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New Britain herald., 1919-07-29
SENATE RECEIVES
 FRANCO TREATY
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such action. The object of the spe- cial treaty with France which | now submit to you is to provide for imme- diate military assistance to France by the United States in case of any un- provoked move ment of aggression against her by Germany without wait ing for the advice of the council of the league of nations tEat such action will be taken. It is to be an arrange ment not independent of the league of nations, but under it.
 Must Be Considered Now.
 Ut is therefore, expressly provided that this treaty shall be made the subject of consideration at the same time with the treaty of peace with Germany; that this special arrange ment shall receive the approval of the coIncil of the league; and that this special pI<XisiCn for the safety of France shall remain in force only until, upon the application of one of the parties to it, the council of the league, acting, if necessary by d ma- Jorlty vote, shall agree that the pro- visions of the covenant of the league afford her sufficient protection.
 Allied With France.
 "0S I1loNou Io SlSu lHlS treaty by considerations which will, I hope seem as persuasive and as irresistible to you as they seemed to me. We are bound to France by ties of friendship which we have always regarded, and shall always regard, as peculiarly sa- cred. She assisted us to win our freedom as a nation. It is seriously to be doubted whether we could have if WifhOJt her liant and finn ly aid. We have recently had the privilege of assisting in driving the enenies who were also enemies of the world, from her soil but this does not pay our debt to her Nothing can pay such a debt. She now desires that we should promise to lend our great force to keep her safe against the power she had had most reason to fear. Another great nation volun- teers the same promise. It is one of the fine reVersalS of history that that other nation should be the very power from whom France fought to set us free. A new day has dawned Old antagonisms are forgotten. The com mon cause of freedom and enlighten- ment has created new cOmradeships and new perception of what it is wise and necessary for great nations to do to free the world of intolerable fear. Two governments who wish to be members of the league of nations ask leave of the council of the league to be permitted to go to the assist ance of a friend whose situation has been found to be one of peculiar peril without awaiting the advice of the league to act.
 Must Prove Friendship.
 ''It is by taking such pledges as this that we prove ourselves faithful to the utm ost to the high obligations of gratitude and tested friendship. Such an act as this seems to me one of the proofs that we are people that sees the true heart of duty and prefers honor to it's own separate course of peace.
 WOODROW WILSON,
 The White House,
 July 29. 1919
New Britain herald., 1919-07-29
NOTICE.

Sealed bids will be received by the Board of Fire Commissioners in con nection with proposed alterations to d building on Elm street, adjoining No. 2 Fire Station and now used by the Board of Public Works as a garage for mason, concrete, installation of fire proof windows and sashes, and other changes incident there to con- vert said buildings into fire proof structure for fire alarm headquarters
 Certified checks for ten 1O) per cent of amount of bid must accom- pany.
 Copies of specifications may be ob- tained from the chairman of the board of fire commissioners, No. Fl Church street.
 Bids must be in the hands of the clerk of the board of fire commission CTS not later than D. m. August 12, 1919, and bidders are invited to be present at the opening at the Fire Commission office, city hall, at the hour and date appointed All bids must be sealed.
 Bids shall be subject to approval of contract by the Common Council at it's meeting August 20, 1919. The Board of Fire Commissioner reserves the right to reject any or all bids. BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS,
 A. E. Magnell, Chairman.
New Britain herald., 1919-07-29
SERGEANT EEFE HOME.
Local Lawyer With 1O2d Regiment
 Saw Much Action in France.

