The evening world. Newspaper, April 15, 1918, Page 3

and Special Correspon N. Y. BOYS ON FIGHTING FRONT CELEBRATED ST. PATRICK’S DAY WHILE SHELLS BURST OVERHEAD 4 _ Impressive and Picturesque Observance of the Holiday With the American Expeditionary Force in France Described by Martin Green —Mass in a Forest Cathedral and Sprigs of Shamrock Worn as Proudly as War) Medals—Extra Rations and Good Old Cel-) tic Park Games Wind up the Festivities. By MARTIN GREEN. (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) ht. 1918, by the Prone Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, SOMEWHERD IN FRANCE, March 18. { HAT a morning! Slanting sunlight, sifting througn the half-bare W branches of trees, planting enticing patches of warmth on frosted mounds of earth at the entrances of dugouts. A blue sky above and a, white mist melting. Larks singing in the open spaces and roosters crowing in the nearest village. Straight Mnes of blue smoke arising from camp kitchens, A balmy morning, in a smiling, rolling, wooded country; a quiet, peaceful, restful morning—St. Pat- rick’s Day morning of the year of our Lord 1918 at the only point on the western battle front in France where the day had a deep meaning to 3,000 Americans with unmixed Irish blood tn their veins—at the only fighting spot in Continental Europe where the feast was formally celebrated, The sun climbed higher over the mountains and the woods and the roads became populous with hurry- | ing khaki-clad men, accoutred with steel helmets and | folded gas masks and carrying shining mess equipment in the direction of the ascending spirals of blue smoke. From the head- quarters dugout, a labyrinth of passages and rooms forty feet under the und, appeared the regimental chaplain, a tall, straight, slim figure, the crosses on his collar alone distinguishing him from the armed officers who | 1 Into the day t. The chaplain struck off across a duckboard roadway through the trees to the main road running east and west, accom- panied by a soldier carrying a black box, ering ARE followe a leading @———-—. om any that dared show any individualism. Also, he saw Innocent Ans the chaplain was the leading: een erate a é “4 boyhood ' celebration of the day, will show—and Schroell knows something about this subject, for he {s iuhabitants overridden by arrogant Prusstan officers, His early boyhoo figure in the celebration o! ‘|for a distance of about two miles, | t diag was culieheated we will follow him down the wind-Ir, tne trenches were the men of the; @ Native of Luxemburg. baetohy ih sdettong raided eae 1 4 ked in Parts t st tower! : ; ° " ‘avel vorl ‘aria, ing road Into a valley, past towerin€| 54 pattation doing their final tour Schroell's life has been made up largely of a passion for drawing Echroell lett bis old home and travelled: and wo 2 n sercening camouflage to the) a+ the contact wake wher hi ° at London, Brussels, {np Holland and in Germany. He learned six headquarters of the Major in charge | enemy jurked in hiding places on the| *@ ® hatred of the German military machine, Utterly untutored in languages beside his native tongue. And the more his outlook broad- ft battalion holding the front] oo. of an 4 regular hill. The 2a| ft. but possessing @ natural talent, he spent many childhood hours ened the stronger grew his distaste for German institutions. ud dugouts, The qe Battalion, which had left the| making pictures of famillar scenes around his old home near Metz Schroell came to New York five years ago, Many patrons at tg officers were waiting | trenches a few days before, was rest- Often he stayed up until daylight at this work, for, as he expressed. it, Healy's know him as a good walter, well trained and compotent, But 1 ‘ Het ne SATUS f 4 dat odd ynts he tn lade he: way HOUR ORE in he roe Ton _ once an ideaientern hin Headiiie cannoe rest until heibas wevked it they do not know that between orders and at odd moments he T) i the wa 5 the front in the regiment's sector, and be dulges his passion for drawing, and dashes off Ittle crayon master- camonfiag ae See send ES ist Battalion, which had done| out with crayon, a pieces, usually pictorial attacks on him he calls the Beast of , Soe ae tee. recsaciners|$.ateial Of. teanch auty when| What young Schroel: saw at Metz and at other German