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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-09-10

small! tea will be the nature Of the cele
bration.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-09-10
Pleasant Sunrise.

On Saturday evening Mrs. Atwcll YoSI
was dcllHhirully surprised at her honlc
in Bcnwund by O. number of her friends
the pleasant occasion hcing In ohscrv.
anc" nf her birthday anniversary.
Cards furnished pleasure for several
hours, and tho serving Of n duinty
luncheon concluded the happy affair.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-09-10

Il dread of the initial struggle with the
needle.
Sometimes 1t IS ones physical equip
ment which is Inadequate. | once knew
n woman who couldn't bear To touch
needle IL made her ST. nervous, she SAID
Finally she had acute trouble with her
eyes, had them tested and glasses
fitted. And bchnld II no longer makes
tn
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-09-10
AL Day Meeting.

The all-day meeting OF the several
societies OF the Fourth Street church
will be held at the church on Tuesday.
September II.
The meeting Will be opened at 1880
o'clock with the Womnn'S Home Mis-
sionary society in charge. with the
newly-elected Officers of this society in
charge as follows:
President. Mrs. W. d. Hicks: vice
presidents. Mrs. W. +. Irvine. Mrs. Clar-
ence E. Allen and Mrs. T.. r. Mauck:
CORES pondinE and recording secretary.
Mrs. H. t. Bowdcu. and treasurer. Mrs.
y. Stewart.
Following the meeting Of tho Home
Missionary society. the circle Of Kings
Daughtcrs will meet Of which Mrs. J.
n. Dowler is president. This meeting
will continue until noon. when luncheon
will be served.
In the afternoon the Womcn's For
ciEn Missionary society will 30 INFO
session. Mrs. y. J. Clarke presiding.
Later in the afternoon thu Ladies' Aid
society will hold. Il meeting with Mrs.
d. NJ. Taylor presiding
Business will be brought up BY the
ladies Of an interesting nature in con-
ncction with the coming winters plans.
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an impossibility for time. There was
a great deal of discussion when the
basis of the present system of military
post offices was made. in 1898. One dis
tinguished army officer is reported to
have announced: our men are here
to be taught how to shoot Spaniards,
not how to shuttle postal cards.
Field post offices were established in
various military camps. the one at the
Chickamauga National Park being the
most important. Rough temporary
buildings were erected for this purpose
in the various training camps at cost
of $3.50 or $500. \ number of chap
lains were detailed to duty with this
branch of work For a time fully
10000 pieces of mail were handled
daily. In addition to the help from
the army there were twenty-nine
trained mail clerks in attendance.
All mail addressed to United States
soldiers of the expeditionary forces in
France should bear the designation OF
the division, regiment. company and
organization it is intended TO reach.
This in addition. of course. to the name
and address of the writer, postage
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A Luxurious Game.

VYINCENT ASToR described at the
v Newport Casino an attempt that he
had made to introduce cricket on one
of his estates.
"Of course, cricket. he said lis a
more leisurely game than base ball-a
more leisurely and formal and luSuri-
Gus game. We played it in the right
English manner. and my men seemed
very well pleased
zone of my men-his name is Jethro
seemed particularly pleased. Jethro
did full justice before the game began
to the lunch served in the striped mar
ouee on the lawn. He enjoyed up to
the limit the meat tea that pleasantly
interrupted the afternoons play. At
each call of time he was on hand when
the cigars and iced drinks and sand
witches were passed about.
AT the open-air dinner. that wound
up the first days play, l turned to
Jethro during the chicken course and
said:
"'Weil. old man. how do you like
cricket?
Mr.. Vincent said Jethro. and he
twirled the stem of his champagne
glass refiectively, cricket would be
fine game. sir. IL 1t wasn't for all this
here fieldin' and runnin about between
meals"
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at some of the military camps in secur-
ing quick or regular means of transport,
ing mail private conveyances finally hav-'
ing to be resorted to Thy the Post Office
Department. and contracts made with
the owners of these for stated periods.
