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Show rt DESERET- EVENING N '2 : - a - THREE SECTION SATURDAY NOVEMBER 1918 SALT Today t War Zone Affords Exciting Experiences For Ships That Foaght the Spaniards Twenty Years Ago So That is Not Her Name) on a Nameless Station Their Inestimable Worth to the Navy in Escort Duty and spect of All American and Allied Sailormen by Sterling Work and Efficiency in Spite of Handicaps-Tales THE SUICIDE To LAKE EIGHT at of Columbus Story oh the Matilda (Though HuAting Along With Their Younger Sisters Suicide Flotilla Has Won Re, of Wild Nights With Them at Sea. . the navy knows that the $heUs.rio pierce the armor, ' RiOTIUA. la an , TfieyVere among the first American men of to reach the war zono and they have steamed 20,000 mileS more miles than we ever steamed before!. in the last six months. The Matilda, imperially, has escorted 500 ships and she says, touching wood st the time she says it, that she haanLJost n ahip jLfar.Thcy had hardly rcached this side when an order came to the base to havethem camouflaged at .- wair7 - a M ' good. ancient tub, But like the rest she's in the dab,- , The Suicide itotlHa. ... Bhe- - rouidn't-ftg- PAGES 0d They Are Called theuConvoys IJ-Bo- She gets the reflte by the peck. And they can. yell It from her deck: 2 i CITY UTAH - Suicide-Flotill- t ojxn, tane: Away, 'Way with fife and Drum. The old- Matilda lo a wreck, , .The The'IIattle" AdvrrtMng MUM to ii1 okUf dwk room. Brtag It omt fct th r.ipk-a- - auh,. ? A once- J The old Susannah's very 'alow. , she'll But when there's need, always to, It's rain er storm or blow: 4 Whether Suicide The JlotlHa. Camouflage ! shrieked the wardrooms. . "Were camouflaged enough now! Nobody Would ever take ' us for a ship! They came to the war because they wre needed, takes her ease;- The "Mananna needed badly. and They came at a time when for In tho grease. months, by Shes yard American craft were streaming, through alt sorts of And then goes out to cough and whoese: The ulcldeFlotllla. weather, from every quarter of the globe, pestroy-er- a were hurrying from Manila. Coast Guardera Marvlous had three months of rest, were coming down out of the Bering Sea and off A life of ease and Idleness; But now she Is a common post:' The lnlernatlbharTce patreFliC the7NorthAUjmtior ' The Suicide FloUlla. Converted yachts were coming from San Franclseo - TWO "Annie' and her . nd New York. -- And up from Central and South funning mate Go out to sing thetr hymn of hate .America came th$ -- old banana boats, although as A&d shovel coal from morn 'till late: the banana boats themselves will tell you, they have Tho Suicide Flotilla. . two speeds ahead and stop. only ' Chorus ( fortissimo) I, - A GLORIOUS PA8T. - The battle fleet may drill and cruise, done had share their in They the Spanish war '1 .. tud get the glory, graft and booze. and they are doing their share in a war beside -But If they could, theyd glpdly choose - The Suicide Flotilla. - . which the Spanish war was a dog-figThe Map BT THE BLACK GANG, . velous (of course the name is faked in accordance - with the navys censorship rules, which forbids the mentioning of the names of naval craft until. they One of the Oldest of the Banana Boats In Dry (SpeciaFCorrespondenee.) One of the Newest of the Banana Boats, W Itb 69- -, "are Note Old . Tube In Dock, Stem. gunk orao me thing terrible happens to them; Foot tjNITED , Stacks. THE STATES Torpedo ITH. A f fcut the facts are not faked) The Marvelous, then, NAVY, at a Mediterranean Base, hot in cr Oct- - 22- - The Coast Guarder and stacked full of hay for the ambassadors stable. Its It sloshes into her focstle " and her wardroom her stack. She has a high pcpsure cylinder the size of e cf BUbao, Spain,.. eaten full of vfrorm-holthe naval officer-we- re waiting until she gets back to the base h Above the - a pound tin now, for the old Matilda Albe and to-- keep-i- t fr0ne-wf-tfro Miss., to Rotterdam with went to the bottom off Pensacola once, after a suboutside the flag office, . in the stem, they have lubes for old Howrunning away with the ship, she ha. a low