Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1917 — Page 3

MANY AMERICANS ARE KILLED ON BATTLEFIELDS OF EUROPE

Stories of Their Daring Deeds Trickle Over to the United States From Time to Time, but the Vast Majority of Their Exploits Will Go Unsung Many Are in the Foreign Legion.

New York.—Of the 40,000 Americana (a rough estimate) fighting in the armies of the entente allies, several thousand have been killed or wounded.' Stories of their deeds of bravery and their gallant ends trickle over to the United States,from time to time, but the vast majority of their exploits will go unsung. The total of American volunteers participating in the - great war will never be accurately known. Many thousands would also be fighting for Germany and her allies, undoubtedly, If the British blockade did not prevent them from reaching the front. A Yale undergraduate, Karl Lewellyn, who happened to be In Germany when the conflict began, accompanied a German regiident into Belgium without having any official recognition and was wounded on one of the early battlefields, near YpriiK^: Then there was First Lieutenant Heinrich von Heinrichshofen of St. Louis, killed while fighting for Germany May 13, 1915. He was in the Insurance business In Missouri. During the Spanish-Amerlcan war be joined the volunteer army and rose to the rank of captain. Most ~of the American soldiers are tn the Canadian corps. In fact, it is said in som t quarters that a majority gent to enlfer the fighting were from the Unitefl States. They died by the score when the Germans used gus for the first time —in the so-called second battle of Ypres. ~ ~„II Americans are prominent In the celebrated French Foreign Legion, and many have died in the engagements of that hard-hitting organization. “On the Field of Honor.” Almost every week news comes Of the death “on tlffe field of honor” of an American. For one whose name gets in the newspapers probably a score ot two tire without reeognitioir of this kind. One of the latest to fall was H. R. Peighton Simpson, son of Henry VV. fitrvirtfion /yf V Arif Mrhfi Kun nPOII KHlirpJnTu v/X ll t W 1 WIIU 11UU UCCII flying for the last two years In England and France as a British aviator. He did not die in one of the many air battles lie engaged in, however, but came through them unscathed to meet his end in a flying accident fu England. . " '■ The American contingent In the Foreign Legion suffered exceptionally heavy losses in the Champagne battle at the beginning of October, 1915. Lieutenant Sweeney, who had, seen service at West Point; Frederick Capdeville, who already hnd been wounded in engagements; Edmund C. C. Genet of New York, a greatgrand-

WOMAN IS COURT BAILIFF

Others Also Hold Official Positions in Oregon County Government. Albany, Ore.—For the first time in the -history- of Linn comity and perbap; of the state a woman Is acting as a circuit court bailiff here. At the beginning of his term here Judge Bingham appointed Miss Lelin Mitchell of Albany bailiff of his department. Her service was coincident with the beginning pf the terms of the first

wqman officers of Linn county, Miss Velma Davis becoming county recorder and Mrs. Ida Maxwell Cummings .county school superintendent

son. of De Witt Clinton; Paul Pavelka of Madison, Conn.; Elov Nelson of Milwaukee; Robert Soubrain of New York; David” King of Providence, and Frank Musgrave of New Orleans fell In this awful Champagne attack. In this same battle, Dr. David Wheeler, a Boston surgeon, came to an end truly heroic. He quit the comparatively safe ranks of the ambulance corps and was wounded near the first line. Suffering intense pain, the surgeon crept along the battlefield, refusing to up, that he might minister to the needs of the men in the trenches groahing from their Injuries. —_IVI Hero Helps Many. How many he temporarily put out of agony nobody will ever know, but his hypodermic and his supply of morphine were used on all the fallen sofdiers he could find in a five-mile

