The evening world. Newspaper, June 4, 1918, Page 14

TUESDAY, * \\ 4 1918 Will New Yorkées Believe That Air Raid Over City JUNE 4, How It Can Be Accomplished Has Been Explained by Rear Admirals Peary and Fiske, by Augustus Post and Alan R. Hawley, and by Aviators Bert Hall and E. M. Roberts. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall With German submarines sinking vessela near the Harbor of New York, will New Yorkers continue to treat indifferently the possibility of an air raid on the metropolis? A returned from an intensive study of air warfare as it is now being waged, and specifically denies any desire to be sensational in his startling prophecy that New York may be bombed by enemy airplanes with wn 15 minutes. But as long ago as February, 1917-—even before we entered the war-—Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary braved the cry of “alarmist” to warn New York, through The Evening World, that the city could be destroyed in one hour by twelve aeroplanes on a tramp steamer. “A tramp steamer could transport planes into our water: rr UGUSTUS POST, Secretary of the Aerial League of Amerion, has just ardment of New York was per- | fectly possible. In fact, he said that | such a bombardment would help wake | us up to the war, and thus help in- rectly In obtaining ultimate victory. | Lieut. E. M. Roberts, R. F. C., tho author of “TI Flying Fighter,” is another American ace who believes ! i] 1 ‘ | Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske and| firmly that American aviators muy | Alan R. Hawley, President of the | have to drive off hostile airships from | ‘Aero Club of America, repeated in|New York, as he himaelf pursued | | The Evening World last December |Zeppeling sent to attack London, | | the warning against an attack from| "The Germans have said from the | the air upon New York. beginning,” Lieut. Roberts pointed “Aeroplane mother ships,” sald |0Ut to me a few weeks ago, “ ‘If you | Rear Admiral Fiske, “could arrive at Amsricane enter the war we'll show | some point distant from the coast at|¥OU! We'll prove that you're no safer ' nightfall. During the night they|‘th@n any other enemy.’ I know that| could get their acroplanes ready,|'®¢ Germans have planes which will| launch them shortly after daybreak, and the aeroplanes could be back to the ships in two hours, It would merely be necessary to walt for good weather conditions before arriving, which they could do, We are right on the coast and would have little travel forty hours, It's only thirty| hours by air from the south of Ire-| land to New York. Two or three ene-| my planes could come over here with! plenty of bombs and knock buildings in New York; then, they hada’t an down even if of petrol left, Chance of getting reports of hostile|‘Hey could glide and tand on the q@proplanes until they were oveg the|°Cean, where German submarines oe could take on their men and leave the planes to their fate. We might find them eventually, but what good would that do us? “Or some of the man spies h Jandin In the opinion ef President Hawley, the most practicable way of making an attack upon New York would be “by sending hydro-aeroplanes or even land machines which could be assem- bled upon the decks of large subma thousands of Ger- could signal for a safe ney meadows, where gon the the ae en . rines especially constructed for this{'h¢ machines could come down and deposit more spies, What’ purpose, containing launching de-]{ePst | h hat's to hin- vices, or upon commerce raiders espe- | CF hat defense’ have we against | clally fisted up, such as the Moewe]#? § and the other ships which have suc ed in eluding the vigilance of the English blockade “This would se Practical plan,” ¢ » Presi- dent of the Acro Club, “as fifty ma- chines could be stowed away on board of a single ship, t armed with high explosive and incen- diary bombs, antl. Parts, rerag: the we guns squadrons in London and of guarding must echo the qu ot Roberts—"What defense have we against an alr ratd?” Eliminating methods of active de fense, th New York any sys planes, Lieut, n to wn entirely be assembled has n desiened® for | of signals and shelters whereby the people might “The machines could be lau protect themselves If, from a possi within an hour's flight from New ]bility, an air raid became an actual York, if this city was the military ob-[ity? In certain sections of the elty, fective; they could fly low over the|chlefly on the east wide, the police a city, picking out the most Important and vulnerable points of attack, drop- ping all their bombs and making a working out « plan for a certain num- ber of whistles, which will signal an attack; ven thin air but simple landing, if that were necessary, or|scheme t# not p ed and made fa- it might be possible for the pilot to] miliar to the multitude fly back to the mother ship and special Instructions have be picked up. According to reports, Ger- tmubing use of “abviy is building suomarines especi-| shelters such many ally for this purp 8 cellars and subway uithough this method of in I talked early March with |surance against loss of Mfe is in full Lieut, Bert Hall, who won seven dk ad rations in the great