The evening world. Newspaper, April 29, 1918, Page 13

HOME PAGE April 29 Monday, | nano ree S Off to Sea at the Age of Twelve, Young Depew Knocks Around The World on Many Ships Copyright, George Matthew Adams Serrice CHAPTER I. ¥ fatier was a seaman; eo naturally all i » L heard @ great de: about ships and the sea. Even when I was a little boy In Walston, Pa., I thought about them a whole lot and wanted to be @ sallor— especially a sailor in the U. 8. Navy. You might say I was brought up on the water, remember I was a good swimmer, in W and she wanted me for @ F lown to the creek for me, was not at home I would be in Ae far back as T can When my mother and 1 were | hing * she swimming, the large docks that, with the lumber piled on it, was teventy-five feet above the Hudson, and I used to dive ff it many times each day in tho summer, This was when I was about eleven years old. I was twelve years old I went to sea as cabin er Therifus, out of Boston. She was an { ] Whe } voy on the w old square-rigged sailing ship, built more for work than speed. We were out four months on my first crulse, and | stor knew Th itt n, in Yonkers, there was a pier at one of cause Gunner Depew. got knocked around a lot, especially in a storm on the Newfoundland Banks, where we lost our instruments, and had a hard time havigating tho ehip. I got knocked around, tor was a big whaler aboard, w peat mo up almost every day. He thought I did not put on enough style in bringing the grub to the fore- castic. I was not a ve er, I guess. Later ¢ think of that t in the navy a mutation for th mm shares, for there ) used to Uncle Sam's service, T was w my clothes in q@ bucket on the ? castle deck, and every garby (sailor) who came along would give the buc! @ kick and spill one or the both of us. Each time 1 would move to some other I always seemed to be in Finally T saw a mak- marine coming. I was nowhere near iscives, him but he hauled out of his course na to come up to me and gave the puc a boot that sent it twenty feet away, uney Wait- 1 n us er when I was place, but somebody's way ng 4a re Whaling ey Hl ay nO tt, at the same time handing me a clout \ to Mindi on the ear that just about knocked mo Then shinped | as wheels. down, Now, I did not exactly know 4 4 eat chat a matine was, ard this fellow men » many stripes on his sleeves town, a tw I thought must be some gort Nad aa nf officer, so I There prised th n was a gold > (commissioned offi- anaa be w ‘ ven onthe bridge and 1 knew. that See craft, bre it anything was wrong he would cut you Will dee i 1. so L kept looking up at him, but he Peer ne wise OD & stayed Where he was, looking on and Xe the 7 they havo fourmen Stayed where Je Ud. and all the Ha Page teamer it 18 time the marine slamming me he steam « ig gear that makes meet . Finally T said to myself, “1'lt get this Although T) t guy {f it's the brig for a month.” so vorta I got t \ T planted him one in the kidnays and after @ whil ‘ i Piher in the mouth, and he went voyage which jean up against the rail, But 1 decided to get into the ean ek at me strong, and we W Navy. Aft lying at it for sc time. But when it week or two, I enlisted sver the gold stripe came down a ned to duty as a s¢ ac bridee and « hands with me } nan. Te was the beginning of a certain People have said they thought 1 was tuba that Thadin the navy Te pretty small to be a fireman: they fy work. Later on I had @ repui: vad the idea that firemen must be {ion for swimming too. ‘That first day ig men. Well T the began calling me “Chink, and one-half inc! though 1 don’t know why, and it has b When I wan sixt my nickname ever since. | ee 3 Tam now and we S iimush sailor is always referr was a whe $0 na ahaat The old British ships | or that was bef ct to carry lirge quantities of ime | nd life there ts not sourvy. $0, al not exactly, 1d itish ehips are] . but