Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1915)
FROM M POINTS EVENTS OF THE DAY HELD TO A FEW LINES. -- LATE EVENTS BOILED DOWN! Personal, Political, Foreign and Other Intelligence Interesting to the General Readers. WAR NEWS. The British house of commons voted a bill providing for the raisin;; Df an extra 1,000,000 men for the trmy. * * • The German reichstag adopted the credit of 10,000,000,000 marks asked by the government, the Socialist minority of 19 opposing the \ote, ac cording to a Berlin dispatch. * * * London reports the capture of Var na, Bulgaria’s chief Black sea port, by the Russians. It says the bombard ment of the Russians silenced the Bulgarian guns and laid the town in ruins. * * * Count Stephen Tisza, Hungarian premier, in the House of Magnates at Budapest discussed the probable dura tion of the war. He said the length of the conflict depended on those »who started it. * * * The British announce the with drawal of troops from Gallipoli. Eng lish military authorities declare the prospect of forcing a way to Constan linople through the Dardanelles is apparently relinquished. * * * Only 50,000 Serb troops escaped from Serbia, and of these 10,000 perished in Albanian mountains, says Sofia report. Bulgars captured 45,000 •ailroad trucks laden with war muni tions and provisions. * * * Enormous quantities of ammuntion .cannon and tents were taken by the Turks on the withdrawal of the Brit ish from the positions evacuated on • he Gallipoli peninsula, it was official ly announced in a Turkish headquar ters’ report from Constantinople * * A During a discussion" in the French chamber of Deputy in Paris Jules Roche said the war had cost France 26.000. 000.000 francs, or $5,200,000,000. and her enemies 47,000,000,000 francs. Europe as a whole, he said, had ex pended 194,000,000,000 francs ($40. 000,000,000). • * * The Gounaris party of Greece, sup porting King Constantine’s neutrality program, was returned to power by large majorities in elections held re sently. The “war party” supporters of former Premier Venizelos generally abstained from voting, on the ground that the election was illegal. • * • The death at Hanover, Germany, of General Von Emmieh, the con queror of Liege, is announced in a report from Berlin. General \ on Em mich was commander of the Tenth army corps. He figured prominently in the early events of the war, being in command of the German troops which invaded Belgium. * * * A grand “dusting off,” largely through hand-to-hand encounters, is planned by Great Britain for next spring, according to Major H. G. Mayes, who arrived from England. Major Mayes, who is to take charge of bayonet and physical drill at Que bec. said Great Britain will have 4.000. 000 trained and equipped men in the field early next year. GENERAL. Seven men were drowned in the Chesapeake bay when the oyster sloop Lady Harrington, of Oxford, capsized and sank in a gale of wind and rain. • * * The head offices of the Woodmen of the World in Omaha distributed something over $3,500 in cash among 410 field men and 300 office employes. The money paid was in the nature of a Christmas gift. » * * The annual Christmas gift of the Crane company of Chicago to its em ployees, consists this year of 10 per cent of the annual salary of each man or woman employed for more than six months. Ten thousand em ployes throughout the country share in the company's gift, which totals more than $700,000. * • • Blight hundred tons of Christmas mail, the heaviest amount that ever lias passed through the Chicago post office in a single day, was handled December 21. • * * Sale of horse meat for food will be permitted in New York after January 1, the board of health announced. Hereafter old horses, instead of be ing sold for their bones, which are worth little or nothing, will be fatten ed and disposed of for meat. * * * Prohibitions against bull fighting in one Mexican state and sale of intox icaiing liquors in another have been decreed in connection with Genera! Carranza's reform program, it is re ported. • • * In place of the usual winter de crease or shut-down, there will be three shifts of men put to work at the Elba, Corsica and Belgrade, Minne eota mines, at once, according to an announcement made by W. P. Chinn, superintendent of these properties. * * * Four lives were lost and many per sons injured in a windstorm that de molished scores of houses in east Mississippi