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The autobiography of Admiral Dewey has been followed as it appeared in HEARST'S MAGA ZINE with all the interest due to an important historical doc ument, written by one who par ticipated in some of the country’s most stirring events. Included in the instalment in HEARST’S MAGAZINE for SEPTEMBER, now on sale al the news stands, the admiral gives a picturesque account of the terrific battle of Port Hudson. T, HE passage of Forts Jackson and St. Philip had been lively enough for the fleet, but that of running the batteries of Fort Hudson wus to prove a far more serious undertaking. I have often said that in this action I lived about five years in one hour. At the beginning of the spring of '63 Grant's and Sherman’s armies were pressing towaid Vicksburg. The far ther that the Confederates fell back 'he more concentrated became their forces and the more desperate theip resistance. After Farragut had re turned down the river (Mississippi) in the fall they had become awakened to the weakness of the river's defenses and the necessity of keeping open com. munications with the rich granary to the west of the Mississippi In north ern Louisiana Arkansas and Texas Their natural strongholds were Vicks burg and Port Hudson, and these they fortified with all the guns that could possibly he spared from other points. They had not the facilities that the North hid for making artillery Other- by the plentiful distribution of batteries on tin hanks of the river «here it was narrow ami the current swift. the problem fo> tip I'mon fleet would hate been much worse than it w as To Shut Off Vicksburg. Efforts at blockade with single de tached Vessels had failed. owing to Hie activity of improvised ram* and cun boats which tl i < 'ollfi del at > s r ■ pt up the tributaries I'irragul'* oi.i'.l in trying to take the fleet above Port Hudson was to shut 3'i.ksbuig off from supplies on the river side, while the army was shutting ft off on th. and sid< He needed every <vaiial>l> slop f<>i his purpose, and he now concluded that *he Mississippi was not too heavy ‘ t< . tin oppm tunny lm any hand of I—MAGAZINE SECTION action after the dreary monotony of surveying from deck the wharves of New Orleans. As executive officer in charge of the general details of the ship. I had aimed to make the best of the recess and' overcome the handicap of my youth by my zeal in training the crew of three hundred men. fol w hopi 1 was respon sible to the captain In the same way that the manager of a corporation is responsible to Its president and board of directors We had developed the dis cipline of a regular force, and certainly, if drill of the guns’ crews counted for anything, we should prove efficient in battle. On March 14, 1863. we had anchored otf Profits island, which is seven miles below Port Hudson, a little town that went into history because it happened to mark a sharp bend in the river run ning west southwest fora distance of a mile or mote. Beginning at the bend was a line of bluffs on the cast bank, varying from 80 to lint feet In height. On the oppo site bank there was a dangerous shoal point. On the bluffs were heavy guns that could beat the length of the bend and cover this point. They had a plunging fire on us, while we had to fire upward at them There were also guns at the base of the bluffs The time chosen for the passage was night, again much against the predilections of Captain Smith. To Ward Off Grounding. First and last, the old Mississippi, on account of Iter sidewheels, had been In a class by herself in Farragut's fleet. Now tin other big ships, the Hartford. th< Monongahela and the Richmond, each were to li:m a gunboat made fast to the port side which was the oppo site side from the batteries. Tile object of this pairing was the as sistance i : the gunboat In helping her heavy draught companion off the bot tom if she tan aground. Thus Far ragut applied the prfticlph of the twin screws' facility in making a short turn la l .■. king with on,- -i rew and going air ad with tlie other Hut the Mis sissippi, being a sidewheeler bad to malo the passag, without a consort. ’ 33 *■ had oil « \pei iem ed pilot at our ser vo ■ .is had « verv sldp. He was in one iof the cuttiis unde, the guns on the i port sid. . wlu re h< would at the same Him be .if,. ~r bis safely was most important and mar enough to ( all his . erection* to the man at the wheel. Thus a r ver pilot had become a fae ’ | tor In lighting a ship which had been I built to tight in tin-open sea with plen ■itv of loom f,.r maneuvering ' . St ir: Ing at I«•p. ni .liter the Hart - ill-ord whiih led. • an ■ the Monongahela, f and Hon he. Hi. Imiond, with tin Mis- THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANT XEWS. