The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-11-08

of them. The girl is Marjorie
Cole, and she was called to Rich
mond because of the illness and
death of her grandfather. Many
times before she has been in Rich
mOnd and thinks of her grand
fathers home on West Third and
National Road as her real home.
This week, am going to tell you
how Marjorie helped to fight the
largest forest fire in the United
States. AUNT POLLY.
The time that it all happened
was September, 1919, and Marjor-
les most exciting day was the 18th
OF September.
The place where the great fire
in Southern California, around the
vicinity Of Los Angeles.
And the girl was Marjorie, a
girl of Gods Country" who loves
the West, and who loves every
minute of life and who loves a
thrill in the Outof doors a little
better than anything else.
Up on the mountains Of the San
Gabriel canyon, forty-five miles
from Los Angeles, is a lodge all
made Of wood, and around this
lodge are several acres of mountain
land all open and free and beauti-
full, and this is MarjOrie's camp,
her very own. An automobile can
not reach it; only horse can
travel the last fifteen miles.
Afraid? Not Marjorie! And
really, you see should not be afraid,
for Boris is there. Boris OF Corona
is his full name and very aristo-
cratic wolf-houn1 he is, With par
entS that came over from Russia.
He is about five feet, eight inches
high when he stands on his hind
feet and will leap at the neck Of
anyone who makes an attempt to
harm Marjorie, and the person
would have very little show against
Boris.
One evening she decided to go
up to the main camp for supper.
This was the camp where supplies
were brought for the firc-fighters.
Needing someone to drive a pack
train Immediately to one place
where a fire was raging in one
part of the United States Forest
Reserve they asked her if she
would do it. Now pack train is
a number Of burros and mules
loaded with supplies and headed
with a horse, and Marjorie was on
the horse.
AT ten o'clock at night she start
ed and it was midnight when she
reached the place where many
mon were resting from the terri
Bile work of fighting a fire. (And
by the way, Juniors, the way they
fight fire is to cut down trees for
a large area around the fire to
keep it from spreading beyond that
place.. The men were lying around
on the ground without any blank
cts, and the night was very chill,
but they had been working about
eighteen hours a day for several
days and they were too tired to.
think Of anything at all.
Marjorie as Cook.
Discovering that the men had
not had anything to eat for several
hours, Marjorie began cutting
bread. Each loaf was cut into four
teen pieces and before she fin
ished she cut up $50 loayCs. She
spread these with cheese an, IN
and meat, so that every man ID
three sandwiches. Early the next
morning she started for home.
Sleep was what Marjorie wanted
then, but three or four hours sleep
was all she could have that day, !
for the fire was getting worse all
the time and Marjorie was called
to take charge Of the main station
while the men went to help fight /!
the fire.
A Wild Ride.
Once the phone rang so eXCitedly |
that Marjorie took down the re-
Cciver and listened in, although /
the call was not for her station
This is what she heard: ITS shot |
the canyOu,'
Hanging up the receiver she tried /
to realize what that meant She |