The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-01-07
By Bersniee Smalley.

AT the corner OF Eighteenth street
and Sixth avenue, New York city, is
located The creates, military hospital
in America II /, Debarka,ion Hos
pital No. J, once the old Grcenhu,
department store, and the center oi
The ciy's shopping district.
Under the wise, tender guardianship
Of the Red Gross, II is now Comfort
able home with spacious corridors
and reception rooms and big flower.
filled wards II which are domiciled
some three thousand OF Uncle Sans
heroic wounded, recently returned
from overseas
These pajama and dressing gown
clad warriors hobble con'enledly
about or lie smilingly on their cory
cots, There arc graphaphoncs III
every ward and several in the reeep,.
lion rooms. There are billiard
tables, athletics. theatcr. lltrafy'
and best OF all, sun parlors and
real roof garden The culinary de
parlment is presided over by the best
chefs to be found N the city
Local Boy Found.
Scanning the list Of names in Ward
s. Floor 2, in scatch Of local men to,
city daily, nv eye was arrested
hy the following name: Private
John A. Mckay. Tooth regiment, TWEEN
,y-seyenth division, Oklahoma C''N
Okla.
Something iuRged at my heart.
strings "Nursc," | said, i didn't
know there was an Oklahoma man ~
the hospital, and its my home state J
And so il happened ,ha, a moment
later | stood, Nv Co, 6S, and the lad
from the great Sooner state smiled
up at me. 80
some one from Oklahoma" he sald.
"po you know its exactly six months
since | sailed for France, and Tor
nearly four months OF that time I've
been in bed with this blamed old knee.
Worse luck, too, for | missed lot
Of fun chasing the ferries from their
happy homes" ,
However. Private Mckay, az |
learned. did a good deal Of the chas-
ing. He was with the famous lwen-
tyeseventh division, which, together
with the equally famous Thirheth dl-
vision, stormed Mt. KENNEL, and,
in one Of the hloodiest battles OF the
war, drove the boches from the
trenehe, they had held for three years,
Shrapnel Hits Knee.
The drive started on August go
he said. and we tlankcd the Ger
mans on both sides. 1t was pretty
Niii fight. but we routed them out |
didn't get mine TIL the eleventh day
Of the advance Was hit in the knee
by ihrapncl IRON an exploding she'll
II cot i've OF us at the same time,
Y iumbled in his comior, kit
draSing forth a large piece OF shrap'
rel.
Here's the chap that did il. som,
beauty. isn't hei | am taking hin
back to my mother. Well, they car
RED me back to the dressing station
and it was sort OF hide and seel
game all the way. The shell fire wa,
so intense that the s,retcher bearers
had to drop me in she'll hole every
few steps and pile in after me"
"You know the boehes had q cut'
little way all their own OF carrying
machine gun on a suetcher covered
up to look like wounded man, anC
they got a good many Of our boys BY
that dirty trick. Believe me, the!
,re regular iiends At Flu. li,tl,
French town where VIC stayed a lev
days, saw some poor little kids will
their hands cut off by the Huns. The,
captured one of our own men, who's,
arm had been broken by shrapnel. ant
they didn't do thing bu, set it th'
wrong way. He escaped, and 60
back TO our lines and his arm haC
10 he broken again and reset
Mckay Given Egga
THE Belgians are fine people, ant
they were sure good to us. The,
didn't have enough to eat themselves
but what they had they wanted 4
share with us. | stayed all night will
q Belgian family, and they were il
bad shape, but the woman OF tn
house got " that morning early an,
made me some coiiee--and she didn'
have hardly any, either--and she frie,
me some of their precious eggs. Gee
but it just made me choke up, 70
they wouldn't take cent for it.
There aren't words enough for II
fellows TO tell what we feel about III
Red Cross. Why, IFS been a regula