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El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-02-17
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El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-02-17
M A Y A G U E Z

El joven Juan Bautista Soto La
torre empleado en- La Escuela Re
fermatoria de esta eiudad, tomara
possession como sChief Clerk" en- las
oficinas del Departamento del Ira
bajo.
| Sc ehcuentra, enfermo un nj
10 del senior Jose Gonzalez Gle,
mente; ell senior Alfonso Valdes,
miembro del Parlamento insular,
tambien esta enfermo.
Que ambos restablezcan la ma
yor brevedad.
zContinnan los trabajos de la
demolici6n de. La iglesia catolica y
la Comision encargada de recolecr
tar fondos merece aplausos por su
rapida labor.
En- el Registro Civil Sc han
inscritos las defunciones de Isabel
Acevcdo, Ramona Cuebas, Victo-
riana Barbosa, Gertrudis CANA
cho, Rosendo Alvarez, Luis Fran
cisco Oliyencia, Marcelino Rodri:
guez, Cruz Rodriguez, Rogelio vi
llafana, Francisco Rabal, Ramon
Morales, Antonio Anil Negroni,
Edermira Morales, Pedro Sardl y
Nataleon Morales, Luciano Santa
go, V los nacimientos de Juana
Confesora Soto Torres, Francisco
Javier Falto, Josefa Mercader
Bonilla, Gloria Alicia Guerra y
Aponte, Raul Martinez y Gonza
lcz.
La distinguida DANA seIolT
Blanca Malaret de Saliva. dignH
presidenta de La Rama Local de Ia
Cruz Roja en- esta ciudad, ha em-
Garcado para el puerto de San
Juan en- Ell vapor ''Brazos", y Va
estados Unidos con la mission de
representa- al Capftulo de Puerto
Rico, en- las Conferencias del ms
tituto de las secciones del Servicio
del Hogar en- Washington.
Sc nos informa que la designa-
cion de esta DANA para esa impor
tante representation, obedece a los
esplendidos y brillantes servicios
prestados la Institution mientras
estuvo al frente del Comite de Ma
yaguez ! Ia eficiencia demostrada
durante la epidemia la 'nfuen-
"a" Y de los terremotos.
I'll Capitulo de la Cruz Roia
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-02-17


meses.
Los mencionados pescadores Sc
apresuraron dar cuenta Ia po-
licia, llevando consigo el fcso uue
estaba en- parte roido por los pc
.ces.
La policia puso el case Ell como
cimiento. del Hon. Fiscal de Distri
to, quien procedio la investiga-
cion correspondence.
Corf'esponsal.
13-2-19.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-02-17

Sc GRATIFICARA a la pefso-
ma que enrregue en- esta Redacci6n
un portamonedas conteniendo una
cantidad de dinero que Sc extravi6
en- uno de los carros electricos del
Condado, el 5 del corriente por la
tarde. (Ady.)
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-02-17

Americana esta dignamente repre-
sentado y esperamos que la dis
tinguida DANA salga airosa de su
delicada mission.
Lleve feliz yiaje-
13-2-19.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-30
"Neuer a Catholic Regiment,
But More Catholic Than Irish"

"The Goth Regiment was never a
Catholic regiment and never had any
religious test, but, as a matter of fact,
as the years have run on it had be-
come IN numbers more of Catholic
regiment than an Irish regiment that
IS. larger percentage Of those who
professed the ancient faith than of
those who belonged to the ancient race.
Recruiting was done from the Catholic
clubs. and from the Catholic clubs you
got lot Of Dietzes, Derigulos and
Angeles and lot of fellows who are
Irish by adoption or association or
conviction.
Colonel Bingham says he is Irish
and Wilton Wharton sticks his chest
out and says he is Irish, and Alex
ander Anderson. the lieutenant colonel
swcars he is Irish, and to prove it TO
me he introduces the Duffys, and |
can't say anything, and Archibald
Skeets and George Van Pclt and Ilar-
old Van Benscooten, they arc all Irish.
~ think if you found out the names
which are called the distaF side. which
IS the dominant side in most families,
you would find out why they can hon
estly claim to be Irish. The fighting
blood comes through the mother.
"One of the most striking things that
| can properly say to this audience as
matter of interest TO them, and one
OF the most striking things about this
regiment. has been its religious life,
and the external religious life has been
domlnantly Catholic partly ON account
of the men, and partly on account Of
the sacramental nature and saerilicnl
nature Of The Church's worship. They
filed every church in France. They
gave money and collections to the old
French abbcys and made them weep
when the order came for us to go
"They take up the collection over
there in the silliest little things that
are so small they are an invitation to
parsimony; and when they came around
to me took my tin hat and said, "Take
that and get good collection in it,"
The whole congrcg cation would crowd
around and count the collection and
they would all utter spasms of ad
nliration when they were through with
1T; and believe in those regious every
last one of them will be clamoring to
come to the United States and become
mlIllonaires like the soldiers, as soon
as the war is over
New-York tribune., 1919-04-30
''Mosf Of Our Soldiers
Come From TtU0 Classes

