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{ j 3 | I t ti i ' | | em t } i! Am Aa ANY SRA AN NY ANN ¥ ’ \ e BN bal FRIDAY JUNE 21, 1918 Raising War’s Sunken Ships Will Science Find the Key To Ocean’s Treasure Chest? Will Method That Raised the F-4 at Hawaii Re- claim Vessels U Boats Sent to Bottom, Some} Treasure-Laden, Then Give Back to Man Nep-| tune’s Fabled Hoard of Gold, Toll From Ma- riners of Old? If So, Rich Reward Awaits the Seekers. By Robert Welles Ritchie 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). URN loose your imagination—it'’s not hard to do on a night when ¥ you've heard the clock strike three and you're still broad awake. Conceive yourself In @ place which once was the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in the vicinity of the British Isles, or between Italy and Spain, where the Mediterranea used to be; all the water, you know, has Copyright been conveniently swept away by one of those cataclysms that are so log- | You are in a super-flivver, capable of travelling great dis- What are the prevailing | feal at 3 A. M. tances fn a short time and without bumps. features of the landscape? Ships and more ships. Sad, up-ended shapes tilted against cliffs and with smokeless funnels at impossible angles; ships with great jagged holes in their hulls and a raffle of bones caught under their fallen rigging; the bare ribs of ancient craft which went adventuring when Elizabeth was Queen. And witbin the cavernous interiors of these ships—here imagination ceases—you'd pause to paw over lost stores of gold, of silver and preciou stones. Millions in treasure! Lost—all lost to the world which once claimed these solid and endur- ing shapes of precious metal and costly gems for which puny men fought and schemed and died. Lost because certain numbers of fathoms of water lay between them and recovery, and man, with all his ingenuity, could not become a fish and dive, even though he made of himself a bird to fly But are these treasures of sunken sec - fold and drowned diamonds utterly lost forever? Until science has said its last word and man’s ingenuity ac- knowledges itself utterly baffled, the beguiling thought that some day the ocean floor will yield a part; at least, of its captured treasure remains to play upon our imagination. Progress im deep soa salvage is advancing rap- idly. To-day men do feats in defy- ing the killing pressure of great depths which would have been count- ed impossible twenty yeara ago, Per- haps the time is not far distant when the frigate Lutine, sunk in 1799 with mined, the F-4 went to the bottom in 300 feet of water. A wrecking squad from the Brooklyn Navy Yard was sent out to Hawaii to undertake the seemingly hopeless task of lifting the wrecked “sub” to the surface. Divers found it next to imponsible to work at such a depth; but they persevered and finally managed to bend cables around the forward and aft parts of the hull. The submarine was dragged by these into shallower water, Then the cables parted. Fearing that further dragging would wreck the hull completely, the nearly $6,000,000 in minted sovereigns | 1ivers tried a new mothod. ‘They took aboard her, will yield untarnished |Gown with them six specially con- gold; when the Lusitania with its, *tructed cylindrical pontoons, each ure room may be recovered | thirty-two feet long and twelve foct pics tue hoon: , {in diameter, Theso were permitted to fill with - Not the least bulk of the great | Lid bd cence bet logged, were lashed securely to the war's material waste is represented | sites of the sunke: ine, ‘Th by the enormous tonnage sent down - qunken gubmarine, Thee 0 through pipes a powerful pump dis- to the sea’s bottom by German sub-| charged the water in these pontonas marines. No reliable figures AF®lang replaced the fluid with heavily available to carry to us the total of compressed air, ‘The F-4 camo to the craft wiped out or the aggregate Of | surrace and was towed to drydock. imperishable valuables put out of the) Now @ company has been formed, reach. of man by the pirates under |i, which two of the men responsible the Maltese