New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 3, 1918, Page 10

10 CORP. CREAN WRITES FROM U. S, HOSPITAL Tocal Soldier Recovering From Effects of Being Gassed th relatives The following -ee interesting letters Corporal Gerald P. 102d 1 Infantry, Expeditionary I The letters are indeed se and tell, about the are received by from Crean, Company I S. with “orces the in f-explanatory soldier can tell, They follow: 28, 1918. Ameri- can France as only a zreat wa “October Tom: ‘Well, here goes for a big long ter if I can last it out, First of 1've got to tell you about meeting here in this God-forsaken Irance. I got a good dose of gas up the lines on the eve of Sept. and was taken to the hospital. 1 fir landed in the American Gas Hospital. No. 1, and there had some Stiff treat ment for the eyes, chest, nose, efc After a few days there I was shipped to the rear to Base Hospital No. 13, where T received some fine treatment As there were some of the other boys coming in, 1 was, after a little more than a couple of weeks, removed to Dase Hospital No. 7, just outside tho grand and glorious city of Tours, but still in France. I was pretty sick hero Jear Brother Tet- all ve Jac over Holidays With Some of Our New Curtains Etamine and Marqui- sette Curtains, lace trim- med. Per pair $2.50, $2.75 $3.00. Curtain Materials by the vard, at 29¢, 39c¢, 45¢, 59c. Curtain Rods 8¢, 19¢ ea. Buy Sensible Christmas Gifts AT CURRAN'S 383 Main Street GOLDENBLUM 188 MAIN ST., Y. hole, | W ok Branch Store 863 Main St.,, Hartford ut 1ky a few da New bt n Reynolds relt iin and 1 soon like other I had ne hunch I was somewherc so tolling him to try to as luck would was and is stationed at a alled Chateau du which about two hours’ tried went would hat ar Jack, Wrot him him where 1 the et and of vas heg Mike Well, ng in sacr and it, place ame up see e have vet Loir, from is Hao st his anything adjntant ho ride here. here. F captain, but him the his hardest to get up his not get he to see | pleas Undaunted, of could not give thing to do w hoss of the whoic went to the } he said The major. battalion, hut last the the Jack walked that him a Ehs works. told him hospi the his Tours up to him and brother he tho ht | looked was in i tone bad. over once or him. and pass of my The and rom letter th: vas pretty major him twica cross-examined said he Tours the major for supplies “The first Pinky 0. 27, and he way, we are qus which somebody When I saw the licutenai to go to the window and see if T | would see anybody 1 knew out there | T did and down the line a linate way I saw a fellow with @ suit case but as | he was a soldier [ did not recognize him. T looked at the doctor wonder- ing what kind of a joke he was trying {to play on me. He asked me if [ | didn’t see him. Well. T looked agaia | and then T looked once more, and I'll !'be hanged if T didn’t almost fall thraugh the floor, hecause I recog- nized my own brother, Jack. T let a whoop out of me and he saw me and came running. I'm sure if we were both on the outside there would have been a loving match, but the measles T couldn’t go out and he couldn’t come in, we just had to talk where we were. T was stammer- ing like kid and T didn’t kaow SPANISH INFLUENZA MORE DEADLY " THAN WAR said That ¥pidemic Cost More Lives Than American Loss in Battle; Danger Not Over: Great Care " Necessary to Prevent Further Outbreak, and could not get a to zo said knew 1 iteynolds come in to my ked for me. antined for had to thing saw ward, the les B me ind catch. he toid me 50 a The appalling ravages of Influenza in this country are Dbest realized by the statement recently made that more deaths have resulted m little more than a month from thi deseaso than through our whole eighteen months participation battles of the European War. Our greatest danger now, declare authorities, is the great American ten- dency to forget eusily and to believe the peril is over. Competent author- jties claim the coming of cold weather is very apt to bring a return of this disease and there should be no let-up throughout the following easily observed precautions, remembering that Influenza far casier to prevent than cure. Influenza is a crowd disease. Avoid crowds as much possible, Inflvenza germs spread when ignorant or care- less persons sneeze or cough without using a handkerchief. Cover up each cough or sneeze. Do not spit on the floor, sidewalk, in street cars or public places. Avoid