The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 115, Ed. 1 Friday, July 20, 1917 Page: 2 of 4
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AMAZING STORY OF HOW PROVIDENCE
JOURNAL UNCOVERED GERMAN PLOTS
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Met Guile With Guile and Spy With Spy, and for Almost Three Years
Kept the Government Informed of Teutonic Intrigue
and Treachery in This Country—Editor Tells
How It Was Done.
New York.—How the Providence
Journal met, guile with guile, and spy
with spy, how it had its man in Bern-
storff’s own household and its two
wireless stations “listening in” on the
German Sayville “line” to Berlin—how,
in fact, this one New England newspa-
per for almost three years kept the
United States government informed of
the German-Austrian plots in America
—has at last been revealed.
John R. Rathom, in a speech made
at the convention of the Canadian
Press association in Toronto, and re-
ported in the Editor and Publisher
from the Toronto Star, weaves a story
of plot and counter-plot as remarkable
ns any that have come from the pen of
E. Phillips Oppenheim. And Mr. Rath-
om says that he has a safe full of doc-
uments yet unused which he will pull
out if the situation ever again requires
it. ^
It’s a Great Story.
It’s a great story, and greater still in
Its hints of what it might be. Here it
is:
“The Providence Journal,” begins
the Editor and Publisher, “happened
upon its course of exposure through
having had for ten years before the
war what other papers described as a
‘bug’ on wireless telegraphy. The pa-
per had maintained two powerful wire-
less plants at Point Judith and at
Block Island. When war broke • out
they had decided to ‘listen in’ on the
messages crossing the Atlantic. For
five months they kept record of these
messages, and then they set out to find
the codes and make revelations. Of
the material they secured they used
only a fractional part.
“One of the newspaper’s stenogra-
phers was sent and secured an ap-
pointment in the Austrian consulate in
New7 York. Other of its workers were
constantly engaged in shadowing Cap-
tain Boy-Ed, Captain von Papen, for-
mer Austrian Ambassador Dumba, the
German Ambassador Bernstorff and
other German and Austrian officials.
The two wireless plants unceasingly
listened in, two shifts of operators at
work day and night, on Sayville and
Nantucket, the two wireless stations
which were being used mostly by the
Germans to keep in touch withJBerlin,
from where they received instructions
for every detail of their plotting pol-
icy.
“For the United States government
the Brooklyn navy yard had had in-
structions to keep a close watch on
the Sayville and Nantucket stations,
but nothing suspicious was ever re-
ported until Mr. Rathom took some
of the massages which he had received
from his operators to the state depart-
ment. It was then learned that the
navy yard operators had been in the
pay of German agents in America, and
had been told not to hear too much.
“The first revelation which Mr.
Rathom told illustrated the German
capacity for blundering. It was the
story of Werner Horne—the man who
was responsible for the attempt to
blow up the Vanceboro bridge. Horne
had been detected as a German spy by
one of the Journal reporters in New
York. In an effort to disguise himself
Horne allowed his beard to grow for
/ihree days, put on an old suit which he
purchased for three dollars (even this
Retail was reported) and packed his
personal effects in an old carpet bag.
Having carried out these elaborate pre-
cautions he took passage for the point
where the “job” was to be done, on one
,of the finest and most luxurious trains
KNITTING AS CHURCH LURE
Long Island Pastor Institutes New
Scheme to Draw Laggards
( to Service.
Glen Cove, L. I.—Small attendance
and lack of enthusiasm at the Car-
penter Memorial M. E. church has
caused the pastor, Rev. Dr. W. H.
Hughes, to institute a new scheme to
draw laggards to church.
“Hereafter both men and women
members Of the church will come pre-
pared to do their knitting,” he has an-
nounced. “If there is anyone in the
gathering who cannot knit, be he man
or woman, then we will see that that
person learns the art. If we can’t
pray, we can knit and do something
for the army of Americans who will
soon be crossing the sea."
in the United States. As is well known
now, he w7as caught. When asked later
by Mr. Rathom w7hy he had been fool-
ish enough to travel first-class in such
shabby dress, Horne replied that he
was a German officer and a gentleman
and always traveled in the best style.
Passport Fraud Outlined.
“Another German scheme in "which
the Journal reporters outwitted the
Teutons occurred soon after in New
York also. A fraudulent passport bu-
reau, operated by German officials, was
discovered doing a land-office business
in an office building on Broadway. The
Journal-r—faking as a public account-
ant on the one side and a manufactur-
ers’ agent on the other—sandwiched
the passport forgers between them.
