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New Britain herald., 1918-10-07
CHAPTER Y.

copyright, 1918, by William Fox)
THE newly commissioned lieuten
ant, John J. Pershing, hurried to
his quarters in the old barracks at
West Point eager to learn where he
would be stationed. In the orders
from the War Department posted
there he found that he was assigned
to the Sixth Cavalry, then in the
southwest operating under General
Nelson A. Miles against the famous
Apache warrior Geronimo.
Tt was concededly a great honor to
be Immediately assigned to a regi-
ment really in action, and Pershing
fully appreciated this.
The young lieutenant found life in
Arizona quite different from that at
West Point. No longer was there
need to put in the long hours of study
which had been customary since he
was a child; but there was plenty of
work to do of another kind.
There was a continuous action
against the Indians in those days.
The different bands would attack
suddenly some detached point and as
quickly disappear. The troops were
constantly at the call of settlers, and
for weeks at a time Pershing was in
the saddle almost continuously with
New Britain herald., 1918-10-07
FATHER AND SON BURIED.

The funerals of Herman Kent and
his son, Stanley Kent, were held yes
terday afternoon at 2:30 from their
late home at 232 Black Rock avenue.
Rev. DR.. G. w. G.. Hill and Rev. Mr..
Gillctt of PlainVille officiatcd. Both
father and son died within "a hours
Of each other, the son having died
first The local company of City
Guards of which Mr.. Kent was a
member attended the funeral as did
delegations from Franklin Lodge A.
F. and A. NJ. Of Bristol. Burial was
in PlainVille.
New Britain herald., 1918-10-07
OVER 43 TONS OF
CLOTHING DONATED
New Britain and Nearby Towns Rally
to Relief of Belgium and
France.

New Britaln's contributions of old
clothing for Belgian and French ref
ugees given to the Red Cross Satur-
day, totalled IS 2-5 tons according to
conservative estimates made at the
close OF operations Saturday night.
The public co-operated most gen
crously with the Red Cross commit
tee, Of which Elisha Cooper was
chairman, and all day Saturday there
was continuous stream Of bundles
being delivered at Red Cross head
quarters. Between $50 and 200 pri-
vately owned automobiles were
the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts also
assisted while the Polish Boy Scouts
did excellent work in the northern
section of the city. In addition to the
large amount of clothing which was
donated, there was also about 500 in
cash that was given in lieu of gar
ments and this money will also go
into the refugee fund.
In the fifth ward alone there was
more than enough clothing donated
to equal the city's original quota Of
10000 pounds. In this banner ward
total of 2O,797 pounds were collect
ed Ncwington gave 1000 pounds:
Kcnsingto 81 pounds; Berlin, 500
pounds: Plainville 2,7G0 pounds and
an estimated grand total of Sc, 446
pounds.
New Britain herald., 1918-10-07
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LIFE OF GENERAL PERSHING

his troop pursuing some of the elu-
Sive red skins.
In one of the army records Of that
period is a note of one of these Incl
dents in which Lieutenant Pershing
figured.
Supplies were urgently needed at
one of the posts in August, 1887 The
commandant selected Pershing to
convoy the pack train which would
carry thees necessities. The young
officer, With his troop and the pack
train, set forth.
Their way led through a desert.
Hardly had they entered this when
they became aware that there were
Indians about. They could see the
smoke signals all about them. PERISH
ing pushed on with added speed.
Every mesquite bush seemed to
hide an Indian sniping at them. Sew
eral times a band circled them, at
tempting to pick them off. Pershing
successfully fought off these attacks
with no casualties to his troops. For
orty-eight hours he and his men held
their way through that desert at top
speed, with the ever present eXpecta-
ton of being attacked in force. They
knew that, if that should happen,
they would srand no chance of break
ing through.
The little band finally reached the
fort, exhausted, but without the loss
of a man or a horse.
General Miles, when he heard of
this feat. officially commended Lieu
tenant Pershing as having accom-
plished a particularly fine piece of
work.
New Britain herald., 1918-10-07
NEW KING Is BORIS III.

