davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
The Struggling
Line

The train clicked over the new spur
into the heart of the camp. The anti
quated engine gasped to standstill.
An engineer running a stationary en-
CINE near the end of the tracks-there
was no terminal-tooted his whistle.
1t was the first contingent's welcome to
the camp. Antony was made a wob-
bling part of struggling line that
was formed on the gravel at the side
of the car. The second lieutenant
barked fright facet" and Antony and
three quarters of the increment faced
and started back along the railroad
tracks, which glimmere out of sight
to the left. They were corrected and
started on their march for army train
ing, France, the Argonne, death, fame
and now:
The gigantic Aquitania nosed her
way from Quarantine toward the Statue
of Liberty. Solid masses of brown
covered the sweeping decks of the YES
sci. Every man was in his place,
though those on the port side Of the
boat were out Of luck as far as
glimpsing Miss Liberty was concerned.
But orders had been that men were to
hold their places; that frequent and
concerted shiftings would cause the
boat to list and sway drunkenly. No
one complained.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
"The Wilderness"
Intensified

1t was "The Wilderness" of Civil
War days with all its ferocity,
horror and losses intensified.
Sedan, where France lost to the
Prussians fifty years ago, was the
objective Of the new French-Ameri-
can campaign. The Argonne, which
had fooled every effort of the
French for four years, was the
barrier that must first be opened
before France could wipe out that
old memory with the recapture of
the city where Napoleon III sur
rendered.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

men were discouYaging. They alighted
and stood in perfect formation. The
sergeant said something which caused
the men to melt physically, like iron
plunged into burning heat. The
relatives, thus encouraged, made their
assault and added their weight to the
mans pack as they hung like neck
laces around necks. Another order
and the relatives were gently guided
out of the formation and rhythmically
stepping, broad chested, clear eyed
body of men swung down to their bill
lets-veterans, heroes, men.
The Pizottis are of all nationalities
by the hundreds. Corporal An
tony's name alone is used because he
gave The Tribune exclusive permis-
sion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

! by telling somebody else what you
have just heard from one of these
knockers.
Don't knock your own country
Remember every time you knock the
government of your country you
knock your country.
If the U. S. A. is worth living in
it is worth supporting, and that
means you have got to support it
by buying Victory notes, which are
Victory bonds.
Unlock your patriotic support and
enthusiasm!
Knock the knockers!
Buy Victory notes!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
First Fond
Farewell

Finally the train pulled out, stirring
an atmosphere rich in parting bless
ings and mothers tears. All the WON
cnfolk thought they were looking upon
their loved ones for the last time.
Not one, an unofficial canvass would
undoubtedly show, looked ahead to the
weekly passes into the city.
At Jamaica the assorted human cargo
was ousted from the steel, straw seated
cara and bundled into old fashioned
wooden, plush-seated coaches. A band
on the Jamaica Station played "Over
There" three or four times handrun-
ming, and then paused for rest Then
it began playing "Over There" some
more. A contingent Of Jamaica and
Queens men, all with their comfort
kits and Encouraging rclativcs-the
Spartan mothers were few, as the pro-
portion OF Greeks was very small
Joined the first contribution Of the
greatest city to the greatest army. A
shower Of cakes, candies. cigarettes
and peanuts fairly inundated the men.
On the way to Camp Mills last ws@.L
they called this shower "barrage. "
This latter was garage" misspeled,
as far as they knew, back in Sep
TENDER, 1917.
At Medford, ten miles from Camp
UPTON, somebody pulled lever and
FIVE cars were left behind when the
train started on. Second lieutenants
fresh and competent from plattsburg
had boarded the train at that station
and asked II there were any questions
they could answer.
"When do ne eat? and "Where do
~ 20 from ereT were in tho van
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Knocking the Knockers

seditious propaganda, and they have
done their knocking so successfully
that they have got a lot of people
who ought to know better talking
their way.
Let's stop them right now!
The next time they try to steal
your support and your patriotism
come right back at 'em and show
'em up! Turn the tables on them!
Give them some of the same medicine
the doughboys gave the Huns!
Throw their own arguments back
at them and you can blow them up
with their own stuff.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Advance Under
Heavy Smelling

