The evening world. Newspaper, May 9, 1918, Page 16

77 THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1918 | THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1918 How One U. S. Destroyer Was Buried by One Shell, 3 “Got” Three U Boats = eA Ree EAC oe | /Then Unearthed by Another; Told by New York Boy How U. S. Destroyer’s Quick Work Saved One Ship Now He’s “‘Shellproof Mack” ’ |'DRAWN ESPECIALLY FOR THE EVENING WORLD BY SEAMAN BURKE TO ILLUSTRATE HIS Seaman Burke of First U. S. Naval Force Sent Abroad De " , , TO? WEPR « ) Arthur Mack, American, Enlisted in British Army to Avenge ¢, scribes How Depth Bombs Ended Submarine Attack pone ss STORY OF HOW U BOATS WERE DEPTH BOMBED. . . Lusitania, Played “Now You See Me and Now You Don’t” With German Shells, Has Written a Book, and Now . : Is “Going Back for More.” By Marguerite Mooers Marshall , a =~ : | HAD my head between the jaws of death and pulled it out just iq, | time.” OW American destroyers are chevying German submarines off Mel e on Convoyed Liner and How the Destroyer Narrouly Escaped a Torpedo. English poris closed since t yt of Ain e beginning of the 1 sok graphically yesterday ad New York boy early last May with ent over, and who was in one sentence, is the story of how Arthur Mack, a New | York who “declared war on Germany,” af the sinking of the jLu , by volunteering as a private in the British Army, celebrated jin the trenches Christ- cd) of war an units and muniti by Seaman Rob ers, hospital | mas Eve, 1916, and won * |for himself his nick- iijname, “Shellproot ) Mack,” which also is the | name of his fine fighting erican forces erican fighting man ir declaration of war smooth-faced and boyish, young seas story, just published. | Mack was born in \this city, educated at | Norwich Univer sity an r nine months on active duty patrolling The destroyer on which he was t least three of the “water sr » OF VAS Burke re- > at mwenee lescribes the undersea killer | made his debut as an ac { herself missed | 1 bare ten yard n Decemb 4 ‘ ‘ \ turned t th ik 4 tls die f k j tor with the old Castle ; = urned to this ¢ nd he is eagerly awaiting the ul ind he is eagerly a 4 Square Opera ( Pany | summons back to in Boston he de. ie 4 "Tho destroyers are winning the : a rand ‘ war,” he told me frankly. “The sub-/'@NSport. ‘General quarters’ sound- ci that he wanted to | a marines are scared to death of them, | ©4—that ineans cach man to his sta get into a uniform he ro The average submarine commander #09. 1 took mine at No. 3 gun. We was flat broke and p Be te a wise and wary gentloman, If tuted at an angle of 90 degrees and ; j ‘ ho gets one peck through his pert- Passed directly over the submarine scope at a destroyer, it’s under the #24 at the sume time let go two waves for him, and aot another sight | 4¢Pth charg of him are wo likely to get “I know we got her, because be “Large numbers of American de- *!4es the usual oil we saw hats floa etroyers have been co-operating with {ng In the water I ybody on the the British destroyers in the most ‘Tansport went into the lifeboats, efficient way since last spring, and Which were slung out over the sides even before I loft the other side cer-/®!! ready to drop, The vibration of tain big ports in England that had ‘#e depth charges was such that the been closed for a long time were Men aboard the transport didn't wide open and doing bustness, Cer- Know for a moment whether they'd tain zones have been taken over en- been torpedoed or not.” him to defective | lighfhess—he wi j less than 100 pou ;| would have exempted ARTHUR MA\ = j him from miitary ser- | vice. submarine and let go two r France weighed equipment which he received before sailing f tirely by American destroyers, rellev-|_ “Was your destroyer ever hit by a 1 depth charges.” : eee ; /exactly nine pounds less than he! ing the English of any protective, torpedo?” I asked. ; a nee niin His book, “Shellproof Mac is utterly unpretentious and utterly duty ther “We were almost hit once, and I hout illusions. Also it is modest. Therefore its story of twenty-eight Burke served for three years in the Never was so seared in my Mfc mouths in the