FRANCE’S WAR MINISTER AND WIFE

General Lynutey, former governor of Morocco and now France’s war minister, la- one of thedelegates who were present at thejtjjied conference at Rome, Italy. •

crawl. Then he was picked up and carried to the rear, exhausted and unable to aid further. While talking to the captain of his company, a German bullet killed the captain and wounded Doctor Wheeler a second time. But even after that he attended several wounded men. Kiffen Rockwell of Atlanta, Ga., came to a spectacular end in an air battle on the Alsace front. He rose alone in an armored airplane and attacked a German machine, lie emptied the magazine of his rapid firer at his adversary, but while turning to encircle his foe the German shot him In the head. With his machine he dropped like a stone. Whether the bullet or his fall killed him was impossible to determine, .T : r i - - ■ Last October Jack Moyet of Mobile, the youngest man in the Foreign Legion! Brought to Paris the news of the death in a hospital of Frank Clair, a Columbus (O.) man, and George Delpeuche of New York. They died from wounds received July 4 last when the legion stormed Belloy en Santerre. The engagement at Givenchy on June 17, 1915, also resulted in the deaths of several American legionnaires. These were Russell Kelly of New York, Herman E. Hall of Chicago, John Earle Fiske of Wooster, Ok, and Kenneth Weeks and Henry Farnsworth, both of Boston. Weeks was twenty-six years old and had written five volumes of short stories and several plays. He went to Tarts five years ago to study at the Beaux Arts. He was a member of the D. K. E. fraternity at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He enlisted at the outbreak of the war and spent the first winter in the treuchea rHe was chosen bom R h er for his squad and was mentioned In dispatches for bravery. B’arnsworth slipped away to Europe Just after the war started without his relatives’ knowledge. He was sent to the hospital on several occasions, but always returned to the front with great eagerness. Kelly, son of a New York lawyer,, had distinguished himself in _many lights and written home long, breezy accounts of hjs experiences. He was at Qrst reported captured by the Ger-' mans and his family had a long dreary seveq months of uncertainty before they learned the sad truth concerning him. William Lawrence Breese, son-la-law of Hamilton Fish and formerly secretary to American Ambassador Page, UT.Lo Q d° a ' became a naturalized British citizen after the war started rind was killed by an explosion while testing a new grenade apparatus he

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had Invented. He was • lieutenant in the Royal Horse Guards. Sefgt. Florence J. Price, star athlete of Brawn university and former New York newspaper man, died when a shrapnel shell burst In the dugout where he was sleeping. He need nbt have been In the dugout. Tie had been relieved the day before for a tour of rest miles behind the first line trenches. But n fellow sergeant who was to take his place complained of Illness, and instantly Price volunteered to take his place. First to Fall in Battle. Alfred Lucien Pierre Fery would have graduated at Columbia college, in this city, had he not left at the close of the academic year last summer, gone to the front after a short course in a French military academy, and been killed in the Frenoh ranks. Austin C. K*e, a Brooklyn boy, better known here as “Daredevil Jack” Austin, a title he won by taking daring roles in the fiims before he became a soldier of fortune, died on November 10 in the great battle of the Somme. The first American volunteer wearing the uniform of France to fall In battle was Fred Stone of New York. He died from a shell wound received while operating a machine gun for Battalion C of the Second regiment of the Foreign Legion in January of 1915. He was formerly secretary of the United States consulate at Buenos Aires. Four Americans in graves marked “Died for France” lie In the little

cemetery near the Bois Sabot, whefe they fell in September of 1915. Their names are Henry B’arnsworth, Henry Walker of New Orleans and Frank Surrey and Sergt. E. Duval of New York. Norman Prince, sergeant major of the Franeo-American aviation corps, died on October 15 from injuries he received in an accident behind fj|& lines. Twice the young man had been decorated for skill and valor. Dennis Dowd, a Brooklyn boy, fainted while flying at the aviation school at Buc, near Paris, and fell 300 feet to death. He was qualifying at the time for an army flier’s license. Second Lieutenant W. M. Nichols of Spartanburg, S. C„ who was with the Royal Field artillery, was killed In action on September 27, 1915. The young i lan was wounded in the early stages of the war, but recovered and returned again to the battlefield. He was a son of Judge George W. Nichols of Spartanburg. Julian A. Lnthrop, a Harvard undergraduate, was killed last April. He left college to join the American ambutance corps in France. Reports of his death said that “he died while ou the field of duty from effects of a wound received when transferring wound i'(l to a relief hospital under heavy fire.” Richard J. Howard of St. Louis was killed while fighting with the British troops in France last March. He was a lieutenant in the Scottish “Black Watch” regiment. fiobert L. Cuthhert, who made his home here at the New York Yacht elub, was killed in July of 1915, —He was a member of King Edward’s Frank D. Byrne, a formed financial writer oT the New York Sun, was killed “somewhere in France.” He left New York- last- February and enlisted as a private In the Royal Dublin Fustteers. Henry Augustus Colt of New York, a member of Princess Pat’s regiment, was killed last August. He was a Joseph Howland Colt, a trustee of the American Defense society. < Lieut. Albert G. Spalding. Jr., oi Tenth Royal InnlskilHng Fuslleera, was killed In battle last July. Lieutenant W. E. Hedger of. New York, an aviator with the British army, fell from a great height while fighting an enemy machine, He was twice decorated for valor before being transferred to the Royal Flying —, — '■ t-tn po* v ■ gome of the other Americans killed In battle are: * Harold Chapin, American actor and stage manager; Jack Janz, John Prentice Poe, Jr., famous football plflyer.; Eugene E. Molse of St Louis, and Paul Nelson. •

