2 SECOND YANKEE
SHIP GOES B£WN
Carib WitSi Cargo of Cclta
Sinks Oil Gj r man Coast
MINE DtSASTEri, SAYS BERLIN
Vessel "Considerably Off Route Laid
Down In Marine Instructions" Ac
cording to the Announcement
Fate of Carib's Thirty Men Not
Known—More British Boots Tor
pedoed In War Zone's Water#.
Berlin (Via London), Feb. 24.— The
American steamer Carib has gon
to the bottom off tho German coast in
the North sea as the result of run
ning on a mine.
J*l the time of this disaster to tin
Carib the vessel was not uAng tht
route laid down in tne German marine
instructions.
Owners Surprised at Disaster.
Savannah, Ga., ilj. 24. —oreorge F
Armstrong of the lirm of Walter Arm
strong & Co., owners of the American
steamship Carib, which was sunk ofl
the German coast, was great.y sur
prised to hear of the disaster as he
supposed the ship was outside any
danger line.
'me Carib was of 2,280 tons burdeD
and left Charleston Jan. 27 for Bre
men with a cargo of cotton. She had
a capacity of 4,000 bales.
Her crew of thirty men, commium
ed by Captain E. L. Cole, whicL
manned the vessel at the time she
was sold, was retained by the new
owners, it was said at the Clyde Line
offices.
Report Received on Evelyn Disaster
Washington, Feb. 24. —The first of
ficial statement that the destruction
of the Evelyn was caused by a mine
was received by Secretary Bryan in
a dispatch from Joseph F. Buck, con
sular agent of the United States at
Bremerhavea, near the point where
the Evelyn was sunk.
At the White House the president
told callers that the sinking of the
Evelyn was regarded as an accident.
He said he had received unofficial ad
vices that the captain of the Evelyn
was out of his course, not having fol
lowed instructions given for avoiding
the German coast mine fields. The
administration does not regard tho
case as one likely lo produce diplo
matic complications.
A number of the diplomatic repre
sentatives of European neutrals
called at the state department to as
certain what information this govern
ment had received in regard to tho
case of the Evelyn. In view of the
menace of the German operations to
all neutral shipping the representa
tives of neutrals are greatly interest
ed in the loss of the American ship.
They are of the opinion that nothing
In the facts thus far reported will
enable the United States government
to hold anyone responsible for the
loss of the Evelyn.
Submarines Continue Active.
London, Feb. 24. —A dispatch from
New Haven says the British transport
Branksome Chine was either tor
pedoed or blown up by a mine twenty
miles south of Beach Head, a head
land projecting into the English chan
nel three miles off the coast of Sus
sex. Twenty of the crew were landed
at New Haven.
The admiralty issued the following
Announcement: "The Folkestone-Bou
logne passenger boat was attacked on
Monday night shortly after leaving
Boulogne by a German submarine.
The torpedo launched by the latter
passed thirty yards ahead of the chan
' nel steamer, aboard which were
ninety-two passengers, all civilians, in
cluding several citizens of neutral
nations."
A steamer which has arrived at
Lydd, a Kentish town near the Eng
lish coast, reports that two ships
were torpedoed in the channel. One
was sunk and the other was sinking
when the steamer sighted her. The
latter was apparently the Branksome
Chine.
Two neutral ships, one the Ameri
can vessel Carib and the other the
steamer R -gn, were tW.nk.
The Regin was sein to the bottom
off Dover by either a tv.'jmarine or a
mine in almost the ; aiae place as
the Norwegian steamship Belridge,
which was torpedoed Inst Saturday
hut which managed to get to short
where she was beached. The Regin
was carrying coal from Tyno to Bor
deaux when she was destroyed with
out warning. Her crew of twenty-twr
men escaped in a small boat and land
ed at Dover. They said their ship
sank within ten minutes after she was
hit.
i Lawrence Alderman Shot.
Lawrence, Mass., Feb. 24. —Alder-
jnan Paul Hannagan of this city was
shot here. Dennis H. Finn, a former
state senator, has been arrested. The
shooting occurred in the office of the
city engineer in the city hall building,
ft is thought Hannagan may recover.
i Boston Wants Sunday Revival.
