Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-03
FIRST UNITED STATES
UNDER convoy
Every Move Up 10 Time Of De-
parture Was Marked b.
the Utmost Secrecy

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The president has ordained that Amer
lean dead shall be brought home ten
derly.
No warning signs betrayed the de-
parture to sinister watchers. Ghostly
tugs dashed in from the navy YARD.
Flying Dutchmen cutters, loaded with
spectral guards. appeared from no
where and as inexplicably vanished
Red fare lights made the waters about
the piers a charmed circle In when
magical craft were seen for q passing
moment. A searchlight hickered, q
hawser splashed, and the ships were
gone.
One by one they fell In line In MID
channel. while protecting boats circled
about like excited terriers. Only one
lonely green lamp in the masthead OF
each ship betrayed her presence. FOG
tinted war paint blended with river
and night sky. Here signal hgnt
flashed Internationally; there snatcn
Of subdued song was heard across the
summer waters from a crowded deck.
plaintive farewell to the homeland
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tnat nuns ABOVE tue piers as o'e -. .n
mouth OF some u.an Auinaee.
sue became an lnuistinet nass - 'A'
snauoWs " n,rustieam
Fropeilers tnrasheu WIN InS tn ILL.
JOY, the thriil that every sup nus
Ieel arter three weary years VI is
tides anu chahhg COCKS anu war sau
dened sailors OF iohser l'erioA VI p,o
ssic co"lnerce. NOW ~ - Tue s.a' IA
open sea. with WINDS ana eo,u' . colu
waves ana perhaps inau n'sn. Iaon
boat. Ihe FOREMOST OIL Tue nse'
passing out TO sea FORGOT ner steal'ny
role. Suddenly sne raised ner VOICE ~
great, hoarse. throaty roar'
The brazen note died away, ecnoeu
back from some distant skyscraper,
INVADED the rooms OF sleeping .nnI ,ls
sleepins WINE 49,. g" ala tha
shins
,rhe sound reached back to the piers.
Az II str,,clS over the head vast army
az stcvedores and commissariat troops
dronneil to the nearest corner in a dead
slccn from thirty hour stretch of
Anal prcparations Blackened mechan-
ics snored in sweaty jeans. Drowsy
officers staggered into waiting automo-
biles.
n 10 davs since romance and mys-
ferry and the war came to the point of
embarkation. In those days troop
trains began to pour into the railroad
yards. Men In khaki swarmed over
tho town.
Who thew were and where bound
could not he learned. Vast crowds of