Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 18, 1917, Page 8

NDAWIGH BULLETIN, TUESDAY, DEGEMBER. T8, 1977 At 4 a. m, June 2, 1916, T want on duty again. Dawn’ was preparing to break and we all stood to in the fromt tine. Just before dawn was tNe favorite time for the Boches to pull off’a sur- prise attack, but we were always ready for them. We remained on guard Rill it was onite daylight and them, as trench officer, it was my duty 4o i Bge the rum. A little of this “fire wa- ter~ is thé finest thing in the -world when you are chilled through after a lons night spent in vour clothes. It wards off many a coid and.starts the Blood circulating again. The onlv pther way this could be accomplish- £d wonuld be by exercise. Any one was welcome to go out in No Man's Mand for an early morning run, but this al- ternative was not popular, it being un- @oubtedly a more or less unhealthy form or sport. Expected: the Generals. When the rum issue was completed “Stand Down” was given. Evervthing was running smoothly. The sentrieson #nty mazed steadfastly through their periscopes and the gunvers sat ‘or lay miwavs within Kicking distance of the semtry. so as to be able:to warn' the occupants of that particalar fire'bay in case of an- attack. The -other - men busfed themeselves tidving - up .. the trenches i preparation for' the inspec- licm by the | divisional = commander, meral Marcer, anpd. our Brigadier neral Williams, which was to take place that morning. A large party bad béen working all might' repairing a_gap, in the parapet blown in by a Minhenwerfer, and which we. liad. to pass en_the run fo avoid being smiped from Hill 6. An- other day party was busy filllng ‘sand- bags undar cover, -In yreparation. for frrther work next night..l spent some time with my platoen sérgeant com- piefing in my roll:book the gdetafls re- sarling the new men’ wio'had been at- tached to my platoon Nize Breakfast. Spoiled. At 6 o'clock F.went off duty, entered the dugout, slipped off my equipment, vut my steel Helmet on the table and Covsright. Undtrwocd. & Dnderwood GENERAL A. D. MERGER our. or two of 6.30 I was up again: to see Coleael ber and. Ceptain *Jack .S mons, whe had come io make a pr paratory _inspection of- the ‘trenches. As they went away 1 bude good-by. for the Jast time to Jack, who was was m settled down_ for an sleer. 5 At o few minutes to S o’élock break- nnounced, und our ‘“bat- cam~ in from the litte. coek- e in the dugout across the tremch, £ a- large uin piatc of. beautiful frind e=zs and bacon and, some.prunes This. with ope addition of a littlé cof- fee. was the cellent raepl we: we Machinest and -Engineer Steam Engine Repairs RI_IJMBING ' AND. GASFLTT[NG CALL UP 734 With or Without ‘Gaa- Attach- ments but ' Always sr.mcl:m and ECONOMIGAL~— . * MODEL RANGES We furnish Repairs- for ail mlktn * of Rargss A. J. Wholey & _Ca 12 FERAY" s'rust‘r | 5 BURNS Heating and. Plumbmg 92 Franklin Street iRON GASTINGS FURNISHED PROMPTLY BY THE VAUGHN FOUNDRY ca st.hnst.rrynmuu ROBERT J. COCHRANE - GAS FI"TING, (Y PLUMBING, STEAM FIT1|NG Washington Sq., ‘ashington Building electricity is to "mu'o» We g tee the very best. PLUWNG WGRK jthes were | A-bov‘, at the left, German shclh are seen bnn{mg in bucklnf Canadian troops ‘“digging is a further stage of the “digging in” precess. - Th rpentioned by Lieutenant Douglass in his narnt-v hind ‘the first line. just abbut to- taste when—crash! Hell was let, loose. 'Shells of -all sizes came hurling th-ough the door, raining in on use- from ali sides.. We slipped on our steel helmets, left :that lovely break- fast and.rushed outside -to see how sericus the show might bé. We -had suffered :héavy bombardments . before, saw that ‘this was the ever-been- in. - Harvey vs' thinking of ‘the men, iissued the order to-take.eyers one into' the Tront line,. where we dgcided the but we at -onc iggeéat- we s ha ockshutt, alw: bombardment was not quite:soheavy' In a few seconds every man was-lining the fire trench. shells continu- ed to rain ir on'us‘from every direc- tion. - The, Bockes, as? we found Yures salient on the ‘frontage occupied b the Pirivd-Canadian Division. - We reveis almost ‘a's. many s'f:lls from the rcar flanks 2s we did from the. front.. These,-of course. we. could not always ;45 coming, 'but svherever: we looked e ‘could hee “Minnfes’: rolling over and .Gver in the air-on théir way to zreet us. These were-quite easy to @odze when 'they came.one at a time. Al vou had to do was ‘o wafch wwheve =oing to light. and dowte arountl the traverse.into the next.bay. Tou misht knocked down or even buried. but: the, effect ‘of the sxplosion of a_“3icn very loeal, altho\lgh ® am aweulmess of vour treneh. Dodging* the “Minnies” We had the men distributed ‘evénly Neanng Comple'hon Sug&—lnfldlmg Mu:hmely in Co-l Pnckeu The, Imaae far 1 rownikg-oen’ the New Lof:don turnpike .. ins "Noj Town has been campleied:so th: Browning has beén Ablé to-move it. “The hohise’ 8. 24x34 -of jwood con struction With . a ' tement’ foundation: Therd is ‘a-larze hascment under tie entire-fiouse. The houss. his a fambre} roof.. The interior of-tie house is done in. hard v«qd wé!h za cvpress 1’afimm. ogt later, had turned every zum around:the Bv Lieut. . HARVEY DOUGLAS Mc—dmm“m A Trus.and Thril Canadian O¥icer photographs aiohg- the - front:line." In m!diu‘on to the sentry on duty at the nérfscope in ‘almost every. bay, we pested: further sentries gazing up fo the.fromt and right and left ‘wafching for - “Min- nies” -They - gave no " alurm’ unless toere was going to:be a .direct hit in thélr “own ‘when every ;bue .was warned ang - ddskrefl ‘around the tra- wirse! to. éscape the explogion of' one Minnewerfér.and - ran' - directly “into hat. of ‘another. By 10~ ¢'clock - the bombardment Had ‘been’ so; effective that our fromt line was _virtuaily .destroyed and. a-large portion. of our men. were wiped out. Haryey 'Cockshutt sent 'for me .and fold ‘'me, to take about half of the men who were left—amounting of’ some twenty—to the support trench on our left.- We couid not move aloeng- the front line, so we jumaped up on the parados and-made a dash for it over- jand. . We gained the”trench’ without casuaities.~but foung’ that 1f; ‘ton, was . We were moving along denly % large shell T den’t know-which, land- in the middle.of my little party-and wiped them all-out with the exception .of: four" others ‘and mysaif in_the front, and-perhaps cné’or 1o in the rear whom I nev: er saw again. “We'-five: moved :along a short di tence til} .we"found a:short angle in the trench which * other: éscaped’ the man- artilier ware tdken at Vimy Ridg Below are typitai: completed communicating trenches just be- the Expeviencesrof-a \;o"Fdl into the Maadse of 1 Photos from Cansdian War Pevords in”; at the right during the period our -left, until eventually we numbered about ten. Had we been spared unmtil the-attack came off the ien of us would probably have succeeded in pumping a considerable amount. of lead into the advancing Huns Feigned Death. By this time we had begun to real- ize that this was no casval “strafe” but the preparation for an attack. A ferman airplane ng very.1ow rp- iced . this little Lit of undestroyed: tFénch. We feigned death. Any man who made a move was properly cursed as’ our 6nly¥ hope of being iinmolastad was. that this airman uid think we were aiready dead. Fowever, he & cided to take no chanees and directed the 'fire of what seem to us like about forty batterie: 1] as sev eral Minnewerfers, on to our one litile bit of trench. At one moment T look ed ub and saw three “innies” com- iz down dl?? ctle on top of us. -We “hye and hop- Sone of them m: One of the three landea nterfor anzle and the other two the oxterior faces of the ang made by the bend in tbe trench and 411 expioded simultancous Fyery one wito had mnot already saen wounded. with the exception of a retcher-bearer named Barclay and myself, Zot it then. We'were all h Buricd. but we managed. to crawl ont. Tarclay and I put head dressings on the wounded men, and I gave morphia i Mdounded the Easmy tabiets, which all the officers carried, to those who-were in. great pain. There were oniy three .besides myself who could move, and 1 decided to act as Mr. Cockshutt,would have wished un- der the circumstances and. take these men to -a shell-proof trench.in Mount Sorrel, which was commonly known es the Tunnel. We had been given orders that in case. of heavy bom- bardment this was where we were to take our men. Tn:order to get there we had to-go-down a short communi- llnrfl young soldiers| o be tmghty parumlar\ that’s what you want in a pipe. i more. Guaranteed not to burn crack. Made from the best gennine briar.” 