and adjoining counties of Alabama. Resolutions favoring a non-partisaD tariff commission were adopted by the National Association of Master Bakers at a special meeting at Chicago. • * * City Attorney Ewing filed suits against five former Nashville, Tenn., city officials and their bondsmen for the recovery of $290,555, alleged to be due the city. • * * A total of 1,219,762 head of sheep, valued at $5,500,000, were shipped out of New Mexico in the fiscal year end ing November 30, according to a re port to the governor of the sheep sanitary board at Santa Fe. * * * White and negro friends of the late Booker T. Washington, negro educa tor, have started a popular subscrip tion for the purchase of building and site in Chicago which will be named the Booker T. Washington memorial and used as a social center and in dustrial training school for negro children of that city. • * * Formulation of the requests of rail way engineers, firemen and trainmen for an eight-hour day and time and a half for overtime was completed bv the committee having the matter in charge at Chicago. The requests will be mailed to the brotherhood members for their approval. Result of the vote will not be known before January 10. * * * In a detailed report the state wide vice commission of Baltimore named by Governor Goldborough in January, 1913, shows there are institutions in Baltimore to which the mother of an illegitimate child may consign her off spring upon the payment of an agreed sum and forever rid herself of it. Of the hundreds of children so taken in charge by the institutions the commission avers that 80 to 90 pei cent die and are buried in small plots of grounds, one such plot, fifty-five feet square, having been the tomb of 5,000 babies since 1886. SPORTING. Riche Mitchell, Milwaukee light weight boxer, outpointed Bennie Pal mer of Memphis in a ten-round bout in Milwaukee. * * • After several weeks of conferences, baseball officials were forced to admit that peace between the Federal league and organized baseball is far from being consummated. * * i: The Denver Revolver club team finished second, with 732 points, in the military revolver match of the United States revolver association in New York City. The event was won by the Pennsylvania slate police team, with 758 points. * * * Mike Gibbons of St. Paul, Minn, and Young Ahearn of Brooklyn have been offered the date of January 18 by the management of the Capital City Atheletic club of St. Paul, for the ten-round fight scheduled original ly for December 10, but which was postponed because of Gibbons illness. • • • Ad Wolgast, former lightweight box ing champion, was suspended for six mouths by the New York state athlet ic commission for violating a contract with tii Harlm Sporting club of New York city. This will prvent Wolgast from taking part in any boxing exhi bitions in that state during the period of suspension. * * * The base ball “war,” which for more that two years has been in pro gress between the Federal league and Organized Base Ball, the National and American, and all minor leagues con ducted under supervision of the Na tional commission, ended when mem bers of both organizations signed a peace protocol which brought to an end the career of the Federal league at Cincinnati, Ohio. WASHINGTON. Tlte British embassy announced that permission had been granted by the British government for exportation from Jamaica tc the United States of dye wood shipments aggregating 4,700 tons. * * * The American navy should be “equal to the most powerful maintain ed by any other nation of the world’ net later than 1925, in the opinion ot the navy general board, headed by Admiral Dewey. * * * The American Red Cross transmit ted to Secretary Lansing a petition from the citizens’ committee for food shipments, asking that safe conduct be obtained from the entente allies for shipments of milk for babies in Germany and Austria. * * • Foreign trade of the United States in November jumped to the unpre cc-dented total of haif a billion dol lars. A Department of Commerce statement shows that imports as well as exports broke records for the month. A record of $5,000,000 for thc last twelve months’ exports and im ports was set. Henry P. Fletcher, now ambassador to Chile, was nominated by President Wilson for diplomatic relations be tween the two countries, broken olf nearly three years ago. * * * Congress lias been asked to appro priate $7,500 to purchase the suit of clothes Abraham Lincoln wore the night of his assassination at Ford’s theater in 1805. Representative Rob erts of Massachusetts, has introduced a hill to acquire the relic, owned by a Washington man, for the Lincoln me morial. * * • The federal quarantine against ship ments from foreign countries of Irish potatoes affected with powdery scab was removed by an order of the De partment of Agriculture, effeetve Jan uary 1. * * * Officially congress has been in aes sion for two weeks. In reality the work of congress will begin after the Christmas holidays. Thus far the members, have been marking time. By the time the session is resumed, early in January, the process of mobilization will have been practically completed. ALL OVER NEBRASKA SHORT NEWS ITEMS. The State Firemen's Convention has been dated for January IS. 19 and 20, at Crawford. Madison county citizens at a big mass meeting in Madison declared un. oualifiedly as opposed to the removal of the county seat to Norfolk. Michael Cunningham, Missouri Paci fic conductor on line between Auburn and Crete, was struck by a moving freight train and instantly killed at Auburn. Following the action of the Farm ers’ congress at Omaha the State Grange, in session at Grand Island, recently, adopted resolutions in favor of state-wide prohibition. Live stock experts of national rep utation will give addesses at the ses sions of the Improved Live Stock Breeders during the week of Organ ized Agriculture at Lincoln, January 17-22. Eugene Grace, proprietor of the Donahoe hotel, at Valentine, died as the result of falling down the base ment stairs in the annex building. He was one of the oldest hotelmen in Northern Nebraska. Omaha dairy shippers have con tracted with the Midwest Dispatch Co., Chicago, to give their business by reference to that company, and a line of 700 ears is being built for it, named the “Aksarben Dispatch.” The names of streets and avenues in Hastings will be permanently marked in stone for the benefit of strangers. The proposition was rec ommended by Mayor Madgett and adopted by the city council. The corn and apple show will be held at the Lincoln Auditorium, Janu ary 17-22. In addition to the displays of corn and apples. Prof. Geo. E. Condra will portray the resources of the state by means of moving pictures. Congressman Reavis has sent word that bids for the construction of the Falls City postoffice to be one story and basement in height and built of rough stone, would be opened in the supervising architect’s office on March l. The Fremont tabernacle where the union revivals will be held, beginning January 2. is about ready for the meet ings. The tabernacle will have a seating capacity of 2,2(H), and will be erected so the seating capacity can be increased. A new system by which tab may be kept on all exports from the United States is being installed in offices oi port collectors, including Omaha. Every export must be declared before the port collector on and after Febru ary 1, next. The village of Elk Creek is soon to have a system of electric lights, both for street lighting and commercial purposes. A power plant is being erected by two garage operators, who have a street lighting contract with the village. Because he was opposed to the in stallation of pool tables in the Y. M. C. A., E. J. Alcorn, assistant secretary of the association at Hastings, re signed his position. Mr. Alcorn said pool tables were contrary to his Chris tian belief. Patrick Harmon, 50, Seattle, Wash., arrived in Omaha the other day, hav ing walked backward from San Fran cisco, and continued on his journey walking backward to New York City to settle a $20,000 wager between two Seattle clubmen. Fireman H. H. Ault of Lincoln suffered slight injuries when he fell headlong from his cab on a Burling ton passenger train locomotive near Sarohville. He fell out of the cab when the chain on which he was lean ing became unhooked. At a mass meeting of the citizens of York for the purpose of discussing public ownership of public utilities, a resolution to this effect was uanimous iy passed after a thorough discussion. There appeared to be little opposition to public ownership. Railway commissioners from Ne braska, Iowa, Missouri, North and South Dakota, Kansas and Minnesota held a conference in Omaha recently relative to the proposed interstate 20 per cent passenger rate raise in this territory. It