It was the only way to keep warm, I guess wo looked Uke some of tho advertisements in magazines, where they show a whole family sitting around a Christinds troe in thelr underwear and telling each other that Whosis unions—the roomy kind—were just what they wanted from Santy, “After many days of this treatmont | the Moewe took the rowdale as a) prize. Some of the German officors came down and asked us if any of the men would volunteer to gO Aring | on the Yarrowdale, and we almost} mobbed them to take us, They began) putting down the names of those who! we were to go, and I talked them into! putting mine down too, Then I felt! about 500 pounds lighter, In the morn. | ing an officer came down and read| out the names of those who were to| go, and I felt even lighte when he| alled mine, We were each given al lifebelt and mustered on deck. 1 was| ‘Hello Hawail, How Are| 4nd one of the wentries said} in English, ‘That's all Amert-| good for, anyway,’ guilty before, and whistling Your T ovver never trousers and coat and clogs a Neve me, it was not a @ressed up and no place to go! “Then I swam hard and caught up with those who had jumped first Whey were asking each ¢ were downhearted "Not a dit of it to sing ‘Pack { Your Old Kit Bag.’ “Some of the boys were just cilmb- fing up the Jacob's ladd cas al and Your Where ‘Sans Goldfish Boa other eties w | AISING goldfish or the spend their tiv shout small ginss bowls would seem! to be the easiest life it ts possible to ehoose, but some species are rare and highly prized and require careful at- tention. Those with protruding eyes, the telescope fish, ure most to be de- sired. Of these, the Chinese Mottled Tele- cope is gorgeously colored. A tiny species from Florida goes by the name of Gambusia Holbrook While the Comet is extensively raised fm this country. The “lion heads," which grow a ferocious mane on head and gills, come from Japan, but @o not thrive in Americ The Blackamoor Telescope seems made of nest black velvet and lacey crepe. The Paradise fish is remarkable be fause the female tries to destroy her young while the male carge for them | large have moment 1 It came to me at me poetry that Up Ao: as if 1 had been in the business, a d 1 sald to him, ‘We can le we fight, and whistle when we're right, and gknock the Kaiser out of sight | her Denee * 18 published by the Reilly & Brit n Co. of Chicago, The apture of the Moewe Is only one of e thrilling experiences of Gunner Depew related in the book From faithfully At spawn goldfish wooden ng farm tanks the, tlne on An up to date! the fish are placed covered with Jap; on the in nese hyacin roots of whien ees are deposited. ‘The plants then cut off and put in ¢ where, in three to tive day are hatched visibl the 4, the @ The baby tish, to the eye, n days rf hardly | 4re nourished for! the yolk pace. by after which they are removed ino to rea tanks, mie he water these has been tert stagnant and is rather dirty in pearance, caused by the w? presence infusoria, the first food of th in 44 | ni fish, Afterward the prepared rend on = which they have to exist for the! rest of their lives, iy given. Fantatle are produced by inbreeding, and as soon a8 the newly hatched lot growg enough gyre istics, these are sorted out, to show its « Set eeeteetetee inane eae AA AN y \ | TUESDAY, XN a w MARCH 19, 1918 Quarter Century“Onthe Job” == = ; = —— | Oscar, Head of Waldorf, Just “Oscar’’--Who Has Made His First Name Famous Real Captain of Industry IN HIS TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AT THE WALDORF HE HAS DEVELOPED A “SIXTH SENSE” | FOR KEEPING “COMFORT PREFERRED” QUOTED ABOVE PAR, | Has Salary and Problems of a Railroad President and Is | His Own Efficiency Engineer—in Twenty-five Years, Starting From Zero, Has Climbed the | Thermometer of Success. “Pes Oscar” read the legend on tho little card that was lost amid ‘9 + 3 the forest of four-foot American Beauty stems which a florist's lackey trundied through the service door of the Waldort. i “For Oscar” was the written message on top of a square package from & Fifth Avenue jeweller’s—perhaps {t was a gold cigarette case or a hand- some bit of carved ivory to delight the eye of a connoisseur. And “For Oscar” was the direction on the envelopes of scores of telegrams and notes of congratulation that camo to the hotel last Friday. “For Orcar”——Jjust that. Here {s something novel: A man who has more friends than any one man in a thousand can boast is known only by his