24 Different shapes with silver bands and solid yulcanite ,: preces. (756 uu:h i There's - comfort” in“the Riversid, XK Yon‘-wofild expect”™ ourr abouty, what ¢ they smoke=hence their/ pmfzrznce,fur_ lhc‘famous 20 sn't_it? You can pay more, but you cannot buy out or French electric mouth- Ask eom the! Rwsrmdfd‘ G. P. MADDEN 243 Main Street, Franklin Square, Norwich, Conn. SR %€ Manhattan Brisr Pips Co>< = Makers » cation trench known’as Canada. street, but we had not gore.more than a few | === i yards. before we discovered: that Can- ada street existed no longer. We crawled . éveriand, following the line of the ‘trench by the bits of, “a” frame and riveting material which were pro- truding from the' earth. ~We soon came, to the German barrage, which cxtended all the way aléng our front- age_just in the rear of the trenches and prevented any possibility of re enforcements reaching us. T saw that it was hopeless to get through this at the time, and we decided to lie there til the barrage might lessen suffi- ntly to enable us to make a dash for it, . Men Cool.and Collected. 1 particularly wanted to reach the Tunnel, as it was here that battalion beadquarters’ were locatéd, and it was necessary to report that our trenches were destroyed and that: thére were no men left to defend "the. position when the attack should come. As we iay. there ‘we were sgon located by a German- machine gunmer, who rippéd off two or three belts.at us. We were in full_view with virtually ‘no cover; the bullets; cracked all around. us and the' dirt fiew in our faces. We had been under fitst ‘many a. time before and had. ofteri féit afrajd.. According to the old saving, any. man who says he is not afraid.under fire’ is either a fool or a liar. 'But none of us had ever experienced anything ‘so terrific th: We kiew we were goinz to e killed and we had got to the stage where it: did ‘not séem ‘fo matter wihether we got It then or = fow mix utes later. I heMeve it was this feci- ing ‘that had rendered all-of ‘the men so_cool and coMectéd, and I ‘was sur- prised to during that morning that some of the new men who were up- first for the first time were just cool as those Who were old hands a: the game, Of course, tiiey had the udvantage.of not knmowine- how dan- gerous a_shell mizht<be, whereas the others had seen so many- of their friends ‘'go west” ‘that’they coulds-ap- eciate -the dan';er more: fully as Ger (Continued . Tomorrow ¥ | |um-r &(o:v ofy su.tped sh{nglzs. Thé %1 Foundation of Norwe)! Town . House Work:.on lmlu\v for ' David o | on - TOWN. street .near H—arlnnd:% carbara’ hns hhen halted by the cold / The Onndzflon is in and be ‘A, Kinney 4. wis ‘asphant shingles | 52 16 |Filities of $64,482 AR weelk, -there were but 28 sales by swarranty .deed, against 448 in the samé week of the previous vear. Mort- sage loang during the same period ag- Sregated only $673,323, as compared with $l 360,829 for the like week of 1916. " The record of new incorporations In .| this_ state for the third week in De- cember ‘is smaller than for any sim-= lnal' week for many years with the ception og 1914 new companies are reported wil capital” stock of $107,000. . These figures compare with eight. companies: with capital of 13 ‘V)(h b&pflal of 51 Bight petitions in bankruptey: filed "in_‘the _state.in the ~week just closed, .with assets of $47.512 and lia- against two. pet! tions,”with assets of $600-and liabili- ties of $10,073. in. the corresponding week of 1915, and three with assets of $2,217 " and-. of $14,641 in’ 1915. Statistics M‘ l)uudmz permits. grant- es‘of New Haven, Bridg: and Waterbury for the record. But out in: these cities aurim,— “the, week, - for -buildings wcosting $93.695. These figures .com- pare with S7 permits granted -in ‘the same cities for the like week.of.1916, lial)iliues {for Buildings costing. $803,335. Most: of el Work aroufd .'h@m‘hmd owing. to. -the. ;cold t&ofl‘h one ol is ‘digging’ a ‘céllar on g6 boing xncad with his ¢ reports inches ot ‘frost. I the frost las ligdg’mafila ihe & ,S"'i‘%.