Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TO GAIN EXPERIENCE. Spirit of Adventure Led Boy Through Mine Sown Seas. H. E. Lumley, the 23 year old son of James M. Lumley, who has lived in Columbia for 16 months, last night * related some of his interesting experiences on the torpedoed ship Armenian and his trips to London, Bristol and Verdun and other places on the European battlefields. Up to April, 1915. he was employed by the American National Bank of Atlanta, Ga., as a clerk. .Mr. Lumley received many letters from two friends, Paul Rockwell and Kenneth Rockwell, who were in the Foreign Legion, "some where in France." These letters so fired his ambition and spirit of adi venture that he left the bank and went to New York city and later to Boston where he shipped on the ill _ fated Armenian for Liverpool, and was one of the survivors of that vessel when when it was torpedoed. He said that he was picked up with some 35 others by the tug John M. Stevens and carried to the naval hospital at 'Hobowline. Not being injured other < than shock, he was discharged the next morning, while some of the fellows who had suffered injuries from ' the shell fire, which the Huns gave them before the Armenian went down, held much longer. For the next two months he did newspaper work in Bristol and London, finally joining the Fourth Glouchester, an English t regiment and transferred to Verduil. which at that time was being pre pared for the long sustained siege that was to follow. Although the fighting there was desultory and nothing to be compared to what Verdun was to experience later, it gave .him invaluable experience part of which he relates below: Crew Had Hunch. > "At the time I shipped on the Armenian from Boston every man on board had the hunch that she would * * never see the other side. There were ' 130 of us, a motly bunch made up of all kinds of fellows. 'The majority were just roustabouts, who having come to the ends of their ropes, were ready for anything, even to the facing of the German u-boats. However, among this bunch were some half dozen men who were college graduates, three newspaper men and some others who, like myself were taking the trip for the experience. Well, we got it. I shipped as a muletee^, ' which meant that I had the care of 20 mules. Feeding and watering 20 mules comprised a day's work and it will be seen that there was an abundance of time that hung pretty heavy on our hands. -This we spent in writing letters to the folks back home? letters that were destined never to reach their objective. Flicking jam-J and Irish butter from the cook's .storeroom, a process that required ' the lowering of one fellow by his fv legs over the side of the boat and keeping him lowered until he brought up, one can at a time, a supply for about 20 men. It's needless to say that the goat always put up a young j ^ howl, but was never known to kick, j , . Kicking was dangerous. Thus we killed time the best we could until , the early morning of June 29. "It was about- 5 o'clock and I was in lower No. 1 hold, waiting for the V rest of the fellows to come down and help me with the feed. About the first thing I remember was the noise of some hundred men running around on the steel deck, cursing and otherwise acting as if they had lost their reason. I knew then that something out of the usual was happening up there. I believed it was a submarine x and knowinsr that I Was below the wa ter line, I thought I would be safer where I was, as the German's at this time, always warned the boat and if possible would sink her by shell fire. Three-inch shells are cheaper than torpedoes. The sounds made by heavy objects falling, the crash and splintering of wood and the trembling of the boat from end to end, due to full steam on, \y?'s interspersed by the shrieks and" wild curses of the muleteers and crew. After what seemed to .be ages, things above began to g?t quiet and I began to get wajy^and, I admit, a more or less ^ in *t?embling, ascent. Standing on the superstructure that had been built 4 over the main deck, the first thing I saw was one of the men, with a life ?- belt buckled around his body, lying at full length not three feet from what had been a life boat. He had V been killed by a flying splinter from the life boat he had been trying to reach. Looking forward I saw the men massed around three remaining boats. Life ISoat Crowded. "Starting on a run for one of these .