Star Tribune from Minneapolis, Minnesota • Page 25

1 1 WOT VV MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 1915. (13) Magnificent Yellowstone Trail Across American Continent to Be Given First Test; Cars, Racing Against Time, in Dash From Chicago to Seattle i Ji( )j iyl Ift4n 1 i N- I i -j In the above map of the Yellowstone Trail route the twenty-one relays are indicated by VsVOoAj i ci'fie. One reay represents the distance between each citu on the map, No. 1 beina Chicaao je afcoye map Yellowstone Trail route the twenty-one relays are indicated by cities. One relay represents the distance between each city on the map, No.

1 being Chicago to 'Milwaukee, No. 2 Milwaukee to Oshkosh, and so on. Minneapolis will be the end of the fifth and beginning af the sixth relay. The first car will leave Chicago, noon, Tuesday, June 15. lay.

The office, however, is not em The Man Who Figured Out The Man Who Helped Plan Unique Opening for New Trail 4 Clucago-to-Seattle Itinerary I i a 'Tit barrassing the relay managers' with a large number of details, and outside of these essentials, the matter is put absolutely in charge of the. relay manager, who is made responsible for getting the message over his relay. Make of Cars Used Varies. The cars taking part are of a wide range of makes and types. The cars that will be used from Milwaukee and Chicago have not been announced as yet.

From Os-hkosh to Stevens Point the drive will be made in an eight cylinder Cadillac, Paul Eedeman bejng in charge. Dr. Marston who drives the j. i SS5S3 I Oft tim. I 1--T TT1.

-T, II .1 1" relay from Minneapolis to Ortonville will receive the messago at Hennepin and Lake streets, from George F. Dee of Chippewa Falls, and will carry it in his Kaciug Roadster. From Ortonville to Aberdeen, the message will be carried in a Reo Six, Emil Ost-lind driving. From Aberdeen to Mo-bridge a Ford will be used, or the Roadster type, piloted by 8. H.

Collins, and from Mohridge to Lemraou a touring Ford will carry the message, with J. W. Harris at the wheel. Both the two last named drivers are well known bankers. From Marmarth to Miles City the car will be an Overland 6U II.

P. Roadster, Dr. F. A. Bordwell and O.

H. Suit driving, and from Miles City to Billings allaynes Six will be used. With Dr. (t. Jerry Clifford and Ralph Andersen driving.

From Billings to Livingston, there will be an elimination race run prior to the date of the run for the honor of carrying the message, all the high power cars of the city competing under the direction of relay manager W. 11. McCormick. Much Depends on Road. But it Is not in cars primarily that the hope of the promoters of this run is based.

It is on the road. To-day, and every dav from now until the car actually passes, men are working and dragging, fixing the bad spots, and banking the turns for the run. Across the state of Wisconsin the road is a new one in some places, but a good one throughout. Across Minnesota, the run goes over the banner good roads county of the state, Renville, and all of the road is being OP.tf.FMAIPSrorJ. CARS CAt2ffii, IPELAVS W.

Parmley, Ipswich, S. President of the Yellowstone Trail association, who labors untiringly for success of pet project. H. O. Oooley, Aberdeen, S.

Secretary of the Y'ellowstone Trail association. The man with a system. Detail are rapidly twing worked out lowstone Trailers have set for them selves to carry a letter from Chicago to Seattle in 100 hours, even under the best of conditions, and they are antici patmg some wet roads, an average These instructions will tell the manager where his car will receive the letter and banner, instruct him to have at least three reporting places from which word amount of trouble, and are protecting hours, which is evidently from an optimist. President J. W.

Parmley of the YeU lowstone Trail association, when asked for a statement on the run, said: "It will be done, of that I am satisfied. Because we have the road, and the enthusiasts who will put it through. The details are being well handled by Secretary Cooley, the difficulties will all be overcome, and this run is going to mark a new long distance record, and at the same time demonstrate the feasibility of transcontinental travel bv auto in comparative safety and comfort." Montana. From Wallace, Idaho, F. E.

Stone sends word that He has five summits to go over in the night, but he will put the message in Spokane on time. Secretary Fretwell of the Seattle Auto club writes that the Washington roads will bo in good condition. Ouessps for the fifty dollar prize offered by the Yellowstone Trail association for the person who would make the best estimate of the actual lapsed time it will take to get the message through are already being received. The first guess received was 102 hours and 30 minutes. The second was 110 hours.

One guess says 92 against the unexpected as far as pos Bible. for the relay run over the Yellowstone trail on June 15, carrying a letter from the mayor of Chicago to the mayor of Seattle. Confidence if) expressed in the office of H. O. Cooley, secretary of the Trail association, not only that the run will be made without a mis-tap, but that it will be run in the allotted time.

It is no small undertaking, the Yel will go forward to the next relay adr' patrolled. Across South Dakota it is now a dragged turnpike, rain being the only thing that can stop a 30 mile an hour schedule through that state. At Aberdeen the headquarters of the entire run, speculations, bets and guesses are even now being registered, and the whole state is getting ready. Across North Dakota the message will have clear sailing, and the evidence of some of the hardest and best road work in the country will be found in vising the next manager of the progress There is not a feature of the run that is not being prepared for in advance, so far as human hands can go. Every of the car carrying the letter, to provide at least three emergency cars along his relay, and the exact place where the relay manager of the 21 will this week receive his exact running instructions.

letter will be delivered to tne next re Thrilling Career of the Emden Told by Lieutenant Who Escaped JDeath When Raider Was Destroyed He and 41 of Crew Back in Germany After Trip by War-Ship and Small Boat, Over Sea and Finally Across the Arabian Desert. The following article, which may appropriately be called the Odyssey of the Emden, is incomparably the most thrilling story of adventure produced by the war. Lieutenant von Muecke of the German navy tells how he and forty-two other men saw their ship destroyed and later escaped from the hostile Cocoa Island and finally reached Germany after some most amazing experiences in the Indian ocean and on the Arabian desert. The complete story is here told for the first time. Toward the end of October, late in the afternoon, we were about nine or ten miles off Fenang.

