Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-13

oyse" roared the big. hearty Gen. Won
r. when ] was ushered into the villa
not many klometers from 49,
where be makes his headauarters. he
said it with pride. with tenderness and
with unaffected comradeship. as 1T be.
blazing with gold lace and scarlet.
were just one Of them, and his eyes
glistened when he said h. Then ne
Went ON To- ten what they had dome
how they had taken the seventy-honr
drumming fire, which men described
as the greatest artillery action in the
history Of the world. as merely a part
Of the weeks work, how they had
held the line firm for mile upon
mile, how. driven from some trenches
by the rain Of metal they had d few
hours later retaken those trenches
and now theyy WE'RE owe nthe sugar
factory having "a hath after expert
ences such as few soldiers IN the am
nails Of war had lived through
In the sugar factory" exclaimed.
The general rubbed his hands i'm
delight at my bewilderment
Take Herr Bennett over there. ne
said TO young officer standing nd his
side.
Fun in Sugar Factory.
The young officer grinned. You
will see something lomisch" Gunny)
he said Please to come" So we
walked "a few hundred yards from
/ the villa of the French susar manu-
factrer, which had become "a mill
tary headquarters. to the factory and
mounted to its second story by a long
ladderlike flight of stairs that led past
coils Of pipes and dryers to enormous
watts Looking down innto them was
like lookig into the mouth of "A rail
way tunnel that had been set on end.
and from them came yells Of delight
and a great splashing. as if hundred
grown-up boys We're larking i'm the old
sWimmin hole Each Of the half doz-
en- watts did, indeed contain half
hundred grown-up boys otherwise
German solders-who, having soaped
themselves and scrubbed themselves
until they were crimson, were now
having a game of splash A half cir
Gle of twenty-five men We're trying to
drive a half circle Of twenty-five 9TH
er men against the wall Of the tank
hy splashmg water IN thei eyes. The
battle was going with varying fortune
ana the watts resounded with the din
Of IT,
The scene was intensely character
istc of the German knack for using
the most unlikely objects to FIN an i'm
mediate want The sugar had been
drawn Off from the watts. the wallis
cleaned Of strip ana sediment ana the
watts supplied with hot water into
which o dozen bars of soap were
thrown for each vat Then the men
stripped in squads, glided down the
long ladders leading from the rim of
the watts into three feet Of soapy wa
ter, and forthwith had the time of
their lives.
At the sound Of a long whistle the
clamor instantly ceased The bathers
shook the water out Of their eyes, ran
up the ladders, and on to The grated
floors of the drying room, where suits
of clean underwear had been laid out
for them. other parts of the sugar
factory had been converted into
sweatrooms and yapor baths for
rheumatic soldiers and into hot rooms
for the disinfecting Of uniforms
All this was at a point close behind
the lines where the German guns We're
giving the benediction of the even
ing To the English cannonecrs.
Shell Almost Spoiled His Coffee.
Before parting with my host of the
moment, General Won g., l must tell
you what he said one afternoon when
the English threw their shells into the
grounds of the villa which he lust now
calls home and heaQuarters. The Of
fensive was then at its height one
shell grazed the corner of the house
ripped out two bushels Of brick, and
split the end of the piazza into kind
ling The general was having his cof-
fee in the long drawing room, which
at present has its nudes and its land
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