f
;PT. BOY-ED
ggpORTS PUT CAPTAIN BOY-ED .
UN J5J2.jjjiin
' ...It from rr One
wiuon In December, 1016. Is In hid
n Philadelphia suburb to direct the
" ' -lots against this country, accord.
"..? .ments coming from high official
M W '
WTl -n.-m.ehes today have It that Boy-
?'", "he German capital.
fl '. Ar Ambassador Gerard, on his way
VS!SMm after arriving In America
M nVrmany, said hat uoyi'.u wan in
""!!. iecentlv." which wodld menn at
, ,h-e weeks ago. when the American
"f't ami his party left. Mr. Gerard
JjjEftW? he "ot know whero Doy-Ed
t now.
OARBARINO 8IKKNT
'---.v L Onrbarlno, chief speclat ngent
.Department of Justice In Phlladel
'."'.;... to admit or deny that he Is
f rVar a search for noy-Kd.
k K. Alexander Mackny-Smlth. widow of
relate Bishop Mackay-Hmlth. of the
' tw ., rtioio nf Pennsylvania, whose
Prtter was reported engaged to Boy-Ed
5rhofe homo was under surveillance by
m 1.:....l.l ,!nlr that Rov-Kd linn
Ui'rf her home since he was recalled by
".,i .h.e' mntradlctory statements today
mti a tangle of huge proportions, Into
k vVT). sprret Service agents nro delving
""". ...... K.llnf thai llov.Et lins hppn
rm in " y-..v. "- ------ ---- -.;-- :
' ,li. .it., rllr,ilrl wild n. full hiNnrrl
Ma in mm "":-:".-. ::.i .:
nnse-cut Chestnut street attire sub.
i.d for the stralght-Jacket effect of
. mter den Wnden
I A submarine suppqsed to have
itnuttu i
fur-
.i.h.rl the means of noy-1-.u s re-cm
entrance
... tht' country
A dispatch from Amsterdnm today said
Wlfh 150 members of his paity
Count von Bernstorn" has "arrived
kome" In Berlin Dispatches from the
German capital today said he was met
inn welcomed back by representation
of the Foreign Office and numerous per
ianal friends, Including Captain Hoy
, Ed' former naval attache In Washing
tun' and Dr Bernnrd Dcrnburg. once,
chief German press agent In America.
Only one comment was nttrlhuted to
Bernstorrf In dispatches received here
today, That was a Quotation which
the former Ambassador to Washington
was said to have given to tho Ham
burger Fremdenblatt and which read
American piainncuiK mmui .iciiuaii
hitrlfues In Haiti, Cuba .and Colom
bia are fairy tales . we strictly refused,
to ml In politics of the American Con
tlnnt." BISHOP'S WIDOW DENIES
The report that Captain Hoy-Ed had se.
crttly lslted Miss Virginia Mackay-Smlth
ii branded as "positively untrue" today
It the Mackay-Smlth home, 125 South
Tirenty-second street
Tk utatement was made by Mrs. Mackay-
I
i Imlth's" neero butler Horace Jackson, rep-
resenting Mrs, Mackay-Smlth. who was 111
In bed, and her daughter, who declined to
i oomment on the matter.
"That Is posltlvely'untrue." ho said, w hen
i told of the reports that Captain Boy-JJd
aid visited tho house and had been In hiding
V there. ,
f "I have been butler for years and I know
" irery nook and corner of this residence.
V No man could conceal himself In thin house
) without my knowing of It.
i "I can swear positively that Captain Boy-
El has npt been hero to see any member
01 In lamiiy since ma uepariuic iui nci
imny In' December, 1915. I bellevo he Is
till In Germany and not anywhere on
thl lrtn nf thp Atlantic He was last here
, ilfhteen months ngo.
"Mrs. Mackay-Smlth takes this position
Fhe hai decided to let events take their
tourse. If the newspapers and the Federal
Government wish to practice espionage over
W her.home In tho hope of capturing a German
agent, mat is tneir privilege. Mrs. .naciiay
' Smith, however, realizing the absurdity ot
t a German agent hiding in her home. Is not
Biarmca ill liio iiruapeui ui epicn mwuv inn
bouie."
MENACE TO GOVERNMENT
Boy-Ed's reported presence In America Is
If vital interest to the United States Govern
ment. The Goernment. regretting that pre-
l mature publicity was given last night In one
- vtwtnanat. frt tha eiicrtlilnn thdt 11 1 a nrfunrA
?
here was a matter of inquiry, deploring
that patriotism should not be the monarch
and newspaper enterprise the Bubject in
time of national crisis, admitted ftankly to
the Evening Ledger representative who
viilted the various United States depart
ments In Washington that the Hoy-Ed cas
U'of momentous import to these sub-i-rtsljms
of the United States Government:
The State Department.
The War Department. ,
The Navy Department.
The Postoffice Department.
The Treasury Department.
-.The Department of Justice.
