Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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«***MrtrtW«MM>*M*******W4 I BOYS LEARN TO COOK, t i GIRLS AS CARPENTERS 5 TWO SUBMARINES ARE SUNK . IN ATTACK ON LEVIATHAN Cleveland.— 1 Manual trainlnt: * 9t Is not for boys only, and domes- J it tic science /is not only a- gtrbs ★ * study In Cleveland schools now. J $ for the courses la some of the ★ * public schools have been switch- * $ ed and the boys are being tauxht ★ J to cook and buy groceries ami * * the girls are getting training'In'* J household carpentry. The girls J blob of-water tose and'the destroyer: are said to bv .‘proficient In * curved away from the ship and went J handling tool.', while many/ of * over to the first one to see what It was the boys In the “bringing tip fa- * doing. The rest of them hud apparent- J ther” divisions are becoming * ly gone plumb crazy. They were sim- ★ good cooks and buyers. * ply whipping the neur-by surfuce of the sea to white ribbons. r Living Wall Formed. "A big.flock of English gunboats and from nowhere in Germans Fai 1 in Raid 7 on Great est United States • \ Transport. { £ye Witness Gives /Thrilling Account of Trip Across Atlantic—High Praise for Work of American Navy—Men on Transport Behave Splendidly In Time of Danger, __i GIRLS AS SHEEP HERDERS destroyers Came up particular and moved along ahefid of us and on our thinks. We reduced our speed to theirs and our own thick of wasps came up and formed a living wall around us and we moved along up to where an hour later an English pilot was picked Up who tank ns through the mine fields and into port. “We leu rued then from the com mander of the destroyer fleet,, Who came aboard us, that there laid been three ‘subs’ waiting for us. - They had fired three torpedoes at short range,’ hut Just as the fracas started we had been signaled to turn sharp and beat It. We did. The torpedoes ‘skimmed our sides. Two of the 'submarines went to Davy Jones’ locker and they kind of felt that the other one wus smothered •the same afternoon."' Loneliest Job in the World Is Latest Industry to Attract the- jfDumml, Mich.-—An eye-wit ness ac count of an attack by threo-Tjuhmnrines •on the United States transport Le viathan and the destruction of two of the U-boats by United States ile'stroy- Women Cheyenne, Wyo. Herding sheep— _thjq-.loneliest job in the world --is.. lhe latest industry to attract women. Wyo ming ranchers have given so many men to the war .that sheepherders are very scarce. Hence.Misses Lulu Mutt son. Helle Pattison and (Irace Keenan. Campbell county lassies, have Ijronme sheep-herdesses at a wage of $o() a month and ‘ffbund.” They have been employed by H. J. Kerin, and each girl acts as guardian to 2,T*4M) “woofles.’ v These girls are said to he the first feminine sheepherders In the United States. a ers, is container! tn a letter from Capt Charles^. Huruion of this city to his son, Sergt. Curl A. Harmon, at Camp 'Custer. The Leviuthan, formerly the •German Vaterland, is tlie. largest vessel afloat and wus seized by the United States whenr.thls country entered the -war, — Captain Harmon Is In tlwe motor me- -chunlcs division of the avia’tion corps, now sufely In France,,-while Ids son !s a member of the. umbulance.com- pany. The Leviuthan carried lOJKX) soldiers on that particular trip and every'pre caution of camouflage and zigzag nav igation was employed to protect it from the submarines, since the Ger-, Photo by " tern Newspaper Vnlonl 1—Ignacp •Paderewski, ibc^emlnent pianist, who Is th • head of the organization that ’is recruiting Poles In erica to tight against Hermany. 2—Latest type of antiaircraft gun used by the battleships.of the Atherjcn.fi navy. Freivch-chihlren..cheering American troops passing through a village on tlT»4r-way to the front. . SOME OF WASHINGTON’S NEW GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS said to have offered man government is a fortusc and great honors to the coin- niunder and crew of the U-boat that aucceeds In sinking ft. All Obey Orders. _^!Most of the men aboard were raw recruits," says Captain Harmon, "hut when the emergency entile tilt* constant Grill and training told and not a man filsoiayiTl-orders-.