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Tues. July 25, 2017
The disturbing reason women's clothing historically never had pockets.
Me: ‘Oh, thanks! It’s got POCKETS’
If there is one thing women can communally agree on, it’s that we love pockets. We cannot get enough of them. Literally. We can’t, and don’t, get enough of them.
It’s not news to any of us that still, in 2017, women’s clothing either completely lacks the potential for a pouch or, even worse, has COUNTERFEIT POCKETS that inspire a millisecond of hope before crushing your dreams when you realise it only has a depth of two centimetres.
But historically, women have always been deprived of pockets. And the reason why is disturbing.
In a piece on Racked, journalist Chelsea Summers puts it most simply when she writes, "the less women could carry, the less freedom they had".
Think about that for a second.
(Provided by Wochit News)
Before the seventeenth century, both men and women's clothing weren't conducive to pockets, and both genders would have to add purses or bags to their attire. But towards the eighteenth century, men's clothing all of a sudden got pockets. Women, of course, were left behind.
"Take away pockets happily hidden under garments," writes Summers, "and you limit women’s ability to navigate public spaces, to carry seditious (or merely amorous) writing, or to travel unaccompanied".
20 Fanny Packs That Are Actually CoolIn the mid to late 1800s, as women were fighting for liberation, pockets were introduced to clothing. Pockets represented independence - as did the pants women started to wear. Post war, however, pockets went out of fashion, in an effort to make women's silhouettes 'thinner' and more feminine, whatever that means.
Throughout history, women have had a complex relationship with pockets.
Even now, countless articles have been written lamenting the fact that women's clothes rarely have pockets large enough to fit an iPhone - a piece of property almost every person needs to carry.
No pockets also means women need to invest in clutches and handbags - a strategy that earns the fashion industry more and more money.
Ladies Aren't Wearing Clutches Like They Used to AnymoreSo when you do find that dress or skirt or pants that have excellent pockets, be reminded there's something inherently political about them. Ladies - our obsession with pockets could not be more warranted.
Anthony Scaramucci: Breitbart ‘Captured the Spirit’ of America
Newly appointed White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci spoke exclusively with Breitbart News Political Editor Matthew Boyle to discuss his new job.
“I think that one of the things that Breitbart has done has captured the spirit of what is actually going on in this country,” Scaramucci said in an interview on Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125.
As a former Wall Street financier, Scaramucci explained that he spent time during the campaign connecting directly with President Donald Trump’s supporters, realizing that they were just like his friends and neighbors in Long Island, NY, where he grew up.
“It was the president that showed me, who grew up in a middle-class area like that, what was going on in my own hometown,” he said.
Scaramucci discussed the challenges in his new job, including the ongoing fight against fake news in the mainstream media. He reminded Trump supporters that it was possible to go beyond the mainstream media as they did during the campaign.
“We’re having a rough time with the mainstream media, but last time I checked during the campaign we were having a rough time with the mainstream media and the people see through it,” he said.
Scaramucci publicly thanked Breitbart News for helping expose fake news stories like the CNN story about him that was ultimately retracted.
Part of his strategy, he explained, was to tighten up an “unfiltered message” that would “penetrate through that shell” of the media. He also said he would work with the media to “de escalate” the relationship and treat the administration fairly.
“You can look at it objectively, frankly, and see that it isn’t fair right now,” Scaramucci said.
He said the administration would continue to fight to fulfill the president’s campaign promises, including major initiatives on tax reform, health care, and border security.
“We have a list of campaign promises that are up on Steve Bannon’s wall and we’re going right through those campaign promises and so that we can tell the American people that we are citizen politicians … we’re not career politicians or establishment players that just want to sit in Washington and milk the system,” he said.
ICE Chief: We're Coming For Sanctuary Cities. And We're Not Sorry.
"We're going to enforce the laws on the books without apology ... "
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Thomas D. Homan says his team, unshackled by President Donald Trump, is "open for business" and planning to target sanctuary cities with additional resources and 10,000 new agents.
And he's not sorry about it.
Homan told The Washington Examiner on Tuesday that deportation targets have surged now that President Trump has "taken the handcuffs off of law enforcement." The top ICE official explained that illegal border crossings have plummeted by nearly 70% since Trump took office, "arrests inside the country have jumped 40% and that demands for illegal criminals in local jails has skyrocketed 80%."