All these departments want to know all
Jbput Boy-Ed They want to know how
ltot Into America, wljero he arrived, the
m of his arrival, hnw h mr-mm-pd to tret
fi from his port of arrival Into the Phlladel-
pia metropolitan district, who gave him
sylum here, where he went, whom he saw,
hat correspondence he Eent and what he
received, who his visitors wrfl nnd what
these visitors discussed with -the ex-Attache
J, '. German embassy.
t. , ENDANGERS DEFENSE SECRECV. '
K We war Department wants this Informa
J nJ?ecaU9e tne War Department fears
rj, to $ defense and preparedness plans.
' -.. Navy Department wants this Infor-
i"w " 1110 name reason.
The State Department wants this Infor-
n4tl0n bePailRI. thA CtntA nannMmBnr nn.
i tUeri' Boy-Ed's presence here a menace to
wncan diplomacy.
BOY-ED ASKED KAISER'S 0. K.
TO WED
When Boy-Ed first came here he had a
""J o wnai corresponds to tne American
r-'" w.uiuaiiuer. o utf ueiuro lie wbd bcih
,"" nej was maae a captain.
"i v orOKe out aia i-nna-
-vuii uegin to evince a particular inter"
; t In him. Then thin rommiinltv heran
l3to read about him with especial zest be-
w ms name was being coupled with that
t M Mlts Virginia a. Mackay-Smlth. daugh
(ter rf Mrs. Virginia Mackay-Smlth, whose
' BUSband wan thA latn TllcrVit 71mr A1v.
r' May-Smith, former Bishop Co-
i."w or me EplBcopal Diocese of Penn-
1 Detll&lS Of nnv aneiiv.n..nt ..amtt t
ByUedlyrrom the Mackay-Smlth home at
5S Wt nobody believed, them The gen-
r "TV 'u was mat an engagement did
ratt and that WBR vhv If won an hanl
HitL?4'! the truth & the rumors of plot-
t"g tgalnst this eonnl-v' n.ntrallt nhlph
P WtP contlnually being alleged against
IiiniiZl -j . "" ' '" lo marry an
'uiwncan Ctrl. SUrelv hm wmtMnU la l.l
Woi ? 1 reca'" People said. Bui the
wov report, came so thick and fast that
tvk(Jn! Eubllc soon came to be con
sSevMf.w' he wa as Kul'ty In this a
allUtM . u .fc" ... '" ".? "'."" WB
fcrM.... " wr- ui wnereis
TOb-?!00" chrined, he had to answer:
V i? ."' refused me nermisalon to wrt "
iffl ,Jn tory came put as Boy-Ed
toiTti. lo co.ra9 out A Personal rep
imm 1 J1"!? "PRolntee pf the Kalier,
', na had to obtain hnt nnln-ll,i.
'r?' ,Zl wa" du'y a8lte, for, asked
, carefully hv 'snmo) .. ,uir.i...
ftTOmmu'"c.t.10" the, German, em.
"'n"a,nwn(naa matnuintd with
oinca, tnat
-.... r.'wvi ' '' 4
REPORTED IN
wv JfillLjAUJjjLFHIA
nnThS.7nur DePa"nient Is Interested In
1,"J,,:M through Its Secret Service.
hJm?.. aJ?10' Dnartment Is Interested
Mcelv'd y"Kd has eent nnd
tT.!l?Ae?B1;l.m.ent,ot. Ju,tlco ' mo8t In
' ! ' ,or U '" a,d ,0 ,he Depart
ment of Jus Ice that all the other depart
ments appealed when there came the first
reports from, authentic sources regarding
counfry.'1 f ,h Kalser's hta
in.?Jf c,ommon.conent of the departments
nterestcd tho Department of Justice, which
is the department which would prosecute
Boy-td In tho event of his capture, was
given complete charge of the elaborate
Investigation which the Government at once
set on foot.
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ON TRAIL,
Tho task fell to A. Bruce. Rlelaskl. chief
of the Department of Justice's Division of
Investigation. Additional Secret Service
agents wero sent from Washington to sup
plement the force here under the command
of Frank (larbarlno, special npent of the
Department In charge of the Philadelphia
district.
The Government was vitally concerned In
finding Hoy-Ed'for these reasons, furnished
the Evenino I,nDOEn officially in Washing,
ton with the understanding that they were
not to lie published until such a time as the
suspected presenco of Roy-Ed was generally
known. The Evenino LEDOEn patriotically
kept this confidence. The first publication
of Boy-IM's activities in this vicinity was
made last night
EVENINO LEDGER. KEPT FAITH
Tho Evening LEDosn therefore Is now
ablo to say authoritatively.
That the presence of Boy-Ed In this
country would give rise to an extremely
delicate International situation.
That the Information ns to his presence
In the, Philadelphia territory comes, on
tho Government's own word, from an ex
tremely reliable and authentic source, n
source which this newspaper Is not now
at liberty to diMilge.
That agents of the Department of Jus-"
tlce were prepared to search a house on
Twenty-second street below Chestnut
street, tho moment they established the
truth of Information furnished them
that Boy-Ed was hiding therein.
TRAILED IN PHILADELPHIA
That automobiles containing Depart
ment of Justice agents have followed
other automobiles which left the
Twenty-second street house.
That tho house of George W. Boyd,
general passenger agent of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company, at 126
South Twenty-second street, which he
leased to Mrs. Alexander Mackay
Smlth. widow -of the Blahop of the
Episcopal dloceso of Pennsylvania, for
the winter, has been under constant
survolllance This watch has boon a
twenty-four-hour watch.
