The sun., 1918-12-25

ridden in q stateroom aboard La
France as she came up the river yes
terday. On the verdun front last
October. 20 Il was learned from brother
officers, Major Hockwalt had suffered
severe injuries to his left arm, caus-
ing partial paralysis-which soon will
be well again--and an injury to his
left lung.
whele Division Decorated.
Also tho fact should not be over
looked that aboard La France was
Second Lieut. Robert E. Perkins Of
el4 Chestnut street. Philadelphia, who
while serving with the immortal
Twsnty-eighth Division, did glorious
things which won for him the Dis
tinguished Service Cross, the Croix de
0uerre, with one star. and a brigade
citAtion--plus tho division citation
which every member Of the Twenty
eighth Division OF Pennsylvania wears
on his left shoulder in the form OF a
red Keystone" Tho Twenty-eighth
was SO good that the whole dodgasted
division had to be decorated.
mle Beverlee also OF the Twenty
eighth and hailing from some place In
southeastern Pennsylvania--the town
being forgotten inasmuch as the re-
portar's notes went overheard into the
North River during an especially Sc
we're gust OF wind.
The Dominic was q good old young
scout named Johnnie Voorhees,. I'm
doubtedly the members Of the Asylum
Hill Congregational Church Of Hart
ford, Conn, will "stop the paper" in
dignantly (and on the other hand
maybe they will do no such thing)
when they learn that the types refer
to their some time distinguished pas
tor as johnnie Voorhees,.
johnnie had been leading the peace
ful. ripsnorting, quiet, excitable life OF
pastor OF his big flock in Hartford
when the war bust. He thought per-
haps he could do something by apply
ing to the Y. NJ. c. A. for permission
to go abroad as a "Y. worker. The
"Y" welcomed him. helped him with
the preliminary part OF his passports
and then sent him. with innumerable
other potential "Y" workers. to Column
bia University for a week OF "inten-
sive training"
One night at Columbia, following
one of the usual days OF teriically
concentrated devotion to French. geo.
cgraphy and other subjects, the Rev
Johnnie joined the rest of the class
shortly after the dinner hour in Co
lumbia building to listen to the eve
ming lecture by a didacuc war worker
Instead OF pointing his fingers SOL
EMMY and looking relisiously sad the
lecturer of the evening began, with
out preliminary prayer. as follows:
You fellows listen to me. keer
this fact in mind: You are not COINS
to France to save souls for Christ
Do you get me? You are going to the
fighting front to help win this war;"
Body wounded by she'll.
Whatever else the roughneck ~
lecturer said during the other fifty
nine minutes and nifty eight second.
of his discourse doesn't matter: al
that Johnnie Voorhees, remembered
once he had set foot on French shores
and began to work under the guns az
"Y" worker among the soldiers o,
the Twenty sixth Division was that he
was no longer the dignifled and rev.
erend John Brownlee Voorhees,. pastor
of the Asylum Hill Congregations
Church of Hartford, but necessarily
unwashed and scrapping son of a gun
While he was working a shell
dropped on his "Y" hut in tn,
Toul sector June 10 sast. Johnnie
/ who had been standing behind the
counter of the "Y" hut. started towart
| outdoors to look at the damage AND
see what he could do for the wounded
Another shell dropped while he wa
helping the wounded and stretched
him fiat and bloody. For half al
hour he lay, conscious and pitifullI
torn, while six more German she'll
banged all about him.
Yesterday Johnnie came up the bay
and river stretched on a cot. For si1
months he has not been Off a cot. The
bones of his left shoulder and his lef'
ribs were shattered on that way of
day--so long ago that johnnie sale
| yesterday It seems as IL he were al
ways in bed. His bones are still shat
tered, but mending. Another thing
THE Rev. Mr.. John, &C. was also en-
tirely shot away while he was abroad
Now he Is johnnie.
Sharing a stateroom with Johnni,
was First Lieut.. Frank Gilbert OF tn,
S56th Infantry, Eishty-fourth Divi
sion. who lives at 5242 Delmar avenue
St Louis. Lieut.. Gilbert also was. 70