Cross, It ts safe to say |ror this salvage method have a place, that in the near four years of war- to exploit the pontoon plan of raising tere more vessels have been snatched | submerged wrecks. It has been beneath the waves by German bom? | demonstrated that such work can be and torpedo than were overwhelmed | done in 300 fags of water, at least. by storm and accident in fifty years | Whether any bUlk larger than a sub- before. marine will respond to such treat- And some of these destroyed ves-| ment remains to be seen. sels represent the goal of scientific! A gold recovery contrivance utilix- divers’ fondest hopes. ‘ng the principles of the suction Take the steamer Ancona, for im-|dredge has been tried with some de- stance, sunk ih the Melterranean; | gree of success on the wreck of the specie to the value of more than $1,-|Tutine, which sank with $6,000,000 In 000,000 lies in her submerged strong-| specie aboard her in the mouth of room. The Lusitania is known to|tho Zuyder Zee, 1799, have had indestructible cargo aboard | is method calls for the lowering valued at more than $5,000,000. After) of » steel tube to the debris of the the steamship Geelong went down in|ancient wreck—long since disinte- the Mediterranean under the secret | grated—and the application of heavy German thrust It was printed that} suction through the pipe. What comes Jewels belonging to an Indian maha-| up ty strained through a sieve at the rajah which were worth $4,000,000 | stern of the salvage vessel, In 1911 had been swallowed by the sea. The! company tried this plan of gold re- Japanese steamship Yasaka Maru) covery and got—something; just how staggered to her death in the same| much never was disclosed. waters with %12,600,000 in gold aboard. | Many fantastic diving bells, wub- Bome other reasure ships, not vic-|marine grapplers and the like have henra ‘as that OM tims of the war, but still tempting to] been exploited for the benefit of stock WAR BREAD—So called, because it would start a war anywhere, san then presum- the submarine seeker of wealth, are| sales. But the Post Otlice inspectors | ia ea Hen the Merida, sunk off Cape Hatteras|a8 a rule have been more keenly |: PROFITHER—A patriot who is behind the President, He is too wise |tace and nab your tm 1911 with $1,000,000 in gold and! terested in these triumphs of imag-! io get in “ tho President could watch him, |man—pe . silver: the Oceana, sunk off Beachy| ination than the “sucker” with money ibis hs ed Head, England, in 1912, $5,000,000 in| to invest FOOD RIOT Hash. vlarm actuating specie aboard; the Islander, lying in| ‘The most successful sal opera- oe device is made 320 feet of water of the Alaskan|tions—in point of actual treasure re- BULLSHEVIKI—Political cooties. separate from the coast, with $2,000,000 worth of miners'|covered—in recent yeurs were co: pocketbeok or gold dust in her purser’s safe; the| ducted on the wreck of the Empress ey anaes Pape wallet and it is General Grant, wrecked in 1866 and|o¢ Ireland, which sank in the St NIGHT LETTERGRAM—A night telegram that won't get there if a eaihad © qth va only elghty feet down off the rocky| Lawrence River in May, 1914, with|COW gets on (he track _ ph ea A ghia coast of the Auckland Islands. | $1,000,000 worth of bar silver and se > terior, so that the The greatest ocean treasure hougo|curitics in her strong room, Despite! VON HINDY--Nut. Former general who now talks to himself and cuts pies wr nee Of wil lies at the bottom of Vigo Bay,|the swift current and the 150 feet {out paper dolls for an answer. Pe gee pe mm Spain. There seventeen Spanish| depth at which they were forced to = Henle @rhan |OhE vessels, carrying over $100,000,000 in| work, divers without any fancy ap-|| SWIVEL CHAIR CAVALRY—Draft age husky who works for one|wishes to remove gold, emeralds and diamonds from| paratus and at great peril recovered | gojlar a year, Should send his salary to the Conscience Fund, he wallet or other Spanish America, were sunk by com-|half the silver bulhen and all the Paike \papers himself, Leeann’ 4 ord hee SR 4 ——- -—- HYPHENATE—Nephew of Uncle Sam by a former