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Trench and camp., 1919-02-13
Captain Ratchet" at the Base Hos
pitaI "Y"

On Saturday night those in the
area of the base hospital hut were
given treat by a group of piaye
from Washington, u. c. They are
known as the Home Club Players of
the Department of the Interior. They
have been entertaining the boys of
many nearby camps for the past
eighteen months. They presented
Captain Ratchet, or His Unc.e From
Japan"
Those present-and the house was
packed to the roof-spent most en-
joyable evening. 1t was hard to
realize that the play was being pre-
sented by busy employees of the gov
ernment, who had only rehearsed the
play on odd evenings for the past
three weeks. and that it was really
a first night" as far as the company
was concerned. Those in the cast
were: Kathryn Winter. Charlotte
Crawford, Helen Ward. o. w. Good
win. Jesse Myer. a. Fl. Winter. j.
McMechan. Benjamin Whitehurst, Guy
G. Harper. Frances Park and little
"Tootsie Tolman"
1t is hoped to have these splendid
players at the base hut for a return
engagement in The Prince of Liars.
The Prince of Liars was given
Tuesday in the main ssy-' with great
success before capacity audience
Trench and camp., 1919-02-13
GLAD|ATORS CONTEST
F|ERCELY AT BASE"
"" Stunt Night, With Barracks
No. 46 and No. AZ Takins Part,
Gives Plenty Of Sport.

Unusual enthusiasm and pep" were
displayed at the base hospital "Y''
arena Thursday night. when the glad
iators from barracks 46 and AZ, heav-
lily reinforced by loyal cohorts. cross
ed swords in an indoor athletic stunt
meet
The fun began at 7:3O o'clock, when
six huskies stepped out to compete in
a bag relay race. After some mishaps
CD the last man of the 46th team
started out with big lead only to
fall to the floor when he executed
few loop-the-loops and tail spins"
while his bagged opponent wObbled
across the line to victory. Wild cheers
went up from the 47th men, but the
men from 46th came back strong and
evened up matters in the jump stick
relays and kangaroo races. When it
came to the tug of war. we'll. Joe
Farkas of the 46th team simply spit
on his hands and walked off "wid
en-" although the husky George
Stanton was tied to the other end
The honors of the banana eating
contest were unanimously given to a
big overseas husky" who. with one
hand behind his back. peeled his
banana, ate il and Whistled before his
opponents were well under way. A
close, hard-fonght basket ball game,
in which were lots of pep and fun
ended the evenings entertainment
The enlissed mems basket ball team
Of the Medical Corps holds an unde-
fe9ted rcord and ehaAleBEes alsy team
of the camp
Trench and camp., 1919-02-13

lock is rehearsing minstrel show
which will be produced in the near
future.
Secretary Bullock has gone south
for few days. He expects to bring
his family back with him.
Although We are unable to obtain
chaplain for Sunday morning serv-
ices. the religious work has not suA-
fered Secretary Wright has been
giving the boys some very excellent
sermons
We find that the educational work
must now be done by means of lee
tpres. FREQUENT talks are giveT on
thrift health and the vocations some
splendid speakers have addressed the
boys. who always enjoy the messages
brought them il followed by movies.
The commissioned officers of
the 9Th Training Battalion had most
enjoyable time last Wednesday night.
They all dug down in their jeans and
produced enough money to give one
of the best. If not the best dance and
reception ever given in camp.
or" hrndred OF The prettiest "'rls
of Raltimore. chaperoned bv Ms.
Weaver. were present end to ire
strains 90 a most excellent iazz hand
drove away the bows "ho"'e 1'"lf-";s
blues" hy trinpin" the Tight ran
toe'ic" to" until II o'clock.
\ "ooS' arpati@ing snpne" Voc
~""vsd The officers of the bat'a'i"N
f"om tho r,a ior down. woe r""""nt
They all declared th"- tn" r"fre@"
ments could not be hetter pren"r9d
o. served and in w"'l choce" ''o''" rs
corpIi,rnnted the bows on the sue
cess of tho entire affair One contain
stated that since he had seen the
Ecl'imore girls that he could eaSt'V
"~dorstand why his boys wen w
q. L.
Trench and camp., 1919-02-13
WONDERS ABOUT NAME
FOR LITTLE DAUGHTER
Vanauken of 3l4th Infsut = Has
Baby Girl Whom He Has
Never Laid Eyes On.

