The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-10-03
Fred Joel Writes
of War Scenes
in New York

In IA personal letter TO Mr.. Hardy of
The Daily Record. Fred Joel. who
holds an important position with the
New. Jersey Zinc Company at New
York City. makes some interesting
comment on war activities in the big
city. Here is part OF his letter:
Since our arrival here we have been
greatly impressed with the effect of
the war on this part OF the country.
1t is wonderful to see the work that
the various organizations are doing
here. The work is conducted on
large scale. but none of the details
are lacking. Every where you go
people are doing their bit. Every
day seems to be special drive for
some branch of the work. Here we
see soldiers and sailors of many diff
ferent countries. men preparing to go
across and many who have returned
kind or another are in evidence every
whefe. Nearly every organization
doing war work has special uniform.
i have seen several soldiers who have
been wounded, some with a hand, an
arm or leg missing. A friend of ours,
an officer in the navy. told us of hay-
ing seen some of the Belgian children
who had been brought TO this country.
These were some OF the children
whose hands had been cut off by the
Geamans. 1t must have been pitt
full sight.
The gasolineless Sundays are well
observed. For blocks and blocks
there are no cars in sight. The few
vio]ators of the new ruling were so
put to shame that in many cases they
turned about and headed for home.
The cars that are abroad carry red
cross on the radiator. showing the
public that the owner is a doctor and
must have the use of his car In
places signs read mo taxi service on
Sunday until further notice" In the
parks the people in horse-drawn rigs
ride along in great style, and have no
fear of being crowded off to one side
by the mass of cars usually seen on
these same drives. Every available
old .'plug" ic made to do service on
Sunday.
1 was glad to have had the oppor.
tunity of seeing one OF our subma-
rines come floating down East river
one day short time ago. Most of
its reck was above water, but one
would never have mistaken it for
motor boat. Friends of mine from
our Office said II was the first they
had seen, SO ] concluded that it was
rather an unusual occurrence.
Probably the most interesting and
spectacular thing that we have seen
here is the great number of airplanes
The days devoted to the rounding
up Of sIackers were quite exciting to
say the least. Many we're taken in
who had failed to carry their cards
On those particular days. Relatives
of the men hurried to the various
Juggling" places to prove the inno-
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OF criticising was done as to the meth
DDS employed Parts of the city
seemed to he completely under mar
tial law. However. guess ii had its
moral effect and pictured to the
would-be slackers OF the new regis
tration Just what they could expect
II they failed to get their names In ut
tho proper time.
Every few days see machine or
two flying about over the buildings,
and often there are several together.
or perhapr a squadron. have seen
several such squadrons In the air at
the same time. They sail along In
perfect alignment, tho distance be-
tween machines being perfectly uni
form. They move along executing
their column right Or left or squad