Now that illegal crossing have dropped to "a historic low," according to Homan, border officers can turn their attention to illegal immigrants settled in the country, including those in sanctuary cities, of which there are over 300 in the United States.
Such cities evade federal law and shield illegal immigrants detained by enforcement officers within the city from ICE. Homan is not a fan, calling such policies "ludicrous."
"In the America I grew up in, cities didn't shield people who violated the law," said the official.
According to the Examiner, Homan "plans to flood sanctuary cities with agents" and has been given the green light to hire 10,000 new agents for the mission.
"The president recognizes that you've got to have a true interior enforcement strategy to make it uncomfortable for them," stated Homan.
The immigration official with over 30 years experience in the field argued that it's "much safer for ICE targets, police and citizens to make the arrest in jails than on city streets." Homan ripped liberal cities like San Francisco, New York City, and Chicago for refusing to allow his team to seize illegal immigrant criminals from their jails, putting citizens at higher risk.
Moreover, according to the Examiner, Homan suggested sanctuary policies generate more fear within immigrant communities since ICE officials are, in effect, forced to "hunt down fugitives at their homes or work." This is not good for anyone.
"I'm going to arrest him and anybody else with him because there is no population off the table any more. So if you really want to tap down the fear in the immigrant community, I would think the counties would want me in their jails," he said.
Recently giving testimony before Congress, Homan said there is no "magic number we need to get to" when it comes to deportation. Criminals and threats to safety are certainly being prioritized under the Trump Administration, but no illegal immigrant is safe from ICE, he said.
"What I want to get to is a clear understanding from everybody, from the congressmen to the politicians to law enforcement to those who enter the country illegally, that ICE is open for business. We're going to enforce the laws on the books without apology, we'll continue to prioritize what we do. But it's not OK to violate the laws of this country anymore, you're going to be held accountable," asserted Homan.
The ICE official added that the Trump-effect on immigration is irrefutable — and everyone should be on board.
"You can like President Trump, not like him, like his policies, not like his policies, but one thing no one can argue with is the effect they've had," said Homan.
"What this president has done is taken the handcuffs off of law enforcement officers who are charged with enforcing immigration laws," he said.
"You'd think everybody would be celebrating these policies."
And he's not sorry about it.
Homan told The Washington Examiner on Tuesday that deportation targets have surged now that President Trump has "taken the handcuffs off of law enforcement." The top ICE official explained that illegal border crossings have plummeted by nearly 70% since Trump took office, "arrests inside the country have jumped 40% and that demands for illegal criminals in local jails has skyrocketed 80%."
Now that illegal crossing have dropped to "a historic low," according to Homan, border officers can turn their attention to illegal immigrants settled in the country, including those in sanctuary cities, of which there are over 300 in the United States.
Such cities evade federal law and shield illegal immigrants detained by enforcement officers within the city from ICE. Homan is not a fan, calling such policies "ludicrous."
"In the America I grew up in, cities didn't shield people who violated the law," said the official.
According to the Examiner, Homan "plans to flood sanctuary cities with agents" and has been given the green light to hire 10,000 new agents for the mission.
"The president recognizes that you've got to have a true interior enforcement strategy to make it uncomfortable for them," stated Homan.
The immigration official with over 30 years experience in the field argued that it's "much safer for ICE targets, police and citizens to make the arrest in jails than on city streets." Homan ripped liberal cities like San Francisco, New York City, and Chicago for refusing to allow his team to seize illegal immigrant criminals from their jails, putting citizens at higher risk.
Moreover, according to the Examiner, Homan suggested sanctuary policies generate more fear within immigrant communities since ICE officials are, in effect, forced to "hunt down fugitives at their homes or work." This is not good for anyone.
"I'm going to arrest him and anybody else with him because there is no population off the table any more. So if you really want to tap down the fear in the immigrant community, I would think the counties would want me in their jails," he said.
Recently giving testimony before Congress, Homan said there is no "magic number we need to get to" when it comes to deportation. Criminals and threats to safety are certainly being prioritized under the Trump Administration, but no illegal immigrant is safe from ICE, he said.
"What I want to get to is a clear understanding from everybody, from the congressmen to the politicians to law enforcement to those who enter the country illegally, that ICE is open for business. We're going to enforce the laws on the books without apology, we'll continue to prioritize what we do. But it's not OK to violate the laws of this country anymore, you're going to be held accountable," asserted Homan.
The ICE official added that the Trump-effect on immigration is irrefutable — and everyone should be on board.