garrison Berlin, He will not sccest money for thia work.” He days he dose sca mud. covered” pie <whe nad |e rerote hatte moved to the] towns be visited eariy showed him the exaet position of the commoi 1t In response to an irresistible tmpulse to speak for the 8,000 Luxem- ront from a bi somewh Me wo hours before from) 44. | dogs the Allied 1 i soldier—slavery, he calls {t. He saw men routed out of bed in the burgers fighting In the ranks of the Allies. the outer observa. | GT, : Saianh eS ses eer dec a hana aea Sie RTE Pa ae estat. amp New York po v ual patrols Into} etween the regimental headquarters a ending behind our! close of the mass. The men stood| them a they are praying for 8 jand be unable to keep up with Im- carried at the front and the rest All h of them carrying an ob-| with bared h all thelr attention] Sinking swiftly to his knees on the Portant work. The only regular soldiers he{@utles of a military nature not di | cerver o French observation|bent upon the tall ¢ 4! director] grass he began the Lord's Prayey. A | au!pment used in tha game consisted nage 4 |rectly associated with \the possibill- | neroplanes from the yn at Lune-| of the regiment deep, melodious chorus joined in the | of a new baseball, ‘The catcher wore of the forward) 4, of an actual call‘to arms for SRE Ri ames tO southeast for 89! “poya” gala the « ne} supplication. And thus it came to}@ woollen mitten burrowed from @ See ieee ae mee were | Coteus emtinat. a Garman ‘oftenslvel, cantion. trip over the Gerth had tenonedy ace c, matters | pats) that Bt, Patrick's Day Grew t= | motor tetiok driver, and 9 bat: wae ® German tre vo fresh | Were Suspended for the day lanant close to the hearts of men who live| gether, in spiritual c racnlany sereee q ub whittled out of the branch of a AIL apout were holes| , A® the chaplain moved back | Tac umenthenal F a afin the shadow of death, “t suppoue| 350 milos of land and aca, the souls | tree, The umpire wore a French eae holes ir Caro re chaama,| {om.the front toward Camp Hecate near Camp New York|many of us would like to be back | of men of Irish blood who are Ue Wid ask. in the third tuning « larme, they we r mintat " , pyar New York, where he was to hold ise sg hen nites faa ben home to-day, marching up the Ave-|for the liberty of mankind and the! perspiring corporal landed on a high from < ryarto Atteon feet wide| % seeond religious service, two | Were Anolhen WOME Ie cotton nue to the music of tho re sleaantai [ane of thore who went them to Aight |atralght bail right over the inte and i land trom twelve to) itteen (8) Ger-| crashing explosions behind him [Ott they afforded cover|band, with our mothera and wives|and ore not afr! Knocked it lato the woods, and there king ¥ € me ecpindeal| sounded notification that the yst observation from enemy air-]and cousins and sweethearts cheor-|LIVELY SERIES OF GAMES IN ar ' te 080 hadiveae ment, pos- Re poles x, Down| ¢nemy wae beginning daily | anes above, Many of the hundreds) ing us from tho crowded sidewalks THE AFTERNOON, my a be gues By some Harcler middle of last Week nvave| strafing of the front fine w eee i maa already, Aabemibled battlefield after the war an » was absolute silence save] Fit a Ane, Brant tine with lof men who ae air eex pinned to[MIS6 THE BROADWAY MARCH! tn characteriatically Irtsh fashlon| itsted os a curione vine used by | j be d leaves as} a wore sprigs of shamrock Di AND NEW YORK HOLIDAY. | tho reiigtous aspect of the day be-| Americans in hostilities against the k pout the altar. | enormous destructive | |i cups, and those who had no |" Gey to. bacohariabed tail Gireen p scl a ; Forest] Power fired from pipe-like more | iRer Ooee oe kind wore twigs! "Many of ua recall that march and| Cae @ IDGmOLy 10 aiibe mass HAD Bic IMPRESSIVE MASS IN A FOF | tare hidden in positions about | leked from evergreen trees. A ftewl tne recollections of somo of us go!