Category: Adventure
It happened out at sea about five hundred miles as wireless waves fly from Montclair. But perhaps you don’t know where Montclair is and maybe you don’t particularly care, but as it is my home town I must tell you about it. First, it’s in New Jersey a short way from South Orang...
It happened out at sea about five hundred miles as wireless waves fly from Montclair. But perhaps you don’t know where Montclair is and maybe you don’t particularly care, but as...
2. CHAPTER II--MY FIRST JOB AS AN OPERATORJust before the Christmas holidays my father, who was the New York manager of the _Singer Crude Oil Engine Company_, told mother and me that he had to make a business trip to Ni...
3. CHAPTER III--WHEN THE _ANDALUSIAN_ WENT DOWNAs I have said, I was in the coastwise trade for nearly a year, and could _savvy_ anything in English or Spanish, Morse or Continental, that the old-time operators were able to...
4. CHAPTER IV--CATCHING SEALS BY WIRELESSWhat did I do when I got back, did you say? Well, after the sinking of the _Andalusian_ my folks thought I ought to be willing to give up the sea and confine my adventures to Mo...
5. CHAPTER V--MY ADVENTURES IN THE TROPICSWhen Bert Mackey and I got back to New York we were both in the same boat--to wit, we were without jobs. On the way down, though, Bert unfolded a very alluring scheme by which w...
6. CHAPTER VI--WORKING WITH MARCONII must tell you about a fine experience I had with Mr. Marconi when he received the first signals across the Atlantic, but before I do so I want to say a few words concerning th...
7. CHAPTER VII--A GOVERNMENT OPERATOR AT ARLINGTONNearly every one has the idea, or mania, or whatever you call it, of making some kind of a collection. It often begins to show itself early in a fellow’s life, and I’ve seen som...
8. CHAPTER VIII--ABOARD A WARSHIP AT VERA CRUZTrouble was brewing down in Mexico. Did I say _was_ brewing? Well, what I should have said is that it _had_ brewed, and will keep on brewing until Uncle Sam goes down there and...
9. CHAPTER IX--ON A SUBMARINE CHASERVery shortly after Huerta resigned the presidency of Mexico and made his get-away, the ex-Kaiser let loose the war-dogs of Europe and here I was signed up for four years in the...
10. CHAPTER X--A SIGNALMAN ON A SUBMARINEDon’t think for a moment that Germany was the only country that had a fleet of submarines. The reason that her U-boats came to be so well known was because they had torpedoed th...
11. did. At the same time he had her guns trained on the helplessWe came to the surface about a thousand feet from and on the port side of the _Koln_ and took her completely by surprise. Her gunners began blazing away at us but they had evide...
12. CHAPTER XI--WITH THE FIELD ARTILLERY IN FRANCEThe strain from being cooped up in the small and stuffy quarters of the _H-24_ was beginning to tell on me and the blind way in which we had to manœuver did not make me care for...
13. CHAPTER XII--MUSTERED OUTJack Heaton and I had just finished our goulash at Moquin’s on Sixth Avenue (New York), and the waiter, under the stimulus of a piece of money, graciously removed the table clot...