AS they reiterated the Germans
left heavy rear guards behind, con.
sisting mostly of machine gunners
who were instructed to hold back
the American advance at any cost
to themselves. Their artillery also
was active, and the 77th proceeded
toward the Aisne, constantly under
heavy Smelling. The destruction OF
the river bridges also retarded the
American artillery, which had te
wait until the 3O2d Engineers, tc
whose skill monuments in the shape
of roads at Upton still exist, could
throw pontoons across.
Everybody during this period
from general to cooks, worked
twenty-four hours daily. The Ger
man aerial squadrons became still
more active, and sent over flying
circuses of four to a dozen planes.
The rapid advance beyond
Fismes had somewhat disarranged
transport. Major General Robert
Alexander, who had succeeded
Major General George B. Duncan
as commander, directed that every
effort be made to bring up hot meals
for the toiling troops, which had
fought their way through the vi
comte woods and past Revillon to
a position fronting the enemy two
kilometres south Of the Aisne.
American observers posted on an
eminence of the Vesle-Aisne pla-
teau could watch the Germans
moving northward, beyond the
range of the American .155s. The
coast artillery long range guns, pre-
viously in this sector, had been re-
moved to another point on the adj
vancing lines and the divisional
artillery could only sit and fume
because they could not reach the
tempting enemy artillery parks just
beyond the reach of their guns.
In the midst of this advance it
was determined to relieve the weary
division, and General Garibaldi, with
division of Italians, came up,
every man of the command wear
ing a silk bandanna presented by
an American woman.
The 77th welcomed the relief,
for it had had more than month
of continuous fighting, into which it
had entered practically recruit
outfit, but from which it had
emerged with commentator from
it's commander for valiant service
worthy Of a tried veteran legion.
The relief was made September
13. There followed week Of rest
and next the Argonne. Wherever
men Of the 77th gather hereafter,
in the S5,000,000 clubhouse which
it is planned to erect here or at
coming reunions of the new Grand
Army of the Republic, there will be
tales to tell of that forest of
France.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
America
RediSCOvered

On the left sleeve of these men at
the shoulder was this same Miss Lib
erty looming on field of blue. The
craft of the harbor espied the boat, as
did the factories along the shore.
Silence fed, as did the Heinies, be-
fore these valiant ment on the boat.
Whistles, shrieks of hundreds of thou
sands of exultant countrymcn pierced
out into the Bay and settled on the
boat.
Corporal Pizotti, 3o5th Infantry, 77th
Division, "discovered" America almost
as completely as had Columbus, who
also might have lived in Mulberry
Bend if he had landed in New York
instead of some Caspian Islands and in
1915 instead of 1892.
These people were wasting hundreds
of dollars worth of steam coal for him.
Corporal Pizotti was pleased. His
chest expanded to it's full forty-two
inches. Thirty-seven was the pre-war
maximum. He had weighed 1877 pounds
on September 10, 1919; now ne weighed
1873. He couldn't lick anybody on Sep
tember 1919; now he wanted to fight
them by the dozen, if only to make it
interesting.
He swung his seventy-four- pound
pack lightly to his shoulders when the
boat locked at Hoboken and marched
down the gangplank in the orderly
ranks Of his company. They boarded a
ferryboat-and soon were in the rail
road yards at Long Island City. Out
side of the iron railing relatives were
surging. Through the bars lips met
in dreamed-of caresses. Hands clasped,
brown, firm hands, in nervous, white
ones. Corporal Pizotti saw his sister
and new niece and tweaked her nobby
nose with his thick fingers.
major in boots and spurs, gold
leaves and riding crop, strobe by. He
was the second lieutenant of the Hud-
son Buster special. He spoke to the
captain. Finally the order reached the
sergeant and he said something which
only the soldiers understood. They
left their relatives and lined I'D. Then
they climbed into cars and slowly rohcd
out amid shrill cresccndos which arise
from pleased women.
At Jamaica they changed cars. Pea
nuts, encomiums, eulogies, cigarettes
and candy rained from hundreds of per-
sons gathered at the station. Corporal
Pizotti smiled, partially to assure the
dainty miss whose half-pound box of
candy had struck him in the nose that
his feelings were not hurt. He was
also smiling at memories. Herman
Finkenberg had supported him when
they had changed cars eighteen months
before. Herman was under an r. l. p.
q wooden cross, come place in the
Argonne. And the quiet looking youth
he was more quiet than ever. lie had
died at the Vesle. Oh, yes, the Hudson
Buster with the bottle--he had crawlcd
out to No Mans Land and given a
wounded comrade drink Of water,
when Heinie got him. He wasn't dead
but his right arm was. They had
buried 1t with pomp and ceremony
grim humor Of men engaged in grim
| business
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