the use of common drinking cups and roller towels in public places. Breathe some reliable germicidal and antiseptic air to de- stroy the germs that do find lodgment \in your nose and throat. Remember, no safer against Tnfluenza could in this manner than from the nearest drug store a complete Hromei Outfit consisting of a bottle of the Pure oil of Hyomei and a little vest- pocket hard rubber inhaling device, into which a few drops of the oil are poured. You should carry this TIn- haler about with you during the day and each half-hour or so put it in your mouth and draw deep breaths of its pure, healing, germ-killing air into the passages of your nose, throat and lungs, By destroylng germs before thay actually begin work in your blood, you may make yourself practically mune to infection. All these suggestions about Spanish Influenza are equally vention of colds, catarrh throat, bronchitis monia. Don’t become your part. Keep the You may vourself ness and loss of work. WILLINE! Spanish perhaps in is precaution to gzet im- of nose and even carele germs away, a serious ill- several weeks’ and pneu- Do save the (A 3 A. BUILDING. (Over Tarvey & Lewis' Store.) to $6.50 TRIMMED HATS worth WednesdaySpecials up $3.98 . READY-TO-WEAR HATS worth up to §4.00 $1.98 ONE TABLE of ASSORTED HATS worth up to $2.98 $1.00 curses on | winter months of the | was under the ] what to say then | to | with But Jack persisted and at last | he'd send him to Tours | | I have a slight disarrangement of my the | be employed | true in the pre- ! | haven't NEW BRITAIN DAiLY HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, He ) candy lle was the same suit o full of smokes, soap, and Oh, boy, it did look to 1 He also brought me all letters he a from hecause | haven't received any since befare | came to the hos- more than a month. ago. I read letters and were among wot the that you been receiving any letters | for some time, though I fecl that must have received a beiween then and now. I also bunch of Heralds from oh, baby, they were grand to look at. At last all the concerning us two broth- come true, myself will ever kaow to mect o brother been through Jetters vou had and zood e, the received honic mail pital all the them. I havea't from sure lotter received and dope mic you o him and good prophecies ers meeting over here have it but how great it is after what I've *“In all your give them hell, \WWe had in_which to do it and Seicheprey, Chateau Thierry, and Verdun ecan give of what we've gone thraugh. 1 agree old man Sherman every time aad if hell is any worse than war, I'm going to go to heaven. From February 7 up to September 25 I've been taken good care of by our Father up overhead and I can tell yvou that T laid for two hours or more in | shell hole with se big shells | bounding and killi around me. Dur- ing that eatire time I kept saying my rosary and over and I firmly be- lieve that's what saved and pulled me throug! mmy, anybady that says there is no God is crazy and tell him [ said So vou see Tom while Ha is up there taking care of me through all the dangers of battle, vou can rest assured that I'll be kept safe for vou all and will ba home with the rest when we're done. Tovingly, “GERRY."” October 24, 1918, nobody me to | months | of St.Mihiel vou a good idea told seven the stories a Over s0. Dear Sis I don't know to you or received do know that it is er happened that Van Winkle would of time to take a whether T last wrote your letter but I » long since eith- I'm pretty sure Rip | have had plenty good nap between them. 1 suppose you will be sore but I am not a bit sorry for not writing and this is the reason why. You must have known that there was something wrong with me when I did not write. I have been in the hospital since September 25 with gas. At present I'm feeling somewhat like I used to but the first week was as bad as anything Sherman ever went | through. My eyes were closed so tightly that I couldn’t get a glimpse of daylight. That was only for a few days. My nose and the passages therein were scorched and my throat and lungs were sore muchly and 1 felt juset like anything that is sick. internal organs at the present time due to the good gas attack I got. I'm in the base hospital No the mem- whose unit are from Boston. rhat doesn’t mean that Connecticut also can’t be represented among its members, for the first or second day here a young doctor came to my bed and asked