The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, April 01, 1915, Page 3, Image 3
PENSION FOIl CONFEDERATES.
Hill Introduced in Conp-ess to Grant
i Southern Pensions. Following
is a copy of a special j
dispatch recently to the State from
its Washington correspondent:
Gen. Albert Estopinal, of Louisi-1
ana, a gallant Confederate soldier, j
has introduced in the house the!
\ "Works bill." to aid disabled Con-'
federate veterans, their wives and j
widows, identical with the bill of j
Senator Works, who for the past live
years has been anxious to aid indigent
and afflicted Confederate vetot-one
(Jonatnr Works is a ReDltbli
can and a I'nion veteran: Gen. Es*
topinal is a Democratic and a South
ern veteran. So the bill can be aptly
styled the "bill of the blue and
i gray."
The government has ten homes,
costing $16,000,000. and has appropriated
to date between $100,000,000
and $125,000,000 to support
them. Death has been so busy that
there is now room for about 6.000
* more inmates than they have. The
inspector general of the army having
charge of homes recommends
their consolidation so as to save unnecessary
expense. Two of them,
the Johnson City, Tenn., home and i
the Togus, .Maine, home, are not half
full. Every inmate to the first can
? be placed, in the Hampton, Va., home
and the inmates of the second in the
/ Central home. Dayton. Ohio: so if the
.Tnhnson Citv home is given over to
the Confederates it wil not cost the |
government a penny for shelter of
say 2..">00 men and women, to pro-i
vide for whom J400,000 is asked ? J
J a very small sum. as nearly $h?>no.-|
000 is appropriated this year to support
the national homes.
The government has appropriated j
\ nearly $2.",000,000 since the war to j
aid the Northern State homes: this;
year $1.100.000.
The Works bill provides for $3^0.000
to the Southern homes, or less !
than one-fourth of that for Northern
. homes, and it will be the first aid (
ever extended.
Fifty thousand dollars only is ask->
ed to establish a home in the District |
of Columbia for indigent and affllict-;
i ed veterans of the district and those,1
living in States having no homes. |
like West Virginia, New York, and '
others. These men are all debarred !
* n?i* Cnnthorn StntP I
iruiu euiiriiug an.' v/Vu'?v... I
home by reason of non-residence, j
and the only refuge for district vet- 1
erans is the poor house, in common J
with destitute negroes: from which;
they are being saved by the ladies of |
the Southern Relief society?.Miss
; Nannie Randolph Heth, president.
The bill carries also $20,000 for salaries
of clerks and officers against
$560,000 appropriated for this pur1
pose for Northern homes: also $50.000
to transport indigent veterans,
their wives and widows to .Johnson
City, etc.
The South has paid since 1S65 her
pro rata of $5,000,000,000 to pay the
pensions of Union veterans and sup-1
. port homes. The taxpayers of the
South, to the extent of at least 95 or
97 -per cent., are not in any way re*
sponsible for the war, as they were!
not born or were children when the j
conflict occurred.
The taxpayers of the South, therefore,
have to bear the double burden
of providing their pro rata for Union
pensions, etc., besides having to try
to provide properly for their own veterans:
which they are unable to do
in an adequate manner.
? Some of the Southern States are
the present year in arrearss for pensions
and are unable to relieve the
sufTerers until their legislatures
meet.
Again the constitutions of a number
of States prohibit the issue of
.bonds; so the amount must be raised
by direct taxation.
The Southern veterans, being now
of an average of 72 or over, are not
in a position to wait until the next
session without serious suffering,
and the women are even worse off.
no provision being made for them in
several States, and none save Mississippi
and Missouri admitting them to
homes.
Call for Doctor Yak!
, A newly employed bell boy at the |
Hotel La Salle. Chicago, recently ore-1
afced a laugh in the lobby of the bos- >
telry by paging "Doctor Yak," Sidney
Smith's comic section character.
The "green" bell boy evidently had
not seen a comic section of the Chicago
Tribune, as he took his order to i
page the doctor seriously, and kept up
his call for nearly fifteen minutes.
Finally he reported back to the desk j
? clerk.
"Doctor Yak isn't here."
"Why. Doc Yak is a stoat," said
the clerk. "He appears in the funny
papers."
The new bell hop pot red about
the ears and remarked that he guessed
he was the "goat" instead of Old
Doc Yak.?Cartoons Magazine.