first name—Jscar, It is an uppatented trade title as wel! as a patent royal to a lifetime of genial. ity, hard work and réal geniu Oscar of the Waldorf has another name, but he only uses it when he is signing checks and contracts. Reason enough: That name {s Tschirky— hard to write and hard to say. So for twenty-five years, since first this hard-headed, hard-working Swiss came to work for the Waldorf, he ba been Oscar to a growing oircle of friends and admirers, which now carries to every corner of the continent and across the seas. Perhaps if Oscar took a minute off} ——— $e to tilt back in his swing chair up In| Plates taken away, He only knows the manager's office, half a filght| that he enjoys himself, above Peacock Alley, and close his| “To arrange for a banquet such as eyes in retrospect—perhaps, it may|the Police Lieutenants’ dinner or the be #ald, he might have indulged in| banquet tendered to Roosevelt when A little self-gratification, It is very|he was elected President—we seated doubtful@if he did, for there was this| 1,800 that time—is a thing of Joy to temperamental chef to be mollified,|me, If I were owner of the hotel I that captain of walters to be called| would permit nobody but myself to down hundred and one details | have charge of such an affair. It te against any such luxury|my passion.” Oscar interrupted him- mental review of twenty-five self to wave expressive hands as tf of hard work. spreading @ table before the sight of the vaunted cap- | his visitor. tains of industry over which the/ “You have been to banquets in the muckrakers used to rake—when| grand baliroom—yes? You have hear muckraking was the ruling fashion | little buzzer go tick-tick-tick—no in magazines—consider this captain | Well, if you do not hear, the walters of industry. In 18883 he was a raw/do; their ears are trained for the immigrant boy from Neufchatel, in| sound of that buzzer. I myself, stande Switzerland. ‘To-day he 1s manager] ing where I can overlook all, press of one of the greatest hotels in the|that buzzer. It is the fleld marshal's country at a sulary sald to be great-| bugle, if you care to use the ‘llustras er than many a railroad President) tion, My waiters move by that buz- draws. zer; my chefs and carvers and pan- Captain and Field Marshal of the|trymen and bus boys move by that OSCAR PRESSES THe BULLER, Ano sEry SPLCOURSES STEAMING HOT FOR, 1800 DO Nor COUNT ON LUCK i é a obtruding us a vear But among all \ stan one” * REEREATI ORs: 15 His FARINA business of making men and women | buzzer, ¥ comfortable 1s Oscar of the Waldorf.| “On comes the new course. It And that business is predicated upon must be hot. It must be served genius and brains and—most of all) —hard, hard work | Your railroad executive moves a) certain number of people trom one place to another in a given time and das a masterful mind, Oscar ot the Waldorf moves 1,800 orders of mushrooms gous cloche from the kitchens to the massive tables of one of the great formal banquets which quickly to be hut. There must be not a hitch—not a blunder anywhere. I am standing where I can see, remem- ber, Sometimes I am in the kitchens, or at the carving table; sometimes I am by the door to the banquet hall But I know just what 1s being done, ' and I know it ts be! {s hai Ing done correctly, If not correctly, then must I provide a remedy instantly, New York used to boast before the “With Organization and with dis- war pinch came; Oscar sets six) cipline it is as easy to serve 1,800 as i NE ISA courses steaming hot before these, eight. For the larger number we Str 1,400 critical diners without so much as an anchovy spilled; Oscar gives that indefinable air of finished grace to the art of feeding the multitude which leaves every one in a glow of Pleased.” satisfaction, Oscar has cultivated in hts tong Is he any less an executive—is his} Bervion, first aa maitre d’hotel and tn mind any the less that “master mind” later years as manager, an uncanny we attribute to men called successful? oe of divination. He can tell by “The secret of my success?” Oscar Pn fie intangible signs when trou. | waved a deprecatory hand whea an) /¢ 1s brewing at a table or when @ Evening World man put the question | Euest {5 not pleased. He puts th fairly at him, “I have no secret, You|*/*th sense and its application th and others may say I have had suc- cess, This is the recipe for success| may occupy between one and a half and two hours, At the end of that time every diner has no