British Army, during New York State Naval Militia, and Burke admitted with simple candor. which period the author was gassed,| “I may have been digging for tw the beginning of war he ¢ od A hake ee ult eer {wounded many times, and severely,|OF three minutes when I heard ad} fn the navy. He was born and)®fternoons and we were tearin \made an active participator in the|ther shell coming. You can hea brought up in New York City through the water, just taking a B pare | Battle of Messines Ridge and other|them go overhead with a long, thiy “The destroyer to which 1 bde-|Chance that We wouldn't hit any- 4 |{mportant vu instinetivels longed, with other American boats thing. First, another destroyer al-| 4) ggles, is tremendously G-8-0-6-8 nteresting in itself, and as a fore-; duck your head, though you knowe most collided with us, An hour later ee f, and as a fore-| ; : a and several English boats, had the GRAte ce WHat ware willl qenniie tht 0 do 4 sood. job of patrolling a hundred miles or! Was looking overside and suddenly thousands of other everyday Ameri: | duc ie, sticking my nost® 80 in the war zone and watching for | Saw a white streak going through can boys now living thet ng! {nto the mud submarines,” he began tris story the water. A lot of u saw it at the stories" over there » she ishe 1 don§ “It was early in June that we sank | Same time, but we couldn't make a Now for the story of Mack's Christ-| kno 1 front or bee our first submarine. We had gone! Sound. We knew it was a torpedo hind has written it out in vor} All T Mack:” other ¢ Diet we to come f; | got orders to take over Hill 60 for, UP, Up out of | he begins. “When we got the only way T « mas Eve in th it was or how blige, that there was angy/ out to convoy a certain famous Hner but we had to walt and see if it would bearing an American base hospital Ht us or not. It missed by ten yards unit. We were 200 miles offshore on the man at the wheel had noted { the port side. For some time we had | Just in tlme to deflect our course a observed what we took to be ai tif wrecked lifeboat on the starboard v side of the liner, The waters in the Tun us down h wreck-| Same night ». whieh somehow seemard low, and 1 oozed yA vound. ‘Oozed’ fe Me express It, § “On the morning of he destroyer which had almost ten day into our front tret get settled down for the |discomfort we found things bad.'T fetched loose and flew I mus. |The trench was knee-deep in mud | have gon |and water, and the water was cold, down 4 |The dugouts were better than most |feet. T promptly sat down ould feel my > h and tried to ng Ube en days of through the mud, and then suddenly r that submarine that war zone are filled with age and with dead and mangled While on patrol duty we picked Nea up a lot of survivors from fishing “Suddenly, as we watched the Iife-| Vessela and other craft, and we had). ont, it moved, ‘That didn't seem 4 time taking care of those suffering) ': sent a shot at it. We|ffom wounds and exposure, for of] 4} end 'a: pavitccwe ap-|0neae 06 Bi up ten feet, and I came spraddled ont but on my in that part of the Hine. It was a} “I Was a little dazed, but not mueb farce to call them dugouts, at that./and began to laugh. Must hd “The destroyers are winning the © \rhey were only head and shoulders |a little hysterical, 1 suppose, shelters. for not m natural, and w blew it to p peared; the wreck had been camou-| Once we rescued twenty-two China : flaged. The liner was going twenty-| meu floating in a little boat 150 miles . “rp : sepals fj | been I eat than a few seconds and no regular sick bay submarines are i bbe iio _— hings were qutet for the next, then deliberately got up, I didn't three knots an hour, and we, making | OU ; ae i rans ee “a picked _ 2 scared to death of them.” | three days, with only a shell or two bbe a seri tok about thirty knots, slipped under her} Up ten neh fishermen, five alive coming at intervals, We spent the| “I didn’t have a sign or a symptor bow and dropped a depth charge,| 4nd five dead. They go out in small i 4 :|time writing lett to the folks at, of shell shock. T said to myseff) \ which explodes under water We ats, and the submarines