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Show r SECTION S DESERET EVENING NEWS. THREE SATURDAY MAY 24' 1919 SALT LAKE CITY .UTAH Famous Figures In EIGHT PAGES Foreign Versatile British Admiral, Pilot at Fifty-Fou-r, Will Risk the Atlantic Flight in Giant Handley-Pag- e Machine He Has Hfld Many Adventures Already, Bat Thirsts For More Centenary of Steam to Celebrated: William Mills, Inventor of Famout Hand Grenade, Chairman of Committee Malang Plans For Hundredth Anniversary of Death of James Watt, Inventor of Steam Engine Musician Gets $ 100 as Solace For jLibelous Reflection on His Patriotism Had an Austrian Wife, However, and He Lived on Her Earnings For Reciting Anti-Britis-h Odes to Hun Audiences- 1 ONDON, May 14. If ' Sir Mark Kerr carries out hi present intention of making vpn of the crew of the giant Vice-Admir- ' Handley-Pag- four-engin- e ma- chine which is. soon to attempt the Atlantic , flight, from this country to America, and get across safely, Americans wQl see one of this counfrys most picturesque and verBa veterans. He' is likely to prove just slant the most interesting visitor that you over there have had the privilege of welcoming for a considerable number of moods. . Adimral Kerr is 64 and already has had adventures enough, in many dimes, to satisfy most men. They have not satisfied this retired British seadog, however, and. scarcely a week passes with-- t out witnessing some Stant on .his part that would be notable if "performed by a man of half , his in Brit-- ; i years. At 50, he was the first did it on sins fleet to qualify as an (he a Sopwith seaplane in July, 1914), and he has . - ? been flying constantly ever since. When the Prince of .Wales, in company with ! Lady Joan MulhoQand, who is to his Claude Lord and Hamilton, : sister. Princess Mary, i chairnyn of one of Englands greatest railways. was recently taken for a flight over London in a trig HandVy-Pag- e bombing machine. Admiral' Sir Mark Kerr made a. fourth passenger. The piloi s oa this occasion was Lieut. of the R. A. Y- -, toe but, in the course of flight, Admiral Kerr j who previously had sat in the front cabin, exchanged places with him, and for some time piloted .toe i machine. A few days later toe admiral flew to London from Andover on another Handley-Pag- e t machine, and he has been in the air practically every day sines then. He retired from the navy in October last, in order to facilitate the promotion of jounger men, and for some time has been closely works with the big Handley-Fsg- e , connected at Crickl ewood. I waa told there. yesterday that, the. admiral's offer to make one of the crew. of the' 1 ter, in the Soudan. He has been naval attache in - It is also proposed to raise a fund to endow a Watt chair of engineering in the University of Italy, Austria and Turkey, and his many decorations include the Royal Humane societys medal Birmingham and to erect a Watt memorial museum for saving life at sea. ' He won it by jumping to ?r Birmingham where examples of his work and of Boulthe assistance of a sailor who had fallen overboard those of his contemporaries and and who was just going down for the third time ton and Murdock can be collected. when .Sir Mark got to him. Besides being a In putting forth the claims of Birmingham to of the Bath and a member of the Victorian the Watt celebration, Mr, Mills, who by the way is Order, he is a knight commander of the Russian not a Birmingham man, points oat that although Order of St. Stefan and Stanislas, grand officer he was born in Woolwich, a suburb of London, cf the Italian Order of Maurice and Lazarus, com- and lived for some years in Glasgow, his real life mander of the Crown of Italy, and knight com-- .work was done in Birmingham, the city of his adop- eom-Jhand-er p('$)e.Qr?ek, Ql.of-AW-IledoenaeR.- he .. also possesses the Spanish Order of Merit, and British Coronation medal. The house in which he lived and died is still stand-thing in Birmingham and in it is still his garret n Clean shaven, with a square jaw, he looks the workshop where most of his experiments were of action, and is hard as nails. He used to ned out, in exactly the condition in which he left be in the front Tank of polo players and gentle- - it. Had it not been for the help afforded him by and revels in hunting, fishing and Birmingham men, notably by Boulton who placed He married, in 1906, Miss Rose Gough, his workshops at Watts disposal, the Watt steam ahooting. in known officer the of 'well a Royal .engine might never have been born. daughter GETS DAMAGES FOR LIBEL. Dragoons, and they have two daughters. The ad- Frederick Lamond, a British pianist who has mirals poems include, "The Destroyer and a Cargo an international reputation and is su'd to he the The Prayer of Empire, of Notions, Nelson, Flying, etc. He has also published a number of greatest bring exponent of Beethovens music, was essays, notably ones on The Spirit of Nelson, and recently awarded $100 damages against a LonHow Nelsons Memorandum was Carried out at don newsraper which in February, 1915 gave curBoth these were published in Th rency to a report that he, Lamond, had been obliged Trafalgar. to become a naturalized .German. This award Nineteenth Century! came as a surprise to most persons who had fol" CENTENARY OF STEAM. lowed the of Esmond's extraordinary libel ' On Aog. 25th next H will be 100 years since action, the progress general opinion having been that