VALUABLE SIGNALING DEVICE

Railway Crashes, Due to the Failure of an EngincerJa, Observe the. Sjflfjjlft; Are Avoided by the Use of This Safety Appliance Now Being Tested by an Eastern Railroad.

HAVE HUMAN SIDE

BIG RAILROAD MEN NOT ALL WITHOUT HEARTS. .'. ' r As a Proof of It, a Transaction In Which the Late James 3. Hill Figured Is Recalled by One Who Knew Him. . “Perhaps you think the hard-headed Hons of the railroad guHie have no hearts?” The speaker was a proSninent executive of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad company. For 40 years he served several of the big transcontinental lines of America and his acquaintance with kings of the steel rails is large. “Any man Who is acquainted with the hurly-burly of your exacting business,” I replied, “would imagine that they need their hearts for the sole purpose of pumping energy.” “That is the 'common conception,” he pursued. “The public reads of the relentless warfare for business, of the Iron fist exploited in deals and in directorates. So people doubt the existence of the human side. Yet if you pause to think, this human side must exist or the whole fabric —which is built upon personal co-operation of appreciation and service—falls to the ground. —f “I knew the late James J. Hill very well. Two years ago I was in the headquarters in St. Paul. Mr. Hill then was supposed to have ‘retired.’ He had ‘retired’ like the boys in the European trenches did after the peace notes and terms were submitted to the neutrals. “Jim Hill was a very unusual man. He never bored anybody. Men alternately hated and loved him. Many spread broadcast- the misinformation that his heart simply served as a ticker. “There was a reason for this. He would find an employee reniging on the job. This employee soon would kiss his job good-by with an impetus that would jar his back teeth loose. Thereafter he would tell everybody that Mr. Hill’s heart was made of the stuff you put in the top of refrigerators. “Mr. Hill did things that proved the contrary, but he never megaphoned his good deeds. Here’s a story that fell under my notice. It shows the ‘soft’ side of Jim Hill. “Some years ago a- boy of twelseyears stealing a ride on one of the Great Northern trains near St. Paul fell under the wheels and lost a leg. In a few days an adjuster of the Great Northern Interviewed the boy. He asked the little fellow what he thought the Great Northern owed him. “ ‘That’s all right.’ replied the little chap. ‘You see I hadn’t any business to be on the car. I’d run away from home, an’ I’d stole the ride on the railroad, an’ I just got what was cornin’ to me, that’s all. No. the road donT owe meTiothtngr ~ “The adjuster, marveling, went away. He told the story at the office and in time it. reached Jim Hill. “ ‘Somebody who admits that a railroad doesn’t owe him anything?’ Mr. Hill asked. ‘ls he human?’' “ ‘Less one leg,’ he was told. ‘Of course, he’s only a boy. That might -account for it.* . 1

“ ‘I never met a young bov yet wh'o didn’t consider that the . world owed him everything, ? replied Hie trail blazer. ‘I think this youngster is worth investigating.’ “He investigated him. As a starter he bought him the best artificial leg that money could buy, i and he purchased. bigger legs as the boy grew. Tie put him through preparatory school and college. Mr. Hill figured ffie boy worth'a substantial start jtelife and reports, are that Hie young man is developing as the veteran expected. “Moreover, Mr. Hill looked up the boy’s father. He was a discouraged straggler. He started him in business and he is prospering. That particular family is numbered among the myriad Hill rooters today.” , r *

Queer Sort of Signalman.

