The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-26
NEW YORK GIRLS
BATTLE HERO|NES'
Gladys and Irene Mcintyre
and Cora Norden Fed
Seicheprey Fighters
MADE COFFEE ALL
THROUGH THE NIGHT
Wearing Masks and Helmets They Crept
Into the Trenches to Serve 1t Hot
Services Warmly Praised by the Com
mander

NEW YORK, April 26-In a desc
late field, half league removed from
shell raked Seicheprey, where poppies
used to grow, the churned earth IS
now studded with little mounds that
mark the graves of the first 80 boys Of
Uncle Sam, who fell before the recent |
furious German thrust. And on each |
of the graves is a wreath Of paper |
flowers, placed there by two Mount |
| Vernon girls, Gladys and Irene Meln- |
tyre, daughters of Col. William A. Me
Intvre of the Salvation Army, and
Cora Van Norden, daughter of late
New York banker.
While the whizz-bangs murderously
shriekcd through the air above them,
the Young women were whirled in 4
general S ear four miles along a canon
tagged road to the spot where the
| American troops stood off the pounding
attack Of the Boehe.
No field is there in that she'll torn
Woevre plateau where poppies grow now.
and SO the girls stopped at village
e
1t was these they placed on the graves
Of the American dead buried in French
soil And while the simple requiem
ceremony was said over the hallowed
ground, shells fell porilously near, but
J the girls minded it not.
!, They arc now the " Daughters Of the
Regiments, these Salvation Army
: girls, who have been adopted by the
7 divisions at the front Gladys is %
and a graduate of Pratt Institute;
Irene is % and from Mount Holvoke
college.
Cable dispatches received here yes
; terday citing tAe heroism of the Misses
Mcintyre tell also of their bravery dur
ing the fight at Seicheprey when both
donned gas masks and steel helmets and
while she'll and shrapnel showered
about them went forward to help the
: soldiers sa
! During the engagement they erept
/. MP to the trenches and gave the Amer
lean boys hot coffee, doughnuts and
chocolate. They refused to leave untn
> ordered when the range of the German
guns found the American positions.
That was at daylight, ard when the
, girls returned TO their hut they were
! warmly praised by the commander.
4 Letters received yesterday by Col
. Mcintyre from his daughters describe
! the work OF the Salvation Army girls
i at the front They were nearer the
firing line than any American women
!, 50 far, comforting the dying and
wounded, and receiving trinkets and
. last messages from soldiers at the point
q of death
: One of the letters written By
Gladys says in part:
e IT is great to hear the pigs how
t.. nights, when shells are flying. They
e get scared silly. | have seen sheep
e aogs, donkevs, etc, in panic since
v came here. Have you ever heard {
If donkey bray? Well, it some noise
p Last night a soldier came in Will
" a French decoration on his coat L
re was given him because he was the frs
N American soldier to be wounded.
gave him an apple pie for a presen
n. and told him how proud l was of him
ID 1--WE sew up torn gloves, sew OIL
s. buttons, do mending and one of on
y girls made IS pies in one day TIL,
two of us make $50 pies day AM
oS two girls can make 1000 doughnut
Is day. We make four gallon tanks 0
H. coffee or cocoa.
y 1.-The United States officers every
where are delighted with our work.
general, an old dear. came to see US
he comes in frequently. He asked N
- make him a pie. | gave him tw
delicious apple pies that ] made all my
self
Of Some of the men get boisterous nov
,o and then, but this lis so near tn
= firing line that fewer are drunk Lot
at of soldier boys give me their iewelr
IN to take care of and last messages t
y. their parents, some of them disclosin
III dark secrets.
at "Our hut was blown to pieces. Their
e, is big shell hole in the roof Of tn
barn we have coniscated. so we hav
4 large circus tent outside. Invent
: donkeys near by screech all day