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 21, 1912. SOME FEATURES IN HEARST’S MAGAZINE FOR SEPTEMBER Among other features of notable interest in Hearst’s Magazine for September a re: “The Story of George Hohn." by David Graham Phillips; “A Lorimer Case iti Ancient Rome.’ by Gugliemo Ferrero; “The Xew Criminology." by Governor i George P. W. Hunt; “The Inside of the Cup." by Winston Churchill:’ “Standard Oil and the Judiciary;" “Captain Kidd in Wall Street." by George Randolph Chester, and reviews of Stage, Books, Art, Science. Politics, Finance, by the best writers. i SEPTEMBER NUMBER NOW ON SALE AT THE NEWS STANDS sissippi bringing up the rear. Possibly Farragut realized that the Mississippi would be the most likely of the four to run aground and therefore assigned her to a position where she would not get in the way of any following ship if she did run aground. The Hartford was already past the first of the bat teries before the enemy threw up a rocket as a signal that she -was seen and the whole crest of the. bluff broke into flashes. Piles of cord wood, soak ed with pitch, were lighted to outline the ships to the Confederate gunners. 33 hen the Richmond, the second ship in line, was in front of the last battery, a shot tore into her engine room. Such whs its chance effect that it twisted the safely valve lever, displacing the weight and quickly tilling the engine room, fire room and berth deck with steam. In short order the steam pressure fell so low that she could not go ahead tinder her own motive power. The Genesee, her gunboat, was not able with her own power, to make any headway for the two vessels against the strong current. There was nothing to do but for the pair to make an expeditious re treat down stream to safety. As the Monongahela came along she found herself in the range of musketry from the low bank on the port side, which was silenced by her gunboat, the Kineo. But the Kineo received a shot which Jammed her rudder post and rendered the rudder useless. Ah a re sult. the Monongahela had to do all the steering. She ran aground and the Ki neo. carried on by her momentum as the Monongahela suddenly stopped, tore away ail of her fasts by which she was bound to the Monongahela except one. Then the Kineo got a hawser to the Monongahela, and. laboring desper ately. under fire, succeeded after 25 minutes effort in getting the Monon | gahela free of the bottom. Bridge Shot Away. Meanwhile Captain MeKlnistry. of the Monongahela, had had the bridge shot way from under his feet, and had received such a fall in consequence that he was incapacitated. Lieutenant Com mander N. 33'. Thomas took command' in his place The Kineo drifted on down stream, while the Monongahela proceeded on her way until a heated crank pin stopped her engines Thus become unmanageable, she had to drift ! back dow n stream under the fire of the batteries. She sustained a heavy loss in killed ami wounded. I refer to the experiences of three ships which had preceded the Missis sippi in order to show the hazardous nature of Fariagut's undertaking. His flagship, the Hartford, and her i on sort. the gunboat Albatross, were all 1 of his command whiih he had with him the next morning, and it was many i weeks before any of the other ships could Join him The Mississippi, bringing up the rear, i was soon literally enveloped In the pall of smoke 33 e went by the Mononga hela when she was aground, without, so far a.» 1 know, either seeing or be ing seen by he. Both Captain Smith ami my self. felt that out destiny that night was in the hands of the pilot. There was nothing to do but to fire back at the flashes on the bluffs and trust to his expert knowledge. It was new experience for hiifl—guiding a heavy draught ocean-going ship in the midst of battle smoke, with the shells shrieking in his ears. By the time that the Mississippi came within range of the batteries they were making excel lent practice. Hard Aground. We were going very slowly, feeling our way as we approached the shoal point. Finally, when the pilot thought that> we were past it, he called out: "Starboard the helm! Full speed ahead! As it turned out. we were anything but past the point. We star boarded the helm straight into it and struck just as we developed a powerful momentum. We were hard aground and listing, and backed with all the capacity of the engines immediately. In order to bring the ship on an even keel, we ran in the port battery, which, as it faced away from the bluffs, was not engaged. Every precaution to meet the emer gency was taken promptly;’ and there was remarkably little confusion, thanks to the long drills which we had had off New Orleans, and to the fact that all Things Worth Remembering Captain A. C. Caines .of Swansea, has