For some reason or other monkeys and apes have never been much trained to do anything really useful. An exception, however, should be made- in the case of a baboon that took, the place of a signalman on a railway. This was at Ultenhage, in South Africa, where the human sigHaliuan was a cripple ; he, therefore, taught a baboon fp pull, the right levers and points at certain signs from his cabin, and when the day’s work was "done the animal us ?d -to-fix a trolley on the rails and ta te his master home.

CAN’T RUN PAST SEMAPHORE

If Engineer Fails or Is Unable to Notice Danger Signal Train Is Stopped Automatically. Experiments are being conducted by one of the Eastern railroads with a safety device which a Rochester Inventor has evolved for the purpose of eliminating accidents caused by the occasional failure of locomotive engineers to observe danger signals. Particularly during heavy storms and dense fogs, it is. extremely difficult for a jjllot to see a semaphore. The safety appliance is intended to control the speed of the train mechanically, so that it cannot run into an open switch or collide with another one if the signals ure properly set. The appliance is installed in a locomotive and consists of an arrangement which permits the steam to be cut off and the brakes applied, when a lever arm, extended adjacent to one of the rails, strikes a trip fixed on the track and regulated either mechanically or electrieally by connection with a tegular signal system. Thus, when a towerinan sets q semaphore to stop an approaching train, and the engineer of the latter fails to see it, the lever arm of the controlling device hits the trip, and the train Is brought to a stop.—Popular Mechanics Magazine.

KEEP TRAIN CREW AT WORK

Difficulties of Railroading In Alaska Will Be Understood From the Following Incident. ward Alaska, under date of December 12, states : “Last week the train service over the government ralilroad was discontinued for...the winter heyondL Mile 34. Beyond the thirty-fourth mile of track only double-headers have been used during the past six weeks, two engines being required to force the snowplow over the line. The train crew handling the last train of the season over the mountain summit to Mile 52 brought back—some-- tales of the freaks of frost out the line. At Tunnel No. 3 a couple of Icicles six feet In diameter barred the way, and while these obstructions were being removed ttye engine became frozen to the track in the sliish. It took two hours to thaw it lodse. On the back trip, between Mile 40 and Mile 34, the coldest spot in this section of Alaska, the trainmen’s lanterns became extinguished every time they went outside, the oil congealing so that it could not enter the wicks. The previous train got beyond Mile 54, but was intercepted on the return an immense SOOWslide near Spencer glacier and was put in winter quarters constructed for the purpose. The train crew returned to Seward on foot.”

NEW BRIDGE QUICKLY PUT UP

Union Pacific Engineers Successful in What Is Called a Remarkable Piece of Work. _ ' The old steel bridge of the Union Pacific railroad over the Missouri river between Omaha and Council Bluffs, which had been in service for 30 years, was recently removed and replaced by a new steel bridge, which had been built on false work alongside the old. The actual operation of removing the old bridge, which weighed 5,600,(XX) pounds, and putting in place the new, which weighed 11,200,000 pounds, required 15 minutes, four and a half minutes for the removal of the old and ten and one-half minutes to replace it with the new. Five hoisting engines, equipped with block and tackle, were used. Union Pacific officials said the work was an unusual engineering feat. An hour after the new bridge was in place vwere running over it.

Russia to Build More Lines.

....The war .Inis awakened Russia to her poor facilities in the matter of railways, according to a late report from Petrograd. Immense extensions are being planned. Russia now has only 44.000 miles of railway, an amount equal to about three miles per 10.000 inhabitants. The United States has 20 miles of railway per 10,000 inhabitants. Russia’s plans for the next five years include extension at the rate of 4,000 miles of new line annually. This will be more than equivalent to a new transcontinental railway built annually in this* country. The construction will c05t.5450,000,000, or more for each year of the 4,000-mile program.

Swiss Railroad Lines.

