New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 2, 1916, Page 14

Photos by American Press Association, 1~Troops on the march in Mexico. 2.—Color guard of Seventh New York regiment. 3.—National guardsmen arriving in Mexico. 4.—Staff of the Seventh New York regiment. 5.— Troops unloading a supply wagon. 6.—Arriving in camp. 7.—Guarding Mexican district of ElI Paso. 8.— Camp at McAllen, Tex. HE future holds the secret of the duration of the national guardsmen’s stay on the Mex- ican frontier and no one can forecast how long it will be before “our boys” return to their. homes. They are there now, and the entire country is interested in their welfarc It is interesting to know the littls things that occupy their time. The public is interested in their every act and deed. There are mothers, wives; sisters and sweethearts everywhere who are daily nning the papers for news of the| loved ones, so the following little stories collected here and there on the | border will be interesting to every American citizen. Mixup With a Mule. The well known but inexplicable dis- position of the army mule was respon- | sible for an exasperating and at the time amusing series of episodes in the | camps of the Seventh, Seventy-first and | the Twelfth of New York. Especially | recalcitrant are the mules of the Sev- | enth. By orders of Colonel Fisk a cor- | ral was being erected around the faith- ful, noisy but essential aids to the sol- dier when the preliminary dust storm | that heralds a rain in that part of Tex- | as came blustering out of the east. mules decided the corral was no place for them, and several jumped the bar- rier and went in the general direction of Mexico. It was time for quick action. One of the first men to grab a mule and at- tempt to subdue it was Private Thorn- | ton Brown of Company K, a cousin of | A moving picture | J. Pierpont Morgan. concern would have given a million dollars for a film of the wrestling match between Private Brown and the mule. The mule won, but Private Brown came out of the encounter with glory and mud and also equipped with much knowledge of mule strategy. How Maloney Made Weigh The happiest man in the Illinois sec- K. | tion is Jimmie M mmie, be it said, lad with loney is a light a plea face. the weight required by 120 pounds. ~ Jimmie did a federal himself- The night before Jimmie weighed A chill ran along his ba sure was going to Me idea. Jimmie went to th times. t. of Troop rmy weigh ck. Jimmie feared he wouldn't make rules. more han this before he went to Springfield, but hard drill knocked off five pounds. | examination 118 pound Jimmi o—hut, e an pump and drank long and deep. He did this many | When he stood on the scales of | fate the next day he was six pounds | overweight, and when it was all over [in told of Laredo | days of the past. | passed away to a merited berth in the | Jimmie's sober face relaxed and he chuckled. Mexican Flag. Lieutenant Runschkolb of St. Louis propounded a puzzler. He inquired as to the colors and design of the Mexican flag. Colonel Donnelly grinned, but ventured not one word. . Captain Freen Nulsen said he didn't know what it looked like, but that he would get one for the staff correspond- ents soon after arriving at the border. Major Gruner said the question was idle, as the residents of that troublous land awoke each morning under a dif- | | The government furnishes its soldiers ferent flag. This closed the argument. Heat In Laredo. The townspeople of Laredo hail the |soldier can carry of same. advent of the troops with delight. They do not fear the Mexicans—indeed, it the other way around—but soldiers spend money, and Laredo ready for a boom. Concerning the intense heat here, the habitants like to repeat the story | “bad men” in border | 1s getting | here the teller of the |? took their lower regions tale always chuckles—they blankets with them. Want Everlasting Ice. General Parker, at Brownsville, has received information that a wealthy resident of New York wants to present each soldier in the New York di with something that will be of us him in the field. The general has been | asked to designate what the boys | ought to have, and he is stumpe4. ity and all that a The most | | with every neces | acceptable present from the philan- thropic New Yorker would be an indi- | vidual cake of everlasting ice, which When they died and | One York, mus Te |in nece: | mother ik rite g i : !