Every word that passed in this office
was recorded by means of the instru-
ments used for that purpose, and re-
ported to the Providence Journal.
When sufficient evidence was gathered
the United States secret service was
notified and the three forgers were
taken away. As soon as they had been
removed three of the Journal’s em-
ployees were allowed to take charge of
the office to receive the patrons. It
was not long after that Von Papen and
the German military attache at Tokyo
came in with a list of names of men
for whom they desired passports. The
name at the top of the list was that
of Werner Horne.
“ ‘A friend of mine,’ said Mr. Rath-
om, ‘thinking himself very friendly,
but in a thing which I objected to,
went to Paris and while there bought
a lot of war relics. Among them was
one of the first iron crosses that had
been given by the German emperor to
a major of a German regiment, who
died on the field and whose cross had
been tafcen from him and taken to
Paris. It was sold to my friend, with
statements as to whom it had belonged,
and my friend sent it to me. I sent it
to Bernstorff with a letter, saying that
that mark of honorable distinction of a
man who had done his duty for his
country belongs to his family. I gave
the name of the man and the name of
the family, and begged him to take
care of the cross so that it could be
sent back after the war or at some
time to the man’s people.
Tears Note to Pieces.
“ ‘The ambassador tore the note to
pieces, threw the note in the face of
the man I sent, and threw the cross on
the floor, saying that, after having been
defiled by the hands of American dogs,
that cross was of no use to anybody in
Germany. I knew my man was telling
the truth, because the man I had in
there reported the incident to me ex-
actly the way he did. Incidentally I
might say that the individual to whom
I refer was in the German embassy
17 months as one of the ambassador’s
secretaries, and the ambassador had
no knowledge that he was not what he
pretended to be until the Frederik VIII
left New York for Halifax. He said to
my man, “You had better get aboard
or you will lose your boat,” and he re-
plied : “I am safer on this side.” Mr.
•Bernstorff had no idea of that man’s
identity or whom he was serving until
he left New York.
“ ‘Another incident,’ he continued,
‘that is of great interest came when
one of our valued and keenest stenog-
raphers in our own office, a girl that
came to us seven years ago from about
twenty miles outside of Providence,
was given a position in the office of
the Austrian consul general in New
York city. She had never been in New
York before, hut she was ahead of a
What They Ask.
There’s no objection to a fellow los-
ing his heart, hut nine times out of ten
his close friends and confidents would
he much obliged to him if he’d refrain
from losing his mind at the same time.
—Macon Telegraph.
CHARGES HE ROLLED UP
UNCLE SAM’S SLEEVES
Chicago.—Because Frederick
W. Eicliorn has been selling
statues of Uncle Sam with his
sleeves rolled up, Henry Bor-
zone has sued him for $50,000.
Borzone claims that he designed
a statue of Uncle Sam showing
him peacefully carrying a flag,
and that Eichorn copied it, roll-
ing up Uncle Sam’s sleeves as
the only change.
Law of Compensation.
Ruth’s father gave her some pen-
nies for Sunday school and she de-
parted with a neighbor’s little son,
Harry, who was likewise prepared. Up-
on her return she said, “Father, just
think; Harry didn’t put his pennies in
Sundny school. He put them in the
slot machine, but the gum never came
out, so you see, father, he Just couldn’t
fool God, could he?”
number of people In competition, and
the man choosing the stenographer
they wanted (a capable girl able to
do hi£ work and to keep her mouth
shut) had been informed that she wan
the party to choose—by other friends
of ours. One day about five or six
weeks after she got there she informed
us that a great packing case was being
filled up with propaganda documents
and with bills of expense in connec-
tion with explosions in munition plants
and other vital and valuable things,
and was to be shipped off the follow-
ing week right straight to England on
a Swedish ship and from there to Ger«
many.
Von Papen Flirts.
“The onlything we could possibly do
was to identify the package. One day
when they were about to close the
package up this girl, under instruc-
tions—and' I may say incidentally she
is now back at work getting her $16 a
week—sat on this box eating her lunch.
Nearly everybody else had gone, but
Von Papen, rather debonair and fond
of ladies, wandered in and sat on the
packing box and asked if he could
share her lunch ^with her. She said
certainly, and while they were sharing
the sandwiches he made some senti-
mental advances and she in rather a
dreamy way took out a large red pencil
and drew two big red hearts on this
packing case. It was Captain Von Pa-
pen himself who put an arrow through
them. And, ladies and gentlemen,
when the ship Austrias II reached Fal-
mouth they picked that package out of
the Hold from about a hundred and fif-
ty others and identified it by the two
big red hearts. And yet they say there
are no brilliant people but the Ger-
mans.’