NJ between linen ana NOW. In
- that time these men, who were
called from the pants making
shop, the soda water counter, the legal
and liquor bars, the street cor
ners, the colleges, the trolley cars,
have weathered and matured un-
der six months of intensive training
at Camp Upton. three more months
overseas under the echoes of the guns,
five months in the feriest hell Of his
tory's warfare and four months in al
legged rest camps, where the drills were
long synd tedious and the waiting longer
and more tedious.
Then they were part of a Great Ex-
pertinent Now they are part of Vic
torious HosS A-~e and dead. Then
they were wisps in the citys broom
which sweeps to and fro from business
to homes day by day. They sat beside
you in the subway or fought for the
same seat. They made the Coney Island
cars more crowded; possibly read the
sub-titles at the movies and annoyed
off the stand just before you reached it,
But now-they are something to make
room for, to cheer for, to give up
things for. They are rudy flashed,
iron-muscled gods, treading paths
among their humble worshippers.
They didn't know Squads right"
from "a. W. U. L." They had seen
soldiers on Decoration Day, in comic
operas and on Sunday excursions up to
West Point. Now they know Colonel
Moss manual of Arms" as the mill
tary primer, something learned in their
military infancy. The technical oper-
atoms of brigade under five or sixty
conditions are quite elementary to them
now.
Then they were civilians in khaki.
Soon they will be soldiers in multi
Some of them had "seen life" then.
All of them have exchanged greetings
with Death now. They were part of US
then. Now they are part of the world.
Their descent on Camp Upton on Sep
TENDER 10, 1917, and their arrival at
Camp Mills on April &c, 1919, were diff
ferent. So are the punches of your
baby nephew and Jack Dempsey. Take
the case of Antony Pizotti, of Null
berry Bend, twenty-eight years old,
five years in this country and only on
suffering terms with English.
Befo~e Antony left - on the very
morning, in fact-they gave a little
chianti party for him at the Villa
Penza, in not SO Little Italy. He was
escorted and supported to Board "a,
Joined his contingent there and some
how got over to Long Island City,
where the first train LETT for Camp Up
ton. He helped afix g gigantic sign to
the train which read:
"Kaiser Bill, you son of gun,
You've raised lots Of hell but now
you're done.
The devil has got the soul of you,
And we're going to bust your neck
in two"
THE HUDSON BUSTERS.
Antony duly watched the waves of
fearful womenfolk surge against the
iron ratings inclosing the station.
Then he entered the car. He saw Itai-
ians, Jews, Irish, fremen, typical
Yanks, policemen, truck drivers and
chorus men. Somebody was passing
around q quart bottle Of already mixed
and was berating a quietly clad youth
who refused to accept the are-drown-
ing token.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

Don't let anybody get away with
this underhand criticism that has
been so skilfully spread. And, if you
can't do anything else, for heavens
sake don't help these people along
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

gassed. The mattress had been
treated with mustard, which was
rendered volatile by the heat of the
colonel's body as he snatched a nap.
Brigadier General Evan NJ. John
son was gassed in the same way,
only his mattress was not mustard
lied. The poison was left in a shell
under the bed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
The LandWehr
Give Way