- T\ymty brrurs fmm our destination. at daybreak, we picked up the destroyers in a howling They came swooping at' Us out of a ruin squall like flying fish. Hoy! They looked good. They are lit? 1^*. long, in trepid devils all engl-fle and wicked ness. We were tearing along at high speed, trusting to luck not to hit any thing, but those little devils curved and circled and zigzagged around us.as •if ue were at anchor. “Even with our thousand feet of length we could hardly kiVp-our feet on deck, hut that', with their 200 feet or less, were simply doing the impos sible. Seas too high to ride they dived through, actually disappearing at tinies. And when, in their circles, they fell Into the trough, thev took a list that ChroniciSossipers in Wall Street Are Put Under Ban by Ex change Officials. to rumors "Vet afloat that the govern meat intended to fix the. price of. cot ton. th ! mor spreading. Is new and has never he^n done before. It has been ef- fectK •» to-“m degree, alfhottgb it did not prevent the dotation of a rumor that the Herman crowo prince and •loanhi men had been captured by the allies. This rumor-started the rounds shortly after tlie opening of the stock market jind later when it. came hack to the exchange the total hag of Teu tons had reached SO.ftOO. Curiously enough during tin* recent visitation of Herman submarines tn these shores the rumor factory was comparatively idle*, the only .story emanating from that quarter being a rumor that six Herman submarines were lying to off Atlantic City get ting ready to bombard the 'resort. Since the various • exchanges banned the dissemination of rumors thejr point of origin has been careful If’ con cealed so that it is next to lnlpussl- hle nowadays to run them down at their source. Curb on Wild* Stories. While riot Completely ^Checked the Tendency_Ls Toward Suppressing Wild Stories That Might Be Harmful. New YoKR.—War has wrought' many, and varied changes in Wall street ways. The adjustment of the financial district and its army of workers, to the new order of things uslyred in by the entrance of the United States into the war has gone ah< ad steadily and is still progressing. The process will go on until peace comes ami per haps thereafter. Hanks, foreign ex change. tl*4j security and. commodity markets, have all felt the band of (he war god In varying degree, and the changes that have taken place Uydiusi- ness methtMls and scijpes. J he gunners are la-lied to their guns.' They must lie amphibious. The ride those crow’s-nest birds took The-greater mu'! of Washington’s mushroom war growth m government' buildings is shown in this photograph from the Washington monument. Only two buildings in tlie picture tire permanent, the Pan-American building on the right aiuFihe Lincoln Memorial (u q»er left) The eqmp'lefiwl buildings house the council of national defense, the customs In the street would surprise the Wall street frequenter of five or tei> years ago. Probably one of the most interest ing developments In the financial dls- triet since our entrance into the* war has been the-' attempt made by the market authorities tu put the ban on the rumor-monger. Tn normal times the- most -gossipy place 111 the coun try is to he found right In the finnn- y -»*cv.v „• * A ^ rial district where Ti rumor Is horn every minute. Millions of dollars have beery made amt- lost' 1n Wall street on the circulation of rumors^ There have been times when «• wild stories .were deliberately concocted for stpek market purposes. Unprecedented on Street. Paine Humor lytely, however, bus on taken in hand by the officials of tin* New York stoeit exchange and the New York cotton exchange, and while she-is still to he found at large, her activities have been mucTf re stricted. On the stock exchange the governors recently adTtpteiP resolu tions to the effect that "the circula tion in any manner of rumors of a sensational character by members of Thi* exchange or their firms will be (Teemed an act detrimental to the In terest ..and’welfare of the exchange. Similar resolutions were adopted by tin* Cotton -exchange governing hoard after there had occur retLu tremendous slump iu cotton prices ascribed partly that, (lay w ould curl your hair The Herman kaiser, vylio must yield the palm only to the ^rown prince In the number of times he has been killed in Ibis war, has been killed on the stock exchange time and time again since .1914.. .On other occasions he hits died a natural death from a strung'* malady.. There was a time when tin* death of the kaiser meant to Wall street thq end of tin* war so that rumors of this character were often-put out with a view to influenc ing the course of market prices. Hut shun* the exchange banned rumor- tmnrgerlng the kaiser has not been “killed” once in tin* financial district In the markets of 191. r » and 1910 re ports of war orders placed with In dustrial companies filled Wall street Mr months. Some of the rumors proved to be true, whereas Others, were made out of whole cloth. Peri odically there came also rum.,rs of peace proposals which op a number of occasions exerted an Important in fluence on stock market prices.