Evening public ledger. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, October 23, 1920, NIGHT EXTRA, Image 23

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the Doralno sailed from n South
American port and turned her glisten
in nose to the northeast. All told, there
were some 750 souls on board ; and there
yctrt stores that filled her holds from
end to end grain, foodstuffs, metals,
chemicals, rubber, and certa'n sinister
things of war. Her passenger list con
tained tho names of men who had
achieved distinction In world affairs
In finance, In buslrcas, In diplomacy. In
r, besides that less subtle pursuit
adventure men from both hemispheres
from all continents. It was a cosmopoli
tan company that sailed out to sea that
placid day, bound for a port 6000 milts
away. Her departure heavy laden,
from the South American port was
properly recorded In tho then secret an.
rial of a great nat'ons the world at
large, however, was none the wtsjtr. For
those were tho days when sly undersea
monsters of German descent wore prowl
Inr about tho oceans, taking toll of hu
manity and breeding tho curse that was
to abide with tholr progenitors forever.
Down through the estuary and Into
the spreading bay slid the big steamer :
breast the curving coast line shu drovn
her way for leagues and leagues, and
then swept boldly Into the vast Atlantic
desert
Four hundred years ngo and more.
Amerigo Vespucci had sailed this un
known southern sen In his doughty cara
vel! he had wallowed and rocked for
months over a course that the Doralno
was asked to cover In tho wink of an
eye by comparison. Up from the south
ho had come In an age when the seas ho
tailed were no less strango than the
land he touched from time to time : the
blue waste of sky and sea as boundless
then as now; the west wind dr'ft as
sure and unfailing; tho waves as savage
or as mild: tho star by which he laid his
course as far away and Immutable but
he camo In 1601 and his ship was alono
In the trackless ocean. i
The mighty Doralne was not alone;
the sailed a sea whose every foot was
charted, whoso every depth was, eounded
She sailed In an ago of Titans, While the
carael was a frolicsome pigmy, dancing
to the muslo of a thousand winds, buffet
ed today, becalmed tomorrow, but always
a mall on the face of the waters. Four
hundred years ago Vespucci and his
men were lost rt the wilderness of waves.
Out of touch with tho world were they
for months aye, oven yars and no
man knew whither or whence they sailed
nor whence they came, for thoso were
the days when the Beven seas kept their
secrets better than they keen them now.
Into the path traversed by the lowy
caravel steamed tho towering Dora.ne,
pointing her gleaming nose to the north
and east
She was never seen again.
Out from tho lairs of the great Amor
lean navy sped the swl.'test hounds of
the ocean. They swept tho face of the
waters with a thousand sleepless eyes;
they called with tho strango, myster ouo
voice that carries a thousand miles;
they raked the seas as with a fine-tooth
comb; they searched the coast of a con
tinent ; they penetrated Its rivers, circled
Its Islands, scanned Its rocks and reefs
and asked a stnglo question that had but
ene reply from overy ship that sa led the
'southern sea.
For months ships of all nations
searched for tho missing steamer. Not
to much as the smallest piece of wreck
ate rewarded the ceaseless quest. The
treat vessel, with all Its precious cargo,
had slipped Into its niche among tho
profoundest mysteries of tho sen. Camo
ine oay, mereioro, when tho secretary
or me navy wroto down against her
name the ugly sentence: "Lost w.th
an on ooard."
Maritime courts Issued tho decrees;
II. parceled estates, great npd
jr...-.., iimuiujicu uumyanies pum in nam
cash for the lives that wpro lost, and
went blandly about their business ; more
"an one widow reconsidered her
itnoughts of self-denial; and ships
iu ouucu mo courso or Amerigo Ves
pucci without a thought of the Doralne.
pr months tho neusnapeis In many
Unas speculated on tho fate of th miss
ing llnir. That a great ship could dlsap
Pr from the face of the wnterc In thesu
i.?,""0 dnva of navigation without
iming so much as a trace behind was
"ic?nceivat)le. At first there were laloj
of the dastardly U-boats ; then came tho
sinutir reports of treachery on board
resulting In tho ship being taken over
SL eraan I'.'ottors, with tho prediction
:m .? would emergo from oblivion na
yiZV .Vme". raider" cruising In tho
-V A f"'"'c men tne generally ac
cepted theory that she had been swiftly,
Ei.Jnly, rent "under by a mighty e-x-FhH?