was decided by these of ficials to resist the increase. Honest advertising campaign fos tered by the Lincoln Ad club and giv en general indorsement by merchants and consumers of that city will cul minate in the introduction of one or (wo bills in the next session of the legislature, according to members who are now preparing them. Men of mystery seem to be the rule rather than the exception in Kearney, four unidentified and un claimed bodies having been held in the morgue the past three weeks. Of , these one has been interred, an un i known, killed on the Union Pacific tracks near Buda. The others are a bricklayer named Gildemeir, died at a local hospital A Filipino by the name of Muri died at the state hospital last week and the body of a young Hungar 1 ian, who also died at the state institu tion. That Great Britain will soon resort to conscription *was the opinion ex pressed by John O'Connell of Limer ick, Ireland, who is visiting friends in North Platte. The next meeting of the Mississippi Valley Historical society will be held at Nashville, Tenn., April 27 to 29, 1916. The announcement of the selec tion was made by C. S. Paine of Lin coln, secretary of the society, follow ing the receipt by letter of the last vote of members of the executive com mittee, to whom was left the choice of a convention city. The Farmers’ State Bank, with a capital of $25,000, will open for busi ness at Brunswick in the near future. So well pleased with tlieir treatment from Nebraskans were the members of the Farmers’ Equity Union, during their recent session in Omaha, they decided to come back to that city again next year. This decision was reached after their association had met in St. Louis, Chicago, Kansas City and other cities. “We were treated just a little better than ever before,” said President Drayton, in explaining why Omaha was selcted. Gering is to have a new state bank in the near future. beatrice will stage the Gage county poultry show January o to 6. The sports of Valley have organ ized a gun club with a charter mem bership oi' fifteen. Victor E. Wilson of Stromsburg, for mer state representative, has an nounced his candidacy for the demo cratic nomination for railway commis sioner. The Elks' lodge of Grand Island is canvassing the city for the purpose of raising funds to build a new lodge 1 hall. it is contemplated to raise about $50,000 for the building. The sixteenth annual show of the Dodge County Poultry association at Eremont was one of tiie most success ful exhibitions in the history of the organization, over 1,000 birds being cn exhibition. A good reads “safety hrst” move ment is being carried on at Axtell. The road overseer is setting white posts about five feet high at eacli end of the bridges and culverts on all pub lic roads. Nearly 500,000 bushels of wheat was sold at Omaha during the past week for export to Europe. The grain is being moved east in big consign ments as rapidly as cars can be ob tained. A cow belonging to Elmer McCiean, on a farm near Pohocco, in Saunders county, gave birth to twin calves one day recently. This is the second pair of twins born lo this liossie in a year and three days. An effort is being made in Seward to enter George iA. Merriam in the race for the republican nomination for secretary of state. Mr. Merriam is serving his fourth term as mayor of that place. The Grand Island sugar factory has closed its 1915 campaign after a most successful season. During the ninety days and night the plant was in operation an average of 400 tons of beets were sliced daily. Three thousand new church mem bers in Omaha before Easter is the slogan adopted by the Omaha church federation, which has inaugurated an elaborate campaign for carrying on its membership work. A gravel bed said to be about twen ty feet thick and about the same num ber of feet under the sand, has been discovered at Capital beach, a summer resort near Lincoln The deposit is a most vavluable one, it is said. An eigmy-nve acre unimproved farm near Ralston sold recently for a consideration of $25,000. This would make the price per acre nearly $275. the highest, real estate men say, ever paid for Douglas county farm land. The business men of Aurora have decided to put on a week of commun ity interest next spring It is planned to make the week a revival ol busi ness and an effort will be made to get all of Hamilton county interested. Mabel Layton, tried for