The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-04
Pershing Recon-
mends Mcintyre
Sis as Only
Two Women to
Get Coveted Dec
ora tion-They
Cook ed Amid
Shells and Gas

WO young women wearing the
red shield and the quiet uni
form of the Salvation Army over
seas worker ran down the gangplank
OF the Great Northern when that
steamship locked at Hoboken recently
and threw themselves into the arms
OF a quiet, grayhaired man in the uni
form Of a Salvation Army Colonel. To
the casual observer there wasn't a
thing In the world, excepting the SER
vice stripes on their sleeves, to dis
ttnguish them from the hundreds Of
other American girls who have gone
across the seas for service with the
American troops-but behind them
they had left a record of war work
under the most trying conditions that
probably cannot even be approached
BY the record Of any other women, no
matter OF what nationality.
They were the Mcintyre sisters
irene and Gladys-home again and
greeting their father after four
teen and seventeen months service,
respectively, with combat divisions Of
the American Expeditionary Forces.
known and loved by the doughboys Of
scores Of fighting units as the cham
pon pie and doughnut makers Of the
A. Z. T. More than half a million
doughnuts and approximately $4,000
pies have come from their kitchens
and gone to stay the hunger and
inconsistencies of Uncle Sans fighting
men. And during all Of the multitude
nous culinary activities connected with
the manufacture Of this vast quantity
Of soldiers delights, carried on in dug
outs, in abandoned and half destroyed
buildings under conditions that would
have broken the heart of many a prim
housewife, they lodged German shells
and bullets and bombs, they were
with decorations and citations and
compliments from two Governments
and some of the most distinguished
soldiers Of the allied armies. Just as
a small measure of proof that the Nc
Intyre sisters deserve their reputation
and by the way, they've been
adopted as sisters by the doughboys Of
half a dozen combat divisions-here
are a few OF the things that happened
10 them:
Recomm nded for the ID. 9. @.
They we're cited by the Major Gen
eral commanding the Twenty-sixth
Division. the citation was read at a
divisional review at Camp Devens and
they we're personally invited by the
General to march in the divisions
Homecoming parade in Boston.
They have been recommended by
Gen. John j. Pershing for the Distin-
guished Service Cross - the only
women so honored
They have received letter of graft
tude from Marshal Joffre over his own
signature and on his own stationery.
They have received from Marshal
Ferdinand Foch a personal message OF
thanks for their work.
Generals and Colonels galore have
written them thanking them for what
they did to maintain the morale of the
troops TO which they were assigned.
They were in the midst of the battle
OF Seicheprey. not more than a mile
In front of the Germans at their point
Of furthest advance.
They lost their hut and all their pie
and doughnut dough by the explosion
Of German shell, so they went for
ward to a field dressing station and
helped the surgeons there take care
o. the wounded.
They stood in the doorway OF
house in the village of Ansauville. in
'He ToUl sector. and saw their kitchen
bown 10 pieces and seven men killed.
Irene Twice Gassed.
'rene was gassed twice, once in the
Argonne and once in Seicheprey.
They ran from their hut to escape
German bombardment, and came
back 10 find their pie dough filled with
shrapnel
Ihey remained in a, village in the
loul sector after the Germans had
compelled its evacuation by the Amer
lean infantry.
They persuaded some American Of
neerS 10 take them to the front
trenches in a quiet sector. and then
slipped out into No Mans Land and
picked some flowers.
\ shell struck just outside their
billet smashing all the windows,