When William Vanauken 2lfth In
fantry Of the 10Th Division, goes back
to his home, in Allentown, Pa. after
an ''sence of nearly seven months
he will find a little daughter waiting
for holm, and the boys in the company
with him declare that he is wonder
ing about the name which he will
give to her.
w" 't be Joy" or Cheer" or "vic-
tory?
All agree that Good Luck" would
be an excellent name and they declare,
too, that Kaiser" will not be her
middle name, not If Billy has arything
to say about it,
Well. Billy has a daughte, that he
has never seen and despite the fact
that he faced German bullets and all
that goes with warfare he is mighty
anxious to get back to Allentown ard
see what the stork left for him.
JohnE/ Gillespie Signal Corps man.
from Philadelphia, served in the 165th
InfaEtyy of the 42d, or Rainbow, Di-
visio1 Ills home is on Girard avenue.
Whe1 e was out one night with a
patrol ie ran into a German patrol in
the darkness of no mans land and
the boche succeeded in driving his
bayonet through Gillespie's leg He
got back to his own lines all right and
is now back in Meade. safe and sound.
Frienos of John Green, Company /,
316th Lrfantry. stated that he gave a
good account Of himself in the
fighting and that his regiment was
one Of The best on the front. II was
c5mv< dsd by Col. aFcCaslxey
Trench and camp., 1919-02-13

1t was stated recently that bill"
conway the old Baltimore Sun man
VINO was wounded while serving with
Headquarters Company OF the 313th
infantry is now on his way back to
Meade
There will surely be royal well
come for Bill" and he will find the
old pla ;e looking about the same.
though !here will not be many of the
old faces.
DISPATCHES from New York declare
that the famous 36Sth Infantry of
colored troops, which trained down
IN u block, and which served with
such distinction in the 92d Division.
is now in New York and Boston and
Will be mobilized in Meade
Thls viii give the people in this
section another opportunity of see
ing Dram Major Landin, who was
such a sensation in the great Balti-
more parade last spring when he
succeeded in making President Will
son smile as the band passed in~re-
view on Mount Royal avenue Lieut..
Col. Brown became colonel after Col.
William p. Jackson was promoted to
the grade of brigadier.
a lar@e number of Tank Corps men
arc now on their way to Meade. and
1t is understood that portion of
Meade, perhaps Franklin canton
ment, will be used as a tank section
for some time. About $4,000 men are
expected.
Rev. Domillv F.. Humphreys FOR
merly rector of Grace and st. Peters
Protestant Episcopal Church Balti-
more has assumed charge of Epiph-
any Chapel Odenton. This chapel and
It's STAFF are OF great benefit to the
men OF the camp
priC. Cen JoSo~h a CASTOR who
was camD comooandnr ere before the
arrival Of Ma, Cen Carter. has re-
ceived orders % ronort to the War
Departrent for duty as recruiting
officer in ono of the large centers
probably Phi'ade'nNia.
A cal vas p"id by Gen. CASTOR
on Gen. Gen. Gchi~tfel the new camp
commander. Monday mornin~, when
the fo"rer disrlaved his NM1ers.
Gen. CASTOR was poDular~here and
always had the interests Of the men
Mt teart, He will be greatly missed
In the camp.
Snea Ling OF GENERALS again, It IL
Interesting TO note that the wounded
at the base hocpital are takan on
rides about ca"n Nv the l"dies Of
the Hostess Ho"se thr~urh the cour-
tesy of Rrir. Cen Pevrolds Burt.
who places his car at their disposal.
Mrs Edward O. rurr. head OF the
Hostess House. is now in Camp Hum
,t'pi"''r "..I 80 r~~"eio"in" thence ~
New York he~n sho 81 i'll io'n BRIG
Gen Burr Of the "7t1 Division who
is Just returning from "ctive cam
paipning in Fro"cc y" '~ener"'
tablnd Mrs ru~~ N"uAav .ha+ he
Mor'd arrive 4" Ne vor'- this zee
1t Is understood that he will hava
TO he with. his NOV fo~ some tir,e to
faciIitate daWob1'zat'on. Int T. is not
unlikely tfat he will come to Meade
shortly for look at the temporary
home OF his devoted ire
Meanv hile Mrs. Allison. wife Of
Col. Allison of the Frank'in signal
camp. is scrvino MS volunteer In
Mrs. Burr's stead
Trench and camp., 1919-02-13
311THF. A. LAD
WRITES FROM FRANCE
Corp. O'Boyle Says 10th Division Is
Doing Lot of Travelling
"a la Box Car"