pressure What ship you on? said the marine had rammed her, and she lay there for six ell torpedoes, but the tubes are now plugged up and cylinder, almost as big as. her engine room MehiUble off Mariel, and the Ma-an- d months after the pavy department abandoned her-uft- til have never served any purpose, except that the please dont laugh at her. .She has beautiful lines lde ,on wiUl u coast guard. took station off. Cardenas, Sir days later, the tilda a .to to offered said her. Matilda raise the used hers t, wrecking company "Matilda, navy. shes an ideal frighten the Mexican navy except for the acute inMarvoloua captured the Argonaia, a Spanish coaster But please dont smile when the old Matilda is When she was anchored off the Brooklyn side of digestion in her tummy. Not the old Matilda, said the coast guard. which had run the blockade out of Havana and coastmentioned. There are officers around the Tampico. : , Yup said the nary. For although the on May, 10, helped to cut two of the three Cuen COAL DEVOURED .MWe old base was Matilda to home. whom once north the had service 22 sea of years eight years guard -- architecture is . altogether Their absolcte and Cuba-Jamaiand Haytt cablet. - seven ef Hatteras,years south of Hatteras, fivo were chasing. Arias in the hills backofSanDo-ming- o cuts them up in Jine with what the navy "calls is true that she burns 37 tons a day and her Meanwhile, the Matilda It hand Into a. scrap a poked his one them told ,of me' and showed City, years in the Pacific (mostly the Bering sea) and, wardroom says that 33 tons of it goes up hfer stack, "wooden ahip stuff,', Their side fittings are as orIn Cardenas with'hree Spknish gunboats I Medal. won Bay May months had tbs medal, and my Haytian campaign by nate as side eight pro year! foreign navy fittings used to be in the old navy, and but not one of her wardroom bunch jwould. leave her 9 and the Mehitable joined Schleys Flying Squad-To- n of sea service, they had exactly the same number oL -- pulling up a hill on a coal truck in they have oid gunboat-WiwIs in thedockyhrd. of a smaller diameter "for the newest May 20 and on June 21, helped to land 3,000 1913. It looked' like artillery and when we got it "and stripes, namely to wit and viz., two." So' the navy a greater length than any the navy uses now. true she hae only 12 knot but she was .built In a men at Daiquiri,. 17 miles east of Santiago, It was to the topi H occurred to us it might be a goodjdea answered quite "Yup. An exPti0B must be noted here for the Marvelous, , day when there was little necessity for speed. And - the Mehitable, too, which headed off the -to loose Alphonse off . "What! said the coast guard. "Why, I went . to oupl justyto see what , however. (It was the Marvelous, by the way, which even her 12 knots was enough to keep the Mexican MarieU 25 ml!ea wegt of Havana and he!j. chuck up . ,t would happen. But we. had forgotten Abyssinia On her in.. 1883 E. Such in anchor at the of in tha Spanish America war; navy Tampico, although cd to. drive her ashore end set her afire. toward th quay for the recoil,. so after the first round7 the The navy waved his hand , Mexican navy as was there had 14 knots. But the for ail I know, she still has the same gun.) ' are full their share action of in this They seeing nnder down hill both the returned and the coal truck t ,, proof there she lay.. Mexican navy didnt know how many knots she had, on the Marvelous is worth a engine-roo-- The war, loo. .They have been operating In a sone in . : . their., own motive power. We were boththere.me Zarher?raaid the coast guard,. .. so they contented themselves with rushing down she in she When was was itself. which built, the war risk insurance rates have been highparagraph anAthe old Matilda!" . . "That iaahe, said the navj, and lifted his eyeto their firerooms trfice a day, kicking up the fires two Ysrrow and with boilers four 'Scotch in any other tone. ' They have attackod oh er equipped than Mar, now And the the the , Mehitable, Matilda, brows a very trifle. and running the steam up to 123 pounds, after which several occasions. Melville came the boilers, -The Matilda will tell yon of one along Velons and'CCrtain others of tbebanana boats: Welhnt'a Hun7lild tha'COdst guard; they contented themselves with watching the Marscheme called the "indark night when she and a British trawler were esin Board with a - The navy shrugged his shoulders' as if tomake' .ancient schooner-rigge- d gunboats, authorized velous, speculating on the number of knots she had corting a lone merchantman. , The trawler eras lost an expresa disclaimer of Hunt and coafct guarders ? 