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S T A R VOL. X X X III SOLDIERS’ AND SAILORS’ CLUB Club Rooms for the Boys is Now an Assured Fact EAST HAM P T O N, N. Y., JUNE 7, 1918 NO. 29 PA IN T ER S B U S Y ON P R O P E R T Y Many Articles for Furnishing the Rooms Have Been Donated by Citizens The home fo r the soldiers and sail ors is rapidly gain ing the appearance of a real home. The rooms are being freshly painted, the p a in t used being donated by public spirited citizens and the work o f p a in ting being done by volunteers. Several articles of furniture have already been donated and for the benefit of those who may have some pieces or som e thing that m ight be useful in the home, we publish below a list o f articles already given. This club is sure to be a suc cess, because everything is being done voluntarily, even the paym e n t of the year’s rent is to be paid by dolljy sub scriptions. A t a special m e e ting of the L. V. I. S. the follow ing persons promised to contribuate the articles nam e d : Mrs. N . H . D a y ton, 6 silver tea spoons, G silver forks; Mrs. Darby, 2 doz. teaspoons; Mrs. K a te Van Fossen, 1 castor, 2 sugar spoons, 1 butter knife, 6 table spoons, 2V£ doz. forks, 1 Vfc doz. knives, 6 teaspoons; Mrs. Lester M u lford, 1 doz. glasses; Miss A s p inw a ll, 1 doz. glasses; Mrs. Charles Edwards, 1 doz. blue plates, 1 wash bowl and pitcher; Mrs. H. J. Rees, 1 table; Mrs. John H a n d , wash bowl, pitcher, soap dish; Library, 1 large library table, 2 sm a ll tables, 2 desks, 10 chairs; Mrs. W o odhouse has offered a piano; Mrs. HollisU-r, victrola, some chairs; Mrs. Taylor, of W a inscott, curtains, linen; Mrs. Ho bart, porch chairs; Mrs. M acLanahan, beds, tables, electric lig h t fixtures, and a num b e r of other things; Mrs. E. M. Edwards, hat rack; Mrs. Gron, 2 pitchers, rug, some carefully se- laoliwl M a n y other women have promised- to give things, but have not sent in lists. C o n tributions are also solicit ed from others. SEAPLANE FALLS INTO SOUND Machine is Wrecked, But Two Montauk Aviators Escape W ith Ducking A n aviator and a pilot had a nar row escape fro m drow n ing Monday afternoon'W h e n hydroplane 79 of the U. S. N. A ir S tation a t M o n tauk Point dropped 30.0 feet into Shelter Island sound 300 yards off the Shelter Is land shore and tw o miles from Sag: Harbor. Engine trouble caused the acci-. dent. The m a c h ine volplaned, bat landed heavily. One pontoon was smashed when the m a c h ine hit the water, w ith the result th a t it cap sized and sank. The accident was witnessed by Mrs. Clifford Clark, who telephoned the Bliss Com p a n y works, which sent out its speed launch to rescue the two men. The craft also towed the wrecked m a c h ine to C lark ’s ferry slip. N o rth Haven. Before land was reached the tail broke off and sunk. W ithin an hour a rescuing crew a r rived from the aviatio n station and took charge. The machine, which is of the type used in patrol duty, was ;i total wreck. The aviato r ’s name was reported to be Coffin. The accident occurred off the shore from the sum m e r hom e o f Art- emus T. W a rd on Shelter Island. T H R E E SO N S IN S E R V IC E M r. and Mrs. J. L. Goldstein are the proud parents o f three sons, who are now serving in different branches of our arm y . On Tuesday their second old est son. M orris, le f t fo r a camp in Pennsylvania, where he was ordered to report. M orris is ju s t twenty-one years old and belongs to the M e d ical Corps, U. S. A. The other tw o sons •re Louis, who enlisted when only nineteen and has already served three m o n ths as m e c h a n ician in the A v iation Corps in London, and W illiam , their old est son, also in the A v iation Corps, stationed in South C a r o lina. W illiam has gained the rank of Serg. M ajor. S P E A K IN G O F P IC T U R E S In a letter w ritten home from Paris, Clifford Edwards gives some first-hand evidence of a dreadful th ing we can hardly believe when we read it in w a r books. “ S p e a k ing of pictures, I am going to send you one o f a little B e lgian boy, who lives near our offices. He is a bright little kid w ith only one hand. A Germ a n took the other for a souvenir. \ I used to think that many o f the stories of German atro cities were stretched. As a m a tter of fact, it is not easy to get people here to talk about such things. They w a n t to fo r get them, or rather I think they do not like to dwell on them. Those things w ill never be forgotten. Miss Dehier, the little French girl who is m y chief clerk, and whose father has been a prisoner in G e rm a n y since 1914, told, the other day, of an experience which her uncle had in the