That his place of concealment is now
believed to be ono of the .suburbs along
the Main Line of the Pennsylvania
Railroad a house wltn grounds about
It, with a garage, leased already fur
nished. ,
That Boy-Ed'a captuie will gie Into
the bands of tho Government the bead
nnd front, the brains and money source
of all plots by spies and "hyphens" nil
over the nation.
That he is suspected of complicity In
the BernstorfT-Zlmmermann plot to align
Moilco and Japan ngalnt the t'nited
States In tvent ot war with Germany
, LEADING SPIRIT IN PLOTS
That ha Is suspected nf being the
leading spirit In the smuggling of goods
on and' off the Interned German raiders
at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, work
ing In conjunction with Adelbert Koert
Ing Fischer, relative of F.mpeior Wll
helm, through a morganatic marriage
That all pled lo far discovered or
which will be unearthed will be traced
to him If large turns of money are
necessary for their preparation and ac
complishment. That Boy-Ed has even arranged his
defense in event, of capture, calculating
that Americans art an easy-going peo
ple with an Ingrown love of romance
and gallantry, a people about whom
Boy-Ed was once tuoted to have said:
"It's so easy to fool the American
public." This defenso will be that he
came to America not to plot, not to
engineer plots, but to be near the
woman he loves ; that he came secretly
because he had been dismissed officially
from this country and no other way
was left for him ; that he should not be
punished for seeking out the woman
he seeks to persuade to marry him ; '
If lt be a crime to love, then punish
him for that, but of no other crimes Is
he guilty. That he expects the senti
mental quality of the American public
to create suftlclent public opinion to
gain him his freedom. That this pica
would be falsi. Captain Boy-Ed being
a Arm believer in "The end Justifies the
means," and tho end In his case being
the success of Germany, all else being
subservient to that and all pleas merely
subterfuges to enable him to proceed
with his "work" In the United States.
MAY HAVE COME IN U-BOAT
Captain Boyd-Ed Is believed to have come
to America in a submarine.
There were two submarines on which lie
could have Arrived.
He could have arrived on either one of
the two trips of the merchant submarine
Deutschland when It put Into Baltimore on
Its first trip and into New London on Its
Becond or he could have been a passenger
on the U-53, a German war submarine,
which ran unexpectedly into Newport on
October 7, 1910.
MISS MACKAY-SMITH
"His Majesty graciously accedes to your
request."
A zealous young American Army officer
was. guarding the , neutrality of the Say
vllle wireless the day this message came.
He read Into It some secret code that he
felt tho German Embassy oughtn't to get.
So he resolutely threw tho message Into
the waste basket,
Boy-Ed went home alone, and then he
packed again and found his way back
here to Philadelphia to ba near Miss
Mackay-Smlth.
Up to now, and even now, the engage
ment of Captatn Boy-Ed nnd Miss Virginia
Mackay-Smlth has never been admitted.
Heretofore whenever any one of the family
condescended at all to listen to a question
there was a denial of any engagement. Mrs.
Mackay-Smlth personally gave her authori
tative 'denial, so did one of the daughters,
the eldest, Mrs. Charles Lester Marlet, of
Washington. Virginia, Captain Boy-Ed'a
choice, Is the second daughter, and the
other daughter is Mrs. William Bell Wat
kins, of this city. '
Virginia Is a granddaughter, of the late
Commodore Stewart; U, S. N. She was
presented to Washington society In 1901
when her father was rector of the fash
ionable St. John's Church there. After his
death ere In 1911 she lived In Washing,
ton with her mother. There were rumors
of her engagement to the German naval
attache In 1913, when he was so popular
in the bachelor set. but. so the story goes.
the Kaiser really did frown on the match
then. That, of oouree. was before the 'war.
So the Kaiser frowned.
One of the things which was repeatedly
charged against Boy-Ed after the war
began waa that he was sending spiea Into
France and Great Britain, getting American
passports for them. German reservist
wero used as the agents tq go abroad. R.
P, Stegler, k German reservist, who gave
.way tho scheme, eaid It waa Captain Boy
,Bd who sent Carl II. Lody to London, Lody
fwJlfktliM of th flr.tll.UlvUutfcrU
v rfv
fo vfetflm ; Kjsrnt jhxtwdMk. inw5 ''apMietfi
THIS
PLOTTER AND GIRL WHO MAY HAVE
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Mviu, i&MnHll miss
A44i.J6MHBMH VIRGINIA v
Xmmmmil mackay-smith i
4ykMBPtS ' AND I
WmfmmmtfB captain
VmfSfcralHIVAvv HOY-ED III
MENACE OF U-BOAT GRAVE,
BUT OVERDRAWN BY GERMANY
Comparatively Little Effect on Volume of British Ship
ping, Says First Lord of Admiralty Many Sub
mersibles Sunk Grand Fleet on the Job.
ll'Httrn for tr Kvrnlva l.rdgrr
By ELLEN ADAIR
LONDON, Feb 25
The' U-boat menace, though no one
would belittle Its gravity, has so far had
but little effect on the volume of British
phinnlne.