Again Use Dummy Funnel. We hoisted our dummy funnel, and once more we made our ship look like a British cruiser; then we made for the entrance of the harbor, where stood an unknown cruiser and many ships behind. We steamed toward her until we were within 600 or 700 yards, and then we sent her two torpedoes, both of which took effect and the unknown cruiser, which we later found out to be the Russian cruiser Jemtchug, sank immediately. At the time we had fired the two torpedoes, we had likewise sent her a salvo of 100 shots. Our shots also sent to the bottom several sailing ships in the harbor.

After this we steamed out of the harbor as fast as we could. On leaving Penang we were steaming at full speed, and about 35 miles out, we met a steamer. Just then we sighted a warship in the horizon, which we took to be a large British cruiser. But after the early morning mirage had settled, we found out that it was the French destroyer Mousquet. We approached her within 3,500 yards and then we sent a salvo to her.

We immediately sank her and saved 35 of her crew. Just then we sighted another destroyer making for us from the direction of Tenang. We were chased by this unknown craft for about five hours, but we finally got rid of her in a terrible rainstorm. ATith full speed we made for the Indian ocean and, after destroying many ships, we again returned to the Ghagos-Pveeling islands group to destroy a wireless station; that was on Nevember 9. The British officers in charge of the wireless station were evidently expecting a British cruiser.

I was wearing a British uniform. Thus I approached the commander of the wireless station and informed him that their operation of the wireless interfered with the movements of the cruiser. Rest of Party Comu Up. While I was talking to him, who had come half way from the station towards the place where we had landed, another detachment of my party had already marched te the station and, as previously arranged, rounded up tbt British who vere connected with the station. Continued on Pajfe 6.

By Lieutenant von Muecke. When Japan entered the great war on the side of our enemy our ship Emden was at our East Asiatic naval base Tsing-tau. "We also had five gunboats, which were: Cormoran, litis, Jaguar, Tiger and Luchs, and two destroyers. There also was an armored cruiser belonging to our ally, Austria, iiamely Kaiserin Elizabeth. Our gunboats and the two destroyers, and also the Austrian cruiser Kaiserin Elizabeth, were destroyed by the Anglo-Japanese fleets.

Our two heavy and two light cruisers succeeded in eluding the combined Anglo-Japanese fleets; and, while these four made their way to the South Atlantic, the Emden remained in the Indian ocean and for months gave the Anglo-Japanese squadron a merry chase, destroying over 70,000 tons of British shipping, in addition to doing Other damage to the many ships and property. One way or other we kept on escaping the attention of the three Japanese fleets which were searching for us. Of course the Japanese naval officers were not a match for our resourceful captain. Every time we felt that we were in a tight hole and that we would have to measure swords with a superior enemy, we found some way to get out of it; at last we became past masters in this great game of high sea hide-and-seek. But the best we ever did was when we thought we bad to fight the heavily armored Japanese cruiser which was waiting for us just outside Kiao-Chau.

As we left Kiao-Chau we were sure that we had to fight this Japanese cruiser. It would have been madness for us to attempt to put up a fight with the Japanese as we knew well that her heavy guns would have certainly outranged us and we would have been sunk long before we would be in a position to hit the enemy ship. So we utilized the dummy funnel which we always kept on deck. Our Emden was three-funneled and we made it appear four-funneled. We replaced our black-and-white-and-red man of war ensign with that of the British white ensign; then we lined up the crew along the railing.

We had on board many ailors who had in the past fraternised far off in the horizon. Thus we destroyed millions of gallons of oil belonging to the enemy. In the early part of October, perhaps on the tenth, we reached an island in the Indian ocean. This land is called Diego Garcia, and is one of the group' called Ghagos islands. These islands were originally Spanish, but now they are British possessions.

Later we learned that there were not more than 35 or 40 Europeans and about three or four hundred natives there. This island is situated half way between the African coast and Sumatra. When he entered this little water inlet, we learned that no one in that ocean desert Was yet aware of the breaking out of the European war. We at once sent a small crew to the shore and established friendly relations with the British residents; so we coaled all day long from a steamer which we had captured previously in the Indian ocean. We could have easily captured the island and seized all the coal and provisions there, but we needed urgent repairs on our machinery; so we wished to stay there for, a few days in peace.

Some of our engineers repaired one of the motor boats belonging to the British residents, for which they received baskets full of cot'oanuts. These people live a simple life and from the beguiling we fell in love with with the British sailors. These sailors instructed the whole crew in giving British cheers, and long before we sighted the dreaded Japanese cruiser we were enabled to give cheers like those of the British sailors. At last, when we came by the Japanese ship, M-ith our dummy funnel sending out black smoke, our newly hoisted British ensign flying from the mast and our sailors cheering like genuine Britishers, we passed by the enemy with whom we exchanged salutes. From that time on we ioved over the high seas and did 8 much damage to the enemy as we possibly could.

After sinking "several ships, and after reprovisioning our ship, one night stood off near' Madras. That was in the early part of September. One of our crew, some years before, had worked there and knew the place well. That evening this sailor told our captain that he knew, of his personal knowledge, that there were several oil tanks near the entrance to the harbor. This was good news.

We waited till dark, and about 10 p. m. we stole into the inner harbor and, after locating the tanks with searchlights, we shelled them. Beat Batteries to It, Before the shore batteries (had time to fire on us we had off to the sea. The following, morning we' could still sec the flames the place..