if you will noti rand their sail- | men—the lads with vround tt f 4 ‘tly on the job as a fir A eat they are @, hu man, butt wanted Now, in t v : bea Si hbgdle | a newcomer until he show rete é : ob teKe car t {nto t months and ynine very soon a oN 1 5 % Household Guads in Germany ‘ . ) Reach Record Prices | An Old Kitchen Chair Is Worth $4, and All Kinds of Sec-| ond-Hand Furniture Bring Big Premiums. ¥ G nu ce mandin, Generals bave likewise AA “ier mari to deplr ree ihe matter eome thought and ea pants ; eh the sssed thelr wish that the Fed-| Te ee thought t er ‘ouncil take the task in hand. ee Te even } « for intervention on the | ee ian 1a chek hie part of the states and the empire, | servslettad ot Amsterdam, written | various municipalities are now ate] \ apd AAR ai npting to regulate the trade. | = - — pes Site tne rcane in the price of new! | CAN“T Lose Tien ) ) WHAT Dogs H - ee cick a ture is due, in the first place, to | Everdan 1S M, Pd CARE AGour Tue ee SAY, WHO ARE "The, present prices high prices of wood. In peace! ENTITLED TOA Day] | ONLY SCRAPS oF f- oN TALKING se about four tin sor times 1 cubie metre (85.3 cuble feet)| OF REST. AND Pay | { PAPER To HI Alanis ied va and {costs & marks, All other materia fi : eee ee eniture Old ant sas well as labor, are considerably IT'S THE LAW pee 1 € One hundred kilos of good) Sea EEN c formerly cost 110 marks; | [ a n old bedstead w at tress i} a a accyoan tan: erly ; eet Hi k in t provir s formerly | iolveg ives 4 to 60 marks, 8 Mame Bold f : r n e from 3.20 to 28 ‘ \ aes aces 18 mart aris per kilo, A plain lock formerly By tog vs 1 for 63 pfonniga, but now costs ‘, nd advertises : i For an ex ely plain | vould like to & AG, i w « f bedr snd kitehen furnituce | if + \vould-be nt 4 bbss @ now pays 1,500 to 1,800 marks, a | jhat it as if he we . former price of 500 to 6) | uway butter. ‘Trade if s dooming. Buyer : P Sunt without tha a <ountry, p > und 0 eee ing with u ‘ ie ; 7 In a number a ie ‘ Don't pal authoritics have tried to put an| joy w HE KAISER! WON mee DON'T = IS WAR Oe eis toe sale nel ven WHAT HAS HE THERE Won't Be / Ie ee vi i ead. f98r (at bien To Do WiTh MY ANY Day or Res | stuffs has shown, however, that it DAY oF REST OR Pay DAY FoR. " A not so ensy. Maximum 1 nicit AND Pay Day 2 US. WEU BE ¢ipal cont 1 seo PONG OT OMY hire of little ava f tles| mat nd ba should raid a dew war t anit hd Ae esult would tt f , A sample room | vould be 1 ’ “ ae of t where th au € c X 1 1 8 of fu a earted, or 1 1 i The State a e ry 4 w prohibitlon—«a us} t 1 vase pf oll c} e ts t 1 \ » russian M ' 1 elroular et the 4 : it r jorer classes ral Com- deferred payments, \ st—Amm gine room as a water-tender for » yer. ‘Then, after serving on the U.S. S. Des Moines as a gun-loader, I was transferred to the lowa, and finally worked wp to a gun-pointer. After a time I got my C, P, O. rating—Chiet petty officer, first-class gunner, During my four years in the Amoeri- an Navy I won three cups in swim- eee a eo ¢ a ming races, And somehow there is always somaébody for u sullor to fight in every port of we world, and I met my @hare of them. Just as some peo ple know a place by its restaurants or theatres or art galleries, 90 sailors know a port by the fights they have had there. or perhaps some particu lar kind of food. There was a big porter in Constantinople that I al ways battled with, and a lighterman in Archangel. Genoa we liked be. rod the soldier But | about both Moreover, I were like the « found out L was wrong hoard the fate of my older brother, who had made 1b home in France with my grand- mother, He nad gone to the front at tho outbreak of tho war with the infantry from St, Nazaire and had been killed two or three Weeks after+ ward. Thi mado It @ sort of per- sonal matter, But what put the fintshing touches ALBERT N. DEPEW EX-GUNNER AND CHIEF PETTY