"The arming of
merchant chips Is
EO'ng on better nnd
be'ter each week."
said Sir Edward
Carson. Klrst Loid
of the Admiralty
"Ot armed merchant
ships nttacked by
submarines, seventy
to seventy-five per
iTiit escape "
Although It Is not
w I d e I v known, a
considerable number
of submarines have
been nunk by the
British.
Only a few days
ago a British de
stroveV attacked an
i:ui:n adair
enemy submarine, nnd. ns events showed,
killed the captain. The submarine dived
She was Injured In a way that compelled
her to come to the surface. She was cap
tured and her officers and men taken prls
oners. Two British patrols reported they had
engaged two German submarines nnd sunk
them both. There were no casualties in
the patrol boats nnd no survivors from the
submarines.
Hardly a day passes without some re
port of Injury to German submarines. But
the world at large, and particularly the
neutral world, only hears continuous ru
mors of the havoc wrought to tho British
by the blockade, and tho reverse side ot
the picture In but little known.
BRITISH NAVY'S VIGILANCE
As a matter of fact tho people of Great
Britain have suffered less privation than
any other combatant nation. For this the
British navy, ceaselessly vigilant amid the
bitter gales of tho North Sea, must be
thanked
"The Grand Fleet, though never adertls.
ing. has never done working," said the
First Sea Lord the other day In .the House
of Commons. "The great volume of trade
In and out of this country has gono on un
ceasingly and unremittingly, while the
ereat mercantile fleet of Germany still lies
Idle in its harbors and her ports are deso
late and deserted."
The extravagant German accounts of the
BOY-ED'S AMERICAN
TO CREATE
Captain Boy-Ed is superlative In alt his
pursuits. Just as he Is In love.
The country at large came to know- him
soon after the war started In the summer
of 1914 as the most aggressively partisan
of all proponents of the German cause.
But before that official and social Wash
ington knew him as the most delightful of
all men in the dlplomatlo Bet and in the
clubs ho was the nicest of all club-fellows
He gave the most enjoyable dinners ;
he was the best entertainer, the ablest
dancer. There was no doubt of It, what
ever Boy-Ed figured In ho dominated.
So It Is easy to understand how the
people who knew him socially had o gasp
when his name came creeping out so con
sistently In one plot after another as soon
as England entered tho war.
"Surely not Boy-Ed. Not Captain Boy
Ed that superbly attractive man." But It
was fact all the same. It only showed
how true to form he ran. When It was his
Job to play and entertain he played and
entertained with all his might. When it
was his job to do more serious things for
Germany and that, of course, waa why he
was over here he did them with all his
mlBht' - , ,
Tho war was not very old .when there
came demands by the press from all sections
of the country for his recall. He was al
ways seeming to get Into hot water. Every
thing that happened when It should not
have happened waa being traced back to his
door. He didn't seem to bo able to cover
the traces, and yet this waa his big Job, too.
For when you get right down to essentials
Boy-Ed was over here aa a press agent.
Ills wai the task of Influencing public senti
BOY-ED MAY HAVE COME BACK
ON DEUTSCHLAND OR U-53
Captain Boy-Ed is supposed to have re
turned to this country in a submarine. It
would have been easy for him to land as a
member of ths crew and never repor. back.
The -world's first merchantman submarine-
V,Jrrl-In AjjMwkiuisraUrj anchor!. Inl
- v l rBrWT?
CITY-GERMANS QUIT BAPAUME
lT-boat campaign accounts chiefly In
tended or American consumption were
also commented upon, particularly tho fol
lowing extract from German wireless: "At
first tho Increase In sinking will not he very
great, for the submarine scare has been
thrown Into the English with paralyzing
effect, and the whole sea was as If swept
clean by one hlow."
To this statement a flat contradiction
wn elver In the House of Commons
"Twelve thousand British ships went In
and out ot port In the first eighteen days
of the "iithlees t'-boat campaign'," said
Sir TMwnrd Carson dryly, admld much
laughter.
"1 am lettlnc neutrals know the truth "
he rontlnued, "and hiding no losses In face
of all the sinkings and their accompanying
sacrifices and trials and heaven known It
is earylng to read of the boats with their
frozen corpses from vessels torpedoed
without warning by a nation that states It
will not shrink from sinking our hospital
ships and drowning our wounded I am
encouraged by ono fact, and that Is that I
have not yet heard of one sailor who re
fused to sail !
"That Is what Is going to win this war.
And, howeer neutrals may have been
nervous and frightened, you will see how
our example spreads. Vou will see as days
ko on thnt the neutrals will resume their
salllngB"
"BLOCKADE" OLD GERMAN WORD
A distinguished German philologist has
entered Into a dissertation on the exact
meaning of the word "blockade." He states
that "blockade" Is a "good old German
word," nnd In Its original form denoted a
thing used to punish criminals.
The military censor did not allow the
writer to pursue tho analogy to Its logical
conclusion, namely, to point out that the
British blockade of Germany Is being car
ried out with tho Identical purpose repre
sented by the "ancient high-German word."
