Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-13
FOLLOWING THEFLAC
WITH MOTOR TRUCKS
United War Workers Followed
~ the Forces Into Chateau
Thierry.
RUSH SUPPLIES TO FRONT
Vivid Story by Writer Who
~ Was Among First to Reach
-, Ruined City.
by CAROL COREY.

tiSCieu ltS nTSt smashing blow, motor
tfucks bearing loads of supplies and
secretaries representing the big Amer
lcan war service organizations forged
way In the wake of the troops and
esta blished themselves amid the ruins
OF the captured town. Y. NJ. c. a:
trucks were early on the scene. and
workers were quick to arrive. The
Knights OF Columbus sent four trucks
iIoaded with supplies from Paris. and
was aboard the first that started for
The battle front.
= ~ mere we're six OF US: Cap and Long
muck and me. Tx got his name be-
cause he had been In the Canadian
army until shell almost blinded him.
day with two big trucks, the trailer
ana the little yellow auto. In them
were $4,000 sheets OF writing paper.
az many envelopes and many dozens
81 post cards enormous boxes of choc-
oiate and even larger ones of tobacco
Club b" Which, The fG Kn nf Re% OF Sol Col
Thierry. The red X. c on the vivid
ons On the ' esas but erave cur
sleeves and on my hat as we'll.
The morning was glorious. was
!opB time on my tiny balcony, breath
Ing. the freshness OF newly washed
eity. 1t had rained steadily during
DC trying hard to make up for lost
time. My long street WAS full of ami
nation; Little family parties carrying
lunch baskets were starting excitedly
for a happy day in the country. Wives
and mothers were eagerly to the meat.
for in France the best OF all these
things is always to be had on Sunday.
such sood-natured pushing as friend
politeness otter the health and we'll
being of each and every member OF
the others family! Such turning over
and picking, out and pinching Of yellow
peaches and apricots and swees-smell-
ing melons Such discussions about
rosebud radishes. golden carrots and
White capped s6ssiping maids are
giving a final polish TO already daz-
iiancy with the horsehead over the
shop next door. Inside, long thin car
oasses OF very dark meet streaked with
hooks from which they hang. a fat
red faced hoy whose apron is much
too large and too long. whistles shrilly.
reads: Great Sale Of mule today
Cap has jus, pulled an, up IN the l,le
Joe and the Kid wave cheerily from
the second.
Far TO rislt and lcf, and way off into
the deep distance the sleepy summer
haystacks form shady resting places
for tired peasants who have been toll
ms. hard since sun up They wave to
US. in fri.ndliest fashion old men and
women. girls and many children. OF
course. there are no boys. 1t would
rari look like a splendid painting OF
bis gun here and there. so cleverly
hidden that only their big noses show.
These ,T seem TO- say !, ~ guard. ,r,s,c
Huge camions filed with singing.
laughing Yanks, appear seemingly out
cln nf lnS
ammunition and food. telephone. tele-
graph and barbed wire. bread. gaso-
and come and &C ne. At the crossroads
military policemen control it all quite
as easily and effectively as do our
white-Sloved minions of the law at
home. a second seemingly endless
caravan follows almost Immediately
upon the tail OF the first. until by and
just like movie" on the winding,
billy road.
LUNCH IN THE SLEEPY
,~lr OLD ToWS OF MEAUX
We lunch In Meaux, that sleepy old
town through which The the . Germans ma s
second helping of bread and is Sc
Seresy rsprtns%I ne baH n, s Mno
I come upon two soldiers from home.
They are staring into n shop window
watch chains and collar buttons and
handful of tly-specked perfume bot
ties. ! can't resist calling out; Enlist
in the war and see the world" Hell
To-! they cry. It's pretty word when
it's said like that.
we get to La Ferte late in the AZ
others. wander to high picket
fence on the other side of which khaki
clad Americans are salvaging vege.
tables. The cabbagess and onions and
most of the other things are no LANCER
fresh. but the boys aren't complaining
hey the , feund me the
little about themselves. They're all
from Texas, and one is from a family
that always has had slaves. Not one
the War Between the States" says he.
1.-TWO or them are still living. And all
lhey do the y day long Is to sit IN
that" signs ,,a anosher' Just sit in the
=. ., SO Cap decides that we will have to
spend the night here: and we start
tile hotel is full. but after weary wan
rooms rooms aren't so bad-but where the
.x XS@a a grea, deal of conversation sse
agrees to take me in, and after a great
deal more, she consents to the rest
cap and ] quail before her contemptu-
aus scrutiny, 81 want ii understood that
these rooms will be two francs apiece"
look at Il very uIllHVlllnB DSu Gap
looks at the floors Of the other two
rooms. whichlare absolutely empty, as
though trying to pick out soft one
After which he goes thoughtfully down
The stairs and brings in his sleeping
N,bag.
the road again In search Of the lost
ones, and by and by he returns with
: them Some one finds a wobbly table
which is carried into the garden. and
cans and the Kid slices ham. Long
joe digs out a yard OF bread from the
mass OF blankets and baggage and Cap
fEIes eggs and makes wonderful cof-
Zee on his little alcohol stove. The
ex-Canuck--poetic soul-wanders away
for a little while. When he again
.appears he hands me a few flowers and
Exactly four berries OF some unknown
variety with just the proper amount
of''blarney."
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