complicity in the murder of her husband at Scottsbiuff. for which crime her al leged father. Dan Gordan, is now serv ing a life sentence, was found not guil ty after an all night session by the jury. Heirs to a $50,000 estate in Aurora are missing. Attorneys have been searching unsuccessfully for more than a month for relatives of Alden Nichols, 71, a bachelor, who died there leaving a 240-acre farm and $20, 000 in securities. The Omaha city council passed an ordinance designed to prohibit the dis. play of any dramatic, motion picture or other public exhibition which might tend to create race feeling. The ordin ance is the result of protests made by Omaha negro citizens against a film production which has been showing in the city for several weeks. Nebraska farmers have sown 10 per cent less winter wheat this year than in 1914, according to the government bureau of crop estimates at Washing ton, D. C. The condition of llie crop December 1 was l per cent better than ^on the same date of 1914. The report shows that 3,507,000 acres have been sown to winter wheat. The condition December 1 was 94 per cent perfect. H. H. Holmes, who has been in the Lutheran hospital at York for the last three weeks suffering from two gun shot wounds which be received when he attempted to hold up Night Watch man Springer, made a confession to Chief of Police Finney, that he hold up Clark Perkins at Aurora, on Thanksgiving night. Poor ventilation in the schools of Nebraska has sent 11 per cent of the present population of the Koarnev Tubercular hospital there for treat ment, according 1o a report of Super intendent E. R. Vanderslice to the state board of control. Four school teachers, three women and one man were received during the last year. Charley Peters of Panillion, heavy weight wrestler, threw Gns Korveras, a 200-pound Greek at the Omaha audi torium. Peters took the first fall in two and a half minutes with the scis sors and an arm bar lock, hut the second fall went twenty-seven min utes and forty-five seconds before the foreigner finally succumbed to tho scissors. Hastings was officially declared the third city of Nebraska in population when figures of the recently complet ed special census reached there from Washington anrl showed 10,873 inhab itants, a few hundred above Grand Island. Places are thus exchanged. Ninety-five publications, including newspapers and weekly and monthly publications, go out of Omaha through the postoffice. This means ninety-five separate and distinct pe riodicals that are printed in Omaha, and entered at the Omaha postofflee as second-class matter. Five autoists narrowly escaped in stant death when a brand-new ma chine, driven by M. J. Larson of Min-” den, skidded at a'sixty-mile clip and turned completely over three times on the automobile highway between Hastings and Ingleside. A new auto road through Wahoo is being advocated to take the place of the Lincoln highway along the sandy roads north of the Platte river, through Columbus. It will begin at Central City on the west end at Val ley on the east, passing through Wa hoo. / — DR. BAXTER, SUPERINTENDENT OF HASTINGS HOME, RESIGNS. ILL HEALTH GIVEN AS CAUSE Action Came While Probe of Manage ment Was Under Way.—Resig nation Will Be Accepted. Lincoln,—Dr. M. W. Baxter, super intendent of the state hospital for the insane at Hastings, has tendered his resignation, to take effect February 1, giving as his reason ill health. Dr. Baxter’s resignation came in the midst of an investigation by the board of control of his management of the institution. ^ Commissioner Holcomb said Dr. Baxter had voluntarily assumed all responsibility for anything that mignt be wrong at the institution. His ex planation. Judge Holcomb said, was that he did not look over the supplies very closely, but took the sample sent him and accepted it as indicative of the rest of the goods. “As an example of conditions there, sixty suits of clothing from an order of 10,0 were delivered and only one was up to grade and that was sent in as a sample,” Judge Holcomb said. Doctor Baxter told members of the board he and his wife were both sick and were planning to spend some time in the south as soon as he is re lieved of his duties. The board will accept the resigna tion and gave out that the discrepan cies at the institution will all be made good by companies having the contracts. The board’s check on supplies bought for the