invented a safely vessel which lie claims to be unsinkable. The model, which has taken him a year or moie to construct, shows a kind of airtight belt round the hull of the craft. The belt, which brings out the hull in a curve, consists of a range of airtight compartments along its whole length, and the inventor claims that if the ship were cut in two it could not sink. The new station at Leipzig, said to be the largest in the world, covers a surface of 96,000 square meters. There are fourteen platforms. In order that passengers will.not be inconvenienced by porters rushing to and fro bag gage will be handled underground. There is a postal station with 32 lines. • which will permit 132 postal vans be ing despatched at the same time. The cost of building the station is put at $35,500,000. The latest motor novelty in Paris is a taxicab woman of an unusual kind. She is a pretty little Japanese, who drives as well as any man, and her cab !« never empty from morning till night. There was a crowd around her in the Place de I'Opera recently. for her fare." not content with giving her a comfortable tin. bought a large bunch of roses from a passing hawker. The crowd cheered and shouted, as they al ways shout now. "Vive I‘entente cor dials! " A remarkable feat of strength has Just been witnessed at Eaton Socon, Bedfordshire Mi Spurgeon Thornton made a wager that he would haul to Hempsford bridge and back, a distance of six miles, an American buggy con taining four of the heaviest men in the district within an hour. H. lost the wager, but took only just a little over th' hour to perform his astonishing task. He is not < hallenging any one to repeat the feat, but a few of the crew had already been I underjire in passing Forts Jackson and | St. Philip. But no amount of training could al together prepare' men for such a situa tion as we were in. With our own guns barking, and the engines pounding, and the paddle wheels making more noise than usual, because we were aground, it was difficult to make commands heard. In half an hour ths engines never budged us, while steadfastly and even unconcernedly the engine room force I stuck to their duties. We were being more frequently hit; the toll of our dead and wounded was increasing. Nat- j urally, too. gunners of the enemy, who could see the ship outlined by the bon- ' fires on the bank on the opposite side of us from the batteries, had not failed to , note that we were aground. The advantages of training on a sta tionary target allowed them to make ! the most of our distress, while the flashes of our own guns, and the burst ing of the enemy's shells, only made the 1 intervals of darkness the more baffling to the eyes. 1 remember hunting about the deck for Captain Smith and finding him lighting another cigar with ; a flint, quite as coolly as if he were do ing it when we lay anchored off New- Orleans. Young ladies in Russia are not at all averse to long engagements, and use all sorts of artifices to stave off the ’ wedding day as long as possible: but in no country in the world are court-j ships so abnormally long as in Bohe mia. where engagements commonly last from fifteen to twenty years. In fact, there recently died there, at the age of ninety-nine, an old man who had been courting for seventy-five years, and who was married on his death-bed. How is a person to become the sis ter-in-law of her grandmother and the aunt of her own mother? This puzzle has been successfully solved by a young lady. Mlle. Antoinette Graulliere. at Lu nas. in the Dordogne. She married M. Stalling-Laumont. of Pleurae, and. as he happened to be her grand-uncle and the brother of her grandmother, slit thereby became her grandmother's sis-1 ter-in-law. At tiie same time she was, according to law. the aunt of her own! mother. The recent riot at the Federal build ing. Los Angeles, will be reproduced at the trial of those arrested by motion picture films, and shown to the jury on a screen It will be the first time in the history of jurisprudence that such : evidence will have been introduced ] While the riot was at Its height a moving picture company, with the new est modi I machine, had an operator on the scene, and his films show the entire actions of those persons who are charged with having caused the dis turbance. A number of the large Swiss hotel keepers are about "partially to sup press" the tyranny of the tip in their establishments. The method to be em ployed is to charge a certain sum on . the bill for "special services.” which include various) items such as transport of luggage, cleaning boots and bring ing hot water. The tourist will be fre° to tip any of the hotc’ employees extra who have been of special service to him. 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