marriage. Nithoyt: sAsHaE is last hoard. From time to tr 5 ° . . ae pod ae pers: Sakina imma rtad First Woman Historian. CANNED MUAT—Can of deadly explosive with a short fuse, Un- | Bleetri al Experi- wurface this and that fragment of HE first woman historian to attain | healthy beef at a healthy profit As will be seen, the inventor has the whole dazzling store; but these dk wide fame was Mrs. Cathering| — gone to considerable pains to make strokes of fortune serve only to whet Macaulay, an Englishwoman, REPRISAI-~-Made in Germany, Kicking a guy in (1 because | douply sure that the pickpocket, the appetite of the sub-sea adven- | Who died in 1791, She wrote a history] you broke your fist against his jaw no matter how well educated he turers. hd which was famous in he¢ may be in his crafty art, shall Oddly enough, !t was a diving en-/ day. Mrs, Macaulay was born in CASUALTY LIST New York towns which have voted dry fot be successful e if he tries terprise, having nothing to do with| Kent, the daughter of John Saw- to cut away part of the speciai the recovery of lost treasure that bridge, and at twenty-six married Dr, RIVETER-— A laborer with three valets. pocket in which the wallet is placed. maeeh oe may ie sreeineats in | George - aulay, ms orden phy- ‘To this end he provided a double wall euper-diving which may result in un-|siclan. She was a stanch believer in oh ea p , is » protective pocket holding the covering some of the sea’s jealously | republican principles, and her his- PROPAGANDA—Poison gas inbaled through the ears oe PE ora taaai ane @@arded pelf. This was the master-| torical works reflect her keen devo- ie 5s Padi taining two oppositely charged me- fd work in raising the U.S. Submar- tion to the cause of liberty, Mrs. NOT NECESSARY. PROOF, taille plates, or other suitable ar- ime F-4 from the bottom of Honolulu Macaulay corresponded with George| He—When a vou should count) Father—Is that young man economl+|y.ngement of wires or conductors, | Harbor several years ago, ashi n for several years, and in|ten before you sy ‘ I? rated by @ layer of insulation Through some ~ccident, whose ex-' 1785 was a guest at Mpunt Vernon tor!,h"7 0! nwa t| Daughter~ Yes, father; whenever we, *°?' connected with the battery eet mature asf never beeu detur- tire works stopping Ww Boston Tran "Teus“gown Very" iow.—-Boston Gigfow Dell that should the thief uy to “wrt RAR RRR *7W SY helo RNG \ \\\ ANA ANY. SN TTT MK A i \ \ R \\ ' \\\ \\\ & AN, aes \\ : VA. HE > “a\ | FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1918 | | Striking Hats for Midsummer Wear | MILITARY | FRENCH « | By Art Copyright, 1918, NEAR-BEER INFLUENCE BINATIONS, WHILE ORGA Gikuary of War Words Now in Common Misuse by the Prow Publishing Co, NEAR-NEWS--News deleted by the censor, Beer diluted by the censor. SHOWN IN SILK CREATIONS IN ‘HORIZON BLUE”’—-VELVET JOL v The Fashion Camera of the elaborate use of with straw: s novelties season combi velvet Mid-Summer hat devel bh orchid color organdy plaltinan. mt AMERICAN ‘S WITH STRAW IN EFFECTIVE )DY FINDS FAVOR IN BECOMING «OLIVE-DRAB”’ COM- DESIGNS. hur (“Bugs”) Baer. (The New York Evening World) nost pocket, an \electrie bell kind- ly signals the LLL Thiet Chy't Pick ae Bacbat . Without “Alarming” You) BRIGHT electrical genius of New York City has recently taken out a patent on au electric attachment for pocketbooks and such, and intended to be carried on the person, so that when the ever-present pickpocket attempts to remove the pocketbook or wallet from your hinder- | | \ the German tnvaders. |1 might bave gone to the south of Husband Killed, HomeSacked Brave Frenchwoman Served | Wounded of France at Front Dr. Antoinette D’Artagnan, Here in New York After Bregk~ down Caused by Labors Which Won Her Four Decora- | tions, Tells How War Horrors Were Brought Home to Her. By- Marguerite Mooers Marshall 1918, by The Prom Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), ER husband died at the Marne, and the next month her chateau H ravaged and her household servants murdered before her eyes She herself was badly wounded, but twelt@! days later she was