The evening world. Newspaper, October 4, 1919, Page 13

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1919 Sandy. Hook Pilot To Over 500,000 Doughb ‘APT. WILLIAM S. M’LOUGHLIN PILOTED LEVIATHAN IN AND OUT OF NEW YORK ON ALL 38 TRIPS By John W. Lawrence Copy rtabt, 1019, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) HE first person to greet King Albert of Belgium as the famous trans- port George Washington coasted past ire Island and neared the entrance to the Port of New York was not some high dignitary from Washington. Neither was it a bigh ranking officer of the Army or Navy. The first welcoming hand-clasp came from a tall, rather Lincolnesque figure of a man who had climbed easily over the ship’s side from a pitching, riotous little rowboat that, against the George Washington’s towering hull, looked like an eggshell trying to make a landing at the foot of Gibraltar. The man was William 8. McLoughlin, who boasts no other title than that of Sandy Hook Pilot and who lives in a quiet and sheltered section of Flatbush, Among his wie I generally hit it off pretty, weil to-~ gether, though there were times when {1 founa her in @ very cranky mood. Any of the other boys could have done the same. thing, It is true that Capt. Bill got the) Leviathan the first time in the usual) routine of work. But his handling of the great vessel in the dizzy whirl of traffic in the river and the smooth: manner in which he navigated the| mean twists of Ambrose Channel im- pressed the ship's naval officers to such an extent that the Navy De- partment officially requested that he be specially assigned as the Levia- than’s pilot. McLoughlin’s authority on | bridge of the Leviathan was supreme. He has served under four naval Cap- tains—Oman, Bryan, Phelps and Durrell—two of whom have since be- come Rear Admirals, and each has relinquished the navigating command to him as soon as he put foot on the bridge. Putting the Leviathan snug along- side Pier 4 in Hoboken sixty minutes after leaving Quarantine is a feat that Capt. Hans Ruser, master of tho veseel when she was the Ifam- burg-American liner Vaterland, sald by those of his acqumuhtantds Wb Wb Was impossible. ‘Tho Germans took not dare the familiarity of “Bill" he , ffom two to four hours to tle the ig addressed as “Captain.” | ship up after leaving the Narrows, ‘The title doesn't make much of a| Capt. McLoughiin’s handling of the hit with McLoughlin. He says he Leviathan during the war was par- ten't a Captain and he doesn't sce ticularly difficult because she was fre- why he should be called ong. | quently taken out or brought in after But among the crews of ships ply- | @8rk. Any pilot will tell you that ing in and out of the Port of New| Dtvigating ® ship of 55,000 tons and York, and among seasoned trans. atlantic travellers, from President and Mrs, Wilson right down the line, 1) prince of pilots will probably be known as Capt, McLoughiin until long after he has climbed his last Jacob's ladder, He is the man who guided the George Washington in and out of this port on the three occa. sions when Prosident Wilson was a passenger, and tho officers of the steamer say that the Chief Executive and the pilot became 60 chummy that the President finally became a meme bor of the select circle to whom Mc-~ Loughlin is known as just plain “Bill.” Capt. MoLoughlin is New York’ most famous deep sea pilot, a!though one would never guess it when meet- ing him. Seated in the, picturesque quarters of the Sandy Hook Pilots’ Association on the eighth floor of No, 17 State Street, overlooking Battery Park and the upper bay, Capt. MeLoughlin dug up @ scrubby little pencil and on the back of an envelope figured out how many troops he had taken out of this port during the war and Drought back again after the armls-| Horning when the latter arrived on bas the Leviathan, and the Commander I can't give a very complete estl-| or tho a, F. 3. thanked him person- mate,” he said, “because I've been! aity for the manner in which he assigned to s0 many troopships both) brought the ship in, The Prince of in and outbound that I've forgotten] Deamark, Cardinal Mercier, tha IciAg, the loss prominent ones. But I should] Queen and Crown Prince of Belgiag say that the number of doughboys] are only a few of thé prominent voy- I've said s0 long and hello to off Am-|agers Capt, Bill has landed safely in prose Lightship would number some+|New York or Hoboken. Me’ hug met thing more than 500,000, Probably a]so many Generals and Admirals that lot more, but I've never tried to keep} he has forgotten the names of half of track of Tt was happier work| them, ‘ bringing ‘em k than it was taking] “How did I happen to become a ‘em out—in more ways than one,” pilot?" said Capt. Bill. “Why, when Capt, McLoughlin bas guided more |i Was a kid my father used to tr troopships in aud out of New York|me down to Staten Island on pleasure than any other pilot. When the| trips, and I used to see ships coming cruiser and transport foree had @ big/UP the bay to Quarantine, and 1 Job on hand they always sent out a] thought that If I could ever get on the hurry call for MeLoughiln, The ‘big | Bridge of one of those ships and