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Evening star., 1918-07-21
Maryman-Doran.

The marriage IL announced Of Miss
Mary NJ Doran. daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Michael Doran Of Genesee street,
Geneva. N. T.. and Mr.. Raymond F.
Maryman Of Washington, Thursday
morning. July IL. Rev. George Doud
performed tho ceremony and said the
mass which followed at $50 o'clock
At the st. Francis De Sales Church.
Tho bride was gowned In white
georgette crepe heavily embroidered
and wore = hat OF pale pink and white.
Her bouquet was shower of
Her bouquet was q shower bouquet Of
white killarney roses. Miss Bridgie
Doran, sister Of the bride, was maid
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when they VIII make their home at
Portland. Ore, whore the former will
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Continued from Y,r.t p.s..)
Barry Of Washington win spend the
season at the Crawford House. White
mountains.

ssrgt. Emory Monroe. son Of Mr..
and Mrs. ". =. Monroe Of sss sth
in France. He Is with the 8lsth De-
tached Labor Battalion, Headquarters
@. NJ. c. He was stationed at Camp
Hin. Newport News. Va. before sail
Ing for France.
Mr.. and Mrs Horace B. Elmer are
spending . couple Of weeks at At
lsntic City.
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FINDING FRITZ OBSERVERS JOB
BY CLARENCE BURLINGTON KELLAND

his pack-cakes, cookies, canned stun,
Much obliged for running over" said the euten
men at the front towards the Red Triangle. Much
obliged and we appreciate it--say. II it wasn't for
I'm going ahead Of the observation posts"
the "Y' man told me- want to take a chance7"
We arrived at a town and found lieutenant sit
ting down in trench. BefoEs him narrow slit
opened into pie-and into liter blackness.
HOW OBSERVER WORKS
Conservation post" said my conductor.
The lieutenant was glad to see us, especially when
I told him l was so recently from home and took
within There, in little room in which one could
barely stand upright was the paraphernala by which
the Hun is supervised in his goings and comings and
by which artillery is informed II 1t Is hitting the
mark.
the wall Over this hung curtain because Fritz in
his observation posts across No Mans Land might
pass through it and then very shortly there would
be observation post. Provided 1t suited Fr1tzs
humor to abolish It.
We looked through the glasses at the beautiful
mountain slope opposite famous in the history OF
the war, and which now Is the most formidable bar
IN the Of troops If they set out to take back
from Germany city which France claims for her
own With the naked eye this mountain slope seems
quiet and peaceful. There is sign Of life not
even of smoke from mess fire. Through the glasses
they directed by the lieutenant barbed wire
arrangements, lines of trenches, concrete gun en-
placements and what not can be Sharply d1sdn
guished-
WHAT FRITZ IS DOING
Look along the top of that ridge What do you
make outf"
Nothing" 49,
The hair is touching the top Of it.
Still made out nothing.
"Camoufage"
Just then a shell and burst on top Of
a stone wall behind u.s. Maybe 1t intended fol
u.s. and maybe it just warning for US to be
have ourselves Anyhow l impressed.
See" said the lieutenant "They could get us L
they wanted to. Say, Wharton" Wharton was th'
'Y'' secretary "Give can of peaches on thu
strength of that"
High in the air heads could hear thu
planin grnil1 hum couple Of American acceptance
taking a look-see. They were not fighting planes
but observation planes. Their duty was to get NOR
direct and accurate information than could be hal
| from any listening post
'Thfs morning the Boche got one out there" sat
the lieutenant. 'They were after him with machtn
guns I saw he was in trouble and saw him comin
down His machine fire and he jumped GU
with his hands up. He hadn't a chance And the
came out and got him.
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WITHOUT A WHIMPER.