' Philadelphia, Feb. 24. —A delegation
of 100 ministers and laymen from
Boston arrived here. They will call
on Billy Sunday and try to persuade
plm to promise to v< Boston.
GERMAN DEGREE
! HAS A PARALLEL
Washington Finds It Similar
to Thai of British.
NO SERIOUS PROTEST LIKELY
Memorandum From Berlin Received
From Gerard Evidently Will Stop
Hasty Action —Declared Germany Ha?
Executed Clever Move by Taking
Leaf Out of English Book.
The long memorandum delivered by
the German foreign ottice to Ambas
sudor Gerard, explaining the German
war zone proclamation, has been re
ceived at the state department, and
perusal of its text, which was cabled
to American newspapers, convinced
Washington officials that at present no
serious issue could be raised with Ger
many over the creation of the project
ed war zone without at the same time
raising identically the same issue with
Great Britain.
The German memorandum trans
mitted by Ambassador Gerard empha
sizes the fact—a vitally important one
in the present situation—that Great
Britain has declared the entire North
sea to be a war area and that if
England lias not made impossible the
passage of neutral shipping through
the sea between Scotland and Norway
she has rendered it "so ditli "It and so
dangerous that she has to a certain
extent effected a blockade of neutral
coasts and neutral ports, in violation
of all international laws."
The fact that the British govern
ment has done identically the same
thing with respect to the establish
ment of war zones in the open seas
beyond the three mile territorial limit
has been officially certified to the state
department by Sir Cecil Spring-Rice,
the British ambassador. This was
done three months ago. and no protest
has ever been made by the United
States against the action of Great Brit
ain in establishing such a war zone.
Trump Card For Germany.
It dawned upon officials in Washing
ton that the German government had
executed a rather neat and clever
counter diplomatic stroke In notifying
the world of its intentiou to create a
war zone around the British isles by
taking a leaf out of the British book
and doing the very thing that the Brit
ish government had done. The British
and German war zone orders as offi
cially communicated to the state de
partment have been compared and
closely studied. This comparison was
not found to be to the disadvantage of
the Germans. It was even suggested
that the German government had
played a trump card.
The situation resolves itself some
thing after this fashion: For England
the official date of the beginning of the
war was Aug. 4. England waited until
three months of the war had been
fought and then served notice on the
neutral powers of the world of her In
tention to establish a war zone. The
British war zone was set up on Nov. 5.
The Germans waited an additional
three months, twice as long as did
Great Britain, or until Feb. 4, exactly
six months from the official British be
ginning of the war, and then an
nounced its decision to establish a war
zone very similar to that of Great
Britain, although somewhat more ex
tensive. However, the principle in
volved with respect to both war zones
Is the same.
War Zones Compared.
A comparison of the British and Ger
man war zone orders disclosed these
striking facts:
First.—The British government on Nov.
4 notified the United States government
that Its war zone would be effec*ive from
Nov. s—one5 —one day's notice.
Second.—The German government Issued
its war zone proclamation on Feb. 4 and
communicated it to Ambassador Gerard
on the same day, announcing that the
German war zone around the British islea
would be effective after Feb. 18—fifteen
days' notice.
Third.—The British war zone covers the
whole of the North sea.
Fourth.—The German war zone covers
the entire English channel and all the ter
ritorial and high sea waters around the
British isles.
Fifth. The British war zone order
sought to close the north of Scotland
route around the British isles to Norway,
the Baltic, Denmark and Holland.
Sixth.—The German war zone seeks to
close the southern or English channel
route around the British isles to Holland,
Norway, Sweden, Denmark and the Bal
tic.
Seventh.—The British war zone, decree
drew an arbitrary line from the Hebrides
islands along the Scottish coast to Ice
land and warned neutral shipping that it
would cross this line at its risk, but that
ships of neutral nations might go to Hol
land and other neutral nations along the
eastern littoral of the North sea by taking
the English channel and strait of Dover
route.