* The most frequently appearing reports have been those "of vessels sunk at sea. « It would of course he too much to say that tin* exchange authorities, have effectively checked rumors spreading by t’heir recent action,.''although-un doubtedly the tendency is toward suppressing wild stories that might be harmfu ' both to sentiment and -to market values. food nud^fuel administrations, the war trade hoard tand a part of. the quartermaster corps of the army. Of the two big. unfinished buildings in the center, the nearest will he occupied by the navy and the other by the army. These are of concrete CQiistruetion, while most of tlie others are made of wood and flimsy. Taking No Chances. ' “All day long it howled and rained and blew, and most of the following right, too. It was too rough fur U- honts, but we were pitching..over the hones of thi* Lusitania and hundreds of other good ships and* the destroyers were taking no chances. “Any time the United States navy is mentioned yon Just get onto your legs and salute— Just on general principles. When you cross Volt will understand why. They ure there, those lads. “I fvent on duty below the water Itm five and was on duty for J .tinned on a stairway where HER MISSION IS PATRIOTIC ANTIAIR in .a troop section that evening at hours sta- I could pick off the first bird that hatted an eye. About’ midnight the sea went down. Then we did expect trouble any hi minute. It was a tough, huig night., We knew that if a torpedo ever’hit in that section we hadn't a chance in the world. At five -In the morning l was re lieved and went up topside, to the for ward upper (leek. It was just break ing daylight,, clear; no wind, sea as smooth as glass. Six more destroyers had joined 'tiN—some time during the eight and they were coursing like panthers near-’and far, in greut, swoopi ng curves all a round its. Finally They Came, “We wen* roaring along Tn sharp zigzags, The ship rwmbling like a •nervous dog, with the best gqiced In her. I thought to myself, ns l took it all in: “‘Well, this is the time and, tin* place. Now where in h—— are those doggoned Hums?’,—_ “As if in answer to my question the nearest destroyer turned on her tall and shot straight at qur cutwater as if lo head .something off, nt the same time firing rapidly at something - the' other side of her and close by. In stantly the others pointed in toward us and c» ,, ue darting in like diving •(harks. “The nearest destroyer was not more than f*0 yards distant. Next it swung around, Uj—h smother of white, water; and in an Instant I saw the*hlack stern of a submarine as it upended in *n dive so close to the destroyer thut they \ actually bumped. Then the destroyer sat back of the ‘sulf only a few-feet Under the surface. ' T • ’ , * U-Boat Blown to Atom*. a_...2!Ihe»e was u terrific explosion; . it shook our ship as if - It, had been .struck. That ‘sub’ just was naturally blown to atoms., It almost rut rhe destroyer 1q two, nearly blew the stern, of heiHoff. _ ( .UtiH-f)iat Ts jusl a pari uLolui ^oh Tor • those J>o.vs. ■ Their TTusinesa ?s to get ‘subs.’ W’hat happens to them l» an other matter entirely BIGGEST WAR GARDEN IN THE COUNTRY AMP DIX IHHHB Photo by .»< A etlern N€W«p«p#*r t’n»on • The Italian Il<»y»il marines are great experts at antiaircraft shootin trre seen here at rifle practice. ' f ** POSTSCRIPTS BRIEFS T Ah'mhership In ti<trlan trade unions Iqis decnuisFd"to 1 .'(H) 1 hi. New Zealand tm.s 4.j591 registered apiaries representing nfi/r/* than f»U.- pno colonies of lavs 'gest/' prfidiic/r *• Aliihanni wtis th>- by *f crystalline - gy^iph/te aiaoifg JT fates hist year, w|tii 'Sew York in^Ai »nd place and Uenfisylvania/ third. TvU f*nat>i*»'" • _Uj!^ vork which must he wjitctjed yrk»s* n inventor, liai. itfitcuteit sp/<-tacj (ifrounded by -small Tncxyndesm- .Soldiers are shown here unlondlng frotri the first pf nine Ynotortrucks seeds senl to the camp by the national* war garden commission. The war-deptrOnunt-U planning txj spendlGO.OOU ou war gardens in the camps. 0 » e-Twdes mflMbrJI ti\dt\f\j\ the- bringing r/negn#-ifrom thef Fniteti States by lr GorXlnln I’aclfie/nillroad for serv- e on m/dining cary / / / Ungracieu* Drops. i “Did-they give tlie bride a-showerF* “Well, all her friends throw coM ! yiuter on the bridegroom.”