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There were about 150 of us on each of the L.C.I.’s and transported over with L. C. M.’s and rafts in tow—these were all filled with explosive materials. We were given, immediately, our final destination orders and already knew the type of job to be done. On the way over we were frankly told that many of us would be killed—now that was a comforting thought. The price of freedom was going to be expensive. Our particular mortality rate was very assuredly in the 10% range of survival.
We were supposed to arrive at 0330 but must have been later as it was. nearing daylight, and things were quite visible. The others that arrived before were the Rangers and the glider corp. The gliders were engineless planes that were towed over from England and then set free. These “planes” carried combat ready troops but had it very rough as many crashed into the trees and stone walls.
The Brave Commander of the Olympia No More.
DIES WHILE ON HIS WAY HOME
The Fatality Probably Results From an Injury Received at Manila—No Details Known—He Was Born In Indiana, Appointed From Michigan and Served With Farragut.
Capt. Charles V. Gridley, the commander of the Olympia, Admiral Dewey’s flagship, in the Manila engagement, is dead.
Secretary Long yesterday received the following telegram from Paymaster William M. Galt, who is returning to Washington at the end of his term:
“Kobe, Japan, June 4, 1898”
“Secretary of the Navy:
“Capt. Gridley died today. Remains accompany me on Coptic. “GALT.”
Alluding to the passage in the Senate of the bill to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment the Washington Chronicle of the 27th ult., refers to Senator Casserly’s position with regard to the clause which protects Chinamen from outrage as follows :
One of the most picturesque phases of the great war is the work of dogs, trained for Red Cross work and to act as sentinels. The French especially have developed this branch of the service. In each corps area camps have been established for the dogs, and they are conducted with the same methodical precision or military routine as is found in the camp of any other corps of a division. Captain A. J. Dawson of the British army, in his hook “For France” (Hodder & Stoughton), describes the camp life and duties of these dogs. He says:
Mack Sennett Cameramen Make Film of Parachute Jump from Blimp
Several thrilling scenes for the Mack Sennett picture Mollie-O were made by cameramen at the naval air station yesterday. The hero of the picture climbed on a swinging rope ladder from one blimp down to another one and then leaped from the second blimp in a parachute.
Peculiar Theory, in Which Many Had Faith, That Was Put Forward by John C. Symmes
John C. Symmes (1779–1829) believed that the globe was hollow and inhabited. He claimed the earth was open at the poles to admit air, and contained within it other concentric hollow globes all inhabited in a like manner. In 1823 congress was petitioned to send an expedition to test out his theory, with himself in charge, but the matter was dropped. Humboldt states that Symmes often invited himself and Humphry Davy to descend to the earth’s interior and investigate animal and plant life. Symmes said the inside of the earth was lighted by two subterranean suns which he named “Pluto” and “Proserpine.” Arctic exploration and the discovery of the north and south poles proved part of his theory a myth.