Tag: 1916

Death On Wheels, 1916

On: By: Romeyn

Robert Minor, famous artist on the Mexican border for the Day Book sketched this picture on one of Uncle Sam’s armored autos at Ft. Bliss, just outside of El Paso. Uncle Sam has four of these death dealers at his call, three belonging to the regular army and one to a New York Regiment of militia. Armored cars of this type were first used in the European war. There is room in this car of Uncle San’s for six men, besides the driver. and a machine gun. There are loopholes in the armor through which the men may discharge rifles at the enemy.

Fifteen Foot Tall…

On: By: Romeyn

With Tusks Sixteen Foot Long

OVER In England the soldiers in the trenches haven’t even seen an enemy, much less fired a shot at him, have secured one of the most important results of the war. They have found the remains of a giant Straight Tusked elephant, the largest elephant that has yet been found in the world, which politely shoves the American Imperial Mammoth from the perch. so to speak, whereon it had stood for all these years as the largest known elephant.

(Detail from The Washington Herald, March 05, 1916)

The Trip to Mars, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 

On: By: Romeyn

THE TRIP TO MARS

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850 – October 30, 1919)

 

Oh! by and by we shall hear the cry.
“This is the way to Mars.”
Come take a trip, on the morning Ship;
It sails by the Isle of Stars.

“A glorious view of planets new
We promise by night and day.
Past dying suns our good ship runs,
And we pause at the Milky Way.”

I am almost sure we will take that tour
Together, my dear, my dear.
For, ever have we, by land and sea,
Gone journeying far and near.

Out over the deep–o’er mountain steep,
We have traveled mile on mile;
And to sail away to the Martian Bay,
Oh! that were a trip worth while.

Our ship will race through seas of space
Up into the Realms of Light,
Till the whirling ball of the earth grows small,
And is utterly lost to sight.

Through the nebulous spawn where planets are born
We shall pass with sails well furled,
And with eager eyes we will scan the skies,
For the sights of a new-made world.

From the derelict barque of a sun gone dark,
Adrift on our fair ship’s path,
A beacon star shall guide us afar,
And far from the comet’s wrath.

Oh! many a start of pulse and heart
We have felt at the sights of land.
But what would we do if the dream came true,
And we sighted the Martian strand?

So, if some day you come and say,
“They are sailing to Mars, I hear.”
I want you to know, I am ready to go,–
All ready, my dear, my dear.

World Voices by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
New York : Hearst’s International Library Company, 1916.

Millions in Gold, 1916

On: By: Romeyn

MILLIONS IN GOLD LIE AT BOTTOMS OF SEAS
FINANCIERS BACK ENGINEERS TO MAKE SEARCH

New York, June 12 – Would you believe that big business men financiers and stock market operators of the super-wise Wall street clan would put up $125,000 to finance an expedition to search the bottom of the five oceans for lost treasure trove?

They have.

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