"You can like President Trump, not like him, like his policies, not like his policies, but one thing no one can argue with is the effect they've had," said Homan.
"What this president has done is taken the handcuffs off of law enforcement officers who are charged with enforcing immigration laws," he said.
"You'd think everybody would be celebrating these policies."
Ivy League Puffery–Very Fake News: CNN’s Jake Tapper Caught Misstating His Background on Live Television
Jake Tapper, a CNN anchor, has been caught misstating his background on live television on Sunday.
During an interview with President Donald J. Trump’s new White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, Tapper inflated his background to make it seem as though he was more in touch with people with working- and middle-class beginnings than he really is. At one point late in the lengthy and testy interview—where Scaramucci even offered to bring CNN some Kleenex to wipe away its tears after what he says will be President Trump’s re-election victory in 2020—Scaramucci was discussing how he stands with the “people I grew up with.”
Scaramucci comes from humble beginnings in a blue collar neighborhood on Long Island in New York. He discussed during the Tapper interview, which came after he discussed it even more in his first exclusive interview as communications director for the White House—in an interview with Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125.
“I think the thing that Breitbart has done is you’ve captured the spirit of what is actually going on in the country, where there is a large group of people for whatever reason—we can go over all of them—have been disaffected from the economic franchise,” Scaramucci said in that exclusive interview. “One of the most successful things about the president is that he has a vision for these people, but he also identified that way earlier than what I would call the typical politician who really wasn’t focused on it. So what I’m going to be doing over there is bringing staff in and developing messages so we can go out there and reach the people that need the most help in the United States.”
Scaramucci further explained in the Breitbart News interview that during the campaign, when he was with the president in New Mexico, “it’s one of my first campaign stops with the president—we’re on then Trump Force One, we land in Albuquerque. We go over to the Albuquerque Civic Center—Matt, I take my Secret Service day pin off and I go behind and around the security perimeter into the crowd. There’s 8,000 people there. I’m shaking hands with these people and then it dawns on me, ‘Oh my God, these are the people I grew up with.’
“These are blue-collar, middle-class people who are shifting into the lower class because of some level of economic desperation. Factories have been shut down, opportunity has been lost in these little towns. Since NAFTA, we have lost 70,000 factories in the United States. So, it was the president—this is one of the most admirable things about him—it was the president who showed me, who grew up in a middle-class area like that what was going on in my hometown. Matt, I was spending too much time trying to spiral my way up into the global elite—I went to some fancy schools and then I worked at Goldman [Sachs] and I was trying to make myself some money to become financially independent and I missed it. So, it’s one of the reasons why I’m so passionate to get reconnected to that and to help the president help those people.”
So, when Scaramucci appeared afterward on Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union with Tapper—who also hosts “The Lead with Jake Tapper” on weekdays—he was talking about it again. And interestingly, Tapper puffed up his own credentials trying to link himself back to the middle class and the working class in America—a link he does not have.
“I grew up in a very similar neighborhood in Philadelphia,” Tapper told Scaramucci on Sunday.
Tapper, when he was growing up, went to a private elite high school with exorbitant tuition rates. The Akiba Hebrew Academy in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. His father was a graduate of Harvard Medical School, and a wealthy pediatrician. Before Harvard, Tapper’s father went to Dartmouth—another Ivy League school that Tapper would eventually attend.
Tapper and CNN spokeswoman Lauren Pratapas have not answered detailed questions from Breitbart News about how much money Tapper’s family paid for him to go to Akiba or how they paid it—renamed in 2007 the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy after a $5 million donation from the Barrack family. Tuition at the Barrack Hebrew Academy, according to its website, is now in the range of $26,500 to $32,500 per year. The school’s finance director has not responded to a request for comment on how much tuition would have been in the 1980s when Tapper went there.
Tapper and Pratapas have also not answered what years Tapper went to Akiba, but from publicly available news reports it appears Tapper went there from at least eighth grade through his senior year of high school to graduation in 1987. He may have gone there longer, as it appears that the school—at least now—offers classes from sixth grade through high school.
They have also not answered how Tapper got into Dartmouth, and whether the fact that his father was a graduate of the Ivy League school played any part in getting him in—or how much Tapper paid to Dartmouth in tuition and how he and his family paid it. They have also declined to answer how much the house he grew up in was worth.