institution has been^ completed with satisfaction to the members and affairs at the institution are in good shape. By the board of control members, Dr. Baxter is regarded in many ways as one of the best institution heads the state has ever had in hospital for insane work. Money for Schools. Ahalf a million dollars will be included in the distribution of state school funds in January, under the new law of the 1915 legislature, according to the estimate of State Treasurer Hall. The last winter dis tribution under the old law, in No vember, 1914, amounted to only $333,000. Of the January distribution one fourth will be divided equally among the school districts of the state and the remaining three-fourths will be apportioned on the basis of school population to all the districts. Small districts will receive a greater share than formerly and larger ones will have their amounts materially cut down. There is $325,000 in the temporary school fund now, which pstimatse in dicate will be increased to more than $450,000 and likely $500,000 by the time the distribution is made. Wants to Give Up Land. Land Commissioner Fred Beckmann thinks he has discovered a curiosity. It is a man who has lived on a piece of Nebraska land seventeen years and now does not want it any more. The man is Bernard Koch of Fordyce, in Cedar county, and the land is a quar ter s etion upon which he has been paying a rental of $1.75 per acre pet year. The lease runs out January 1 and Koch says he wants to give it up. but he attaches a coupie of strings to the proposition, one of them that the state should pay him $3.74 for im provements he has placed on the land and the other is that he be permitted to purchase the land at not more than $3ii per acre. Mr. Beckmann has informed Mr. Koch that the state does not buy improvements placed on leas ed land and that in case of sale the price must be fixed by appraisement. Value of Tobacco in State. According to reports filed in the state department of labor by manufac turers of cigars and those engaged in the preparation of tobacco for the market, for the year 1914, there was a capital of $321,136.78 invested. Em ployment was furnished to 426, of which 169 w'ere females. The total paid in usages for the year was $247, 505.09; total value of stork used was $359,669.94. The total value of pro duction was $746,818.89. Per cent, of sales in Nebraska 97>*. Average wages per week. $13.79. Tubercular Hogs Found. Fifty per cent of the hogs on Joe Roth’s farm west of Milford have been found afflicted with tuberculosis, following an inspection by a state veterinarian. Of his twenty-six short horn cattle, eight tested tubercular. Files for Legislature. The first legislative filing to reach the secretary of state's office came in from Scott’s Bluff county. What Counties Pay. Seventy-eigilt counties reporting to Secretary Bernecker of the State Board of Assessment show that money raised by taxation for all purposes, which includes state, city, school and all taxes needed to run all departments of state and municipal government, amount to $20,083,501. This amount nearly equals the total amount raised by the entire counties of the state last year, which was $20,105,457. While the state tax is one mill lower than last year, county and municipal taxes are higher. Chick and Egg Contest. A junior poultry project has been organized as a part of the Boys’ and Girls’ Club Work of the Extension Service of the College of Agriculture for 1916, in addition to the corn, po tato, gardening, pig, sewing and cook ing projects. Any Nebraska boy or girl under 18 years of age and over 10 may join and receive the monthly Instruction sheets without cost This work will be divided Into two con tests, one an egg laying contest and the other a hatching and rearing con test Dtefe 2lbteilun<3 tft fiir bie ^armltenglteber, tpeld?e dtn liebftm r>cutfd? lefen. Snifnr entmiidit m frau$dfifd)cnt ©t' ttfcltogtr. flbcntntcrlid)c glndjt nad) 2Itnerifa. 211-5 Spnfar in granfreid) cermun bet, nad) H>ario in ein £ofpital ge* fdjafft, al» StriegSgcfangeuer 3ur gtcangSarbeit nad) bem .