Yet all that is borne without Q
whimper. The sailors read, now ana
then. 4 stray home paper and see
the accounts of cheering crowds bld'
ding Godspeed to this or that depart
Ing regiment they feel that all the
public's heart is going out to tne
army. They don't at all realize tneir
own devotion, and their attitude is
almost that Of apology for not more
spectacularly serving their country.
They will tell you that they are GLAD
they Jumped to the guns" but every
mail brings news of friends that
stayed behind and have won commits
sions at the Reserve Officers Train
ing Camps.
And then the ship comes back &c
port, and there are liberty parties
going ashore.
The British sailor is given his
drink ration; the British Y. M. y. a
serves light beer. 1t isn't thus VIII
cur men. At sea there obtains only
the taut rule Of fiat virtue, and the
man that goes ashore is his owr
master.
Do you begin to see now the prob
lem that our Y. NJ. c. A. has to face
Any American sailor man will ge'
homesick after week here, and It's
Just homesickness that's the matter
with most Of these kids: If they
can't be cured of it, they'll Do some
thing to forget it."
To be homesick--and. if you re
member your first boarding schoo
~ -
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Up at the front with the American army are two
jobs closely related they are one-the artillery
mans and the observers. The first delivers the
goods the second tells him what doorstep to leave 1t
on and corrects any misapprehensions he may have
as to where he Is leaving 1t.
During the night there had been tremendous bar.
rage Hundreds of guns of all sizes and voices had
made it exceedingly uncomfortable Tor trltzle VINO
is perched famous mountain which seems only
hours and our fellows had gone over the top and
come back with prisoners and captured machine
guns. In the morning went back TO the nearest oa'
terry to ask how they went about it.
The battery consisted of French ninetles ana
proof emplacements of interesting construction The
construction had to be interesting because fT1tz
knew the battery was there, and paid it consider
able attention. Every once in a while ne would drop
shell by.
A general showed us his wall map Of the vicinity
on which was marked every German trench and post,
every stone and blade of grass. II seemed and then
explained the barrage.
PURPOSES OF RARRAGE
"The theory to wall in that section OF
trenches" he said. part of the guns enclosed the
locality in barrsge while others of US played on
the communicating trenches to keep renforcements
from coming up The idea is to keep in the area all
the men who there and to let nobody come in to
But you can't see those trenches How do you
know you are hitting them7"
location Of the trench and then register it. The
observers correct our fire until we have the range
exactly and then we wait for the time. Orders come
that there will be such and such barrase on j
day and hour. And we are ready"
The thing that tapped the shoulder about
these boys was their attitude toward the guns They
seemed to feel toward them as person might reel
toward a splendid fighting bull dog
The seventy-fves called out the highest esteem:
The nineties good; they did the business out
the seventy-fves! Now there were guns,
"They won't let fire but six times minute, y
sergeant said with the air of man who had been
personally offended.
TORN BY HUN SHELLS
All around the emplacements the ground torn
and upheaved by Hun shells which had been sent
over as compliment this battery Out in the
field two great craters sharply visible over the
rest. .
"Hey" called a man from the other end of the line
of bomb proofs, ''here comes a Y. M c. A man with
eats"
Boys oozed out of and bomb proofs with their
tongues fairly hanging out. Their station is with
| their guns and their is the spot so they
have little chance to get over to the canteen The
"Y" man. being competent to fill his job knew this,
and made frequent trips over with pack Oh aus
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LETTERS, THE DEMAND

"Sure; but I'd rather had letter
than a hundred cigarette cases. OF
course I'm glad enlisted; but, gee,
if the people at home knew how bad
US fellows wanted letters, they'd
write every day, even If they didn't
have nothin' to say except Yours
truly If they only knew !"
That sailor was fair example of
our young seamen in France: unfal-
tering in his determination to do his
duty, but unremittingly bomesick
The room in which he revealed his
heart was one of many such rooms
where, daily, many of our enlisted
men are moved to similar confessions !:
their one healthy substitute for home,
the Y. NJ. G. A. headquarters at
French port.
These boys are the keepers-up of
commerce, the food-bringers, the
sleepless guides and guardians of our
troops that cross the sea.
1.-THE work of the Mosquito Fleet
Is nothing short of wonderful q
French admiral recently declared.
In the last report of two hundred
and fifty ships conveyed, only three
losses were reported since the Mos
quito Fleet came here, the 5. y. >.
calls due to mines and submarine at.
tacks have decreased fifty per cent.
These results are achieved only by
labor that is hard, dangerous, and
without recorded praise. There are
days when men have to stand on
watch for fourteen hours without re-
lief; whole voyages when the gun
crews have never moved more than
FIVE feet from their guns, snatching
sleep on the rain-washed decks;
cruises when the men in the fire room
and before the engines have never
once been able to come up for
breath of fresh air
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quartermaster leaned against the
starboard rail.
chat boy" he said, as he nodded
to a blackened, barefoot lad emerging
from hatchway, "got honors in
French at Harvard last spring"
"And he's here as a common sea-
mani" wondered.
GAS a coal HEAVIER" the quarter
master corrected me. We've got a
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WHERE TO GET GOOD MEAL