° j ae Mate oie aveninin’ ane alo CHOCOLATE CAKE DI- CATHEDRAL. | 1400 yards back of No Man's |? ocks fashioned of tlk! back through the years, We visu Reena eres Tea cistoae i kepiball|f ECT FROM NEW YORK ayy + of the priest reading Land. The projectiles are of low | P hound with gold wire—j ize out here on the battlefre the game, Rugby rules, *e ld be played Extra rations were served for din. « and a soldier acting 88) velocity ordep and can be seen of other St. Patrick's Days) exhilarating vista of tall butldings tee ays ked Irlah team and a | Ce? 28 all mens Two companies rh the responses were| as they approach ibi x drapec he colors of the t af lene: 4} sat down to a meal of bacon ani acal utteri: he vr Aiea ‘ y FP describing ® |pack in New York | draped tn the colors ft th ue picked French team on the Polo | ; A meal of bacon and cab- A: is heard in @ great aro through the air, but it TION BALLOON OVER: (States and Erin, of banks of smiling stretch of knobby meadow |°°8® 4nd bolled potatoos, the result ; ; t only in the depths of takes @ quick jumper to get un- | OBSERVA SHADOW faces to the right and le | & we m aadethatiat jot the resourcefulness and hustling aris ga tie company of Wor-| der cover when he observes one HEAD CASTS S im. | Brent reviewing stand befor a pafespantn alate pant |*PUIty Of the mess sermeant of one ‘ w bowed heads| coming in his direction. Each | yfore elaborate but no ea the| thedral, and especially at [2 steleok t am tae tball ag it i | WM? Used to be purchasing agent for roughed s breasts With) ghell scoops out a hole in the cond mass . w. | ment do we recall the mass in the|°h meine ok s nlia ve woutd meet {2.8 New York hotel. ‘The plece de owder stained hands! ground such as those described the cealdent. whioh | Cathedral preceding the parado—our| Presented at Celtic Park would M00) | resistance of the Hoadquarters moan niator acolyte sently!, above as surrounding the coors 4s one incident irl ee parked jin combat at the same plac NWA A SUBD claret. ohiee a 1 if ssa h i 0. a ¢ y’clod! he co: ed paseball aine e 4 7 i ea ane ell and ther, of themerningimassiat the front. | probably has never detore marKes| TT Latatonye, ye Sop (NeU A DAO! BPS IDRERALIN NOW Fork and packed: pe laimed the vation of!” Phe shells are equipped with steer- similar occ i o be back thera toe |renresenting the regimental carefully that, when it wa rved it imi Mneednat ats teat Baa imilar A we would 1 Nt 6 be t i « f '0- | tant's office would play « team chosen | might bave just come f : a the Vv e Host, J d ° ap | day--but only for a couple of hours— . nd i bis ne oven. att sa the| when the explosive charge tears the |=" , day from the headquarters company, and |" 0" 0% At Tig: CgDEI RROD OF et err eonelentine at irae Pepi fae ihe Jing to a of soldiers was en-|Just long enough to march up the| is; ootock an entertainment embrac- |, PTObably the bly « of the day priest talked to batties pas Ze a Me bart thee ns fly through |iknecling mass Of sol tSD ee nich | av and greet the folks at home iio. nowing, folk da. ve, short rune |fF the regiment was an uct of wat ] srematior : she! wpowal| Gentrustlva taroe (oe caerton esos Thee Rune, hh ee “fnere reflections | We would not bo men it wo did not ‘ning and hurdle races, a tug of war |°x*cuted by tho artillery. For several dn't a mor BS Ay ina voetnin alt disceeces dy about setinte fy heres A ver bars on the| miss the St. Patrick's Days wo have| ier vocal and musieal numturs would {2898 Ob9erVation aviators had been 18 ) seats sNeg rections. The min-| from the gold or silve lignown in time Deace we di pRtarwasaa : |paying close attention to 54 vie ra nenwerfer, called a “Minnie” t p iets of officers known tn times of peace, If w Fee be given on a level plateau overlook | | faites (ei a ation to a iseme t bes Late’ eal - bE Raa nee ada of | Mot miss our fam ing the positions of the antl-< i, 0a, betw | Ricci ein nia ana Across the backs ani hens a | But we know thi batterien and adjacers to the captive | "0! fh was to all appearances ‘ \ b | A on were | ngregation : ; pattorles ¢ nce: s munitions storehouse ar was : inoment—to & re-/ful effect in keeping our front tno| bie i. pt resembled the “We know we will be misn the | ba }'n all probability + t let t un-| forces under cover ‘4 mA iio of a huge, loose-skinned | celebration tho feast of the patron! rhe men s 4 and the clin LJ ere the German ' hell v Hine - bh aad n of our nee At ome ' n r 4 2 ¢ n't 4 STARTER FOR GENERAL ar- Aen One of the long, | aint ur Pr at hom WY} urried a hin quarters to @D- | used in the minnen ers. At rvi » nD 8 TILLERY FIRE | sausage shaped observation bal- | Wo know that glistening eyes will b®| joy a pelated breakfast. The