the mu- -. the death of James Watt, toe inventor of the sician would get no more than the customary one steam engine! and the engineers of Birmingham, farthing that is given when a person wjjo the city of his adoption, where he spent the last himself libeled ' is held to have proved it, 40 years of his life, snd where most of his work but to have failed to demonstrate that he haq sufwas done, are preparing for a great memorial celefered serious damage. bration at which it is hoped. all the principal enFor, truth to tell, this famous musician, who is gineering societies of the Allied world will be Scotch by birth, can hardly 'be said to have emerged from the legal proceedings with an unblemished The chairman of the committee which has - escutehron. Most people, in fact, are disposed to been formed to organize the celebration is William who,-i- n agree with summing up, remarked Mills, inventor of the Mills hand grenade which that Lamond was neither a naturalized German Mr. Atlantic- - flight? did so much to win tbe war 'for- - toe Alhes. was he a defiant British huge Mills has got together a committee of engineers subject, but something 'in between lias not yet been definitely 'accepted, but its safe The facto of from all over England and invitations have been tbe case, as remarkable n one as has betting that it will be. Tbe piKtt of this machine recently occuos ha transatlantic trip will be Major Albert Brack-fe- y, tent out to leading engineers and engineering pied the attention of a British, court are these. in America, France, Italy and all the other one of Englands most experienced and expert Frederic Lamond, who was born in Scotland in Biers. He was in command of the big Handiey-Pag- e. leading engineering countries except those which 1868, has played the piano in all parts of the bombing squadron in France, and at one have been fighting against us. Moet of the Eng-- , world. In 1905, he married a Viennese actress of time commanded the Royal Naval Air Service at l:sh societies have accepted, the only dissent comconsiderable reputation, who is known on the ConDunkirk. He was in charge of the bombing operating from Glasgow, where Watt worked for a tinental stage, as Irene Triesch. He made his home ions at Zeebrugge and Ostcnd, and was toe pilot while, and which thinks it ought to have the cele- in Berlin which, he explained in court, was a conof the machine which conveyed the king and, queen bration, but it is expected that this slight note of venient center for his work. ' His wife acted in discord will be overcome and that all of Britains the Prussian of the Belgians back to their country immediately capital engineers will unite to do honor to the man who as free of tbe enemy, When war broke out in August, 1914, the mutrade modern transport possible. sician was with his wife in Switzerland. He petiPOET AS WELL AS PILOT. As the 25th .of Angust falls in a period which tioned the German government for leave ft return As for Admiral Sir Mark Kerr, he not nly is almost universally -- observed as a holiday tim to Berlin, in order, he explained, that he might get flies, but rhapsodises about flying in lyrical verse, x in England," it ha been decided to hold the cele-ku-ig his money and property, and also, by his own ad- a poet and author of more than average abil- - . trations in the third week of September. These mission, stated that be might contemplate becomfry In 1913 he was lent to the Greek navy, and as will consist of services in the parish church at ing a German. In October, 1914, he obtained perCaptain Mark Kerr he commandedthe Implaea- - --Handsworth Birmingham; which1 Watt attended, a mission, went to Berlin and remained there for in the grounds of the house hi which some time. k" when the Kaiser lunched on board the ship garden-part- y His life there, he stated, was misCorfu nine, years ago. He is the son of h lived, an exhibition of Watt relics in the count-he had to' report daily to the police as an erable; v ether admiral, Lord Fred' Verr, and was born 1 chamber at Birmingham, a centenary dinner alien enemy; he Was not allowed to draw his money fe with addresses by famous engineers, and a series from the . September, 1864. bank; he was restricted to 14 mile He entered the Royal Navy in 1877 and served cf excursions. Of course this is a mere skeleton radios from his bouse; and be was not allowed to n he which will be filled in afterwards. scheme, Egyptian war in toe Naval Brigade and, laplay the piano in public. His wife continued to per- flag-offic- e ear-ma- s, er air-pB- - lady-in-waiti- 1 Can-other- 1 , con-cide- rs the-judg-e, nor'pro-Gerr!ari,ne!tb- er ie t . t ... fopn at the theatre, and received payment for doing so. He was treated with contumely and was able to go out only after dark, as the Germans were so unpleasant. He constantly, he said, petitioned to be allowed to leave Berlin. JN GERMAN PRISON CAMP. On November 6, 1914, he was arrested and, after being placed in a cell with other Englishmen, and treated abominably, was sent to Ruhleben, where he had to bve in a horse-boHe applied to be released on the ground of heart trouble, and also, lie admitted, signed a form stating that be might become v.storallied as a "German? Afte'a internment, he was released and returned to ' Ber lin, where he lived under what he described as galling restrictions. He was, he declared, pestered by officials and fnends to become a German,, On