Daniel F. OK eefe, wi1o at the time Of the declaration of var on imperial Germany by the United States gov crnment was a practicing lawyer, has returned on a furlough to his home on Clark street, after about two years service in France. Sergeant OK eefe enlisted in Co. I and went overseas with the 18th Division. He saw ac- ton at Chemin -des- Danes, Seiche- prey, Toul sector, Chateau-Thierry, St. M1hlel and in the Argonne.
 He escaped unscathed from wounds in these big fights, only to fall a vic- tim to illness which confined in a hospital for several weeks. On his release he was assigned to another unit While pursuing his duties, he was struck in the left eye with a piece of steel ahd the cyelid was cut in two. He is 9till suffering from the injury. and is under medical care. The surgeons in eHarge of his case are hopeful of reh horing the eve, so that the vision whSch is now impaired may be completely restored He is sta toned at Camp Merritt, N. J.
New Britain herald., 1919-07-29
WANT TO GlET FAT.
Boys Taking Keen Interest in Self
 Development at Milk Station.

Two boys arrived at the milk sta ton one of the hot days last week to be weighed. One had lost and the other remained the same as when weighed the week before. The one who had lost did not understand why as he had been eating regularly and a good deal at each meal. He was very active in games and had no rest dur ing the day.
 Finding out that milk would help to make him gain, he decided to be- gin right away, so the other boy and he bought one and onc-halt quarts of milk with their own money and each had three glasses of milk.
 Milk and a rest each day are going to help these boys and each week they are coming to the milk station to be weighed.
New Britain herald., 1919-07-29
Advises Ordinary Buttermilk for Wrinkles and Enlarged Pores
This Good Looking Young Woman \ Advises Old Time Recipe of But ternilIl Cream in,n New WaN-N Gentle Massage With Fingers Before Retiring All That
 Is Necessary.

The old-timc application of Butter milk and Cream to Whiteu and pre- serve the skin and remove harsh little wrinkles and ugly salloWneSS in grand mothers recipe and women through out the country are again using it to ensure a beautiful complexion and Snow-WhitC hands and arms.
 Buttermilk, however. is not always "Ltainable, but d specialist has Nt last perfected a method of concentrating anttermilk and combining it with d &erfect cream, which you can buy in small quantities ready to use at any lrst class drug store by simply ask Ing for 'Howard's' Buttermilk Cream.
 No matter whether you are troubled with wrinkles, hard little lines around the mouth and eyes, coarse, sallOW, faded looking skin, or simply rough ness and redness caused by wind and sun, you will find that all these trials
New Britain herald., 1919-07-29

Mrs. Leslie Wells of New Castle Delaware, is spending a two weeks visit with Mir. and Mrs. J. Christingel of Greenwood street.
New Britain herald., 1919-07-29
CITY ITEMS.
. Try new Luncheonette, Crowell's.-

Try new Luncheonette, Crowelrs.- advt.
 A permit has been granted by Building Inspector Arthur N. Ruther- ford to $. DrOuzck to construct d cot tage on McClintock road at an csi- mated cost of $5,900
 A case of diphthersa on Union street was reported. to the board of health this morning. At the present time there are but two cases of. scarlet fever and two cases of diphtheria in the city.
 Charles Milish and AIinna Miiish have transferred property at the cor ner of North and Main streets to Carl Huber.
 A meeting of the teachers commit tee of the school board will be held at o'clock this evening in the office of Superintendent of Schools Stanley H. Holmes.
 Many autoists arc getting a tube free at RaCkliffc Bros. Co.,, this week. Better get in on it.-advt.
 Unity Rebekah lodge will hold a picnic tomorrow afternoon at the home of Mrs. Alma Johnson, A Will Hams street. Those going will bring their own lunch and take the 2:30 trolley.
 Miss Margaret McMahon has ac- cepted a position with the Curran Dry Goods company.
 Try new Luncheonette, Crowell ls.- advt.
 The three brick blocks on Beaver street, owned by Wascowitz and Mil Ter, were transferred today to Joseph Lotire through the agency of H. Day ton Humphrey.
 Kennedys dance tonight.-advt.
 H. Dayton Humphrey has sold one of the houses on Emmons Place be- longing to Geo. B. Norton, to Grace l. Smith.
 William Mclaughlin will resume his duties with McNamara Bros, after an illness of six months at WatertoWn, N. Y.
 Corbin Spears of Harrison street en- tertained Miss Mueller's kindergarten class this morning in honor of his seV- enth birthday.
New Britain herald., 1919-07-29
GIRLS TO PLAY BALD.