%Qm B v RS R T in the Illinofs national guard. Colonel Garrity had given orders that each member of the regiment was entitled to receive a visit from one woman friend, but he deprecated the appear- ance of a bevy of half a dozen girls fol | every guardsman. So when Petersen | appeared with three women he found the guard lines strictly drawn and stern sentinels opposing his entrance. Petersen appealed to Captain John L Lavin of his company “Who are the ladies?” said the cap- tain “My mother, my sister and my flan« could be carried in a soldier's trousers | pocket or hat. Must Wear Hats. Brigadier General Dyer, who was at time colonel of the Twelfth New has found it necessary to order that the soldie ts in the sun. The trong enough to one not in the A peremptory wear their hs sunshine is the brain of as mble habit of exposing his dome to the blue of heaven. At 4 o'clock in the after- noon General Dyer issued orders that all the men of the Twelfth not engaged sary work should crawl into the shelter of their tents. At that hour the heat was blistering, and the ho: pital corps was getting a lot of prac- tical fleld duty. Put His Mother First. It vou had to choose between your and your sweetheart—which? This is the proposition that was put up to Edward W. Petersen, a private cee,” sald Petersen. | “You can take in only one,’ | Lavin. “It's up to you to choose.” | Petersen looked around at the faces of the three women, who were closet to him than any others in the world. “Mother,” he said simply. “Some One Cared.” One chap in khaki stood dejectedly in a corner of the First regiment ars mory, Philadelphia, watching sweet- hearts, wives and mothers bidding farewell to the boys of Company G. He was in Company G, but no one had come to bld him goodby. A little old woman had been watching him out ot the corner of her eye. With her wer¥ two girls. “Hain’t no one come?" she asked ag she edged up to him. He shook his mournfully. Then the old woman ed him. And not only that, but the two girls kissed him, and the little old woman's son, who w the brother of the two girls, who witnessed the incj." dent, smiled knowingly. As Company G swung out the despondent one cars ried himself more erectly than any one in the company. | “Some one cared.” said Mafi Eating Sharks Are Extremely Rare In Atlantic, ‘But There Is Some Danger of Being Killed HAT has been considered s for ye: s has become a fact, ently several young died after having been tacked by sharks, an occurrence to have been without precedent alo the United States’ 3,000 miles of At- lantic coast While these fataliti and shocking, indeed, it in nowise detract from the seriousness of case to ignore rumor and co the actual facts of the almost identical oce men have aid horrit will the are rrences. TYPE OF MAN EATING SHARK. Herman Oelrichs offered a reward of| conclusions should be cast aside, and 500 to any one who could furnish an| we must now seek for an explanation. The seriousness of such a menace to of bath- orts should authenticated of man having be case a ers. aimed. | and Stream offered a similar reward, | with a like result. Other offers have since been made, one as recently as | 1915, ana even the United States gov- | ernment has never been able to find a single authentic case of this character; The reward ed with the tragedies which have oc- curred on the New Jersey coast, all| among these are the sand shark, dusky idore than twenty-five years ago 'authentic, previous investigation and'shark, brown shark, tiger shark and sider only | hence when we are suddenly confront- | n attacked by a shark in temperate | the thousands upon thou remained un-| ers at our great seaside r Six years later the Forest|not be underestimated, nor, on the oth- er hand, should it cause undue alarm, in view of the long period of uninter- enjoyed. large of rupted safety they Sharks have always exis: numbers them of sufficient size tc men who lost their lives. have along our shores, ind ted in many > inflict just such injuries as were suffered by the! Prominent cles. | mackerel shark. These attain to huge size and are equipped with an array of terrible teeth. Usually when caught they all come under the head of man eating sharks, which gives rise to many fallacious ideas. None of these creatures will wantonly or from hun- ger attack a human being, if we are to believe the great weight of scientific evidence at hand concerning these spe- If approached when enmeshed in a net or when brought aboard ship | these animals are most dangerous, but this, of course, is true of virtually 7 animal when cornered. only one man eating shark, he open sea of all the the great white shark harias), but so rare it is doubtful if any this country has anything dult specimen. © 1ot in the least particular as to their diet and are likely any thing that happens along they are feeding. One irk was kill- ed, and in its stomach werc found a tin can, mutton bones, the hind quarter of a pig, the head of a dog and quantities of horse flesh. It would appear it is always more or less dangerous to swim rodon is this monster museum in to sei whe! in waters where there is offal floating | in great amount, for, in the instances of accidents occurring with sharks in tropical waters, it has been in harbors where they were attracted by the smell of blood and offal that had been dump- ed in the wate All sharks are great cover enormous