Sofia, Oct. :. (via Basye)-The So
branje has been adjourned to Oc,o-
Der Il. Prince Boris in a manifesto
to the Bulgarians announcing his ae-
cossion 10 the throne says he will1
adopt rho name Of Poris III. Ie 80
calls that he WAS born in Bulge 49,
and belongs to tho Orthodox faiti2.'
He promises 70 respect the constitu-
tlcn and invites the people to rally
round the throne.
New Britain herald., 1918-10-07

victory. The present peace move is
@neered at. 4 demand is made for
the cntir" submission of Germany and
that tho Germans he disarmcd
Nj eyes III France arc turned to-
ward America--to Washington and
Wil~OD.
New Britain herald., 1918-10-07
WILLIAM H. RELYEA DEAD
Octogcnarian, Resident of New Brit
ain Since 1869, Passes On-Was
Friend of EIihu Bur1.itt.

William H. ReIyea, former street
commissioner, died Saturday night at
his home at Lilac street after a
long illness due partly to his burning
his hand while working last winter
and partly through old age. He was
Sc years old last May. Mr.. Relyea
was prominently known in this city
where he made his home since 1869.
He came here from NeWburg, n. Y,
and entered the grocery business. La
ter he became active in politics and
held several minor offices in the town
and city governments. The deceased
is q veteran of the Civil war and was
connected with the G. A. K.
Mr.. Relyea was an intimate friend
Of Ehhu Burritt and was connected
with the Burritt Mission on Cherry
street as q director for a number of
years. He is survived by three sons,
James M, Jesse H., and Thomas A,
and one daughter, Mrs. Eva 3. Att
wood Of Bridgeport The funeral
will be held tomorrow afternoon at 8
o'clock from the Burritt Mission.
Rev. Lyman s. Johnson will ofticiate
and burial viii be in Fairview GENE
terry
New Britain herald., 1918-10-07

The Luther League of the Swedish
Lutheran church will hold a meeting
at the church Thursday evening Of
this week. The committee in charge
of the meeting is composed Of Misses
Josephine, Helen and Mildred Torre1l,
Hlda Turnrose, Esther Wilson and
Corinne Suneson.
New Britain herald., 1918-10-07

r"iv"to~ William W@}>h. Joseph
Har;n"tt. jIiJlmer PdriSon and Ed
ward Anplegreen arc spending q fur
lcuG}2 i'll this city. They are stationed
at Camp Deyens
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21
Spy System Originated by Italian.

Secret service organizations and
spy systems, as we'll as detective bu-
reaus as part of municipal police
forces, We're originated by the Mar
quis D'Argenson, a native of Venice
who went to France in 1857 and be-
came head of the police department.
D'Argenson first achieved fame as
a state secret agent in Venice. In
Paris he organized Il municipal secret
agency that would now be called Il de-
tective bureau. After he had trans
formed the Paris police force from a
disorderly band into a highly efficient
body of gendarmes, he turned his at
tentiOn to international affairs and in
augurated Il system of espionage in
foreign nations likely to be ut war
with France.
Carl Stieher organized the Prussian
spy system on the model furnished by
D'ArgensOn's force and sent thousands
of men into Austria and France be-
fore the wars against those countries.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21
JOB HAD NO SUCH WOES
Boils Were Not Like Getting Your
Nose Caught in a Cogwheei
Under an Auto.

Speaking at a dinner, William ID.
Thompson of Kansas referred to the
beauty of patience and contributed an
anecdote along that line.
Some time since Smith and his wife
went out for IA spin in their new auto
mobile, but before they had gone many
miles something went amiss with the
machinery. Crawling beneath the
car, Smith began to twist and turn
things, and finally there came sundry
words that sounded like breaking N
of the blue laws.
"John, John !" eXpostulated the good
woman in the car. You should not use
such dreadful language"
"Of course l shouldn't, Mrs. Smith ]
irritably responded hubby. "Of course
I shouldn't! / suppose that If you
were down under here you would
sweetly sing"
"You should have more patience
returned Mrs. Smith. "Why don't you
try to be like JObT'
"Don't quote job, madam" shouted
the old man. "Never in all his life did
Job ever get his nose caught in a cog
wheel !"-Philadelphia Evening Tele-
graph.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21
BOHtM MANS SING
AS THEY BATTLE

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Sept. IL
The American lads are not the only
soldiers who look upon singing as
an important part of military life.
The Bohemians, too, are great
singers. Immediately after the rec
ognition of the CZecho-Slovaks by
France one of the Bohemian-Ameri-
can boys in the army wrote to his
family:
"We sing going to and from the
drills and we sing in our barracks.
Imagine the French mountains echo
ing Bohemian and Slovak songs.
And when we sing, it is real sing
ing. At first | could not under
stand why, but now it is clear.
After 800 years of silence, our ma
tion is raised to life again and is
taking it's place, which until now
has been usurped by Austria. For
the first time since the battle of
the White mountain in 1920, our
troops are fighting for the Czecho-
Slovak cause"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21
TURK FIGHTS WITH FISTS
Story of a GaIIipoIi "Serap" That
Speaks Well for the "Un-
speakabIe."

