New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 3, 1918, Page 8

COOKS GOOD MEALS FOR THE SOLDIERS But “Larry” Says Nothing Abont It in Letter Home Mess Sergeant Leo Il Sullivan has written from France to Earl L. Hyde telling of his trip across and other events in his life as a soldier. Sullivan was formerly proprietor of Larry's restaurant on Main street, and one of the first five draitees to leave this city. 'He states that men return- ing from the front predict that the war will be over in a few months. His letter folows My Dear Friend,——Bon Jour Ma- dame Bon ou Monsier, Wec Wee Wee, Ou 1 Gee! [ man speaki French iy Well now that w are Billetted for the present at Chateau, somewhere in France, I am tuking the first opportunity to write W you 2 Gilletted in a | a beantiful | But herc [ am putting cart hefore the hor: I presume think our trip acroas the Atlantic been filied with thrills and ement on accouni of the popular the occan hot bed of t that is not etul trip for | of fighting id not he imagined. . v packed ready to move and leey g on the floor for three d ; amp Devens, had c¢ompisete 3, when 3 1ean it. Uncle fam, inl sees .that his boys have vy t they need before Roing away We had inspections and then inspections o our ov seas equipment for about two weeks be- fore we left, finally they decided we | had everything we possibly could use | and right here I want to say some thing about the American Red Cross. If you have given any money to the Red Cross, you may feel certain that the money was well spent These women that are workin Red Cross certainly do wonderful lot of good. Many a soldier in his heart has thanked these good women for the g0od they have done. Well, the order to leave came to us Sunday night, we were to leave at 12:30 that night. At that time we fell out on our company street, we did not know where we were going and there was great speculations as to where the point of embarkmen{ would be, we were told to keep quiet, get! on the train, keep the shades down and not pass from car to car. Great secrecy was rtained throughout ¢ the trip. Just at daybreak we l()llllll; ourselves at a Jock in ———, where th lad of the Red Cross met us with hot coffec and buns. We imme- diately went aboard the ship. This ship, they say, carried, besides its car- £0 of humans, one of the most highly valued cargoes that ever crossed the ocean. The trip across w moonlight nights. Nothing to do but to hang around. sing songs and watch € sun-——a monster orange—drop into | ESmiiot | After we had landed they told us we ea. These were wonderful sun- kies, as the ang wa singing > Old Gr. j Mare Is Not What She to Be.” “Outside of the fact that the ship was greatly overcrowded, a bit dirty, chow rotten, and the boat (1 without seeing land) it was a prett air trip. Only once did we have a little excitement, that was after about seven days out we sight- ed two submarines An old U. “tanker” which was hogging alongside | of us all camouflaged up and which | looked good for nothin, opned fir ship we suddenly and she sure did fire. That loaded with guns. The sub- marines suddenly disappeared. We | could not learn whether the submas- rines were sunk or not. At any rate we were not troubled by submarines thereafter. It was a wonderful sight to see 50 many ships zig zagging across the ocean. After fifteen days on the water we finally landed at a British port and | the boys were made happy when told they were going to a rest camp. And at the station we were handed a let- | ter from King George with his greet- ings, and then we started our march to the rest camp. Tt was about 1:30 a. m. when we arrived there and it w there we received our first shock it was | there that we found out that we could | very easily misinterpret army terms, It was there we got the full meaning | of the word camouflage. If anything | was ever camouflaged the word rest was camouflaged there. After a night's “rest” we got in linc for breakfast. England is sure hard hit for food, if we are to judge by our breakfast in | the rest camp. I also met my firs “sasual” here. One can be a casual without being killed or wounded. One becomes a casual sometimes by pun- Ishment and sometimes by misfortune. The mess sergeant here was a casual by misfortune. He wore a sad, hope- loss expression on his face,/and I don't blame him. T asked what he did to be left behind and he replied The Effects of O (wipment and | unevent- | ful. We had a wonderfully smooth ek brishy, sanny days snd mice, | Afeer falling all over syself seith We wish to announce that NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1918. ] we have the most up-to-date and sanitary baking plant in the city. A cordial invitation is ex- tended to the citizens of New Britain to cal and Inspect this plant at any time. We also sell s nds of TET. o & 111 JHARTFORD