1889, completed in. 1892 And charter, members of the itial condensation and liquefaction scheme. They Z tn In- left on her out boilers them the and in the darkqesa early in the night and some time dock, , ripped submarines the German old are conversation the navy languished. hunting alike,vand haver-boilerold Her boilers. Mosher in ' six their after of None places has the would the it trio stalling midnight, the Matilda picked up an S. O. S. speed is still while they escort convoys in such a War as was . For It is a fact that the old Matilda two throttle valves and two necessitated had 20 some miles astern. . The S. O. S. came fast and been within recent can had built It but The in they' of their dreamed of never the she years; hap. lyrth. .. 47 j among us. It is true that at the moment, hut hen they revued her engme-rooon knot extra and an continuous, half despite the efforts of the. Matilda's oper- - . tack .a a! .by. to .seU JMehitablesomft try rigging .the . but theres six be to for weeks, overhaul, .department;jtried iu pena IL - Mils on the foe'stle Jmd mainsails on the her 5 ' to lhe ator break in with a "For Heaven's sake, give us t they only engine gave expansion quadruple Load quarter '"Tomorrow shes going Into dozen years ago, but nobody would buy her. no leave attached to-the 4n the She deck. in steam the when navy. of were the s, built For position! able still your down position with got finally they days bye-bd to (o theyre go dry dock B, but nobodys packing up " Now the Mosher boilers were found to be too was a heresy, when the navy went in for real sailor-- " sinking ship, ran back and nearly shook every rivet keep out st their own way. "Running? Of course, although for the next two weeks shell be up high s I Mehitable wardroom., high by 18 inches to go under her protective deck. men. They trace their, ancestry back to tha old , out of her ancient hull by dropping 14 ' were running says the and dry vth both propellers off. J " on obvious and1 the In 1845 So 18 built off survivors X iron tubes the whlc took inches the the wake, at and, first very picked Madison, up ship, see were her can they top, I to ve again. , After that, shell go running only yesterday. nsvyi ' the rest of the night trying to find her cono far as I know, still catching poachers on the which in burn. to no coal result The the them. spent left if of them saw know out Her Youd place befere. They you seen as her out Ive any go now, going voy. She found ft finally about dawn, but the trawgun sponsons. which splash up of this is that in a head wind, they have to. shut off" Takes. They are brothers to the old Texas, now ly-hcaptain hes the same captain who once ordered have ler was nowhere in sighLq It didnt show up until armored in 4 to bottom on the And for her if from wardrooms as to draft Bay, wet their sea Chesapeake ing of torching. keep a liis engine-roo- m knots and 25 they to bIow to keep thereby enough to test sheDs in the navy; for If the middle of the morning when it came into sight, need the speed and cant afford to shut off her draft, and used a in has base The the flooded fame at Matilda, target a particular, frogpond. and instant everlasting gained flying a hoist which explained to the Matildas cap'here will sound one long and some Bhorta for a . a long veil deck extending all the way from her she goes up and down the sea at night with, all her a new shell , goes through heT armor, then the navy who was senior escort officer, that there was ' no to fall If and six out It the knows off ahd she feet of when a tain,' flame that and deck of to