break: | o'clock In the morning 11 American ant aolaleray: a, plat ‘ A pede was being rapidly lowered | directed toward thousands of va ant | ¢, almost engendered a traged¥ | battery, having been x PACE e chaplain paused as he heard cons we spita sharmr | Pros! tax ¢ 1 he 7 aed tt i MAES oe eounavae ine eeciohinne, "1 4a the ground, and the shadow 1 hospit hi k-|Prostding over the kitchen in the!by an ‘obaerver ; iH Ve bys Vr ad they walted until w was caused by the gasbag pas A ne is ie homes we ove s of which the chaplain is ® mem- | German building 1 do the alted —u ° of An nerish. AN this we know ful 1 French coo! Dy he Josed the the priest; Were finished with our part of to-| ing between the grove snd a gine al we kn per In @ French cc se AaB aby A couple of seconds after the With milit his calling |¢@¥'s Warfaro at that i" he ree! gun. At the same time the hu 1 ; it ; ich officers a iss bedite. Wie TPM = arta aaet tenets tates te ffed the “ah ae er| Marked, As he walked up the road} of an aeroplane netay nae urther we know eat ont. And it so sabes 0 : a earth for miles along and on both sed als TIN tgp aagpani Jother explosions were heard at other| heard, and two anti aleoraty be 1, as voles growing in| aln, In passing thr ‘Niet on tne | ‘it@8 of the battle front was Eat apni | dlatin eal points along the Iine. h irregu.| teries located on i ial bac #o t was heard even beyond m in the moral had le ran boat jarred by a tremendous explosion BEYER 10 ee Se nal. fighting |!#F 8nd short inter the bom-| than half a mile i the limit F congregation, |tavle & box containing ain Kt An officer on an observation post his collar. |bardment resumed on Patrick's | opened fire on a wal if moving | despite the persistent popping of air-| fresh from Ireland, which ho ha far back of the trench lines wes he announced,| Day in the morning had continued, object which resembled a soar- | crate artillery and bo of |saved for diatibution among the Of | simogt blewn from the lofty plat ) sah jduring most of each day and part of| ing hawk. It was a seman ae: |heavy guna in the distance, “t! be | doer Poa Yraney vie had found | form by @ blast of air which came % nal al ght for a week, b a plane two om! there isn't a man or a woman or a|the shamrocks and as all green th hi ee , on hdful of shamrocks|¢&h Might for a week, but so skil-| servation. F [there taht man oF & oF & the ahasnrocks aad as.all green things! from the German side and swayed : rarer ae sped | fully had our men concealed and| more aloft. child among those who miss us back |are Bp fal ga ‘ the trees in the forest as full trom trom th old: 890: | Be + handa|“!sposed of themselves that there | ft bombardment} home to-day who would wish y nt be used the precious emblems! grown wheat ie swayed by a iia Ghia pied ‘nd as the priest | Had been no rerious casualties | B ina opened | where but just where we are. Welot the day as a decoration for an| trong wind, The shock was fele a to the narrow eamou-| TR German bombardment acted were heard whistling | know and we proclaim it with pride |ometette, The ight in the mens room| at Luneville, @ considerable die Bee ee wie icet te vine tha lak © MANOR for Gaara) « y fire|through the alr. D' the reat of that we have always been ready to|is not strong and ia hungry revers| tance from the scene of the es “ Fa suai faster d to along the line of our sector, but | tho serv the ve of the priest | answer our country's call. We know |ence was within a b: plosion, and thousands of soldiers : a oe uivuaee on iwlnted in [the Grom Waa Bol concantraiad ani cnn enae ed In the sud-{that when tho call reached us we (his shamrocks when and civilians in that city rushed Beaten anitetsnne ¢ steal hel-|@sular, and there wero intervals in! gen roi turling devices | were the first to respond, and|to Investigation and discovered the! to the streets believing that an ue 1% Mer -SOMINSIADS OF Ateel jwhich the pastoral ellence that{and the {ted with hun-/that nono who loved and cher-| truth. air raid was in progress. A cloud came | |had marked the early morning pre-| dreds of ting masses ofit hed us tried to hold ua back, We| The regimental adjutant was slated! of grayish smoke arose over the ‘ PROUD SOLDIERS WEAR SHAM? | vaiica over the entire field of battle silvery smoke, each marking where| know they are with us in spirit, and (to pitch for bis alde in the baseba !