Nearly 400 national and international
congresses and conventions!
have chosen San Francisco as the i
1915 meeting place, owing to the j
Panama-Pacific exposition to be held [
there.
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SlliMAKINKS NOT XKW.
Invente<l Centuries Ago.?Kirst Successfully
Csed l?y Confederates.
In view of the tact tiiat several
articles have been printed recently
about the submarine boat, which is
playing such a prominent part in the
present European war, and as comparatively
little seems to be known
of the origin of this type of craft,
the following article by William E.
Simmons, of Charleston, published in
the New York Times a few weeks
ago. will no doubt be read with interest:
Idea an Old One.
The submarine has played a conspicuous
part for the first time in the
prevailing war. but it should not be
forgotten that the invention is centuries
old and that its potentiality for
destructive offence was practically
demonstrated more than fifty years
ago. While the submarine idea is
old the practical development of it
unquestionably belongs to America.
Nearly three hundred years ago a
workable submarine was built bv
Cornelius Van Drebel. a Dutch physician.
friend of James I, of England.
Van Drebel's boat, launched in 1620,
like the submarine of today, was submerged
by the admission of water
and raised by its expulsion. It was
propelled both at the surface and beneath
by oars and could carry passengers
as well as twelve oarsmen.
According to contemporary records
it could "journey several hours,
twelve to fifteen feet below the surface,"
and on one occasion King
James made a trip in it with Van
Drebel. However, it does not appear
to have been actually tried for
the purposes of war.
The tirst attempt to blow up a
ship of war was made in New York
harbor during the Revolution. David
Rushnell. a Connecticut Yankee,
about 1773 built what he called a
turtle ship, because of its form. The
body was somewhat turtle shaped,
weighted below to keep it in an upright
position, with only a conning
tower above the surface. It could
carry only one man, and its motive
rower was a smail screw operated
by a crank.
The method of use was to come
alongside the ship and fix a screw
into the hull, attach a torpedo to the
screw and retire. The torpedo was
exploded by clock work. The attempt
was made at night 011 the Brit-i
ish ship Eagle, sixty-four guns, lying J
off Governor's Island. The man in
the turtle was not Bushnell. but one
of his workmen. The hull of the
warship proved too hard for the
screw, and in trying to set it the
operator lost hold of the'ship and
at the same time of his torpedo. In
the dark he could neither find his
way back to the ship nor recover the
torpedo, which about an hour later
exploded not far from the man-ofwar.
sending up a huge column of
iwater to the consternation of her
officers and crew.
In 1S01 Robert Fulton built 011
the Seine a submarine propelled by
steam, which he called Nautilus, and
which was popularly termed a plunging
boat. In July of that year, with
three men, he went down twenty-five
feet in the harbor of Brest and remained
under water for one hour.
He afterwards blew up a smaii vessel
in Brest harbor and attempted
to blow up an English man-of-war
in the offing, but when he was about
to attack the ship moved off and he
was unable to find her again. He
offered the submarine to Napoleon, I
who. apparently not impressed with
her utility,'declined her.
It remained for the Southerners,
in the civil war, to make the first
successful use of the submarine.
Boats partly and wholly submersible
were built during the war at Charleston.
Mobile and elsewhere. Tliev
were tried at Hampton Roads, but
with more notable effect at/and about
Charleston.
The New Ironsides, of the blockading
fleet, waj twice torpedoed and
damaged, though not sunk, by partly
submersible boats. The new ship
Housatonic was torpedoed and sunk
a few months later by a suomersioie
boat. The Minnesota, at Newport
News, and the Memphis, in the North
Edisto Iniet. about fifty miles south
of Charleston, were also damaged,
though not sunk, by partly submersible
boats. The Confederate ram Albemarle
was torpedoed and sunk at
her moorings off Plymouth. N. C.. by
Lieut., afterwards Commander, Wil|
liam Baker Cushing. V. S. N? on the
night of October 27. 18f?4. but it does
onrio;ir Hint hp used a submarine
for the purpose.
The sinking of the Housatonic was
the first effective use of the submarine
in warfare, and is therefore
worthy of more than a passing notice.
more especially as the submarine
herself was also a victim of the
exploit. That boat, whose name, if
it had one, has not been preserved,
had a tragic history before she went
to her doom under the Housatonic.
