The evening world. Newspaper, June 20, 1918, Page 18

® ri writes again to-day description of what happened. | | EIT + > eye “wer "the fried cans THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1918 First American Submarine ad Trial Off U. S. Coast Where U Boats Sank Vessels score of German Submersibles’ Attacks Cared pror in Same Hospital at Lewes, Del., Where| " Injured Crew of Fulton, One an Austrian, Naval Officer, Were Taken Sixteen Years Ago, | » When Explosion Ended First Sea Trial of Holland - Boat. «! § Remsen Crawford, reporter who accompanied the Fulton on a tug, ale the accident and wired the first story to The Evening World, By Remsen Crawford | Gappricht, 1918, by The Press Pubbshing Co. (The New York Evening World). | we ran the first submarine boat out of New York Bay on an experimental trip, under the auspices of the United States Navy, | Just to see whether a subma hing more than coast defense inside of an inner harbor, there were no | @eMeors to keep it a secret. ‘In fact, we had aboard a Lieuten: @avies of England, Russia, Japan and ‘The Fulton, a tiny little craft of fhe first of the flotilla which John P. Uncle Sam, the first being the Holland, had already performed feats which | had attracted the attention of the nav @ the bottom of the sea at New Suffolk, This had never been heard of before, ventions since the days of David Bushnell, who had worked against enemy | boats along this line in the days of W. It was purely an American dea. Bat, when we seo that the idea is Detng worked against America to-day @nd-that victims of German subma- gindd tire being cared for in the very hospital at: Lewes, Del, where our! first little craft went to grief and wo| eared for an Austrian Navy Lieuten-| ant whom we had taken on the exper- Smantal trip, it can only be defined as) the worst of mistakes on the part of ear Government at the time, or the fromy of fate, or in the fable that tells of the snake that bit the farmer who had warmed him in his bosom. ‘The submarine flotilla of every na- toni on earth to-day gots Its origin from, the disaster which ocourred to our Uttle Fulton that morning while roufiding Delaware Breakwater tn © heayy sea with half a gale going England bought five of them and has} beew perfecting the type @ver since.| France bought five, after having tried ‘out aeveral of her own inventions and casting them aside. Russia bought gix and offered fabulous prices for tho patent rights. Japan bought five. So "that all the submarine boats in the: World to-day have been improved from the Holland type which was immediately seized upon as tho only typw of the submarine warfare ma- chifie that offered a prospect of success. ook at the break of day on April 2, 1 our little crowd began to wether at one of the lonely piers In Brooklyn. Of course, Capt Franle Cable, Mate Harry Morrell and the gunner And other members of the crew were around the little fish- Ike craft, the Fulton, all night, She ‘was a treasure then, coveted by the military and naval experts of the ‘wold. But, as daylight came we were all assembled and introductions were im order, There was Licut. Arthur | MacArthur of the United States) Navy, who had charge of the experi- ment, and a son, by the way of Gen. | MacA:thur, then Governor General of the Philippin ‘Thon there Lietit. Oscar Kohen of the Austrian Navy, and Lieut. C. P. Nelson of the United States Navy, and Charles Bechtold, gunner, who was to show the way a submarine can throw tor- pedoes in open sea—up to that time doubted the world around. There were OTHERS. When we gathered in the cabin of the Storm King, a convoying yacht of the tug type, for our daylight break fast’ we were all hungry. I remem- the steward cooked and my amazement to behold the gastronomic feats of the Licuten- ant from the Austrian Navy, I was @ Uttle Bit amazed at my own per- | formances, for fried eggs had never been a failing with me. I was then a reporter for The World. There is an old. gaying that reporters never sleep and actors never eat. We got off bofore the first streaks ef the sun had gilded the riggings of the ships in Erie Basin. Not a scul thete but understood well the signifi- cance of the trip. It was to determine wheth ra submarine boat could ever bevent to open sea and do defensive watk outside of a land-locked harbor. Uncle Sam had found out that one ‘coult dive and spend the night at the bottém of a