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Show MAJOR WILLIAMS IS " BUILOli HOSPITALS Former Adjutant General of Utah National Guard ' Busy in England. MAKING GOOD RECORD i J J. A. Mcllwee of Denver Tells of Trip to Europe to Visit His Son. j That the Americans stationed in England Eng-land set about their tasks in the charac- 1 teristic Yankee way and get things accomplished ac-complished while the Britons are deliberating delib-erating and planning is the observation of J. A. Mcllwee of Denver, who has just returned from Europe and is in Salt take, looking after matters of business. Mr. McTlwee met many Utah men while away, among them Major W. G. Williams, in charge of hospital construction work in England, under whom his son, Lieutenant Lieu-tenant J. Mcllwee, is serving in a construction unit. The Denver man celebrated Indepen- ; dence day with a group of American of- ; ficers and had them at dinner as his guests. In the afternoon at Chelsea he witnessed a baseball game between teams I representing the U. S. army and navy j in which King George V. pitched the first ball. i Major Williams Active. Major Williams is accomplishing big things in the field of construction, according ac-cording to Mr. Mcllwee. He completed in the month of July a hospital seventy-five seventy-five miles from London that has a capacity ca-pacity for 2500 patients. Some of the British officials rather wanted to discourage discour-age so gigantic an undertaking, declaring declar-ing It would require two and a half years to complete it. But the Americans could not be daunted in their venture and the structure was ready for occupancy five months after it was begun. Fighting" men are being transported to Europe in numbers almost unbelievable, says Mr. Mcllwee. The convoy of ships that he accompanied had aboard 35,000 persons, including 500 Red Cross nurses. A ship passed them when they were several sev-eral hundred miles out that was carrying carry-ing to the shores of France 7500 passengers. passen-gers. On the day that he landed at Liverpool 76.000 Americans were sent ashore at that single port. Hazards of Ocean. When asked about the hazard attend -i ng a trip across the ocean these days, Mr. Mcllwee said that there is no danger in going over, because guns are pointing every way into the sea from the various ships. "It would be suicide fov the submarine that would pop its nose out of the water," he said. "Many a submarine goes to the bottom that we hear nothing about. Coming Com-ing back the trip is anything but pleasant, pleas-ant, as the ships are. convoyed only a short distance this side of Ireland and then left, each to take its own course and its own chances. That accounts for many ships being sunk -on the return voyage." When the convoy of ships mat Mr. Mcllwee sailed with was 1300 miles from Liverpool two other vessels were sighted, one three miles ahead and the other three miles to starboard. At 2:30 p.' m. one of the ships, apparently a freighter, had sailed beyond the range of vision and at 4 o'clock the other vessel reported it sunk and sending out S. O. S. appeals for help. "But no attention is paid to S. O. S. calls any more, since the victimizing jf rescue ships sent to aid the sinking Lusi-tania," Lusi-tania," Mr. Mcllwee explained. "The Huns were successful in the first ruse, but thev have not been able to turn that trick as:ain. It is a safety-first measure to disregard every call 'for help whether it is real or faked." Submarine Sighted. On the return voyage when the ship on which he sailed was within 100 miles of New York, members of the crew sighted a large submarine sailing daringly dar-ingly on the surface of the water in the wide path of light reflected from the moon. It was sailing away from the shore. The next dav when news of the inking of the San Diego was announced t he homeward voyasrers were confident that they had seen the submersible that attacked her. - Mr. M'-nwee says the British people are cheerful and confident since the comma: com-ma: of the Yankees. They look upon the American boys as their saviors and they treat them royally. The 'isitor carries in his pocket a British meal coupon that he brought away as a souvenir. It permits the holder to have meat at the restaurants and cafes only four times a week. One-half One-half pound of sugar a week is the allowance al-lowance and that must be carried about by the guest if he wishes his coffee sweetened. Saccharine is used extensively extensive-ly as a substitute, but it is proving very unhealthful. Traveling is limited even more than in this country and 100 pounds is the limit on baggage. Drinking Is Setback. Commenting on the condition of the poorer classes during war time. Mr. Mcllwee Mc-llwee said: "Drink is the great curse In Great Britain today. It is pauperizing tens of thousands of her people. The public houses are open from noon to 3 p. m. and again from fi to 9 p. m. At every place from fifty to ln0 line up at the end of the working day fnr admittance admit-tance to the bar. And the sad part of it is. 75 per cent of them are women. "Another lamentable thing is the fact that the women of fashion are exploiting the American officers. lOturlisii officers are out of the running bet a use they do not draw so much pay and hence cannot furnish the el a borate di nners and entertainment. enter-tainment. One hotel announced on a huge placard that ft was headquarters for A merica n navy and army off irers, thus virtually closing its doors to civilians civil-ians and privates." Mr. MflHvee has four sons in the service, serv-ice, all volunteers. They are all in different dif-ferent branches of the service. Tlie visitor visi-tor is the senior member of the firm of J. A. Mcllwee & Co., tunnel contractors, lie has done extensive construction work in Ltah. Colorado and Canada. |