-Railroads were introduced in Switzerland In 1844 with the construction of the Basel-St. Ludwig line. The Zurich-Baden line followed in 1847, By 1860 there .were 1.000 kilometers (621 miles) of normal-gauge lines in use. and in 1912 their length reached 3,500 kilometers (2,175 miles).

HOME TOWN HELPS

LAWS FOR FIRE PREVENTION New York City Seek# to Have Them Enforced Against Owner# of Property'Who Are Negligent. The fire commissioner of New York city has, with the consent of the ctty*» law department, brought suit against the owners of several buildings who disregarded an order to install firechecking appliances for the expenses entailed by the municipality in extinguishing fires in those buildings, which occurred subsequent to the service on the owners of notice to comply with the requirements of the commissioner in the matter of providing safeguards against the spread of fire. The orders in question were Issued on March 0, 1910. and because of failure to Amply with them were sent to the bureau of penalties In the corporation counsel’s office on June 2 for the enforcement of the legal penalty. One of the buildings was converted into a storage warehouse a few months ago, and at the beginning of the summer, when the families in the neighborhood began to move awmy, was filled with furniture and household belongings. It Is stated that the household belongings of about 700 families were stored in the warehouse. An Itemized statement showing the complete cost- to the fire department In the services of the firemen, apparatus, expenditure of coal, water, etc., and damage to apparatus was prepared, and the suit was brought tor this amount. As It was a four-alarm fire a very large number of fire companies participated. The firemen worked from 10:20 p. m. until 6:30 a. m. The cost of extinguishing this fire Is estimated at $1,500.

POLES AND WIRES HURT CITY

Los Angele# Newspaper Complain# of Conditions Which Work Harm in Many Other Municipalities. The residents of Los Angeles are to be congratulated ir the city .shall Quickly acquire the privately owned lighting systems and avoid the multiple pole-and-wire systems now borne by the northeast districts. In the latter, in Gnrvnnza and Highland Bgrk districts particularly, more landscape beauty has been blotted out in a few months than the residents have been able to create In several years. Poles and wires are everywhere, trees despoiled, private property rights violated. in stringing wires without permission, apd all the evils ushalty attendant upon service by employees protected in their vandalism JET clyll service. It Is most sincerely hoped that acquisition of existing lines by the city will result in the removal of at least two-thirds of the present Jun-. . gle, for the district Is now despoiled. —Los Angeles Times.

City Managing a Profession.

When the commissioners in charge of Niagara Falls, N. Y., were looking about for a manager for the city they heard of a young fellow at Cadillac. Mich., named Carr. Cadillac was paying Carr $3,500 as city manager, and it figured that it had made a good investment, for he had saved the elty $7,000 out of a budget of $78,000. Carr looked over the ground at Niagara Falls and said he would take the job at $5,000. But he agreed to save the city $25,000 by putting the city on a business basis. It looks as if he would make .good. . ; —__i. That’s what the city manager plan makes possible. It builds up a corps of trained men who know how cities ought to run. Then it permits a city to bid for the services of a man who is conspicuously successful in the business.—Kansas City Star.

Father of “Tanks.”

Patriotic Scotsmen might plausibly claim that the real inventor of “tanks” was John "Napier of Merchiston, who also invented logarithms. He had many varied intellectual activities besides the higher mathematics, and was a zealous protagonist of Protestantism. For confounding all “enemies of God’s truth" he confided to Bacon’s elder brother certain “secret inventions,” These included a chariot of metal, double musket-proof, the motion of which was controlled by those within, “who discharged shot through small holes, the enemy being abased, and uncertain what defeat to make, against a moving mouth of metal.” This looks like the original “tank,” but Napier directed the detailed designs for hfs weird Instruments of war to be kept secret until necessity compelled their use.

Right Type of Patriotism.

Every American who does not think his land the fairest that ever the sun shone on, his own state the finest in the Union, and his town the best place in which to live has not reached 4Be same celestial -plane' of Joy and patriotism as the foreigner, who thinkshis little wind-swept bog is'the happiest spot in the happiest land the good God ever made. This is the love^of people that inhabit it. This is what makes every hill and valley, every rock and rill, the most beautiful in the world, because it Is ours, tnad6 sacred and beautiful by the memories woven around it.— Exchange. - • i