war, flying for] 4 who hive warned New France, Russia and Roumania, and an air ratd may not be who wrote “En Al Ho had had | as victims of hysterla or three years of pract experience t non What is being with German warfare, and he|adone to protect the elty against the was of the hat an aerial one possible war peril? i Mle fone lp Month of Weddin. HE first people to adopt the/eminently the month of marriages. T month of June us sacred to! The “wedding” D Hymen, the god of marriage, | the Saxc were the anvient Rorhans, who n, a considered this the most propi- | gift ring, given tlous -season of the year for) bride by the bridegroom, Att entering the matrimonial state, The|r ceremonies in those tim Romans held that June weddings were | father of the | il aon ¢ Ikely to be happier than alliances con- | in-law with one « atanoee tracted in any other month of the year, | as a tok t at especially if the day chosen were that eg nee PES wae eu Ki uarbly on of the full moon or the conjunction of | ypouse ax a reminder that he wes }\-~._ the sun and moon. They also held that| henceforth her “boss.” “May was most to be avoided, as iu that - ~ inonth newlyweds would come 1) TOO POLITE the influence of spirits adverse to! Little Hoy—That lady that talked t happy households. f me ‘ These ancient marriage superstitio hope Yau wore pullt Were retained by the Christians AP ee hr in the middie ages, und even to- 1 said L Wished pa had met dam June is considered by many vie- RERARAP LSS Wales YO) c Is Now ) a Real Possibility? twelve aero- asserted Rear Admiral Peary. “Specially, constructed submarines could bring twelve at a time, These twelve aeroplanes could form in single file half a block apart, and in less than an hour make the trip over the city as far as Central Park, dropping explosives as they travelled, and return to their base. “If such a squadron should attack New York witRin thirty days,” Ad- i miral Peary added, “the city would be defenseless. Sweeping over Broad- way to the park, the enemy planes could deal destruction right and left, with no possibility of retaliation. The only thing that could happen to 4 them would be such accidents as are likely to occur at any time to any ' aviator. “Even assuming the enemy lost half its squadron by such casualties, how much of New York would be left after 18,000 pounds of explosives had been flung upon the city from the sky?” “Then the discoverer of the North Pole made an earnest plea for air ser vice adequate to the protection of our oa! continuous picket line of seaplanes or flying boats, a minimum ‘of not less than 2,000 seaplanes on the Atlantic Coas' Has New York any picket planes to guard her from an enemy raid? of the many and efficient gy What to Do in Case of Fire ILLUSTRATING THE MOST EFFECTIVE METIIODS OF FIGHTING THE SMALLER HOUSEHOLD FIRES AND SAFEGUARDING YOURSELF—OTHER RULES ARE GIVEN IN THE ACCOMPANYING ARTICLE, Don't throw Water on burnji | areas ne said or earth rom howe @ pro; We Me In tl @ room filled with tens crevice panasend knees with your mouth held close to the floor SSS When clothing is afire wrap yourself in a rug, shawl, portiere or coat to her the Never run, If water is not available smother the small fire with a woollen blanket or arg. os, { ater on the small fire with « ata « broom if convenient, or splashing water with the hands. Beating Swords Into Ploughshares : It Looks Likea Tough Winter This Summer for Those Boys Who Regard Work as an Alien Enemy —Don’t Beat Swords Into Ploughshares—There 1s Enough Sorrow in This World of Weeps Without Staking Us to More Working Tools. BY ARTHUR (*BUGS”) BAER World | by The Press Pul rk Even AVING tatied with the swords, Copyright, 1918, would establish an awful squeak. You never lamped the woman who than chauffeuring a wuuldu'l failer be to the beat other grapejuice tangent and ts anxious bung thimble across but, ix acres of lopsided shirts for her lgpsided husband. starters looking over the the imperial German into ploughshares, Pummelling the sword into @ available statistics on ploughshare was 4 tough job, so Bill Is going to pick on the boys who skulls, We Want to chirp that it would take very little beating to con- think that no picnic is complete without enough beer to swin across. vert the Clown Prince's zinc bat into @ thimble. You said it. We Bill has the right angle on the dope. When you are getting trimmed would have to enlarge it, if anything. That bird bas a head like a always change the subject. We don’t know how a bungstarter will berry. When he is all dolled up in that metallic kelly he looks like a look after being battered into a ploughshare, but the darkest darkey can mf HBTs ee Mie ears ie they have to beat the swords o some g, don't bust ‘em in two shoes, who Was ploughing behind the mule with the longest ig ehIMMRHE Ponte atenvuen Pesrainign ome a hoe bet pair of ears (n New Jersey, told us that Bill was all wrong Iike a twO- | geven belted coats for snappy young men without staking us to more foot yardstick, Which is some wrong. He 1 that beat 4 bung- | working implements. What is a poor hokey going to do? A hobo is starter into a ploughshare was as foolish as trying to