^afcn Xtc £>aorc gcbradjt, ndd)tlid)crroeilc auf I ein englifdjeo 2d)iff gefloben, ale-! blinber ^affafliec mit bem 6nglan-j ber nad) liattaba gcfabrcn, bort ber ^afenpolisei ein 2d)nippd)cu gefdjla* gen, burd) einen guben cerraten unb baun mit ber 23al)n unb auf 2d)ufter3 happen rtad) SJZcro 2]ort entfommen, fcas finb bie ©runbrifje ber Striegt abenteucr bee- jungcu granffurterd $?eiurid) iDtiiller con ber cierten (53* fabron bed erftcn, meftfalifdjcn §ufa* ren - 9tegiment3 Summer 8. Scr roadere igmfar, ber &icfe abenteuer nub gefal)renrcid)e glud)t gliidlid) iiberftanben bat, bat feine Grlebnif* fe ber ,S. 2). ©taatdgtg." mitgetcilt. £er roadere £ufar ficl ben gran 3ofeu in bie $anbe, al-3 er mit nteb* rercn Slameraben auf cinem Shrub fcbafterritt nietiergefcbofien rourbe. £ie Sebanblung im fnut3bfifd;en ©e fangenenlagcr roar berart graufam unb riidfidjtdlod, baB ber uuternel) mungdluftige granffurter gunge fcirt fiebeu braugefctt batte, bie gol beue greibeit 3U erlangeu. 3Bie il)m bie3 fd)Iiefjlid) gelang, teilt er rcie folgt mit: „3lm 3. roiat rourbe id) nut mcicn anbcreit Alriegsgefangenen nad) xte .’gaore gcbracpt, roo roir 0djiff3arbei> ten cerndjten mujjten. SPir patten bie Sdiiffe ju Dcrlabeu unb au^ula ben. Sie i'epanblung, bie tins jutcil rourbe, roar eiitfo.d) fcpaubcrpafi. 3d) fonnte es nid)t mepr ranger auspalten unb baepte itnmer nur an gludjt unb baper fuepte id) nad) einer ©elegen peii 311m StuSriiden. 8m 1. Sluguft routbeu roir auf eineni norroegifcpen Sampfer befepdftigt. Sas Sdjiff piefj „^>etibrid". 3d) iiberlegte c3 mir, ob id) mit biefem ftaften fortfommen fonnte. ©cpneE roar mein (rnifcplug gefagt. Slbcnbs rooEte id) mid) oer* buften. Xfcibor fonnte id) tiad) ber Slrbeit nid)t auf bcm ©djiff bleiben. 3d) luugte mid) crft in bem £ager fepuppen Dcrficcfcn. SiaddS rooEte id) bann an S3 orb tlettem. SJaib roar tcp jroifdpen SfaumrooEballen in bcm ©cpuppeit uerfeprounben. Slbenbs fonnte icp au§ meinem Sferftcd fepen, roie ber „$enbrii" nad) bem friegs gefangenen Sutfaren .§einrtd) SFfiiEcr griinblicp abgefudjt rourbe. Ucber jroei ©tunbeit long fdjttiiffclien bie fvramofen in aEen Gcfen unb Santcn be§ ©cpiffeS pcritm, opne ben 3U fitiben, ber fie Dom ©djuppen au§ be obacptetc. ©dilieglid) rourben bie Sabeluden Dcrfcploffen nnb uerfie* gelt. Scr Sampfer ftacp in See, unb tiapm cine SBacbtmannfcpaft mit, bie ben E'liiflcr abfaffen foEte, roenn er feine 9fafe an3 feinem 5>crfted pin auSftedfen rourbe. 3d) roiinfdjte ben Sicuten ini ©tiflen gliicftidje Slctfe unb badjte bann an uieine eigene Cage. Stkts> roerbeu foEte, rougte id) nid)t. ©infiroetlcn fonnte id) nid)t» anbered tun, al§ mid) Derbergcn unb roarten. Sas roaren bange ©tunben. Sen gai^ett ©onntag podtc id) 3roifd)en ®aum rooEbaEen. Sie ©onntag 'Jtacpt rooE te feiit Ginbe nepmeii. tEfontags fop i idp ntduSdjcnfttE auf meinem iplape,1 unb als ber Slbeub pereingebroepen roar, frod) id) pcrauS. 3d) fcplitp mid) 311 cittern Xor, inn eimual per nntjufpdpen. 23einape piittc id) einen greuben ruf anSgeftopen; beun an ber cnoe ren ©cite bes? Sods lag ein grope-3 ©cpiff, anfdjeitienb ein ^affagier bampfer. SDfit bent $apti mupte icp abbantpfen, ba id) e§ [anger in bem ©epuppen niept mepr auspalten fonn tc. 3d) roartete, bis c§ ftodbiiufel roar, braip ein ©djlop auf, fcpob bie Sitr Dorfidjtig auf unb fd)Iid) pin auS. ©rop unb ftiE lag ber Sampfer „S3alterfice" Por mir. Crr roar mit biden Sauen an bad Socf befeftigt. 3d) fpiipte crft uniper unb Flettertc bann an einem Sait pod). 33alb ftanb id) ini 9iad)tbiiufel ait Serf. ©e roupios trodi id) rooter, tus guf§ Obcrbed, roo bie 9iettuung§boote bin gen. ein cm foId)cn 5)oot rooUte id) mein 39itead fiir bie fJicife aitf fdjlagen, roie id) e§ mir fd)on torber au#gebadjt batte. $;d) frod) in ba§ 3?oot, unb fanb and) nod), ban bie (rnglanber, benen ber .flatten geborte, ba§ SRettungsboot mit 2d)iff§atoiebad unb Staffer fd)on fiir mid) toertro tiantiert batten. Sofort mad)te id) mid) iiber ben 2lorrat ber, urn erft eimnal meinen roilben hunger au ftil len. Satin ridjtete id) mid) biinslidj ein. Sn bem SJoot roar e§ faft fo gemiitlid), teie in/einem Hnterfianb. STm nadbften Sage, Sienetag, ben 3. Hitguft, beulte bie Sambfbfeiie, e§ golterte auf bem Sdfiff, bie SD?afcf)i nen fefeten ein, unb fan.gfam fdjau* fclnb fab id) ben Sagerfdjutben unb ftranfrcid)§ ftimmel iiber ibm ter •djroinben. ffiobin bie ^abrt ging, baton batte tdj fein^ blaffe ?fbmtng. Wbcr toeg uon grnufreid), fort uon bcr Sflaue* rei bcr Wefangencnlagcr iiiljrtc fie. ©a§ war mir genug. gwolf unbnmlid; lange ©age unb 3idd)tc uergi tgen. ©ie tHcije aid „blinber ^nr agier" War ieljr part. Slbcr id) l)iel: aud. 2lm 14. Sluguft gelangteu Wir in einen §afen, nad) iQnebec, wie :d) fpater erfuljr. banftc fdjon bem £>immel unb bad)te bariiber nad), wie id) an Jdanb gelart' gen fonnte, d§ bad ©djiff Wieber Slnfer Iid)tete unb Weiter ful)t. ©ad war cine fd)wcre (Snttdu fcfjung. 