The Stanley Works girls baseball team will play the team of the New Britain Machine Office force tonight at St. Mary's playground. The game promises to be a fast one as the Machine shop team has improved considerably in the past week as a result of regular practice The Stan ley Works nine was one of the first in the field and is strong aggrega- ton.
New Britain herald., 1919-07-29
CORP. BERGERON HOME.

Corporal George Bergeron of Law
 Tor street has been discharged from the army and is at his home. Der geron served in France over 17 months with the 1S5th aero squadron in which unit he enlisted while he was employed at the American GraphO- phone works in Bridgeport. The To- cal soldier returned to the country after serving overseas about a month
New Britain herald., 1919-07-29
BAKERS TO MEET.

A delegation of local bakers went to Bristol today to induce the trad esmen of that city to become affiliated with the newly former bakers association of the chamber of commerce. The meeting of the association will be hetS tomorrow night and at that time a re- port of the committee on bylaws will be read, thus completing the organiZa- ton. A speaker will be on hand to address the meeting.
New Britain herald., 1919-07-29

 street, have returned from Oak Bluffs.
 Miss Jennie Swanson of Bassett street is entertaining as her guest Miss Winnie Nogel of New London.
 Mrs. Leslie Wells of New Castle Delaware, is spending a two weeks visit with MT. and Mrs. J. Christin ger of Greenwood street.
 Mrs. Stephen Mcbride of Reini- beck, N. Y. is visiting with her mother Mrs. B. C. Boyle of Stanley street.
 Harry Minor has returned after spending a few days with his parents at Manchester.
 Thomas Drscol of Stanley street., who has been spending a weeks va cation at Indian Neck, has returned to his home.
 MT. and Mrs. John A. Andrews ahd daughters Irene and Ruby will leaJve Saturday for Camp Kinipic, Me where they will visit John Andrews Jr., who has been at camp for abo out /. month. They will be gone abd du two weeks.
 trs' MT. and Mrs. Thomas Murray To- Hartford are visiting in this city.
 Loren Bancroft returned to work "a the Corbin Screw office this morning l after a two weeks vacation. Miss Madge Macarroll is on two 1 weeks vacation at Pleasant View l R. I. | Miss Mildred Hubert is spending l the week at Indian Neck
New Britain herald., 1919-07-29