On the dot of $50, after a ter
rifle bombardment Of three hours
by every gun that could be mus
tered, the infantry dashed into the
attack, through trees, morasses,
brush and swamp. The I'd Land
wehr Division gave way before the
Fighting Tailors," who, in spite
of dense fog, found the passages
cut through the barbed wire by the
guns.
That first day the division en-
countered only the weakest sort of
resistance, the guns having pounded
the German defences to powder.
That night the division, after a
period of machine gun sniping on
the 307th's right, established its
line north of the Four de Paris
Carr DIES Meurissons Road.
The attack was resumed next
day. The 307th encountered the
first stubborn resistance from the
heights above Rau de la Fue aux
Charmes, where the Germans had
established strong points Uttered
with machine guns in nests extend
ing along the entire Bagatelle pla-
teau.
These machine gun nests, able to
converge their fire, were depended
upon by the Germans to halt the
18th and permit the artillery to
shoot it to pieces. The men plunged
on through dense tangles of under
brush, striving to reach a foe they
could not see, but whose fire was
reaching them on lines previously
laid out. On the right of the
American line B and K COM
panies of the 3O6th Infantry, scram-
bling down into a dark forest
ravine before daylight, came upon
village of German dugouts which
had been only recently vacated.
Passing through this, they went up
the opposite slope, but were halted
by enemy wire. While scouts We're
examining this wire a red rocket
went up and the Germans turned
loose a hurricane of metal. Showers
of grenades came over, while ma
chine guns swept the entire area.
The Americans Rugged the ground
for fifteen minutes. Then the fire
suddenly ceased and through the
darkness came calls in English.
Come on!' A scout later found
that sergeant and six men of B
Company had wormed their way
through the wire and captured two
enemy machine guns.
This brought the Americans uD
to the German trench system. They
leaped in and lined the parapet for
the counter attack, which was not
long in coming.
1t was initiated with shower of
grenades, which the 77th called
potato Washers. The American
automatic rifles soon stopped that.
however, and the Germans retired
again. They tried flank attack
and succeeded in regaining por-
ton of the trench on the left, from
which position were heaved in a
large number of grenades. The
Americans rushed and the Germans
fled before the bayonet. Later thew
tried a trick. Forty of them ad-
vanced, with arms overhead, CRYING
"kameradw The Americans ceased
fire, whereupon the Germans threw
in more grenades, inflicting a large
number of casualties. Then thew
turned and fled, the American
chaucats. however, moving them
down as they ran.
Both the 153d and 154th briuades
advanced steadily during the next
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
On the Train
Once More

Once more they boarded train and
steamed away to Garden City. A
phalanx OF relatives was Whiting to
rush thep. But tina glances of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Them:

The marhers who gathered
morning peaceable
OF young could be- They
ana talked about everything the
snow was to begin waited patiently their
ordersFrom The NeV York Tribune of September
after the parade daftees
frst contribution to the National Arng.
Now:
II think had opportunity
to the President the feeling
when think the services rendered by this division
that felt the pride
the composing this that
sentatves of all the which make the population
City New could
of the the 'front.' his would swell
did mne and that the markers the dead bore the
characteristic the cosmopolitan
posedevery them
of all he had to his Americanzaon Major
General Robert Alexander commander of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

vance party, which arrived home
several weeks ago, tried the bed
that night, and was evacuated as
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

they left an officers bed neatly
made. Lieutenant Colonel Douglas
commander of the ad-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
BY Bertram Plinitz

of the unmilitary catechisms quickly
evolved by the men. Antony saluted
his eyes with four fingers of his right
hand, placing his thumb point on his
temple, like child "pledging allie
glance to the fap"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

II n OW many people have said
to you to-day, 81 am not
u "A going to buy any Victory
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

American sc
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-04-13
SUPPORT GUARANTEES
1000 LABOR BUREAUS

CHICAGO, April - The federal
nOiun' support from state municipal
rul rrNl'" sources ro maintain the
@ 600 hyr'tus. throughout the cuun-
iu, br T. /. nr"ntias. Chicago dis
tU.t director. md today Director
General John T. D"nsmorc. recently
had announced that reduction OF the
srryloS tu 80 field offices must he
prepared for The service now can
ho carried on until congress provides
funds. Br. prentHs said.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-04-13
Gcrmnn rInnls rnrm s,nhIcntc.

EENIIN Friday Nprll II \
tyudIcatr ~ an the German nitrogen
plants has h"cu tentatively organ.
iIrd under thc. direction of M" min
lsry OF finance The government
which Invested heavily. IN uH wa.
born Industry having secured con.
trolling Influence ana the rlBht to
fix prices now proposes tp validate
the syndicate los legislation ana TO
submit contact with the con
ruin"rH to the national assembly for
Imperial Valley press., 1919-06-14
CHILDREN'S Isle HOSE 29c

-Chldrens good Isit stacking, In white only and
i'll sizes to 9ll are Saic cpecial for one week
only at 29c pair--dCnt miss this chance.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-06-14
II y ! .s'g u ~ ~ ''';1ls n.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES IL
Better June Values For Cash!