His auditor happened to be salts.
factorily fresh from another sort OF
restaurant. 81 Just now had good
dinner at the Y. NJ. c. A." he ven
tured.
ooh, there!" said Aston. "Of course
you did. The Y. NJ. c. AS the best
eating place in town.
Mr.. Astor ought to know, because
that eating place is of his wife's
making. She bought and turned over
to the association the one really good
restaurant that could be found, ard
she has ever since been personally
active in its arrangements.
"You get real food there" sailor
recently told me. Real food. You
know what I mean-ham-an-eggs an
steak-an'- fried onions"
II is said that Mrs. Astor used TO
HELM wait on table when the service
was shortha nded, and that one of the
FIRST persons upon whom she waited
was newly enlisted man in the
ITnited States Navy who, until a
month previous, had been the dining
room steward on Mrs. Astor's own
yacht.
have commented, "when ] used to
wait on her, had to wear evening
clothes" -, -,
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at our navy's ports in France, tho
Y. M. G. A. has to deal, is all sorts.
They are of the two extremes and
every grade between, but once they
are in Uncle Sans navy there Is no
distinction. Each man is offering all
he has to his country; that makes
them kin. Let me exemplify:
I was just coming in from my first
cruise with the Mosquito Fleet. The
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lot Of college men aboard. They're
volunteers. OF course, they've all
had yachting experience, but the
bred to- the.service fellows laughed At
them till certain litle thing hap
psned on tho voyage over.
"a fire started In our port coal
bunkers whom we were three days
out of the port we were bound for.
A hatch d been loft open and thero d
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BY REGINALD WRIGHT KAUFMAN

goodbye and cried little and told
you to send home all your socks for
mending, and your father'd shaken
hands with you and cleared his throat
and said you'd be coming back to
put him out of business, and you'd
held your head high and joked-if
you remember that, you will agren
with me that to be homesick is t,
be as miserable as it is possible for
the human being to become. But t
be homesick and yet to give home
to the homeless is to be something
very nearly heroic. OF that l saw, in
this port, recent instance:
came across three little children
-boys-standing in a doorway on a
quiet street, the eldest perhaps
twelve years cid, the youngest not a
day over five. They would have been
remarkable among the other children
of this somewhat rowdy port if only
for their cleanliness and for the
cleanliness Of the elderly woman that
was manifestly caring for them.
They were the more remarkable be-
cause each wore a sailors cap, on
the band of which was inscribed the
name of a certain boat in the Mos
quito Fleet, and because they were
all dressed in an infantile replica of
the uniform of able seamen in the
United States Navy.
They were shy little boys, but the
woman in charge of them explained
their habiliments:
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LTHOUGH he was a mere
lad-he didn'r look a day
over seventeen-he wore the

uniform of sailor in the
United States Navy. He had come
into this little room, opening off the
msir street of the dreary French
no.. With just bit of a swagger.
.Des Cigarette" he said. and flung
upon the counter a fifty-franc bill.
what brand do you prefer?" asked
the ehind-the-counter.
Instantly, that faint hint of bra
yado passed from the boyish face,
leaving it clean and manly-glad, too,
and yet wistful.
"Gee!'' he cried. "You're an
American, aren't you? Great guns,
but it's good to hear American talked
in this town."
He drew out, as long as he dared,
the details of his purchase. He went
away slowly, and presently returned
and bought some more cigarettes. He
hung about the room, and then
bought still more. He ostentatiously
pulled out a shining cigarette case
from a pocket, and filled it.
The clerk couldn't help smile
"You must smoke a great DEAL" she
said.
The sailor blushed. Its not that"
be confessed, "but---well, just to
hear you talk is like home" He
fumbled with the cigarette case.
"See that?" he said. II got it to-
day from my fc = Boston. That
monogram initials.
guessed mayL. ~ me ciga-
rettes, but l he case.
AS it was, til .',.,
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MANY DIFFICULTIES.