taking care of wounded French, Belgian and’ Englisit soldiers at La Panne. For two years she worked steadily as doctor, nurse, ambulance driver for France. Then she was gassed, im 1916, Still she continued to iabor in the Frenéh hee pitals until her indomitable will for service could ae longer control her physical disabilities. Last November she came to America, and now she is working in the clinics for mothers held by the Bowling Green Neigh borhood Association and the Salvation Army, Alsd, she is not ashamed to admit, she 1s earning her own living as a physician at No. 111 West 124th Street, although Dr. Antoinette D'Artagnan bears one of the gold names of France and wears four medals for distin guished war service—three of them presented to her, respectively, by Kit Albert of Belgium, Gen. Pau and Gen. Petain. There are high lights of tragedy in| ~ Dr. D'Artagnan’s story, which she, how I received these wounds, told me yesterday with considerable|I was working at Ia Panne reluctance and only after I had prom-/one told me that I had been f ised to make it clear that there is!Wandering alone in the much which “I cannot remember,” tn| outside, ‘That is all I know, her own weary phrase, as a amall| “They ewere glad to make use clenched band brushes her too white|™y medical skill in the forehead in a wearier gesture, She|In the early days of the war we has “supped full of horrors,” and it| worked together; there was is upon the sufferings of tortured| elaborate organization as there women and children she befriended| now. After La Panne I went that her mind dwells more than on|Lomgpre, and later to L’Or du the details of her personal adventure. | There I was gassed.” . “My husband was a colonel in the| “How did that happen?” 1 asked.’ French army,” she toid me. “He had| “TI hed gone out to find @ title, yes, but never mind about|men,” Dr. D'Artagnan said that. He was of the old French fam-| “TI didn’t drive an ambolance, ex: ily of D'Artagnan, which Dumas has| but I drove AT one; that is, I made famous. Our chateau was three | aged it as best I could when miles from the Belgian border, so| Was no one else. I saw a boot beautiful, #o quiet! We lived there truding from a bush. Investigating simply and happily, except that my|found a badly wounded man I cbildren all died when they were very] Mot strong enough to lift him, but young. That is how I came to study | pulled him out and began to give hf medicino and received my diploma] first ald before getting help to bei from the University of Chevelu; 1/him in. Suddenly I fen over Wanted something to distract my|Scious. When they found us the mind, was dead amd I had lost my “When the war broke out, of courss|My eyes, nose, ears and throat Wer} my husband went at once to the col-| affected by what apparently had ors I never saw him alive again; {the near explosion of a gas bomb. there was not even time to hear from{ “I Kept on with my work for seme him. He was killed in September in| months, but I could not do tt so well,* the fighting at the Marne, and his old|Dr. D’Artagnan confessed pedly. servant brought home his dead body.| “They told me I must go away rest. So I came to America, I am afl alone; sixty-eight of my nd old servants have been killed tn the war. I must carn my Tiving. That is why I do not Nke to have > touch printed about me in the news< Dapers; it seems as if I had for advertisement, but I to hetp those who suffered.” “You would like to go back tt become stronger?" I questioned, * ‘The smaM jaw eet and Dr. Dy, tagnan's biue eyes gleamed beneath | her crown of blazing red hair, | leaned far forward in her chatr, hands clenched, her whole body te In @ sort of harsh whisper swered: ane Ge , Copyright France, but there was no one to stay in our bome except me, and the peas- ants nearby looked on me as a sort of protector. “It was in October that the Ger- mans c&me, With me at the time were about fourteen old gervanta; the young ones all had gone to the war, I ordered them to let fall the port- cuilis, but of course, no defense of our old moated castie was possible. ‘The Germans simply shot at the stone walls until the stones fell into the moat and then they walked across. “There was great confusion and my servants were runoing about and screaming. 