The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-02-13
Captain Eastman ''Snap-
Shoots" President Wilson
While He Is Visiting
Great Headquarters.
ATTENDS CELEBRITIES
Local Doctor is Prominent in France
Cares for Pershing's Nephew
French Women Love ssTheir
Boys in Khaki. -

A Kenoshan took shot at the Presi-
dent. The incident occurred while Mr..
and Mrs. Wilson were inspecting Great
Headquarters in France. The Presi-
dent and his wife walked right into
the local man $ bracket and the lat
ter - with the range right and ev-
erything just couldn t resist the
temptation to fire. So he did.
And the strangest thing about it all
is this: the would be-artilleryman was
not even arrested much less punished,
principally because his mortar was an
Eastman camera - Captain Eastman s
and his shot snapshot making no
impression other than the invisible one
on harmless gelatine film. AS for
the President he didn It even know he d
been "shotn and consequently didn It
so much as inform his FEshadowsn of
seeming assassination.
Captain Eastman tells the story of
his adventure rather modestly when
he writes in Letter just received from
France:
"It rains here six days out of seven
in spite of the usual poetic reference
to sunny France President Wilson
and his wife in their trip to the front
to review the Goth Division had a
chance to see under what conditions
the boys had been living and fighting.
The weather was gloomy and wet and
when they reached headquarters ON
their return light snow-storm greeted
them.
II have several good snapshots of
the president and his party taken
while they were inspecting the troops
out here. | prize them very highly
and shall always consider them the
best Of my souvenirs. y
The opportunity Of "snAp -shooting y
the President came to Captain Eastman
largely by reason Of the fact that he
is now attached to General Pershing s.
Headquarters. This has given him
unusual privileges and has made pos
sible his "hob-knobbing" with Briga-
dier-Generals, Colonies, and even the
Supreme Commander-in-C Chief, Presi-
dent Wilson. Captain Eastman says Of
his latest assignment:
81 have been calling at General
Pershing's winter chateau to attend
his nephew, a lieutenant who was i'll
with the influenza. The chateau be-
longs to Count La Rue of Paris and
one could consider himself. rich if he
owned what hangs upon the walls.
"Among the -four thousand soldiers
stationed at this place are six hundred
commissioned officers, I have attended
medically and surgically all ranks Of
these men from Brigadier Generals and
Colonels to the private and all of them
exhibit the optimism, pep, and enthu-
siasm, so characteristic of the true
American. This fine spirit of our men,
the wonderful trucks, tand the good
roads Of France, where the greatest as
sets in winning the war so soon and so
gloriously.
We had a serious damper recently
- the news of Colonel ROOSEVELT
death. When the cable reached us
over here it occasioned the greatest
sorrow among the men and the irrepar-
able loss to the United States of so
great man was the topic Of converse
tion for days.
Tn concluding his letter Captain
Eastman writes of the little war-wives
out there:
"French men are willing and anxious
for les Americaines to leave, but not
the French women. The latter love
their boys in kaikai some for
their heroism and bravery and some
for their own dear selves 1t is
rumored that twenty thousand of our
men have married French women and
don Il believe the truth has been ex-
aggerated. A number of them have
come to my Office with their wives
to tell me goodbye before they sail
ed for the States"