ewuorl good, her roaring light ships will se, running quarter "poop startup tugj'her wardroom - x "nothing in sight" to the northwest."' They began will on the Jvietrola by way of a chanty; to near their destination late that afternoon and ; go below. for. a cigar; her gun .crewawilLfff-gun- . base . sent out an additional escort to bring the enunciator to the will covers and her captain i step them in, 'So their lone merchantman, escorted by n person and plead with bis engine room something the Matilda, a trawler, three destroyers, two hydrov after this wise: "Cant you give me a little more -planes and a kite balloon, finally limped into port at more two or one turns, on just apeed, cant you tack five knots with a smoke screen and a hot bearing. It .. Z cant you possibly whack her up to six knots? And was a great little convoy trip. to for will get a hot condenser and lay presently she ' " ALL LIT UP. " an hour. r was" the MarVdous, however, which"-spe- nt" COLUMBUS ESCOR-the "wildest night of all the- - banana boats. Now For the old Matilda, as any of her Wardroom , . the'Marveloufl lias two 09 foot stacks and since she will tell you, is the gunboat that - escorted -fpeela! Correspondence ) -has cnTy ,18 feet of beam, she hasnt much purchase still will across. 22. ONDON, Oct. Small talk Columbus convoy of caravels . They a X on .her sticks. - She was plowing' along-wit- h Is strange hearing for those 'toll you how she came into thejbase late last year, who listen" nowadays. I was at especially dangerous part of the in the rooming convoy through-She picked up Cape Spartel a dance, the other evening and zone on a night when it was especiallynecessary to' and all her deck gang lined up at the starboard tail show no lights, Thcrehad been. alios (submarine during a pause In the operations I ' to give Africa the up end down. She .rounded il down pear a group of girls and sat headed and warnings) just ahead of'thcm throughout the day, CSrbonero Point late in the afternoon young officers who were -drinking and .at night it was highly' pecessary to . sneak And would you believe it, her for the base. lemonade and chatting. ; , There were peals of merriment and through the sea without givingXny clue whatever wardroom continues, . the roofs were simply black list' occasional of silence rifts and I Meold the Ito the enemy submarines, cvery 7Bhip"Tcne w were For the old Matilda and with people I ened, expecting to hear the usual Iron Bath 'Works, the of waiting somewhere along their course: Just at mid- that occupy the brains hitable, two masterpieces piehsantrie " and tongues of young people In every ' reached the base together and since that day, the night, however, one of fhe Marvelous- - smoke pipe of life. But Instead of moon-...tigstation decided to carry away and went-fp- ul of ber name own guys y grod work ln hanging on and mnlo,mnioriea of past r- - Invincible Armada it is (he wardrooms M g th whistle ya dentally rd,mri been convoys have and of them escorting of moreto two gaieties for the prophecies t-1 come.-wha. . . heard 'was. War. War. . running lights, so that in an instant, she was trans one from In the out of base, in and coming and steadily changed always war being discussed in the the view-point formed from a silent bld(k ship to a ship blazing dock- Of men and women Is and most triumphant key trip, borrowing a piece of barbed wire at the .happiest with lights and screeching at the whistle like a man ,no off to -sea were Tbe lads and ,onB"ufU,,.!7,th?t Imaginable. telling hustling to fix up their engines, yard pointed . ' of their over there end narrow, with his throat cut. All in all, said the Marvelous' experience - - .!d northbonnded by , again. every one of them had some toward the 1 nearly t MeS. wardroom, it was. quite a nigjjt. U. S. the and Matilda feel; But the U. S. Sr 'story to recount concerning the kill- fnvn,tlon' " I hope you will not take' advantage of these But .th the! the Hun on Sept. 15 but, two days ' Ing ot Germane, and how strange dead America hitable are not tbe only banana boats on the base. til a few ddys ago that we had