if T knew him I didn't and he made himself known as “Pinky” Reynolds of Summer street. v, 1 was almost shocked and believe me we have had some mighty good talks since. The Spanish influ- enza is surely going the rounds over here as well as.in America. There are lot of people sick from it but the army of the Yanks doesn't seem to be slowing up any on account of it. T'd like to see the war ended but any way it has got to be in our favor or we will end it and make it in our favor. Germany and her spokesman lost that knack of scientifi- cally spreading the “bull” but they have got to show us the real stuff be- fore we will come across. We ran that mighty Prussian Guard over the hills three times already and we'll do it again. That army was the pride of Ger- many. T may be a little late in that date Imade with you, but I'll bet I won’t be very late in the long run. (Evidently meaning the day the war will end). 1 must close now with the great hope that I will get soma mail soon. Love to all, GERRY. Tells of German Retreat. October 29, 1918. hers a Dearest Sis: Mail service between U. 8. must be stopped two months minus a few days ince T last heard from home. However I've becn in the hospital since Sept. 25 and though there must have been some | mail for me come to my company since [ went away it takes quite a whila for that same malil to find me | where 1 am T am still in hospital No. 7 and am feeling pretty well these days. 1 saw brother Jack here as T have already written home. When we come out of guarantine for Lieut. Reynolds is to he can get pass to go him where he is located about hours ride from here. I hope he make it go. I haven't written because when T the war here and because it is the measles going see if me a and will much of Iate was at the lines last was moving so far into Ger- man territory that our post office was unable to take carc of our mail and you krow a fellow can't carry a bun- dle of letters all over France. 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It| face When it | streaked, just an | even he the or two its a prepare can gel a is sage and now because it evenly B — t n the rest to mother, to let know how I was gelting along. Tt is pretty cold here this morning and the though of it brings me back again to France. I hate to think of spending another winter here in France but I'm willing to stick it out. There surely is no fun in standing in a' trench all night with mud, and snow keeping your eyes peeled out into the dark for anything can see. You feel like a'fellow afr of zhos's in the middle of the cem- | etery. Whei vou are about ready to jump around to keep your feet from freezing your automatic man sudden- 1y jumps to his gun and fires four five shots at something. You hear a blood-curdling vell that starts the shiv- ers up your back and you’re expecting a horde of Boches to jump out on | vour neck. Then, oh then, sister, is | “when a feller needs a friend” and the ‘“glorious feelin’” comes in the morning when you sece a big fat Heinie hanging on your barbed wire dead as only a dead man can be. Just ima, e a menth of nights like that one, then another month of real fight- ing, then another month of riding in a freight car and if you fully reaize what that is like then you know why all the fellows call war Hell. Some times however Hell would seem good if a fellow could get near enough to warm his feet. But as the French say “C'est Ia guerre” and though I'm hop- | ing that the war will end before the snow {lies I'll be standing in the mud again without kicking until the Heinles are rcally licked. T was wishing T could be near some swimming hole 'ast summer to a dip. But here's something. I was swimming in the Marne river right where the Dutchmen and frogs made | such fun in 1914. And I was fishing too, but not with hook and line where vou pull them in one at a time. I| was fishing with hand grenades where they conie up in bunches. Try it sometime! Well, I've written enough to bother you until someone gets wise and sends some of my mail to the hospital Love to all, AOH Send to her slush or take GERRY. ADOPT RESOLUTION Request to Wilson Urging Him Bring Irish Question Before Peace Conference For Settlement. Rev. W. A. Harty Branch, Anclent Order of Hibernians, has. joined in sending a petition to President Wilson urging him not to forget the possibll- ity of Irish freedom now that the peace conference is about to be held. The