Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-28
PHILADELPHIA
SOLDIERS KILLED
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' tttiu W U.s. '
and sAid. "Thcy do everything in their
power to make us comfortable
"If Kaiser Bill knew what was good
for him he'd give mp now. We make
short work of everything over here. We
have what you might call Yankee pep
and when boCho meets Yankee pep ne
doesn't stop within twenty miles. lie
keeps right an. going" he added THE
boys all expect to be home by Christ
mas. | hope their wish comes true
Yesterday Mr.. Burger was notified by
telephone by a naval doctor who had
just returned here from the front her
son was recovering rapidly and there
was no cause for anxiety.
Burger was among the first TO answer
the call for volunteers in April, 1917.
lie enlisted in the old Second Regi-
ment, y. G. T.. After a short stay at
the Jenkintown camp, he wa" sent to
Camp Hancock and sailed for France
in May this Acar.
lie was a member of the Tioga Pres
byterian Church, and was a salesman
for a hardware concern.
Private Paul Quimby. ssverely wound
ed during the heroic stand of the 1881
Engineers at the Marne, is the son of
Henry II. Quimby. $500 Girard avenue.
chief engineer Of the Department of
city Transit. Young Quimby is a Gradu-
ate of the West Philadelphia High
school. class of 1916, and enlisted along
with a number NJ his classmates in June
Of 1917. He was attached TO Company
q, where most of the West Philadcl-
phia boys foreEathrred.
Private George Thomson, another
member of the 1916 elias" at the West
Philadelphia High school and likewise
l.1,,-gpv g., IHtY,,.py II 1ng1 I'Dui
neers. was shot in the back about the
same time young Quimhy fell. He ha'
written to his parents that he Is rapid,
recovering. but has been awarded tn.
honor of wearing a wound stripe. The
young soldier formerly lived at 154'
North tifty-hfth street.
Private Frank Conn. missing, wa.
drafted April .. 1913, and sent t.
Comp Meade. He had only been ther,
three weeks. however, when he was Sc
leCted along with a hundred other new
men to be sent to rance and fill up III,
ranks of the 1o9th Infantry. Conn. VIII
is twenty-seven years old, was an irol
worker by trade and was working OF
the Ponrose Ferry bridge when he wa
\ the Penrose Ferry bride when he wa
drafted. He lived with relatives a
$50 Durfor street and was a member q
the Dickey New Years Association, n
l Southwark.
Private william J. Creenan, Jr
a known throughout West P~hiladelphi
as Smiling Bill Creenan, has bee
l. wounded in the leg, but is getting alon
nicely and expects to he back on III
job soon, according TO a cablegram re
ceived by his parents, who reside &
1920 South Fifty-third street.
Private Creenan has the distinCtio
Of being the first former Western Unto
s messenger boy 10 be wounded in actor
: so far as the records show. He ha
been attached to the branch office Z
3946 Market street for nearly ten veal
: when he was drafted last October. II
was a wideawake hustler, always deli'
cred the goods and could be trusted
p find the right person and deliver a mel
sage at any time or the day or nigh
G He was learning ~'telegraphy and woul
probably have been an operator by no
q if he had not reached his majority jul
l. In time to be caught in the draft. Il
L was trained at Camp Meade and soc
g rose to be a corporal. being assigned
II Company *, 32Sth Infantry, Nations
Army.