recollection of service, only that he well Osean: CAN TELL IF A DINER, SO ANNOYED BY. HER POUT DER PLA RAN Jitney Pianos Live on Nickels, Not Applause Some People May Think They’re Aggravating Things, but They Have Their Good Points, for They Don’t Encore for Mere Handclapping Commenda- tion, Like Human Machines, for It Costs Something to Get Froma Jitney which very man may follow: Pianola the Encored Noise That You Really Don’t Want to Hear—What a | eae ineipliaes ape mate rear 2 Great Old Works: This Would Le if Everybody Had Jitney Piano Attach- lhe afraid of too much work. If you ments Installed Under Their Hats -What? Jare supposed to be on your job at ¢, BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER, g0 Into the dinin, the lunch hour and stand thus by the door, I look around. It ts easy for me to tell if @ diner is annoyed or dissatisfied, I do not know exacti: how I can tell this, It may be ; shake of the heaf—a pecullar expres. sion of tho face; perhaps it ts only if room during lbe there at 6.30. Lf you are supposed | Jto stop at 7 in the evening, stop at }7.30. Do not count on luck, Luck pias Mb pat Pout. There Is an a pher Cone riaht, LOLS, by ‘T reas Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World | nickel under their hatplece? onversation is a good thing. Conversa. never wins anything. It is Work—| that petty gr Trae trout that table | PERIENCE is a great teacher, but eat teacher doesn’ tlon is un uncle to gossip, And gossip ts a stepmother to the world, | nly work.” look ence wali warning all ts i have great pupils, Some folks flatwheel through thi . : | ‘Two natural elemefits have favored | } Then elther the Nobody likes gowsip, but after a while it grows on one. So do warts | head waiter or I myself at celluloid collars and other sorrows without at Tite ig warth living. but 16 atat worth i Oscar in applying his recipe for suc~ | yin. tey w attend to the finesse to gyrate through w revolving door without ae SUALIAAIE NESBSta carol G1Ai @aniadl De te ‘. 1a [cess to his own life's endeavor, Ite pba dl eara and being kicked by an a aidan Nclant Nee ee a Marke 16 everybody had jitney-DIABOI® |i, gwies, end the Mwlee Davee @aniua| Permits himself but one pa pains atte ean ae re = atta van 8 installed under their t If you wanted to hear some- |e). taking infinite pains at tnfinize isn, ouside the four walls of the ner citize ankle uch life with on ir eyes and pody talk, you cou'd twirl a nickel s, her, or its ear, And if you labor. Also, he Is built like a work- | #0teh and that ts Oscar's farm, fy DO! 1 »-Go when e tratl ys Stop-Stop, t ut re ving 1 o Lad , , a bs e) 1 foolishly Go-G n the tra ays Stor r s didn’t want to inhale any of his, s chatter you "could peg the |horse—solld, stocky, heavy sboul-|*S*9, you see, the patronymic 4 SHE: NED 2) Te DONE 1 SNe: CARE IS RAE: OOH mADAR 18 da jiiney up into the air, If it cam h you could take a vote |dered and utterly devold of nerves. pee ane Bie all-Identitying Oscar dangerous to curry a bundle by the string among yourself and de th er was a yegg. And if it rhe fine drawn, nervous American re, Some folks re Wice as an allen enemy, while others kcep came down tails yeu could decide the same way. man of affairs—he with the pinch be-| Jt !# his boast that in twenty-four their hats on by Whe vacuum system, What good is a man if he is a If it didn’t come 4 at all, It must have been one of those lighter | tween the eyes that epelis strain and ye ake he has not been away from his giant below the neck but a Kewple above the eggs? ere is Mr, Shonts Aten Als Sere aro manufacturing up around New Rochelle | the twitching muscles over the cheeks pins tonger than four days consecy g ‘ound Ney ochell vely. It afe sd printing daily epitaphs his subway, when, if he kept quiet about ‘end paadic immigrants with Aurora Borealis vests and carryin --such as be could never put In cigh- i sa is a safe wager that during it. nobody would ever notice it th Fise cists nian abe tulle ¢ : “ay arrying ltecn hours a day at the management | ‘he last elghteen years every ong of : : + F we : ke a Jeons and which will | o¢ 4 great hotel and come through tt |'?98@ four days has been spent We often wonder what a clam would say if a clam wld talk © | hola anything ym one-eyed madilloes t i} nt on ; . i ' Page wa : any ) a complete seven-reom | each day with a smile, jthe 660 green acres he possesos know what La Folletto would say, but he clam, Anc¢ jody ever housefurnishing