The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-03-06
STRENUOUS LIFE
OFFORE|CNL LEGION
In Trenches with Americans Of
Famous French Unit.
READY FOR FEAST OR FIGHT

There Are Men From Every Part Of the
United States and From the Higher
to the Lesser Degrees In the Social
SesIe-Galveston Negro Serving as
Cook Mourned by All When Killed.
London. Always ready for q feast or
a frolic aud the greatest lighting unit In
the French army is the description APP
piled TO the French American Foreign
legion by one or It's members. Phil
RAIDER. Chicago writer. artist and sol
dicr.
Back on "A furlough from the
trenches. where sometimes waist deep
In water the troops hide from the ter.
rife artillery Are, the Chicagoan paint
ed an intimate word picture OF the
type OF men who have adopted the
tricolor ms their flag In the present
war.
There are Americans In the service
from every part OF the United States
and from every walk Of life" said
RAIDER. II think the most interesting
or the whole lot that ! met was Eu-
gene Jacob. whose wife II running his
butcher shop In Pawtucket, II. L., while
he fights for France. Both he aud his
wife were born In Belgium.
Jacob is the most fervent German
hnter that | know OF. Even during the
Christmas truce he refused to lay his
feelings aside. and just before we left
our trenches To meet the Germans and
exchange cigars and greetings he fixed
bis bayonet and declared that II we
brought a single German into the
trench he would kill him. And oil day
Christmas he sulked.
Fought, Then Shook Hands.
Then, later, one day a German who
VAS drunk wandered into u trenches
and tainted us. but we respected his
bravery and admired him. But not
Jacob. He and the German had a
dandy fist fight in the trench, but aft
erward they shook hands and became
friends. Jacob told the camp II he had
whined he would have killed him, but
that he had found that he was a man
even though he was a German.
Bartlett Donneli OF Brooklyn was
killed by a shell while I was near him.
because his girl had told him to 60
out into the world and accomplish
something. I don't know who the girl
was. but she lost the coolest, quietest
and bravest man In the legion.
Another American Is from st. Louis
John Street. an evangelist. He grew
very hopeful that a reconciliation was
coming during the Christmas truce
when we smoked. walked arm In arm
and played with the Germans. Thu
following day Street got out or hi
trench In the cary morning and waved
his hand to n German friend I'm I
trench fifty feet distant. A bullet wen
through HIS head and he dropped dead
Missed Negro Singer.
George Ullard, a Galveston negro
was our cook and a fine one. He was
the best singer for hundreds OF feet OF
both lines OF trenches, and the Ger
mans loved his songs. He taught then
to sing Sailing Down Chesapeake Bay,
but one day n shell blew Ullard'i
trench to pieces and he was killed
Next day the Germans yelled to us t.
have George sing. When we told then
that he was dead they yelled back tina
they were sorry. as ell of the rifemei
I'm the trenches had agreed not TO shoe
the cheerful black man who sang 3,
we'll"
RAIDER was mentioned I'm dispatches
for destroying a straw stack In which
four German machine guns had beer
hidden. RAIDER and two companion
fastened beet leaves to a gunny sacl
and. shielded by II. crawled to tn
straw stack through a beet field ant
set fire to 1t. For forty-seven days
RAIDER says. he was in trenches file
with water and mud.