When Breitbart News contacted Tapper with these questions Sunday afternoon after he made these comments earlier in his interview with Scaramucci, Tapper added Pratapas—CNN’s corporate communications spokeswoman—onto the email. He has not answered any of them, nor has Pratapas. Instead, Tapper took to Twitter to try to preempt this Breitbart News investigation into the latest fake news from CNN—going on a Tweet-storm on Sunday afternoon with a number of comments about this matter.
Jake TapperSomeone asked about my saying I grew up in a neighborhood similar to @Scaramucci so wanted to expand on that. Mom and Dad moved to Philly 1/
3:27 PM - 23 Jul 2017
That someone was us at Breitbart News–with the above-mentioned questions.
Arthur Schwartz @ArthurSchwartzWho was that someone? Was it a reporter that caught you lying on the air? https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/889205395419521024 …
3:48 PM - 23 Jul 2017
Tapper went on for many more Tweets.
Someone asked about my saying I grew up in a neighborhood similar to @Scaramucci so wanted to expand on that. Mom and Dad moved to Philly 1/
Jake Tapper2/ when I was a couple months old. My mom still lives in the same house in Queen Village - right on the border with South Philly. There was
Jake Tapper3/ subsidized government housing (Southwark) half a block away. When I was 8 my parents divorced and dad moved to suburbs in 1979 after
Jake Tapper✔@jaketapper
4/ he remarried. My parents had joint custody so I split time with them. My dad is a doctor so we were never wanting; plenty of working
5/ class people lived/live where my mom still lives. And indeed I talked to some of them when we covered the Dem convention in Philly ...
Jake Tapper6/ last year!
6/ last year!
Jake Tapper7/ Trump won a ward in South Philly (and 2 in NE Philly) which did not surprise me after Mr Termini told me about "leaners".
8/ Philly represent! Have a great Sunday -- http://pic.twitter.com/de2Rl0kpL9
It is interesting that Tapper decided to Tweet out a non-response in attempt to preempt this Breitbart News investigation into his background that he misstated on live television–over-inflating his ties to working-class Americans. It is interesting because many people at CNN, including Tapper, were critical of Donald Trump Jr., for releasing emails via Twitter before the New York Times published them. In fact, CNN reporter Dan Merica Tweeted this just 12 days ago, back on July 11:
Dan MericaWorth noting Trump Jr. tweeted his emails because the NYT first contacted him with questions about those emails. https://twitter.com/nprpolitics/status/884842550091276288 …
Tapper retweeted that Tweet from his colleague Merica.
Tapper and Pratapas have not responded to a follow-up email seeking comment on why Tapper’s behavior–tweeting to pre-empt a news investigation–was acceptable, given the fact it was the same thing Trump Jr., did.
Tapper is already coming under serious criticism for what he did to inflate his connections to blue-collar Americans–when he is in fact an Ivy League elite.
Arthur Schwartz @ArthurSchwartzWait. You told Anthony on the air that you grew up in a middle class household just like him. You were lying? https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/889206308725026822 …
Arthur Schwartz @ArthurSchwartzWhatever, Jake "Brian Williams" Tapper. https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/889219667390287872 …
Arthur Schwartz @ArthurSchwartzDid you puke out this incoherent tweet storm after getting a press inquiry? Were you trying to preempt a story? You just made it worse.
This latest screw-up by CNN comes amid the worst stretch in the network’s history. The network previously attacked, falsely, Scaramucci–accusing him of having “meetings” that never happened and being under Senate Intelligence Committee and Treasury Department investigation for those non-existent meetings, something that was untrue. A Breitbart News investigation uncovered the fact that the Senate Intelligence Committee was not in fact investigating this and that the Treasury Department–at the urging of Sen. Lizzy Warren (D-MA) to now Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin before Trump’s inauguration–had looked into these scurrilous and inaccurate accusations against Scaramucci and determined them to be entirely “without merit.”
CNN was forced to retract the very fake news hit piece as a result of Breitbart News’ investigation, and three of the network’s senior-most editorial staffers, including the head of CNN’s investigative unit resigned in disgrace. The network–including Pratapas and other spokespersons like Emily Kuhn, Richard Hudock, and Liza Pluto–continue to refuse to answer any questions about the scandal. The network refuses to be transparent about this matter and a whole host of others, abandoning the pretext of journalistic integrity.
More from Breitbart News’ investigation into the very fake news scandal engulfing CNN is forthcoming.
