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ta FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER A 3, 1918 Raising Sunken St. Paul _ at Her New York Pier ‘Brilliant Engineering Feat Fourth Attempt Succeeds After Engineers Three Times Had Failed to Solve One of the Most Dif- ficult Problems That Ever Confronted Salvage| Experts in This Port, When Steamer Overturned and Sank in the Mud Alongside Her North River Pier Last April. Bage Derricks and Pontoons Proved Impracticable—Iin- flated Air Bags, Next Tried, Wouldn’t Budge the Ship— Electric Winches and Cables Were Ineffective—At Last the Wreckers Decided to “Treat Her Rough’’—What Their Method Was and How It Succeeded This Story Tells. \ ,) NP w WY \ A Loa OE ADIL AN APY ae % ne pe © THE NEW PLAYS “Another Man’s Shoes” General Pershing Fifty-Eight To-Day ALMOST THE FIRST WISH OF AMERICA’S WAR LEADER WAS TO BE A SOLDIER—NOW HE A Theatric Misfit BY CHARLES DARNTON COMMANDS THE GREATEST ARMY EVER MUSTERED BY THIS NATION EN. JOHN J. PERSHING 1s fifty-eight years old to-day. If the cares of war permit him to look back a half century he may see himself as he was then, bent on growing up to be a man like Washington. America’s first great offensive effort in the present strug- gle began just one day short of his fitty-eighth year—a kind of birthday gift to liberty. Pershing had the soldier spirit early and was always leader in plan- ning to repel In’jun raids. As there were @ good many real Indians in| the neighborhood of the Pershing home at Laclede, Mo., this martial | ambition led to complications, | The future General was born the son of well to do parents, but ed- versity befell the elder Pershing and ais son was forced to shift for himself at an early age. He taught school for a while, and then gained admission to West Point, graduating in 1886. It was not long until he had won distiaction in the chase after Geronimo, The Spanish-American War found THE ST. PAUL OVERTURNED AT HER PIER. By Joseph bottom of the North River ali a T" American Line steamer St. has been salvaged at last, after three unsuccessful attempts had Engineers of repute pronounce the undertaking 4s one of the most difficult problems ever confronted by salvers in the port. The St. Paul, once one of the North Atlantic’s most famous Iners, ply- been made to raise her. him at the head of the famous Tent Cavalry, which did such notable | things at San Juan. Then Pershing | went to the Philippines and taught | the Moros a few things about fignt- ing that even those savage warriors were forced to acknowledge. Dur- ing the Russo-Japanese War Per- shing followed the Japanese arm: This Is Friday S. Jordan Paul, which has been lying at the jongside Pier No, 61 since April 25, ing between New York and Liverpool, was sunk at her pier on the day she ‘was to be turned over to the navy as a transport, Sane had been on Rob- bins drydock in the East River, where she had been completely overhauled ‘nd some of her machinery and interior fittings removed. Considerable machinery still remained on her deck when she was taken hold of by tugs for the trip to her pler. AM not superstitious, but"— ‘ the Thirteenth “ | {9 a frequent remark by quite Intelligent people, and #80 a number of things will be put off When she reached the North River it was noticed that she was listing to port. The tugs speeded up, but it her berth. She is 535 feet in length, 26.8 feet, with a gross tonnage of 1 and her list increased, ‘employed to haul in the slack to get 2 ing her securely. As the slack in the lines was tight- ened, the steamer, instead of being hauled into the dock, heeled over and her port side went to the bottom, with | the rails buried in the mud, her fun- nels and masts being smashed against the pier shed. At the time 500 men) from Robbins drydock and a number of the St. Paul's crew were on board ‘Two of the former and one of the lat- ter were drowned. A naval board of inquiry exoner- wted the Captain and officers of the St. Pau! from all blame for the sink- ing. It was found that water had begun to pour into the steamer through an ash hatch which had been left open. As the water poured in the vessel listed slightly on the port side, then more water went through the open portholes, In consequence of the removal of the machinery} from the hold, the superstructure and the deckload made the vessel top- heavy. While she was being warped into the dock the tightening of the Lines increased the strain, for the rea- gon that her port side was presented to the pier and the cables helped pul | her ever on her #| addition to| this a strong ebb tide was pushing) her over. Had it been possible to have docked her on her starboard side, the strain of the ropes would have