There is a tale of Gallipoli that
deals with a fight in the open and ex-
hibits the indispensable" Turk as a
fair and worthy enemy. This is the
story
A young English officer. doing OBJ
~servation work alone, was suddenly
confronted by a Turkish officer, SINH
larry engaged. The Turk was as sur
prised as the Briton, but came forward
revolver i'm hand. The Englishman
had no revolvers. He stood his ground,
his hands In the large pockets of his
tunic.
Seeing that his adversary was un-
armed, the Turk, much to the surprise
of the Briton. threw down his gun and
put up his fists in approved prize ring
style. The Englishman put himself
on guard, and the next moment the
Turk flung himself on him, and the
pair began to fight desperately.
The men were about the same age,
the same weight and had adequate
knowledge of the art of boxing. They
fought without stopping for about ten
minutes. BY that time each was ex-
hausted, and her paused for a brief
rest, only to continue their little private
accounting when they had found their
breath.
Round after round the fight went on,
while M in the Gulf of Saros the
ships fired automatically, and back
of each of them the field artillery
Numbered. Neither seemed to be able
to get any decisive advantage over the
other, and at last Turk and English
man rolled over on the ground and
laughed and laughed.
Just then the Englishman's hand
touched something. 1t was the Turks
pistol. He picked it up and handed 1t
to his enemy. Then the two young
men shook hands and each returned
to his own lines.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21
WORK OF OLD MEN IN WAR
Geniuses Who Did Not LAG Super
fiuous on the Stage" During the
Present Conflict.

"Old men for counsel" is the saying;
"young men for war;" But this war
rather falsifes the old adage. At sew
enty-seven Clemenceau of France re-
mains so energetic that he still de-
serves his cOgnOmen of the tiger"
Joffre was an old man when he Won
the battle of the Marine. Lloyd George
is not exactly young. Woodrow Will
son is past sixty. But none of them
seems to require the Osler method of
being chlorOformed out of existence,
says the Spokane Spokesman Review.
These veterans do not flag superfluous
on the stage" Cato learned Greek at
eighty. Chaucer composed his Can
terbury Tales at sixty. Goethe toiled
to the end and his "Faust" was not
completed till he had overlived eighty.
SimOnides Won a prize for poetry and
SOphocles wrote "Oedipus' when each
had passed fourscore. Theophrastus
Outdid them all, for he was ninety
when he commenced his characters of
Men,"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21
ANGLING FOR RICH PATRONS
Unwary Western Woman
With Money.

In woman's Home Companion,
Corinne Lowe tells of the wiles used
by q Fifth avenue milliner In max
ing the "Fern Piper" hat famous:
''Those for whom the spider spread
its web were not the wealthy and
questionable women of New York,
but wealthy and prompt customers
from the middle West. These are the
people who make money for every
Fifth avenue speciality shop. And
the only difficulty which now lay in
our path was that this profitable GUS
tom always has to be secured through
a reputation for serving the most
fashionable members of New York So
ciety, those notorious f~ashionables
who are so sensitive to a second bill
and who never think of paying their
first one until at least six months have
elapsed.
"At first we did not have a single
member of this sorority. What we
did was to fake them. This was
achieved by several ingenious meth
DDS. One of these was to pay $40 a
week each to the chauffeurs of Mrs.
Philip Rhinestewart and of Mrs. Clin-
ton De Sale Rives for driving their
crested limousines up before our
doors when these same ultra-fashion-
able employers We're otherwise en-
gagged. The empty limousines were
extremely efficacious, and it was not
long before the women who were try
ing to get into fashionable society
were impressed. One by n they came
to us.
Meanwhile, we were also paying
the clerks of two of the smartest of
New York's hotels to recommend Fern
Piper to their rich Out-Of-tOwn pa
trons."
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21
MANY INDIANS ARE
FIGHTING FOR u. s s.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. IL
Thousands of red Indians who, a
generation or two ago, deck
ed themselves out in paint and
feathers, are today wearing the
olive and drab uniforms of the Unit
ed States army.
At Camp Bowie. Texas, the 1920
infantry is composed wholly OF
Choctows, and through this camp
alone are scattered more than 1000
Indians. In Nebraska the Winnie
bagos formed a company early in
the war, but the formation of sep
arate units is generally frowned
upon by the government, which pre-
fers, when possible, to place the
red men in the same companies
with white soldiers. Fourteen
tribes are represented in the service
and. when young enough, the chiefs
have enlisted. In rank they scale
down from major, and almost every
branch has attracted some of them.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21
Heavy Loss From Storm