distanc ibly short length of time. eenth century an Amer was chased by a British man-of-war in the Caribbean inding escape im- possible, the skipper threw.the ship's papers overboard. The privateer was captured and taken into Port Royal, Jamaica, and the captain placed on trial for his life. As there was no documentary evi- dence against him, he was about to be ‘harged, when another British ves- L arrived in port. The captain of the cruiser reported that, when off the coast of Maiti, a shark had been cap- tured and the privateer's papers had been found in its stomach. The pape thus recovered were taken into court and, solely upon the evidence they af- forded, the captain and crew were con- demned to death. The original papers were preserved and placed on exhibi- tion in the Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, where the “shark's papers’” have always been an object of interest. travelers and s in an incred- In the eight- n privateer £ i S e at | N the epidemic of infantile paralysis which fell first over New York city and then over various other sections of the country the boy police force of New York proved a great aid in keeping the city clean and taking other preventive measures were intended to prevent the spread of the The boys are well organized, and the results of their activities was to clean up spots which | had not been clean for years, report any violation of quarantine laws and | arrest those who violated instructions. The epidemic quickly spread to many | sections of the country, and it i id that a majority of the cases were traced and found to have originated in New York. The is one about which little is known. Wel: dic tionary defires it for the layman follows: Ante contagious dis which disease. disease or Poliomyelitis.—An infective S€, pro ly of micro- bic origin, in which the anterior horns of gray matter of the spinal cord are attacked, producing destruction of | their cells and causing motor paraly more common in children and hence often called infantile paralysis. Every effort has been put forward to trace the germ that causes the ailment and thus find a cure, such as was ac- complished in typhoid and diphtheria During the 1907 epidemic a committee | men in the United States made a tematic study of infantile paral | with the purpose of accurately cata- | loguing the symptoms of the disease and of identifying the germ that cau ed it. With the germ properly identi- fied the task of finding a serum to kill it and thus produce a cure for infantile paralysis would not be a difficult one. | themselves against a stone wall. report which they had prepared on the the symptoms were fever and chills; in others they were not; in some cases that the juvenile sufferer vomited and | was delirious; in others that the suffer- | { ers showed entirely different symptoms The bacteriologists had no better suc- cess. Headed by Dr. Simon Flexner ot the Rockefeller institute, they segre- But the eminent medical men found | who did such good work, have The | posts, one boy to a block tory 7 epidemic shows that in some cases | hetween ‘IHH\' to become good citizens. they understand civic matters there | 'Boy Police of New York Do’Good Work In Fighting Epidemic of Infantile Paralysis Photo by American Press Association. TWO OF THE BOY ted the poliomyelitis germ, but were unable to identify it further than to composed of the most eminent medical | find that it showed a similarity to the vs- | virus of human rabie g mals, monkeys wer | tracted the disease. ing, far as raly They injected 'ms of infantile paralysis into ani- nd of those experimented upon the only ones that con- This was interest- instructive in infantile but not vitally finding a cure for s was concerned, The juvenile inspectors, or hoy police, fixed The terri- pa- they cover includes Fourteenth reet The juvenile dej the has and atter rtment nd each precinct has its | ind subordinate officers. Eve as a regular badge and car- 1d a whistle, )se of it is to teach boy When \ptain nspector s a clul the east side | POLICE IN TRAINING. | Will be no gangs on the east side. Be- des, boys will be able to instruct thelr ents in matters that go to make the me 1d the community better. here is a growing demand on irt of public school teachers their pupils be made inspe order to join it is necess: vs to pass civil service examinations. It is essential that they study thelr lessohs and have the consent of their teachers befor >y can get their the that tors. In for the badg | In conn esting stles the work of inter- in civic matters held during re made by that appeal to side. An effort | Is made to bring the east side to a bet- | ter understanding of the ideas and views of the city officials on all things that go to make better citizens and @ better city. ction witl boys and gir ts in the parks are the summer. Addresses ¢ city officials on subjec the residents of the | conce