been a support against the list and would have held her up. The chief diteulty yuntered in raising the steamer was the fact that instead of resting on a solid riverbed her port side lay in a series of mud pockets, Every time she was moved whe settled more firmly in the mud The firet attempt to salve the St Paul was with huge derricks and pontoons, While the big cranes hauled on her from the starboard wide the pontoons were used to help Tioat her. ‘L.ais method was found im- practicable and had to be abandoned. Divers were then sent down to close tue open hatches and portholes, The {nflated air bags were used to float her while she was being pumped out But the vessel wasn't budged _inch out of the mud, Next, big cle ‘tric winches were set up on Pier No G0 opposite to where she lay, and an “attempt to haul her up to an even el was by means of steel Scables. + Paul still stuck to Pie mud and method No. 3 had to be given up. The Merritt wemreckers, de an made & Chapman, the “treat her A fleet of barges with Lines were run out to the pier and steam winches till to-morrow, for to-day the un- lucky number and the unlucky day fall together, In skort, this is Fri- day the 13th, That the superstition ts taken se- rlously 1s shown by the great do- crease in weddings on a Friday the where the sunken steamer Les with| 13th. In practically all the “civil- her deck toward the latter, which 1a} !zed" countries the clerks who make the pier of the Panama-Pacific Line,| Ut the marriage licenses might as Steel brackets were fastened to the; Well take a day off, for there is starboard side, which was always;farely anything for them to do. Of above the water, the depth of the| course, Governments cannot afford latter being forty-eight feet. to be superstitious, especially at this Steel _hawsers were made fast to| time in the world's history, and it is the brackets, to the submerged aide,, unlikely that shipping will be held to the masts and to the anchors,, up to-day. But before the war there which were buried in the mud. The| was many a ship's master who would hawsers which were to do the pull-| rather have lost his Job than sail on ing were attached to the winches|a Friday, and as for sailing on Fri- and cranes and to tugboats, The|day the 13th—well, it was not to be first efforts to raise the sunken craft} thought of. were concentrated on the rie ‘The Friday superstition 1s doubt- which Hes out toward the river, the| less based on the Crucifixion, and the bow being headed inshore. When the| prejudice agaiast thirteen from the word was given to go, lines began to} Last Supper of Jesus, when one of pull straight upward, at an angle of| the thirteen guegts at table proved was no easy task to round her into 63 feet in beam and has a depth of 1,629, She was gaining water fast er alongside, with the hope of moor- about 45 degrees and in a horizontal] to be a traitdt. Many eminent direction, people have clung to this delief, The slip between the two piers was|and it is related by Sir Henry jammed with wrecking craft, #0 thickly clustered that they shut the starboard side of the St. Paul from view from the North River, More than half a dozen wrecking barges lay putside Pier No, G0, an auxiliary fleet Lacy that the late Queen Victoria once refused to dine until another person was called to make the num- ber at table fourteen. to the group inside the slip. Then there was a combined pull on all the lines at the same moment, The steel cables strained and buzzed and sang and ecemed ready to snap, And then the singing ceased, the strain slackened and tho stern began slipping from the mud, Cofferdams, slack was hered in as fast as the Ra Wuntisiiacl te aeitie stern came up and on Wednesday Siances ght five and one-half fee a Po etl eae 7 one-half feet of the Are you of that undisciplined po Leptin Kk was above the! feminine army which has been plot- ater and the battle against the ela, : eee atiicin cai nts had bee ting, cajoling, pleading, bullying, eet cca been won, It 18 hoped] putting in an effort to get into the war tne uae oes cate eae 28 zone and use up liner once more on an even keel, for all last night pumps were at work sucking the water out of her, every gallon which was thrown back into the river making the St. Paul that much ter and that much easier |to handle, In a tew days, tt is said, she will be returned to the drydock and it may be three months before she will be again ready to be turned good food, space and time which other people need? Then here is your chance to “go to war" sane- ly, helpfully, even quickly in many instances, And here is the chance for the sincerely patriotic girl who, humbly aware of her lack of training, has not tried to take up transport room, but who has