early days o f the Germ a n ad vance in northern France. He came upon a w ounded Germ a n by the side of the road, who begged him fo r a drink of water. B e ing a cautious man, The Frenchm a n relieved the Germ a n o f his knife (he had no rifle) and searched him be fore com p lying with his re quest. In one of the German's pockets he f o u n d a child’s hand. F o r thw ith he put a bullet through the miserable creat ure’s head.” MISS WIBORG SAVES LIVES W ounded Soldiers Helped to Place of Safety by American Women The follow ing article appeared in W e d n e s d a y ’s New Y o r k Times, Miss M ary H o y t W iborg is the daughter of F r a n k B. W iborg, who owns one of the prettiest sum m e r homes here. Miss W iborg has been an active work er in the Red Cross and fo r several m o n ths has seen service in France. Some hundreds o f French w o u n d ed probably owe their lives to the pluck and bravery of tw o Am e rican w omen, Mrs. H e rbert G. Squires and Miss M a ry H o y t W iborg, o f New York. A lone and unaided, except by two nuns, they cared for 600 French w ounded for twenty-four hours in a little tow n back o f the M arne, M ay 31. These tw o noble women are w o rk ing in the French m e d ical service. A nunnery had been turned into a hos pital, largely furnished through the efforts of Mrs. Squires. T h a t n ig h t the w ounded began to pour into the hospital. Its capacity o f 500 was soon taken up. Mrs. Squires and Miss W iborg set about doing w h a t they could, binding up wounds. Then a trainload of w ounded from the M a rne pulled into the station. M iss W iborg went there and super vised the unloading of the wounded. She w e n t through the train, giving instructions to ease the pain o f the gravely wounded. The next day she showed me her fingers where tim e a fter tim e she had pierced them in the needed haste of the work of m ercy. M eanw h ile Mrs. SqUires was busy at the hospital. The next day C a p tain Sterling Beardsley, o f the A m e rican Red Cross, arrived w ith Miss Susanne W ithers and Miss M ary W ithers, of the Red Cross, and Mrs. M ary H a m m o n d , Miss Peyton, and Miss Meun- iere, lent by Miss A n n e M o rgan’s or ganization. These young women worked v a liantly. Unused to m e d ical work, they had to do i t and gave h u n dreds o f injections successfully. T h a t day Mrs. Squires went to the Headquarters o f the French Arm y and laid the situation before the com m a n d e r, w ith the result th a t a corps o f doctors arrived shortly and saved the situation. These women, used in civil life to gentler things, pointed here to one soldier, saying that he was about to die. to another saying that he would get well, and so on, always w ith a word of cheer fo r those who could hear and understand. N e ither had had m o re than three hours’ sleep in forty-eight hours. MUST BE 100 PER CENT. AMERICAN Denaturalization W ill Fol low Disloyal Acts by Naturalized Citizens A T T O R N E Y G E N E R A L IS A C T IV E A lready Three N a turalized Citizen* Have Been Tried for Disloyalty The Departm e n t of Justice author izes the follow ing: The Attorney General has instruct ed all U n ited States attorneys to bring to his attention immediately all cases of naturalized citizens, whether or not of German origin, who have evidenced such disloyalty to the U n ited States as would ju s tify the com m e n cem e n t of denaturalization proceedings against them. In each case so reported the district attorneys are instructed to furnish a summary o f the facts which can be established on the trial. Recently the U n ited States atto r ney fo r the district of New Jersey brought a proceeding fo r denatur alization against Frederick W . Wus- terbarth, a naturalized Germ a n na tive. The proceeding was based up on the ground that the defendant’s final papers had been secured by frau d , consisting of a secret reser vation of allegiance to G e rm a n y at the tim e W u s terbarth form a lly made oath of unqualified allegiance to the U n ited States. The evidence from which a reservation m ight be inferred consisted of disloyal statements made since the declaration of war. Judge H a ight, of the district court, ordered the cancellation o f W u s terbarth’s na turalizatio n papers. Two sim ilar cases recently arose in the western district of W a s h ing ton. In the first, which apparently involves the same legal proposition as the New Jersey case, U n ited States D istrict Judge Cushm a n denied a mo tion to dismiss the proceedings. In the second W a s h ington case a Ger m a n who served w ith the Germ a n .,r9A2_l(UJL9<Ll-flnd. tificate o f naturalizatio n cancelled. The decisions of the D istrict Courts are considered of im m e d iS ^ im p o r t ance by the A ttorney General because o f the far-reaching effect which such decisions should have in discouraging disloyalty on the part of all natural ized citizens. It is the intention of the A ttorney General to institute sim ilar proceedings w ithout delay in all cases where the facts appear to w a r ran t such action. — The Rev. Russell G. Nye, form e r pastor of the Calvary M ethodist C h u rch of H u n t ing t o n Station and the C o ld S p r in g H a rbor M. E. Church, has arrived safely \Som e w h e re in France.’’ The Rev. Mr. Nye is chap lain o f the 204 M achine G u n B a t talio n . A m e rican Expeditionary Forces. ANTI-LOAFING PROCLAMATION All Men Between Eighteen and Fifty Years Must W ork P O R T O R IC A N S IN U. S. The first Porto Rican laborers to reach the U n ited States under Gov ernm e n t auspices w ill be a t work up on G o v e rnm e n t contracts w ithin a m o n th. The E m p loym e n t Service of the D e p a r tm e n t of Labor has already foun d em p loym e n t f o r at least 10,000 o f these men as common laborers on construction work a t N o r folk, New port News, Baltim o re, and vicinity. A rrangem e n ts are now being made by the D e p a r tm e n t of Labor to pro vide proper housing fo r these men. LOCAL BOY IN AIR RAID D R A S T IC N E W Y O R K ST ATE L A W Sheriffs and Others Have Bee structed to Seek for Shirkers In- Governor W h itm a n has made pub lic the text of the anti-loafing proc lamation. The proclam ation sets forth that the industries of the State related to and essential in the successful pros ecution of the w a r and the production transportation and conservation of food supplies require a large supply of labor to be regularly and habitu ally engaged therein. It continues: \Now , therefore, I, Charles S. W h itm a n , Governor of the State of New Y o r k , * * * do hereby pro claim that public exigency requires that every able-bodied male person, between the ages o f eighteen and fifty years, inclusive, be habitually and regularly engaged in some law fu l, useful and recognized business, profession, occupation, trade or em ployment until the term ination of the present w a r w ith G e rm a n y and its allies, or u n t il the Governor by like proclamation m a y otherwise order.” The proclam ation also declares that any able-bodied male person be tween eighteen and fifty years of age who refuses to be employed fo r at least thirty-six hours a week, or who after unsuccessfully seeking employ ment, fails to register w ith the B u reau of Em p loym e n t of the D e p a rt ment of Labor, or w ith such agency as the State Industrial Commission may designate, w ithin thirty days, or who refuses to accept employment assigned to him by the commission, or who continues out of employm e n t for thirty days w ithout having regis tered, is liable to a fine not exceed- $100, or im p risonm e n t fo r not o Ihnn thrpn months, nr hoth. the enforcem e n t o f the law are <31- rected “ to seek diligently the names and places of residence of able- bodied males w ithin their respective jurisdictions, between the aforesaid ages, not regularly or continuously em p loyed,\ and shall render to the In d u s trial Commission such assist ance and service in carrying out the provisions of the law as may reason ably be required or requested by the Commission. F IV E W E E K S TO F IN I S H B A R G E NOT E X C IT E D B Y U-BOATS M a jor L. D. Dyer, of the Sixth Separate B a ttalion, on being questioned concerning the operations of the German U-Boats in the proximity of Long Island, made the follow ing rem ark: “ W e have six com panies of guard, equipped with the most modern rifles and sup plied w ith am m u n ition. A bom bardm e n t is possible, but not probable from a U-Boat. Should any landing be con templated, we are ready for them, and can give a w a rm re ception.’’ There are tw o com panies of State Guards in East Ham p ton and it is fo r ju s t such possibilities as this that the Guard was organized. The people of East Ham p ton re ceived M o n d a y ’s news o f the U-Boat activities very calmly considering their nearness to the coast. O N E C E N T F A R E The United State Railroad A d m in istration authorizes the follow ing: D irector General M cAdoo, realiz ing that the paym e n t of the fu ll rail road fare means a serious hardship to our soldiers and sailors who desire to visit their homes before going over seas, has ordered that as soon as ne cessary details can be completed sol diers and sailors of the United States forces, when furloughed and travel ing at their own expense, w ill be granted a rate of approxim a tely