The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-09
Bridgeport Kid Ellian
 Fought Huns and Fever
 But Can't Get His Job
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 Here he went on wood detail with seven other men from his company. They were obliged to pull a wagon, there being no horses. for II ktlome- ters, tIout l 0 miles from the AmerI- can camp then leaving the wagons on the roadside, they would chop wood, load the wagon and pull 1t back to camp.
 Tt was tough work" he says, "chopping wood all day practically in bare feet, for our barracks bags had been lost, and we did not get them again for two months. It rained so hard all the while that we could not build a fire and the corned Willie Ccorned beef) and coffee was always cold and tasteless. Our feet were in awful shape. The captain could get only twelve pair of shoes for the whole company and when one of us wanted to go out we used to borrow the top-sergeent's boots. Only one could go at a time. Guard duty on wet and muddy nights with nearly bare feet is tough.
 Tt seemed to rain all the while l was in France"
 After a while I volunteered with others to build barracks to be used by the Red Cross at Neuf Chateau. After some troublej we reached this spot and were put to work digging cesspoo,s and trenches and were worked from early morning to sun down and half day Sunday.
 Prom here I was transferred to 10th Field Hospital and was at once put to work on the coal pile. Next J IT q nd l and had to sleep with dtphtheria pa tients for four weeks
 1 When volunteers wc~n called for a 1 trench fever experiment by Col. Rev : ans, Surgeon of Division, I yolun- tteered and had to sign a contract to ] be under trench fever experiment for from four to six weeks.
 Then Christmas came. My first i Christmas I passed in the field hos pital and receiving packages from home made me believe it was a Glo- rious Christmas.
 sixty men were selected for the ! trench fever experiment and We were sent to @ British Field hospital near St. Pol"
 The experiment consisted in put l ting several boxes containing hun ] dreds of cooties on our wrists so that i they could bite us in order to find out whether the bite of the cootie 1 caused trench fever, this experiment | lasted II days and while l escaped l some of the boys caught the fever 1 Then they tried another experiment 1 They injected some of the blood ot those who had taken the fever into i those boys who had escaped anc 1 waited for seven days to see the -e. l suit
 While these experiments were go. l ing on the German airrnen and gun i ners began to bomb and shell tho | hospital camp.
 I and three friends had gone to St Pol to get something to eat, wheT
 shortly after o'clock a French pc | lice girl (there were no policemen 1 there) told us it was time for us tc
 return. The German bombing com
 menced before we left and we haC | an awful time crossing the fields oI
 our way back to the barracks,
 The Germans bombed the place st
 much that we were all sent to Pari'
 to continue the experiment.
 When near Paris our train was helC
 over night to allow repairs to th' 1 tracks which had been blown up b!
 the German shells.
 Paris looked good to us after tht
 mud holes we had been in. We were
 taken to the Red Cross hospital a i NieulIy Cur Seine, outside Paris. Ex
 periments continued for three months
 all of which I was food for cooties
 We used to call them our pets.
 I finally got the fever and was laiC
 up six weeks; then l was sent tt
 the convaIescent hospital at Plom
 biere and after recovery was detailed
 to the Military Police, and was ap
 pointed acting sergeant M. p. I di'
 not like this job. The other boys al ways look down on the M. P.s.
 While here I boxed a six-rou1d bou
 with the French lightweight Robyne ] and got the decision. It was at benefit for the French sick ant wounded and there were many off
 cers and French Generals present
 We were now transferred back [ , our companies and were sent to Yer
 dun, a trip that took fl days. Mos iof the time we has to stand up in tn , trains I was sent in as stretche , lbearer and then the Armistice wa. , signed. On December 20 I had a. re ' lapse and was laid up for some time - What I want now is to get back t work. I have been to the Grapho
 phone shop and the foreman says flo U me to keep in touch with him, bU . that he has no place for me at pres