Time to Rebrand: Democrats Desperate to Stand for Something
Schumer pushes new economic message as party suffers dismal fundraising, perceptions of anti-Trump obsession
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) admitted “the number-one thing that we did wrong” was failing to communicate “what we stood for” as a party to the American people. During an interview Sunday on ABC News’ “This Week,” he discussed Democratic electoral losses in 2016 and a new economic agenda congressional Democrats plan to unveil Monday.
Schumer acknowledged 2016 wasn’t a good year for Democrats across the board, as they lost the White House, the House, and the Senate while struggling to convey a cohesive economic message to voters. Responding to a recent ABC News-Washington Post revealing that only 37 percent of Americans believe that the Democratic Party “stands for something” while 52 percent say it only stands against President Donald Trump, Schumer said that Democrats must — and will — do better.
When “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos asked Schumer why Americans don’t know what the Democrats stand for and whether or not that was his fault, the Senate Democratic leader said that “it is, in part, our fault” and that he has looked “in the mirror” and asked “what we did wrong.”
Poll Shows Democrats Aren't Ready To Give Nancy Pelosi The Boot
"We didn't tell people what we stood for," Schumer said. "So tomorrow, Democrats will unveil our economic agenda. It is called 'A Better Deal.' It has three components. We're going to raise people's wages and create better-paying jobs. We're going to cut down on their everyday expenses they have to pay. And we're going to give them the tools they need to compete in the 21st century."
"So simply put, what do Democrats stand for? A better deal for working families — higher wages, less costs, tools for the 21st century," he added.
Pollster Geoff Garin wrote a memo obtained by Axios with the purpose of kicking off the project, writing, "[T]he Democratic policies related to curbing excessive corporate power that are being highlighted in the first day of the rollout have real resonance with voters and are strongly supported by a significant majority of Americans."
Noting that "a large majority of battleground-state voters respond favorably to a statement of the premise and direction that define the Better Deal economic agenda, transcending partisanship even when the statement is explicitly described as coming from Democrats," Garin summarized the Democrats' message in a paragraph in his memo.
"Too many families in America today feel that the rules of the economy are rigged against them. Special interests have a stranglehold on Washington — from the super-rich spending unlimited amounts of secret money to influence our elections, to the huge loopholes in our tax code that help corporations avoid paying taxes," Garin wrote. "If the government goes back to putting working families first, ahead of special interests, we can achieve a better deal for the American people that will raise their pay, lower their expenses, and prepare them for the future."
But Stephanopoulos pressed Schumer further, saying, "You had a president, though, for eight years. You had control of Congress for part of that time. What took so long? And why didn't it happen during the campaign?"
Schumer admitted that he didn't know why "it didn't happen in the campaign" and why Democrats struggled to come up with a strong and positive message to take to the voters.
"We all take blame, not any one person. But now we have spent a lot of time working on this. And it's going to really impress the American people," Schumer said of the economic agenda to be presented Monday.
Hoping that the plan will tap into the economic concerns that drove thousands of blue-collar Trump voters to turn out on Election Day, the Senate minority leader said the new agenda "is not going to be left or right."
"It is going to be totally focused on working people who realize, believe correctly, that the system is rigged against them, and not helping them with all the changes. Rapid changes, economic and social," Schumer said. "And people ask, well, are you going [to] appeal to the Obama coalition? You know, young people, LGBT, people of color? Or the Trump people — Democrats who voted for Trump, blue collar voters? This will appeal to both."
"It will unify the Democratic Party because we are united on economic issues. And a bold, sharp-edged message, platform, policy, that talks about working people and how the system is rigged against them is going to resonate," he added. "And this is the first time we're going to have it, and our party is going to be unified."
Schumer even complimented Trump for successfully running on the type of populist platform the Democrats are now trying to tap into and cultivate.
“We’re going to have, tomorrow, a very novel idea of how to create 10 million jobs. There are 10 million Americans looking for good-paying jobs. We’re going to show them how to find them,” Schumer said. “And that’s just the beginning. Week after week, month after month, we’re going to roll out specific pieces here, that are quite different than the Democratic Party you heard in the past. We were too cautious. We were too namby-pamby.”
"This is sharp, bold, and will appeal ... to both the old Obama coalition, let's say, the young lady who's just getting out of college, and the Democratic voters who deserted us for Trump, the blue-collar workers," he added.
Although Schumer and other members of Democratic leadership have expressed their excitement for the upcoming policy proposal, the party still has several significant hurdles blocking its path to renewal.