One of the most severe storms in
the history of the Las Vegas dis
trict struck there a few days ago,
doing thousands of dollars worth
OF damage to crops and washing out
miles of railroad grade, in addition
to completely obliterating all signs
of the costly road work which the
county recently completed. Two
miles of track and roadbed was
completely washed out on the Cal
iente-Pioche branch of the Salt
Lake route and the Pioche-Pacific
mine road suffered like damage. So
great was the rush of water that it
carried away an S000-gallon tank
of fuel oil at the Prince mine, wash
ing it down a canyon, a complete
loss.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21
Old EnuIish Furniture.

That fine old furniture is yet found
in Britain in many unexpected places
is said to be largely due to the STIR
ring up of the country that was given
by the great exhibition at London OF
1851. This was soon after the devel-
opment of the railway system in Eng
land, and there flocked to London, a
large number of squires and their
wives. A new world had opened to
the country danes. The new things
had a wonderful fascination for them.
On returning home they got rid or
much of their old furniture and
bought new. Much of the old furni-
ture found it's way to secondhand
shops, and was sold to poor folk, who
could not afford to buy new. This ac-
counts for the finding today of much
good old furniture in small houses In
provincial towns and among country
Observation-Disclosures News.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21
of War.

This is the most scientific wal ever
fought. There is less dependence on
man power and more on machinery
than at any time in the history of the
world, says the Popular Science
Monthly. We pin u faith to high ex-
plosives, poison gases, tear shells, gas
masks, liquid fire, etc., all of which
are applied chemistry. and to machine
guns, heavy artillery, automobiles. sub
marines, airplanes, and so forth,
which are very much refined mechan-
les. The greatest minds in the scien-
tifc and mechanical world have pooled
their brains and obtained wonderful
results. &
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21
AMERICAN TROOPS
WELL RECEIVED
EVERYWHERE
IN FRANCE
AUSTRALIANS PRIDE THEM
SELVES ON INTIMACY WITH
u. s. MEN

BEHIND THE BRITISH LINES
IN FRANCE, Sept. IA. - To an
American visiting the western front
in these stirring times it is a sur
prise and pleasure to note the in
terest and anticipation with which
the more active participation of the
Americans is greeted on every hand.
The Canadian soldiers invariably
adopt the attitude of 81 told you
SO" when official reports chronicle
American successes. The Austral-
ians also pride themselves on their
intimacy with the Americans, and
take a personal pride in every good
deed which the Americans do, as IL
in some way they themselves had
some share in it.
The English Tommies are content
to express delight and satisfaction,
but always as if eager to believe the
best and give credit for every ex-
cuse. The Americans, by their un-
assuming ways and insistent ag-
~gressiveness in the line, have won
the good will of the whole imperial
British army.
When a German report came in
the other day of five airplanes
brought down from a patrol of six
American aviators, frank incredulity
was expressed everywhere. When
the American report verified 1t,
there was nothing in it but hard
luck and a basis for further aveng-
ing exploits.
The American flying men have a
hard time before them to sustain
the hopes held out for them by
their admirers in the British and
Canadian battalions. The kindly
applause showered on American
methods by the English newspapers,
which have from the first ignored
the mistakes certain to creep into
any war administration, is either
accepted in France as the COM
plete story or is a reflection OF the
feeling here.
Nowhere was the amity of feeling
between the Americans and the
various British units better dem
onstrated than at the recent Domin-
- l.. 5000 hNG;,n6 thu prifiCh
lines. The events of that day are
acknowledged to have been the
greatest gala-day celebration ever
held in the war e
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21
ILLEGAL TRADING
is SAID TO Be
COMMON IN
GERMANY
CONDITIONS IN AUSTRIA ARE
REPORTED TO BE
PITIABLE