Telling OF the doings of the artil-
lery of the 18Th Division, the follow
ing lester has been received by Trench
and Camp from its correspondent at
the French front, Corp c. w. OBoyle,
headquarters 311th Field Artillery,
A. f. F.:
Your letter was received just
week ago today at LaCourtine-Creuse
On that day we left that camp and
came to our present location near
Chaumont- Haute Marne. There are
three small towns right near each
other and parts of the regiment are
billeted III all three.
Il happen to be in an upstairs room
cf a house about the size of a small
bungalow. There are nine of us in
small room, and were fairly COM
fcrta BILE. We rugged up a thing which
we cali a stove; the lower part. about
the size of an oil stove, is part of
stone. The top is a large-sized lard
can. with a door and hole for CHM
ney cut in it. The stovepipe runs
right through the window and back
fires very often; all in ALL though, it
answers the purpose. 1t burns all
up during ouf spare time and throws
out a surpi ising amount of heat
Plenty of Room.
I'VE surely are covering lot of
France When we get home Wen
never think of riding on passenger
trains. When there's a trip to take
wen just naturally fall into box
car and ride to our hearts content
On our last trip we spent two nights
and two days in the cars marked
'Hommes 40; cheVauX g.. Though we
weren't quite so crowded as that
there was plenty of room for each
man to stretch out quite comfortably
at night; we had our bedsacks with us,
and it wasn't half bad"
November 23, 1918.
Here am again. l was interrupted
when writing before, and this is the
first opportunity I've had to continue.
I'm just writing few Christmas
cards given to us by some "Y'' repre-
sentatives who struck town today to
establish a canteen for the benefit of
the many troops who viii. pass here
in the near future. There are two
small shacks here that were evi-
IDENTIFY occupied by the "Y" when the
other troops were here. ] expect we
will leave here shortly to join the
rest of our division.
IT see by the Paris edition of the
Chicago Tribune that demobilization
of troops at Meade has begun.
For no reason at all I'm sending
this in a blue envelope as these are
not censored by our officers, but by
those of the base cenSOrS. According
to the papers there will be no censor
ing shortly, so I'm sending this as
sort of souvenir
II saw Sergt. Williams (Battery Al
and Castalucci (Battery AZ. besides
Sergt. Craze (Supply), who was stand
ing by when 1 got your letter.
haven't had a chance to speak to any
of the officers yet. as we are badly
split up in the villages.
Remember me to all the boys. and
remember, too, that 1 am anxious to
get Trench and Camp"
Trench and camp., 1919-02-13
HOW THINGS CONE
EASY IN B CkNTEEN
Tale Sounds Like the Battalion
Store Is Place OF En-
tertainment.

IN charge of the best cantecn in
camp" writes j. \. Scinto 'is Lieut..
George MacDonough. Is it because he's
Irish that he has good heart or be-
cause he's got a good heart he's fit to
be Irish? Anyhow. YOU will always get
a kind word from him, and. with f'm to
serve. the path of duty is pleasant
one. He is stll unmarried, so some girl
is yet destined to be lucky soon after
the peace treaty is signed.
THE Ioot's' right-hand man is Sergt.
Anton c. Flad, who is best known to
fame by his marvellous renditions Of
that word-renowned song. Mother
Won't Buy Me a Rubber DOLL" which
he can sing in about seven differer'
keys--though not at the same time
thank goodness! He comes from Jersey
City, and has also been X. p so the
one fact balances the other Don't men
ton either if you should want him TO
cash a check. or somebody's liable TO be
out two bits.
Trench and camp., 1919-02-13
SiOOD, A LONE
bEBACK, HE SAID
bI4h Declared Cen
! USeem. Like Real
Ey|han Stuck to
mlH Shells.

|hacUf he said, "and when our ma
|chink jgunners. had started in to fire,
|thesE sniperS would fire a shot from a
treeEhich would not be heard Cen
|eralk an officer would be the victim.
/ sab Maj Pepper killed in this man
|ner. II must have been a case of that
sortNas he, was shot through the back
of the head.
mai Putnam was shot in the same
way and I saw his body lying near
woods in the early morning. He had
beelN shot the night before, and some
bodL had covered his face with coat.
EVEN soldier who passed pulled back
the Voat to see who the officer was. A
boy lay wounded near him, and stop
ped 10 help him. He told ME that he
was being looked out for by stretcher
bearers and then pointed out the
majd.
Snipers Were Brave.
"This sniping game, worked the
way lit was, proved disastrous to our
oficds and 1 could not help .admiring
the dourage of the Germans who were
|called upon to. do it. OF course, it
meant certain death to every one who
triedlit
"NVhen we Went lIllO Ddlllc WIFI
four days rarfons, which the men ate
up ir two days, and we had to remain
six, Eou can imagine how we felt
when the word came that we were to
be rklieved and sent back for new
packs and rest. Instead, we soon
|discoEered that we were going up into
the Argonne for further fierce fight
ling. Ii really think that most of the
boys were out of their minds. Of
|cours4. they were better off when they
were finally taken away from the lines
land they realized that they were away
from 1.-THE danger"
Tsdhentre declared that John Frank
lin Bhker, the most famous of third
|basenen, was his brother -in-law. and
THAT he had been mighty nice to him
lin sehding him things in France and
lin. helping him out in a business way
lin Cambridge, where he runs jewelry
|storel
"TNe Home Run kinc" of the New
York Yankees. said Tschentre, had
bought several farms in Dorchester
|ccunk near Cambridge and was COM
|paratIvely well off, so far as worldly
|gooda were concerned. Tschentre said
that Ne was going back to his jewelry
busin@ss Just as soon as he could be re-
leasedfrom the Army.
Trench and camp., 1919-02-13
PAUL WHITAKER WELL EDIT
". PAPER AT CLARK FIELD
Former 211th Boy Will Be in Memphis,
Tenn.-Will His Poetry Be Given,
Still More Brilliant Touch by
Aviators' Deeds?