3d) inuBte alfo nod; longer gebulbig mu ungewtB audbarren. Siauge follte ed aber biennial nidjt baueru. 31m ©onntag, ben 15. 31u* guft, raffelter: bie ftetten unb rollten bie ©aue. Suir waren am yiel un fercr gabri, r.imlid), Wie id) naebber audfanb in 3 antreal. 3<b lag nun rubig in meinem S0oot, bid bie 9?acfvt bereiugebrodj.n war. ©ann frod) id) aud mein .u SSerftecf unb F)atte balb wieber men 23obcn unter ben giiBen. SEBenig Ijat mfeljlct, baft bier meine SHeifc ein bbf. (fnbe genoinmen bat- ft te. 3fld id) hird) bie ©odanlagen unb ©djuppe:: fdjlidj, fid id) einem ^afcnpoliaiftcr. in bie §dnbe. (Bliicf* lidjerweife bane id) einige franjoftfebe '■Broifen aufgiidmappt. 3d) gab micb aid Uttatrofe bed ©ampferd „‘i?altcr* fia" and, mir bem icb angefominen war, unb cniiglte bem ©Wlijiftcn, bag id) bcr. 83eg nidjt and ben ©od anlagen finb.n tpuute. 2er 'ffolijift betrad)tete mid) genau. 3d) fal) tat* fadjlid) and luie ein DJatrofe in mei ncr blauleinnien £>ofe unb einem fcbwargeu Sweater, ©er ©dwbmann fdjcnfte mir ^lanben. (fr War fogar nod) fo freunblitb, feinent „Sllliier teu" ben 2de:i aud bem ©djuppen ju scigcn. ©ciuuoerftanblid) bcbanftc id) micb feljr iieflid), fd)iittelte bem gutmiitigen iiihidjter bie £>aub unb uerabfdjiebetc micb mit ben eng!ifd)cn Shorten: „2;anf pou fDlifter, goob nigbt!" Sdjleumgu ucrid)toand td) nun in ben Strafeim ber nad)tfd)!afcnben Stabt. 3u ber Stabt felbft roollte id) nid)t bleifccn. Sad tear tnir ju gefdbrlicf). Jd) aofl alfo f)inau£, bnrd) bie SSorfta&t aufS freie gelb, roo id) ntein JJadjtlager auffd)lug. 2ln» Stampiercn roar id) ja auS bent gclbe geteoljnt. 9?ad) einem er qnicfcnben Sdjlof iibcrlegte id) am udd)ften 2florgcn tneine Cage. Sic Safdjen toareii leer. Stein Gent tear mein eigen 3d) niad)te tnid) oornd) tig auf bie Suite nad) Clrbeit. 2Sier Sage long tear mein Sndjen Pergeb lid). 3n bie’.-r ;}eit ernatjrte id) mid) Pon Slepfeln. bie id) mir pfliidte. ?iad)t'5 modjte id) mir nnter freiem $immel ein 3dilafquartier. 2lnt fiinften Sage nmrbe id) bei einem Hontroftor Garrigan aitgc flellt. 3d) nniBte Grbqrbeitcn ner rid)ten, bramble babei nidjt ju fpre djeu unb uerbiente $1.60 pro Sag. Sen §eiurid) 'JKiiller (jatte id) in grant retd) gclajfeu. 3d) tjiefe jet?t jgarrt) Gronner. 3d) roiirbe dieHeidjt Ijeute nod) bie Sdjippe fdjteingen, roenn id) nidjt in meiuer greube iiber ba§ ben graujofen, Gnglanbern unb bem canabiidjcn '4>olijiften gefcfclage ne ©dfjiiiprdjeu Ijaite SluSbrud oer Ieiften miificn. 3d) fonnte faum an* ciictfjalten. Gin paar iPemerfungen fielen, unb fdjon- fjatte mid) cin Se nunaiatit, ein 3ube, ber ijJoliaet Per raten. 3etjt teurbe bie Situation roiebet rritifd). $orrt> Gronner Derfdjteanb. Ginigc beutfdje Ceute untcrftiiben mid) fjeimlid). 3Wit einem jungen Seutfdjen 3og id) am 15. 'Jiopember ftin pergniigt juni Stdbtelein l)inaue. SKebrere ibieihn Iegten roir mit ber Statin 3uriid, toorauf roir ben S3al)n teagen mit Sd)ufter§ happen per tjufdttcn. 3romer bie ©eleife eni I-ang marfdtierten roir frof) unb guter Singe burd) GotieS freie SBelt. SSir mu&teu roeite Streden laufen, roeil uitfer fleined SSermbgen nid)t sur gabrt nad) fJiero j?)orf, bem Stele un ferer SSiinfdje, au3rcid)ie. Sen len ten Diefl ber Strode sofl uu3 roieber cin ftol3e§ Sampfrof? unb por cinigcn Sagen trafen roir in DJero 2)orf cin. 3dj bin sroar PoIIftanbig mitteHo*. aber id) roerbe mid) fdjon burd)fdila gen." SBruffel nirfit mcljr .fMujjtjiabt 5PcI gicne. SI m ft e r b a m. $ie bdgifujcn 3citungcn crljiclten trie e§ bier beijjt bie Slittpcifima befantxi ju geben, baft Sranb SBftitlodf, ber amerifanifcbe ©efaubte in QSelgicn, nicftt nad) tPriif. fel anriicftebrcn trirb. 2ie Siadbritf't foil in Sclgien fcftr uberrajcbt bsbcit 2Kan glaubt, baft General ron ©if fittg, ber beutftbe ©eneralgouuerncur eon Selgien, bie 3ru§tncijung ©bit locfy berlangte uub baft cr ebetxicll^ auf bie fofortige entferniuig ‘ bet mterifanifcfjcn unb foanifdjen ©c fanbtftftaften au§ ®ruft‘el uacEj §aurc, ben Sift ber bclgiftftett SRegtemng, bratxg. £ie§ toiire htoftl ber crjte Sd,ritt ber SBelt funb au tun, baft e§ fecm feine belgiftfte ^aubtfiabt SBriifd jicbt. 1 ©aSbomben fitxb mxr bann cine .tcrbotenc 9Baffe, trenn fie gegen bie f aUtterien angetrenbet tcerbexx.
