The Caucasian., 1919-12-07
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,6awn in France; Of 5000 cups OF aol
snocolates OF Che Kitchen ear tha@ sup
plied the ehoco9ate5 Of sw@ Tuxedo
coats an9 ewo evening SUES an@ OF
"yncIe joe" writes owen Gonneg in
Che New Sork 69eraYa9
Ihe dawN 0as aoQ the giay sunrise
of Amer@a-is was the ghastly, gras:
grim break cs da0 Ct gas3Sefouled end
ishell-torn battlefeldB Che ahpcolats
asas the morning heartenee serveG &c
men on fheir way 90 gaaD death. gAe
kitchen car was one OF the proud SoS-
sessions of knights Of Columbus war
workers. "Uncle Joe" was and is 10
seph E. Herman Of utica, y. ", anC
the Argonne, a K. of O.. secretary OF
personal distinction and Of GRviable
record for service.
There is q new dawn in France, pink
and rosy now. Hot chocolate figures
largely in high cost Of living tables.
The kitchen car went down 90 ifs
doom on the glorious pathway opened
by the Americans to Sedan, but il
didn't fail until just at the very end
after it had done tits duty noble
s'Uncle Joe" is back in America, hale
and hearty, sixty years young patrol
ling the Bowery- looking fer and find
ing soldiers he met on the seethln2
rims of the cauldron Of enemy hate
over there. Oh. yes, by the way, the
two Tuxedo coats and the two evening
suits are here also.
Nicknamsd 'Uncie Joe."
He wasn't "Uncle Joe" until after he
bad gone to France. He loves the nick
tame, for it was given him by Ameri-
an soldiers-in fact he likes it better
than any pet name ever bestowed up
on him in the days he sparked the girls
at old-time dances. However, prom
ised not to tell about that.
Mr.. Herman is the son of Francis
Herman, once United States senator
from New York. He was appointed an
overseas secretary by the Knights Of,
Columbus in March, 1918. To him fell
the honor of establishing the first &.
Of G. hut in France, in May, 1913.
From the start the possibilities of sery-
ice of the kitchen ear appealed to his
Imagination and he couldn't be torn
away from the front where he had
chance to work for the soldiers with
the kitchen car as base Of opera
tions. After he had opened several Z.
of c. huts, he went to Paris, took pos
session Of kitchen car and went up
to Cherry with it. There the Seventy
seventh division was fighting and it
was thesmen of that division who nick
named him Uncle Joe" He insists
that full credit must be given to Fred
erick Bundscllau OF Louisville, KY,
and to Louis Lasage for the able and
devoted assistance given by them.
Here is his story as he tells it him
self:
"When I started for France I was
told there void be considerable EN-
tertaining' to be done on the other
side. realized very quickly, once
set foot in France, that the entertain
ing to be done was along entirely diff
ferent lines than those with which /
had left New York. For example,
started out with several trunks. One
of them held tv.o Tuxedo coats ami
two evening suits. On my arrival in
France promptly forgot all about
that trunk. 1t didn't ft in with the
scheme of tllings as ] saw it with my
own eyes. I'll tell you more about the
trunk later.
Gess Kitchen Car.
Immediately after landing went to
Baecarat, in the Luneville sector. With
me was Fred Bundschau Of Louisville,
a splendidly loyal and efficient man.
We opened a hut at Baccarat. Then I
went to Camp Devre, known correctly
as Mud camp
s'Some time later I went to Paris,
where / seized a K. G. kitchen car snd
carried it Off to the front at Cherry.
That was the thing to do your enter
tanning with and I'll tell the whole
wide world that a Tuxedo or an eve
ming coat would have been as funny
there as suit of oyeralls at the opera.
.sYou see the car began work at
dawn-in the summer that means four
o'clock IL France. We weren't allowed
to build fire before daylight-it
might have aided the enemy. We got
out OF our hunks. Fred Bundschau,
Louis Lasage and |, at little after
three, started the fires going as soon
as we could get permission and then
moved the car to point where the
men going out to the trenches and the
men coming back would pass each
other.
"Our greatest pride was that we
were able to serve and did serve 1900
cups Of hot chocolate there every
morning. besides giving out cigarettes
and other supplies to the soldiers.
And we kept it going, too, every day.
Hard to Get Sugar.
eThere were difficulties to be sur
mounted. The greatest of these was
to obtain our own supplies of choco-
late and sugar. Many times our trucks
could not get through because there