Miss Jennie Swanson of Basset street is entertaining as her gues Miss Winnie Nogel of New London
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lines. We sure had a good outfit here
and a fellow could learn most any
thing in the way of war engineering.
But we are mighty glad that it is
all over for it is not what you would
call pleasant business training good
looking men to take the places left by
some fellows who have been bumped
off or who are crippled up so that they
won't be able to come back to their
outfit on the lines.
About the first of October our COM
pany here commenced to train officers
and this is second school. We do
not know whether they will grant
these candidates here commissions or
not. We have from sixty to a hundred
at school. These are to be officers in
the Services of Supply and are not
combatant officers | have a good
place to sleep and we do not go hun
cry and l have not toted a gun since
the first of August and | hear that
when they send us back that they will
take the rifles away from us We
may be allowed to keep our gas masks
and IL we do | will let you try mine
out to see what the fellows went thru
up on the line for hours at a stretch.
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classified us and did nothing much
until Monday morning when they
commenced rookie drill. The first
week we drilled about four hours a
day, learned to tie knots, had gas drill
and listened to lectures and so on.
They kept us busy from six in the
morning until six at night. The fol-
lowing week there was less drill but
instead training in bayonet fighting,
musketry, gas defense, building barb
| ed wire entanglements, trenches and
| revetments and so n. q fellow
bumped right along and got all the
soldering that he wanted. After |
had been here some days they called
me outs of ranks and asked me If I
| cared to work in the Orderly Room
and ] was glad to do il so as to rest
up and l have been here ever since.
| had considerable to do and later they
got i'm more clerks so that it was CON-
paratively easy and to tell the truth
I have been riding on the world here
in this war. All the fellows nearly
| that came over with me went up as
requirements to different outfits.
When a company or regiment OF En-
gineers loses so many men they put
In an order for so many requirements
and 1t was our business to furnish the
requirements. We got in a new lot
of men every month and handled some
five thousand or more each month.
When a nan is or was wounded he
went to the hospital and when he got
well he was classified and IL all right
he was sent here and from here back
to his original outfit to start over
again. IL he was wounded again and
came out all right he vent up again.
If he was not fit for front line work he
did work back in the rear and we were
beginning to get a number OF them.
Our officers gradually were transfer
red out to the front or other regiments
and about the first OF November our
Colonel in command here left us and
went up to the Second U S. Engineers
and I guess that he is still up there.
II the war had gone on we expected
that we would get up to the front in
the Spring. No n is anxious to go
to the front in the winter time for she
is a ripper, all mud and rain. wet
clothes and so on.
We have had a very quiet and I'M
interesting part here in the war but
we have the best training regiment in
France according to the high ones.
and the regiment has spread out so
that II had some two thousand men
permanently stationed here. The reg
iment did so we'll as a training regi-
ment that the Colonel could not get
them to let him take 1t up onto the
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thrown off they said though there
were some that said it was a sub.
There was one evening when w were
some two days off from France that
some of us wondered what might hap
pen for they ordered us all to sleep
with our clothes on so that we could
| slip out easy and keep our floating
, apparatus on. Nothing happened
! though the sea was quite rough on the
/ 25th and we had no desire to get into
/ IL. When the waves are as high as
| your house and they are not consid-
cred very big at that you hope you
will not get into them. Our engine
, gave us trouble and we set dead still
| one night for some five or six hours,
| and again we ploughed along on one
cylinder il seemed for a day and all
| the convoy vent off and left us. Fin
| ally we got fixed up and pushed along
and came in ahead Of some of the
! boats. We did not see the convoy
! again for part of the ships went to
England and some went to other ports
in France.
On the morning we felt we were
coming nearer land and in the fore
noon airplanes and observation bal
looms came out over us and some
; small boats came out to show us the
way in to the harbor at 81. Naizaire.
We put down the anchor about six
in the evening and got up early on the
2Sth and we're landed about ten
o'clock. We marched up to a camp
where we got something to eat later
on i'm the day and washed up and rest
ed. We got our money changed at the
Y NJ. C. A. but were not allowed out
side the camp. In a day or SO went
to work on a muster roll and worked
thereon until the third of July. The
other fellows in the company were
divided into two groups and one work
eu udyS anu thS AZ hibhso
ing the boats. We were not overly
fed at the camp so the fellows that
unloaded canned goods aimed to bring
home some of the goods. On the
Fourth / went out with a detail to
work. We unloaded salt pork from
freight cars all day into a warehouse.
I did what l considered my share OF
work and then was not very conspic-
uous after that. We got back to camp
in the evening and the next morning
pulled out on the train. we knew not