1 had to wate the jinvaders destroy my pictures ana] “When I think of what I have my furniture, ‘The last thing I re- |! Want to go back and kill, iM, Mop | member was standing in the court. |Germans. I am not lenient town, them, a8 80 many of you are. yard and seeing them stab with their bayonets my old coachman, Then it is all dark. 1 do not know what they did to me, how I escaped, what happened to my household. I hope that the Germans found the wine jar and became so interested in it that my poor servants had a chance to escap “People cannot understand," Dr. ’ Protested again, pas- ly, “when I say that I cannot fill in the blank of the next twelve days, But it is all a haze, and the Am I lie awake at night and of the tortured women and | have nursed, Oh, ft is bad coon torture men, soldiers, against yehe you fight, but the Germans take less women and little children for {j most careful and scientific mutilati and abuse. You do not know: cannot be made to know what te far away from you. I take my m in restaurants and I hear people « Plaining because they cannot get hat article of food. I think of oe! xt thing I remember clearly is|french women whom I have iding by the bedside ofa wounded gathering thistles to make soup, al soldier in La Panne, Belgium, and |my own food almost chokes me, taking splinters of shrapnel out of| “And in all France,” the last DA his} My right hand was ban-/tagnan concluded sombrely, “the da t had been wounded by are no children any more. ‘Ther shrapnel. My left arm had been jonly little old men and old wom bre n in two 8. I do not know ‘who have forgotten how to smile.” Germans’ Live Wire ‘Tan Pad to Cat American Patrol N American patrol, having passed |ond line was Ipierce the wall of this pocket with] he will short- any instrument or too! circuit the two mets plates and thus cause the bell to ring. When the pocketbook or wallet is placed in the protective casings, | which is firmly secured in the trous er or coat pocket by means of a clip navidad tor the purpose, it is caused to‘open the alarm circuit’ by the force of gravity, or in other words by its Own weight, ‘The control switch is Supposed to be opened While the wal- et is being placed in the container, And it slides all the Way down in thé same, thus causing the alarm con- tacts to begheld normally open by a hg arratgement; then the switch losed. Should the thief now at- tempt to remove the wallet, the ~ satiated contacts will come ‘\ogether and ring the bel. reached. When the about to start under th, there was a bluish Blo: ad, turning around, the denly cut off by a current of electrie-| livid sparks the the first of German entan- | were just glements and approached the | second line second line on a recent raid, was sud- playing through ity sent along the Wire line. |barbed wire of the first itis. ba Instead of attempting an immediate | enemy had turned on a powerful May | return to their trenches, which would |tric current, The patrollera - [have meant certain death from elee-| fattened out on tue ground, eae |trocution or machine gun fire, the| they had been din ved anaes Americans clung close to the earth, |g to leur momentarily machine reports the Electrical Experimenter, | PMJ€ts singing overhead, Nothin ti . |the kind happened, however, Ap and, later, when the electricity was |entiy the Germans moral cut off, returned in safety to thelr) the current by chance, heolne: any A positions, iny Americans were within the It was a thrilling experience for the | (inslements they would be killediieg patrol. ‘The men set out from the| he “patrol Petupoea eee ae eet din American position in the hope of en-| American lines when the cleepadh countering the enemy at a point in| Was turned off. Usually a high tht the German trenches, They had suc- | 0M Alternating current ig used |tg . a . nt | Charee barbed wire entangl leeeded in getting through the first | potential of several Thowsemsen Line aud Led wenied va uid bie eee- jis necessary, ay