New-York tribune., 1919-05-23

its rough woollen sock. Then he dis
appeared for time and whep he re-
turned ne had S14 worth of soft
leather shoes and So worth of silk
socks
Then over the protest of a swarm of
photographers York was taken to the
Waldorf barber shop. He resisted
everything but hair cut and shave.
thereby almost reducing the manicure
girls to tears.
Mothers Voice Again
After that it was dinner and then tho
telephone rang. Telephone operators
half way cross the continent had
Jugglcd cords and plugs until bell
had tlnkled IN tho general merchandise
store OF Il. c. Pile in Pail Mall. Mr..
Pile himself must have shouted the
summons across the winding hillside
road and brought to the wall teephone
IN the store Mrs. York, the mother of
the sergeant, and his seven brothers
and three sisters.
When Mr.. Kellogg called the SER
geant to the desk telephone in his
drawing room at the Waldorf last night
he shooed the members Of the reccn-
ton committee into an adjoining room
and, following them, closed the door
softly.
Fifteen minutes later the sergeant
opened the door. The telephone re-
ceiver was back on the hook. Pos
slbly telephone girl at some wire
junction had held a cam open while
mother and son exchanged love and
blessings, but none other had heard
Anyway, the sergeant didn't talk about
1T, but his grin was there beneath his
stubbly red moustacne. Reaching into
his hip pocket he said:
Look here. III show you what that
German battalion commander tried
to Kill me with"
Germans Automatic
He drew out Mauser automatic
pistol. 1t was wicked looking but only
about half the size of the As Colt au-
tomlatic. with which the sergeant had
dropped a German lieutenant and seven
men who came charging with fixed
bayonets down a hill to where York
squatted in the tangled grass of the
Argonne.
Got the lieutenant right through the
stomach" explained York. "He dropped,
screaming. Then | shot the others.
All of them screamed when they were
hit. Like pigs. They were only about
twenty yards away. ! couldn't miss"
Iork's blue eyes opened wide then,
and he said
81 was offered 500 francs for this
souvenir. A lot of officers kept bid
ding until they were ready to give me
that much for it,
Don't you part with it, SON." said Mr..
Kellog. Money don't mean a thing
to you. You're gonna have so much
that you can light your pipe with it if
that strikes your fancy.
$4,000 Tennessee Farm
"You're from Tennessee and Tonnes
see folks arc buying YOU $4,000
farm. Tennesseee folks are stocking
that farm with the best animals money
can buy New York Tennessee folks
have got $4,000 Victory note they're
going to give you, and | don't know
what all
And that reminds me we want to give
YOU reception in the ballroom at the
hotel tomorrow afternoon and in the
evening dinner. A thousand folks
have been invited, and son, Major Gen
eral George Duncan is coming to sit
next to YOU
General Duncan? Why. he com
manded my division, you know. the
SD, the allAmerican. If he's coming
III certainly be there. Now, what
theatre are we going to?'
Some time this morning Sergeant
York went to bed In fact, he went to
two beds, for because of his long legs
it struck his fancy to sleep oblquely
on the twin brass beds in his suite