amuse! %f i » 4 }hon telling them what a fine|‘Mack, old top, you ought to get F got the submarine all rigt we themselves by firing at the boats) — — —-~—— romeo aeecuncie \Christmas we were having and all) blighty on this.” And T tried to gaw the oll bubbles cone with thetr deck guns when they've face of the water. Whene marine is destroyed the water ered with oil, w gldes of the destroyer |bully beef and bread and tea; but} 48 goo 1 it often coats the, Wireless calls from the mysterious | ES ~ — ee ee ois 9 ubout the big feed that was planned ;!magine that T was dumb or para | j A cove RL OMUARR VR Rea baverat What Becomes of the Seeds d As a matter of fact, we were in for lyzed or sometti Twas | there was no harm in letting the| "It wav a case of in again, out so thickly that submarine comm people who were worrying about us|@gain, I had been burled under by nier who'signs him Sees in he cleaned When Abe act ‘Kelly’ and sen ie micaane lke We All Know Where Seeds Come From—We Get "Em Out of Catalogues; But Where They lehink that we were due for turkey/a shell, which should by all rules of comes jute por th y missed you. Better . 7 A me , rt , ’ s nudding. |the game have done me 3 Be ea ee sitar | Wuek nexistins Go To Is a Horseradish of Another Flavor—If You Find Your Garden as Empty as a ea BR ee ee ert | been eri Heerarporaice “e gubmarine. It was about 7 “The worst thing we had to endure Cruller With the Rim Gone and the Nap All Worn Off, There Must Be a Reason-— |to select special eceasions for his) that should have pulverized me, Andy ff, in the evening y eight or ten] was the cold.” concluded Burke This Expose Is an Eye-Opener—Try It On Your Potatoes. contributions of explosive hardware. /no harm done. miles off the coast © tr Bre summer we wore fur coats : i ‘ ‘ On this Christmas Eve Fritz didn't] “Out of the forty-two men in my carrying six ¢ 1 boots at did 1 think | BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER. be srelen uy adopts a few more yards of seeds and flutters away lke disappoint us at all. He was right| platoon there were only two lef; nadians, we ng in, when I saw a submarine? Th yright, 1918, by ‘The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) the he Laren he dosen't have to stop o told Any aes ; lthere, ving up to his reputation,| Untouched besides myseif. I wal » voyed by a destroyer thought in every follow's mind FTER Congress is through with the aeroplane graft clinte, they aerate ; Sey eee Ante omn SDE ue Laled |for about 4 o'clock in the afternoon | christened right then and there ‘Ol patrol boat jusi ahead get you first, for If A RiauL iaeaticate by oe MMARAEA AL ie ceivn) ane owing to the anak that i followed the Ne ‘i H, and it tracks, Tt | he atarted his show." |Shellproof,” and T suppose T have that she saw a perise tor t me.’ Oh, of course | et all the poker chips ready for another inve Now ert re nape a a digi disappear aia ieee * Lhe After ten minutes of bombardment | lived up to the name; what with thd i minute we saw {t too—pa nt to The other fellows) that we ure w our graft investigations at such a stylish angle, rae eek earn) ene abaivig i neal) sents YOU | with shells that had the range came| silver skylight in the top of my head ‘ and wh and six inches in diam: | are over th and I just don't feel] why not poke a few sticks in the vegetab! audi akke the ant have p| sa ma sal ite ' wou could put a We ae s that are |e one which, In the-words of “Shell-|the numerous holes in various part } \ ter. Tt was 200 yarda from our Ment nere angry carrots roar? All over our former } States war gare | teh ue eaue ue pai ¥ uN ing te oh poate sees proof Mack,” “fixed our clocks.” of my body and considerable excess dens are being launched, with a patriotic waving of elbows and a star | pai Beach sult or @ war garden Th uu etre Lee a Latte “Tt must have been a big boy,” he| Weight in th way of shrapnel frag- me | r fa e " , observes, “because there was a ter-| ments, to say nothing of having been 1 F rom Common nis a very intr | Arter a few skirmishes with the baerys ak Rig sighdors' chickens your garden wears cate matinee. “Whe 6 y 8 | they launch @ war