According to data released from the Federal Election Commission Friday, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) raised a mere $5.5 million during the month of June, while the Republican National Committee (RNC) raked in $13.5 million. During the first six months of 2017, the DNC raised only $38.1 million to the RNC's $75.4 million in the same amount of time. And although the DNC reported having only $7.5 million cash on hand in late June, the RNC carries $44.7 million on hand.
Under DNC Chairman Tom Perez's leadership, the DNC experienced its worst May of fundraising in 2017 since May of 2003. The $4.29 million the DNC raised in May 2017 is the weakest take for national Democrats since the paltry $2.7 million it made in the same month 14 years ago.
99 years ago, World War I arrived on the shores of Cape Cod
On July 21, 1918, Dr. J. Danforth Taylor made a rather urgent call.
“Hello! Is this the Globe?” he asked.
Taylor was informed that, indeed, he had reached the offices of The Boston Globe.
“This is Dr. Taylor of East Boston,” he continued. “I am at Nauset [Beach] on Cape Cod. There is a submarine battle going on just offshore.”
Dr. Taylor wasn’t lying. Exactly 99 years ago Friday, a lone German U-boat attacked just off the coast of Orleans, raiding a tugboat and its four barges — and even incidentally shelling the beach where eyewitnesses gathered in awe.
The raid made the quiet Cape Cod town the only place in the United States to be hit by enemy fire during World War I.
“It brought the war that was over there, over here,” Jake Klim, the author of Attack on Orleans, told Boston.com.
As Klim writes in his book, the SM U-156 was one of the first German submarines over the course of the two World Wars to wreak havoc off the American coast, in an effort to terrorize and incite anti-war sentiment along the Eastern Seaboard. It had already sunk one 500-foot U.S. Navy ship off Long Island that summer, killing six sailors, before reaching Cape Cod.
Military officials had been aware at the time of the possibility that sharks weren’t the only thing lurking off Cape shores. Within a year of the United States entering the war, a short-lived Naval air station was built in Chatham to patrol the waters.
Klim says the routine patrols garnered countless false reports of the German enemies creeping below the surface. But on that hot and hazy July day the threat was very real.
A tugboat named the Perth Amboy had opted to tow its four barges en route to the Chesapeake Bay around the tip of the Cape’s outer arm, rather than pay the toll that then existed in the recently opened Cape Cod Canal.
Just before 10:30 a.m., Klim says a deckhand, one of 32 people on the unarmed boat and barges, saw something skimming across the surface of the water. Before he could even yell “submarine” the boat’s pilot house was struck by shellfire from the U-156‘s deck guns. The explosion itself wounded several men.
“For the next 90 minutes, what happens is that this tugboat towing these four barges in a row — it’s a five-boat target stretching across it — and it’s almost like a video game, [the submarine] sinking one after another after another. Just kind of going down the line,” Klim said.
However, the U-156 apparently did not have great aim. A number of errant shells sailed over the boats and landed on Nauset Beach and a nearby marsh.
“The shooting by the Germans is rotten,” Taylor told the Globe, as he watched the attack take place in realtime from the his beach house veranda.
“It has a terrible time hitting its target,” Klim said. “It shot upwards of 147 shells in 90 minutes.”
Nevertheless, according to Globe reports at the time, the submarine went down the line, sinking three of the barges.
“All that we could do was to stand there and take what they sent us,” Perth Amboy Capt. I.H. Tupley later told the paper.
Meanwhile, the ongoing attack created a sizable stir onshore. According to the Globe, beachgoers initially sought shelter upon the first shells hitting the land. But upon realizing the beachside houses weren’t a target, a large crowd increasingly began to gather on the beach.
“The bolder ones are now seated on their cottage piazzas watching the fight,” Taylor told the paper.
“You have countless people who are descending on the beach because this is before television and this is the most amazing thing they’re ever seen before,” Klim said. The Globe reported the following day that 1,000 people had crowded Nauset Beach “to watch with bated breath the work of destruction.”
However, they weren’t all bystanders. The Lifesavers, an early precursor to the U.S. Coast Guard, were the closest first responders. They had been trained to rescue shipwrecked sailors, often in less than ideal conditions. In this case, they were tasked with saving the 32 people on the tugboat and barges, who were hastily escaping into lifeboats.
“They’re used to saving people,” Klim said. “They’re not used to rescuing people under German shellfire.”