at was a New York regiment and
just as definitely and clearly an Irish
regiment.
I'm fact, there has been even in this
campaign surprising number of ma
tive born Irish who were volunteers in
the Goth Regiment, and large number
of those, as l know by personal know-
edge, are men who have left Ireland
since 1914 to avoid conscripton in the
British army, and, having come out
here have attached themselves jmme-
gone over to fight in exactly the same
war, but under a different flag.
81 think our officers agree that most
OF our soldiers come from two classes;
first and foremost are what we call
the boys from home, and secondly
American youth of all sorts of racial
descent who have a certain BACKGROUND
of ideals in their mind.
Sometimes there were little clashes
about this Irish question, although not
furious ones. ] remember the first time
we had big raid. 1t was under the
charge of Lieutenants Bootze and New
ton and Bob Foster. One of the soldiers
got little Irish flag and started to bring
II over, and there was a young chap
started to make a fuss about it. Not n
bad fuss, but he was young and talka-
tive, and Bootze is a complacent man
and didn't say much about il, but finally
he got indignant and said: Say, what
were you sent down here for, anyway p
i am sent down here as an observer.
Then climb tree and observe. and LEI
ne run this raid. The Irish FLAG is
rcing over
Il remember OH one occasion dow,
IN Cchon's district found we had ru,
snort Of uniforms and some British
0'iot. were sent down from th,
termaster's department. walked
company II, Captain Finn's com
and they were buzzing around
a lot Of bees when you poke a
IN the hive and stir them up.
said, What is the trouble here %
me Of them held up uniform and
Look at this damn thing, and said
t'fense me, Father, but you'll say
wrrNc yourself when you see it,
~ '""sed 1t it and said, 1T has got
nice shiny hattons, hasn't it.
hat didn't improve things.
II said, BE careful. don't DESTROY
eoYernment property
He said, Burn the whole lot Of if
"aat do they mean insulting dacent
"'ople that are fighting for them?
'"9id rather be hanged any time than
"e7s such thing as that
New-York tribune., 1919-04-30
''Most Distinguishing Feature,
Ne,u Workers in the Rainb0,u''

"In front of the church / might hear
Jim Brady maintain that Flushing was
the best town in Long Island, because
Major Lawrence came from there.
There wasn't one doubt in anybody ;
mind that it was a New York regiment
and that was the first and most dis
tingushing feature about it, the bunch
of New Workers. in the Rainbow Divi-
sion. They had the New York wit and
slang and 60 and all the things that we
admire about New York, together with
a certain amount of New York cocki-
ness that a number of people from
other parts Of the country did not like.
at was a representative of Senator
Walsh's state and city who came to us
from Camp Devens who was introduced
into the society Of the Goth as a draft
man. He said We'll, thanks be to God
| didn't have to get drunk to join the
army
"Of course, he got wallopcd right
company said that of the 800 that
came to us that day from Camp Devens
that fellow was the best.
1--WE met lot of troops from our
native town when we were coming
down from Baccarat. The 77th Divi-
sion was going up from bervillers
from their stay in the trenches and
we were coming out, tired after having
been there for years and years, it
seemed. l remember I went out to
visit the 77th at Rambervllers and
was held up forcibly until some per-
son sewcd on my coat our first SER
vice stripe, and ] was sent out to talk
to this bunch of New Workers with in
structions to make gestures this way
[indicatingl SO they would be i'm
<vtt Iur n Iun tuI
been abroad six months.
ain the exchange Of compliments,
they telling us we didn't know how to
handle the Ucinies back there. and
they were going to do the job for us,
] think it was Mike Donaldson Of |
company. an old altar boy Of mine, who
became puglist and much more famous
than myself, called over to them (I am
afraid to say this in front Of General
Lenihan) but he called over and said,
What are you fellows talking about?
We were over here in France licking
the Dutch before they drew your names
out of the hat
New-York tribune., 1919-04-30
"Chrisfnlds Mass Celebrated
In an Old Ruined Church,