The discovery of the meaning of the word
"blockade" was made because of a contro
versy as to whether or not It was "pa
triotic" to use tha hated English word. It
was finally decided by German students that
Its derivation came from "bloch" or "block"
a piece of wood used for gagging or bind
ing wrongdoers and lawbreakers and that
the term, having been in common use In
"ancient high-German" long before the Eng
lish blockade, the Italian "blaccata" or the
French "blocquade," may be Indisputably
regarded as patriotic for all good Germans
to use In the form "blockade."
JOB WAS
LOVE FOR GERMANY
ment In favor of the Germanic allies; what
ever else he could do on the side was well
and good his chiefs thought, but primarily
and principally he was supposed to be a
news Influences He had a good record be
hind him, a record made when he was chief
of tho news division of the Naval In
telligence Service in Berlin. It was in 1910
while he ,was doing that work that the
Reichstag put through a $100,000,000 ap
propriation for the navy, and the success
In obtaining this tremendous budget
tremendous then, anyway was due to his
work In preparing public sentiment In its
favor. Of codrse, Admiral von Tirpltz got
the credit, but Boy-Ed did the work. He
fed the newspapers and magazines with
pamphlets such as 'The Coming Naval
War," "Germany and England," and no
where more than in England did he get
the due recognition that was coming to
him.
Boy-Ed came tq Washirgton on March 22,
1913. He had entered the German navy
October 4, 1891. He was nineteen then;
that makes him forty-five now. He was at
sea almost' twelve years, and after that
until he came. to the United States he was
In the Naval Intelligence Office, where he
made his great record for originality and
enterprise. His chiefs figured that he would
be an admirable aid to Count von Bernstorff
in making American officialdom like the
Germans, and they sent him here. What
ever conclusions may b drawn now, It
must be said that until the war broke out
the choice seemed perfect There was not
a man In Washington's diplomatic circles
better liked, or even as well, Many a proud
perron went, to humiliating lengths to get an
invitation to the dinners he gave.
est of the German merchant submersible.
She steamed slowly up the Patapsco from
the Chesapeake and anchored at quarantine
at 11 o'clock that night, near where the
North German Lloyd steamship Neckar was
tnA,n-l.v ,,,', .
TW.jiarWeyUaAtUa
mwaoKr wwz9:,mrui
DRAWN HIM HERE '
tons of dyestun's and chemicals Mounted
in her conning tower were two small (tuns
of three-Inch cnllbei. At the time It was
leported she carried a messago from the
Emperor Willielm Boy-Ed may have been
that message. The craft was .115 feet long
nnd thirty feet wide.
On her nay to America she was chnsrd by
French nnd British warships, nnd only
eluded them by going S00 miles nut of her
course. Her cargo wan lonslcned by A
Schmaacher & t"oi agents p', Baltimore for
the North German Llo)d Company.
The longest trip previously made h. any
submarine was from Kiel t( Constantino
pie, made by tho l'-boat that sank the
British ship Majestic
For her return trip the Deutschland took
on a cargo of rubber and nickel so sorely
needed by thn German Government.
When the time came for the departure of
the neutschlanit the Go eminent announced
that no stops would hn taleu lo delay her
clearing State Department nfficlals said
they could see no violation of International
rights If tho boat crossed the three-mile
limit on her return trip submerged, pro
vliled the submarine's movements were not
a menace to navigation.
At the same time Hrltlsh naval vessel
commanders announced that they would
treat the submersible an a warship and
would fire on sight If they saw her perl
scopo above the surface of the sea.
Following this It whs Intimated that the
Imperial German Government would ask for
a convoy for the Deutschland.
On July 22, five minutes after the United
States Custom House doors In Baltimore
swung open Captain Frederick Hinsch and
rhlllp Voltz, of the Eastern Forwarding
Company, filed clearance lfapers for the sub.
marine On Julv 27. sho was stilt at her
pier and Government officials gave up Rue.ss
lng when she would take her departuie.
On August 1. the boat started on her re
turn vojage. She safely dodged the Brit
ish and French cruisers walling outside
and, after s. voyage of twenty-three days,
reached Bremen.
The'arrlval ot the Deutschland In German
waters was celebrated with great pomp, and
Emperor Willielm personally congratulated
the captain and crew. The undersea-boat
flew tho United States flag when" she
anchored In the Bremen harbor, according
to eye witnesses.
Hardly had the first e-.cltement In mari
time circles following the Initial arrival and
departure of the Deutschland subsided when
shipping men were electrified by a second
arrival of the boat In the harbor of New
London early on November 1. Captain Taul
Koenlg said his craft had left Bremen on
October 10 nnd had made tie trip without
special Incident.
On November 17, one hofr after leaving
her pier at New London, tho boat, rushing
at full speed tow-aid the open sea, rammed
nnd sank the tug T S. Scott, Jr., which
was convoying her to the open waters,
drowning five persons aboard the tug and
being so seriously injured herself that she
hail to crawl back to New London and
undergo repairs that delayed her sailing
several days.
She finally left New Lonclui on Novem
ber 21 and arr'ved off tjie mouth of the
Weser at noon un December 10. She car
ried a valuable cargo home.