ln..hor h0,d- Al1 opinions, all
ihi-..Labout,a elnl0 fear that che was
eoii,.. ol merman plot. But In tho
course of events there, came a day when
Mcrmn navy, ever boastful of its
B?5n.?l..I,f,', ,sued thu Positive and
n ,bslnce.ro declaration that It bad
rS. I'.1.'10 BlnMn vthe Doralne
.. ,7.1 tne German admiralty n it
aJ? ? re,t of U0 P""Ied world,
wm, I?0 ' SS-0111' ,hB Doralne. laden
the hr'niV'X.i100.? """i9' Halled out lnto
Som agnln was never hearU
lriTnhl??Paln of..,h6 ,lner was n" 0'
IM v,had .,W.1,ed lh0 MaS f0r tW'l
KJ i - At t.he cutbnk of the great
war rtfi tuna ff UAH nMM.HJ -M .- -.
6nin ie.Yln? a ?unr man fur mow
.?r'-,dll,y ln the North sea. He wa
i i?' 'unman ana his name. Weather.
on ih. ?r; m?y be " readily locat
to M".h adlnlralty ofllccs If one cat
iB0. t0 ht trouble to louk It up.
i ti'BCer, may be quite readily located
In
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tWO V0AVMB llA riA.nl... ...Ilk.
knrwn "'f veEseIs Involved In 'a well
bitVrt . rf",ew.nai morougniy uo
m'ji n'm,actlu"' becamo to all inter
UnTtM h. ",urJi0r8. tha Property of tho
Arn.??10,1 "f America: she flew the
criw 3 "aB' carrled an American gun
soZ, S?Amtrlcan PIP", and, with
Th2 J 7,culty' an Engllnh master.
ar.B.Ltaln WR making his last voy.
cJLtairn?asU'I of tM0 nlP- An American
th n,wn" t0 ""cceed him an aoon as
he J7niai!Bcr.''1c,lel.,t8 destination In
lltti. i.ed S,at,a- Captain Trigger, n
two v?S!i !ey,eniy. had sailed for nearly
jwo years under the Amerlrnn fln- nt h
siki!! en. a,u Englishmen were looking
evat5..B,t H.'nd wondorlnK If It wn
rlrht,, ." " Proper piaco among the
ttkln u8 ba,nnere t tho world. It find
"St I mil.. placV n'nong them, and thr
'o man" was harpy
anriv rtrlw,Jf ,,6 wa8 what might bo
few Pn i?c.rll)9d as International. The
iwtlifi lshmn he- had en board were
war,Iywu"m for nct've duty In tho
of Am.-u TheM waB a Bmn cqntlngent
somf &." a. "& many Portuguese,
nor! J "on'nrds, Norwegians, and a
na ,ehMP1n,cyn3tlon.remalnder W'th0U,
tan Hm mcer was Scotch-Amcrl-chief
i, 8.wond nn Jrlsh-Amerlcan. the
JlmV..'llKln.0B a plain unhyphenated
turri- 1 'Lorn Baltimore, Md. The
i.."'1 T U-I0K8. wnil Rllll nn TVin-llnh.
feutea Lino K,.h8 had llvM ln th United
matter ' ; il w"" lwo y" 0l1 a
menthii i rorty-"even yen" "-nd threo
who .. j" "ro lo oouevo Mr. uoago.
na. ii i ir,i'uicu 'U HJI
leavin- allegiance to Queen Victoria,
Mnni i".iT n,a 80n ' follow his ex
0,Uhi?o'?1,?' W" 'Sdrd VII
i..!I? w?ro elghtyno first cabin nas-
theiw'i A" m ln fcecona rauin for
horiin. u,d not bee" cnnsolldnteil on tho
'"ruine, as n (li oo -.in. ... i.n..
ntelvatl.Rntl2 Hners and nnproxl-
imZ.1 "I ,h0 "teerage. The first
rsS i B','d.ca.b,n ,lrt represented many
".south American predominating.
ef th i. l, rej'uoucs in the lower Unit
ailrtiv JSl8p,Jre wtro Pllt otl almost
eier.v(;rom the old world so far an
of Arlrnvel concemod. Tho people
their e8vn.ll!Ja CraTl1 nnd chUo turned
thnnfyi.B frm the -east nnd looked to
. "Orill, Uhcrn Inv lh. nlll,.tn Inn....!
."nmetlme hated continent whoso
(? A Sn Vnvtn lH Uu. h.1...
