Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1915 — START GUN CLUB AT SEA [ARTICLE]

START GUN CLUB AT SEA

Yd. Stewards on Great Liner Given Soma [ Target Practice at Kite and Periscope. The first transatlantic gun club that ever bored evanescent holes in tbe western ocean has arrived by the White Star liner Arabic. Captain Pinch said that the club was really hot a serious proposition; that It had been organised chiefly to occupy the minds fid the stewards and able sea-

men, who needed diversion when there were so few passengers aboard. Nevertheless,' things happened as the Arabic was going down the Mersey and into the German war zone around the British I ales that inspired the ordinary neutral passenger to irifer that the Arabic was preparing to protect herself against the attacks of German submarines. Passengers noted that sand bags had been piled high around the steering gear to protect it from possible shall injury. Passengers also re-

marked that as the Arabic steamed down the Mersey she towed a raft on which there was an upright, resembling a periscope, and that the gun club, made up of about twenty men, took turns at blazing away with LeeMet ford rifles, good but long out of date, -at the upright. The lounge steward made a record shooting at the upright. After the liner got Into the open she flew a' kite from the stern, and the rifle club had some aerial practice.— New York Sun.