| hills protecting the German posi- ROCK DECORATIONS. From the top of a hill on the road{/a shrapnel \ had burst tn vain) that their prayers in our behalf are| game, but the Colonel vetoed the ar-| tions and spread along the hori. The three battalions of the regi-|near the regimental headquarters search of th Viator, arising to the throne of the Most rangement on the ground that the zon for mil ‘The battery com ment were encamped along a road’ three captive observation balloons A talk of so. parked the High—and so let us say a prayer stant might burt bis writing aru mander exultantly reported that ‘ 4 oe dents. MEN, MEN, MEN INTO New York Waiter Cartoonist Gives His Impressions of the War Madness of the Kaiser. SCHROELL 1s a waiter at Healy's. Also he {s an artist, though he never had 4 lesson in drawing in his life. He has some strong convictions regarding the Kaiser and his reck less contempt for human llves, as the accompanying powerful ocartoun N ‘THE HELL OF BATTLE! middle of the night and put through eighteen houra of the hardest \sind of drilling; saw them obey commands until they were ready to drop, He saw soldiers weakened and worn out before they knew what real service was, and he saw the fron German discipline clamped down THE EVENING WORLD in Reporting the War Has the News Service of the Associated Press, the United Press No Other Evening Paper in New York Has a News Service So Complete [ENGLISH LABORITES “MAY QUIT CABINET ~ OVER IRISH DRAFT Members of Lloyd George Government May Not Be Able to Back Measure. | peclal Cable Dewy | com, eu, Parsi ne Om | LONDON, April 15—The Daily| |News lobby correspondent declares | jto-day @ serious state of affairs ha: | developed, affecting the Government's | Tho Labor Party leaders! jare opposed to Irish conscription and) |the Labor Ministers in the Lloyd) Geor Cabinet \whether they will support t to The New York Event World ) img | position are considering | » Govern- ment on thia issue. Jand J The speeches of Arthur Hende u jthe Milltary Bervice Bill wero sig- Thomas tn the debate jnifleant enough, but this is not all, | | Barnes, who is a member «* the War] |Cabinet, is understood to be in com: | pleto disagreement with the Gove [ment on the question of Irish con- scription. He reached the House vf {Commons Thursday, desiring to ex-! ‘press his opinions, but failed to wet] ‘an opportunity, ‘This, in the case of | a Minister in his position, is an al- most unprecedented thing. he hostile reception to the ure in Trejand bas not league against it ts to b day in meetings of opie In Armagh GABINET COMMITTEE DRAFTING HOME RULE MEASURE FOR IRELAND. Unionists to Be Guaranteed 80 of 200 Members of National House of Commons. LONDON, April 15.—A committee of (he British Cabinet ts now dratt- /tng an Irish Home Rule Bill, the Par- Hamentary correspondent of the Dally |Telegraph says. An Irish Parliament {and Executive will be established, with | full powers over the internal legisia- jtlon and administration and over di- rect taxation. Representation in the jImpertal Parliament will be retained pean. | abated. A} organized | este and i ry | | | -lin the form of a delegation of forty- two Irish members An Irish Senate of sixty-four mem- bers, he adds, will be constituted by Jwllotting representation to different interests, The Irish House of Com- nons will consist of 200 members, 80 guaranteed to be Unionists chosen tn \the South by nomination and in Ul- ster by an additional direct election, |Supremo authority of the Imperial | Parliament will be recognized by the reservation of powers relating to the Crown, to foreign relation army and navy and to minor 4nd interests, Control of the poll |and post office will be retained for the perlod of the war. The completion of land purchases will be expedited, For the period of the war and two years afterward the control of cus- | toms and excise will be reserved. As soon as possible after the establish ment of an Irish Parilament a Jo exchequer board will be set up to de- termine the true revenue of Irland, On the conclusion of peace a royal commission will be appointed to ex- amine the fin relations of Great he believed he had blown up the minnenwerfer warehouse and perhaps he had, for