At no one place are there often
more than three hundred men ashore
at a time, and SO it is easier to
establish the personal relationship
between the association worker and
the sailor than between worker and
soldier in the soldier huts at the
American camp. But the ports are
cities, whereas the camp stretches
among mere villages, SO that the
forces against which the naval
branch of the Y. M. G. A. has to
contend are the stronger.
I went to an evening entertain
ment given by the British Y. M. G. A.
for the American Y. M. @. AS
patrons in the rooms of the French
equivalent of the association. There
was a reading room full of magazines
and growing library, free writing
materials, a piano around which was
grouped day-long chorus of sailor.
men, moving picture shows, hall
for basket ball, a baseball grounds,
fifty clean beds at a franc apiece a
highland a clean bed is luxury
as well as moral force-an apart
ment house for seventeen petty
officers permanently employed ashore,
photograph over which I've seen
lonely lad sit all afternoon running
Off songs reminiscent of his child
hood. a canteen that sold chewing
gum, and candy. These may sound
like trifles to Americans at home. but
to the American sailor abroad, to
whom only the Y. NJ. c. A. provides
them, they become something large
and vital. They become America.
"There's good grub on our tub, but
not enough that's sweet Gimme
some more of those gum-drops.
"whats thiss Lemonadef Yes,
but what's it made off Citron.
syrup and settler! And you call that
lem onndes Oh. well, give us another
glass of it; it's as close as fellow
can come to It over here. When are
YOU goin' to be able to afford a
soda -fountain?" q
MEETING FRENCH GIRLS.
IF I heard those comments once
during an afternoon that I passed in
a naval Y. NJ. G. A., heard them a
DOZEN times. Unbelievable quantities
~ chocolate are sold in a form that
NAV be easily heated and drunk
during nipht-watches at sea, and the
millionaire that wants to do effective
work against alcoholism could do
nora more effective than to donate
sodo fountains and hot chocolate ma
chimes to the association IN these
ports. ...-oa,,oaa recsnt,r
ia thus far working well; parties or
u.,,.- E~A.ah woman of the hasf Nm
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Boys of Mosquito Fleet, Who Find
French Ports Dreary and Full
of circumstances Germs" Go
Back to Their Ships Cheerful
and Ready for Anything after
Meeting the Women Workers
Who have Gone ''Over There"
to Make France Look as Much
Like Home as Possible.
BY REGINALD WRIGHT KAUFMAN
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bringing are formed, under maternal
chaperonage, to meet sailors of their
own sort that have some knowledge
of the French language. 1t is at
these gatherings that the sailor talks
most freely, and most lightly, of his
work.
Looking for subs" I heard one
say to his newly met companion. II
am going blind doing It'll There is the
sub that makes up to look like a sail
ing vessel, and the one that hides its
periscope behind an imitation shark
fin, and now they've got one that
spouts water like whale. The por-
poises drive us crazy: something
came dashing at our boat the other
day; it's track was exactly like tor
pedo's. Humphrey saw it first. He
pointed it out to me. We're gone
this time!' he yelled. Then it jumped,
and we saw it was porpoise. We
call porpoises Humphrey torpedoes'
now"
The French girl wanted to know
about rescues at sea.
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WHY SAILORS ARE WORTHY.

But, yes, monsieur. They were
all that was left of family. The
father was killed at Verdun, the
mother died in an accident at a fac
tory of munitions; so that good sail
ors upon one of your country's little
ships have adopted them, and are
keeping them, and will educate them.
They have rented for them rooms in
this house, and they have employed
me to keep them, and, whenever their
ship is in port, these sailors, they fail
not to come here and receive word
of their wards, and they give them
chocolates till the little ones are ill.,"
What do the chocolates matter 7
There is something worth doing for
men who will take upon themselves
such obligations as this.
Something worth doing-and the
Y. M. G. A. is trying to do it. There
are headquarters and other build
ings in every French port that is
used by our navy-ffty buildings in
all-conducted by workers whose pay
does not quite meet their expenses
and whose tasks continue from sun
to SUM-
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A MISS AND A HIT.

