The sun., 1918-09-29
BOND TRAIN ROARS
CALL FROM FRONT
"Cough Up" Sounds War Cry
Of Pershing Veterans
and Legionaries.
SUBSCRIPTIONS POUR IN
Jersey Welcomes Soldiers
Relics and Guns in Liberty
Drive Tour.

Loaded with pep patriotism. heavy
and light artillery. decorated soldiers
Of our allies, Pcrshing's huskies'
trophies lifted from deceased boches
and tons Of sure FIRE literature the lad
erty Loan Special lit out from jersey
City yesterday on the Job OF seihhs
SIS, 900 900 worth OF the peoples war
to the people of New Jersey. New YORK
and LONG Island. OF course one doesn't
approach Long Island BY the way OF
Communipaw. but the special VIII get
around to Brooklyn's big back yard
about the middle Of October. In the
meantime Il will 60 romplng over Jer-
sey and this State supplying object les
sons as to how Liberty Loan cash 10
spent and why so much Of II must be
dug up very. very pronto.
At an absolutely mythical hour pas
sengers for the Liberty Loan Special
boarded ferryboats at Liberty street
and crossed the steel blue. wind bitten
North River just as other ferryooats
Weighted down with yelling fanks be-
gan to churn their way to Manhattan.
These were suspicious omens-leaving
from Liberty street and passing hum
dreds, thousands Of noisily gay liberty
soldiers. How they whooped. those lads
"How's the big town. shouted
six footer. whose nasal drawl originated
nowhere save in the Ohio Valley. And
then:
Make 'em cough up" he doomed.
We'll tend to the Huns!"
Great Response Follows.
And the Job of making them cough
up. as this big Yank put II. began very
shortly and with extremely satisfactory
results The days work for the spe-
cial yesterday included two hour stops
at South Amboy. Red Bank. Asbury
Park and Freehold, and when the sec
rotary OF the expedition counted UP he
found that more than 100000 worth Of
bonds had been sold TO sightseeing
crowds merely at these towns to peo-
pie that might not have been reached
by the orderly. systematic processes of
local craftsmanship. The specials Job
was to sweep up the leavings and the
first swish of the broom brought a pam
full Of gold.
The first stop was at South Amboy.
grimy. dusty South Amboy, where 50
much that is essential to our fighting
Uncle Sam Is being manufactured. The
train had scarcely footed to a stop when
II was surrounded by thousands OF work.
men from the railroad yards. the coal
dumps and the factories;, they and their
wives and children. They crowded
around the five car train, staring at the
exhibits with very real curiosity. While
they stood and stared the Liberty Loan
Special hustlers, commanded by Hearn
w. Streat, got busy following a pro-
gramme which was repeated at every
subsequent stop.
prayer. a rafting good prayer
which was in no wise addressed to the
good old German Colt hut which was
breathed upward toward the God of
human, civilized nations. paved the way
for a machine gun talk by an iron
throated young man named Louis Kut-
ner. Louis told the South Amboy ans
what was what about the war and An
ished with snapper that exploded
cheers. He was explaining what so
much money was needed for. and he
capped the whole with:
ITO bring the Kaiser to the bar Of
justice as Il ruthless destroyer OF human
happiness and as the greatest murderer
the world has ever known"
"Coughing Up" Process.
Then the Mayor Of South Amboy had
his say and presently the coughing up
| bought $4,000 worth. Another took
$4,000 contingently upon another $4,000
| being subscribed. They had 1t in five
minutes. Then subscriptions popped like
corks. Men standing on the top OF
coal cars shouted their $50 or 800 sub
| scriptions and the trains statesmen
climbed up and nailed them down.
Poorly attired women raised their thin
voices from the mass or held up their
hands as they obeyed the will to help
| their country. Many OF them looked as
II they could III afford even so small a
sacrifice, but they made II with amazing
zest and cheerfulness Railroad engi-
neers and firemen who had come to the
| train for few minutes TO enjoy the
show scrawled their names down for
| sums up to $500. The whole business
| went with an Nhilarating, even thrilling
sweep, and by the time the train was
ready to move on South Amboy, or 1ust
that part of 1t that happened to be in
the railroad yards yesterday morning
| was pledged TO buy S54,750 worth OF
| the Fourth Liberty Loan.
This subscription was a mere side.
show. as II will be In every town and
city at which the special appears, be.
| cause the people OF every town or CITY
will have been pretty thoroughly can.
vassed and pledged by local committees
and for the fast workers of the specisI
will he left only such as can he touched
or retouched by the sight OF the grin
| relies OF war and a glimpse of the kind
OF real man that is going about the jot
Of winding up the affairs OF Hohenzollerr
Germany.
| One OF the Fighters,
For an hour the people were per.
mitted to board the special and 10 ex.
| amino the animate and inanimate ex,
hibits In the first class comes Priyat,
Joe Schultres OF the Foreign Legion
Joe Ia German; that Is TO say, Joe wa,
German until about twenty years ago
when he left the Kaiser fiat and scootet
| over the border into a decent country
the same being France. He was horr
In Cologne. no man being able to fore
see that kind of luck: and he wa,
brought up as German boys are or were
They slammed him into the German
army and he knew the feel OF an officer,
glove. But Joseph was never cut ON
to be Boche. In 1898 he simply re
signed. In that year he Joined the For
eign Legion and he has been with /,
ever since. fighting IN the Sahara. /,
Alsiers and In other corners of the worlt
until he got into the present explosion
and took part in the Galilpoli cxpedItio,
and saw service in the Balkans
Any one of Pershing's chow eater,
would make two of Joseph, he Il tba
modestly built II he is an eighth OF az
inch over hve feet tall then linear meas
urement Is hbber, but inches dom
always count with these bearcats. PR
CAht 1tSA q.