"'pjeant but one thing to tho people
f South America: A visit to nn unsen
timental land whose traditions If nnv
were cherished atall. went no farther
han yesterday and wtrei to bo succeeded i
vy ircen ones lomntrow. At least, niicn
WAS tho bellf n f thn Tnlln whn Klin
doied superciliously in tlv glory ot run
long dead nnceetbrs. Not hnvlnit Paris,
r IiOn.'on, or Madrid, or Roma as thn
Mecca of Ills dreamc his pilgrimage now
tarried him to tho Infidel rcalltleii of the
north to Washington, New York, Nw
Orleans, Newport, and Atlantlo City' He
iad the money for travel, so whv Mtav
t home? He had the money t waste, I
io wny not anaipato7 He had in thirst
lor sin, so wny ramlsh7
There wert lovely women on board,
nd children with and without the golden
ipocn; there were men whose natnes
wore known on both sides of Jim Atlan
no nun wnn reputations tor integr ty,
vignclty. lntHloct..and, It must bs con
fessed, coimptncss (with tho nuthor's
apology for the Inclusion) : doughty but
logmatlc university mt-n who had pene
trated tho wlldtrness as naturalists, on-
omploglsts, mineralogists archeologtsts,
v'ijc"". tpirnncn wn? naa rorianen
the Hon, rhinoceros, hartcbeest, and ele-
nnni ot At.ica iur tlio Inuuui-. iniirrar.
armadillo and ant eater of Si.utli Amer
ca ; Bcldlers of fortune whose gods had
'ured them Into tho comparative safety
if South American revolutions; miner,
stock buyers and ratb-ers, profUeoromoh.
diplomats, priests, preachers, gamblers,
smugglers and thieves; others who had
goiio out for the Allies to buy horses,
beeves, grain, ir.clnls. chemicals, man
gat'eso and men; financiers, mcichants
lawyers, wr.tus, musicians, doctors,
dentists, nrchltccta; Clentlles and Jew.
Protcalanls anil Catholics, skeptics nnd
Inlldels In short, good men, bad men
uear rrcn, thieves.
Tho world will readily recall such
names and personalities as these: Abel
T inndovci the great New York
banker; Potor Snipe, tho novelist: Solo-
ml .1 NiCkl.-tlck. Ill lutllop tTiM.nli. r In
the firm of "Wlnkelwtln A NIcKlcstlek,
Imiorteis of hldos, etc., Ninth avenue,
Now York: Moses Block. Imrjorter of
lUbbsr, .lamcu January Jones, oi Saul
i rnncirco promoter and nnancler: Itan
dolph Fl Us. of Doston, the woll-loiown
rci.itect, Pircy Knnpendyke thi ieie
brnted naturalist: Michael O'Malley
Malnne, of the law firm of Kadu, Dllxton.
Solomon, Carloon, Vccchlavalll, Itevlt
fcky. Perkins & Malone. Now York : WIN
Hum Spinney, of the Chicago police forco
(nnd his prisoner, "Soany" Bhny, dia
mond Uilef) ; Dinby Flattner. tlio taxi
dermist; Morris Shine, the motion pic
ture magnato; Mme. Caronl-Amurl, so
prano from tho Itoyal Opera, Rome ; S'g.
.To&opiil, the now tenor, derenbed as the
logical successor to tho great Caruso:
Mme. (ibcsky and three lesser figures in
inp imisinn oniiet, who wore coming toi
tno unitca states to head a long-her
aided tour, "by special arrangement with
the czar": Uuck Chiller, the famous
jocKey, and so on.
Iheso vrr tho names most conspicu
ously displayed by tho newspapers
luring tho anxious, watchful days nnd
weeks that succeeded the nailing of tho
Doralne lrom tho port In th'i Tropic of
Capricorn.
Dozens of cities In the United States
wre rerrcented by one or more persons
on bourd the Diralne. travelers of both
sexos who. being denied the prlvllego
oi a customnry oasn to t.ur.no ror tnu
annual holiday, rerolved not to h db
prlved of their right to wander nor th
rlKhl to return when they felt Inclined.