please don't" said the secretary.
The big fist shot forward
It didn't hit anything. 1t was
shunted aside az little twist Of the
slim switch shunts a train of coal
cars. 1t dragged tho boatswain's
mate after 1t into vacant spaoe-and,
as the boatsmain's mata went by,
something caught him-something
uncommonly like an express engine
on the point of the jaw. and sent him
smashing to the floor.
Then tho quiet secretary picked the
giant up in his arms and carried him
to a back room, Of which tho two
were the only occupants.
II hope I haven't hurt you," said
the secretary. IT tried not to-"
The secretary was a Presbyterian
minister He was also a Colorado
rancher. And also he had been the
best boxer In Princeton during his
day there; bis name Is o. f. Gardner.
He nursed that boatswain's mate
back to sobriety and got him on his
ship in time TO escape reprimand-
The next night the sailor turned up
again at the Y. M. G. A. building.
'T've come here to apologize" he
said.
''That's all right" said the secre-
tary.
mo, it amt" tho sailor persisted.
1T made a nuisance of myself befois
all this crowd. and it's before tho
whole crowd that I've got to apollo
gize. Here, you swipesl" he bel
lowed.
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PICK UP SURVIVORS

sIast trip" she was informed, eve
picked up three small boats with
fifty-nine men in them. About half
of those men were from ship that
had been torpedoed the day before.
They got away and were taken on q
passing steamer, and they hadn't
been aboard her for twelve hours be-
fore she was torpedoed, too. We got
those fellows into the drum-room and
laid them over the boilers. When
ever we sight life boat the com
missary steward starts supplies OF
soup and coffee, so we had plenty of
the warm stuff ready for them, and
we lent them our clothes while their
own were drying"
His companion laughed.
"Why don't you tell the rest?" ne
asked.
"Oh, what's the use' grumbled the
first sailor.
"Then I'll tell it," persisted the
second. "Our crews clothes were 80
much better than the Stops the
rescued men had come aboard In that
some of the rescued forgot to change
back to their own buds before they
went ashore If you see any stray
uniforms walking around this town,
they're ours"
However, if good company is a
moral force not to be neglected, so
is good food, and in that particular
the Y. NJ. G. A. has thus far been
fortunate. There is story told in
one port, where Vincent Aston has
been staying when on shore leave, to
the effect that he was complaining OF
the restaurant in his hotel.
.'You can't get really good meal
there" said Aston.
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COLLEGE BOYS FIRST.

We'll, sir, the first to volunteer
were che college kids-and -Four
Stripes gave them the job.
BY squads of four, with = petty
officer to each. they jumped into that
he'll Shovel3 You ought to have
seen them! Three minutes a shift,
they were to work, but they were
gased SO quickly that eleven dds
were carried out, one right after the
other, on the backs of their ship
mates Sawbones stood on deck with
the pulmotor and pumped them
through, but q lot were caught
sneaking out Of their hunks to 20
back and fight tho gas again. It was
as tough job rs I've ever seen at
sea, but those boys did IL, they con-
quered the fire and saved the shin.
Since then. you don't hear much
laughing at the College Kids"
Somehow that duartermaster had
given me hint about himself.
What's your college," asked.
yale, 'ninety.four." he said. "But
I'm an old hand. It was these Kids
1 was talking about. Don't mention
my being . college man to anybody
aboard. I don't want to seem to be
putting on side"
That is ono example. Here's an
other,
To an orderly entertainments 40 .
Y. M. G. A. building came one night,
brilliantly Illuminated boatswain's
mate. He was q splendid specimen
of physical manhood, six feet three
inches, and as hard as nails. But he
was intent on starting something"
He stopped. with one believing
command, the singer on the stage.
He knocked down two of his protest
ing friends, spilled a crowded bench
and staggered up to the secretary in
charge with the majesty of a breaker
sweeping toward the beach.
"I'm going to break up this show"
he said.
ID looked very much as II he
would, too.
Now, the secretary in charge was q
quiet and unassuming man. He had
done wonders in his work among our
feet In French waters, but he spoke
in small voice and moved gently.
eff I were you," said the secre.
tary, IT wouldn't interfere"
"The hell you wouldn't!" said tho
boatswain's mate and shook
mighty fist.