longed in her heart to give her young strength to her THE WISDOM OF BENNIE. “My boy Bennie ts lazy, but I must say he ts said the musician. “Is he golng to follow in your foot- I learned to play the trombone and steam and electric inches was towed into the narrow between Piers No, Ae and 61, and I've got to march about eight miles|COUtrY and Its defenders, If you every timo there 1s a parade. Bennie is] Want to help nurse the 5,000,000 Amor. throughout the sharp campaign that brought Russia such {ll fortune. Ex-President Roosevelt stirred up A (arr eng within wheels! In other words, the impossible hero of “Am other Man's Shoes,” set out at the Thirty-ninth Street Theatre last night, is a very hard nut to crack. i, Actors, of course, cannot live on applause. In spite of the art they pro-! @ mare's nest by promoting Sim to! fess to follow, it behooves them to get their bread and butter while the get- be Brigadier General, back in 1906,/ ting 1s good. In the long run intellett doesn’t count. But when an actor who over the heads of many men who has found his way intelligently through Ibsen gives himself to such non- had grown gray in the service, |#ense as “Another Man's Shoes” he must take the consequences. Everybody admitted that Pershing! I have no wish to hammer nails most capable officer, but i eta Atwill's taerre mae eae the critics—it was not ethical to put a heh deem hay Dag & youngster of forty-six in such alin Seene Give the tenwe epee ts door to feminine experiments, In Job. Nevertheless Pershing got the| this instance it appears that Laura Job and set about making good On} Hinkley and Mable Ferris have done it. He was a student of arms as well their best to make a play of a story as a leader who had seen the rough | written by Miss Hinkley, (For date and tumble of real warfare. lee programme and smile if you can.) ‘All of us will recall how he went; But the theatre continues to be the into Mexico after the picturesque | theatre in spite of dramatized sto- Villa And the Mexicans days! 10 geese dhanne. fated t would have been numbered had not ig s Pershing been called back,for other | 1, cuislesding fragt TEETUtie cook things. i jit merely affords the somewhat piti- When we took up Germany’s'¢y) spectacle of a man recovering gauntlet and sent the vanguard of/ from a railroad accident and failing our millions across the world, there; to recognize his wife. He imagines was only one man w0 might be ac-| himself to be a perfectly innocent cepted as logical leader—Pershing. | Victim of circumstances, and finds And this fifty-eighth birthday of his; himself madly in love with his finds him running things in the! *!e. But he cannot say everything he would like to say, same efficient way that has come to '1),,¢ a Salleves ve i Ma Tabtttier be expected from the man. |man's wife. He is therefore com- = Beginning Monday The Evening petied to “make love’. to her dis- World will print a complete, de- talled life story of Pershing. Per- haps less is known to Americans about ais boyhood and early life than any other man prominent in the world war. This is the real story, now published for the first| time. First Girls’ College In North America jereetly. He lies in ped under the law of his nurse, ahd while he is there a baby is born, But his baby doesn't bring him back to his senses, |The sweetheart of his earlier days in the West comes East to remind him that he was hit on the head by a member of a gang twelve years before the play began, and that a railroad accident restored his brain. Meanwhile he goes about like a squir- rel in its cage. | So-called _“double-aphasia” isa most difficult thing to bring over the footlights. View it as you may, it is hazy. To keep an audience guessing is all very well, but to keep it inter- ested is a much more difficult under- taking. There is every promise of an interesting crook-play in “Another Man's Shoes,” yet the play fails to develop. In and out of bed, Mr. Atwill strug- gled manfully to put dramatic vigor into the lame proceedings. The other members of the cast could do nothing more than ald him in making “A other Man's Shoes” a theatric misfit. Opened in Mexico|“‘Dance Every Day---Live Long,” HE first college for girls in North ‘ ° ily George Primrose’s Health Rule America was the Colegio de la And He’s Still Dancing at Sixty-Five and His Good Health Is Paz, often called the Colegio de las Viscainas, which was opened itn the City of Mexico in 1767, Several) wealthy Spaniards founded the school, and {ts building was com- menced in 1732, but their decision that the Institution st ould be independent | OULD you live Jong, avold il!- of the Church aroused great onpeai-i \X/ ness and keep absolutely tion, The building was completed in| happy? 