“Another incident, the lqss of a port-
folio belonging to Dr. Heinrich Albert,
an Austrian official, which contained
papers relating to AmbtBsador Dum-
ba’s efforts to incite labor troubles in
the United States, created quite a stir
among the diplomats, idr. Rathom told
of lmw a Journal reporter got the pa-
pers as the result of which Dumba was
sent back to Austria by the president.
“ ‘One of the Journal reporters had
been shadowing Doctor Albert in New
York, hut for months nothing seemed
wrong. One day he went into a leather
goods store, where he ordered a port-
folio and gave the salesman instruc-
tions to put his initials on it. The re-
porter, as soon as Albert had gone out,
walked up to the salesman and ordered
another portfolio of the same kind.
“ ‘A day or two later Albert, carry-
ing the new portfolio, was followed
from the front of his apartments by.
the Journal man. Albert boarded an
elevated train. He placed his bag con-
taining papers on the seat beside him.
Suddenly he was stirred by a fight in
the front of the car. As he stood up
to see what the trouble was, as did
nearly everybody else in the car, the
portfolios were changed. This hap-
pened on a Saturday morning. Albert,
in a statement later, said that he dis-
covered the trick the same day, but
we know for a fact that he did not dis-
cover the difference until Monday
morning. Needless to say, the men who
were fighting on the street car were
also in the employ of the Journal.’
“It was through the Journal, Mr.
Rathom said, that a great quantity of
important papers were secured from
Wolf von Igel. These pifoers revealed
the Casement plot for th-e Irish upris-
ing. When the papers were taken, Mr.
Rathom said, in illustrating his point
that there is a certain amount of stu-
pidity in all German diplomatists, Von
Bernstorff made application to the
state department to have them re-
turned. He was told that any paper he
could identify would be returned to
him, and then realized how he had
committed himself in asking that the
papers be returned.
“ ‘We have not printed one-fiftieth o<
what we secured, but we were very
glad, when events turned, to turn the
key on the safe in which it is deposit-
ed and forget the balance, because the
work we tried to do 1ms been accom>
plished.’ ”
TO DRIVE OWN HOSPITAL
CAR ON FRENCH FRONT
Tulsa, Okla.—Arthur Gammnn, a
young oil operator, will sail for France
in a few days to drive a field ambu-
lance contributed by himself. Gam-
rann and his business partner, Ray-
mond W. McIntosh, were among the
first fn Tulsa to volunteer as officers
in the new United States army and
were ordered to Leon Springs, Texas,
for training.
On their way there McIntosh was
stricken with appendicitis and died.
Gammon accompanied the body to New
York for burial and there decided to
enlist in the ambulance corps for in*
mediate foreign service.
Sweeping Lines
In New Clothes
New York.—Lucile firmly believes
that the time has come in American
fashion for women to wear long, flow-
ing lines of dignity and abandon the
half bodices, lack of sleeves and short,
transparent skirts which have ruled
us for three years.
She is definitely committed to this
Idea and is designing all her autumn
clothes in Paris and London to meet
the purpose.
The reason that her statement has
such force Is that no one denies that
she revolutionized ballroom dressing
as the Vernon Castles revolutionized
its dancing and Irving Berlin revolu-
tionized Its music.
The Castle-Berlin-Lucile combination
has been in Europe, the symbol of
America. But with Vernon Castle in
the aviation corps, with Mrs. Castle
not dancing in public, and with Lucile
stating her far-reaching purpose to
Waste Worth $10,000.
Bloomsburg, Pa.—For years a pile
of waste from irridium, a material
used In making diamond pointed foun-
tain pens, was thought worthless by
manufacturers here. Recently a
stranger dropped in and offered $75 a
pound, or more than $10,000 for It. It
is used in the munitions industry,
Here is the hat with the palette
brim. It is built of thin black satin
and gets its name from the curve of
its brim. Its only ornaments are two
large pins of white jade.
oust frivolity and bring in seriousness
In clothes, Irving Berlin, with his rag-
time music, is the only one left of the
symbolic three.
If the women of America follow the
dignified gowns of Lucile as they fol-
lowed her hoop skirts, girdle bodices,
bobbed hair and tango slippers, we
will see a continent of women who
look as serious as the times.
The few models that have been ad-
vanced as forerunners of what is to
come this autumn, have about theip a
dignity and seriousness that the men
of the community will applaud and in-
dorse.
