The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-09-29
CROWDS CHEER
SECOND CONTINGENT
OF DRAFTED men

With a rousing cheer from a
thousand people who went to the
train with them, six boys of Esmer-
aida county's second contingent to
leave for the national army can
Torment at American Lake we're
sent on their way sunday morning.
The men who left here were
Marion Russell, Hornsilver; Emil
Perolaz. Goldfield; Nicholas Petan-
ovich, Ida; William E. Somers,
Millers; Adolph Vollmer, Silver
Peak, and William Cunningham,
Goldfield.
The men who have left since re-
gistration who are supposed to have
left for training camps from other
places in response to orders from
the local exemption board, are Vic
tor Pierroz, Placerville, Cal; Joseph
Burgess. Elk Mountain, S. D.; Les
ter j. Ball, Bigby, Idaho; Earl Per-
son, Ely; Milo Fattich, San Fran
cisco; Paul o. Carlson, Neosho. Mo-;
Walter A. Schmtuz, St. George,
Utah; Lawrence f. Kelley. Wichita
Falls. Tex, and Earl S. Hughes,
Sacramento.
Goldfield. it's men, women and
children, as the county mobiliza-
tion point, gave the boys a royal
send-off with a parade to the de-
pot that was blocks long and with
a demonstration that ended, after
many final handshakes and good
byes, with a great cheer for the
boys as they waved a farewell from
the real platform of the train.
Immediately before the train left,
Count C. P. De Termes, a major of
French engineers and veteran of the
var of 1870, gathered the contin-
gent about him and with the tri-
color of Frence held over them by
Francois Bernet, a 26-year-old vet
eran of the European war, now on
furlough, read to the departing boys
a message to them from bsrnet. as
the latter is unable to SPEAK Eng
lish.
Bernet's farwell to them was:
my dear brothers in arms, soldiers
of the great American republic:
Permit me to greet you. to pray for
you, and with you in fraternal spirit
may my prayers accompany you to
France, step for step with you, and
steel your hearts with courage.
"One thing for you to remember
is to respect your officers, not as
masters, but as instructors to be
obeyed in everything, because dis
cipline in an army is the soul of its
success and the preservation of your
life as well as victory will be due
entirely to that obedience.
"The officers will instruct you
how to act quickly and effectively.
life, so learn to obey your officers.
Through this effective speed in &C
ton the French have saved their
army great losses.
Now march on fearlessly to your
duty as your fathers did before you.
Remember that as soldiers you are
%liberatOrs in this great war. The
children, the saviors of democracy,
millions of victims are appealing to
you to crush the %tyrannic Prussian-
ism.
Now go. Be brave. Whether
you finish this war safely or give
your lives on the field of honor, you
will be immortalized in the great
book of reconstructive history that
will o On open.
Young American soldiers, l sa-
lutte you. Go, and God be with you
until we meet again in victory"
After being awakened at 6 a. m.
by the blowing of the fire whistle
and locomotive whistles, the crowd
gathered in front of the Goldfield
hotel, where the soldiers had break
fast, and shortly after $50 the