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First to go was the new men's bath, a 600-ft. barge whose bottom is pierced with innumerable holes, where Heidelberg men perform their ablutions. With a loud rending of the steel bands that held it to the wharf it broke loose, swung out into the racing yellow Neckar, crashed down on the solid Friedrich Bridge, split into a thousand fragments...
...contract to provision U. S. troops. Anderson arranged with Wilson to secure and pack pork and beef for the army. On the casks and barrels Wilson had written E. A.U. S., meaning from Contractor Anderson to the United States. Visitors saw the containers thus labelled on a wharf for shipment to Newburgh and Greenbush, asked the watchman what the initials stood for. He declared: "It all belongs to Mr. Anderson and Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam who? Why Uncle Sam Wilson. He owns all about here and is feeding the Army." The phrase spread to the Army camps whence went...
Escorted by a squadron of Turkish torpedo boats, the Tsar Ferdinand finally dropped anchor off the Bulgarian Black Sea port of Burgas. With a cross in one hand, an icon in the other, the Metropolitan Hilarion ("the Merry One") was first to welcome Their Majesties home. On the wharf a comely company of Bulgarian maidens poured water on the feet of Tsar Boris, a similar group of young men sprinkled his bride, now Tsaritza Ivana, as a hope that their lives might be as smooth as the surface of water...
...Hole-Man & Kitchener. As the Commission last week pondered testimony and considered the U. S. claim that Germany ought to pay $40,000,000 compensation for Black Tom and Kingsland, cables told that Death had come to a London youth, whose trade was repairing holes gnawed by wharf rats...
White and unemployed Englishmen got up before dawn at North Shields last week, strode like burly ghosts down the long black wharf of the Lyle Line, massed in truculent formation before the door of a shanty where seamen would be signed on for the dingy S. S. Cape Verde...