open a Yale lock Just as welcome in New Jersey as a mouse in a sugar bowl, A bum with a pound of beefsteak, Which is some foolish. | is Just as welcome in New York as a blue card in a pink flush, Every place he pokes mitt, his iridescent beak, somebody pushes a plough handle What is 4 bo going to do? He needs both hands to rall A bungstarter is a bungstarter and it can't change omplexton | into his y more than a porcupine with ingrown quills can cha s dispo- any m a ite dispo: his cigarettes. Although ploughs are very stylish and some of our sition, If the paciti have to beat something into something, why best people are going to wear ‘em just as soon as the cops find the don't they beat some sense Kaiser's skull | barrel they are hiding in, a man who has bummed for forty years hates That boy's dome is tougher than the dimples on a rhinocerows'’s | 0 have his record smeared, You sald it, ‘cues, MNEN Is Some inna | All the hokies are playing ferry ping pong. They are persena non Jeuting the sword into a ploughshare is all right. TY tment gratin in New York and New Jersey, “Gratin” meaning with cheese. ating ay Figat Ho sentime So the bums are summering on the Hudson River ferry boats, They is excellent, a the suburbanite said when the burglars returned the ping over to New Jersey and when they lamp a cop's badge freshly pawn tickets on his stolen silverware. But, even aft they do beat honed for the occasion they pong right back to old Manhattan, Then the swords into ploughshares, who ng to do the ploughing? You | they get an eyeful of a cosmopolitan New York constable with a com- never saw the lad who woulsn’t rather be bouncing a mean sword off | Plete set of blackjacks and they ping over to Jers Then they pong tie etn Auidan's slasilcg ues ihed Eburauua on a plaianine back, Then they ping over, ‘Then they pong back, Vamp until ready: , It looks like a tough winter this summer for the boys who regard Juet with a mule with three leg ve gray id the other one broken. work as an allen enemy, If the puciiist Wve to beat something y something, why don’t they have to beat those sword to something, why not pymmel they beat thy Geren uu dorvjen iniy Wuiuubived Jhon the womes ‘uw iaty G plidwe lor ubuleles gr ice Groum ppoons? TUESDAY, 1918 Salety for the Household— JUNE 4, How to Prevent Fires And Handle Inflammables- Used in Your Home : Common Causes of Household Fires—Hazards to Be Avoided —Rules to Be Observed When Putting Out Fires to Get Most Effective Results With Least Possible Danger to Yourself. T has been est{mated that over 6,000 lives are lost in the United States I each year from fire. The number of fires total nearly 400,000, or about forty per hour. A large proportion of fires, like accidents, are prevent= able, and moderate amount of knowledge and care are all that is necessary to greatly reduce the losses. The following suggestions have been prepared in the form of fire cautions. If these were universally and adequately observed by every Jone, the fire waste in the country and the toll in human lives would be materially reduced. They do not include warnings already given in the two preceding articles on using electricity and gas 1. Keep matches out of the way of| ~~~ children, Teach them the dangers of| hazard which necessitates thelr han« playing with fire. dling with great care. They never 2. Avoid throwing Nghted cigars,| should be applied to a hot or even @ warm stove, nor used near an opem light. . In the kitchen grease fires are &@ ever present hazard, especially Im combination with the flimsy gars ments of the housewife or servant, Avolding th fires 1s easier than subduing them cigarettes and matches into waste- paper baskets or other places contain- ing inflammable materials, 3. Make it a point to know how to get out of every building you enter. | 4. Avoid the filling of lighted lamps. | Avoid the use of kerosene to light fire: 5. Provide a suffi metal cans near stoves and furno to receive the hot ashes. Provide different kind of can for rubbish— jnever mix 6, Avoid toy wax candles, 7. Keep greasy and oily in | tightly closed metal boxes provided tn jone place for the purpose. 8 Use gasoline, naphtha, or benzine for cleaning, if at all, out of doors nt number of! es | Matches come third on the lst ae death by fire, Incautious handling is largely to blame, Count~ less children are burned to death be- hes, setting matches ' parlor matches, but some care must be exercised in their use. If the box is left open while striking a match a spark may easily ignite the remainder of the matches causes of jay with n plothing. a fer than rags Jand during the day. in the box. When such a box is | 9 Place substantial ‘fire-resisting| placed In a receptacle for holding It. |guards in front of all woodwork | the heads of the matches should -'« about sources of heat. The open! ways be at the bottom of the box, ne \fames of gas, kerosene, alcohol, ani gasoline stoves should be particu- |larly shielded rat the top, where {gnition from match that is being struck Is ale ways a possibility a | 10, Avold placing articles made of! Many fires are caused by matches celluloid, pyralin, xylonitee fiberold.