1746, but the authorities Fesised Of course you would, permission for its opening, and’ ‘Then dance every day. the promoters were about to burn} ‘This advice comes from a man who the edifice rather than give in to the, has danced for fifty years, and who Church when Charles III. of Spain, for more than half that period has granted a charter to the college, The, been known as “America’s Most Viceroy of Mexico took part In the (Graceful Soft Shoe Dancer.” He 1s inaugural ceremonies, The original) George Primrose, whose fame as a name of the institution was Colegio! dancer and minstrel 1s world-wide. de San Ignacio de Loyola, but it was, Fifty years ago Sept 7, this year, changed to Colegio de la Paz by George Primrose began his stage President Comonfort in honor of his; career as a dancer, and practically daughter, The college building cost{every day since he has danced. Dur- over @ million dollars and 1g one of ing the “off season” in theatricals he the most beautiful in Mexico, The, has danced at his home, just to keep students are now taught euch prac-;in trim and to Invent new steps, Mr. tical arts as stenography, typewriting,| Primrose is sixty-five years old, and bookkeeping, telegraphy and office!is to-day dancing gracefully in vaude-| work, as well as English and French, | ville. He says he'll be dancing pub- and such “artes” as painting, music,|jicilw at the age of seventy-five. embroidering, lace making and dress-| your naturally suppose,” sald (Sei Sans Mr. Primrose, “that at my age one's CHOICE OF TWO EVILS. }knees would begin to creak a bit “Stand up! The orchestra is playing when they were called on to dance. “The Star-Spangled Banner’ " Mine haven't begun as yet. So far as 'T can't 1 have @ sore foot” I can discover, I'm just as nimble to- “Better stand up. A fellow offered | day as I was when, at the age of fif- that excuse the other day and it wasn’t’ teen, I began my professional career long before he had a sore head.” —Pitts- as a dancer in Chicago, BEGIN PERSHING'S LIFE STORY MONDAY IN THE EVENING WORLD. f Army School Will Train American Girls as Nurses Plans for U. S. Army of 5,000,000, to Be in France Next Spring, Call to Hospital Service Girls Between Twenty-one and Thirty-five—1,000 Have Already Responded By Marguerite Mooers Marshall condition, and have had the advan- which were ready ajo of & high school education, or its aoe tere enor: Were qulokly ; | equivale ou are ¢ e fast to the rising vessol hay rf sie Covv*#, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), ated gah you a Nagi) el, which helped ; hs didate for admis y to make her more bouyant, | ne RE you one of those girls who] Uncle Sam mobilize you as a private ng schools attached to each of ase hospitals in this country. will immediately come y discipline and here diately be set to work in Surgeon General Gorgas's Army School of Nursing. That is the roy: road to the sick or wounded goldier’s bedside—not an | nursing soldiers, and a little later on, easy road, be it understood, but a| When the need arises, you will be in| . ge sent for work overseas straight, short and sure road that Pant fot Work avers | will land you there full panoplied in white uniform and apron and duly qualified to soothe brows, take tem- peratures and even play heroine in a perfectly glorious nurse-and-soldier romance, ¥ ho! @ to nurse American boys, Also One thousand American girla ale chool solves the problem for our ready have been accepted for training | hospital. authorities, who have been in the Army School of Nursing, | advised by the French and British not hich was organized by the Surgeon |to depend on volunteer nurses’ alds, banana ih linge) if ' The latter's equipment of training, detailed for service as nurses’ aids in | American war hospitals tn France, after an intensive training course of | six months on this side, The Army Training School ts the answer to thousands of enthustastic| untaught girls and women who but General last June, This week the | discipline and purpose necessarily is school ig sending training units ofjinforior to what that of the student student nurses to Camps Wads-|nurses will be. Yet they serve the |purpose of supplementing graduate hurses and of creating a rapidly ine creasing body of skilled nurses, who an be sent to the front aa they are needed~-some of them after a com. worth, Devens, ant, Dix, Wheeler, Jackson, Sherman, Dodge and Shelby, and to the Walter Reed Hospital at Washingion, D. And next week, similar units consisting of thirty to forty nurses will be. assigned to | paratively short period of time, Campo Meade, Upton, Custer, Greene, | ANd if nothing stops the Allied drive McArthur, Lee, Lewis, Kearney and|and the war ends as it should