Daily Kennebec journal., 1919-04-30

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FOR VICTORY LOAN
The opening day Of the Victory
loan campaign Tuesday proved ~ %
a most gala one in the city OF Water
willie, for not only did the drive open
but Waterville citizens were fortu-
nate enough to have the visit Of the
war exhibit train and the two whip
pet tanks, "Rummy" and "MidEe."
on exhibition in the vicinity Of the
Maine Central station. Early Tues
day morning the tanks made their
first appearance on the street, being
accompanied by one of the Lombard
traction engines, and located for a
greater part of the day on the
Common. where they were looked
over py hundreds Of spectators DUR
ing the day.
Waterville should be doubly proud
OF the fact that it may claim the dis
tinction of being the father city OF
these tanks. On 4 large conspicuous
sign on the tractor Of the Lombard
Company was written the following
words: "Waterville. Maine. The home
Of the original invention Of the end
less lag belt type OF traction which
made possible the tank which figur.
ed 50 largely in winning the war. In
vented. manufactured and used in
IN ivS Do
1901, by A. o. Lombard Of this city.
Other patents for improvements in
May, 1907; June. 1903: July. 1907. and
May. 1918. Lombard Traction Engine
Company"
At 3.20 parade was formed at the
Common. consisting Of Co. G. 3rd
Maine: Waterville Military Band.
the two whippet tanks. Lomnatn
Traction engine and citizens Of Wa
terville. The parade was marshalled
by Edgar J. Brown and George D.
Hegarty. Some Of the local patrol
men with Deputy marshal Lessor,
did police duty during the day.
In spite Of the most unfavorable
weather. hundreds Of citizens and
numerous automobiles and teams
wer eat the station long before the
arrival of the war exhibit train from
Augusta The tanks were viewed
closely by cities and explained thor
oughly by the men who accompa-
MED them. The men in the tank par
ty consisted Of Sergeant Ed. Cain.
Sergeant w. C. Brown. CORPORAL Earl
Hill and Private Jasper Dau9ler. The
men are making tour through the
New England states with the tanks
and there are u Of them in all.
During the conversation with
Sergt. Cain and Prvt. Daugler, after
explaining the tank fully to the Jour-
nal representative. Sergt. Cain in a
very polite manner said. NOW II
you would like to know a little more
about the tank, we would be glad
to give you a ride down street, and
you may see for yourself" OF course
the representative would not let
chance like that go by, and accepted
the invitation. At the station. Prvt
Daugler with his guest. started down
College avenue. and it was certainly
quite different ride from in an
ordinary automobile. First, the quar-
ters were not very spacious. and
once in there, one could hardly see
their escape. Nevertheless, the ride
to the Elmwood hotel was a most
enjoyable one. for it is not every day
that one has the opportunity Of rid
ing in "Rummy" down College ave.
nue. to Hotel Elmwood.
The tanks will remain in the city
during the day Wednesday and prob
ably until Thursday. although the
! men in charge announced that they
: possibly might leave the city on
. Wednesday night.
At the arrival Of the train the
band commenced playing, and as
soon as the train was brought to a
standstill campaigners on board the
train spoke in behalf of the coming
Victory Loan drive. and urged every
last opportunity. Thus far the train
| has visited over 125 towns and cities
which have gone over the top. and
several others that will go over
shortly. Nearly $4,000 people have
been through the train. The war
exhibit train has been through
Brunswick. Richmond, Augusta, Wa
terville and left Tuesday afternoon
for Fairfield. 1t is expected to be
in Maine until after May 9. Last
week it was in Vermont and there
| every city and town have gone way
| over the top in the loan. Over 1000
persons passed through the train on
Tuesday in this city and had the
weather been more favorable there
| would have been triple that amount.
The war exhibit train was made up
of six cars, four of them being filled
! with war trophies. For years peo-
J pie have read the various articles
pertaining to the war. and for the
first time Tuesday the majority Of
people in tn. city and vicinity had
! their first opportunity of seeing the
! real things. Among the exhibits
were: French mortars, French am
munition carriages, cartridges. cais-
sons. camouflaged French Is gun,
German n gun. SS gun. airplane
bombs, aerial barnards. German,
American. English. French and Aus
trian rifles. also German English and
French bayonets. sabres and hand
grenades. grenade-throwing ma
chimes. machine guns. American he'll
NETS. English. American and German
gas masks, liquid fame thrower,
German machine guns, French ma
chine guns several American Lewis
!, machine guns. Browning automatic
rifles. United States cavalry equip