$ boats, 1 was just in time to see the first one lowered about half way and then in the excitement, the men who were manning the davits, turned her loose. She hit the water on her side and pitched the men overboard. However, they managed to right her and to the best of my knowledge all in this boat were saved. I was in the last one to go over, not from choice, but rather because I couldn't crowd * DOESN'T WANT NEGROES. i Governor Manning' Insists They he Sent Somewhere Else. Columbia. Aug. IS.?Governor R. I. .Manning tonight lodged a vigorous protest with Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War, against the training of Porto Rico and negro drafted troops at Camp Jackson and addressed a telegram to the South Carolina delegation in Congress urging each member to unite with him in protesting to the War Departemnt and prevent, "this disaster to the State." In his message to Secretary Baker, Governor Manning declared it was essential that negroes and Porto Ricans should not be trained at the same camp with white men and requested an audience with him next Tuesday morning, at which time he would make a protest in person. The Governor's telegram to the Secretary of War follows: "1 protest with all my power against mobilization of Porto Ricans and negroes of North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida at Camp Jackson at Columbia. It is essential that negroes and Poroto Ricans should not be mobilized at same camp with whites. I wish to protest in person to you Tuesday morning next." The following message was sent to the South Carolina delegation: "Newspapers #report that 10,000 troops from Porto Rico besides all negroes drafted from North and South Carolina and Florida will be mobilized at Camp Jackson at Columbia. Probably Porto Ric-an troops are composed largely of mulattoes and whites mixed together and accustomed - to conditions of race equality. I urge that you unite with me to prevent this disaster to this State. Will you meet me in Washington at Willard Hotel at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning, 21st inst., to protest to Secretary of /-I + r\ incict nnnn o plion O"o ni > > CXI anu XV lUOXCt u ViiUiA^v V i this order? Please answer." myself into one of the others. This boat had a capacity of 35 or 40 and I know there was at least 60 in it. | In the excitement, the men -at the oars rowed up against the submarine j which was lying off starboard about | 200 yards. Speaking in excellent English one of .the u-boat's crew yelled, "What's the matter with you Yankees? Do you want to turn us over?' We made some little haste in showing them they were entirely mistaken in our motives?that all we wanted was a little time and we would I put just as much water between us and them as was humanly possible, j "We had rowed barely a hundred yards, when the Germans began to submerge. Her wash started our little boat rocking and the men in their mad efforts to balance her began jumping from one side to the other and finally capsized us, that is the most of us were thrown out, but luck- \ ilv, without turning the boat over. It was the work of only a few minutes to haul our dripping bodies over her side and once more^ settle down to the business of putting water between ourselves and the spot where the Ar-j menian was slowly settling. The u-j ! J a nroeoino* intA I | UUill lliiu SC11L CI LIUCUU1S lutvj j her side and in about 20 minutes shei disappeared from sight, gojng nose( j first. ' "It was about 7 o'clock now and I we had sighted no other craft, al{ though the wireless operator had! | stuck to his post until one of the j German's shells disabled his apparat-! | us. Shell Fire Accurate. j ' "It was from some of the other crew, who were on deck when the u-boat sent her first shell across our! bows, that I learned some of the details of the shelling. When she signalled the Armenian to stop, Captain Triekey ordered 'full steam ahead' and we started the race that was to be the Armenian's last. The u-boat was sighted about five miles off starboard and was shelling us from this distance, .just now accuiitic net fire is shown by the. fact that she shot our rudder away, destroying four out of seven life boats, shot both bridges away, destroyed the wireless room, shot the funnel away and finally sent a shell crashing into the engine room, damaging the engines and killing two stokers. It was at this time that the captain ordered her stopped, but not until there were 11 men dead on deck. Our boat was only a lo-knot craft and Captain Trickey must have known that the under sea boat was capable of at least 18 on the surface. * "We drifted around until 3 o'clock that afternoon, at which time the John M. Stevens, a tug out of Bristol, Eng.. picked us up and carried us to the naval hospital at Holbowline. Xot being wounded and suffering only from shock. I was discharged the ! next morning. Later I joined the j Fourth Clouchester. an English regij nient, and was at Verdun during the j pieparation of those forts for the j siege which was to follow. "1 returned to America on the j Baron Polersch a few days before ! Christmas, 1915."Columbia State. Read The Herald, $1.50 per year. Girls Nee Liver Me< stead of "My experience in work as a trained nunse," said a young woman, "teaches me that young girls are especially subject to constipation simply because they omit or neglect the all-important duty to Nature that should be performed without fail every day." } And then, after they get bilious and 1 * ' f -Li + neadacny, so many 01 mem uus.e mat nasty, poisonous calomel that sickens | their stomachs and makes them have i to stay at home while it acts on them. | They would be very much better off if I they took a dose or so of Martin's ! 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