I'm some cases they didn't take up
collections, and one man said to Cap
tain Jim McKenna: Captain Jim, 7
am not going to that fellows church
any more. He don't take up collection
and don't think he belongs to the
union
1--WE celebrated our first Christmas
midnight mass in the old Church in
Grand. The Christmas before we had
1t on the border, in the open air. and
the Christmas after that-wc didn't
know 1T thenwe were over on the
banks Of the Rhine. ST. Patrick's Day
we celebrated in the trenches on the
hillside of CroiXmare.
Chrlstmas IS one of the pictures
would like to have. Mass cclebratcd in
an old ruined church where the walls
and the roof had been shot away and
nothing remained but narts Of thc
tower In that tower | ARRANGED =
SIMPLE altar, and the steps Of the
church in front Of it in square as
Dig as those two asles were occuDied
by kneeling soldiers.
-, Ihcy came forward, thousand of
,nem, and received Holy Communion
we were returning that day from rest
IN lne lcave area, and returned to the
front, which we never left after thnt
'ime until the armistice was signed.
ut IS interesting to see the life Of
lhe men where they don't care what
people think about them. The imnrrr-
sion made is one Of an absolute lack Of
human respect. When the uniform :
or, they 90 flying about the bases, with
their tei, scapulars and tags flying loose.
when confessions are to be held
they go to confession out in the open
hy Il
ing up and telling his little story. and
it is all right in front of the starinp
villagers and swearing teamsters and
al the crcwd that loters about in time
of war
zone Sunday morning, il was q
beautiful picture to see that groat
crowd of men, hundreds OF them. com
ing up to receive communion, most de-
voutly from my hand assisted alwavs
by that best of commanding officers
ana truest OF friends, General Michael
): Lenihan. Before action ali were
given gerenal absolution and every
body was given holy communion.
Sometimes thousand Of them would
receive the bread Of life bcf the
day would be out
During an action on the battlefield
religion runs through it all Men are
brought in anG the stretchor bearer
says Father. he was saying his pray
era all the day and | heard him and
helped him with them
"a man would think that with All
this religious stu going on about lha
place, necessarily other people would
be very nuel, put out with it, They
were not The fellows that were not
thiholies liked IT and backed IT tp
There has been lot Of talk around
ms country about men not being reig=
louH which makes me think al what tba
lady said after her eKperlepco in
chnfen she HnIdi I'm not al all sur
nflsed thai IN Heaven there il no mar
rylng nor giving in marriage. In Tho
hrst place, there viii be ten women to
every man, and in the SECOND place
there won't be single man in the
"hole place u woman would want to
marry.
think these men liked the down
right, good gvc-a damn way these men
practised their religion.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-30
II Vent Back to Headquarters
As Hot as Any OF Them''

went back to headquarters feeling
Just about as hot as any Of them. and
wneh got back ! found a bunch of
feliows just about as sore as was.
ana we started letting it out to the
ctionai about what shame it was. He
was a new man and didn't quite under
stanu It, and got little bit worried
anoqt IT at first and said. They
"ou'an object to English shoes, would
s''F Ana Just to let the situation
T.. NJ, : soldi NO, because they would
"' stamping on them all the time
Wasn't much Of Joke. but u
ae 'eh the temperature for the time
"hinR' ana wo talked II over. and I de-
''"t' =" speak To tho colonel ubout IL
p" di1 lilo certainly was "A man vhn
ma no use for Germans,
Fhlh, You hAYo no need to think
nn''hpre this crowd - so thorouohlv
iflsh' lhat thoy Won't fight far vou
ou can put them alongside Of an f,np-
uah regiment and they would fight all
.na peiter 10 show the English up.'
aatu 'qn iider your feelings IL this
mapp'"eo, ~ England had been "A little
n.o'a 10 unfeasonabis with our ships on
the seas IN iDl4, 1915 and 1916, II is
J"St possible our country would have
iought England. If that had happened
both 81 us would have been in II. be-
fuge we were in the service and we
you'd have done the best we could.
~ suppose We ran out Of tin hats
ana they sent over bunch of German
helmets for you 10 wear
lie whacke1 the table and said. 4
Show just how you feel
"hen Colonel Mccoy came We MI.
:, y eyer on him at fest. ! got Tom
~ nts',F' o we ~ ssna here Tonight, 10 10
New-York tribune., 1919-04-30
How the Men Stood in Their
attitude Touard The Ene,,,v