Commercial men were startled finally on
October 7. 1916, when the German sub
marine U-53, a warboat, ran suddenly Into
Newport, remained three hours and de
parted. She had crossed the ocean In seven
teen days. Tho next morning the world re
reived the news that six steamships had
been torpedoed off Nantucket Shoals. Cap
tain Boy-Ed may have been landed from
the U-53.
When the U-boat left Newport she car
ried provisions and supplies for a three
months' cruise, and also eight torpedoes.
The suddenness with which the bsat began
her operations startled those who upon her
arrival had speculated on the nature of her
visit with some misgivings.
On February 8, some months after the
arrival and departure of the merchantmen
U-boats and the war submarine, the Provi
dence Journal published an article that
pave serious misgivings to thoso persons
who had the Idea that the United States
might be struck a blow by way of Mexico
should German diplomacy be successful In
planting a port of Intrigue In that country
close to the border.
Said the Frovldence Journal;
If Germany succeeds In dragging the
United States Into war her first blow
against this country will be struck
through Mexico. For tho past two
weeks the German Ambassador work
ing among his own consulates all over
the United States as well as those of
Austria-Hungary has been superintend
ing the departure of over three hun
dred officers of the German army, both
regulars and reservists, from various
American ports and railroad centers to
Mexico City, where orders governing
their future activities will await them.
It has not been generally known
that a large number of German army
officers who have been captured by the
Russians during the present war and
have made their way here at various
times through China have been held In
this country without any attempt be
ing made to smuggle them back home.
The Department of Justice has had
Information for several months that
several of these officers have been with
both Villa and Carranza In Mexico.
Since last Saturday there has been a
wholesale exodus of those that have
remained to Mexico City, and at least
two hundred officers of reservists have
accompanied them or gone In small
parties by various routes to the same
ultimate destination, '
Retired Gunsmith Dead
William Stein. Jr., retired gunsmith and
prominent in sporting circles In Camden,
died at his home, 308 Arch street, today
from hardening of the arteries. He was
born In Camden In 1861 and succeeded his
rather In the gunsmith business In 1891.
Ha returned In IBIS, He was a Mason an a
member of the Philadelphia Rifle Club. The
funeral services wll) be held Saturday. after
noon at-S o'clock at his lata-Mhsml'''.
ELLEN ADAIR
ALGONQUIN, U. S. VESSEL,
ContlnoH from tur Ono
ALLEN HOPKINS, Isleworth, Mc. ' I
Each of the men received a war bonus for making the trip,
amount ranging from $25 to $100.
The Alganouln was a three-masted freight
steamship and was placed In the American
registry last December by tho American
Star Line of New York. John D, Step
hanadlr, the actual owner of the ship. Is
a director of this line. The Algonquin was
24K feet long, with a beam of 40 feet nnd
a draft of 20.6 feet. Her gross tonnage was
1806.
She was built In 1889 at the Glasgow
ards of Napier, Shanks & Bell for the Port
Colborne and St. Lawrence Navigation
Company, Ltd. The vesel was a steel-screw
steamship, with three-cylinder triple-expansion
engines
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WILL BE
WASHINGTON March 14.
Sinking of tho American steamship Al
gonquin by a German submarine simply
has brought the United Slates "closer to
actual hostilities"
That Is as far ns official, would go to
day The loss of the Anierlccan Star
liner has been expected. Sinking of half
a dozen other craft will surely come. Hut
nono of them are armed Thy do pot In
rlude In their sailings the "armed neutral
Ity" which President Wilson has outlined
will be the reply of the I'nlled States to
"German Hggresslon and luthlcssness."
Germany must accept responslbllitj for
the next move by this Government When
she sinks nn armed American lUier arnird
under International law- for defense she
will commit an art nf war Officials mnde
this very plain today They pointed out
thai up to tho present the altitude nt the
I'nlled Slates was one of tolerance,
That tolemnre will end when American
vehels protected by American sailors are
attacked Secretin y of Ktnte Lansing,
when ns!,rd today whether the sinking of
School Election
Trickery Charged
Continued from Tsice On
mask his chagrin at the board's nctl-ni in
Ignoring him lolall In the appointment of
Miss Punchhenn's succesoor. under m phtln
soplilcal acceptance of a situation he can
not niter.
"The hoard has elected a "person."" said
Doctor Gather with nn Inflection on the
world 'person' that revealed more eloquent
ly than any tirade his private view ot the
matter, "and for me to Issue any state
ment or criticism, now that the matter Is
settled, would her In ft way, to undermine
his work at the high school, which I have
no Intention of doing.
"I made" no personal attack on Doctor
Gowlng How could 1?" A thin veil of
Irony shaded his tones. "I know nothing
whatever about him. He hss "never been
ronnected here with the schools. My ob
jection was in regard to tho method of
filling the resignation. Hul the hoard has
decided now. I nm merely' the superin
tendent cinplojed by them and I shall
do all In my power to foster the work ot
the man whom they have sele6ted T made
my statements to the board yesterday.
PLEASED WITH HORNOR PURCHASE
At Doctor Gowlng's office lodaj. In tho
Stephen Glrard Building, It was said that
he wa.' out of town and would not return
until the end of the week Doctor Gowlng.
who Is the agent for the D. C. Heath Pub-4
llshing Company, was at one time pi evi
dent f the State Teachers' Association of
New Hampshire and principal of the Rhode
Island State Normal School.
