The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-10-26
By Margaret Lukcs

cop,1zn.. :sIs. to Prho Ledger Co.
THE long and tho short Of it was
the boy was looking FOR scrap.
and there was nothing in Florence.
y. j., to scrap about. 1t was spring
that day in Burlington. where nc
went to school. The windows were
widc open md all the world lay Just
two feet beyond. Within there was
nothing but geometry and second-ycar
high.
Well. they rcver saw Hayes Rainier
after lunch. and two hours later he
was iE Philadelphia boosting his age
and Joining the array. That was eight
years ago and that was Rainier all
ove-. SIX feet in his second pair o:
long pants. looking tor n scrap.
Last June he found ore-.a = pace
called france. postof1lce address Bol-
isau Woods. to be forwarded via Cha
teaU Trierry to the scissors front.
He shifted around In the chair We
gave him. did Sergeant Hayes Rainier.
His crutchas wouldn't 1T h the corner.
he didn't know where to put the foot
that was done up in bandages and n
white stocking. and besides he was
looking around for his overseas hat.
Gas makes your hair fall out" he
explained. and feel funny before
the ladies'
Il dead men tell no tales, neither do
wounded ones - sitting peacefully In
tho shadow Of Independence Hall be-
cause they have been gassed and
shelled Sergeant Rainier came back
to America two weeks ago. and he
divides his time between the Brooklyn
Naval Hospital. Florence. y. J.. and
Philadelphia. where lives the bride Of
seven months before he sailed"
His father and mother. Mr.. ard
Mrs. Florence Rainier, live In Florence
and are members OF a prominent old
New Jersey family.
These things one could discover. but
! own it was embarrassing and bit
Hike pulling teeth to set this young
man. who wiied good bit Of his hair
but none Of his .,trit to the Germans.
to tell In his own words Just how no
-got his
He Carried the Message
There was nothing to be ashamed
Of. Hayes Rainier is the gallant
young sergeant major in the Sixth
Regiment marines who carried the
message directing artillery ito bonn
bard Tiny and the town on the right"
when terrific Hun fire from those two
villages was holding up an entire line
IN its advance on scissors. This
means that while We were having
paradcs and ringing bells on that ia
nous July IS and 10 Rainier was
sacakiaS back TO the artillery through
a rain OF deadly bullets, making our
10y possible. The funny part Of it
WAS Rainier wasn't supposed to be
carrying the message at all. AS "su-
pe-viSor" OF the lines OF communlca.
to-; il was his job to see that other
:e.!ows-the runners-did this work.
When ne drive starred re had
thirty-eisi:t runners. When that ur-
gent message for the artillery came
about noon July 10 re found out the
high cost Of carrying nle$saG es. There
were no runners left. I; is on such
occasions as these that volunteers are
. called for. Rainier decided to be his
own volunteer and perhaps send one
more buck private home 20 the arms
Of his mother It was while bravely
making his way through a rain Of fire
that was keeping back 4 whole line
that Rainier got his" But the guns
soon doomed ;ae answer. American
forces awaited. Oar artillery wiped
- out the tive towns AID The famous
drive swept g,o-!ouaiy on. And Raj
r;er sat dowc en- mo sol! OF France
aad united tie 5ioody. tlt O: shoe that
vas nos blown CT
This vc:e:1n o: tho story does not
COME from :ae sergesn: himself. But.
anyway, ycu wouldn't gain much by
his affirmation, beoRuss this nice. tall.