The sun., 1918-12-17
II K. G. SECRETARIES
HOME FROM FRONT
Brave Men Lighted Smokes for
Yankees Who Kept On
Firing at Foe.
ALL FELT RIGORs OF WAR
Larkin and Fox Welcome the
First Collective Contingent
Of Knights to Return.

Seventeen secretaries OF the knights
OF Columbus returned home ycster
day after Drawing wars dangers hav-
ing been so close to action that often
only Germans were in front of them.
They were Fred Asbaugh, Indanap-
oils; John Sparks, Dracut, Mass
Thomas Walsh and Robert McGrattcr.
Youngstown, Ohio; j. A. Eccelstor.
Union Hill, n. J.; r. T.. Ditch. Nor.
gan City. La; Henry McCrea, Worces
ter. Mass: James Powers, Philadpl-
phia; j. A. La Rogue, Augusta, Ga
Johnny Evers Of baseball fame AMI
Daniel McGrath. Troy; Francis Gala,
her, FL Paso: James Breslin, Provl-
dence: c. S. Chapman, Boston; r. A.
Tone and T. F. Leonard, New York,
and the Rev. James EdinE. Brooklyn.
They stepped from La Lorraine into
the arms OF William =. Larkln, direc-
tor of overseas knights OF Columbu.
activities, and William P. Fox, sn.
preme director of war activities in tina
middle Western States. II was the
first collective body of secretaries to
return from active field work OF the
Knights of Columbus in France The
Some had lain in trenches and all had
felt the rigors OF war.
Glad to Get Back to America.
Out OF Bordeaux on December
their ship ran into hurricane A.
last they were in New York. hungry
for a. good square meal on American
soil
"Oh, give me some ham and eggs
shouted one whose last egg in France
had cost him so cents and an add
tional sum for cooking and serving
1T want to get by the side Of good
Yankee cook stove" pleaded Sandy"
Chapman. singer and comedian. Of
Boston. who had recollections OF
night in a hotel in Paris when he had
hghted twenty-four candles, two
pounds OF tsllow and wick, his own
purchase, TO raise the temperature o.
his room TO a living degree. III
looked like a wake" said SANDY"
Each man. when pressed for his own
Individual experience, insisted upon
relating the story Of some other secre-
tary.
There was Maurice O'Malley Of
Chicago with the Sixth Artillery SAID
SANDY" He was a man for ye. II"
was in a trench. An American Lien
tenant laid in no Mans Land
O'Malley wanted. above all things. 10
rescue the Lieutenant. He had ga,
mask which he tried again and again
to adjust, but in vain. To he'll with
it,. he said. and he threw = dow
leaped over the top OF the trench, ran
| TO the side OF the wounded Lieutenant
picked him up in his arms and stag
Sered back into the trench with him "
Meeting n Friend Near Death.
There was the story OF Joe Scott G;
San Francisco, "a secretary who was
hospital. He was trying 20 get
! Portuguese barber from Massachl-
sets, wounded through the knee, up
| to the operating table when an orderly
rushed up with another man terribly
wounded.
wait a moment" said the orderly
land let's see II we can do something
for this poor fellow"
Joe helped tho orderly 1T The
wounded unknown to the table. TIE
! man got a look at Joe.
What toll are you dom here. Joe
| Scott" painted the wounded man
IT'S Bill Kellcy. my old chum' ~.
claimed Scott.
Kelley died few moments later IN
Joe SCOTS arms,
| Stories were told OF Johnny Evo-s
and his mate Dan McGrath, VIII
| taught the boys how 10 play haseba1
| under the booming OF guns and IT,
whistling OF death dealing bullets. ard
| of the great work O, the Rev John
De Vale of New Bedford. Mass who
went into the situation man fashion
and whose acts won for him the Cro.N
DO Guerre, the Distinguished Scrvi,s
Cross aad also the decoration %, n.
I Legion OF Honor, The report tina; r.
had been killed was untrue, the socro
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