Just as stt rely as4w feel It tn bodies looked piled In grotesque attl- name of the man who was In com- -' later, a heavy counterattack obliged little incidents to make light of the old banana boata. You ought to see the U, S. iarvelous," the wardtudes In captured trenchre or ln.,h wemn cf Rrl'n- - thl Ae I wax mand ef the gallant little band ef them to relinquish Mt .again.' Three worlh to the Allied navies Is wriUen down In"" Their In f couple-olooks terjwheat aH our the The'ra,k,nr like later. clear she wood. , of tt s whom beenged swept vecapturs guna. reporting by s, etv Zoom advises yo; dy r nurse with two the number a RadCro-anSir to of over the seemed tows. Douglas Haig of the ritorial battalion ofJheir steaming hourj and the number absolutely Highland girls elevators!". horrible details and thV .onl3r.'.jo11 1W0nhK,r, coat while her of the one of Britain's old- - nounced the' exploit of the dogged "the Light Infantry, own they, have escorted, on the books . convoys as follows: Now the banana boats it is tha navys gat not eat fighting regiment. ' ' " j men of Moeuvres bound In .urelre, band contU b.UerePwhoVaa am Mt base. They will tell you at the base that , iw,. .at the to Is we Now he know that white which, re On occasion hostile of single them--athe the the Corporal squadron name for great She andested ln a cradle , that he hhd been "knocked out by their wprth can't be calculated in dollars,. Hunter, that hi home Is the, tack at Moeuvee.on the 17th Inst, t th in peace time, used to do police duty in the tropics, n!f, T"1 In Dunferm- -, a corporal and six men, forming the a bit of shell from one of our own rlllage-o- f little Kingseat, and banana' have boats The long hgnoraWa L blt,efrom guns and had never had a chance of think beyond an j garrison of one of our posts Just north , line, and that, before the war, he mostly in the West Indies and Mexico, cruising cssmnal admiring much lees capturing, miner. Ha la nf Vlileg was etrrnlin,ist end Hiingor Helnle"or just an ordinary coat an(1 fr" ? . , V. Cj- and 4leved to have been captured. During Boche of the during certain "Frltx"r noticed jng week after week and month after . month- ,- the and the Hotel Plaza Grande) to Puerto Cortes to meanwhile be is coming borne on the two day In which 1one specially the 'all the course ' or his experiences hon- w ieed bearing hardesFTwork. they ever did, and" the Stars-anthe front. Its hard luck. he eald , th of 'Wweuvree this Blucfields to Puerto- - Prince to San Domingo City to leave that had bden granted him Just were -"1rk ,ldl,r' -he one In of few came the that his -. fact.before the opportunity maintained tblr poalpause, way party, in v Stripes whip just as. proudly over" thelr quarter -p tw-- s ,ie Mscoris and intermittently to GuanHosuwpi' hWcl Problem. alone made gloomy. but Ill be back to demonstrate the stuff thac.lslo. iiOn Wlth great gallantry and inflict-hlas they do over the quarter decks of the new- -, decks ot hay from m - 'The. i at them soon again and if 1 don't ac- - The 'talk about the coal situation and to fetch a little mtn0K - town -- of ,ed.jnny nasealties on the enemy. On ,, . ' So n I throughout England la occasioning ar est please for"yok count for at least a Inat.. when Kingseat Is sure to give him. a tre-- fh night of the Jth-J0t- h . Santiago u.. Cuba for Bulliva. rtirse at San mendoue 111 sever another dence those deal this anx'iety CLAIR BICEL but from among ef be was our you Moeuvreft retaken merriment. promise good welcome, by troopa -that " j dck, -I .a l rtrangw DomtngO TTfiy. Its fox trot. ; ni be glad "to'escspe, for What he j (Copyright," 1918.)- ", on page two.) about! (Continued see an on Condnaed conversations Old Matilda v elch ued to b l to the Five wants moot ago, on years 4he page two.) deck really e . , quarter T. ... ; -- ht ' es SBf e again.-waterlin- -- Bui?0 ' sea-boa- .A a absent-mindedl- fuegos-Santiagq- cs 'It er -- y, - w " m -- -- s ' . hslf6.3 depth-charge- ye depth-charge- e er yl her-Exe- -- "It ely -- uuntirth.wereved fe ht Ia , Khort-eirjmit-in- . , t ?' ne ," kd half-doze- -- v -- T. X 1 ' J Jt |