Julius Caesar" is the name of Lieut.
Lattanzi Of the 17th Infantry, and his
admirers assert that this is one of
the reasons why he is such good
soldier.
He was formerly with the regiment,
but was transferred to the machine
spn battalion of the brigade of Gen.
Reynolds Burt. lie played in the
famous foot ball game of Thanks-
giving day, and was sent back to the
18th The following day Some people
said that they needed him so much
on the 21st Brigade foot ball team
that they had to have him back in
the !od.
Capt. Morrison, division intelligence
'hce who served with the 37th Di-
,sion in France has gone back to
lis home in Van Vert. Ohio. Of which
he vas mayo' before the war. He did
ii c piece o. work here in directing
the Intelligence school for the di-
son. Asked if he intended to run
Tor III: ycr once more. he said:
Never again"
Paul x Whitaker formerly of the
@1lth Id 81 snaI, is now starting
his new paper for the ."Y'' at Clark
Field Mehphis. Tenn. 1t will be
interesting TO see whether Whitakers
poetry is improved after his expe-
ricace with the dashing avators He
declares that this will be the perma-
nent aviation center of the Army
from now on.
Brooks Shackley, formerly in charge
o. "O~ hut. and social man at &C
hut, is now with the General Fire
proofing Company in Ohio. He denied
the statement that he had gone
west" and. like Mark Twain, said the
report Of his demise had been en-
largcd upon. "Shack is one of the
heS social men the "'Y" ever had
and, in fast he comes pretty close
to being the ideal secretary.
He would be the last man in tn,
world to admit it. but Shack got
Mighty. close to the hearts of the
fellows in his area
Another cartoonst has boobed up
in the person of Lieut.. Lehman of the
I'm Infantry. who, it will be re-
rai,ed was some "pumpk Sins" in the
Thanksgiving day foot ball game,
He was very much amused by the
cartoon drawn by Davoni of the 63d
Inf ntry--"All dressed up and no war
10 &c. He is now copying it.
Andy Youngbar, who was decorated
while serving with the 29th Division
the "BMe and the Gray"-is one of
the favorites about the hostess house.
He always has crowd of fellows
about him who are anxious to hear
him talk He was cited for bravery
with Sergt. Hoppe. and when the cross
was pinned upon them the general
placed them in an automobile and sa-
luted them and then had the regiment
pass by in review.
- to become Of the pianos
''' cNs inst Vacnted? Some 81
these Instruments are in fairly good
condition The boys did not stop to
think when being discharged that
they might have sold them The over
seas men, however, will enjoy them
Trench and camp., 1919-02-13
AND LEG
Ger CASUALTIES
|antty Saved Fellows
II trough Shell Fire
amt pr to Advance.

without trouble We We're close to
Ehe German line and the boche ar
EiilerY had our range and were giving
Ils old Harry. We were not in posi-
Eion tS fall back and the result was
Ehat the captain did not wish to ex-
pose Ms men further danger by
forrcct that the supporting redcords
were Soing to give us barrage.
Il was told by the captain to go
pack TO the coloneIs headquarters
bnd hhd out if the rumor was true.
|Fhe shells were falling all about me,
put got through safely to find that
fhe rumoF' was not correct. l got
pack to mysposition in the line with
put q scratch and was told that the
captain hMMi been lflled only about
Ten ERinutes before my arrival. A
Fhell had fallen in the place where
he and Rad lain q short while be
Tore the explosion. If l had been
here / would have been blown 10
pits. in all .probability."
$ust the same, Chambers display
Pf bravery In crossing the field twice
n the face Of the German shell nre
|aved the Mwes Of many members OF
bis regimgnts II retirement mao
Peen ordera1s many more might have
Fallen
Trench and camp., 1919-02-13
A Brother to Four Girls.