Within 10 minutes of the first shots, the attack was also reported to the nearby Chatham air base, which had two seaplanes in the skies responding to the scene by 11:15 a.m.
Within 10 minutes of the first shots, the attack was also reported to the nearby Chatham air base, which had two seaplanes in the skies responding to the scene by 11:15 a.m.
As the U-156 continued its assault on the Perth Amboy and its barges, the planes dive-bombed the submarine. In reponse, the U-156 turned it attention, tilting its guns upward and firing upon the approaching planes.
Each of the planes carried a six-foot Mark IV bomb, which Klim described as almost “cartoonish” and which would certainly destroy the submarine if they hit it directly. However, the bombs — which had a history of malfunctioning — failed to explode. But it was enough to scare away the submarine.
“The guys in the submarines have no idea,” Klim said. “They quickly batten the hatches, as they say, and submerge and disappear and head out back to sea.”
The U-156 would go on to harass and sink fishing boats off the coast of Maine and Canada before cruising back toward Europe in September. However, it reportedly disappeared in a North Sea minefield.
Despite the dud bombs, a Naval lieutenant later even credited the the planes’ response for saving the towns of Chatham and Orleans.
“It’s reasonably certain, had the U-boat not been attacked from the air, she would have destroyed Chatham and Orleans not because of any military value, but for the decided moral effect that such destruction would have had,” said Lt. Elijah Williams, according to Klim’s book. “What a nice breakfast story this would have given to the German newspapers — ‘Two American cities destroyed by U-boat.'”
Instead, the attack had the opposite effect, galvanizing the Cape Cod community. Two of the sunk barges were empty, and the other had been filled with stone, according to Globe reports at the time. The tugboat, though damaged by the shelling and resulting fire onboard, somehow stayed afloat.
“They kind of laughed,” Klim said of the local reaction to the attack. “They made fun of the Germans a lot.”
Even amid the shelling, Jack Ainsleigh, the 11-year-old son of one of the barge’s captains, stood on its deck waving the American flag until his father forced him to get into a lifeboat.
“My little boy Jack appeared to enjoy the whole affair and his display of courage is truly remarkable,” Capt. Charles Ainsleigh, who was one of the few injured by shrapnel, later told the Globe. “As soon as the shells began coming toward us he insisted that he get his American flag.”
As those on the tugboats and barges arrived safely ashore, the younger Ainsleigh was again proudly waving the flag from his lifeboat, Klim said.
None of the men, women, or children aboard the tugboat or barges were killed in the attack. The worst of those injured was a crew member whose arm was nearly severed by splinters from an exploding shell.
Capt. Ainsleigh did however fear one casualty: His family’s dog, Rex.
According to Ainsleigh, the family was unable to find the dog before fleeing into a lobster boat that came to help them.
“He was a great companion of my wife and two sons,” Ainsleigh told the Globe after arriving ashore. “He was in the cabin when the firing started and we could not find him anywhere when we were ready to leave for shore.”
Ainsleigh said he was holding out hope that Rex had made it to the stern of the badly damaged Lansford, the only barge that was still afloat. The captain said he was hoping to go out the next day to try and find the dog. But that trip became unnecessary when Walter Eldridge, a Chatham fisherman, arrived ashore later that day with Rex safely in his boat.
Eldridge told the Globe that he had gone out to check on the Lansford and, upon arriving at the barge, was met by the dog who greeted him with “yelps of joy.”
Despite its singular distinction as the only place in the country hit by enemy fire in World War I, the Orleans attack has since been, as Sen. John McCain puts it, “tucked away in the dusty archives of history.”
Pamela Feltus, the executive director of the Orleans Historical Society, said a hotel on Nauset Beach used to display a large sign commemorating the attack, but it was torn down long ago. Currently, the only marker exists on the private stairwell to a private beach.
“You almost have to trespass to see this marker,” Klim said. “It’s not easily accessible.”
But with the centennial approaching, Feltus says a townwide celebration is in the works for next year.
“We’re still working on our plans, but it’s going to be big,” she said.
Feltus says the historical society has already begun collecting artifacts from the attack — including bullet-ridden wood from the ships and an oar from one of the lifeboats — and hopes others will come forward with their own contributions.
Given that locals reportedly scoured the beach for souvenirs following the attack, they may not be in short supply. Klim says that he still comes across pieces on German shell for auction online.
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