harbor while a storm was raging in Peconic Bay, L. 1., but no- body ever dreamed that a submarine would ever be able to tackle the briny deep. Every nation doubted it at the tiie; Rear Admiral O'Neil of the Uaited States Navy had even re- potted to Washington that the sub- ine would never be anything but @ “eeare-crow of the sea.” Russia Wasa Little bit dubious to the extent rine would ever be available for any- ant from the Austrian Navy, and the | France had been taking notice, the Holland type, and second only to Holland was striving to create for | jes of the world. She had gone down L. 1, and remained all night. though there had been submarine in- ‘ashington in the Hudson River. ‘Tho first day out down the coast of | New Jersey the Fulton performed | many stunts to show that sho was | there with the goods. She would run along at more than a s#ix-knot gait, then all of a sudden dive down under the wator and Nothing would be een | of her until she came afic at the very #pot she had been scheduled to come up. Up to that time no subma- rine boat sea, She was dotng well t ad ever tackled tho open | | | © vores apes tes Ht 7 (Bir Flack - ta Sune 1% J901 mec raatittieghial But the next morning there came| {7 half a gale below Barnegat. We all looked out from the Storm King to see what had became of the game lit-| Ue boat. Not far away she was com- ing along with a bone tn her mouth, but wabbling like a swimmer grow- ing weak but who hates to admit it Tho sea was very rough, and as we waited for her to catch up, the tiny craft with Just her whaleback show-| ing, for she was nine merged even when she was supposed to be awash, looked like a trout I have a4 on Une when just ready to be taken in with tho dip-net, It wasn't five minutes after she came along near the Storm King that some- thing happened within her, Shoe tossed and rolled pitifully, Capt. Frank Cable, Mate Harry Morrell and | tenth Lieut, C. P. Nelson, U. 8. N., were the only ones above her around the} manhole or the hatch of the conning tower. This was quickly opened, and | Lieut. MacArthur, U, 8. N., and Oscar Kohen, Austrian Navy, crawled out, followed by the rest of the crew and Gunner Bechtold, We lowered boats and took them hastily to the United States Marine Hospital at Del,, the very place they are now taking the rescued victims of the German submarines, I hired a special boat by hailing the shore and got to the hospital first, | and was sending in an exclusive story to The Evening World before the victims were brought in. Leaving Dr, Larindor of the Naval] Hospital to take care of the victims, and wondering what would ever be- come of the submarine as a machine of war, I returned to New York, and| soon afterward went to Georgia and) remained ten years on a farm, Re- turning to New York I find that Ger. many is sinking our ships off that same coast, and that we are bringing to that mame hospital our victims. Tt would make any man wonder why Lieut. Oscar Kohen of the Austrian Navy was aboard on thattrip, Ihave] fone to the big library at 42d Street to learn how st rine navigation had been progressing while T was on @ farm In a book written by Charles W. ‘Lewes, ‘of, Gffering $00,000 for the Fulton ber patent rights, and, as I look on it now, why was Licut, Oscar of the Aystrian Navy, 6o in- as lo be prosenty Domville-Fife I find that England's No, 1 submarine was built “from a design of J. P, Holland of Paterson, N. J, and that they have been im* proved upon until they are “the best in the world.” 1 also learn from the ame authority that England, profit ng from that trip of the Fulton, had improved the boats so as to feel guar- anteed in 1903 in launching four. From the same source I get it, that Russia took over the Pulte nd had six at Kronstadt in 1905, Again Mr. Fife says that Japan built wix of the Holland type boats, France, which had thrown away its own, adopted this type and its flotilla is from them, Germany, according to Mr. Fife, who scems to have had dif- ficulty in getting particulars, had a submarine boat as early as 1890, but threw it aside, and its submarines be- | gan r » be recognized when the | first U boats was launched, | Aur. at the Germ ship- yards, three yours after I ate fried ith Lieut, Oscar Kohen of th and helped to take u We at le that the] submarine cau make @ trip in open| me of British Submarine The Fulton, U.S. Navy’s First Submarine CONTRASTED