steer job" was vory frequently the 36,000. |!t I'd be the happiest person in the ton Leviathan with upward of 13,000{ Ord. men abroad. He has supervised the}, “7 _ Sot shat iden out of my steering of this giantess of the head, and when I wax old enough I brother pilots, that Picturesque group of elderly seadoge Who are known to skippers around McLoughlin is known as On the navigating bridge and the world, “will.” jafter nightfall is a man's-size job, particularly when the entire respons sibility or the safety of the vessel falls on one man's shoulders, There are some places in Ambrose Channel where, even at high tide, | there is hardly enough water for the Leviathan to slip through In peace times the pilot can, and oes, wait for a favorable tide, but; war and tide are things that wait for nether man nor ship, and Capt, Mc- Loughlin very frequently found that the two ¢élements were combined against the Leviathan, On many a starless night during the war he nosed the big liner over the shajlows of Ambrose and started her safely on her voyage to France. These were times when the grounding of an dut« bound transport with ber precious cargo of fighting men would have been a calamity. Capt. McLoughlin's standing with the navy became eo high that his ser- vices were requested whenever a ship’ carrying important personages was arriving of departing. He was the first to grect Gen. ‘em, drawing from forty-one to forty-three! | feet of water In New York Harbor! Your Evening Gowns x Two Advance Models In the Darker Shades Which Combine Utility With Grace and Charm FOR WINTER’S SOCIAL EVENTS Avy Evening Frock Of Black Satin And Tulle, Silvered Bands And OstrichFeather Flower: { PHoTto FASHION CAMERA Stopes. i father is too busy and too mu __ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1919 Wife and Mother Hold Real Key to Health In Her Home “From Kitchen to Sleeping Room Her Hand Is 0° Levers That Control Bodily Machinery of Ei Member of Household,” Says Dr. Valeria m 2 het® § Parker —‘* She Makes and Carries Into Effect, 6 Ignores, the Household Laws Under Which %, Household Flourishes.’’ iy By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Su 66PTTHE index of health in the home is the wife and qother. It ij apoipe her knowledge of the simple laws of hygiene, her upholding the stendards of right living that the critical well-being husband and children depend. In kitchen, in sleeping in clo and in cellars, the woman of the house her band on the levers that control the bodily machine of every member of the household, | So it {4 espectalN$} important that every young Woman should learn ath only to be healthy herself, but to keep others healthy,? ‘That is how Dr. Valéria, H. Parker summed up situation in a new sector of the big field covered the health problem for women, ag it is being review at the International Conference of Women -Physicta aa daily at the Y. W. C, A. Headquarters, No. G00 Lexingt Avenue, Dr. Parker is one of the best-known Americas” delegates to the convention, as she is Chafrman of the Sd¢ial Hygiene er a mittee of the National League of Women, Voters, During the war she tured throughout the country for the National War Work Council; and wag" Chairman of the Recreation Department of the Conneceticut State Counetp* of Defense, her home being in Hartford. Since Dr, Parker hug been a house- | wife mother for many YOare | as well 1 physician, she aeéined to _me particularly well adapted to | disouss the importance of Mns. Johu Smith ava health agent in the home Isn't #he « sort “of ‘health doctor’ fer ae and as | Gall in her own right?” 1 suggested to Dr. | ‘arker, “lan't it trie that the health of each home in a community de- pends more closely on tie feminine | fead of the household than on, any other factor? ert iw thi | wife and mother,” agreed the doctor, “who makes the home and | the people in it healthy or the re- verse. Now and then, of course, there may be factors beyond her contr ‘an epidemic, ‘gross carelossne: on he part of Some member of the household, But day in and day out she makes and carries Into effect *he | hygienic laws under which the house- hold flourishea—or she ignores these lawn, ‘The average husband and | h out of the home to think of its health | standards, The children have to be! " Frexaiese taught them by slow degrees. Every- naene aoe eee thing depends on the mother tions of the mouth or skin. Enough ‘And how." L asked, “can a mother! washing, and washing before food make a healthy household? WhR | ang pefore going to bed is/ propa- ¢ these domestic laws of hygiene | panaa which the ‘health mother* which you Wak should be taught | must disweminate every day im & even to the non-medical YOUDK | home with several children woman?" | “The ‘health mother’ will be the “First, there is the question of £000, | trey air mother, She will keep the itemized Dr: Parker, “Before It Comes! Windows open in every sleeping- into the home the wife and mother should do everything to see that it is Ithful as possible. She should u citizen, to have her milk | room; if possible she will arrange for outdoor sleeping quarters at least for the children, She will make them play outdoors