This difficulty is not anticipated now,
under a vaster scheme of things. In an
effort to get TO CUBE without delay and
there establish postal service for the
benefit of the Army and Navy. Louis
Kempner. appointed United States postal
agent for Cuba. was permitted by Clara
Barton to take passage on the Red Cross
ship the State of Texas when finding
himself as far as Tampa Fla. with no
vessel sailing under war orders for per-
haps ten days.
1t is understood that there were
heroes connected with this postal serv-
ice so begun; that much illness re
suited. and one. If not two. deaths of
men who tried TO make their appointed
work have more than material value.
In an effort to get mail to the sol
diers man named Brewer, who gave
up his life in this postal service, at
one time bought horse for $40. hired
native with pony and set of to
see that the officers and men. camped
eighteen miles away. over impossible
mud roads. in the rainy season, got
their mail. His letter to an associate
in the Washington post office is still
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ing of ships carrying money to cash
pay warrants.
Upon the appointment of Mr.. Bum as
head of the postal service agency the
Post Office Department issued an order
which provided for lower rates of post
age than usual between this country
and the sister republic. Post cards, let
tiers and printed matter to and from the
army forces were put on the same basis
as such mail sent within our own bor-
ders for delivery. All postmasters have
been so informed. and under such pro-
vision a letter from Manila to France
will be carried for cents. Just as If it
were being sent from New York to Phila-
delphia-
As a further privilege, soldiers let
ters"-so Endorsed by field officer or
chaplain-may be transmitted to their
destination without the vestige of
stamp. A c. o. D. delivery of this sort
is more welcome than such packages
often are. So If Frank Smith of Corn
town. S. D.. or Sturtevant Van Rsns-
saiaer of New York. up state. hasn't
penny TO his soldierly name. that's
small matter IL he wants to write to
mother or the girl he left behind him.
Branch post Offices here and there, as
the war ministry of France advises. will
be directed according to the needs of the
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ships at such and such time. word is
passed around and all hands get busy
writing letters. II follows that the as
sistant mail clerk Immediately begins
making collections, his bag on his back.
just if he were on duty on cement
sidewalks instead of a rolling deck.
These letters are taken down below.
where the office is located. are Cancelled
there and sent upstairs again to be taken
from the ship. This is the first collection.
But there is another, for about every
jackie on board has been feverishly writ
ing letters since word of the outgoing mail
was issued. and the final collection is al
ways swollen. This one is made just
about five minutes before the mail bags
leave the ships MANY are the letters
written during the last fifteen minutes of
grace" laughingly said young c. e. Lof-
grin Of Lieut. Porterfield's force in the re-
cruiting division OF the Navy Department.
Mail" continued this young officer
who has helped the mail clerks on his
training ship. the Arkansas, many
time, when the fleet is away from any
principal port. comes by the dispatch
boat. whose duty 1t is to collect mail
from all ships Mail clerks from the
various ships bring their letters pack
ages. etc. over the rail to this boat
which doesn't tarry long-again like
the postman on land-but is soon on
it's way to the next ship. The L. S. S.
Yankton. when l was in the fleet, was
called the mail boat, and when the
port the mail must necessarily be re-
ceived at irregular intervals. 1t really
is very interesting to see the excite
ment the arrival of a mail boat creates.
There isn't a man who isn't hanging
over the rail or holding on to a fellow
who got there first.
The insignia of the Yankton is
yellow flag with a round ball in the
center. When she comes steaming up
and sends on deck all those eagerly
awaited letters the mail clerks sweep
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given proper attention, etc. All post
masters have orders to forward mail
addressed american Expeditionary
Forces" to New York city.
i: x
There is no provision at present for
parcel post service" Postmaster Cen
eral Burleson announced in a recent
bulletin. And postmasters should re-
fuse to accept for registration letters
containing money or other valuables.