‘:‘m’“”m""';‘: during’. the past deinyed’a uw v doys snow. . Feal 's-uwsa.g slui»,—uw ntmrd ump. st terbury; Contracts have been awarded du ing the past weel for a number of projeets, among the more jmportant of which are schoolhouses in Stam furd -and -Devon. power house in Wa= Testoration -of ithe - old city hall_in’ Hartford, - store and tenement ck 4n-Waterbury,: business block in- New. Britain, garages in Meriden and TWaterbury. ~ cluhhouse ~in- Stamford, church in"'Danielson, factory. additions. in "New's Haven; West Haven, Water- bury. Bridseport and Naugatuck, and éne. and two-family houses in Water= Eury, Bridgeport, - Stratford “and. Néw plans reported for ‘the ~past week " inclide -hospital buildings it FBridgeport. and Waterbury, _factoty Tuildings in Bridgeport @nd Hartford. dormitories -in -10-story one; |two, a.nd three-family houses in \N }hsen “Brid ort. infl Hay nsfors.last week to 14:for the ssme week last_year.. The miortzage laans for thie respective. weeks. were $3,230 and '$14,500: 5 In New London. thers: wete : seven Sales .of realty last week" same week - qf - last Fage loans for u)c Four’ Coricrete Graheways' Baing Built shop 'of . the' “Groto; finisHed Lh X, fotir “concrete caneways. five . whish' ~will be’ in Mise is ajready nearly completed,’ bt ‘this’ was _buiit by @ lacal contractar.: The otlier foux These. cran wayn consisting of 717 » ing from the water land a distance’ of several ue ‘ot ; ‘conerate piers,: extend - .ofito - the ‘0ods. Then .©On- tep of these piers: will be' oonptnlcbed a2 con- crete, runwas "«*""*‘ will support the cranes. that to - the'. - parts 2 Contracts to NORWICH MEN RE-ELECTED TO REFORM LEAGUE. William A, Aiken Chosen President of Connecticut Civil vice Reform League. Vice Ser- | the Connecticut league held heve TParnam of New New Haven, Conn annual meeting of Civil Service Reform today Prof. Henry W. EHaven was re-elected president. ¥or- mer President William H. Taft was named as honorary president. Other cflicers re-elected were Vie presi- dents, William A. Aiken, Norwich, John P. Eiton. Waty y, William Henney, Hartford. Joh H. Perry, Southport. and Rolhn “Onfilnfl' New Haven: treasure Clarence Bronson, New [Haven: secretary, Charles E. Clark, New Haven t- ant secretary, Abner Miiche Bridge- port. Two new members put on the executive committee were SZmuel Shaw. New London, and Chavies Morri. New Haven, and 'those r clected ‘were George J. Bassett. New Haven; William H. f'flrb‘ Hartford: George A. Drigzs. Wa ryv: Arthur R. Kim . J. T\lngfindr\' Allen B. Lincoln, Norris G. Osborn, Julius Maltby, ‘Waterbury; Arthur N. Maher, Brids: George S. Palmer, New London; Rodenbach.. Naugatuck Russell. Middletown: Thofas W. Swann, Yale university; Horace -B. Taft. Watartown; Henrv A. Tirrell, Norwich: William R. Webster, Bridge- port.”F." H. Wiggins. New Haven, and G. C. F. Williams, Hartturd DRAFTED MEN GIVEN CHANCE TO ENLIST < Must Have sutemen: From Board That Thev Are Not Needed in Cur- rent Quota. given to registered n the draft’list A.chanee will be men whose number: 4 are ‘so far down that they will not be' needed in the current quota to enlist in varions departments. x party is now lecated at ¢ the post office for the pur- pose of cnlisting men. Every man, however, who is registered must have a2 signed statement from the local ex emption hoard saying lhat he is not needed for the curren quota. Men are needed for the aviation de- ‘partment of the navy in the capacity of cabinet malkers, fabric workers, ma- chinists, mechanies ‘with gas engine experience, bakers, firemen and cooks. There is u lurge field for men to.choose from and those desiring to enlist im the na fay make an appointment with- G._B.. Watson, recruiting officer ‘at the post office. I. L. Nichols, pha macist; is at the post office a Myr. Vgatson. A pérson may ask the recruiting of- ficer any - questions he ires about the ‘navy without obligation. de- sired he will _be given a