The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-05

Al. company, ITO strong, to capture
New York, to days when the make
shift calcium was turned low, thd
candle footlights Pickering and many
OF the actors finding other parts to
play. the boys knew they had bit Of
Broadway with them alvays-scenery
designed and painted by c. c. Beall
ami built by Harold Printz. Society
women like Mrs. Vanderbilt and Mrs.
Goelet collected funds for the portable
stuff TO set up in barns, while Lieut.
Joseph d. Eddy holds the purse
strings.
When the boys felt craving for the
White Light they went to their i'm
ported broadway to see Russ Brown
prance out and do everything except
dog and pony act" and Jimmy Fall
Ions black face act and Yiddish accent
stop the show. They even had silk
stockings -wagging "a mean set OF
tibia"-Bill Pauly, Eric krehs. EdGi.
Crawford and Danny Burns, and later
Walter Roberts. leading lady OF You
Know Me, Al" added his version OF
a Follies peach to the show. Harry
| Gribble was always a feature. Stan
Wood, as a venerable ham actor. had
all the men of the division imitatine
him. Jack Roche. Stan Hughes ana
sgd Marion were always there grace
ful and noisy. The jazz orchestra
transported you to Rectur's. There
was plenty of good singing. with
Unger. Mahoney and Johannes reach
ing for the tonsorial parlor chords.
and Corporal Van Zandt was "a star
| with his shell shocked" act, and Jim
! Morey had a load of trick hats and a
nut act which they never found out.
Friends of the Australians.
The men Of the Twenty seventh
quickly made friends with the Aus
| tralians. their companions later in
smashing the Hindenburg line. Those
rugged sons of the Antipo ses, who
when bored with old fashioned trench
life, used to go out and organize raids
on their own lines. found much that
was congenial to them in the Yanks
who used to catch them by the arm
and sling them over the biscuit dunn
in rib breaking game called SNAP
the whiR" Yet plain home ways
East Side and clubdom running true
to type.
! At the chateau I heard Gen. O'Ryar
tell this anecdote in Conversation
had no interview" to use quotation
marks. One night he sent Kincad VI
in front OF Mount KENNEL to report
how the rations We're getting to then
near Dickeybush Lake. There wa,
constant Smelling at night. for It wa,
then, anG. only then, that TRANSPORT,
could he moved up. The road cam,
under heavy shell fire. Many men am
animals were wounded, At one mo.
ment kncaid jumped into a shell hole
full Of water. When the shooting LEI
\ crouching figure on the edge helt
an immense wicker cage.
WHO are YOU" called the Judg,
Advocate, TN Hennessy of the Co..,
replied the other (the name is ficti
tous, because the boy, who died brave
~ four days later, was the son OF :
highly we'll known East Sider).
Heavens. man." exclaimed Kin
caid. have you not enough To LOOT
after without Juggling that big baske
with Won? What have YOU got in il -
Jaw, them's holds. Major" came tn,
answer. GTbey were carrier pigeons
who have to be taken up front Il
night and if not released must h,
taken back when the new bunch come
up nest night-because they mus
never be fed in front line. or the,
might get tendency not to leave i
when let loose with messages tied un
der their wings.l And that amt tn,
woist Of it, Major | hear theyr
going to give us dawgs'"
This, told the General. was at night
in a water hole. the boy hugging thu
basket. There had been n rumor tina
the pigeons were to be supplanteG b,
messenger dogs, and with all this mys
FERROUS regime of carrying back an,
forth for feeding he saw himscl
loaded up with bunch Of dogs in
basket
At this moment the general let him
self loose in praise. He told tho divi
sion that il had made n record
measurable only by the letter of com
incubation of the commander in chic
Of the British forces, which he pub
ished. They were lluded by Ha!r
Rawinson aud the Australian Gen
Monash on the spot; by King Georg
in commendatory orders, and by I.loy
George In Parliament and letter, An