WITH MODERN SUBMERSIBLES ALL DEVELOPED ALONG LINES THE FULTON ali — SIXTEEN YEARS AGO. of » neeee Us. ‘Submarine A Letter From Sergeant Dick Between Pains in the Vest (See Appendix, Paragraph 2) He's Doped Out a Fat Scheme—Lightning Rods for Those Tin Trench Opera Hats, and He’s Glad He Lost His Appendix, as It Will Leave More Room for Medals, but Most of All He Yearns for a Pair of “Express Dice,” ~-Those He’s Operating Now Make Which Stop Only at “Seven” and “Eleven” Too Many Local Stops. BY ARTHUR ( BUGS”) BAER Copyright, 1918, by The P TRALN, NEWPORT NEW COMPANY "2 DEAR BUGS: So far as the war {s concerned, I am still out in the corridor, I have taken @ vote among mo and decided that Newport News should be changed to Bad News. I am just as far away from the front as the Kalser’s six sons, Put on a feed bag of that Chicago tincanned meat and discovered that you can't keep a good ham down, Just escaped from the hospital after three weeks in the pajama cavalry. The army surgeon {s wearing my appendjx for a watch charm, He cut through six suits of winter underwear and then sewed me up SUPPLY 5, VA. again. I had to sew the underwear myself, I have stitches in me like aa Al can League baseball 2 Nothing to do here but think, I certainly am a ringer for Rodin's y D , ee | statuette of “The Thinker.” resemblance is spontaneous, pecially as the statue's slcull is also made of marble. If you are friendly with your- self, don't ever pack your t with any of that Chicago buzzard table d’hote. If you do, you will run the triple clef scale of anguish from do to do, It defeat ed me. And I can eat anything {f somebody else pays for it ves 8 Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). | remove their appendixes, Chicago brand. ‘As I expect to leave this old country flat in a few weeks, I wish | you would write to me, In English, if posyible. I need something to | act as a letter of introduction in Wurope, and if I get ketched by the Germans I will need 4 passport. Your letter will act as both. Any- body would have a hellufer time doping it out. Ask the boss. He knows. While riding the cot in the hospital I figured out a way to grab off some coin. Be a profiteer, It's stylish. Between pains in the vest I doped out some fat scheme, Why not lightning rods for those tin trench opera hats? There are three million iron derbies in the army now. And three million lightning rods would net me a profit of one billion bones. That would be enough money to win the war and have enough left over to start another one, You know some guys down in Washington. Somebody The must have fed ‘em meat, If you can scatter some of your influence and have a Dill passed compelling tin-hatted doughboys to wear lightning rods I will go fifty-fifty with you. I will 1 collect the coin and give you half of the lightning we catch. Tlurry up, as I will soon start commuting between this neck o' the woods and Europe. Remem- ver ine to the birds on The World, Glad that I lost my appendix, as I N Ww = \ N THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1918 Prophet Who Warned Kaiser ' 1918 Would _ Foresees Vi | Prof. Zancig Ten Years Ago Told Wilhelm Th's Year Would See Him Hemmed In Started the War Copyright, | about by enemies.” | the war, Yet the years most peril In the mean est, simply mann and evening at It was in 1908 that he was com- | manded to visit the imperial palace at Potsdam, There he met the Kaiser himself, the Kaiserin, the Crown Prince and his young wife, Princes: Cecilie, “Something came to me,” h Fay yesterday, “and I Kaiser that tho years 1916, 1917, 1918 | would be the most dangerous in his| | life, particularly 1918, All about him I seemed to see people striking, striking at his throne, his power, even his life. I did not say, in so rfany words, that the danger wouht come in the form of war, When speaking to royalty it Is |not wise to be too frank. But 1 warned him of peril, and I warned | the Crown Prince that ms | lite would be !n even greater dan, “Were they pleased?” I asked. Fo I remembered four lings from a cer- tain Indian ballad of Rudyard Kip- ling’s, Like this they go: * ‘Heart of my heart, is it meet or wise To warn a king of his enemies? We what hea m or hell may know n knoweth the mind of the “They didn% like it at all,” smiled rof, Zancig. “They sat up very stiff and wrinkled thelr foreheads and were very id. But Crown Princess Cecilie giggled. She and the ‘Crown Prince seemed like a pair of children at the time when | saw them. The | Kalser_w n intensely dominant: Newest Flag on Allies’ Front Ghost Bann Cavrmads:. 