AVE. WHOLESALE AND “Well, the guy it is pushing up daisic That afternoon we marched down to the beautiful quaint old town of Winchester. In the center of the town was a statue of the first kKing of Engiand. We visited the Winchester Castle, built centuries agzo, and saw the mous round table of King Arthuy Everywhere in the ecity we w British soldiers, dressed in light blue suits, wearing white shirts and red neckties. This uniform signified that these men had done their share of the fighting and were no longer able to fight. ce ed along the street women & ildren grasped our hands in silent greetir I cannot explain just why, but somehow it gave me the impres that they were expre: deep gratitude Oh, how my heart aches for England, for she has suf- fered much Then we crossed the English Chan- nel, all T can say of that {rip is that I never had such an excursion before. use of {1y had a'place to lie down. Every inch of the boat was covered | with sleeping men, they slept on the ' teau La Grande Roseire. This cha- floor of the decks, on the rs, on | 1. It was impossible to move about without stepping on hands or jears. | started to sleep below deck with a bunch of other men and awoke shortly after at the bottom of a heap | the hatch covers and even on the of men. The boat was sure rolling | some, I managed to pull myself out ! and went up on deck. It was excep- tionally cold and we had difficulty finding a space on which to lie down. 3ut by taking some one’s head and placing it on stomach and aking another’'s legs and hanging them over the rail, T managed by roll- ing mygelf into a ball to lay down and get sogyp sleep. When T awoke in the morning someone was 13 on top of me. After a series of oaths and a very mighty push I found out that the per- son who was using me fo;. a mattress was no less a person tham the major. someone’s apologies, the major said: “That's all right, son, but it's a good thing for you that I am not a second lieutenant.” had been chased all night by a sub- marine. The boys were feeling in pretty good spirits till somene took the joy out of life again when they told us we were going to another rest mp. We met thousands of British sol- diers returning from the front and going home on leave. We also met some Australian troops and they are certainly fine fellows They mix quite freely with the Americans and have no more love in their heart for the Tommies than the American sol- dier h Everywhere in France and England as we marched along we saw numer- ous German prisone: It is becom- ing very easy to take German prison- ers as they tell of the incidents where the Cern s deliberately march into ! our lines to be made prisoners. The i general opinion among men who come back from the front is that the will end in a few months. They were greatly surprised to see such of Americans and they realized the number men and amount of supplies that the U. 8. is landing in Frs she would fmmediately throw down arms. After a two days’ stay at this camp we entrained for our billets, where we now are. We spent all Saturday night and Sunday « up to 3 a. m. Monday on these trains. The French trains ave net like the American trains. Bach compartment holds eight men and doors for each compartment. Therc was no wav fo pass from one car to another and are not as large as the ones in ihe United States, but are large than the British, perhaps I could describe thes trains better to yvou by telling you to notice the next time you are in the and 10c store the cars that are for sale on the counte: It was about a. when we pulled into Lunery station i v that L.unery means the Moon's Headquarters, when I piates. HAT INFANTS are peculiarly susceptible to opium and its various | preparations, all of which are narcotic, is well known, Even in the smallest doses, if continued, these opiates cause changes in the func- tions and growth of the cells whicl\' are likely to become permanent, causing fmbecility, mental perversion, a craving for alcohol or narcotics in later life. Nervous diseases, such as intractable nervous dyspepsia and lack of staying (;)wem are a result of dosing with opiates or narcotics to keep children quiet their infancy. The rule among physicians is that children should never receive opiates in the smallest doses for more than a day at a time, and ouly then if unavaidable. The administration of Anodynes, Drops, Cordials, Soothing Syrups and other narcotics to children by any but a physician cannot be too strongly decried, and the druggist should not be a party to it. Children who are ill need the attention of a physician, and it is nothing less than a crime to Jose them willfully with narcotics. ature of Chas, H. Fletcher, Castoria contains no narcotics if it bears th i t r M{ Gennine Castoria always bears the signature o {en to the polic Flour at wholesale and retail. 628, RETAIL BAKERS looked out of the car door and saw | the large moon shining down on the | round tower I concluded it wa 1 for that was all that was in sight. ! When {roops are moving as we were | no one knows whe and everyone is to that when a troop train stops generall; the followir questic are e changed: Where are you from and | where are you going, what outfit is | vours and what kind of a place is it. | So of course the question that was ing his post was, what place is this? Although he was an Amecrican soldier, he answered in broken English: “This | is Lunery The next was: Where is the cam answered, “‘there S0 we were told | 1) t flung at the lone guard who was walic- | ! { marched to a vacant lot, where, after pitching our dog tents, and rve- moving about a thousand stones, final- | | | The ne marched to Ro- seire, and biiletted at the Cha- tean and barns were built nine hun- | dred years ago. They are of stone | and tile and have stood their year: very good. The chateau was once the | ce of the king and was occupied | by the Germans, during their invasion | nce in 1870. Twice during the nt war the inhabitants here had prepared to move on the threatened invasion by the Germans. There is | an o0ld man around here who is twice | as old as the buildings, he wears a pair | of wooden shoes which are three times | as old as he. He has on a pair of trousers which positively will never wear out. He has a zoodly crop of portieres on his face and we call him Alfalfa. No American troops have even been in this part of rlance before and the | people here just adore the Sammie. I became quite popular in the village, especially among the children. I am known as the biscuit sergeant, be- | cause I gave biscuits to the children who visited our billet. Iverything | here is about two hundred years be- hind the times But life is very| yleasant at that. We look across a | fiexd of golden wheat, see the straight rows of the blue slated and the red tiled roofs of the little village. There | is a little church steeple just in front | of the setting sun an doff to the right | we see a beautiful large rainbow. We see the shepherd boy in the field | watching the sveep. We meet a prim little miss of eight with a white apron on and carrying a little basket on her arm driving alon& in front of her a | flock of clean white geese. We see the | women washing the clothes in the river and we sce the old men wearing | wooden shoes. 1 entered into a con- | versation with one of these men. Be- cause 1 could not understand French | nor he English, is no reason why we could not talk. Then I e him a | arette, a thing I will never do | again. He threw his arms around me and kissed me again and again. But France is buildinz up. We see | new hways bei built Dby the Americar New buildings and new docks. There is no complaining any- and they place a reat deal of | confidence in the Yanks hey have reasons to be. We have Jerry on the run now and we ar Qo to keep ! him running. He is ge(ting all that coming to him and then some. We arve near an aviation field and all day long airships are buzzinz over oun heads and some of them land in a lot right Leside us. They perform wonderful feats such as loopi Joop nine times, flying upside and the falling leaf. The Americ aviators have the eredit of being the best and most daring in the world. i | | They are go to do things (o Jerry when they get woing, too. 1 hope you ! won't take s T have written in this letter in the nature of a complaint as I don’t mean it that way. Al tt hoys are in excellent spirits and feeling fine and tind a gre enj in the rroundings ther, no complaining anywhere. This 30znd M B. is a bunch of ! can beat them, it would he impossib to make them feel depressed. I wish that I had more time and space to | but these are pretty ¥s for me $0 1 have to say . with the hope that you will write to me soon. SGT. LEO . SULLIVAN, CITY ITEMS strong fellow Automobile Commissioner Robbins | suspension of the drivers license h w George Gordon of North St John Messine, aged 5 years, accidently shot in the eye yesterday atternoon by John Neverdoskl, ag 10, while the two boys wers playing with an air rifle, Neverdoski was tak- stations by Officer | William Hayes. Are You Wasting Good Coal in an old, burned out, troublesome range when a new Glenwood would save from 100 to 500 lbs. in every ton? Just figure the saving in dollars for one year and then for five or ten years, and you will quickly see why it will pay now as never before to trade that old stove for an up-to-the-minute Glenwood. There are hundreds of models to choose from at fair. prices. Get a Glenwood and let it pay for itself in the coal it saves. lfiAin"t'it a Grand and Glorious Feelin’? - LISTEN JOHN- WE ARE INVITED oUT TONIGHT— I'VE GOT YouR DRESS. 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