NY WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT the better values
w offering for the month Of JuneWe determined to
forward with savings that you'll glad
reduce stocks quickly possible and every department.
know about.
Just read here about the desirable merchandise that
we've prepared for YOU such attractive prces-cone your
needs
Imperial Valley press., 1919-06-14

GOOD LARGE SIZE Chif-
fon Wells for motoring ready
in desirable shades and offer
a big value at Sl.39.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-06-14
Paper Napkins 69c

WHITE PAPER NAP
kINS for picnics-S00 in
package NJ G9c--thiS price is
very low.
Evening journal., 1919-04-11
Easter Style Reception at the Arr
Clothes Shop on Friday and Satur

Onb Shop will be
New owowI Islec
designed for Easter
INDIVIDUAL ATTENTION this Style
prht nghke fabrics and the aSng dash downtothe
Clothes Shops Fifth Broad
wayne York
Evening journal., 1919-04-11
Arrow Easter Clothes
$40 SIS $50


But the style that 20 r. for IN G. for
might doubeeaSd cut high
would look vastly ng-asd of
Get the idea?
Evening journal., 1919-04-11

THE Arrow Clothes Shop recognized by the best dressed Of this eli
Headquarters for Wilmington In keeping with this poSC
nre.emnence. we have ARRANGED to hold an
Gilpin observer., 1919-03-27
APT DESCRIPTION OF PASTOR
Though Possibly Not Flattering
to the Good Man.

Little Caroline and her grandmother
went to church one Sunday morning,
recently. 1t had been some time since
the small lady had attended and things
and faces were new and strange.
After returning home she sat in a
quiet study.
"What are you thinking Of, dear7'
grandma asked.
"Who was that fluffy man7" was the
reply.
"What man. pet? do not know
which one you mean."
"That man, I mean," Caroline said
with an Indignant frown.
II can't tell, dear, which one that
is" -
WELL" said little Caroline, evident
ly fully disgusted. 81 mean the fluffy
nan that talks while we keep STILL"
The pastor happened to be rather
short, stout man with good supply
Of hair. and this was her unusual way
Of describing him.
Gilpin observer., 1919-03-27
HAD AIMED A LITTLE LOW
Gunner's Error Probably the Only
Thing That Saved Flock Of Black
birds From AnnlhlIatIon.

A party of gentlemen at a hotel
were telling stories one night recently
Of famous shots and how many
Quails, partridges, ducks and other
birds had been killed at single dis
charge. After listening to what
seemed willful exaggeration by differ.
ent narrators, stranger who was pres
eht volunteered his experience Of his
only use of the fatal double-barreled
gun as follows:
II went into the field one day to try
cunning. The only game discovered
was an immense flock Of blackbirds.
I should say there were 10000 in the
flock. Slowly / crawled up to them
and when not more than four rods
away the birds arose in a solid mass.
I fired both barrels, and how many do
you think killed."
Different guesses were made by the
party, ranging from 20 to 100.
mot one." said the stranger. 'but
l went out with my brother to look
for the results, and picked up four
bushels Of legs. had shot little un-
DER"
Gilpin observer., 1919-03-27
A Feeling Of Security

You naturally feel secure when you
know that the medicine you are about to
take is absolutely pure and contains no
harmful or habit producing drugs.
Such medicine is DR.. Kilmer's Swamp
Root, kidney, liver and bladder remedy.
The same standard of purity, strength
and excellence is maintained in every
bottle of Swamp Root.
It is scientifically compounded from
vegetable herbs.
It is not a stimulant and is taken in
teaspoonful doses.
It is not recommended for everything.
1t is natures great helper in relieving
and overcoming kidney. liver and blad-
der troubles.
A sworn statement Of purity is with
every bottle of DR.. Kilmer's Swamp
Root.
If you need a medicine, you should
have the best. On sale at all drug stores
in bottles of two sizes. medium and large.
However. if you wish first to try this
great preparation send ten cents to DR..
Kilmer & Co.. Binghamton, N. Y, for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
Gilpin observer., 1919-03-27
BoScHEE's SYRUP

Why use ordinary cough remedies
when Boschee's Syrup has been used
% successfully for flfty-one years in
all parts Of the United States for
coughs, bronchitis, colds settled in the
throat, especially lung troubles? It
gives the patient good nights rest,
free from coughing. with easy expec-
toration In the morning, gives nature
q chance to soothe the inflamed parts,
throw of the disease, helping the pa
tient to regain his health. Made in
America and sold for more than half
a century-Adv.