1018. by The Pr Puvhtishing Co, The New York Eveting World) NEW flag has taken its place along the bastions of Mberty where the battle clouds lower Jover the flelds of Franve | A Paris despatch on Wednosday | told of the first regiment of the new Polish division raised by patriots to fight the German hordes having re- ceived its battle fag from the bands jot Allied commanders and faring forth |to place the strength of its rifles in the dike to stem the Teutonic flood. A new flag? Yes, new to this gen- eration and to this century—odd twist of history~the golden lion rampant ‘on a blood red fleld which loyal Poles |carry into battle is tbe oldest na- | Uonal standard of any in the twenty- one flags of the nations leagued against the two Kaisers; older by several hundred years than the triple |crosses of Britain and elder brother |by centuries to our own Stars and Stripes. The flag of Poland unfurled to the winds of France on’ Wednesday is a ghost banner come back from dead centuries to make vivid the dreams in the hearts of all loyal Poles. for the first time in 106 years it floated over the heads of armed men. Dur- ing all those years, and for a long period before Napoleon made a pre- tense of restoring the ancient king- dom of Poland this rampant golden lion was proscribed by the laws of tyrants—to have it in possession was to court death, This world war has brought to light many emblems of submerged peoples—the six-pointed star of David, hope of the Zionists for a re- established Jerusalem; the flag of the Czecho-Slavs and the Albanians and even a new standard of a new King- dom of Arabia, But to none of these attach the romance and the tragic cycle of hopes crushed and martyrs lave more room for medals, | : jain that cling about the revivitied Chinese crew of @ spurlos F Don't forget. enn seer of Poiana, phic ot: versenkted boat are -artered Yours till the Hudson runs uphill DICK. "The Nigtare of the rampant golden here. Chinks are all righ Out- os pearerrier —— a -“ lion is the history of a great people side of the three-mile limit, They IT CURED HIM. : “Well, doctor, I shall be sixty-nine| who through their one single national wouldn't shoot a friendly game N elderly man once consulted this day three weeks.” weakness were cheated of a powerful \ 7 M Burs Bree Sir William Gull, the eminent) yyep the aseb of crap with me, Sald they didn’t Wier ete eal cLemanh coms hout further partgy the doctor! place in the family of nations and understand the game, and when fatmta: Cat thete was a formidable te Nim some simple pegscription. | brought low in subjection. What " meme? | pla la, Du he 4 ‘ormidable At © do e a se « P 3 cs! a I told ‘em I had no objections to Ce PRSRSLEEWS eadiyvercees | Sostacte to die wa the pationt At the door the man tumed round once a great Slavic state in the heart : aiinad ia oan tl SONG Fayr DreR™ | obs ticle Gale, in nd, in the loud, rattling tones of one] op gurope, with borders stretching that they still rr 4 mble | being deaf, says Tit-Bits very deaf, called out: “Doctor, can h or Ri f the old festive bones, “What do you have for dinner?” joy Urn CO Oe an from the Be tener ver almost to the » deafness A ertin, and if 1 want you to shoot me those old express dice yo ined me | roared Sir William into his right ear, William shook his head and Hoe ak 8 ie aaa “a the nd er. ‘The ones that ab Kever “Oh, was the reply; “ple made his lips express "No." ; ussis with last summer, The ones that only stopped at seven and eleven that-—two miles regularly after I thought so. You've been very| Russia, became a memory afier 1796. ‘The bones I operate with now make too many local stops. With a | 4 two miles.before dinner kind to me; therefore I make you|‘ppig memory Napoleon cruelly re- good set of express dice I can win Newport News iu three shakes | esow lane dp ¥ou Ue io bed Paton 1a, Gis Sreteen ee sane vived when in 1809 he established the on ge de you li “ e pulled fror che 2 Unless my dice slow soe proQt wou lin going to cub ou open and prvverttY ty 4's Grad ae a adeny Gread Duchy of Wamaw, By Marguerite Mooers Marshall 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening Wort®. BN years ago he told the Kaiser that 1918 would be the most