Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-12-11
0W''uhCL.EJOE"
FED The yANKS
Son of United States Senator
Found France No Place for
CLASSY Clothes.
ESTABLISHED FIRST X. c. HUT
Served 1000 Cups Of Chocolate Every
Morning-Had Many Difficulties to
Surmount and Encountered
Many Exciting Experiences.

New York.-This is the story of
dawn in France: of 1000 cul~ OF hot
chocolate; of the kitchen car thar sup
piled the chocolate; of two Tuxedo
coats and two evening suits and of
Uncle joe" writes owen Conner In
ihe New York Herald.
The dawn was not the pink sunrise
of America--it was the ghasty, gray.
grim break of day Ct gas-beioued and
shell-torn battleiieds. The chocolate
was the morning heartcner served 10
men on their way to face death. The
| Kitchen car was one Of the proud pos
sessions OF Knights Of Columbus war
workers. "Uncle Joe was aud Il Jo-
Seph F. Herman of Utica. n. T.. and
the Argonne. X. OF c. secretary of
personal distinction and of enviable
record for service.
There is a new dawn In France, pink
and rosy now. Hot chocolate figures
largely In high cost OF living tables.
The kitchen car Went down TO its
doom on the glorious pathway opened
by the Americans 10 Sedan but ii
didn't fail until just AT the very end.
after 1t had done 'its duty noble"
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 Scething
rims of the cauIdron of enemy hate
over there. Oh, yes, by the way. the
two Tuxedo coats aud the two evening
suits are here also.
Nicknamed "Uncle Joe"
He wasn't Uncle Joe" until after he |
had gone 30 France. fe loves the nick /.
name, for it was given him by Ameri !
can soldiers--in fact he likes ii better |
jhan any pet name ever bestowed up-
on him in the days he sparkcd the girls |
at O'h-time dances. However, | prom |
Used moi 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 tie Knights of |
Columbus in March 1918. 10 him fell |
he honor OF establishing the first X.
of c. Int In France, in May, 1913. |
From the start the possibilities of serv- (
ice of the kitchen car Appealed to his /.
and he couldn't he torn
away from the front where be had Il
chance to work for the soldiers with
The Kitchen car AS base of opera
lions. After he had opened several X.
OF c. huts, he went 10 Paris, took pos
session of n kitchen car and Went up
to Cherry with II, There the Seventy /
seventh division was fighting and It
was The men of that division who nick
named him "Incle Joe He insists
that full credit must be given to Fred
erick Blndschau Of Louisville, Ky, |
and to Louis I.aSage for The able and I
devoted assistance gwen by. IN Them. I
Here Is his story az he teits it him
self: @aE
when started for France was
told there would be considerable EN-
'ertaining' to hn done on the other |!
side. | realized very quickly. once | !
set foot in France. that the entertain
ing to be dene was along entirely diff (
ferent lines than those with which / |
had left New York. For example, I !
started out with several trunks One
of them held two Tuxedo coats and |
two evening" suits. On my arrival in
France / promptly forgot oil about
that trunk. II didn't fit in with the
scheme of things as | saw IL with my !
own eyes. III tell you more about the |
trunk later.
Gets Kitchen Car. !,
Immediately after landing went to
Baccarat, In the Luneville sector. With
me was Fred Bundschau Of Louisville. !
a splendidly loyal and efficient man.
We opened hut at Bnccarai. Then !
went to Camp Devre, known correctly I
an Mud camp. -,ga-.-.s '--...-.s -.
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