preliminary physical examfmation and if passed he will be given transportation to New | Hayen for final enlistment. pany hes been underway .for several weeks. There will be three traveling cranes inside .the big building to handle’ the big-sections of .steel that will.go into the ships. ) ~In these 17 concrete piers is con- tained_about 3,500 cubic yards of ce- ment.” Allowing 3,500 pounds to the Cubic yard this means that 5,700 .tons of cement is ueed in éach craneway. DANl ELSON. The contract for the new church hluldhlg for the Holy Trinity Ortho- dox Greek church to be crected here, from the plans.of Architects Cudworth ¢ Thompeon. has been given to Dam- ase Boulias .of jthis place. The build- ing ‘will.be 20x60 feet, of frame-con- struction, with asphalt shingle roof and steam heat. G. P. Berris is chair- man et the committee. BUILDING OPERATIONS IN NEW ENGLAND Statistics of bulldmg and engineer- ing ‘operations in New Fngland as cumpiled The F. W. -Dodge Com- pany follow $1 16’ 7 156, 839 000 163,202,000 193,066,000 Dec. Dec. 12ADIT. 943, oou. 1508, 1903 114/590,000 117,952.000 1, 'and Bravman dottes first Dalton, Mass., Ba | HENS BACK OF LAST YEAR'S RECORW Total Eags to Da(e at Storrs Is_Eight Thousand With Six Pens Not a® Yeb Contributing. The hens in the laying contest: -at to quite eerual vear's performance. In the sixth , all the birds, together aid a to- tal of 1613 eggs, or a iittle more: than 100 better than the preceding week. Th brings the total to date wh 'te nearly 5,000 eggs. Thern are SHll six pens that Lave not been able fo get started. On the other hand, there ars 33 that has lail over 100 &&zs and one of these has laid more an’ 200 in the first six weeks of the @ntest. The honor roll for the weels encludes five pens. Jules F. Francais Barred Rocks from West Hampton Beach, Ta arms White Wyan- from Westville, :N. place with 41 eggs .each. Flint- rm’s- Rhode Island Reds from won second’ place with 1d Of 40 eggse Rock Rose Farm's wrred Rocks from Katonah, N.. Y. laid 36, aha the Agricultural Collegs pen of Orezons, from Corvallis, Ore. produced for the week. During the first month of the compe- tition each pen of ten' birds averaged ta consume nearly 19 pounds of grain and 49 pounds of mash, or.in other words, each pullet ate a little less than 7 pounds during the month. The rela- tively. high amount of mash consumed is of importance for twe reasons. In the first piace, the milled feeds bave heen 'ldwer in price and not only this but hens can reasonably be expected to lay more egss when fed a good rich mash The three best pens in' each of the principal vericties are as follows Ba rred Plymputh Recks. stone F Pen. 4 Jules v"rancau, West Hamp- ton Beach, 9 Rur Ro: I'an'\ Vl O\Jer Lal\nwood “White Wyandom 3. T\mgh Bri dgton Trank Dubois, Bast Lynn, Rhode lslnnd Red- ecrest ~ Orchart tstorie Farm, Dalton, X Mansfield ]’nultfl' Tarm, At- Mass. White Legho ns. Hollywood Farm, = Fpllywood, Wash. . . Bra burgs, Frank 9 W. tleboro, “‘Dubois, East 3 Miscallaneous. Cook & Porter, (Buff Wyan- dvottes), Basthampton, Mass. . Ore, Agricultural College (Ote gons), Corvallis, Ore. .. Dr. N. W. Sanborn_(Buft dottes), Holden, Mas - ICE DEALERS START HARVESTING ICE CROPS. Scarcity. of Labor May Prevent Quick Work in-Filling Houses. For the first time in several /years, tiae local ice dealers will begin hars vesting their crop in the -middle’ of December; All the-ponds around town e ice from seven to nine inches:in thickness, and those who know say. that the quality is of the. finest. Most cf the local dealers spent Monday gét- tihg their ponds clear and marked out so that they can Start bright and eariy this morning. There is a fly in the ointment, - however, . .as. help " is. versi scarce. Many of the'men who in pass years. have heiped to harvest the ice: crop are now aoing \zevernment work: either in the army or navy or-in the wunition factories. A Coid Proposition m you aro wheezing qnd sneec4 ing, coughing snd hawking, you're fu:mg a cold proposition. . Hapdls: itright. . Hales Honey of Horsh-und: and Tar quickly relieves bag caxou & All druggists, 25cts. a bottls. Tey Pilo’s Toothacke Drens H., tied for ®