end, but burgh Chronicle-Telegraph. “1 consider dancing the best life preserver there {s, In fifty years I never have had a day's ecrious illness; neither have I had a corn or a bunion. “There's no medicine like dancing,” he continifed. “If doctors would pre- scribe daily dancing for their patients, half the undertakers in the country 1d have to go out of business, It much preparation for a successful and | WOU! y. Gseful career makes the blood circulate and hard- The candidate nurses are enlisted] eng the flesh, at the same time keep- for the period of the war, or a three-| ing excess weight away.” year course, which includes two years | ‘ ¥ in an army hospital and one year in) It was in 1868 that George Prien a civilian hospital to win a diploma, | rose walked into Pete Kerwin's Free In the event that hostilities should| and Easy saloon and entertainment be suspended before the expiration of| piace at Clark and Adams Streets, the three ye required for complet. | Pa&* re aR aa a ing the course, the student nurses will| Chicago, and asked aa he J ae be credited with the time spent in,dancer. Pete engaged him al ervice and eligible, accordingly, for) week and his board. Six times a day dmiasion into any civilian hospital] young Primrose danced, while men for auch time as remains in order to) stood at the bar or sat at rough tables secure the regular diploma of a fully | * 4 accredited registered nurse, and drank, The orchestra consisted Should the war be prolonged, the] of a piano player and a fiddler, the Army School of Nursing promises tol jatter being none other than Dan make our hospitals safe for the sick! mmmett, who wrote the South's best and wounded of Americas 6,000,000 | \* song, “Dixie.” fighting men next year, and there necd | beloved Sons, ‘ ica be no fear on the part of the public] Primrose, although born tn London, that our men and boys will be with-|Canada, had lived in Buffalo three out adequate hospital service either in| years and had run away from home ets eA Jand mado his way to Chicago in a box car. It was the work he did in the Free and Easy that attracted the attention of theatrical managers and started him up the ladder of fame and Two New York women have been actively associated in founding and| developing the Army Tra:ning Schoo} for Girls, One is Miss Adelaide Nut. | ting, Chairman of the Committee on Nursing of the Council of National Defense and professor of nursing and | fortune. health in Teachers’ College, The| “I've had & number of dancing part- other, who actually devised the plan! ners," said Mr. Primrose, “but the of the school and now serves as the dean, is Miss Annie M. Gocdrich, who Fort Sam Houston, sooner than we dare hope, the girls lgarning the harp, so they will have to|ican soldier boys who will be in Jet him sit down.”—Minneapolls Tribune,| France next spring, you must let If you are between twenty-one and| mobilized in the Army Training thirty-five years old, in good physical | School will have obtained just 60 formerly held important posts in sev- eral jarge New York hospitals and at Columbia, late William H, West was the most accomplished of them all, West and I were great pals. Early in our jcareer as a team we used to room to- Best Proof of His Advice, for He’s Been Doing It for Fifty Years. gether in cheap hotels, and so eager were we to advance as dancors we'd lie in bed and do steps with our feet against the footboard. In this way Georae. 'Y Primrose. we'd frequently ‘dance’ ourselves to sleep.” “When do you intend to retire?” was asked, “Never!” he replied. “I'll dance as long as I can shake a leg. I tell you what I'm going to do, though,” he added, with increased interest, “I'm going to find a couple of lads and teach them to dance just as West and, I did, 1 want them to be cessors of Primrose and Wes! George Primrose 1s a wealthy man, Portland, Ore, is his home, and out there his property holdings are exten Asked why he conUnues the suc- ve dancin, aid he public keeps me at it, The audiences applaud me just as they did long years and to the genu- ine thea ical entertainer appla everything. When they stop applaud’ ing, I'll stop dancing and get read to join Billy West.” i y _ a JUST HIS LUCK, His wife had followed him across to a Red Cross nurs During a bit of German strafi fell wounded and woke up HB. hours later In a field hospital Hig wife was bending over him, “Ain't that just: my Muck, Jenny?" he murmured. "With all the 7 the soldiers I had to draw you,"—Utien Observer, ——>—____ FAME AND THE CYNIC, “They say that Solomon was the wisest man." "Yes," replied Mr. Dustin gt “Solomon had all kinds of a re An tion, As the richest man ne to employ any publicity ‘talent, Mele struck his fancy,"—Washington Stag: