New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 16, 1917, Page 6

‘their captors and all seemed to enjoy the prospects of a French prison camp. M ARTILLERY DUEL fldenly Discovers Big Guns All chround Him on Dark Road Htalled in the mud on a dark road n France with rain coming down in ceascless torrent and with active prtillery roaring a few feet away to prevent him from catching a nap was he experience described by Howard - Humason in a letter to his mother, Mrs. H. B. Humason of Vine street. Humason also tells of a French ffensive for which all waited for hit seemed ages and which was ekun and concluded in record time, dusands of prisoners being bagged nd hundreds of guns being brought The joys ot @ real bath—in fact WO real baths—are also described ith the clever humor that the writer revealed in all his letters. The letter follows: “Grand Hotel, 12 Bouleard 3 des Capucines, Parls, 3 28 October, 1917. [My Dearest Mother:— “As you will note by the stationery ®m once more in Paris. Arrived evening too late to get anything & bite to eat but have just finished king up for lost time as just prior pi sitting down to write it was ne- shsary to let out my belt. You never 1l know me in the world when I urn, at least in the way of eating. #When I entered the dining room hils noon you can” guess what I or- but found I could not obtain itoday, so I had the regular dinner fhich had for its plece de resistance oast beef and mashed potatoes. fAlike former times I did not stop h the main course but went right through the list, starting with led tongue, soup, fish, mush- _u. roast beef, salad; candied I#its, coffee and above all, a cigar. I“” of it, ma chere mere, the first four long months. jte clean of everything and e contented with the world. ¥When I last wrote I promised to Fite again but did not get a chance ‘we have been having it hard late- . Until last night I had not had my hes off for over three weeks, ex- pt for my shoes and coat. On ar- 1 last night I got a room and bath thanks be to Him it was a hot fer day, Saturday and Sunday be- § the only days that commodity can I obtained in this city. The tub was nature swimming pool and after g it to well over my knees I was to lie down at almost full length wallow like a hog in a pen. I went right straight to sleep in d which is the kind that makes ju wonder how you will get in and t would happen if you fell out. It _& mattress. fully three, feet thick “A's:"so0 - different/frorix the small faw mattresses at Gouaignos. Slept nearly fifteen hours and then arose d took another bath and had the presaid dinner. In spite of the lat- I scraped the feel I Meets Tank “in a Hurry “On Thursday we had another trip which, in some respects, was the most interesting one I have to look back upon, although it had its drawbacks at the time. We received orders for four o'clack Thursday the trip to be a ‘double one for and, in order to expedite matters, the chief decided to send them in groups of six cars each instead of waiting until all 24 were loaded and unloaded. We got off in the first ram or group, but in loading for the second trip got delayed and started out the last car in the second ram. In some way there was an er- ror made about food and there was nothing ta eat, but as indications pointed to the early arrival home, no one objected very much. On the be- ginning of the second trip we got tangled up in an immense line of traffic, then were held up for over two hours waiting for a marine gun to get pulled off the road and we be- gan to see that we werc to go with- out supper as well. Our route took us due east to the town of — "y where we turned north and took a road heretofore forbidden to cam- lons. The road out of is up an exceedingly steep hill and in the middle of this misfortune overtook Camion No. 11 in the way of car- buretor trouble. Flashlights were forbidden, so we had to do our best in the darkness of a cold rainy night. After three-quarters of an hour I got started, not knowing where we were to stop, as all the others had long disappeared. The stop came all too easily only a half-mile further on. We had reached the crest of the hill and started to descend when we struck an artillery train loaded with ammunition. The road here was far from the haunts of the steam roller and road markers I pictured in an- other letter and, in addition, it had been soaked with almost a week’s rain. “You have read of what mud Is in France but you can't picture it even in the most vivid reading. Mon Com- arade and I debated as to whether to attempt to pass or not and decided to try it. We managed to get along well to where we could see the oper road ahead when we struck a spot where the road sloped to the left a bit and we gently but firmly began to skid and in spite of the skilful and heroic maneuvering of the premier conductor, yours truly, we skidded inch by inch towards the ditch eventually making a sudden stop when the rear wheel buried itself way over the hub. We were stuck and stuck fast in’an unpleasant spot without camions to aid us, not knowing where we were or | even if we were on the right road, | with a cold drizzly rain falling and no ! prospects of getting out. So we sat with top up, storm curtain up, floor board up to furnish heat and engine running to supply fresh heat with no signs of the arrival of the third ram or of the return of the first. We sat and sat from 6:30 until 11:30 when I