Whilom, defiant rovers In search of
change, they scoffed at conditions and
went their way regardless of the peril
that stalked tho fens. In the main, they
were money spending time dragging
charges against the resources of a har
assed, bewildered government, claiming
protection In return for arrogance.
fnr to mo sown, on mu eniKiaiia
lilnnds. nt tho bottom of the sen, lav
the battered hulls of what were nupnosed
to be the last of the Oerman fighting
ships In South Atlantic wttera Report
had It, howover, that seveial well-armed
cruisers had either ecaped tho hurri
cane of shellii from the Rrltlsh warships,
or had been detached from the aqundren
before the encounter took place. In any
event, no vessel left n South American
port without- maintaining a rharp look-'
out ior prnviing survivors or tne van
quished fleet and no passenger went
nboerd who did not rxnerlcnci- the thrill
of a hazardous undertaking. The ever
present nnd evrr-leady Individual with
offleiRl information from sources that
could not be questioned traveled with
rorrnrkable regularity en each and every
crnft that ventured out upon the Hun-
inrestHii waters, ln tne moKeroom tne
Invariable word went round tost rnldnii.
wero sinking everything In s'ght Bvery
fhlp that sailed pad on l-onid at l-ast
ono Individual who claimed to have len
chased on a former voyage by a bbrle-
pdo breaker (according to the most re
liable reDorts. the aermnns were sup.
plnjr warships through the vaunted Brit
ish net with the most nstoundlng easo
and frequency), and there was no ono
with lha hard hood or des ro to ques
tion his voracity; Indeed, It was some
thing of a Joy to hellevo him, tor was
he not a living and potential document
to provo thnttho merchant marine couiu
outwiu outrnco nnd outshoot tho Oer-
mftn ntrnts?
Tho Doralne wao barely twenty-four
hours out from port and plowed along
steadily tnrougn a cnoppy sea wnen r,
Mott, the first ofTloer, reported to Cap
tnln Trigger that a stowaway had been
fun nit nn board.
"Oerman?" inquired Cnptaln Trigger
tersely. . .
"No. sir At least, he doesn't look It,
s,nd. what's mere, he doesn't act It
rinlms to b American born nnd bred."
"That's what a great many Germans
are claiming these dnys, Mr. mott. wo
can't take any chnncoa, you know.
Where was he found?"
Mr. Mott clenred his throat "Ahem!
He wasn't what you might call found,
sir. As a matter nf fact ho applied In
person to thu chief engineer nbout half
nn hour ngo nnd asked for a Job. Ho
snld he was perfectly willing to work
nut h's pawage home. Mr. Qrny had
him conducted to mo, sir rather sharp
'y guard d of c urse and he"
i". tei him hre nt once Mr Mott'
commanded Cnptaln Trigger. "I'll hear
whi't he line to say first hand."
"Very well, sir" Mr. Mott started
away, hesitated, rubbed his chin dubi
ously, and then camo back, "He's having
a bit of breakfast sir, and has asked for
the loan of Mr. Codge's razors"
"What'" roared thn captain.
"I Informed him ho would have to
appear before you nt once, sir, and ho
enld he hob quite willing to dq no but
would It be pis-lble for him to tidy up
a bit beforehand? I nm obliged to con
fess, sir, that I have never encountered
a more interesting stowaway In all my
career, which leads me to confess still
further that I gave urdrs to feed him
he hadn't had a mouthful to eat since
wo left port owing to the fact, ho says,
that his luggage shifted tho first day
out and try as he would, he couldn't lo
cate It vlthnut a match, or something
to that ffect he rather stumned me, sir,
with the graceful way he lies and then
Mr. fodgo agreed to let him take ono
nf his rnaors, and when I left him be
low, sir It seemed qulto certain that Mr,
Gray was op the i olnt of lending him a
uliirt end a chaneo of underwear I "
"Good God, sir!" gasped Captain Trig
ger, with i-omeihlng more than emo'lon
n his tolce. "What Is this you are telling
"He seems a most likable chop," ex
plained Mr Mott lam'ly 'Quite a cour
mm fellow, too, si'. T fororot to mention
that he sent his compliments to you and
vks for un interview nt your earliest
conven "
"Asks for an Intoivlew? Drng him
herj nt once by the heels If neces
sary. Tell h'm T shan't keep him wait
ing an Instant" said the captain Iron!-
' Mr. Mott still hesitated. "In tho event.
sir, that ho U In the midst of ihav
liig "
"I don't caro a hang what ho's In the
midst of," exclaimed Captain Trigger.
'T.ven In the midst of changing shirts.
Present my compliments to him Mr.
Mott. nnd say that ho needn't dres up
on my account I nm an old-fashioned
sailor man. It is nothing new to me to
sco men Mho haven't shaved in a fort
night, nnd ethers who never change
shirts."
"Very well, sir," said Mr. Mott, and
rfennrted
Presently lie reappeared with tho
stowaway In clmrge.
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