NEW YORK, Sept. IA. = Starva-
ton would be the portion probably
of the larger German cities did they
not increase their scanty stores
through illegal trading" Deputy
Won Herzberg-Lottum said in a food
debate in the Prussian lower house,
according to the Berlin T~ageblatt.
1.-The larger cities of Germany
are obtaining one-quarter of their
necessary stock of foodstuffs
through illegal trading, without
that they would starve." the deputy
asserted.
THE increasing severity of PEN
alties heighten the risk of indulg-
ing in secret trading and raises
prices he continued. There are
now 100. 600 persons employed by
the wal food administration and
that under the circumstances We
deliver 80 eggs per year per person
is really an heroic deed"
Other speakers told of pitiable
conditions in Austria = Hungary.
Count Stolberg said:
81 have seen now in Austria that
the rich man has everything, the
poor man nothing. 1t is a pity to
see how the poor people there are
suffering from hunger. In COMPARE
son to conditions these things in
our country are much better"
"In Budapest, in rich Hungary,
the poor wait in line all night for
the 3O-gram fat ration, and then
they don't receive it," Major Koch
of Cassel said.
The illegal or secret trading re-
ferred to probably means thai Ger
man cities violate the law which
fixes a maximum price for food and
prohibits from paying
more than that price. German Off
Gals have attempted to stop such
violations by some cities.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21
Not to Be Taken In.

Germany will sing small, very
small, in the end, but Wen answer her
like the judge"
The speaker was Provost Marshal
General CrOwder.
EYES," he went on "we1n no more
be softened by Germany's penitence
than the judge was by the kidnaper
who wiped his eyes on his cuff and
blubbered:
"tJedge, I'm down and out
"'NO, no, my man. said h judge.
You're down, but you're not out yet.
You won't be out for seven years.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21
CAPTAIN ROLLER PROMOTED

Captain w. C. Roller, formerly
physician for the Pittsburg Silver
Peak Mining company and who is
we'll known in Goldfield, has writ
ten friends in Reno of his promo
ton to a captaincy and describes
scene he has witnessed at the front
in France, where he is now serving.
He has been for part of the time on
duty at front-line dressing stations
and has been kept busy lodging
Bcche shells. Captain Roller eX-
poets to be further promoted to
the rank of major shortly.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21
Attempt to Steal Mail

A few days ago at Las Vegas 4
man giving the name of William
Shay seized a mail pouch from the
entrance to the post office at Las
Vegas and ran with it. The man
vas caught and placed in jail. His
motive for the attempted theft is a
mystery, as the man, when caught,
was found to have money on his
person..
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21
Card Experts Pose as Farmers

The new man-power bill and the
work or fight provisions has caus-
ed an exodus from most of the Ne
vada cities of a large number of the
gambling fraternity who have been
spending the last year or two with
their legs stretched out under a
gre~en-covered table. They are now
in different parts of the state pos
ing as farm laborers and relieving
spare change.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21
Land of the "ereat Unwashed."

Alaska has been called the land of
the "great unwashed," and it is said
that in some parts of the country water
retails at 81 n bucket. In still other
sections clothes are washed In the
rivers, and women have been seen
threading blankets" when the water
was so cold as to turn their feet and
ankles beet red.-World Outlook.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21
OF Course.

A young author said to William Dean
HOwells at a reception in the latter's
honor in Miami
"That was AstOrbilt who just asked
you for your autograph, sir. You don't
seem much impressed"
81 can never understand" said Mr..
Howells, "why people should be i'm
pressed by millionaiies. My own ex-
p%erience has been that whenever you
lunch with them they always let you
pay"
The young author laughed gaily.
"That, of course, is how they become
millionaires, isn't it?" he said.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21
Up in the Air.

Corporal (name deleted by censor)
Is the champion optimist in the Ode
leted by c~ensor) regiment. On his first
visit to Paris an air raid was in prog
ress, and as he observed the Parisians,
all intent on the Taubes, he said to
his companion:
"There's one fine thing about this
air stuff"
"And that iS-Y
at keeps you looking up"
"(Reply deleted by censor.)"-Car
toOns Magazine.