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WORK IX HIC.M ORPHANAGE
ALEXANDROPOL. Armenia. Nov. 28. tAP»—
Par out on the broad, barren upland plateau
which divides Russian Armenia from Turkey and
Persia is a small group of American men and wo
men who are conducting the largest and most
unique orphanage in the world. In their care
and under their tutorship are 18,000 Armenian
boys and girls who have been salvaged from the
wreckage of war and ruin in Asia Minor. They
are kept alive by the nickles and dimes of Amer
ican children and by contributions of food and
clothing from the American people
Five thousand of the orphans are tiny girls
from two to seven years old. These are in charge
of Miss Janet McKay of Buffalo. N. Y.. who is
called by the natives "the Mother of Armenia."
Miss McKay looks after her great family of adopt
ed children with all the care, solicitude and aff
ection of and American mother. Nothing will
pursuade some of the smaller of the children that
she is not their real mother
Most of the orphans lost one or both parents
during the Great War. so that they scarcely know
what it is to have a real parent. Nor did they
know what childhood was un’il the Americans sup
plied them with toys, games, pictures, taught them
the spirit of play, and made it possible for them
to romp and frolic on the broad fields of their
native country. To see great masses of them
at play, with their clean, bronzed, happy faces is
a sight that cannot fail to affect the American
visitor's pride and emotion.
Before the Americans came to Armenia 80
per cent of these children were affected with trach
oma. conjunctivitis, and other eye diseases. All
were suffering from the effects of inanotion and
exposure. The death-rate was about 50 a day.
Young physicians from the United Slates Array,
and American nurses took the children in hand
and brought them back to health and happiness.
Today the death rate is about on** every three
months.
When the correspondent visited Alexandropol
this vast multitude of children assembled on a
great campus and formed in gigantic human letters
the words "America. We Thank You." as an ex
pression of their gratitude for the help they re
ceived from the adults and children of the United
States. Viewed from the great stone military
barracks which surrounds the campus, the scene
was inspiring and touching. The Bolshevik auth
orities refuse to allow the children to have Amer
ican flags so the orphans carried instead great
white towels bearing the stamp "Medical Depart
ment U. S. Army.” These they waved enthus
iastically, crying. “Long live the United States:
Long live the American people."
The entire work of cooking, sewing, washing
and bedmaking at the orphanages is done by the
orphans themselves. The American personnel
numbers less than 25. a remarkable fact when it
is considered that there is a whole city of children
to look after.
Armenia is yet too poor to look after these
these children, although some steps are being
taken to this end, so that the Americans will con
tinue to care for them until means are found of
placing them with families or finding employment
for them in the conn'— From the age of five
the orphans are taught wing, embroidering, bas
ket making, woodwork!*’ dressmaking and other
useful arts. The olde- children are instructed
in the mechanical arts farming, dairying and
cattle-raising.
VOX TIRPITZ .MAY DT?' SE
RETAIL? LOSS OF Ll'SITAMA
BERLIN, Nov. 21, ')—Details hitherto un
published concerning the in ide facts leading up to
the sinking of the Lusitania, have been promised
in a new book to be issued soon by Admiral Von
Tirpitz, the former navy head of Germany, who
has been credited with having given the final order
which resulted in the destruction of the steamer.
According to the announcements. Admiral Von
Tirpitz, now leader of the Nationalists in the Reich
stag, has consented to the publication of all the
secret archives in his possession, which cover some
20 years prior to 1914.
The first book of Admiral Von Tirpitz appeared
some years ago, and caused quite a stir despite its
tone of reservation, but in the new volume, the ad
miral, it is said, has promised to “tell It all.’*
ZEPPILEN FOUGHT IN CIVIL WAR
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany. Nov. 28, (AP)
—In connection with the recent flight to America of
the ZR-3. it is recalled here that the late Connt
Zeppelin, inventor of the dirigible, made, his first
balloon ascension in the United States.
This was during the Civil War when Count Zep
pelin was an ofllcer in the Union Army. Tho count
nover became an American citizen and returned to
his native land in 1886. It was during the Fran
co-Prussian war that he * conceived the idea of the
dirigible, inspired by the progress made by the
French in aeronautics.
