The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-10-09

with ne American Army In France,
Aug. lS.-Supply rain 1UI had
placed It's Kitchen ia the main square
OF Chateau ThierrA. Tn tho road re-
little ~ the single arch remaining OF
the Tine old stone bridge on which
the American machine gunner stop
ped the German rush Ia early June.
All around was dusty. mushcd mason
~ and blazing heat. Henry Gonzales
cook, speaking
- can't give 20 nothing. MHdduIn.
It's against orders Ncs'm. know
do
\ little. withcrcd. tired French
woman was asking him fut bread.
Just brcad, Msiru" Snc was the
firs1 OF the refugees 20 return
ITS hell. amt DO Maddum ' said
Gonzales, safe iu bus kuowlrdp, tuat
D could nut understand English
Don't stt down there lic pushed
a canned-coru loN toward her and
patted her dusty shoulder Tho old
woma sat down. Tie tackled o. mess
tin with corucd beef hash and fried
potatoes ana baked bean. and placed
u before her.
That's for the captain" he said.
Don't YOU lay 20 sip on it' Tie filled
the cautecu cup with stclmIuE Cuff,,
~ set II down uu The board table
ia give ~ some of b 10 / dires'I.
said Henry Gonzales. /'Eut sou SEQ
how II rs, Maddum
The old woman eat happily aud
shifted and lct tho tears raI into ihv
mess tin and watched Gonzalez
Whcn"ycy DE looked toward hcr .ho>
smiled $50 that hc hurrIcdN looked
away again When sh, hIt lulthvl
he hurried after her across the dusty
square, white hot under IA. sun. {
saw him put SOME 80 ut iu her hHud
II was just huWiiuE her out sIid
Henry Gonzales, American. - told
her to Keep out of here. / can't be
bothered with refugees
SIXTY Hours Awake.
supply train No. 700 had just FIN
ished a sixty hour ruu across Cpuu-
try.
Some running. hey Some running
To keep one hundred bug chain drIt"
ears on the road Tor sixty hours
without q smash Especially when
two nights OF that running was uu
muddy roads. through nights blIckcr
than Johnsou's cat. and through du
army. Tho supply train ram through
an artillery brigade and infant
regiments aud a tank convoy and
Jinkins knows what as Captain Yves
ley says
We didn't lose ID car on tho way.
either said hc. That's soEIc rum
ming. Hey o."
Here IN the a,.t of lt That sixty
hours running Was done without
sleep. Tho drivers sat at the wheels
Of those his trurAs daS and uirEt aud
nursed them through the jam. "a
the procession stopped -aud such proc
Cessions do stop Tor e thousand rra- .
sons. varying from a boliigerent army
10 "a heurt-4urv mule they went TO
sleep On tho wheels Just slumpcd
over ON them, YOU know Captain
Woslcy used to go aloug tho line
swearing at them tprNtdlN ltn had
to. Il he let his voicc drop 60 %
Conversations one "a" would have
gone L. sleep himself
All right \ record is established. .
isn't IL Some running tu tool one
hundred big chain drive tguCts utct
muddy roads, through strains
try. for sixty hours without sleep
Aud then the one hundred got 60
Chateau Thicrty Just a the height OF
the Jam forward and Captain Wesley
was told b "a the mon up forward
needed food.
''Thcy outrnn the suppl, trains
lac was told. "Nuur train l- ia, first
10 get up.
Ready to GO on.
Remember IN" siNtN %-leeplc4s hours
the men of supply train No 100 had
driven. That didn't stou them
They pulled of ono half the load
OF each OF the 100 hiE trucks Ind 10
In Jig time, too Captain Wesley oN-
plains that after YOU get Just $50 tired
you sort OF get your second wind
You are not really sleepy after YOU
miss the second night It's queer
too. he says. that the third night just
sort of cHugrls itself That is. when
YOU get 10 making up sleep YOU FOR
get about the hours YOU have lost
You lust get "a good sleep and let 30
go az that \ little feNcriHh. SOME
times. and Nuur fingers may feel
little swollen, hut otherwise % AFRO
quite all right So the Hlcu uf sup
ply train No. iut showed one huIt thp
loats of the roo big trucks iu the iui.
proyiscd warehouse
AN ready captain reported Sri-