In her trial trips she went three
times to the bottom and drowned
more than thirty men. She was de
I
| signed by Horace L. Hundley, who
j was drowned on one T>f her experij
mental trips. Lieut. F. .M. Barber,
I 1". S. X.. writes:
"Of tlie submarine which destroy1
ed the Housatonic 1 have been able to
j obtain but a limited description. It
j was built of boiler iron, was about
j thirty-five feet long, and was manned
! by a crew of nine men. eight of
| whom worked the propeller by hand.
| while the remaining man steered the
| boat and regulated its movements
i beneath the surface.
I "She could be submerged at pleasj
tire to any desired depth, or could
i be propelled on the surface, and in
| smooth water she could he exactly
j controlled: the speed being about
1 four knots, while the length of time
| under water without inconvenience
to the crew was half an hour,
j "It was intended that she could
, approach any vessel lying at anchor.
| pass under the keel and drag a float;
ing torpedo after her, which would
j explode on striking the bottom of the
! ship attacked. This, however, was
not the manner in which she attack|
ed the Housatonic. The torpedo was
i then attached to the bow of the boat,
j and from the shock of the explosion
; she probably filled, as she was found
j by the diver after the close of the
! war lying on the sand with her bow
j pointing in the direction of the hole
j in the ship's side which the torpedo
i had made.
J "It is probable. too. from the fact
: of her being in sight from the deck
| of the Housatonic for some two min;
utes before the explosion, that on
i this occasion she was merely used as
an ordinary cigar boat, and no at
tempi was uiaue iu miujuci^c ho
at all."
That has been the generally eccepted,
though erroneous, account of
! the action of this boat, but before
proceeding to show how she was actually
operated a brief description of
her previous trials, given by an English
writer. Alan H. Rurgoyne, F. R.
fJ. S.. inav be noted:
"It was lirst mantled by Lieut.
Pain& (C. S. X..) and eight volunteers.
but whilst cruising in front of
Charleston the wash of a passing
steamer upset the equilibrium and
all except Paine perished, and he only
escaped because at the moment
; he happened to he looking out of
one of the manholes. The vessel
was raised and repaired, and again
Lieut. Paine took command, but
while lying off Fort Sumter it sank
for the second time. Lieut. Paine and
two men managing to escape.
"Paine had had enough after this
second adventure, but Aunley,
i UimHiov ? nnp of the constructors
of the boat, willingly took command,
and with eight volunteers started on
a trip up Cooper river. They had
not proceeded very far when, for
some unknown reason, it sank in
very deep water, all nine of her crew
being drowned.
j "Yet again it was raised, this time
to be taken against the Housatonie
by Lieut. Dixon, of the Twenty-first
Regiment. The persistence with
| which this vessel was repeatedly
raised and utilized, and the stolid
indifference to the retrospect of disaster.
speaks volumes for the indom|
itable pluck and heroism of the Confederate
sailors, and the splendid
1 vigor they displayed in fighting for
their cause, and for a regime that'
I was fated to perish."
After the war a contractor named
Maillefert, who Had done some govI
eminent work in Hell Gate, and who
; called himself "professor," was employed
to raise the wrecks at the eni
trance to" Charleston harbor. The
j raising of the Housatonie occurred
j in June or July, 1 872.' The Housa|
tonic was sunk on the night of Feb
ruary 17, 18fi4. and though the sub\
marine was seen from her decks a
| few minutes before the explosion.
' she was not seen afterward, so the
I fate of the latter remained a mystery
j until the wreck was raised. Then she
1 was found hanging to the rudder
1 chains of the ship,
i it uroo onrmrent therefore, that
I
! the boat actually used as a subma!
rine. had passed under the bottom of
j the ship towing the torpedo, and,
i seeing escape aft. ran afoul of the
| rudder chains to be carried down by
j the hulk.
While this and others of that pej
riod were propelled by hand power,
it is worthy of note that a man named
Alstilt is said to have built a submarine
at .Mobile in lSG.'l, to be pro!
pelled by both steam and electricity,
but does not appear to have accomplished
anything. A peculiar fact,
showing the Biblical influences prei
vailing in the South at. that time, is
that all these submarines and partly
submersible boats were called "David,"
with the idea that they would
slay the C.oliaths of the blockading
fleets.
It has been generally held they did
not accomplish much, but as Commander
M. F. Senter. of the Royal
! navy, pertinently remarks, the total
l ? - ehin nf war and
| (lesirucuuii ui ^
I more or less serious injury of three
i others is a record not to he despised.
| and no doubt exercised a deterrent
I influence on the action of the fedI
i eral navy.
