Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 13, 1918, Page 5

SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1918 ___ THE CASPER DAILY TRIBUNE ENLISTMENT OF BAITIOHERG 19 BEING HURRIED Work of Local Agents to Be Sup- plemented By Visit of Liew tesant From Great Falls, Montana Word was received this morning at the Red Cross headquarters from J. H. Mitchell, lieutenant officer, commanding, British Canadian re- cruiting mission at 617 Sprague ave nue, Spokane, Washington, , that the British draft convention has success- fully passed the senate, and is ex- pected to ‘be in operation within the next 60 to 70 days. Lieutenant Mit- chell advises that the draft will in- clude” all Britishers and Canadians in the United States, between he ages of 20 and 44, whether or not they have taken out their first pa- pers. It would be well to point o..t that it will not be very creditable to any Britisher over in this country, who is within the present draft age, who waits to be drafted into the United States army. I do not csu- sider that his American comrades will be very proud of him if he has neg- lected the appeal to his native coun- try to enlist. A drafted man will also serve wherever the government wishes to put him, while at the pres- ent time practically every branch and n particular regiments of the Brit- e ish and Canadian forces are now open for enlistment. In the Canad- ian infantry, cavalry, engineers, skilled railway employes, section and railway construction corps. In addl- tion to thig, men may select the par- ticular district in Canada where they wish to go, provided it is not west Spokane, for training. In the spe- ed branches, however, there are in districts only in which depots nd men must of course be sent ” It is M. Donaldson in charge of the Brit- ish Canadian mission at Great Falls, na, will send a recruiting agent to per in the very near future to recruit all Britishers desiring to en- list before the draft convention be- comes operative. Some time .ago, Captain D. H Blake, in charge of the Denver mis-| sion delivered an address at Cas- per at the Iris theater, and upon his solicitation, Mr. H. C. Bretschneider secretary of the local Red Cross, agreed to handle the matter in Cas- per until other arrangements could be made. Since then Mr. S. A. Lane has the matter in charge, and thru » cooperation of both parties they vect to have the applieations of all} h subjects in the very near fut- ind make the necessary arrange- for the recruiting sergeant to to Casper. KNIGHTS TEMPLAR ELECT OFFICERS AT CHEYENNE CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 13.— Fifty Knights Templar, representing the constituent commanderies of the states, are in attendance at the Grand Commandery here, which yesterday | elected officers as follows: Herbert J. King, grand command- er; Charles T. Townsend, deputy grand commander; William Pugh, | nd generalissimo; John A. Riner,| 1 captain general; Horace D. | mer, grand senior warden; Fred | Xendle, grand junior warden;/| orge C. Rafter, grand prelate; Sam-| uel Dickey, grand treasurer; Adrian J}. Parshall, grand recorder; Guy R. er, grand sword bearer; Hud-| ey Holli son W. Darrah, grand warder; Frank A, Holliday, grand captain of the from the several command- » gain in membership dur- : the past year of over 10 per cent. he next grand conclave will be dat Laramie on July 11, 1919, ter the auspices of Lmmanuel Com. -|able consultation with the military | wooden shacks for the different wards tion, division on women’s war work, issues the following: The heroism of American women in canteens and hospitais in France tary of State from his sister, Miss Katherine Ten Eyck Lansing, who, with Miss Emma Sterling Lansing, another sister, has been engaged in canteen work with the American Red Cross in France since Septem- ber, 1917. The letter follows: “France, Thursday, June 6, 1918. “Long before you receive this you will have received a cablegram ‘we hope reached you through the am_ bassador and have been relieved of your anxiety about us. We have been living through thrilling days and I am still tired enough to be afraid that I won’t write a yery clear letter, This is the first chance either of us has had to write, for we have been tremendously busy. “Of course, the first news we had of the big German attack came a week ago Monday. We knew that it was all along the line near us, but felt no anxiety about our own sit- uation, although two of the ladies had decided to go to Paris that day for the day—but decided not to go. as they were afraid