following is the resolution which was adopted and forwarded to t{he president: s “Hon. Woodrow “President of Wilson, the United States. “Dear Sir:i—At a rezular meeting of Rev. W. A. Harty Branch, Ancient Order »f Hibernians, held Sunday, December 1, 1918, in New Britain, Conne-tient, the following resolution was adopted by this branch, repre- | senting 600 members | it Resolved: That we, the mempers of Rev. W. A. Harty Branch | Ancient Order of Hib s, earnest- | ly request President Wiison to use | his best endoavors at coming | peace conferencec fo secure inde- | pendence for Ireland. We believe that Trcland should once more take her pl among the nations of the | world | “Rev. W. A. Harty, Ancient Order | Hibernians. “RALPH MULCONRY, “President. DONLAN, “Secretary A the of “THOMAS D. The regular monthly change in po- Jice assignments has been effected. | Patrolmen Patrick Howley and Charles idnderson are the new day of- ficers and Patrolmen Haves and | Strolls are on night duty again | The annual mceting of the Visiting Nurse association will be held Thurs- day evoning. Reports for the year will be read and election of officer: will bo held. Angelo Genovese, of 21 Broad street, complained to the police last night that his wife left home yester- day morning, taking $15 and his gold watch with her, and leaving him with the caro of two children, He sald sho | hnd no renson for leaving home, "he Women's Home and Foreizn Misstonary society of the Iinglish Lutheran church will meet Wednes day afternoon at 2:30 p. m, at the lam should be used if skin is temder and sensitive, l home of Mrs. Albert Carswell at 630 West Main street, | diers fought for these. 1918 (1. 0. P. BISAPPROVES WILSON'S MESSAGE. Peace Trip Is Causing Most Wofry Among Republicans Washington, Dec. 3.—Fvery repub- lican who had anything the president’'s messag disapproved of the president’s determination to peace to say delegate There took to France senting the United States. democrats who as a also were some the same course. The strongest criticism was directed at the failure of the president to take advantage of his opportunity and re- move the cause of the growing es: trangement between the White Hou and the capitol by taking the congress fully into his confidence at the peaceo conference Senators (Va.), leaders of their held any comment. *I those matters to the press, tor Martin. My rule of menting upon executive either privately publicly cannot be brolken.' These comments were Senator Penrose (Pa.), “The president has employed such dic- tatorial methods and has almost with- out exception expressed his deter- mined opinion upon all legislation even when he has changed his mind completely from views expressed in previous utterances that considerable surprise was expressed among those that heard him that there one public question and that of over- whelming importance on which he actually has no opinion at all; that is the question of public ownership or control of railroads. At least in th matter he is courteous enough to in- (N Martin parties, with- must leave said Sena never com- utterances, spoken, Lodge s.) and or made: republican: | vite the opinion of the senators and representatives, and he will (\nuhll@ffi hear from them and from the Ameri- can people upon government owner- ship in unmistakable terms, after tho railroad committee has had full power to investigate the orders and methods under which the railroad ems of the country have been nearly ruinec and certainly demoralized. Senator Simmons (N. C.) crat: A “His discussion of business situation and the processes of readjustment, in- demo- | cluding his general observations with the methods of dealing will have, I am upon reference to with the railroads. sure, a very reassuring effect | business and on the public.” Senator Reed (Mo.), democrat: “The president says all nations have approved of the 14 peace points. No nation approved of the 14 peace points. The president says our sol- = \ ‘ ; l 4 E E ; ! about , repre- | is at least | Our soldiers | DONT NEGLECT A RHEUMATIC PAIN after it with Sloan’s ziment before it gets dangerous Go 1 Apply a iille, don't rub, let it pene- trate, and—good-by twinge! Same for external aches, pains, strains, stiffness of joints or muscles, lameness, bruises. Instant relief without mussiness or soiled clothing. Reliable—the biggest selling liniment year after year. Eco- nomical by reason of enormous sales. Keep