no more min- nenwerfer bombs were dropped into the American position on St. Patrick's Day. hrough the | drowsy afternoon PERSHING REPORTS U.S. CASUALTY LIST Britain and Ireland, to report what contribution Ireland ought to make to Imperial expenditures and to sub- mit proposals as to the best means of adjusting the economic and fiscal relations of the two countries, Provision, the correspondent eon- tinues, probably will be made for the appointinent of an Ulster Committee within the Irish Parilament with power to modify, or even exclude, the Application from Ulster of measures of legislation or administration which may not be deemed consonant with the Interests of the province, rotest Meetin rikh Places, DUBLIN, April 15.—Large meetings to oppose conscription were held Sun+ day i. Armagh, Limerick, Tullamore, Omagh, Carlow, Cashel and other Places, ‘They were not interfered with and there was no disturbance. Cardinal Logue, Primate of Ireland, preaching at Dungannon, said the conscription proposal. for Ireland Was the gravest blunder the Govern- ment had made and would lead to the utmost disorder and would be met with the most strenuous passive re aleMnee, Anything in the nature of ormanized physical resistance was to be deprecated and would not be fa+ vored by him. ce Large Di Many G7 NEW NAMES ON cccellsoa Of These, 10 Officers and #4 Enlisted Men Were Killed in Action. WASHINGTON, April 15.— Gen. Pershing’s latest casualty Met im the American Overseas Expedition. ary Forcea contains 67 names, brin; ing U. 8. losses abroad up to 3,615. Ten officers and men are reported killed in action. Tho summary of losses as followa: to date ts Killed tn action + Killed or prisoner . os Killed by accident... 189 Died of disease, soe 884 Lost at sea... vee 287 Died of wounds » 7 Civillans a All other causes, “ Total Wounded Captured Missing Grand total ........ eee n, Pershing’s latest ¢ is as follows: Killed tn Action, GALVIN, John J., Heutenant. BUCHANAN, Matthew L CARON, Henry F., corpora 515 sualty itet rporal. DERMOTT, John ¥., corporal. SNYDER, Joseph ‘corporal, RELUBE, Thomas H., private. BORE) 4L1, Louduwico, private, DALTON, Leonard L., private. zY, Stanley, private, mes R., private, FOISEY, LINTIN, Jai mund Pattor Howard har private, ed of Di eo. CALLAHAN, John J., private HORSLE fontague S., private, JENSEN, Nola Albert, private, LOULAN, John J., private, Died of Aceid WALD, Winthrop V., corporal Harry, priva' Died of Other © Clinton A. private . James B., private. Mini im Action, HARDESTY, J. F., captain, ABBOTT, John 8.," Heute )DRICH ‘old A, Meutenant. + pri nop! KRAM TE private, verely Wo: GRAY, Harold 4, Neutenant, CHAMBERS, Martin A., lieutenant, MPHETRES, Harland A., sergeant. THOKELL, A., corporal, BK EN, Frederio E, me “HI, Giacinto, private, vorge D.. private rs (i ( ) PURE German planes darted out occasionally for a survey of the American sector. {tf the aviators heard any foreign | sounds but thove of the explosion of shrapnel about them they must have distinguished the yells of w couple of thousand Americans rooting for their favorites in the athletic contests pro- { for their entertainme The German machines carry powertul eam end maybe now high officers in jerman Army ure trying to make out tho military’ meaning of extra ordinary, even violent activity in open places in a certain American avctor on the afternoon of March 17 Appropriately enough there arrived | at the headquarters he regiment | whieh celebrated St. Patrick's Day a| r from M Headquarters concerning the regimental health and the report was received in the morn tablished these facts That the regiment has lost few- er men from natural causes than any amiliar unit in France co: sidering the time which has elapsed since the arrival of the | regiment That the regiment has reported fewer cases of contagious disease than any othe: That there hi not been at any time since the regiment reported for foreign service more than one case at a time in the hospital of scarlet fever, mumps. or he percentage in the regi- ment of what is termed by Pro- hibitioniste and refermera “social disease” is and has been the low- t in the army, ranging from 2 per cent. down to 13-7 per cent "REMEMBERT Tr bac Or Linertry suprort itt \ This space is contributed by E, Pritchard, 331 Spring Street. ‘