"On different occasions went
around 70 find out Just how the men
Slood IN their attitude toward the en-
cny. Remember the time in March
Apiil and May when the Germans we're
maklng grand offensive lust when.
eyer they took notion to do it, when
.ney seemed to walk through the Brit
Ish ana French up there and 20 until
'hey got tired and then stop?
We were waiting for bic attack IN
the Champagne sector, and / went ont
TO inquire from Major Anderson how
the men felt about it-how it affected
their morale. The Prussian guard was
JqSt ACROSS from them, and saw lin
ONelll, one Of the three ramous
O,Neills Of the regiment, and said
How is their morale? He said
,Morale, father he said, jokinrlv
Morale, we haven't got anything iikSe
mat; II we had we would hav epulled
it ont i''''.'
II asked Jim Fitzpatrick of com
pany if they weren't afraid. 'WelI. he
sald, Feared? There is nothing buf
nutchmen over them, is there | said
NO, Wcll,' he said, 4 never saw anv
tour Dutchmen | couldn't lick
Later ON, along toward the end. we
were waiting at st. Mihcl in the woods
or MT. Focon. near IA place full of shell
,olcs ana villages torn down by shell
IRE which looked exactly like what
civilian picture of No Mans Land
ought to look like While we worc
Ihere the word came that the Germans
hhd asked for peace. Most of us knew
that peace wouldn't come right AT once.
that 1t wouldn't be granted until a few
dents were made in that army.
80 Colonel Anderson Started ma
around to talk to tho boys and iank
them up little, and the first man
met was Vincent Mulholnnd. of
Company b. | said.
Hoy do you like the idea of nnaco ?,
ne SAID. III Is great stuff. but / don't
want IT TO come while we are back heto
IN the Corps Reserve. When penea
cones ,,o,, J want II TO cone with iha Old
own ight up III front going lhrouuh
evefYthlne,'
=" he ,duy Colonel Mccoy cnme erter
~ ~ ihe bhcenfHi sector, wns Aka
20 ten hlm the story Of u monojoe,is
! hehtd tho day before, The eomnnnv
uHed 10 sit outside my room and lnlG
hbout AL their affairs and mostlv
roasting iholr offiners, with the ne,.
rect knowledge that was there md y
perfect confidence in my not heinz
an an officer myself, which was dceidedliiSS
flaiterlng ''''S
New-York tribune., 1919-04-30
sit Was an Irish Regiment"
Says Chaplain. ''It Was
Never Catholic, but More
Catholic Than Irish"
Praises Morale of Men
s'Ihere Was Little Drinking,''
He Says, ''but What There
Was Was Good for Them"

Father Francis P. Duffy chaplain of
New Yorks old 69th Infantry, made
his first appearance on the lecture
platform in Carnegie Hall last night,
mere he told the story of the 69th's
exploits in France for the benefit of
the New York Founding Hospital.
An audience that filled the audit
orium heard Father Duffy tell Of the
heroisin ard sacrifice of his boys. The
New York Founding Hospital is cele-
brating its Golden Jubilee, and is now
conducting a campaign to raise $780,
1000.
Father Duffy spoke at the request Of
Archbishop Hayes, who occupied one
of the boxes when the chaplain Of the
Goth began his address. The Archbishop
remained until Father Duffy finished
his talk at 1875.
Henry Heide, chairman of the hos
pital campaign committee. made short
address following programme of mu-
sic. Then Senator David I. Walsh, of
Massachusetts,, introduced Father Duffy
The audience rose and stood for full
three minutes until the Goth "sky pilot"
smilngly indicated that he wanted to
begin his talk.
On the platform back Of Father Duff
fy were seated members Of the 69th
staH. including Major Martin II.
Meaney, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander
+. Anderson. Lieutenant Colonel Timo-
thy j. Moynahan and Major John j.
Mangan. Their entrance on the plat
form was also greeted with cheers and
applause.
In the audience were men and women
intimately associated with the Goth.
There were the mothers and fathers of
lads who are buried in France and
wounded soldiers who fought with the
regiment and were invalided home be-
fore the main body of the outfit sailed
for American shores.
AS Father Duffy told his story, a
plain, simple, strai ghtforward tale of
bravery, devotion aud self-sacritice, the
audience moved restlessly in its seats.
@tcTe anu InCre woman rubbed her
eyes with q handkerchief. Chaplain
Duffy's recital brought tears, laughter
and applause
At the press table, down near the
stage. sat Herbert Scheyer, one of the
stenographers, making a record of
Father Duffy's speech. Scheyer sailed
overseas with Company F, of the Goth,
and as Father Duffy sketched intimate
details of the 69th's life in France.
Scheyer smilcd and nodded his head
When the chaplai- told how the req
Imert held its head high in battle.
Scheyer's face twitched as he fought
10 keen back the tears. Scheyer drank
poisoned well water at atea. Thierrv
and was inralded hosrs
Among The toxhol Scrs .xere i
Louis D. Conle, c, neral Nj .~- I
Len: 7An, Mrs. joan Mc' e'mack Ia
MN A. Lummis, Thomas ". Ci r Il
and Georgc Ehret
New-York tribune., 1919-04-30
''Therc Was Little Drinking;
What There Vas Did Good"

