Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-10-19
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swers. His name was Watterson Towers !;
his age was summers round tWenty-fo' or
twenty-five, he didn' know perZactly WITCH
he was born and fetched up in Bowlin' Green,
Kintucky, and at the time of his coming to
France he resided at number thirty-fo East
Pittsburgh.
Number thirty-four what?"
NAV sub. not no thirty-fo' nothin'-jes'
plain thirty-fo'."
"But what street is it on?"
" 'Tain't on no street, Boss
What do you mean-no street,"
BOSS, Wuz you ever in East Pittsburgh?
Well, sub, den does you member dat string
of little houses dat stands in row right
into town FUN de fur side? 'Tain't no
street, it's jes' only houses. Well, subj 1
lives in de thirty-fo'th one"
Il see. How did you get here?"
me? rid, mostly
Erode on what?"
rid part de time on ship an part de
time on de steam-cyars but fust an last
done mighty heap of walkin' Also"
Further questioning ELECTED from Waiter
son Towers these facts: He had taken a
job which carried him from East Pittsburgh
to New York and'left him stranded there. He
had heard about the draft. He knew that
sooner or later the draft would catch him
and send him off to France where he would
be expected to fight Germans, SO he decided
that before this happened he would visit
France on his own hook, and, as a private
observer view the operations at frst-hand,
with a view to deciding whether he cared
enough for war as sport to take hand in it
voluntarily. He had smuggled himself
aooard transport-Heaven alone knew how!
and fortified with bag Of ginger-snaps
he had remained hidden away in a cargo
hold until the ship sailed. Two days out
from land a new and very painful sickness
overcame the stowaway and he made his way
up on deck for air. There he had been
caught and sent to the galley to work his
passage across. When he had progressed
thus far the cross examiner broke in
What was the name of the ship?'
BOSS, plum disremembers, but it must
er been de bigges ship dey is. wy, sub,
dey wuz most six-hund'ed folks on dat ship
an had to wash up after ever las one of
'em. wife folks suttinly ticks lot of dishes
wen dey eats-I'll tell de wo"ld!"
"Well, where did the ship land?-Do you
know that much?
BOSS, hit wuz some place wild a outland-
ish name an dats all kin tell you. 1 never
wuz no hand fur rememberin' regular names,
let alone desc yere jabber kind of words lax
desc yere French folks talks wild
What happened when you came ashore?"
IVY, sub, dey let me off de ship an a
wife man on de Wharf-boat he tells me rs
landed right spang in France an he axes
me does I want reg lar job of wuk an /
tells him, Nav, sub, not eff l kin git anthing
else to do I tells him rs amin to travel
round an see de country an de war fore /
settles down to anythin' stiddy-lak. Den
mother wife man OATS standin dere he tells
me dey's lot Of my color in place called
SAINT Nazare an cides I'll go dere an so
ciate awhile wild dem niggers. So I changed
my money an /"
81 thought you said you didn't have any
money when you started?"
II didn't, Boss, but de wife folks on de
ship dey taken up election fur me, account
Of me washin all dem dishes so nice an
clean. 1t come to twenty dollahs. So
changes it into desc yere francs. De man
give me twenty francs fur my twenty dollahs
didn't charge me no interes' a-tall, but jes'
traded even: an den / sets out to find dis
yere SAINT Nazare. 1t wuz two days ago an
I been movin' stiddy ever sense