Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-02-04
CAPT. WaAlB
HIS WORK IN FRANCE
Annapolis Soldier Praises French
People And Anxious To Fin
ish Work With Them
CLAIM ADJUsTER E.

Capt. Ennalls Waggaman. Y. s. AZ.
III the transportation corps, investigat
ing oficer of me h. H and Il service,
nov overseas, expects to arrive home
III the spring. Capt Waggaman, whose
wife was recently dangerously 1T at a
hospital Iii Atlantic City. where deli
cate operation was performed for abs
cess at the base OF the brain. had put
in a request to come home, but, upon
receiving the good news by cable Of
his Wife's recovery, Withdrew the re-
quest, and writes I am deeply inter-
ested I'd my work here and am anxious
to finish ii our.
Our work Is very, very interesting,
especially my end in investigating and
adjusting claims lind that the French
are yery considerable In their demands.
after my work on claims with the
Short Line al Annapolis. think they
are much more moderate than claim
ants aAginst our railroad.
Our work liz exceedingly important.
as with the great number Of trucks
there are bound to be accidents and Il
is up to as to keep the good feeling
our Allies.
The spirit 81 the French people
after these years or war is marvellous.
Commissions In the French army are
very, very hard to secure have in
my once French sergeant, as legal
advisor, who is 4 very brilliant at
torney al 1873 francs month or about
SIS d month
The French corps BIT interpreters
are composed OF professors and cul-
tnred Frenchmen. most OF whom have
been wounded have two in my Of
flee. They are fine chaps II IS q real
pleasure To know them or course
every one, or almost every one wants
TO gel back to Gods country but they
do their trying tasks and
see others sail away
only hope that those who are re-
CURED 10 remain over here and aid in
closing up the work. won return
home ID find that all the good posi-
tons have been filled
II am, personally, very fortunate,
as I served under a very fine officer.
Major George b Dabney, lawyer
from Boston. and We have with us
a wonderfully agreeable personnel
It's sort of like family and Il makes
the work very agreeable
ii would have preferred TO have gone
home as there are many personal rea
sons and business connections that
require my attention but hated to
leave the major at this time, the claims
end is 70 me like child | took it
over almost from the start and have
had control OF 1t ever since and there
Is much In my head regarding many
of the claims that il is impossible To-
put In writing The hardest time lis
nov when troops are embarking Con-
gress, as you may know, passed an
Act April rs, 1918. which authorized us
to settle certain classes OF claims but
as Congress always has way Of do
ing 1t. put in nsomething to make 1t
hard Instead Of providing that where
8 soldier causes the damage, and il
should be paid, assessing the soldier,
but paying the claimant direct BY gov
eminent funds the soldiers pay stop
page TO be the reimbursement to the
government. they beautifully accomp
lished 1t BY making It necessary to stop
the pay to the benefit Of the claimant
and letting the claimant wait You
can well imagine what that means
with troops horneward bound Even
taaiiy we will have to pay these
claims, but ii will be some job to
straighten out
hove to leave here for few days
leave about sunday Hope to visit
some Or the old battle fronts, verdun.
etc, then to Nice for rest All work
and no play is bad business
'Kindest regards to all my friends
when you see them
The little news that get Of our
bovs In the 29th division is certainly
most encouraging and up 70 the tradi
tfons 81 our state.
Am certainly happy that the casual
ties are as small as they we're j get.
most Of my news about the boys from
the Capital