"As the result of the religious life in
the regiment, there was a very decent
moral life. A lot Of the men said
their prayers every night. Catholics
and Protcstants. A lot Of the men said
thoIr prayers in common every night.
There was very little drinking. and
what there was didn't do them any
harm; it did them good.
"When | used to see our fellows after
a hard battle just hanging around
dirty and lousy and tired, so pushed
Tint they hardly had time to read
their shirts you know what that
means and saw some Frcnchmcn with
their can Of vim rouge, which means
red wine, sitting around having good
time, thought the best way / could
spend my money for the trustees was
TO buy good big kcg Of wine and roll
IT. down every company street and tell
them TO 20 to it. As long as they stuck
to that ii never did any harm, and it
did lot of good.
They are singing song, by the
way, in the Army of Occupation.
We're all going home and we'll have
a glass of pop,
"'The slackers voted the country dry
while we went over the top
FINALLY, the regiment was an
'h'ICi itdl IcSiHicul, WIFI lnc american
charact.,ris of dash, initiative. En-
listed men over and over again have
supplied the proper word or the proper
deed to carry the situation through.
Ihe officers feel confidence in their
first sergeants and other sergeants
that they can rely upon men to handle
the situation if every officer in the
company is wiped out.
I'm number of cases they have more
confidence in certain enlisted men Of
mature years than they have in a
number of younger and less developed
Officers. That is perfectly natural.
You will see them going along and
perhaps ono of these narrowbacks,
as they call these clerks in New York
City, just about all in, barely hobblnr
along and his pack weighing about ten
tons on his back, his rifle slipping
down and he is just about gone, and
some oldtimer like Martin Reed will
call over: Hey, Jim, men wanted in
the United States army
New-York tribune., 1919-04-30
Father )uys Own Story of the Exploits of the 69th

ought to get him. By the way he talks,
he needs to go to confession.
at was the same way with all of
US. When the Jewish holidays came
along with our two or three or four
score Jews, whatever the number was,
they had an opportunity to celebrate
their holiday and 20 do it right. /
think this tribute not to the Catho-
lies alone, but to the fundamental de-
cency and tolerance of the American
PEOPLE.
"i'or myself, of course, was far
from being a chaplain to Catholics
alone. A man can't go sticking his re
ligion up under the nose of people who
don't belong to it, but so far as they
want your service, and they very often
do, man can do great deal, and
then in a variety Of other ways Il
chaplain can be friendly and useful,
and since | was to 10 a great deal
for the Catholics 'thcr ways it was
a natural result by far 4 larger
average of my riends were not
Catholics than th hat were
81 think that majority Of my
friends, at least Beyond any per
centagc in our regiment, are not
Catholics And it IS normal and
natural thing. Most of us, think,
haven't got any prejudice about these
things. If anybody sticks pin in me
he will find l am very American and
very Irish and very Catholic, but if
he will let me alone | am just human.
"Therc was an old French priest who
said. Every one in this world hes one
of three great pref eiudicics. There is one
thing on which he places the blame for
all the ills of humanity. Some have
Il prejudice against Jcsuits, some
against the Free Masons and some
against the Jews and he said, whim-
sicallv enough, so far as | know, am
the only person who has all three.
$50 far as | am concerned, | doubt
if | entertain a prejudice against the
Jcsuits. | know don't against Free
Masons or Jews.