The evening world. Newspaper, May 27, 1918, Page 14

—_ RS ae Four Months in France With the 165th Infantry (The Old “Sixty-Ninth’’) March to the Final Training Station and Men's Eagerness to Be Ready for Action in the Trenches Described by Former First Lieut. Benz, Who Wae in Active Service at the Front. 17" BECOND INSTALMENT of a personal'story of fighting and dying n the battlefields and in the trenches—a narrative which every New Yorker will want to read. The remaining instalments will be published datly in The Evening World. By George H. Benz Former First Lieutenant, Company I, 166th Infantry (Formerly 69th N. G@) Written Exclusively for The Evening World. Copyright, 1 by ‘The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) T= day after Christmas we started off again, this time to go to our MONDAY, MAY 27, final training station. The march started in a driving blizzard and a temperature near zero, I don’t belleve half a dozen men of our outfit had two pairs of socks with him, And #0 many had worn out shoes | that we left something like twenty-five behind, to follow us by train or wagon later, All the cripples, those recovering from disease or with flat feet, were left behind too. 1 doubt 1f any army ever made a} march like that. We plodded along in the snow, making fairly good time, and with thle men in good spirits. It was #0 cold that snow made a mound on one's hat and/ stayed there, and water froze in one's Spe, Gangs aoazine ‘How WASHINGTON IRVING GIRLS BUSY IN THEIR WORKROOMS PROVING THAT THEIR SCHOOL AMERICAN.” | IS “100% canteen, We had been on the road for about | two hours when the staff officers| started worrying us. There was on| A. E. F. order about marching your | men far to the right of the road, al-| ways seeing that No. 4 man of tho} squad was on the crown, Tho road we took was so narrow that if we followed out instructions No, 1 man would be way over in the ditch. The staff officers ruled the order held, nevertheless, and the only way we} got along was by shifting the first) two men to the place held by three} and four every hour, 6o they wouldn't get too tired out. | Another order ruled that no man | would be allowed to drop out of «| column for any reason unless he bore a card from an officer permitting him to do so. That was some job, watching some hardly pushed man fu!! of grit trying to keep up the pace, falter and then fall face downward into the snow. It was your job to run up, see ff he really was sick and then| give him his little card “permitting” him to leave the column. He would ve picked up later by the ambulance men. Again, when a man falls out, some in his squad must carry his heavy pack and his rife, Take a squad hard-pushed from a long day’s march and have one of the men fall out. If you gave the pack to another man and the rifle to another, pretty soon you had two more men out. It was no uncommon sight to see a column entering a town in the eve- ning with every officer loaded down with perhaps two or three packs, The snow was so deep and the weather so severe that the mess wagons could not keep up with the column, and the first day they were six miles behind and the second more than ten. We were carrying no reserve rations, so that meant the men faced hunger. I recall, one gas. Another on the common hand] grenades. We wasted almost a month telling them about new weapons, because we had none to} show them, Finally the arms started coming} in, and then we could train, We re-| ceived everything but rifle grenades, | and they came a few days before we | started toward the front. We did} not have tine to use them, so were} ordered (o fire them all off in one} day. We had tho regular number of tromblons for the rifles, and a tromblon is a steel cap that fits over the end of the rifle barrel, so al grenade can be shot from it, but we} didn’t have enough bushings to hold them to the barrel Therefore, they | night, when the wagons were far be-| were useless, | hind, we entered a town at 7 o'clock, | Our principal trouble was with | im the darkness, The men had had| clothing. The uniforms of the men | had started to wear out, and their | leggins were a shame. One day a| number of British uniforms came in, and we practically had to order men to wear them, nothing but a few crumbs since breakfast. Some of the officers were sent ahead and we had managed to buy twelve loaves of bread from the villagers. After the men were sent They said they want- IV ARI AAR TASS ~ Aerial Mail Causes New Malady : Latest Epidemic Is Hinged Neck, Due to Looking for the Morning Mail, Though Star- ing at the Clouds Looks Like a Non-Essential Industry— Aerial Postman Makes an Eagle Look Like a Rubber Heeled Pedestrian What Will Happen to the Parcel Posted Eggs Handed Out Eleven Miles Abore the Right Address, HUR (‘*BUGS’’) BAER. into their stables and pigpens for the] ed to be in their own uniforma, They | °°? aa ! y ng World.) didn't know the season was ov Hinge neck is caused by looking night's rest we walked around with/were told to take the English but alpibbcc od acbeigiessaak guasmal sek te ed jer Sr Abs -miorntagmnall the bread and a bayonet, We'd stick] tons off them und substitute the on the wrong side of Mr ic’s whale aqua are In the good old da ka used to tle their napkins around war head ta 0 Geer, ack how many! American butions. About a week! shock, trench toes and leaping m The European edition thelr necks, and | carriers weré letter carriers and not blooming men were there and then cut off allater we did receive American uni.