El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-19

receiver and sender OF the company,
this, too, in spite of the fact that he
had been nicknamed marolehead.
The pet of the entire company was
that little cement finisher. Kinzie
Feathers, OF FL Paso-the boy with
light hair. a laugh on his lips. and who
no doubt you have noticed on his knees
making concrete conform to squc res
and cubes. He had a cloud over his
home when he first came out, but bore
his troubles bravely. Soon things
changed and ne was his very happy
self again. He played everything from
basketball TO tennis Now and then
he would sit around with a quantity
amused look on his face, watching a
crooked poker game. or a onesided
the outer rim-unless someone got 10
shaking the bones
Yankee in ShrewdneSx
Gilbert Newsome suggested irritation
that he was built for the guardhouse
only. God made him indifferent-and
with II a shrewdness that was Yankee
in texture He smoked cigars with
marked pleasure and always had a
supply. however broke everyone else
He said poignant things and always
played an excellent hand.
Frank CussicE was terribly Irish.
Two generations in this perfectly re-
constructed land OF America didn't
sparks OF his comment He managed
and promoted always. If II wasn't
managing, then II was promoting He
knew how to beat a drill and insult a
non-com without being milled; how TO
get into stews and yet not pay for the
stews- Having been with the Montana
guard on strike duty at first he became
a sort of walking encyclopedia on mill
itary matters.
Dainty aBcb" Potter.
a
Dainty OF feet like his grandame, and
gray OF eyes, Bob Potter had a stack
Of qualities. Bob was generous and
law abiding, but now and then falling
into a temper. He usually got what
he wanted. He knew well the COM
forts of life and how 10 gain them and
hold them: and wherever he cast his
tent, IL was TO attract the lean belted
and the seeker Of cOmpanionship- Ire
land was reflected IN his geniality and
and disfavor OF all things that savored
of injustice.
How like a iitany their names run
and how musical were some Of them
OF us, an FL Paso worker in gold. He
was possessed of a naive humor most
golden as his metal. He was a
mimic. too. loved seances where free
dom of views we're open 10 all. and
was given to considerable latitude on
his own part. Having once served a
hitch in the coast militia OF Califor-
MIA, he was more amenable TO disci-
pline than the majority of US and he
skirted trouble rather than essayed TO
be ruffle in it.
"Seguin- GerIach.
And then there was-we had nick
named him ''Seguin''-big, handsome
Jerome Gerlach, stepson of Judge z. T.
Higgins, court OF appeals, FL Paso-so
young, so sleepy, so ambitious when
rsrSx I'd al -. h.
so much q soldier the honor could not
be denied him He stood out clear and
bravely at all times for fair play.
There was no changing or altering
him We shall remember with a
sense Of friendly amusement his early
attempts to return TO civil life through
the students clause and later on al
legged defective hearing All failed
because his was solid body We shall
remember. also, how the months added
ruggedness to his nature. matured him.
and how at q later time he won the ap-
probation Of the colonel by quelling
alone q disturbance among the prison
ers of the guardhOuse.
But what OF Ostrich-dear. cratic,
ingenious Mason Gobel? We called
him Ostrich because he was always
most quaint when most serious and
most serious when stirred with humor.
We shall remember him for his gener-
osity, his readiness to sacrifice his
pocketbook and his extra time-for he
felt himself too much q part OF US to
renig
Jean GOttardy.
And little Jean Gottardy. our iniul-
liable Go Dirty" subject of 2 thou
sand irritations, caption Of a hundred
episodes. We shall miss his staccato
voice, his husky laugh his outbursts
of temper We shall miss his disOr-
Derby cot his soiled uniform. his neg
Iected ordnance streWn across the tent
floor. We shall miss his ingenious op-
timistic stories when we were bored TO
death with the sameness OF squads
right and left MS hasty misjud gments
and quarrelings and his generous
make ups again Ever shall we as
ron TIE Diet