"Baltimore's angel boy Howard
Kness attends to the dispensing of
The coca -cola when he is not enter
tanning visitors from his old home
town. He seldom has more than four
girls visiting him any one day, how
ever, since he lost two recently the
fair ones falling for the winning
wavs of pair of his fellow-workers
completing the list of this bunch
of expert canteen operators is the
name of william King. After these
few remarks our readers should
feel that they are acquainted thor
oughly with the main features of the
canteen under the management of
The Happy Eight so drop in some
day soon and introduce yourself
Trench and camp., 1919-02-13
Another Humorist Loose.

walter Haupt is another skeeter.
and was put on the cigar stand 10 d-aW
trade. He does, too because he's 50
handsome. Come in and see him. boys,
and he'll give you a ten-cent cigar for a
dime. Also in the canteen is n humorist
of the first water, Jeff Herd by name,
who is even funnier than he looks II
you are ducking the detail or want to
get warm. come and sit al orr stove.
which is one of the smallest :r "'"r
when tired looking at the ...
ing wiggling step over to the c;niN
department and get sweetened up
again In addition to reams Of rhyme
the salesman eXudes volumes of prose
which isn't prosy, either-to some
one, OF several some ones daily. 1t
must cost him lot of money for
stamps! The only way you can make
him sore is to call on him early in
the morning, buy a dimes worth of
candy. eat some of it and then offer a
twenty dollar bill in payment But
you can pull that trick only once. His
old sidekick, n. B. Shnirman, has been
discharged--from the canteen--as the
Army needed him elsewhere.
Trench and camp., 1919-02-13

Another cartoonist has boobed up
in the person of Lieut.. Lehman of the
11th Infantry. who, it will be re-
fai'ed was some pumpkins" in the
He was very much amused by the
cartoon drawn by Davoni of the 63d
Inf ntry--"All dressed up and no war
10 &c" He ia now copying it,
Trench and camp., 1919-02-13
Marked.
on Transcript.

| |rgn the Boston Transcript.
Mothe Don't cry. dear. Which one
|f the aughty boys was it that hit
Tomln The one with the black
Trench and camp., 1919-02-13

- $ 10 become of the pianos
r"r cks inst Vacnted? Some ~
these Instruments are in fairly good
condition. The boys did not stop to
think when being discharged that
they might have sold them The over
seas men, however, will enjoy them
Trench and camp., 1919-02-13
Saw Browning Built.

Before the boys went over Chandler
bad been employed in the Colts fac
Eories in Hartford, Conn. He was
fheTe when the Browning, machine
BUN was being experimental with
Fnd ne tried out many guns in the
Fanges Mf the factory The automatic
End: tli heavy types were then being
made Atsud with success. His work
|was Nikhly regarded in the regiment
bnd he was made q mechanic as he
|lnderst 3od all about the Browning
|aachine
Chand er was then given job with
The gov .rnment in the plant lnspec-
lion department. to which he ex-
bects to RETURN as soon as he OBTAINS
his discharge from the Army.
Auer was wounded by high explo-
Eive in i ne smnDxnaHlr and declared that
his capfs in was also wounded.
Sergt kBfeSer l. Myers cf Pittsburgh
WAS wbundeA at Cantfgny in the
Ereat b tile or the spring drive. when
The AM orleans got into the fray for
The fri tfIssez and asinst superior
humbe broughtfabOlIt a victory.
America. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1905-current, 1919-09-16

1nghet. - Newark. Farma-
rii din judetul Licking au rapor-
tat ca All dilninesta az gasit
pammtul putin inghetat.
America. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1905-current, 1919-09-16
vapoarele germane luate de
Statele Unite nu vor Fl date in

darat. - Washington. - Uncle
dintere vapoarele luate de Sta
tele Unite de la Germania in
timpul, cit 81 inainte de razbolu
vor Fl tinute de Statele Unite
permanent CD parte trans
portului pentru armata. anun-
tat seful statului major, March.
America. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1905-current, 1919-09-16

Cutremur de pamint in Ger
mania. - Copenhaga. I'm GU
tremur puternic de pamint a a.
vut loc la Edinger, un oras din
Wurtemberg. Pima acnm nu $ a
primit nici*o sstire mai detailata
despre acest eutremur.~
America. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1905-current, 1919-09-16

uncle tari ven cerca ca .,sa facag
aliante, 81 astfel formind ba-
lanta de puteri char daca Liga.
Natiunilor este adopfata, insa asst
fel de incercari vor da gres.S