Eighth.—The German war zone declares
that neutral vessels will be exposed to
danger in the English channel, but routes
of navigation around the north of Scot
land islands in the eastern part of the
North sea and in a strip thirty miles wide
along the Dutch coast are not open to the
danger zone.
Ninth.—The Germans make the southern
channel route dangerous and declare the
north of Scotland route safe, while the
British declare the north of Scotland
route dangerous and the English channel
route safe, the effect of this being that
neither the northern nor the southern
roiVes around England will be safe for
neutral vessels.
Tenth.—The British war zone order was
based on the discovery of mines in the
North sea. while the German decree i&
baaed on England's attitude toward con
traband. the Wilhelmina case and Eng
land'* establishment of a war zona.
IttßDSi^E^E V, OF PANAMA-PACIFIC EXPOSITION
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San Francisco can be seen In the background of this picture of the big exposition.
"AFTER THE BATTLE" IN SERV'A.
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Photo by American Press Association.
Where Was Wales?
Spencer Leigh Hughes. M. I'.. tells
of the following amusing experience:
He was once passing the war office
building in Whitehall when his com
paniou. a Scotchman.* pointing to tho
emblematic devices engraved over the
door, indicated the Scotch thistle, the
English lion and the Irish harp
"Where is the emblem of Wales?" ask
ed his friend "Oh." Mr Hughes re
plied. "I expect there is a leak in
the roof."—London Fx press.
Badly Scared.
"Were you frightened duiing tht
stonn ?"
"Dear me. yes. The windows were
all open and 1 was so afraid of the
lightning that 1 didn't even stop to
wake up John. 1 jumped right up and
ciosed them myself."—Detroit Free
Tress.
Prohibitive.
"What's the matter, daugher?"
"Father, I want a duke.*'
"That can be arranged, mv dear i
was afraid you might want a baseball
pitcher."—Baltimore Sun.
There is no fatigue so wearisome as
that which comes from want of work.
—Spurgeon.
Egotistical.
"You sometimes disagree with these
scientific experts?"
"Not at all." replied the serene ego
tist. "Notwithstanding tbe fact that 1
have thought a matter out to a sound
conclusion they frequently insist on
disagreeing with me."—Washington
Star.
Coming Across.
Hampton Dinwicldow told me his
family is a very old one. They were
one of the first to come across.
Rhodes—Not at the grocer's.—Judge.
BOBSLEIGHING AT HUNTINGTON, L. I.
Photos by American Press Association.
The Patriot.
Paris Fashion Maker In
French Army'
\PAUL PQIRF.T |
A MAM AMD HIS WOSK.
Without Interest In the Task Efficiency
Is Never Attained.
A man's luck is as hard as adamant
if be is not in love with tbe work he
does as with a maid he woos. It is a
miserable thing to care for one's oceu
i
pation merely because it shuts out the
"thoughts that burn like irons if you
think." Any trade or profession you
could name is a poor affair if it is but
a time killer, a stop gap, an opiate, the
ballast of the dirigible life. You hear
a man start his work with a faint tap
at a clock stroke, and you hear him
drop it with a loud thud at another
clock stroke, and you know his soul
and his brain are not alive in the thing
that he is doing. Why? A thousand
men are a thousand reasons why.
Any man who can be accurately stig
matized as efficient (dreadful word!)
brings all of himself to the task in
hand. He brings not merely his sixth
sense and his fourth dimension to bear
on his concerning handful, but every
bit of vital electricity In the storage
batteries of his whole beiug. When he
has done his level best he is, as we
Ironically say, "plajed out," and he is
supposed to take a rest, which may as
sume the form of harder labor than
ever in a wholly different field of en
deavor.
In fact, the man who has formed the
habit of work is never happy to be idle
It i 3 no use to extend to him the prof,
pect of complete hiatus in the name of
a vacation. The program of the tp.il'
and void would assure him an
uneasiness. There is a saying Yhat ir
ture abhors a vacuum. So docs art .
live man, the son of nature.—riiilad
pbia Ledger.
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There is a great difference tietween
Europe and America in tbe arrange
ment of marriages. There the where
withal to set up a nest in which to
and rear chilureu is the principal part
of uiakiug a match; here our girls are
inclined to pay more attention to wheth
er or not they love and aie loved.
