The evening herald., 1917-11-28


When the American troops started
for the front we fed them every four
hours for forty-eight hours. They
came in cold and tired ana thirsty.
We had six hundred ioayes OF bread
for them. twelve cases of Jam with
twenty -four cans in a case. ana .hree
hurdred pounds of coffee We had
two checses. weighing one hundred
and eighty pounds each. We took a
location on the Quai. set up stoves.
a boiler and served real American cof-
fee. We gave the coffee away. For
sandwiches We charged twenty-five
centimes. They cost u.s. thirty-five
centimes, ! went thirty six hours on
four slices of bread and a coffee.
Then ] started off with the men
artillery. they were. We left at y. m
on a Friday. Twenty-Five OF us were
IN a box car with bale OF hay. when
the wire came off the hay We needed
gas mask for the dust that shook
out. There wasn't room for all 70
sleep We were saddlcrs shocrs. me-
chanics. the ninth section Of ba'-
terry.
We woke To a fogey morning. Tho
men thought they were on the way
10 Paris. But we had come to the city
OF --------. In a corner Of France.
We took the guns off the wagon aud
marched seventeen kuometors 20 the
town OF ---. We slept thnt night
in the loft of b1ru Mon had been
bnleted there before us. and hy morn
ing / had rinE of wttc wolfe around
my ankle from lcc We lived there
a oil
aidn't appear on the roll-cal And
for nine days we never took our
clothes Off.
Tho boys were adv i-cd 90 slip Off
their reyolvors. We rented Kitchen
as a storcroom for the guns. In rent
ing that ,kitchen / wore out my tWen-
ty-two Words Of French but We got
the kichcn ana we slept there ln the
room with the guns We stayed five
dats ia the place with the main horse
line OF the battery The horses had
large ippetitea ana ate Lp caissCns
and any other leather stuff' ono mar
came IN and reported with his over
coat iu rags. lie said he was SORRY
| but his horse had goi hungry in tha
night.
thought I would go Further w. 20
| / sol a horsr. lie WAS thin. ! give
/ you that Tor back ground, 80 you will
, be sympathetic 10 my next. The Or
! ders were TO ride bareback and 1 had
| io ride him bareback rRzorback For
the next two days 1 ate my mells
] standing up
Then I went 10 the brigade COM
! mander. and he let me go 20 the from.
| We cumo 10 the first village this SIDE
! OF the border II was full up of mo-
! biilcted ! said ! was tired enough
/ 90 give seven francs for bod. An
/ old woman gave me room In "a house
| with the end blown OFT she was
caretaker The family had fled. she
seemed 20 feel this way about b. Pm
about al the end OF the line. au how,
! and I'm stay by the stuff
/ Two colonies walked mr up 90 the
! dugouts and that was whore ! parted
friendship with my long 0yer"oat Il
| slapped mud every step.
Thirty men we're in the dugOut D
fetid air. The Germans were one
hundred yards away IA betvcoA
| looked like q lot - country any
where. shells were coming ip casual
\ Iy, landing IN fcld about one hum
| dred wards away When we came
back along the communication trench
we found the ceiling ~ d twhat We
call the sleeper IN miu"i shot
! through with b shell
Then ! vert 90 lind .ur battery
Out ihong uu od Roman ruad w.'
came Co farmhouse located whore
Wisc FARMER would place l The
house WAS in ruins Al Through thir
section men were buried where thc
fcll batteries were dus u 900 ne
hillside and soldiers were hilleted
| in the ruins OF tllas"s. The fields
around tine farmhouse were she'll
pittod. The Germans threw lu enc
more shell at tIc hpusr ard Nillrl
two cpoKs ANA an as-istuut Sunn'