General satisfaction was expressed nt the
purchase of the Hornor Building for a new
administration building, the other Important
business settled by the board meeting yes
terday William V. Deakyne an expert on realty
values, said today that the Board of Edu
cation acquired a bargain In purchasing the
Hornor Building for $600,000.
Before the board voted to make the pur
chase there was strenuous opposition be
cause Edwin Wolf, one of the members,
said the building was only worth $500,000
and In a neighborhood that was "going
down "
Mr. Deakyne said this view was wrong
"If I was again a young man looking
around I'd buy In East Chestnut street," he
said. "It will come back. Merchants will
soon find that they can't crowd around a
little huh from Thirteenth to Broad streets,
and they will take up Chestnut street again.
"Merchants' rent in Chestnut street near
Broad Is now so high that single merchants,
thoso with simply the small stores, are find
ing It hard to pay One of them told me re
cently that when he moves he, is going to
move east. Now he Is near Juniper.
"The only thing that holds some of them
back Is on account of tho class of buildings
on tho south side of east Chestnut. The
location is good, really fine. But the build
'Ings are not modern and the old estates
which own most of them seem to be In no
humor to make Improvements. If only a
group of men get together and put up some
modern shops east Chestnut street will be
come the most popular business street in
town."
MYSTERY IN SHOOTING
OF VIRGINIA STUDENT
. e
Young Man in Critical Condition and
Professor in Polytechnic Institute
Under Bond
RLACKSBURG, Va., March H. Mys
tery still shrouds the shooting of Stock
ton ellth, Jr., In the home of Prof Charles
E. Vawter, of tho Virginia Polytechnic In
stitute early yesterday while eHth, who re
sides near here, was a guest In the home.
Bernard Williams, Virginia Polytechnic In
stitute student, who rooms In the Vawter
home, refused today to make any state
ment In regard to the affair. Vawter and
his wife are equally reticent. Vawter Is
out on $1000 ball bond pending Grand
Jury action, having waived preliminary
examination. Mrs. Vawter Is a beautiful
young woman and a native of this section.
Heth, who Is at n Roanoke Hospital, con
tinues In a critical condition vvlth three
pistol bullet wouds In his abdomen. His
father, who was In California wlwn the
tragedy occurred. Is reported to be hurry
ing back to Virginia,
Want Pet Horse Humanely Killed
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., March Is. -In
her will filed for probate, Mrs. David
Bly directs that the executor of her estate
humanely put to death her pet horse In
order that the animal may not fall Into
the hands of some one whoVould not care
for It properly. She bequeathed J500 to
the Trinity Episcopal Church, and left the
remainder of her estate to relatives.
Confer, on Roberta Murder
District Attorney Rotan, Coroner Knight
and several other city officials today held
a conference In the Tllstrlot Attorney's' of
fice with the Intention of selecting compe
tent wltneesea to be heard In tho 'Qraee
Roberts murder inquee t on Friday, ,U. waa.
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ON U-BOl?
TORPEDOED; ALL SAV
Despite th fact that the news frS
London reports twenty-seven persons ab
the steamshln. tho o filters of the line h
state positively that there were but twentjF-
threo persons on the ship. The chMf
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fHKIllctr ui Ilia iiisviiiuiu wan Ft DCIluiqrr, M
H. unlive ui ueiiiiauy, uui it naturalized ciiii
..r, nf thn tlnltort h'tnfM. Mnll nf tka'i '
crew are said to be naturalized Americans- ' , '
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uiucisus oi ine jwiieni:iiii nmr juine www . --
congratulating tnemseives upon tne sate ar- i.1; .r.jn
rival of the Kredonla at Genoa at the tlr8r"W
when the cablegram from Captain Norbeff'ii.,
reported the loss of the Algonquin. """"P. fl
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CALLED ACT Ofr WAR,S
vffi
the Algonquin meant any sudden actios ..'ft
by me United States, characterized It
an additional straw to the camels backV fl
That Is the attitude i
of the United Stata'jo
There can be no deviation from the planet", J ,
ns niitllnM fnr th. 17nltr1 K(Ati hv Pi-m!
dent Wilson. The policy of the United! "Yd
States absolutely hinges on Its enforcement!
of its plan of armed neutrality. Support ,vU
of this plan is indicated by the action ot(;i !r
China in breaking off diplomatic relations' Js54s
with Germany. Other neutrals will shorUr" , Vi'.-I
do the same. Information reaching hers
says. And the outcomo will be far-reach-
'"?. v$
ine oniy siguiiicance seen oy legislators
In the destruction nt the Algonquin Is thst
Germany has no Intention of abandoning
her announced Intention lo conduct ruthless '
suniuarine wariare. ami mat a clasn ot ."vw
nuns between the United Stales and Ost". whs
many Is Inevitable. Within week it Is, -13
expected that the first American merchant- Om
man with an "armed guard" aboard wilt
bo In the barred zone, and that the first
meeting with German submarine will re
sult In an exchange ot shots.