there might be some difficulty about getting back to , (a place about 12 miles from the front), on account of the move- ment of troops. The troops passed all day and we knew they were be- ing taken to the different points of attack, Advised to Go to Paris | “Tuesday morning there was some excitement in the hall while J was still in bed. I got up to gee, and found Miss E. (head of the can- teen) had received a letter from an English friend, couched in very am- biguous terms, but by reading be_ tween the lines we made out that he thought we should go at once to) Paris while ‘the going was _ still| good,” as he put it. After consider- authorities we decided there was no immediate danger. Tuesday the am- bulances kept going by with the! wounded, and Tuesday night Miss E took one person and went to see if there was anything to be done at the Evacuation hospital. We, did | not all go, as she was not willing. About 10) she came back for five more people.. Emma could not go, for she was on night duty in the) canteen, but I went with four others. and I never spent such a_ strange night. As soon as I reached tre, hospital I was asked if I would go} into one of the barracks where the! more lightly wounded were and in- terpret between the French doctors} and the English. “The hospital is a huge place with and spreads over a great. deal of ground. I was taken into one of these barracks crowded with people, becoming more crowded as the night went on. ‘There were both English and French, and I was asked to take} the names of all the English, their regiments, enlistments, and so on. and find out where they were wound- ed. I was told what to do, then left alone, and there I was all night, the room crowded with French, Alge- rians, blacks and English. “As the night wore on the poor! things laid down as they could on the floors, under the tables, and on the tables, bloody bandages all atound. | I had made out all the English papers by about 2:30. In the midst of it, about 1 o’clock, we had an air raid, and I can tell you the bombs.never sounded so loud as they did out there, HEROISM OF AMERICAN WOMEN AT FRONT REVEALED IN LETTERS TO | BIG CIRCUS ONE SECRETARY LANSING BY SISTER is revealed in a letter to the Secre-| The Committee on Public Informa-|those who were able left the shack I went out to! see how it was and found many of and went to the abri. {ivems standing outside, as the ubri was full. About 4 o’clock it began jthe others had gone home, but as I was alone with ali those men I did) |not like to leave. A little later some jof the officials came in, and then be- gan the task of fitting the papers to ‘the men and getting them off in the train. They wanted me to stay to read the names, as they were diffi- cult to pronounce. list of men who had to go off on stretchers, told the doctors in French where they were wounded, and so until 12 at noon. It was rather a especially as I had nothing to eat or drink. Amazing Troop Movements In the afternoon I went to the can- teen. Some of the people in. were beginning to leave, and the in- habitants were all gathered in knots around the street. The military movement thru the town was some- thing amazing. Of course, excite- ment ran high. We spent all our days and nights—until Saturday night—at the hospital, with only two people left at the canteen. “TI can’t tell you anything about it —only with the most vivid imagina- tion. I Go not think any one can dream of such suffering, . tience, such heroism, or such terrible human wreckage, and until one has seen it they can not know what war means. We found more than we could do even with our lack of knowledge, giving the men water, washing their bloody faces, interpret- ing between the English and the to be light and I wondered whether I made another) on, and did not get back to the house| long stretch from 10 the night before, | such pa-| ANIMAL SHOW OF | OF BEST,CLAIM Yankee Robinson’s three-ring ani- mal show and circus, coming to Cas- per, Saturday, July 20, has the rep- ‘utation of being one of the largest and finest traingd animal circuses in the country. The St. Paul Daily Times said the day after the circus gave two performances there: “Should Yankee Robinson decide to come here again, he will have to enlarge his tent. Every available seat was taken Wednesday night and many people were obliged to stand during the performance. The show was eu.cirely new and the big crowd jnatural anipathy to the big brutes. was highly delighted with the fear- | Iessness and skill of the trainers and PAGE FIVE the knowledge of