Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-05
Engine From AirpIane Driven
by Famous French "ACe, "
PegOUd, Among Interesting
Relics

It looked like war Thursday morning
under the Forsyth street bridge where
the railroad sidinss run close to the big
warehouse Of the Western and Atlantic
road.
A long freight car was drawn up
to the warehouse and through it's open
doors were being trundled gun car
riages heavy shells, broken machine
guns, shattered airplanes and molly
/ assortment Of other articles from the
battlefelds of the Somme and scissors.
Here half dozen husky negroes
grunted and painted as they strove to
move a French "seventy-fve" of the
Puteaux type There an American Of
ficer directed The disposal of the rusted
engine Of that famous French ace
who persisted with a total OF siXty-three
: German planes for his epitaph There
were mortars and rife grenade clamps,
trench bombs and Zeppelin bombs, all
being taken from the freight car to the
safety of the warehouse
The interested spectators of this
scene were the members OF the Liberty
Loan committees which will send out
these and mary other relics on a tour
of the south to boost the third loan.
Trains leave Saturday
The exhibit trains-two to the Atlanta
district one to ST. Louis and one to
Dallas-leave Atlanta next Saturday
morning. The Atlanta district trains
will split their routes between the At
Tlanta division and the New Orleans di
vision. They will be on the road
month. stopping at hundreds of small
towns.
Besides the war relics from Europe,
they will carry a complete exhibit of
modern guns and other arms from Camp
Gordon. now being prepared under the
direction Of Major p. H. Worcester, di-
Vision ordnance officer. There will be
speakers on beard the train and
squad of men from Camp Gordon who
will serve as guards for the relics and
will also give exhibition drills, showing
what American soldiers are doing in
! the training camps.
The war relics arrived in Atlanta
Tuesday morning, being brought from
! Waco, Tex, in charge of Lieutenant
! Walter G. Smith, an old Atlanta boy,
who was detailed by the government
to accept this assignment on a four
teen days leave from his post at Camp
/ Macarthur, Tex.
| Lieutenant. Smith and Major Wor-
cester superintended the unloading of
the relics Tuesday morning, explaining
them to the group of spectators, which
/ included St. Elmo Massengale, director
/ of publicity for the third loan; w. r.
&c. Smith, chairman of the trains conf
mittee; Frank Adair vice chairman;
| George s. Lowman, in charge of the
New Orleans train; H. Warner Martin,
/ Cobb Caldwell Eugene Harrington, James
! l.. Wells. all members of the trains
committee, and w. :. Richardson, agent
Of the w. & a.
Pegouds Engine
Among the most n t e n
/ Of the relicvs was the engine of
the airplane driven by Lieutenant
/ egoud the famous French ace"
who brought down 65 G c + m a
airplanes before his own machine was
shattered by a Hun bullet and he fell
! 1000 feet to his death. The engine,
broken and rusted, was so thickly en-
crustcd with dirt in several places
dirt driven into the, machinery by the
! force OF the fall--thdt it could not be
cut with a knife
A captured German airplane was also
shown and a French Newport observ-
er's plane which had a speed of $50
miles an hour. The latter was so cam
ouflaged to the hue of the sky that only
; in one place was there bright spot
the French insignia under the tail Of
the rudder
There was a winged bomb of the type
shot from trench mortars; a 16-inch
! French shell; two German 10-inch
shells. a winged Zeppelin bomb, shells
of other caliber. an ammunition wag-
on for French machine gun, several
of the guns themselves. French am
munition cart riddlcd from side to side
with machine gun bullets; the wings of
a French airplane, slashed by bullets:
part Of a French carriage, wrecked at
| the battle Of the Marine
All of these exhibits and those from