April 13, 1917, be was exchanged with a German and left .Berlin with only $25. His. x. but-refus- ' I that Lamonds behavior when 'a prisoner was hardthat of a loyal Briton. Former and at Ruhleben with him in the Berlin police-ceswore that while in the former, they heard him ly fellow-prison- er ll remark to Germans" that England was to blame for all the trouble, and that, while at Ruhleben, he wanted to send a petition to England accusing this country of bad treatment of Germans which brought about reprisals by the Germans at their expense. .It was farther alleged that Lamond to' the German Crown Prince to get him out of Ruhleben, and that the latter used his influence tti Uo so: Til' tors cfennectiffrTil ' Vas pblnted'buit as significant that no other British prisoner at the .famous Berlin camp, ever had been released after only six days confinement and thereafter permit-- led to live in Berlin in comparative freedom. As for tbe concert in aid of the German Red Cross which Lamond had been advertised to give, -- ind Tel eased, which he declared he had refused to give, a feminine witness was produced whose evidence put a different complexion upon this incident too. Thia witness, Mrs. Del-mwhose husband is Berlin correspondent of the London Daily Mail, said that she was living in Berlin, where her husband was a lecturer, in tbe winter of 1914. Lamond, in the course of a conversation with her, said that on the eve of the concert for the German Red Cross, someone rang him up and said that he had not better perform at the concert because ' of the jealousy of German musied ed. wife remained )ehin4 and fulfilled her contracts as an actress. While' at Ruhleben he had been advertised to perform at a concert in aid of the German Bed Cross, but when he came oat of toe prison camp he refused and paid the expenses which had teen incurred. When he left. Berlin he accepted the posf of chjef of the piano department of tbe Conservatorie at The Hague, snd he remained at The Hague until January, 1919, when he came to England for the first time since the outbreak ' of war. , Meanwhile,. there had appeared in several English newspapers statements to toe effect that he cians. . The case for Lamond ended with the testimony had been obliged to become a naturalized Gernvn. of several witnesses, including toe wife of Vice On arriving in England, friends drew his attention to these, and the musician promptly descended Admiraj Slade, R. N., who called the newspaper libels to the musician's attention, and one of his (through his lawyers), upon the offending journals. fellow prisoners at Ruhleben to the effect that they All but one of them appeased his wrath by paying had never heard him utter sentiments. damages, this one. The Daily Sketeh,. decided to ' fight. It already had published a handsome apology EXCORIATED BY COUNSEL. to Lamond, but the musician yearned, he explained :n the witness box, for a statement in court to clear Scaling comments on the musicians actions, froth first to last were passed by the s&uBSeMbf ce name.-Henhis action for libel The Bewspagers ca.v,' a ,pn?SCJtlted gal representatives, painted Lamond in considerably speech. He directed attention to Lamonds lengthy different colors front those employed by bis own tesidence at ThV Hague after his fe lease from Germany. awyers in setting forth his grievance. To begin The plaintiff preferred," said the counsel, to with, it was pointed out as significant that he, sit on 'the fence in Holland, waiting until the battle ! representing himself as he did, as a loyal and of the Somme had come to a conclusion, to see even fervid Briton, should have g- - ne direct from Switzerland to Berlin as soon as he could manage whether erdun and other French towns would fall, to do so after the outbreak of war. The musician ' waiting to see whether he should go back to Germany or go to England. had admitted that his wife, as an Austrian born, Do you think," he asked the jury, that any was naturally but ih was revealed in court that during most of Lamonds residence in one of the other 5500 Britons who were in Ruhle-te- n would have stayed in The Hague if they had Berlin, and when he was 'dependent upon her teen allowed to go there? It would be an utter Mrs. Lamonds chief professional activiearnings, ties had consisted of standing up before audiences cegradation to this newspaper, the counsel added! if, knowing that men were burning to comn forsnd reciting poems and odea praying for the sucward to let them know what was the truth, they cess of the German arms. were such utter cowards thai, rather than face HIS QUESTIONABLE LOYALTY. an action, they paid this man, leaving every one This man stayed in Berlin, declared the opwho knew tbe story to believe that while those who posing counsel drawing his money, from this stayed in Germany were content to uphold the woman who was openly praying Aat the English name .they were proud of, the defendants were-afraimight be crushed, and he knew' that Berlin was to back them up. r placarded with the triumph she was getting before The jury, however, took the view that LaGerman audiences praying for the defeat and degmond was entitled to damages and awarded them, radation of the country of which her husband was as has been stated, to the comparatively, trivial cuch a loyal supporter," amount of taenty guineas or fbout a hundred ' Furthermore, witnesses were produced to show dollars. - - " g ar, e, |