Important papers which can be dupli-
Gated may be accepted for registration,
but patrons should be informed that
indemnity will not be paid for lost reg
istered mail. The public should be
warned that it is not safe to inclose
currency in letters under any circum-
stances, and that money orders should
be used for transmitting money to
members of the expeditionary forces"
Jack Tar's post office is not new in
stitution. though it may take on new
furbelow or two because Of the ext
gencies of the war situation And, fur
below or not. battleship post office,
where young man in those wider-at-
the-hem blue trousers may walk up to
the wicket for his mail, just as if he
were in the neighborhood of Park row
and Broadway or the Main street post
office in Stringtown on the Pike, is
something to touch the imagination.
Somewhere in British waters" some
where in the blue Mediterranean, or.
maybe, where the dawn comes up like
thunder, outen China cross the bay
in many places and in many climes are
our floating post offices seen.
One would never think that sailor
or marine sent out or received so many
letters and packages until permitted to
see crowd of bluejackets cheerfully
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Many Times Better.

m OIL. ROOSEVELT said at an Oyster
" Bay luncheon that America
should have maintained larger stand
ing army.
Then, perhaps" he added. Germany
wouldn't have dared to murder our
wives and babies by the hundred on
the seas"
"Of course" objected a pacifist,
large standing armies mean enormous
expenditures-an enormous war tax"
We'll" said Col. Roosevelt, isn't a
tax on our purse a thousand times bet
ter than attacks on our persona"
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preserved. In part. it says: This
mail is needed at the front. 1t con-
sists of official documents from Wash
ington, besides family letters that will
be appreciated. The Post ONCE De-
partment must not be charged with
failure to deliver mail matter prop
erly addressed He died soon after
this trip. as result of exposure.
The unfortunate conditions of sani-
tation are said to have had much to do
with the irregularities and attendant
hardships of post Office employees in
Cuba Yellow fever. spreading very
rapidly at one period, made mail de-
livery and collection among the troops
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q UNCLE SAM has keen appre-
Ill citation of the value of
Ill u friendly interchange of per-
sonai letters. His young
Sammies. somewhere in France" and
his marines and Jack Tars, who see
that their brothers IN khaki arrive on
French soil. will have advantages for
getting letters from home scarcely less
than those OF US who remain to watch
so anxious1y their selfless efforts to-
ward world democracy.
Though letters are not to be address,
ed by American mothers, wives, sweet
hearts and friends. designating or even
suggesting the location of the unit
where the addressee may be, the city of
Bordeaux Is to serve as the base post
office of the American troops in
France The man most OF US would
probably think of as "the American
Army postmaster in France" but whom
United States Army postal agent IN
Europe, Is Marcus H. Bum. Mr.. Bum.
who Is now in Bordeaux. organizing the
base ONCE. its possible routes, its nu-
merous details and elastic contingent
cies. is, in the normal course of events,
In the ONCE of the second assistant
postmaster general
Mr.. Bum has had experience with
military mail service in nearly all of
our island possessions and has associ-
ated with him several men as fully ex-
pertenced as himself, according to in
formation rendered by the Post Office
Department AS superintendent of
transportation there is George T. Leake,
chief clerk of the railway mail service
at Houston. Tex, who was selected for
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ceived special training for many
months and are canine experts. They
We're so highly valued that when II
was finally decided to send them to Al
lentown their trainers were asked to
cross the continent with them to see
that all went we'll. Now they are the
models for all aspiring Red Cross dogs.
Sporadic attempts have been made at
various kennels throughout the coun-
try to train dogs for skillful Red Cross
work But according to all authori-
tative reports Uncle Sam has succeeded
at Allentown in producing the only
dogs thoroughly equipped Tor hign,
class service. and he is proud indeed
and most enthusiastic over results.
On the European fronts today there
are 10000 dogs. So valuable has the
work of the Red Cross dog on the
French front become that the United
States War Department has decided to
establish its own training camp for
dogs in Europe. So it is expected that
in the near future all American dogs.
like all American soldiers will receive
their intensive training behind the
lines in France.