vessel the skid put under rible crash, and the whole parapet! filled up with the latest and most Toadstools | Spangled outburst of seeds, Launching a war ¢ f HE y placed tn a| vessel, But n they launch a war garden the skids are placed s: worried look like & Lai a who te always tw ete behing his Teor the space of at least twenty feet fashionable thing in the way of Ger- miata a8 for t ranu t ain: Aftor r the gardener | train and one Jump ahead of the rent. It is peer: Han a cruller Jilted and came in on us, I found|man Kultur, mustard gas—and I am f ne | ° sone. won't even support an echo. : a al TAR ro W y wo they cha A war \ gob of lund situated as close to tie ground as | MID Ue Ep ROR) Te ORNOLORANNBANS Bn-ant he nap {9 all | yself burled up to the neck, but 1) allve and scarce npr ‘ . by maas, which, ; @ worn o} ; aie ant ti : “I am no bloomin’ Hercules, but * ; ; | possible, The idea is to barrage It with a flock of seed shrapnel which ; raised my hands, and they were n’ Hercules, Spl Kv nosnn ing in ol \ piggy Med cloth.) will eventually bloom and produce something besides blisters on the When planting seed pieces in a garden you can allow for contraction | sticking up in front of my face, al-| with any kind of luck T hope to go due to the intense proximity of the ground. You can allow for expan- gga Link. ‘Phe additio,| ‘ands and pains tn the suspenders from ending over, A seed is a though my arms were under, IT was| into good enough shape, with a Nttle dere share. © nee Me ee ng: barr’ ved 1h. (he around, Kad Garvad’ lan tae thee (owe gue Gm) Shes aa sive shafing superiaduoed ‘by 00 many clove | packed in as neat as you please sot in GacGhek pyar (here aca etn tt aa tao the has cloves} with a interment ls private, only # few friends of the fam- | Shaves by dull bic mens yy Mt FOU OAD.) BR sh on i AY RAOTR ED “Now, getting buried by a shell-| finish up the Job that I have helped “ink bottle," be prove it and prone fly being present, in addition to about six million sparrows and all the due to the sparrows who don’t know that Mr. Hoover has cancelled |i urgt is not an unusual thing, It| start.” n tt de | neighbors’ chicken garden locks very prosperous in the catalogue, the free lunch, happens to thousands of soldiers.| “Shellproot "1s published by duced, Its cap 1s elongate 1 by The ink nsists of a liquid in} Great acorns fro tle acorns grow, but you never hear anybody a amas Se erat - “| Nearly everybody that comes out of| Small, Maynard & Co, / shaped, white at r fre suspended sting about the acorns that the hogs eat, No sooner are the seeds WILL THEY SAY “NEXT?” — | A QUEER SEA, the big show alive has been buried| seamen with 0 shining : Kus, I firmly established in the turf than the sparrows start In to kidnap | 430 MADOHUNAN Werner Bre ae waters of the Dead Sea, In} wholly or partly. I was not un-|LAFAYETTE VISITED U, 8 to gray with , ; readily em. It Isn't mych of a riot, One sparrow can defeat it» weight in a soon to blossom forth S| Palestine, are eight or nine) comfortably crushed, and naturally | THREE TIMES, . its top 9 inter € gnads ihe beat Ghy vou aver cau, And Sad teenie te rel fledged “tonsorial artists,” Con- | times more sa than the}, deralaee ahant and ive da’ eatl APAYETTE madeythree visits to A French scientific journal says that | i ndelible f ' a kood two-clawed chicken can J in rope they are replacing | Its surface feet below | °eeh , gg cael | America, He first came in 4977, extensive oxperiiments in the produc- | wable for uso in v | turn a war garden over on It ades with one claw tled [fA BUAtad GRA Umoctonarad lhe level of ine Madilaranaas ie |Sue ATMA free: 21d BAYA gob coms te fight far Amavoen tae tion of indelible ink fom this fu ther documents whi ometines| ehind its ears, After a sparrow has his complexton full of weeds he | opine equipy with m rflower than that of any other¢known | Pletely out, only IT was savel the| gence. His second visit wes made ie were made by Freng Sotanis subject to fraudwe ‘ation } Subdeases the apartment for the summer to another sparrow, wa@ |! amorican barber supplies. ica ce waien , trouble. 1784 and his third and last in 1824...