The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-05-18
orR FIRST WINTER

ppa 'an .., severe season in two de-
cades. t..,, soor IN no
TO- ,,o,, the biased hard -boi H.
"a buck standpoint, ! pareiy
"a 'I he preceding description oil
an, nike. on lts grim features hu'
,,,ct sketch ot the history OF the
i,.,or. n.n the pen OF an oiiicer
,n. sam Infantry brigade. de
- u.t the kilometres through
oo,ss,s, Hr division struggled that
N,.- med the most Rruellins
.,.,r.. through which the diVls-
,,.,rj Ia It's entire adventures
N the great war.
=" ,.A,r8tna.v. after the -Recond
80 NJ f.4 march. after we had
p"rhsd our destination, the priva
49,, t,g, endured claimed rev
o,s w. ,,r,p,rary victims from the
,,,spy Who spent the rest OF their
a., viu.,~ abroad comfortably
..,o,ccl n base hospitals in Ian
s,o. mr. In ChaumonL Thanks to the
..,'ye s,r.eEih Of their constitu-
don and lo good care. al OF them
[ Of our company pulled through. ana
4 rejoined us laIer u a..
A. our billet in Rolampont. the
r.t OF US nursed frost bitten feet.
.,d our drivers took up regular
,rr. daily with their ambulances
.monr other units OF the division
,nd otherwise made ourselves COM
fot,abo as best we might
Fuel distribution to troops had not
x~t hegtin. and we had an arrange
r,nt with the French government
yh.reby our fuel wagons went daily
INTO the forests nearby and details
from the troops cut our IRE wood
undsr tho supervision OF native
forerers Here we gained full reall-
,atlon Of tho value which tho
French placed on their forests. Every
tree, every sapiing. had It's number.
a did every bit OF fallen timber and
And brush pile. And II we greedily
tried TO sneak an extra foot or two
o, wood into our trucks. the lynx
eyed Inspector was certain TO dis
cover the attempt and force us TO
rive up tho precious timber. How
ever wo got enough each day to
keep fire. In the three small stoves
Of our long barracks and also enough
for the kitchens. We were far less
uncomfortable than We had been
during the Christmastide back at
the leaky structures in frosty Saint
Bin
our recovery from our first hik-
!ng experience was hastcned by the
constant and plenteous arrival OF
beAted Christmas mail. especially
the l0nged for boxes. which came
intermittently as long as we were in
the town, up to the middle OF Febru-
/ ary These were passed around
amongst the whole company in the
spirit OF comradeship which has al
ways prevailed TO a marked degree
among the ambulancers.
Our ambulance drivers, mean
while, were having strange and VA
red experiences with their "hoopies.
First Of all there was no place where
parts could be obtained 70 replace
those broken or lost. And so II was
not long until the little Fords be-
came ramshackle bundles OF junk. |
which required Incredible engineer
ihg skill and reckless daring to ma
neuyre Most OF them lost the use |
OF their brakes. n few ran habitually |
z one or two cylinders, and two or
ftree would 20 in no speed but high.
And we soon ran out OF mud-chains. |
was n real adventure to 20 with |
driver IN answer TO a call twenty |
hometers distant on the roads
which were by this time frozen solid |
and rutted into CLASSY groves. 1t
was breathleN journey of skid. |
Jump vheeze, dodge and jerk-withi
slmost universally a lucky termina-
uoh--unless some officious officer |
WIN court martial bee spied some
preach OF road regulations. Then
Nhd this unfortunately happened
many umes) II was ''two-thirds of
n'ee months for the hhpless herder
oi ne hoople ambulance.
Ine first real nllsadventure oc-
esred one slippery day In Rolam-
you' When driver Harry Millstead,
going round a slow moving truck
on ue main street, struck and killed
sn aged Frenchman, who IT was
hfr brought out was totally deaf
nu PATTY blind. The accident was
Unavoidable.
,pYFer Fay VI Ham followed soon
et yt with second curious accident
ttgu.ar route lay partly through
part OF tho country that formerly
.l peen used by French soldiery
prarice ground OF trench tac-
AND part OF the trench sys-
" included a tunnel under the road
,ne'euy TWO important sections were
Hwe',eu' ", Nf late months this tun.
nAd been croded seriously by fall
N unit. IL barely was able 10
sPPoft tho weight OF an automo.
w iHis particular day there
nav and when Ham dyoye
IVY acr' This tunnel, (not know.
a., lts proSenceD he was aston
, w,., W ''"I 'ho nose OF his car take
'"Ient dip downward, whereupon
N. nn.e car sank down through
a. m,un'o offhe road. IT was load
nm nAueniS AT the time, All
top.,h hNt"'E eNtricated and nearby
,nbni"u'' aided in rcscuinE the
"k IN imn we were Ieadip,
n,i, NV course there was the
hady, ,eNc''' IN the snow. but we
ec",Inlp h'o'' Then .there were
To-. 'spcc'lons but prenara-
.on. 'or '.v'n became au,omatic
nm, Ana no mercifnI SNOW had
,,s,,u cnl n the irksome s,reet.
!, Ing aus that had done murh
eoulsurs o"' ot NE IN van
., N. '"taH shortly after the firat
i.nsiys 'gE itls, however. our in.
fton, Preparation for life AZ tho
rrlv., pur helmets. "tn derbles"
v wa. VA ana were issued to us and
masks ''" lule French face gas
bira'o-.a ana ne big French hoy nes-
In ds,s. We began 10 get schoolInr
'ars $3.50 measures OF gas war.
'hat b,, b' . p. NJ m" first aid methods
sinpIna noon adopted from tho be
.sx,rs o' mo war, splintInr han