TELLS OF BRITISH
SUBMARINE LOSS
lJlll.v;ui Ul JllaUll5l tOtV.Cs.IIl
ship Says Boat Was Crip
pled While Maneuvering
ENTIRE CREW PER'lSHED
English Admiralty Hunts Ger
man U-Boats With Own Fleet
of Undersea Craft
The loss ot a British supersubmarintyj'u
with Its entire crew of close to 100 men,. '
was disclosed In a letter received bv Chief
Engineer Renthall of the British steamshlDiJiiElS
Doonholm, which until today was tied Up
nrr jo auuiii, j.ne communication xeu J,
Ing of the disaster was sent bv a close S-Sul
I.I...J r..uni i.t , -i-i- t '.
iiiT-iM, in jvtriiiimii. nunani a. cme enginetjr "v,
rtf atl t-tlfT!l1, ft......! mln..lr r'
u. . u,.,,,,-,. ufMiiici nvdiiiaiiit. , J-
The letter told briefly of the sinking nt
the big submersible, which the writer in
formed Chief Engineer Renthall was as
long ns tne Doonholm, which measures
close to 375 feet. He told of the subfna
rine's successful launchlng'an'd of her m
neuvrlng In the River Clyde. Then the
operation of sinking- the new submarine
rshe failed to make her eappearance It .--?
whs uicoveren mat sne nan Become crip-
Pieo wk;
1 anirs were nnaiiy attacnen fo the sunken '
Maft and she wan hroui-ht in fh mirfnrjt.
Every member or the crew had perished, the ,ifjj
letter stated. The writer did not malts A,
known the purpose to which the British
Admiralty was putting the big submarine
nor did he say whether any others were
being built. He did mention, however, that
the British navy In hunting the German
submarines with submarines nf their own.
President Names
New Tariff Board
Continued from reite One
sympathy with that party, though never
active in politics; Roper. Lewis and Kent
While Kent was campaigning for Wilson
last fall his wife was on the stump In Call-. Ms
lunun urKinK tne election 01 (.naries is.
Hughes. . tW:
fomla urging the election of Charles B. W&
As a matter of fact there are no out-and-'
out high tariff advocates, so called, on th,SJ
hn.nl r,.,.H.Iht I, Innl.lJ. n ,a..A ...' ?jls
Democrats, two Independents, one Republl- ' Jj
can and one Progressive Republican, giving ffl
tne commission a complexion regarded as )
very elastic on the tariff question.
Professor Taussig Is designated as chair- ,yM
man 01 tne commission, tie is a menmer ot j
the farultv of Harvard llntversitv. but ,
has obtained a leave of absence from his fi
post until September, 1918. He Is n,,v'i2
nuinoruy on economics ana nas written ex- jt,
tensiveiy on tne larin. 'Sij
T?nrtAi- thn Tr M-tnl' i,rnil nnmlliM. J&
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has had much practical experience in dea!-
inK Willi me luriu qucniiuii. -tiie-r serving f
in tne soutn Carolina legislature ne De-
came Identified with the census bureau in jV'
the rollectlon of cotton statistics, malting a ,'',?(
trip to Europe to study the question. When V
the present tarltr law was framed Roper-
was connecteu wiin me Mouse ways ana v
Means Committee as an authority on stalls- V
tics. Until last fall he was First Assistant
Postmaster General,
William Kent was a Representative in jw
congress irmii . aiuuriiit uniu -uarcn ,
when nla Irm evnlrpn. Hfl wan not n. rnn.ni
.tlit..,.. In. .L.U.IInn t"-,t .a,, a V.A-... (
UlUttlD IWI iD-tKvlluil, &,, naa uuui -,"
Chicago, but has spent most of his- llfefai!
In California, where he has had extenslv'1,J.ilN
experience In banking and other forms ofi'sj
nusiness. lie was elected to one congress ' 'A
as an Insurgent Republican and for two..T
terms ns an- Independent. He BupporteeWfilj
President Wilson during the last campaign VhJ
and headed the Wilson Independent Leasrua.V1.-l.
Costigan Is a Denver lawyer. Ortglnallyfj'u
ne wps n jvciiuuiii;iii. uul 111 ri unu again , ;
In 1914 was the Progressive candidate forK,!3
Governor of Colorado. He waa one of ths " m
fminrl-m nf the Pro&Tes-tve nart in 'hfai
home State and has taken a leadirlg taW'!
In the campaign for social and eoonomsg-i
reform In the West 5
David J. Lewis, who waa defeated -
election to the United States Senate 'fr
Maryland, is a lawyer or consmeraoie re
tatfen and enjoys a lucrative practice. .
Culbertson, who acted as a tarlft ex
for the Senate Finance Committee ur
the consideration of the simmons-unoer
tariff act In 1913, has made a careful Mu4&
of the various tarlft systems of the orgLl
He was connected w(th the former vtaHifW
board and' wrote tne nrst volume ot-Jts
report 6n the wool schedule. -.
Bimrr employe's $fi4'y
CONNELLSVII-I.H. Pa-., March v-'U
sieve siabbr. a laberer at tne West
powerhouse, who was kllHetf y a tratoj
week, naa sues in m swim, wes-m 1
burned by the powerhouse sasow
they, were torn aml-sott. with
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