one cent per mile. This fare w ill be avail able on delivery to ticket agents of certificate signed by com m a n d ing of ficers- AMERICA IN FRONT RANK Shells Fall W ithin a Few Yards of His Sleeping Quarters S. S. U. 625 Convoir Autos, Par B. C. M., France, M ay 1, 191 Sr- Dear Sister: W e ll, this is M a y 1st and I have been about fo u r months away from the States and it is five m o n ths since I was home. T im e seems to fly quickly. I told m o ther that I would leave any exciting m a terial fo r you. But, before I go on to that, I thank you for the box of w o n d e r ful things that you sent. I t came yesterday. I tell you I surely enjoy those cigarettes and candy, and the socks are fine for the present weather. Those real Pall M alls look so good. I ’ll keep those fo r special occasions. Thank Miss M iller for those that she sent me and I ’ll w rite her soon. The nowder is also fine. As soon as I '‘grabbed” the box, I smelt it. The whole thing is great. W e ll, the other nig h t ju s t after I w e n t to bed and was lying awake, I fe lt m y nostrils pinching. In a m inute or two, I sat up in bed and was about to suggest the presence of gas, when one o f the other fellows, who has been in the w a r since 1915, shouted, “ Gas.” This was at 11:00 p. m. Everyone who was awake put (C o n tinued on Page E ight) The first barge to be built a t the yards o f the U n it Ship and Dock Com p a ny, Port Jefferson, was launch ed last week. This barge is one of the eight that the U n it Ship and Dock Com p a ny has a contract to build fo r the Navy Departm e n t. The dimensions of the barge are 110x10x32 feet and they have a capacity of 700 tons. They will be used as coal carriers. The c r a f t launched last week has been under construction five weeks. LETTER FROM DANIEL GRIMSHAW He Was On a Destroyer and Witnessed Destruc tion of Ship W ith the Colors, A p r il 25th, 1918. Dear M o ther: This m o rning at about 4:15 o’clock I saw the most picturesque scene of m y life. There is, however, great gloom attached to it and I speak of it w ith no glee whatsoever. It was the sinking of a large vessel, as we were standing by, not fifty yards away, taking off survivors. W e were about fifty miles from port and expected to arrive there shortly a fter daylight when I went on watch at 12 to 4 this m o rning. A t about 3 a. m. as I was wearily search ing the water, with my face straight into a heavy dow n p o u r of rain and w ind, I could see the fa in t outline of a vessel on our beam. Suddenly there was a smothered explosion and a flare of lig h t flashes from the ves sel. W e im m e d iately came to hard- a-port and hastened to her rescue w ith all possible speed and were soon circling around her, searching in vain fo r her Germ a n enemy. W e , however, did not see her, although they fired on her ju s t as we were com ing up. W e cautiously kept zig-zaging about her for a good half-hour to be sure we would not serve the same fate as her’a a.id then we set to w o rk to (C o n tinued on Page E ig h t) REGISTRATION FOR NEXT DRAFT Only Seventeen Local Boys Have Reached Age in Past Year W IL L BE IN T R A IN IN G SOON Registrants Are From East impton Village, Rest From Nearby Places Shipbuilding Being Con ducted on a Vast Scale, SavslFncigs r -------- Ocean transportation is o f such v ital im p o rtance in the prosecution o f this war, that I am going to de scribe an inspection trip I recently made to the shipyards of the Dela ware River in com p a ny w ith the Con gressional Com m ittee on the M er chant M arine. The transition of the U n ited States from a neutral to a belligerent nation in the world con flict witnessed the inauguration of a vast program of m e rchant ship con struction. For years we had neglect ed our over seas ship building indus try and had allowed the bulk o f our gigantic foreign trade to be carried in alien bottom s. The stars and ^tripes, which once floated from A m e rican ships upon all the oceans of the globe, had disappeared t o m the w o rld’s commerce, for our en ergies and our capital in recent de cades had been employed in the con struction of railroads, the building of industrial establishments, and\ the developm e n t of our agricultural and m ineral resources. Before describing the ship yards, however, I desire briefly to refer to the shipping situation a t the present tim e . On the declaration o f w a r in 1914, G e r m a n y ’s m e rchant ships were driven to cover and m a n y o f liie ships o f England and France were w ithdraw n from various trade routes fo r w a r purposes w ith the result that commerce was disorganized every where. From figures recently published, it is indicated