OFFICER, U. S. NAVY MEMBER OF THE FOREIGN LEGION OF FRANCE CAPTAIN GUN TURRET, FRENCH BATTLESHIP CASSARD WINNER OF THE CROIX DE GUERRE Every Word of His Story Is True 5 nner carzo of ammunition, bully heeft r 8 ; reaue 4 f us of me, bit it did not seem a &e., and made rst trip withou watsanas tha 0 anything of interest happenin the welcom Canadian Aa we were tying to the dock at utenant had assured me I would St. Naaaire | saw a German prisoner receive. witting on a pile of lumber, TE thought ‘The office, in charge of the atation probably he would be hungry, 8 T way no w ¥ went down itito the me nnd as no warn in his welcome than pot two slices of bread with a thick the gendarme, and this surprised me. piece of beof.steak between th and decause Murray and Brown had no sanded it to Frits, He would not trouble at all in joining. ‘The F ouble ata jolnin e Freach, take it, At frat [thought he ws of course, often apeak of the ¥ afrald to, but by using several lan- See oe eee uages and signs, he managed to Legion as he convicts because 60 make me understand that he was many of the logionaries are wanted not hungry--had too much to e fact I used to think of this fellow t, IN by the police of their respective coun- .. tries, but @ criminal record never had cnsionally when 1 waa in w German been & bar to servive with the Legion prison camp and a piece of mouldy and I did not see why it should be hread the size of a safety-match box now—if they suspected 1 e pected me o} was the generous portion of food . fe Rovian one, I had heard there cause of the maraconi; we used to to mo were the stories a wounded {hey forced on me, with true German were not a eat yards of it Canadian lieutenant told me in New Bospitality, once every forty-eight few Germans in the Legion—later on NVGTASE Unt ha OBA Ga BORIS Thi: York, Io hade been there, and he ours. [ would not exactly have re- [ became acquainted with some—and, too. In italy When you want any knew. You could not help believing fused a be ak id wie { am believe me, no Alsatian ever fought milk they drill up a herd of gout him; you can always tell it wen @ pists at tien twas not 4 harder vainst the Germans than and work out a quart or whatever ; , n has been there a knows, ne ‘on-born German. T was only # these fi Deut us bargained with the milkman and «| ru sudden to go over and « some for Tl Kultur an rub, J did not know what tho re trouble tis bareained with the milkman and “| $41 TO MYSELF, ‘TLL GET THIs GUY IF ITS THE BRIG FOR A Tit eta men I got enough full of anything was, but I solved tho problem by f us would chase the goats mo racket before [ wax through toni, Que cargo was beng Wn showin= them my discharge enpers tho corner and get all the is the largest, and nobody will deny had heard more or less about tho | Thero were five of us who went to Taded | anent moat af my time with tom the American Navy. Even we wanted for nothing. They that at most things they are top rman atrocities Belgium, and Boston to ship for the other side: MY srandmother, T had Reant atl thoy wero aus é ; got on to us in Sposia, and our ship notch Bue them io one clase where Whilo I was greatly Interested, 1 wa» Sam Murray, Ed Brown, Tim lynn, more about the crucity of the Gore inet eT was too YOUNG to hove tas had a bad name there. 