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MONTEREY. Cal.. Not. 28. (AP)—The historic
French' sloop Natalie, said to have been the vessel
on which Napoleon escaped from exile on the island
of Elba in 1815. was dug from the surf sands of
Monterey Bay here recently. Parts of the old
craft were salvaged for museum purposes.
For the third time in the last 25 years the tide
has exposed the hulk, at least what the waters of
nearly 100 years had left of it. and H. J. Leppert.
a blacksmith, took advantage of the opportunity.
W ading out into the water he saw the sands slowly
were covering the timbers and realized that by
morning there probably would not be a trace of
the vessel in sight. He returned to his shop, got
a jackscrew and a crowbar and enlisted the aid
of three friends. The four men worked until
nearly midnight, with the high tide about their
shoulders and necks, before they succeeded in
forcing loose the teakwood stumps of the Natalie.
Finally they assembled on the beach eleven
“knees", four large timbers. 13 copper bolts, and
smaller parts of the vesel. A remarkable feature
was the perfect preservation of the copper bolts,
which showed no signs of corrosion after the tides
of a century had washed them. The men re
ported that other portions of the Natalie were too
deeply embedded to be removed.
The Natalie was blown ashore here in 1833
when the crew, a gang of smugglers from Mexico
abandoned her to attend a Cascarone ball at Mont
erey. As the crew danced at the old Spanish
fiesta, a storm arose and the vessel was beached.
She was subsequently dismantled and a part
of her timber was used to build the Abrego house
in Monterey. Her bow is in the H. M. de Young1
museum in Golden Gate Park. San Fran
iemorial
AFFLICTED BRIDAL COUPLE SEEK
THE CURE FOR LEPROSY
MANILA, Nov. 2S. (AP)—The marriage of two
lepers was celebrated recently at a nuptial mass
at San Lazaro, the contagious hospital in Manila,
after which the couple were sent to Culion Island,
where some 5.500 lepers are confined and where
they hope to be cured of the disease.
-■The romance started at San Lazaro and the
counship was carried on chiefly by mail, the sup
erintendent of the hospital believing this the most
dignified manner for the young native lovers to
exchange messages.
After the ceremony a wedding breakfast wan
given the young couple by their friends in the hos
pital and a few hours later they departed for the
leper colony.
PICTURE OF CHRIST TO GRACE
WALLS OF SOUTHERN PRISON
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Not. 27, (AP)—Having
painted his way out of the Federal penitentiary in
Atlanta. Marx Sasanoff. Russian Artist, has been
commissioned to paint a picture of Christ upon the
walls of Kilby prison near here.
Sasanoff was granted clemency by President Hard
ing after the artist had translated his conception
of the passionate Christ on the gray walls of the
Federal prison in Atlanta. His fame for this pic
ture spread, and the Big Brothers Bible Class of
Montgomery, one of the largest interdenominational
classes in the south, obtained the artist for a sim
ilar task at the state prison.
Prisoners at Kilby have donated 5 cents each,
one third of their weekly allowance, to aid in the
expenes of the painting. It is hoped that it will
be ready for unveiling by Christmas.
ENGLAND STILL GUARDING TWO
GERMANS ARRESTED AS SPIES
LONDON. Nov. 28 (AP)—Stories of the some
times romantic exploits of spies are recalled by the
release from Dartmoor prison of Courtenay Henslot
de Rysbach. who in October 1915, was sentenced
to penal servitude for life as a spy in Germany’s
service.
De Rysbach, a vaudeville actor and the son of
a one-time Austrian subject who waa naturalized
in England, was arrested after the postal censor
had stopped two songs mailed by him to an ad
dress in Switzerland. One was “The Ladder of
Love" and the other waa “On the Way to Dnblln."
When they were chemically treated, an account of
conditions in England written In invisible ink ap
peared. After imprisonment De Rysbach divulged
German espionage methods.
At the Home Office it is stated that only two
spies now remain in prison In this country.
GIRL OF SEC HIKES ACROSS COUNTRY
LIVINGSTON, Mont., Dec. 5, (AP)—The young
est cross-country hiker ever seen In this part of the
country. Betty Rose, aged 6, arrived here with her
mother. Mrs. Blanche Rose, of Pittsburgh, Pa. They
were enroute to the Pacific Coast by the way / of
Yellowstone Park.
Mother and daughter stop at hotels instead of
camping at night and accept “lffte“ when they sre
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