1 A monument to the men who lost
! PROMISE LAW K\FOIK'K.MEXT.
i Sheriffs and Peace Officers Promise
! Governor to Enforce all Laws.
Governor Richard I. Manning has
received many letters from sheriffs
and other peace officers of the State
promising to enforce all of the laws:
"You may rest assured that 1 will
; do my part in the enforcement of all
i laws on the statute hooks as long as
| I am honored with the office of sheriff."
said I). P. Douglass, sheriff of
Chesterfield county.
"I stand ready day or night to go
where duty demands.' wrote J. D.
dates, magistrate at Elloree. in
Orangeburg county.
"I will do my best to enforce the
law in Laurens, as I have done for
the past six years." said John D.
Owings, sheriff of Laurens county,
in which the attitude of the governor
was commended.
W. S. Camlin, magistrate at Trio,
wrote the governor promising to cooperate
in the matter of law enforcement.
S. G. Ray, sheriff of Bamberg
county, promised to use every effort
to enforce the laws in a letter
to the governor.
"1 am in full sympathy with you,"
said Sheriff Hood, of Fairfield county.
T. \V. McMillan, sheriff of Greenwood
county, said that he appreciated
the confidence that had been
placed in the peace officers of the
State by Governor Manning.
The policy of law enforcement as
! announced by Governor Manning
| was highly endorsed in a letter from
I J. 1). Ackerman, sheriff of Colleton county.
f. Elmore Martin, sheriff of Char-'
i leston"' county, said in a letter: "lj
J will use my best efforts to carry out:
I your instructions."
Sheriff Lane, of Dillon county, J
wrote that he was in full sympathy!
| with the law enforcement campaign, j
j "You have my hearty coopera-t
I tion," said Hendrix Rector, sheriff j
i of Greenville county.
Cooperation was also promised by
I John I'. Hunter, sheriff of Lancasj
ter county: Cannon G. Blease, sher-j
iIT or .\ewoerry county; j. m. iw.ici,
of Marion, and others.
Had Koads Did It.
A farmer old, so we've been told,
With a team of horses strong,
Drove down the road with a heavy
load,
While singing his merry song.
But with mirth in song was not so
long.
For his horses gave a leap.
As he ran amuck in the mud' he
stuck.
Clear up to his ankles deep.
Bad roads did it!
And a wheelman gay went out one
day
A joyful morning spin:
With the weather bright his heart
was light
As he left the country inn.
But lie went not far when he felt a
jar
Which started his troubles and
v.ai co.
He was laid up ill, while the doctor's
bill
Came in with the one for repairs.
Bad roads did it!
In an automobile of wood and steel
A millionaire prim and neat
Went out for a ride by the river's
side
In a style that was had to beat.
But, alas, he found that the broken
ground
and risked their lives in that submarine
service has been erected on the
Battery, at the foot of Meeting street,
in Charleston. Following are the
inscriptions:
In memory of the supreme devotion
of those heroic men of the Confederate
army and navy, first in marine
warfare to employ torpedo boats.
1863-1865. Moved by the lofty faith
that with them died crew after crew
volunteered for enterprises of extremest
peril in the defence of Charleston
harbor. Of more than thirty
men drowned in this desperate service
the names of but sixteen are
known: Horace L. Hundley, inventor
of submarine boat: Robert Brookbank.
Joseph Patterson, Thomas W.
Park, Charles McHugh, Henry Beard,
Jonn .Marsnan. wanes
in Charleston harbor, October 15,
1SC3. George E. Dixon, lieut. twenty-first
Alabama volunteers; C. F.
Carlson, corporal, Wagner Artillery;
Arnold Becker. James A. Wicks. C.
Simpkins, F. Collins ? Ridgeway,
? Miller, sinking blockader Housatonic,
February 1 7. 1864.
Attacks without loss of life: Blockader
Ironsides, August 25, 1SG3, by
the Torch, designed by Capt. F. D.
Lee: Engineers, commanded by Capt.
J. Carlin. with Lieut. E. S. Fickling,
S. C. Artillery Regulars. Blockader
New Ironsides. October 5, 1863. by
the Little David, designed by St. Julien
Ravenel. M. D.: commanded by
T.iont \v t Glassell. Confederate
States navy.
Erected by the Daughters of the
Confederacy and the Memorial association,
of Charleston. S. C., May,
1S90.
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