| being thrown loosely into drawers, scolotd, and similar materials, such! on to tables, mantels, &¢.. trom |as collars, combs, toliet articles, &C which they may full on the floor and s of heat, as the | upon or near sourc t be ignited (n various ways. Many lare very likely to use fires. Grea! fires also result from throwing caution should also be exercised lighted mat on floors, Into waste when articles made of such materla!s worn upon the p son of the ne need for observanc above rules will be understood more fu'ly, perhaps, after a glance at the following table, compiled by the State |Fire Marshal of Illinois, showing the causes of the 287 deaths resulting from | tires in that State during 1914. A sim ar table of deaths from fires in New any other State would vary Jeaths, not In the York 0 only joau! Starting flees with kero is | Clothing ignited by stoves and erat | Clothing txnited by matches, « | Gasotine explosions number of ap ne Clothing Ixnited by bonfires cs Burned in burning baildings. .... + ne ianited in manner unknown, 24 5 pease eat rem eyius | | enited by kerosene lumps 2 burned with live wires 9 works dixplay explosions s by sparks from plves. 4 Clothing Ienited by Fireworks setting clothes on fire... | Motion. Wie Clothing lanited by Chi Misuse of kerosene leads the list of teath causes in the foregoing tab! and a few words of warning are timely at this point. Keep kerosen \in a metal can, Keep the can closed | land at a distance from the stove.| p kerosene away from fires. | Fit lamps and oll stoves by daylight: nevar while Ilghted. Place lamps on fa secure level surface or hang them from substantial supports. Gasolins, benzine and naphtha dif- jfer only lt from a fire or ex- | jtosion standpoint. At ordinary tem- | peratures all of these liquids readily | give off vapors which burn furiously When any considerable quantity of lthe vapors become mixed with th air, violent explosions may occur if} Ki | | a fame is brought n Gasoline should therefore be han-| died care and show |} not be used for cleaning purposes |i jside the house, or if it ix, the con- | tainer should never be left open and the room should be thoroughly venti- Jiated; otherwise a lighted mateh or Jclgar within such a room may cauye | a very serious explosion. Extr with extreme | ne care is necessary in using | pine stove. The supply tank! 1 never be filled while the stove! is tn operation, and when it is filled there should be no overflow so that vapors of will be presentd when the stove ts lighted, The su \ply tank should never be completely filled Keep gasoline outside of the house | gasoline leven though safety cans with self. | closing lids are used, Keep gasoline Jaway from liehted stoves and all | lights, lighted cigars or cigar- Jettes and matches. Throw discarded ] gasoline outside on the ground and not into sinks or drains Bensine stove pollshes present a baskets, rubbish piles, open ays, Burning matehes t Mirely extinguished be- being thrown aw y lighted cigar and The above rules cigarette nlso apply t stubs and « als trom pipes, Rubbish and waste papers should not be burned in bonfires, especially on windy days, but should be burned in containery which arp commonly construct; nH ometal werk, fires should not be fed while they are blazing high and those near the fire should keep to the windward of it, Fires should not be lighted close to fences or outbuildings, WHAT TO DO IN CASE OF FIRE, First—Collect your thoughts, Keep your mind what you~are doing, Act quickly of Such n Second—Suminon is within calling distanc Third—Uniess you are very eure that you can handle the fire without help, notify the fire department p if any one or have some one else do this. Teach h member of the family the method of sending in a fire alarm, whether by telephone or at the cor- ner fire alarm box The telephone number of the tire department should occupy 4 conspicuous and permanent place at each phone, | Fourth—Cut off all draught, closing doors, windo and closets in the room, and use available methods of fire extingulshing as mentionaod above. Fifth—Place yourself so that you in retreat in the direction of 2Ut Pasolig Uvotugle the burning Sixth—Do not jump from a high window, Use a rope or life line. To slide down a rope. twist the rope around one leg and, holding the feat her, regulate the speed of de» scent, Otherwise the bands may pe painfully injured, especially if the height i. great, Sheets and other are ticles of beddin will often provide a life line if knot, are carefully made so that they will not slip, An extra loop in th» knot may avold this dane ker, Tie the rope of Ife line to bed or other article of furniture h will not pull through the wine w dow Additional in the article. (Note=It women to st Instructions are given lustration accompanying this is very dangerous for amp out fires on accoun! of the nature of their clothing) : ae oe ee STATESMANLIKE GIFTS, “To what," alia inquired the loyal cone “do you ascribe your guecess mbir ‘tion of talen 1." repiied Hammfatt. “IT have ale able to make @ voter thing igressman ways been | remembered hin aid to make hin bee heve I was going to do what he w doue,"—Kichmond Times: inate