heard a peculiar rumbling in the dis- tance and getting out to investigate got my first sight of a caterpillar tank. It came lumbering along and, it immediately occurred to me that if the contrivance could jump trenches and knock down trees and roofs as I had read, it would be a simple matter for it to pull a lost camion onto the P I think I must be pounds lighter ter the former. “Eh bien! These are big days and [is hard to sit down and try to write connected letter. There are sa y things to write, questions to rer, thoughts to express, that it is ible to kngw where to begin or pP. ‘Waiting for Offensive. “I presume that by now the news of French offensive has reached you. was a long time coming, but has il the appearance of a wonderful tory at the present writing. It was, fast, so long in coming that most us _began to have doubts that h. uld happen. *“Ag, I wrote, there were lndlcauom rywhere of a great offengive long but when, day after day, noth- Beppened, we began to believe jat all the lengthy, arduous prepar- fons in which we had taken part nothing but preparations for' a ve. Our doubts increased day m until the question of ‘Quand nce l'attack? became as hard answer as the old proverbial joke, [aw old is Ann?’ A little over a week ago, however, e guns began to bark, and once they how they did talk! Sleep, at s, was almost impossible, as at es our beds actually shook from jar aof the earth, although the e guns were over three miles vi This kept up for three days, imost without cessation, and Dame mor, aided and abetted by both ench and Ameri pessimists, had [ready spread nu ous reports of a g Hun drive, when one day all bt was dispelled. It was on the it Wednesday, I believe. We were h a trip which we had taken many mes before and were traveling in- the neral directian of Soissons when .saw what looked like a body of ops come on to the road from the ¥ 6ds At the left. The sight of the 6ops was so famillar that naone of thought anything of it until we re almost up to them when it was scovered they were Boche prisoners hder guard. This caused everyone #it up and take notice and we then w for fthe first time that the ob- rvation balloans were far in ad- nce of their former location. A tle while later we reached the road ong which many of the parks are ated where we unload and we then ssed another huge procession of che. There must have been 3,000 ily\and we all began to be glad at we played even aur small part the struggle. At the time I write, 0 guns have been taken, 12,000 pris- pers and a quantity of machine and the British are doing ually well in Flanders. ‘“Tfié prisoners in the majority ere very voung, but there were a fine stalwart ones among them lhom, we were told, belonged ta the perial Guards. They were all pale hd hungry looking and sald they had d mothing to eat for over four days, e accuracy of the French fire hav- g cut off their supply. Those who oke French laughed and joked with road, so with much the manner of a Fifth avenue trafic cop, I got into the road and halted the contrivance, explaining with much difficulty in my best French through a barred window, our predicament. The man in com- mand said he was very sorry but he was in a great hurry as the French were to continue their attack and he was to take part. I don’t know wheth- er I was a humorist or not but where he got that stuff about hurrying I can’'t imagine. His vehicle had much the same grace and celerity as a snail. His words must have been a aignal, however, for just as he start- ed on, the guns which had been si- lent, began to bleat again and we found to our chagrin that we were right in the middle of some batterles. On each side of the road a few yards away were some 210m which went oft with a big flash and a bigger noise at the rate of about one a minute while below in the valley the smaller 150’s and 76's began the barrage at the rate of about one a second. “Right then and there I mado a deatsion. - They could put me in the front line trenches, they could present me to the Boche as the first prisoner of war, but never would they get jue into the artillery. You know how crazy I have always been :' it Fourth of July celebrations, Wid West shows and other noisy celebra- tions, so you can sympathize with me. It has long been my contention that the man who first started the cam- paign for a safe and sane Fourth should 'be honored. That night 1 would have voted him the Crolx de Guerre, Medaille Militaire and .Cross of the Legion of Honor had I the uvu- portunity. “About 12 o’clock the thing began to get on my nerves and I sugpested we unload. The suggestion was made in the sign lanuage, as talk was im- possible in that inferno of sour . thought we might be able to pull out freed from our load. So we hauled out five’ hundred four foot planks and laid them neatly by the roadside. The work relieved us a lot, but were were unable to get any traction, the wheel going in deeper. So we went back to our seats and sat untll 1 a. m. when at last the last ram hove in sight. It was but small encourage- ment, however, as no one had a cable and we snapped ropes as quickly as they were put on. They evectually went on, promising to send back an empty camion with a wire cabls. At 8:30 help arrived and we got out, loaded the 500 planks back, got to the park to find everyone gone, in- cluding the unloaders, s0 we again unloaded and departed. Day had broken before we left and