The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-01-01

U8 ana one OVSI uo anu ~ 90 ~yho -
any November you most ever saw
in Kentucky and like crank, not
having had my clothes OF for sever
al days hauled everything on but
my thin undertaking and the next
morning when woke up I was
little sick and by night had 106
degrees of fever and in room with
35 more, but we all pulled through
but one, he died after we left for an
other place, that was called a rest
camp but in all my rounds ! have
never seen anything like 1t, for eats
we had water thickened with onions
to about the thickness of batter and
bare rib to rattle in the can, and
the coffee made you vomit to drink
1t on account of the water 1t was
made of. But the most amusing
thing Ito look back at or telD was
our bath, Fracne is rather on the
bath business and there was only
one bath house in the camp for
about so thousand people so each
unit had to put in requisition for
bath hour and might be any hour
in the "a and ours came at A. M,
I had just gotten up from being sick
but | wanted a bath so bad | went
with the bunch, about until we
arose, took off all our clothes asd
slipped into our overcoats and clad
in September Morn attire made
run for the bath house about u of
mile away happened. to get in
he front busch so got hot water
but the boys is the rear got pure old
ice cold stimulatn. know you would
have laughed at us could you have
seen us slipping through the dark
ness on a run with our bare legs
showing below our overcoats and it
seemed that my legs were the long
est ones in the world and that my
overcoat had changed to a dress
coat. Finally our stay at the rest
camp was over and we were ordered
to Allerey, down by the Swiss bor-
der and we went out late one even
ing and liked back over the same
road we had gone over before, back
TO the railroad at Brest and the
TRAINS, goodness they are no more
than toy to ours, and all troops
have to ride in box cars, the box
cars are about II or hardly so much,
doubt whether that much or not, as
large as ours and they put AZ to
each car and our equipment with us,
we could stand up but there was not
room for us to lay down without
laying on top of each Their and you
can immagine how pleasant that
you'd be with two big husky fellows
Oh your breast and another fellow
hobnails in your ear, that beat any
,Eirg have ever tried and the last
light I stood up all night and it
| AIMED the whole night long square
o. me but after four days we got to
-hIerey and there never was an old
man who felt any older than l did
,hat evening and of course we had
D hike about q of a mile to camp,
JJt finally made it there and got
d of our load and a little bite to
-2t, having covered the republic of
France from the port of Brest to its
eastern border on the southern side
with corned willie and bread. We
had real good eats there after the
first day but it stared rain in then
and mud got to be half shoe top
deep but on the fourth day we left
there and boarded some more box
cars for the front, travelled one day
and then got laid off at one of the
large towns of. France, Is sur tile,
and stayed there one day and two
nights and our rations run low so
had nothing to eat there hardly ex-
cepting what the Red Cross gave us,
there | met a boy by the name of
Cooper from Beaver Dam and sever
al boys from Ohio County, one hav-
ing died there the night before, his
name was Crow. Finally we left
there and came on through some
more large towns and finally we
could hear a roaring and then we
realized we were at the front, the
farther any base hospital had ever
gone in the great war and we had
lost in reality our base hospital ex-
cept in name and were doing evacua-
ton hospital work. we landed at
Toul and of course a hike of about
three miles and us so weak and a
heavy pack, having gotten an extra
suit at Allerey and our gas masks
and front line equipment at Is sur
Tile, the officers sent their packs by
ambulance and started out on a
gate equal to hOrsa ro ca ond Al -