outfit, fifty down and the rest on easy payments. One who bas seen many captains of | Bear New Paltz, in the Valley of As aceused Bill Bryan of violating any Interstate Commerce Commission — | We got one of t Inmber nickels in New Rochelle last week | industry at their craft and, perhaps, | Wallkill, across the Hudson trom laws by smug ny bra into Nebraska under his hd Did you in exchange for a pewter dime, but we t golng to drop it in any. | marveiled at thelr capacity for {n- | Poughkeepsie. ever Ogure out a nickel plano ssophy? body's car, We don’t want to hear anybody a thing, You sald tt | dustry, finds in the case of alt of, Being @ true Swiss, this ts no play. No matter how much you applaud a jitney plano, tt refuses to stake = | ___ jthem the single touchstone of their thing farm Orcar runs, It pays ity you to an encore unless you feed it another nickel, You can applaud : mn “ successful achlevement ~ enthusiasm way ane mate & handsome prot to / i \ 5 a fob, 1 pre-emine 0 1s son August | and applaud until you wear your snitts down to a whisper, but the nickel First Japanese Embassy In U S for the fob. That {s pre-eminently ,° gust lives there piano keeps quict, But slip ita sit and away she rattles like a pink cat tae late se F 3 | Oscar's, His ts the enthusiasm of the | HAABCE: August, 80 Oscar proudly 2 fe ipanese A assado! y for effec s repal as wel 0! atta ates, ox per c * with purple Walnut shells on its feet and a package of Chinese shooting |" PHE first: Jar sea eH nF effecting repairs) artist as well ag of the practicas ex- states, 1s an expert on poultry and cit conte, & aiahal ulance Gave Wak la uiekes ca! | to set foot on American pene pplies. ‘The treaty | ecutive. And of all his manifold du-|h4s 7,000 young birds under his charge crackers In eres ana ties eee eae | reached San Francisco fifty: | Was the owe for the sub-| tes which pertaln to the business of this spring, with an incubator being casserole, nickels c and jitneys frappe, na it iw always ready | sient years a when a party of the | seque reements by which Japan| running a great hotel so that every- | !nstalied which Is capable of hatching to put the jitney nose n. It's always lunch time with @ b-cent |jecding statesmen of Nippon travel 1 to free commerce with) one is pleased his enthusiasm shows 32,000 chicks at one turn of the whee! pianola, Jto America to ratify the treaty n world _ ehite itself strongest In the task of making If that’s the way incubators are ma But the genial feature about one of ‘em {s that it never busts forth ja few years before by Comm HOW WE HAVE GROWN! a big banquet move like @ well-order-| Here, with his chickens and hig Into a flock of cor ated melody until you page it with'a ent | Perry It was t treaty whieh N 1686 Now York Clty, th 'N ed machine, It was of the minuda of dairy cows and blooded pigs, the man medallion, |marked the t ning of the commer | koran: ccs ie sti details concerned in this task that, Whose life has been given to know. Why, in the name of the celestial G strings on the golden ukuleles | etl and diplomatic re a yt Duteh, had 1,000 Inhabitants, 129 | Oscar wae led to talk ing New-York through the corridors 1 e outside w and trans Hants, 13 wp le t * ‘ pps which are twanging angelic music In the ethereal cubaret of inany [with the out ’ nd trans Weir he whol thing in a nutsholl 1s and dining rooms of a great hotel rung tana AFOR'E BONS ina! Gickel planes? ‘ike : , formed the ancien Asiatic king dvi 7 | discipline,” sald he. “The discipline away to know the great book of ng mansions, 4 jure people like nickel plang i ‘ pacitists, o a modern world power, In s r . Stiniag Nathan KRin ial ; : Jgom tnt n n ry rm ly CHICAGO A POOR SECOND, |Which makés an army move as one ture in its first and sweetest chap. soap boxers, P § anc her chin laborers play dead until we drop jasi2 re ar diplomatic — relations EW YORK, in its capacity to| man 8 the discipline that makes a ters. @ fitney in their ear eee! shed. treaty ef N © and feed the stranger Banquet proceed #o that not one of "I am happy everywhere, but, on Why can't reformers, Insurance agents and the rest of the chatter |gected by Perry 4 led for th ate pei said to exe tbe bUndreds at table 19 conscious Oscar's farm I am happiest,” gays merchants stay curled up like am ant on @ hot rock until we inse Jopening of certain ports to American] geca \ bo t that fvod is being brought to him and Oscar, sert a e ed 1go about fifteen to one