France has many dogs whose splendid
and determined work has won for them
almost worldwide fame. One dog Is
over a hundred wounded soldiers. Dogs
like these have not only wonderful in
telligence, but also remarkable initia-
tive.
Edmond Rostand presented Loulou to
France. and she is renowned for dis
tinguished service. Stop, of the 18th
Army Corps. is known to every French
poilu. Stop has rescued many wound
ed hero from death Flora, of the 18th
Alpine Chasseurs. also deserves men
ton. For four consecutive days Flora
did the most hazardous of linking work
under a terrific shell hail, and the mir
acle was that she escaped to glory
without an injury. Marquis, another
canine hero. died for the cause. In bear
ing a dispatch he was severely injured
by shrapnel, and yet continued his jour
ney and died as the dispatch was taken
from his neck.
In the course of time. no doubt. Uncle
sam will have his intrepid Stops and
Floras on the great battle fronts Of
Europe.
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jostling one another in a seemingly
endless line before the slim barred win
dows which screen the mail clerks
working like the proverbial Trojans to
get the mail stamped and delivered.
And now, in the business of war, when
the Navy is greatly increased. there Will
be more lads standing at the wicket
windows with hearts anxious for news
from home.
On board ship there are two men nomi-
mated by the commanding officer and APP
pointed by the Post Office Department as
Navy mail clerks. These men are re-
quired to furnish bond to the department
and in addition to their regular pay in
the Navy the chief clerk receives $50 a
month, while his assistant gets SIS. In
addition to the regular mail they also
handle money order business. A mail
clerk off duty for a time, and in Washing
ton recently. told one Of the young men In
the recruiting division of the Navy who
had been interested in the post office af-
fairs of the department that since the
fleet had been away from shore duty at a
certain point on one pay day which fol-
lowed the declaration of war with Ger
many So. 900 in money orders was sent
out from one of the active ships to rela-
tives or as bank deposits. number of
the blue Jackets have savings accounts. re-
gardless of the prevailing idea that sail
ors are 'spenders." and they religiously
send certain amounts each month to the
credit of this attempt to create a nest
roll.
X x
Would you think there were mail boxes
on battleships? There are, and exactly
the same as you see here and there on the
streets of any city, collections being made
according to schedule. no less than those
attended to by the clockiike precision Of
the other collectors in gray. who make
their rounds in mail wagons. When the
men get word that mail is leaving the
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E Our Soldiers and Sailors Across the Seas

ing day has arrived. and no mistake,
1t Is sorted ont first. OF course ] used
to help one of the men. who was n
friend of mine, in this end OF the labor
! rather liked IL. Special deliveries
were always given out right away. as
in the general order of things on land.
where post offices have the kindlier
faculty of standing still while the
clerks work.
MY friend and his assistant used 20
work at night. often until 10 O'Clock,
after a heavy mail had come in wheH
we were away from a principal pore
The hardships a mail clerk works
under on board a battleshlp, are not
imaginary. The confusion OF the close
quarters he is OF necessity stationed
in. the constant passing to and fro OF
the men. the irregular hours and the
roll OF the boat-all these combine 10
make the job no sinecure.
THE mail is sorted by divisions. the
petty officer in charge of each dlvisio1
reporting at the post office after ans
nouncement has been made that mail
is ready for delivery. Each petty of:
flcer is. in turn, responsible for the
delivery of mail to his men. OF course
there are often boys he can't ind. ana
this mail is returned by him to the
office. not to go astray while
the men are. in all probability, oc
cupied with duties which demand their
presence elsewhere. For registered
mail a list is posted. and men having
this kind of mail addressed 10 them are
required to report at the post office.
The mail clerks. like Caesar. know
every one of the 500 men on board
ship. and so the addressee OF this
class of mail needs no Identification.
as one would naturally suppose. 1t is
interesting to remember that the
clerks, the chief clerk at least. must
know not only every mans face and
the division he is in. but his full name
as well. Yes, mail clerks are regular
enlisted men of the Navy.