danger- ous year of his (the Kaiser’s) Hfe—that he would be “hemmed Now he ds indeed “hemmed about by enemies,” oe that the rest of Prof. Jullus Zancig’s remarkable prophecy will | come true and that the present year will be of all human poll is just so much window glass, through which he can look to read the thoughts inside, Or, putting it another way, he himself is the sensitive plate on which the thoughts of others make a photographic impression which he can see and read aloud. told the| Bring Danger, ictory of Allies by Enemies, but Kaiser Just the Samet Kaiser went right ahead and started who are devoutly lous to the House of Hohenzollern time Prof. Zancig, a blue-eyed, mod- ered Dane, is proving every afternoon Luna Park, Coney Island, that the \— Dc tere figure. T know I thought that even the officers of his own household didn't dare call their souls their own. When he said ‘Come,’ they came: vhen he sald ‘Go,’ they went ruled by fear, not by love. If he ts ever siain, I seo the killing done by one of his own countrymen, for they | do not love him, ‘I met King George and Queen Mary,” he replied to another of my questions. “King George ts much stiffer than his father, although he ia bsolutely under the thumb of his wife, And she certainly has the brains of the family.” Prof. Zancig refuses to pose as a 99 ‘per cent., rain-or-shine prophet, but he says frankly that he has @ very strong “impression” about the ques- tion which Interests all of us Just now. ‘IT am convinced,” he assured me, ‘that the war will end in February 6F March of 1920 and that the Allies will be victorious, thanks to the help of the Americans. ‘The first decisive euperi- rity will'be gained by the Allies on the sea. I do not know how the land victory will come: maybe it will be due to troubles within the German cmpire. That will be dismembered ly into many states and the power of the Hohenzollerns will be broken. But I think that the Kaiser will dle a natural death—provided he is not slain by one of his own people." fi er of Old Poland | for his own purposes, and permitted a Polish Légion of flerce warriors help him fight his battles against the rest Ww ith the French Emperor's retreat | from Moscow in 1812, even the shadow jot Polish sovereignty passed forever and the rampant golden lion existed only in secret and in the closets of patriots. Poland first emerged from the shad- ows surrounding the great Slavic in- | vasion of Europe as a mighty stute in 1386, when Queen Hedwig became the bride of Jagiello, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and her spouse was elect- ed King of united Poland and Lith- uania. Here was a savagely warlike people who for years had been fight- ing the Teutonic Knights, a semi-re- ligious body of brigands and profes- sional soldiers, suddenly beconie the | Strongest people in northeast Purope. By wars and more wars Poland | Waxed stronger during the centurtes She fought the Turks, sho fought the Swedes, she fought the wild Rusitaas of Muscovy until her ehadow spread over all Europe, But in the very turbulent and betli- cose spirit of the Polish nobles lay the germ of the nation’s undoing. They would not bend to authority at home any more than to the sword of the enemy. The loose knit repub- lican form of government, which elected a king rather than suffer the accident of birth to fill the throne, could not command obedience from its subjects in times of stre Vrom when King Sigismund died, Po- land began to slip into the shadow that finally engulfed her. Frederick the Great of Prussia: forerunner. of the present Wilhelm and Catherine the Great of Russia were the arch-thieves elected by fate to commence the plundering of the great state which could not rule it self, In 1772 Russia took 1,586 square miles of Polish territory; Frussia gobbled a slice and to Austria was tossed a share of the spoils, With cynical disregard of rights, the imperial ghouls attacked the body of Poland once more in 1793 and the unhappy country was reduced to one third its original size. Under Koset« usko, who fought in our own Revo- lution, and other patriots, the ram- nant of Poland made a vain effort in 1794 to throw off the foreign yoke and in October, » the third Bae last partition of the land was Warsaw, the ancient capital, fell bes fc sian guns; King Stanislaus Po! tatowak! was carried an exile to St. Petersburg, and Foaad was more bye pyaneliay