The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-04


with gas and high explosive shells, and
both of them were inside the box bar.
rage that the Teuton artillery laid
down on the American positions just
before the German infantry came over.
About the only inkling Col. Mcintyre
had that his daughters had been in as
great if not greater danger than any
other American women had faced dur
ing the war he got out of this post
script, set down by Gladys rs a sort of
afterthought:
The Snappy Postscript.
"Our hut was blown to pieces. There
is big shell hole in the roof of the
barn We have confiscated, so we have
large circus tent outside. Twenty
donkeys near by screech all day"
But then to the Salvation Army
worker at the front. and above all to
the American doughboy, a little trifie
like a battle pales into insignificance
beside the fact that two girls by work.
ing something like fifteen hours a day
can make $50 pies and 1000 dough-
nuts. And battles are something that
war is full of and nothing to go around
looking for. anyway, while to find a
Salvation Army hut and a glowing SAL
walton Army kitchen and Salvation
Army girl frying and handing out
doughnuts just out of the hot grease
and all covered with sugar, and big
chunks of neutrality-suspicious. apple
pie-well. that is quite something else
again. and something calculated to
make even the most morose infantry
he is, inlr
And how those boys could eat" ex-
claimed Miss Irene Mcintyre. IT had
no idea anybody could eat so much,
and l had no idea that anybody would
ever be so glad to get doughnuts and
pie as those boys were. l wish we
could have had the equipment so we
could have doubled our output"
Both of the Mcintyre sisters are
much younger than the average Amer
lean women who went to the war.
Gladys is 20. and a graduate of the
Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. where she
took a course in domestic science and
gained the culinary knowledge that
made her one of the most famous
doughnut makers in the A. l.. r.
Irene Is 26 and a graduate of Mount
Holyoke College. When they were
born they were dedicated by their
father to the Salvation Army in con-
formity with a custom of that army's
officers and workers, and have been
doing some sort OF Salvation Army
work almost all of their lives. although
they never have been officers in the
organization. At the outset OF the war
with Germany they were eager to go
overseas, and Gladys finally went over
in November 1917, while her sister
followed three months later. Gladys
was with the First Division In the
Toul sector until her sister arrived,
when they were sent to the Twenty
sixth Division, in the same sector.
They were together all OF the time
they were in France excepting for two
or three weeks while Irene was in the
hospital recovering from the effects of
German gas. and the two or three
months while Gladys was having pneu-
monia and appendicitis. brought on by
exposure and overwork.
The Fight Mt seicheprey.
The first OF the thrilling experiences
hat the two girls had, and perhaps
the most thrilling and most dangerous
Of all, was at the fighting near Seiche-
prey. Their courage there soon be-
came common property of the dough
boys, and any division that there
after had the Mcintyre sisters assigned
TO it counted itself just little bit
better and a bit more fortunate than
any other outfit. BY the time of the
armistice they had served more than
a dozen divisions. and there were few
doughboys that hadn't heard of them.
They were particularly we'll known
TO the Seventy-seventh Division, for
they spent several months with the
3O7th Infantry in the Baccarat sector,
training area down in Lorraine.
Their hut was in a little village be-
hind Badonvillier. we'll within range
of the German artillery, and it achieved
a popularity among the troops that no
one other thing with the division ever
attained. Several times while they
were there the town they were In was
bombed by German aviators. as the
Baccarat sector was a favorite train
ing ground for the Boche bombing
planes and the Seventy seventh got
the benefit OF their practice
1.-THE Seventy seventh boys were
about the finest soldiers We met" said