The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1919-08-09

of Laurel. Md. who was recently
discharged from service in the
American army after fighting for
three years in three different armies
in the air. is here together with w.
I. MCGOWAN. a broker from New
York City. as q guest of Eugene Davis
and will spend a few days in inves-
tigating the recent strike in the Eu-
reka-C roesus properties.
1t was the privilege of a SENTINEL
writer Wednesday night. who visited
the party to hear some thrilling and
hair raising stories of the mighty
struggle in the air before the Allied,
birdmen brought the naughty Hun
to his knees. The stories were re-
lated by Lieutenant Baldwin. The
part that Lieutenant Baldwin figured
in as a hero was related by MCGOWAN,
a life long friend and admirer of the
much feted ace. Baldwin very care
fully avoided mentioning any part
he played in the drama, but he was
constantly interrupted by his friend,
who is also a friend of Eddie Ricken-
hacker and Bill Thaw. and therefore
qualified tospeak, who told the crowd
when Baldwin omitted to, that the
aviator to whom Baldwin referred
in the third person usually was the
Lieutenant himself. And so from
the stories | heard l pieced together
a tale which to me is most interest
ing and l have set it down here
for the readers Of the SENTINEL, and
while / know that it will not be as
interesting as | heard it. / hope it
will give you some little idea of it all.
Utterly oblivious to the fact that
l was a newspaper reporter. Baldwin
talked where, had he known such of
these stories as | can remember
would be put in print, he would
have closed up like the proverbial
clam.
Just out Of Yale. heir to the
millionaire drug mans Charles
N. Crittenden) fortune and living
a life of luxury, he heard the
call of the wild early in 1916 and to-
gether with 48 other American boys
(only two of which ever came back
he paid his way to France and en-
listed in the French army. and five
days after he reached Paris he made
application for entrance into the
famous Lafayette Escadrille. 1t
took about three months to get the
papers through, so he jumped into
the fray az an ambulance driver and
rushed the broken and bleeding
Frenchmen back from the front at
Verdun when the Crown Prince
hurled his wave of hopeless grey at
the defenders Of the historic fort.
After the bloody defeat of the Ger
mans he transferred to the Lafayette
Escadrille and soon got his wings.
He trained with Raoul Lufberry.
VIM. Thaw. Victor Chapman and
many others whose names are dear
to the heart of every American
dough-boy who went over the top
under their protection. He saw his
first real battle over FORCES. in the
Verdun sector, and here brought
down his first Hun, and he admits
that he was a very badly frightened
warrior in this his first major en-
gagement with the willy Hun. A
few months Of scouting in a Spad
machine, during which time he
brought down four more Jerrys and
thus became an ace, the goal of every
aviator, and was decorated by the
French. receiving the Croix de
Guerre; he transferred to the first
American army which had just land
ed. and here. under the command of
Major LaGuardia of New York he
fought his first battle under the good
old stars and stripes. He was fight
commander Of squadron SO with Bill
Thaw over Toul. Here he saw them
shoot down and capture Capt. James
Norman Hall, who wrote Kitchen
er's Mob, and he witnessed here too
the death of Raoul Lufberry, Ameri-