8 one time the have of te Uiitad Srntcs hae it doubtful at first ea to the train of Mitchell and myself. Murray was an mans and made up my mind to get oii | Wie te ee oeeeds When wo wore in this port we wero nil over every. other navy onthe the reports, for 1 know how mows ¢x-garby two hitches “enlistments, 1) Lihat ehllatatrintine oreien on HIRT at be Benita toa refused shore leave and they put a ' nery. ge Pn a 5 fri outh gun pointer rating, about thirty-five 2 Ady enilased: iy the, FOC GR oe ee ro titan wos pedtee to get past him, but he drove me inthe world, And do not let anybody hand to Dbelleve things until T eaw Vania man about twenty-alx yearn infantty atd Murray to the Prorch iogiah, aleioden dt hegi ene back with his rifle, ‘This mado me tell you different them, ‘anyway. Another. thing that old, who had served two énilatmenta Man-of-war Cassurd, But gion 1 jt Ungneb. although I know, enoug Pretty sore, so when wo wore leaving — Anwai me, to be interested in the war In the United States Army and had apoke of my intention, my grand poset, bit tore tates ue ghoved bins in the neck with he dan my mother was @uit with the rank of sergeant, Flynn her cried so much that 1 promise wer reign officers tried to arrest me then, but the FPTER serving four und Pervicus ie well known in Alsace, Mitchell was a noted boxer, Of tho Way-and mado tho return voyage on HaKliah and most of them can speak me to lay forward and three months In the U.S. Navy [ had often visited my grandmother five of us, T um tho only one who the Virginian. We were no sooner jy srg think this one wanted to r going and they wouldn't ft received ble dis- in St. Nazaire, i*rai and knew tho Went in, got through and came out. leaded in Boston than back to St. "NOW off, as you inight say, Anye who had done it. I'hid in this recelved an honorable dis- Oe ™o with France at war, it Flynn and Mitchell did not go in; Nazaire we wont War) 2, peared ty examination. ithe til we were clear of the port, charge on April 14, 1914. T held wag not strange that I should be even Murray and Brown never came back pesaed Mbt ite Nie aoe cabled ahead of us and the ities tried to take me off at Our skipper saved me though I do not know ex- is no use comparing the navies as to which Is best; some aro better at one thing and some at an- other, The British of course, | DoYou know } | WHICH DAYs OF THE WEEIT ILIKE Best > the rank of chier petty officer, first- moro interested class gunner. It is not uncommon garbies. \ for garbles to lie around a while be- tween enlistments—they like a vaca- tion as much as any one~and it w my Intention to loaf for a few months before joining the navy again ¢ After the war atarted, of course, 1 stock man € ibition Copyright, 1919, y The Hirewe V5 Thy Now York E ) Pay DAY ) AND THE DAY of REST than I have said, T did not take much 1 the first reports of the of kultur, s Fritz was known as a clean sailor, ra [ figured that no real saflor would er vet mixed up In such dirty work «8 they sald there was in Belgium, 1 situa We | biel fi v Wir S RIGHT y 4 | WE MUST ALL. The five © steamship V can-Hawailan ist us shipped on the injan of the Ameri- Ling under American r- flag and r . but chartered by uae the French Government. T signed on as water tender--an engine room fo ut the others were on deck—tha xeamen We many other bec \ . WELL, You'd | BETTER do Some THING | TO NEEP THEM IF You DON'r WANT “4 THEM To LOSE \ \ ABour aT | BEASToR A \ KAISER | | WAKE uP TO WIN THE WAR = sft Boston for St. Naraire with service in the F ign Legion, and ree CHAPTER II. celved my commission as’ gunner, HIS ¢ 1 was determined to 4 lay, Jan. 1, 1915, enlist, So, when we landed at Shere Is ne use in my deseribin the For sewio is one o Mi Maaklin tt otae ho Foreign Legton. It ne of th MY PAY most famous fighting organizations | from tho Virginian and after the world, and has made a wonderfu spending wook with my grand. feeord during the war. When 1 Jo 1 went out and asked the firat Hin “frouay tt hha lous thane nooo, me T met where thd enlistment ‘They say that since August, 1914, the fon was. [ had to argue with Legion has been wiped out threr |him somo time before he would even UP Sd that there are only & tes direct me to it, Of couran, I had no Men_still in service who belonged t: \ the original Legion | paseports and this mi him (To be continued.) 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