What would a weeks mail amount
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behalf Of the fund and at the results
financial and otherwise. achieved by
them. One of the wonderful things in
Canada today is the extent to which
the people are giving. To the uttermost
corners of the Dominion has come the
desire to pay as well as to work. In
Montreal. in four days, committee
headed by two women raised nearly
a million dollars.
The social effect, too. is gratifying
In Montreal 1t has brought together
the English speaking and French ele-
ments as nothing before has ever done
1t also has had a great democratizing
influence. The women who go to find
out the needs of the. soldiers depend
ents go only as to sisters who have
given their all for the cause. The war
has been the greatest social saver
Canada has ever known. and women
who never before performed manual
work are now bending their energies
to every commonplace task. Women's
war work In Canada today Is a sort of
suhlimated social service and through
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it a great nation is finding its soul.
Three women who stand out pre-
eminent in connection with the fund
are Miss Grace Reed, Canadian, who
headed the distributing committee In
Montreal, and, in the financial col
lecting, Mrs. Huntly Drummond who
led the English-speaking women. and
Mime. Thibodeau. who directed the work
of the French Canadian women. Never
before were the two elements brought
into so close bond of unity For the
cause of the fund women have under
taken and accomplished the most I'M
usual things. An instance was the
taking up of collections by women in
the Catholic churches for the fund.
1t was an impressive thing to see a
woman walking through the long aisles
of great cathedral. solemnly preceded
by the beadle, receiving the peoples
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troops In the field. The sale of stamps.
the arrival and departure of mail and
the issuance of money orders have all
been worked into the general plan, to
the satisfaction of both French and
American officials. and as it appears now
there will be post offices on wheels.
These are called by the Army and the
Postmaster General mobile post Of
fees" Various kinds and conditions of
conyeyances may be drawn into the serv-
ice. These vehicles will both collect and
deliver mail intended for or concerned
with khaki-clad lads whose home ad-
dresses are appended with II. S. A.
During the Spanish American war it is
said that considerable difficulty was had
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finance. while the Washington post Of
flee is represented by John Fl. Collier,
who will be money order cashier.
Our soldiers will not be paid in gold
OF currency OF the United States. They
will be offered their choice of checks
or French money. Many of these
checks will be mailed back home for
cashing by relatives or for deposit in
home banks in the sender's name. For
the carrying out of this plan a vast
credit has been established IN Europe.
and this government will have the
privilege of drawing upon II as the sit
uation necessitates. This arrange
ment, ii is said, will prevent all anx-
iety concerning the capturing or sink
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contributions for the cause of pa
triotism.
THE great part which women have
taken in the Canadian Red Cross is
better known here than their war work
in other directions. and as it runs
along kindred lines to our own Ameri-
can Red Cross it might SAVIOR of
reiteration' to give it more than
passing mention. may say. how
ever, that Canadian women everywhere
are in touch with their Red Cross and
you find them fifty and hundred miles
away from a city doing remarkable
things. In almost every little village
from Halifax TO Vancouver one finds
them organized for Red Cross work,
making thousands upon thousands of
surgical dressings every week, with
sewing and knitting units sending on
their weekly installments with I'M
faltering regularity to help swell the
never-ending amounts of hospital sup
plies pouring into headquarters.
"Of course the women of Canada have
gone largely into business to take the
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a most satisfactory effect upon recruit
ing in Canada.
THE fund has the full sanction of the
Canadian government Its president is
the governor general of the Dominion.
Sir Herbert Ames was elected its sec
rotary. 1t is distributed by mems COM
mittees, but in great part it is women's
work, for the women are doing the
bulk of investigating the individual
cases and specifying amounts for the
application of the fund. The govern
ment gives the soldiers wife a sepa-
ration allowance. but this Is not ade-
quate. The fund makes up the differ
ence between that sum and the real
cost of comfortable living.
81 was in Montreal at the time that
city raised $4.5o0,000 for the fund in
FIVE days, and was amazed at the way
in which the women went to work in