where. We had some three days ra-
lions and in the afternoon arrived.
This was. the largest number Of men
that had come to this camp for they
had the band out to meet us and so
we landed here In Anglers. This. was a
regular military camp and here they
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That gas was a terror e%specisIIv tho
mustard and the phosdene.
should liked to have seen the front
but for a steady diet, it is not the thing
| Judge from what the fellows tell.
However if n Is told to go up there
he usually goes and trusts that he will
get out all right. But war is a terror
and when these doggone writers in
some of the magazines tell about this
and that and wind up with a climax,
This is war. you know they write
a bunch of sentimental rot and that
some Of them never saw a gun.
We do not know when we are to get
out of here but we think that we will
be on the way in a couple of months
and home in March or April. | shall
write again soon but we are glad that
they will get us home ere long and we
are darned lucky to get home at all.
Sincerely yours,
Corp. Stewart n. Bottum,
Co "F", 18th Engineers,
American F.. F..
France, Dec. Is, 1918.
u. S. Army A. E. F.
Dear Mrs, Theron Blake:
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besides a cruiser and a couple of chas-
ers.
| wish that you could have seer
those ships as they steamed along.
They were about a quarter of a mile
apart and while they changed places
often they kept that distance. They
did not string out but went in a body.
Shortly after we had been out we
commenced to zig gag, sailing some
five or seven minutes in one direction
and then swerving in another direc-
ton. and they kept it up all the way
across. We were assigned to RATS
twelve men to a raft on which was
strapped food and every man carried
a canteen full of water. When the
bells rang every nan made for his
raft no matter when 1t happened and
we had one and two drills a day. The
siren was a signal for every one to get
TO his raft and be ready to go over.
They used to test the siren to be sure
IL would blow and of all the weird
sounds that would send the chills up
your back, that had them all beat.
The sea was as smooth as a floor for
all the time except for a day and two
nights when we hit the Bay of Biscay.
Very few OF us got sick and / only
felt dizzy for a day or so. Every
morning they got us up at four and
had us stand by our raft for the dawn
was a good time for submarines as
well as the dusk in the evening. The
mornings we're rather chilly but we
sat round and dozed till six when it
was daylight. Then those that did not
have any special work to do crawled
into their hunks for an hours sleep
for breakfast was at seven. After
eight we had to stay on deck till elev-
EN- thirty when we had dinner, on the
deck again from one till five then sup
per and then on deck for the evening
until eight when all had to go below.
They took all our matches away from
us and we could not smoke after sun
down or before sunrise. During the
day the decks were so crowded with
men that one could hardly find a place
to sit or lay down. We read some,
smoked some and wondered when we
would get across. We got some news
Of things in the States and Europe by
wireless.
The days rolled along, and we zig
Jagged along at about fourteen knots
per hour they told us. There was a
destroyer as / said that kept up with
US and the boats signalled continually
IL seemed with flags and lights. There
was nothing Of any consequences that
happened though the guns shot a few
rounds NE night at a target that was
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LETTERS FROM
HAND CO. BOYS
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was / o take us to Hoboken where the
transport lay. After some two hours
march we arrived at the ferry and
some three thousand Of us got on. We
went down the river and about nine
came to the docks at Hoboken. Here
we unloaded and waited in the ware
house or dock for them to load us.
Here the Red Cross ladies gave us a
roll and a cup Of coffee and we raided
a bakery wagon that had a load OF
bread so W. felt better
About eleven they marched IL on
the boat and checked us of. You
should have seen that boat, the Kroon
land, a sister ship to the Finland that
was torpedoed about a year g but
which did not sink. they were over
hauling II and things o pretty well
scattered around. They had fitted up
a lower deck with hunks. three on top
OF each other and there they marched
us. There we're no port holes for 1t
was below the water line. My first
thought was, why am l Acre In such
a place for my bunk was in a back
corner some distance from the hatch
way. We went to dinner and soon
after they moved US up a deck. ! got
a lower bunk ear the ~hatchway and
right under the top sergeant. ! figur-
ed that II anything happened ] would
be about the third man out IL neces-
sary and there I slept on the trip with
little worry except for a couple of
hours one night when we neared
France.
Friday night was our first night on
the boat and I worked till five in the
morning checking hunks with RATS so
that every man would have a place on
a raft II we went to sea that way. We
lay in the docks that night and on the
dot at noon Saturday, June 18th, we
weighted u anchor and were of.
We sailed by the Statue Of Liberty and
I think that every fellow wondered
II ne would yer see her again. There
were about four thousand men abroad
besides the crew. An aeroplane went
with us for a time. We went below
and that evening or afternoon every
mar put on a life belt that he had to
wear day and night. We slept In our
clothes all the way across. The next
morning when we came on deck. we
had reached the convoy and there
were thirteen transports of soldiers.