we wore able to see plainly only about ,ve hundred yards away the ruins of I'ort Malmalison which two dayvs before hud been in the hands of the Boche und which was the first objective of the French in this offensive, Incidentally the place where wn un- loaded was away in front of the front ll|na batteries, just about where the - second line of French trench de- fenses had existed. We got hack at a little after 9. about 28 1-2 hours af- { ter our departure, having had nothicg |to eat, no sleep, but filled with ad- miration for the Poilus to whoin the thing we had had one night had been habitual for three long years. fter four hours sleep we were out again Friday afternoon on an eight hour trip and Saturday we had to get 1 a. m. to catch the train o which like the N. U & s very, very late. “Well, no more. It is getting dusk and there will be no light until ¢, 1 believe, so will bring this lengthy epistle to a close. “Adieu then untll demain. Love to vour dear self and family. “Your son, “HOWARD.’ CITY ITEMS Silk hosiery. Look in our south window. Damon’s Shoe Shop.—advt. The committee of the I. O. B. 8. and I. O. B. A, United societies, has completed arrangements for the ben- efit cancert to be held December 2 at the Hebrew school hall. Prof. M. Sheideker and Prof. L. Wick, of the New Britain Institute of Music, will assist in the program. Victrolas at C. L. —advt. The police have been notified that Henry F. Ramm of 111 Belden street has deserted from the navy, and $50 is offered if he can be found. He was at the naval training station at New- port, R. I, as an apprentice seaman. Ramm, who is 19 years old, enlisted September 17. Plerce & Co. Save money. Shirts. Wilson's.— advt. MEETING DISTURBED. At a meeting of the Northend School Parents and Teachers’ associa- tion last evening a gang of boys gath- ered outside the school building and created such a disturbance that it was necessary to notify the police, Wwho dispersed the rowdies. The evening's program was continued after the po- lice chased the boys away. BEGIN BOT WATER DRINKING IF YOU DON'T FEEL RIGHT Says glass of hot water with phosphate before breakfast washes out poisons. RS 1f you wake up with a bad taste, bad breath and tongue is coated; if your head is dull or aching; if what you eat sours and forms gas and acid in stom- ach, or you are bilious, constipated, nervous, sallow and can’'t get feeling Jjust right, begin inside bathing. Drink’ before breakfast, a glass of real hot” water with a teaspoonful of limestone phosphate in it. This will flush the poisons and toxins from stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels and cleanse, sweeten and purify the entire alimen- tary tract. Do your inside bathing im- mediately upon arising in the morn- ing to wash out of the system all the previous day’s poisonous waste, gases and sour bile before putting more food into the stomach. To feel like young folks feel; like you felt before your blood, nerves and muscles became loaded with body im- purities, get from your pharmacist a quarter pound of limestone phosphate which is inexpensive and almost taste- less, except for a sourish twinge which is not unpleasant. Just as soap and hot water act on the skin, cleansing, sweetening and freshening, so hot water and limestone phosphate act on the stomach, liver, kidnéys and bowels. Men and women who are usually constipated, bilious, | headachy or have any stomach dis- order should begin this inside bathing before breakfast. They are assured they will hecome real real cranks on | the subject shortl T e————— A SPOONFUL OF SALTS RELIEVES ACHING KIDNEYS We FKat Too Much Meat., Which Clogs Kidney Says Noted Authority. If Back Hurts or Bladder Bothers, Stop All Meat for a W When you wake up with bachache and dull misery in the kidney region it generally means you have been eating too much meat., says a well- known authority. Meat forms uric acid which overworks the kidneys in their effort to filter it from the blood and they become sort of paralyzed and loggy. When your kidneys get slug- gish and clog you must relieve them, like you relleve your bowels; remov- ing all the body's urinous waste, else you have bachache, sick headache, dizzy spells; your stomach sours, tongue 1is coated, and when the weather is bad you have rheumatic twinges. The urine is cloudy, full of sediment, channels often get sore, water scalds and you are obliged to seek rellef two or three times during the night. Either consult a good, reliable phy- slclan at once or get from your phar- maclst about four ounces of Jad Salts; take a teaspoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts 18 made from the acld of grapes and. lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for gen- erations to clean and stimulate slug- gish kidneys also to neutralize acids in the urine so it no longer irritates, thus ending bladder weakness. Jad Salts is a life saver for regular meat eaters. It is inexpensive, can- not injure and makes a delightful, effervescent lithla-water drink. 385 to 387 MAIN STREET NEW BRITAIN, CONN. Exlr_a Specials Tomorrow in Suits, Coatsand Dresses All New Clean Merchandise--No Old Styles But owing to a backward season the manufac- turer has offered us Hundreds of High Class Garments to put in THIS GREAT SALE AT ‘ABOUT HALF PRICE. rthlVglxlEN 'S $Man Tailored High Grade Suits, WO 19.00 to $22.50. 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