on every possible oc- Gown Developed Evenin Satin Andwet™ In Block i eg What Shall the Girl Do to Earn Her Living? ve a a eatrt YOO Harn Mer Living: BEING A STENOGRAPHER. and buying. if friend of mine, for So if there are disadvantages you This is the second of a sericg of articics in which Beatrice Barmby, - phe ‘is tarted as a.stenogrdpher, think it'e ohieAy her own, taileh: an experienced, business, woman and. writer, wilt discuss briefly the |“ MCrBed Into an efliclent secretary, | “Very often. If she has a keen In aiseovered her abil os a sales. | tere n the business world and am- different jobs open to ambitious young u omen, and will sum up the woman, came in conta with the lit- bitlon for the future she won't find case for each. jab in qualifications and training required, averaging crary world, and is now @ budding| it monotonous to be ted to an offic salary, advantages and disadvantages and posaibitity of advancement, author, One thing L would advins|every day—If she hasn't she'll prob _ | thy ambitious girl Is that after com-| ably find the jife full of disadvan By Beatrice Barmby ing out of her training course vho| ta Copyright, 1919, ty The Fress Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) should tale @ Job for a year sololy us aortot gift tovmake @ aucdens S HE is young and attractive, stenographer to a business man I know, | who has told.me so ofteg of her abilities and possibilities that 1 |; shorthand-typist, then when she's be-| of it is one who wants to work out erly Inspected, to have the tinent of public health keep an supply pi dep: casion, reserving indoor play only for evenings and the worst weather. markets where ste buys “The matter of clothing of a bygl- en and meats, tO onic nature is one Which the ‘health supply Up to the other cannot neglect. She must buy ‘shoos that do not cramp her’ ehil- fect, and she must take care y are not #0 heavily clad that their skin becomes unduly tender nor so on the her fruits, keep the local wate proper standard, “#1 think it would be i idea from the point of view of health | 4) if every woman did her own market- | Jini Then she could see for hers the conditions under whieh her fam | » could make | [sure of picking gut only such articls |arranged that no reac tas were fresh and in good condition: | ctpaine Aud) av j Also, her own health would benemt LY | ihe wife and mother the daily walk in the fresh alr eae prepare meals that are pnour- ‘iwhing, appetizing and well balanced, ‘Too many housewives give their fam- ilies food that ts cooked in the easiest way, regardless of its effect on the {digestive organs or tho elements of nourishment it affords to the system. A housewlfe should study the require- ve ‘| ightly clothed that they are not warm uh, he lights im the home must be so "s eyesight 14 en ly's food is sold, and at frequent phys- ‘After she obtains the food, 8h® /iea) examinations for the members @f |stand the necessity « household, particularly the ehil- n, so that any defect of sight or other weakness may be caught in tinie™ jand corrected. Many children do poorly at school because they eannot see clearly what is written on the dlackboards, The mother should make vure (hat frequent visits to the dentist on every one of the thirty-eight trips became a pilot's apprentice and fin- ally got my license, I've beon taking em out and bringitg ‘em in now for | ewenty-seven yi EE ee RANDOM FACTS, Trench scientists-observed the cen- tenary of the discovery of todine hy placing @ tablet upon the birthplace jot its discoverer, . she has made in and out of New York under the American flag, “I wasn't picked ag tho Leviathan's pilot because I was considered any | better at the game than anybody else," Capt, Bill declares, “When the big ship was ready to make her first trip after the Govern- ment seized her, it just happened that 1 was the pilot on eall, My number was up and | got the Te nil ogy churches and theat f o Keep ,chure theatres ‘h hor thiniy-sever times since then and] southern, India open. a aumuor oo Elecirio fans have made it possible T've pever had uuy trouble Ske ana manths, A veminds us that this would have been au deuceofa world if we hadn't hoped: ‘And what about .. salary, .past, make # Bale, the politician that gei Men, like automobiles, can't run om me an expert ste apher, let her|a career f herself, who doesn't just ne | ld me of had no hesitation ‘n asking for her viows as a guide to others who /:urn her attention to secretarial work." | lake down a leiter and type it cor. |" peer pa iesnera ts 1 cy _ asthe |16: Goon aaeerean may be thinking of the same career [think t know the hours—usuatly | rectly though that's the foundation [int ty the wort of work her hudband Had heh hele weight a Sate am “Won't You tell me about the necosiary training?" | from 9 to 5.30, with an hour for junc! ut who follows the mubject matter | toon and the age and phyaical condi-|, «Mast mothere newadsys have get b } : doos and the a d_ physica i M oth nowaday. “After 1 came out of college, I took-w six monthe’ | IC day on Saturday, and two weeks! | and in interested in the result, who lion of ner children. She should pre- lover the foolish old Idea that tnele Course abo businoss school where. T leatned typewrit- |PAld Vacation, Any privilegoa—og din- | cun finally write such @ letter off Her} wring good for them tn health-giving are certain dineanes such as measles ing, shorthand and bookkeeping. The latter I consider a hae feta , enn veal a Rae to Know they Quantity and quality instead of simply lend mumps which a child ‘ought to was rather wasted time, because a set method id hitte Pht air a had A whtfal | busi N - : m . wy): th dumping meals on the table have.’ ‘The aftersedevts af these go- Use, each firm preferring Its own system which 18 SPE-|ilegen are chiefly what you make | business It'x chiefly average inteill.{ “AONE With the frying pan, the Jailed unimportant ilinenwes may cially developed to meet its needs, "There was £180 & (hem—I always maintain that a girl's | gonce, combined with perseverance r towel will bo. banished from |iiar a Tt is up to the mother, it tarial course which T consider usefal if one is & job in mostly what she makes it” amvition and ta i home of the hygienic | houde|qne child should come down with little thin in the writing and speaking of good Bi he ag ba fey dtptie Ov tagiona cempAAls to Arsieaie ae “Do you believe that a college education tx a salldzon tie rtapattange of iwaividwer ites cectaeeci an taitti: tee able gevet to the would-be business woman? Personally TWO MINUTES , 7 y Foearer ee eee ccs ane OF the (eer. tore 1 oreeat AaRaanen Ih } mbart ; Z U vS OF OF TIMISM nstead of promiscuous use of the! mcmber of the family from contract. | have alwaye folt that.'t ig better for a girl te wot right in at seventeen . artict for keeping clean ard ling the same trouble and be ” aor % hereancatige J ' me nd beKin at the bottom, . By Herman J. Stich brushed, ‘The Individual toweli! “pat the toast lagpertant’ oot aan here's ometiiuz your, ides, fpresent and future? brush and comb, toothbrush, fce- |reaith duties of the mother inte keep but Ido think my college tife gave Me] “PLE, T had a college education Comriaht, 119, Ly The hing € The New York Keening World) cloth, cake of soap will do much 0 lnerselg well, to be a little selfish, if @ Valuable background; it was rn by |f Hegan at fitteon dollars a week, but , at keen f spreading colds or afte 5 i ‘i the student organization of which Tl inant w ies i cae What Makes the Aim Go ’Round. 2 aeons m | horeesers: Gr aedee ie Unpeli 9 ho Predider elpo 7 : hs Arn kinicase ‘ ne long run; that is, to inaist on was Vice President, That hi ay ren ichool will probably be XPECTATION the fool's ir le h ian, the preacher that | reputation, but moat of us keep golng ling » exercise and recreation for give me poise, the ability to tale with | a), ik td teehty, rbingko come, hut Hope--Hope that hw will make. men better tnen, an Hope, heep going ay a4 = herself that is needed to keep her from 6 and control them 1 an | b ye t " too frequen ope @ t eda] and control ther ee n Ms thirty or thirty-five afte paints the future bright" Among the best of us and alll oy asieae oa pacity and capability and | breaking down and wearing out when sight into organization, If} were be-|experience und agcording to eapa Hope that sustains us all-—-Hope that ul noth est Of us Hope fans the] success. her children are half-avown and need ginning now 1 would certainly take! t which in whtte Ive arrived. provides half the joy in life lames of Maith, couxes the smilen of * Hope that sustains Jonny @f-/ner ay much as at any time in their the high school course ii ‘ “! ft ' ; ein | E + bhea ter @ raid on the pantry, that lubri- . futur In order to be happy & man need rian 198 UP, DPacen us up,| 1h A TAG On Lhe Pon Tbition, thac{lives. For the. teaching of @ex and typing which Is ava I think W'd bet litte more than three things some- dams the floods of fear of failure! makes ua see Old Sol through the wet/hygiene to them, in childhood, and most every nook i the ad about that! But! thing” ta do, som to love und) flags us from the Road to Ruin onto] blankets of Old Pluvius, that keeps lospecially in the ‘adolescent period, + try: books } ; limit my omething to hope (or the Highway of Promise, places our] us all at Work and dissuades us from | is q health problem-no mother should think the student te likely to be un the future, ju suse T!, We Iivo'in Hope—t a stir in the ascendant and w going on strike, that brings the land i Moors < Hmataabni fatinnttiacssesieiie pes a » lwo'ih Hope-—-overy ane of us ” ‘Sebeaie Miepers| to view when there's water, water f we would teach health to al | | a : 7 arMleve botfeve that un‘ oMetent sténographer the lawyer that he will win his case, |! nunue to play the game, that i] everywhere and salty water at that iris,” Dr, Parker tuded, i than after only the lx months’ course jaws in her the foundation of the high- | the physician that he will cure his iS but ® matter of tine and y be] and last but far from least 'tis Hope the equivalent of at a business school,” est paid type of Dusthess w yin) patient, the salesman that wit} paaing in the euashine of plenty and! chat makes the arm go 1a—wteh AU our Names, one rhynical wellbeing of the omni would be ynerenned amazengly,””