a big bottle ready at all times. Ask your druggist for Sloan’s Liniment. SdAaniment CKANls Pain 30¢, 60c. $1.20. Germany. I wholly disagree with the president that we should assist in the rehabilitation of France, On domestic questions T am in substantial accord with the presi- dent.” Senator Johnson (Cal.), republican: “The deserved tribute to our fight ing men found a sympathetic echo with us all, but the remainder of the president’s address was intensely dis- appointing. We know no more now than we did before the address. The president leaves us without an admin- istration program for reconstruction of definite American policies as to peace terms. Senator Sherman (I11.), republicar “The president does convince by his reasons for going abroad. The more he argues the less he justifias himself. There is not a negotiation of permanent peace that could not as well be conducted with the president at his seat of government in Washing- ton as in Versailles.” Senator Harding can: “The ge was not revealing so - as peace terms are concerned, but one does not expect the spokesman of the western hemisphere to reveal his hand in advance Representative lican floor leader: “I was disappointed that the presi- dent did not take congress and the American people into his confidence regarding his attendance at the Paris peace conference.” Representative Gillett (Mass.), ing republican floor leader: It was the most disappointing and least effective message that President Wilson has ever delivered. This was due largely, T presume, to the fact that we were keyed up to expect that he was going to give us some of the real fought to whip a (Ohio), republi- mes Mann (1ll.), repub- act- ! for the to reasons cussing wants going abroad and dis particular projects urge at the I ce confen ence! Representative Fess man of the Republican committee “The address was not rd of the President. Staged rewell before leaving for Ej rope, ihe country was looking fo reasons for his decision. His referenc| to it seemed a labored defence of very questionable proceeding enator Pittman (Nev.), Democraf “The Allies, in adopting his pri nouncement of principles as the bas: for peace negotiations, called upo him, as their author, to further- d fine these principles In detail, whic will be essential to their applicatiol to the many and complex condition If he should succeed, and T beliey that he will succeed, the world mal look formard to an era of peace, proy perity and good fellowship.” Senator Phelan (Cal.), Democrat: “1 know of no one imbued with tt spirit of true democracy who cou meet the occasion half so well. He w4 silent on the appointment of Senao: as delegates. Of course the Sena can and will get full information zuide its actibn.” Champ Clark, Speaker of the Tousy “It, was a fine message, literary all of the President’s messages ha been.” Representative Kitchin (N. O] Democratic floor leader: “The ¥ae| sage was fine and should furn satisfactory explanation to those wif have criticized the President for g ing abroad Representative Kahn (Cal.) Repu lican: “The appeal for the united su port of Congress came with bad grac The President's gratitude to the R publicans for saving some of his w measures when his own partisa: failed him was shown when he a pealed for the defeat of every Repu lican at the elections.” Representative Madden (I1L), R publican :“The only concrete thi the President puts up to Congress his message is the question of t ownership of the railroads and th he admits he knows nothing dbout.™ (Ohio), chair Congression. up to th| stanc his a ELECTION IN MASS. Liquor Question Being Voted On Twenty Cities, Bostoa, Dec. Massach setts cities elected new city gove ments today and voted a1l license question. Liquor intery have shown little activity campaign, the possibility of natios prohibition apparently overshadowil local contests, The following cities elected: ton, Cambridge, Chicopee, Fall Riv| Fitchburg, Gloucester, Haverhill, H yoke, Leominster, Marlboro, Methug New Bedford, Northampton, Peabod Pittsfleld, Quincy, Salem, Springfie Taunton and Waltham 3. —Twenty in Bro The publicis wise in its food select- IoONS. Recent demand for the well known ready-cooked food Grape-Nuts shows how the first use of a full-worth food is followed by continued repeat orders. Nothing made of wheat and bariey has so much of attractive taste and stand-by nourishment as Grape-Nuts food. “Theres a Reason’ WRSUO—