There is no undue showing of the
ankles and shoulder; the bodices are
subdued in the decolletage; the long,
wing-like, medieval draperies cover the
arms and fall to the knees; the cling-
ing skirts start at a slightly high waist-
line and fall against the figure and
cover the feet, in the manner of the
eighteenth century.
It is not a gown for the type of
youth that we call flapper, ox7, as one
of the dashing young editors of the
day has termed it, poulet a la Ziegfeld.
The Graceful Long Skirt.
There is nothing startlingly new in
the gowns which will be worn during
the late summer and autumn, if the
prophecies of the experts come true.
They have been shown in America
ever since January, and in a certain
blaze of Oriental splendor they have
been worn by smart women at cere-
monial functions.
It Is not, howevei7, the gorgeousness
of the Byzantine era, that is to be re-
peated in the newer style of dressing
for the second half of the year 1917.
Soft satins, bi7ocades that have no
body, georgettes that look like net,
chiffon that l’esembles tulle, and the
crepes of China that cling to the fig-
ure, ai7e the fabrics that will go toward
the making of the dignified gown for
the serious epoch.
There are inky black gowns to be
worn, which are made of georgette
that has no sheen.
There are gowns of silver gray
charmeuse that swirl- and cling to the
figure from shoulder to floor. The
folds of the skirt are softly pushed
aside by the slippered foot, as the
wearer moves.
About all of these gowns which are
to come and which are beginning to
make their appearance among women
who dress well, there are no ostenta-
tious ornaments, no sensuous girdling
of fhe hips in the Oriental manner, no
faint reflection of the bazaars of
Delhi.
The colors do not clash like symbols
of victory. There is nothing triumph-
ant about their procession.
These are the clothes of women
whose hours are given to war char-
ities and war relief, whose leisure time
Is given to reading literature that
keeps them abreast of the tremendous
movements on this planet, and whose
thoughts are turned not to ragging the;
scale, but to the lines of khaki on the!
western front.
Mind you, they are not poverty-
stricken clothes. The American peo-
ple are in arms against unnecessary J
saving and economy that means ruiu j
to others. But t-hey are a revolt from j
what we have been wearing.
Still the Chinese Touch.
Over from Paris, where those who j
represent us are watching every twist j
and turn in fashions, comes the state-
ment that the Chinese touch grows in
strength and importance. It is no
longer advocated by the few, but by
the many dressmakers. j
There is no wholesale repetition of i
Chinese costumery in these modern .
French gowns. The single garment j
that is taken in its original form is the i
Mandarin coat. It is used as an eve- i
ning wrap. In Amei’ica there has been
a superabundance of Chinese coats
wora after candlelight.
One extremely good-looking New
York woman who has been told that j
she somewhat resembles the artist’s j
drawings of Chinese faces, constantly*
appears in the evening with a superb 1
Mandarin coat worn over her frock, j
Her black hair, brushed back from the 1
coiffure, completes the picture. She
also adds a great fan of peacock feath- s
ers set in sticks of jade. One has a j
strong impulse to lift her up and set j
her on a tiny pedestal of teak wood. 1
Over in Paris the Chinese Idea is J
expressed in the new gowns in lines as j
well as in embroidery and coloring, j
The attempt is made to swing a gown 1
freely away from the body in excel-
lent folds, and then gather it in some-
where hear the normal waistline by a ;
girdle.
There is a dominant Chinese note in
the house gowDS. One is made of jade
green velvet, so thin that it looks like
satin. The lining is of Chinese blue
crepe. The Mandax-in sleeves com-
pletely cover the arms, and the long,
straight widths, front and back, drop
to the ankles.
There is a slip, of flesh-colored chif-
fon over satin, which clings closely to
the figure from collar bone to instep,
and over this slip, at a high waistline’,
This evening gown revives the decol-
letage of 1870. It is of black chiffon
printed with bouquets of colored roses.
The barrel skirt has a deep hem of
rose taffeta, and the Empress Eugenie
bodice is held by a band of the same
silk.
the green velvet material is caught
with a large, square, Chinese ornament
in jade. There is a necklace of jade
beads that drops down the front of the
flesh-colored bodice and fastens to the
ornament at the waistline.
There is another Chinese gown for
dinner or the theater, made of Chinese
yellow brocade, extraordinarily soft
and supple. It is lined with flesh pink
Chinese crepe. It hangs in loose panels
from waist to Instep, showing an un-
derskirt of Chinese blue cliiffop edged
with a tiny band of gilt at (he hem,
(Copyright, 1917, by the McClure Newspa-
per Syndicate.)
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The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 115, Ed. 1 Friday, July 20, 1917, newspaper, July 20, 1917; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth906044/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lampasas Public Library.