that the Allies and neu trals on Ju ly 1st, 1914, had ships w ith a total tonnage of 42,575,000; that between Ju ly 1st, 1914, and J a n uary 1st, 1918, losses due to w a r and m a rine risks were 11,827,000 tons; that durin g this period there were built 6,605,000 tons, (all o f which, however, were not fo r over seas trade). There were added to the A l lies in this period 2,590,000 tons of enemies ships. This makes the net loss 2,630,000 tons .which leaves at the disposal o f the Allies on January- lst, 1918, 39,944,000 tons, but o f this am o u n t probably 10,000,000 tons are of vessels of less than 1500 tons; and of the total am o u n t 5,000,01)0 tons are engaged in the coastwise trade and upon inland waters, which leaves less than 25,000,000 tons of ocean going tonnage to supply the needs o f the Allies, both fo r the civil- ilian population and fo r the fighting forces on the line. I t is estimated that the value o f ships and cargoes sunk by the subm arines is approxi mately $7,000,000,000. Seventeen more East Ham pton boys received their blue registration cards Wednesday. The registration office was open from seven o’clock in the m o rning until nine in the eve ning, when seventeen boys who have reached the age of twenty-one since the last registration, were registered under the selective draft law. Three of these boys are from Am a g ansett, one from W a inscott, four from Springs, and eight from this village, m a k ing a total of seventeen regis trants. It is estimated that nearly a half m illion young men have reach ed the age of twenty-one since last Jun e and these w ill be im m e d iately classified and w ill be called for serv ice after the.m e n already in the d if ferent classes have been inducted in to the N a tional Arm y . Following is a list of W e d nesday’s registrants: Louis M. Bennett. W illiam H. Schel- linger, N a than H. B e n n e tt, Amagan- sett; Moses M. W a lker, W a inscott; Clarence E. K ing, W a llace G. M iller, Ferris G. Talmage, Joseph D. Haw kins, Harold B. Talmage, Springs; Royce N. Hulse. A r thur Petereit, Henry Meinke, L. Losee, Jo h n G. Rampe, Linus B. C. Foster, Jeddy M. Cullum , Herbert E. M o tt, East Ham p ton. A T R E E SU R G E O N H E R E Y o u r attention is called to the ad vertisement of Leonard G. V air, the expert tree surgeon, now located in the m u n icipal building in Southam p ton. Mi*. V a ir has decided to make Southam p ton his home. He can fur- ,TT~^. W e believe that Mr. V a ir should have the hearty sup port of owners of property in East H a m p ton, as he is the first m a n of this profession to locate on this end o f the island. — Riverhead has opened a conveni- I ent and com fortable clubhouse oppo- I site the post office. A large num b e r o f officers and privates w e n t to th a t ( village last Saturday nig h t to partici pate in the opening. It is estimated that it w ill cost $2,000 to equip the club and m a intain it fo r a year. , SMITH APPOINTED HIGHWAY SUPT. Port Jefferson Republican W ill Succeed Peter E. Nostrand, Democrat Albfert O. Sm ith, of Port Jefferson, ..as appointed County Superintendent of Highw a y s for u four-year term by the Suffolk Supervisors M onday night of last week, at a.salary of $2,000 per annum . Mr. Sm ith, who is a Republican and succeeds Peter E. Nostrand, Demo crat, of Shelter Island, form e rly held the position, being appointed eight years ago, soon after the office was created. Superintendent Nostrand has rendered very efficient and sat isfactory service durin g the four years he occupied the position. The Board of Supervisors is com posed of six Republicans and four Democrats. Mr. Sm ith received the votes of all the Republican members and all the Democrats voted for Mr. Nostrand. In the State Civil Service exam ination, held on M ay 15, to pro vide an eligible list' for the appoint m e n t. H a rry A. T u thil, of Sayville, received a percentage o f ninety and sixty-nine one-hundredths; A. - O. Sm ith of Port Jefferson, ninety, and W a llace H. Halsey, of Bridgehamp- ton, eighty-five and forty-four one- hundredths. C A R T U R N E D O V E R Chris Meyers, of the aero station at M o n tauk, with an other fellow and a girl were victim s of an autom o b ile ac cident *on the concrete road near Good G round recently. Ju s t how their Ford car tu r n ed over is a mystery, but when Everett J. W a rner and a com pany of friends came upon the scene the two fellows and the girl were lying in the road. The girl was suffering intense pain, the c a lf of one leg hav ing been to m out by an ugly gash. M r. W a rn e r took the victim# to the Southam p ton H o s p ital, where they were giv en attention.