the animal act-| ors. the top of the tent, and were entire was one of the biggest thrillers of | ly surroundd by fizzing fireworks the evening.” “The show is purely a good circus} and animal show, and it made a hit! in every sense of the word. In the! middle of the tent was the big steel! arena, whore the “cats,” a sanimals of the cat family are known, were ex- hibited. The bears also appeared in the middle arena. Here were exihbit- ed Nubian lions, lionesses, tigers, puma, leopards, black, brown and polar boars. Some of the big cats| were cranky and the trainers were kept busy every minute taking the streaks of stubborness out of them The show departed from the time- won features. One of the most dif-| ficult acts was those of pumas and liens riding on horse back. Not only did the trainers have to train the cats to do their turns, but the horse also had, to be trained to overcome his The fire ascension, where a big lion and a woman trainer were pulled to { | 1 A beautiful new ance of Everwear Hosiery, just ro- Let an Expert Do It Charging is not an especially complicated Process, but it is an especially important one. By proper charging, batteries are returned to their proper condition; by improper charging, their life is likely to be seriously shortened. When your battery is charged by a Willard expert, the charging rate is carefully determined, and is slowed down by just the right amount as the process nears completion. Ask us about the Still Better Willard. It is the only battery with the “Bone Dry” principle that is your absolute assurance of getting a battery as new as the day it left the factory. Auto Electrical Co. French doctors, and wishing we could) go a hundred times as fast. One) French boy I brought water to, and) the tears rolled down his face, he had) waited so long for it—and for a French hoy to cry like that means| ceived, is bringing throngs of inter: women to our hosiery department every day. 111 East First Street. SPARK PLUGS ACCESSORIES \TOWSER MAKES more than other nationalities. “T have found that you can bear you are doing something. I was so afraid I would not have the courage, but when I was doing something I did not think of that side of it. went into the operating room—or, rather, the room where the wounds were cleansed and dressed—and gave water to the men on the tables, but the hardest thing was to give milk or water to the men whose faces were completely smashed to pieces. No words could describe such sublime en- durance of suffering.” “Trains are uncertain, but this let- ter may reach you, as I hope it will. Don’t worry about us, we shall not run into danger, and if it comes to us you don’t want us to run away from it, but take it as bravely as other people do. whenever we can. “Lovingly yours, “KATE.” HIGH EXPLOSIVE {By United Press} LONDON, July 13.—No matter how hungry Towser may be, there’s always some high explosive left in on it. British housewives therefore | are urged to ‘collect the bones after their dogs are thru with them, and) send them to collecting points where | making glycerine. ’ seeing the most horrible wounds if! ra We shall send you word) that bone when he gets thru chewing |_ the marrow is extracted and used for | | WATCH OUR WINDOWS Glycerine is a component of high all alone with all those wounded men. In the midst of it some one opened! the door and called ‘a Vabri,’ and} imported, and only $300 when made in England. Empress mandery No. 3. TARDY HONOR 1S PAID A FAMOUS SOUTHERNER SHINGTON, D. C., July 13.—! V hen one of the new “catch-the-kais- e destroyers slid down the ways of the in M re river shipbuilding company | achusetts a few days ago and | christened the ‘Maury,” the ted States government paid an honor long deferred to a great South-) ‘rn naval officer whose contributions | to the scientific knowledge of his own | country hardly have been surprised. | Spottsylvania County, Virginia, | was the birthplace of Commodore} ‘Matthew F. Maury. One the out-| break of the Civil war he resigned, from the Union navy and cast his| (ot with the South. It has been said val the North never forgave him for | *oing with “his own people,” and) ‘he assertion has been made that the! failure of his own government to| memorialize him while foreign na- tions have fee i done so, was dup to this, ng. If so, a kindlier sentiment taken place. A United States. arship now been named for him, | d it is further proposed to erect’ * monument in this city to his mem- ory, wa ARLE ADH Pe Ask the Master Mind. 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