Geuevieve Thorj>e met no man whom
Rhe cared to marry until she met How
ard Tisdale. Though Howard was
twenty five years old. he had not made
any advancement in money making.
Indeed, he was on a salary and a small
salary, at that.
It did not appear that Genevieve had
anything. She and her mother, a wid
ow. lived very plainly, the daughter *>e
cupyiug a salaried position. Neverthe
less when Howard showed by his man
ner that he was pleased with her she
encouraged him. Ills attentions grew
more pointed, but he did not propose
because he saw no hope of being able
to be married. He was wise enough
to understand that the care of a family
without an adequate income would lie
misery for all concerned. One day he
said to Genevieve:
"You and I must part compauy„
Leaven knows that it will be a hard
ship to me. but marriage Is the inevi
table result of an intimacy such as
ours. 1 would gladly ask you to be
my wife, but 1 have a salary of only
$BOO a year. You cannot be married
and continue in your position—at least.
1 would not have you do so. It follows
that our ways must part."
"Unless you love me well enough to
take every risk. I admit you are right."
was Genevieve's reply.
"l)o you mean that you love nit* well
enough to take all risks with me to
live on the miserable pittance which I
am earning nud which I have no as
surance that 1 shall continue to earn,
to pinch and struggle and see those
dependent upon you and me suffering
for want of comforts, even necessaries,
that we cannot give them?"
"I mean to say that 1 wish to marry
and be married for love or not at all."
" 'When poverty comes in at the door
love flies out of the window.' "
"True Jove begets energy to provide
fur its enjoyment and will endure any
thing."
There was a silence between them,
which was broken by Howard:
"Very well, Genevieve, will you mar
ry me?"
"1 will."
Then followed a period of planning.
Howard, who insisted on beginning
married life with no other person un
der the same rooftree. was for renting
two or three rooms in a cheap locality.
Genevieve argued that they had bet
ter take a little house of their own.
even if they rented a room or two to a
lodger. Howard objected to this on
the ground that they might not secure
the lodger, and if they did a third per-
Bon in such close contact with them
would be apt to make trouble. He
was in favor of keeping aloof from
every one.
These debates lasted some time and
were finally ended by Genevieve, who
handed her lover tbe key to her desk
In a sewing room on the second floor
and told him to go upstairs, unlock
the desk and look in an inside drawer
on the right. Howard did as he had
been bidden.
Genevieve had planned a very pleas
ant surprise. Some years before an
aunt of hers, for whom she had been
named, dying, had bequeathed to her
savings amounting to about $B,OOO.
The property had come to her In a
deed for a small house and some pass
books in savings banks. These with
a number of other papers, consisting
of vouchers, etc., Genevieve had placed
in the drawer of her desk and had
never used principal or Interest. She
was at the time she received the lega
cy earning her own and her mother's
living and Intended to bold on to her
nest egg in case she should marry.
Genevieve waited, expecting Howard
to return, having found the evidence
of her little fortune, with a radiant
countenance and take her in his arms.
She had long looked forward to this
moment expecting that it would be
the happiest in her life. A time suffi
cient for Howard to discover the evi
dences of her fortune elapsed, and he
did not return. She resolved to wait a
little longer. Still she heard nothing
from him. At last, wondering what
could be delaying him, she ran upstairs
to the room where she kept her fortune.
The desk was open. The contents
of the drawer were spread out on it,
but there was no one in the room.
"Howard!" she called, thinking that
her lover was biding from her.
There was no reply.
"Howard!" she called again with a
tinge of anxiety in her voice.
The silence was unbroken. She open
ed a cioset door, the only hiding place
in the room, then went out into the
hall and searched everywhere. There
was a back staircase, and, descending
It she looked about on the main floor.
A door opened from this rear staircase
to the back yard, and it stood ajar.
She remembered to have closed it not
long before, and there was no one ex
cept herself in the house to open it
Genevieve was terror stricken. How
ard. Instead of having returned to her
after the glad surprise she had intend-