| 0! E¥ropean measles shouldn't be scrambled with the New Jersey | sparrows, the postman would flatwheel along the macadam and toss portion of the loaf. It was just like| forms. brand of galloping eczema known to the inmates of Staten Island your morning seed catalogues, oll well literature and unpaid doctor feeding so many animals, Twelve) The first trench shoes we go-| {f¥boats as elght pronged ‘skeeters. While slightly related to the bills into your vestibule, You knew where to look for your morning joaves of bread fur 250 men! ¥| celved caused a wail of woe to go up| 4 family t to's aide, th 5 ma iL, evan if you didn want tol at it Pe grabbed at it as if they hadn't seen) through the battalion They were | ping me sles ver 0 will sper week end in ee ae aan \ et oe ai id ane par a ; food for years. of rough leather and heavily hob-| &"YDody’s necktle without first going throug ‘ ality of ring) | ®, morning Nnall hrough the suburban atnios The next morning our company| nailed, Most of them were of Brit-| !%8 the door bell, It's Latin label ts coo Coot, mé to hide, | phere abou AAPL ee above your celluleid collar, folks bays $0 managed to borrow some bacon from; {sh manufacture. As soon as they | and ie, meaning to 4 gives you bide-and with the i ges Wt i pe anal appl bs uy 5 ee whether he pos’ stay) i another outfit, whose wagon had/ would get damp they caused trouble,| #¢Cent on the hide, A ese luxuries are sclons 0 Kaiser's D6 AEE AOYEIE pONIAL os tc yws ‘em to the next door come in around midnight. Before we|In the morning they were so stiff a) ‘“@0itlon to get tt rown out of a Paris restauran ppi 1e « efore he hands ‘em to them could cook it we received the order| man couldn't get his feet into (hem. waiter an Iron Kross instead of a Uy Makin & tne world un ate for monarch ai But to pull out. The men went on their|Even at this time we didn't have Shell shocks, trench toes and leaping mea im Moye why make ie world unsafe for necks? A s in your way eating raw and half-frozen ba-| enough socks to go around, The) ‘eeded in pontooning the ocean But in mean tit ha AY c om staring 00) , i essentia “ tine young ailments of our own on our edge of Mrs. A c's gura indu Having your mail stampeding around in the soft June con, They had not had # real meal) battalion surgeon had a time of it bs & Ha) : tor two days. with foot complaint He was ahy| {oF ufcanned sardines. ‘Ihe latest epidemi is a at, young idea for a movie scenario, but Limping, hungry and dirty, they}of adhesive tape, gauze and med Phis is poaltive h most ‘ neon, like we i epend this next summer kussing the kaiser ( arrived at their final training sta-jcines, That surgeon was Lieut,| {rable since Mr. Shonts hopped ou eft foot one morn he percentage of kick in beevo) and snapping at our letter tion. There they were again billeted| John Lyttle, who formerly prac-| {98 and dect a that the mint was coining jitney pieces to enat whoozamologist abdu ling butterflies with a net, Yea, bo in barns and stables. Snow covered | tised medicine in New York City, New Yorkers to dangle trom straps like ripe persimmons w It's ge 0 that our aerial postmen make an eagle look like « the hillsides and the valleys, and| We were in this town for almost) ~~~ - | rudver-heeled 4 rian. Fourth-class postmasters are flitting around soon we had it churned into a mud-|two months, It was populated prac-|“Tin Lizzies.” The gas masks came | ment of Rainbow that had been nird-class clouds hoping that the next Admi ration won't be hole. tically by old men and women and|too, French and British make Wel]on the line | Republican or Bull Moose, Which kinda makes {t unanimous, Even In this place we really started|children, Under A. XE. F. orders, no|were supposed to get the masks on] For two days hetore we pulled out} & [OUrteelass: postmaster doesn’t want a fifth-class ‘Administration training—that {s,as far as we could| soldier could buy anything but light|in six seconds. The 69th did it in}ihat old town was a hotbed for all{ So {4% the method of delivering (he mail from the mezzanine floor of without grenades, without gas masks,|wines and beer. The only troublejfour. ‘There was only one man, T) sorts of rumors about where ware the world has been a succe but the world is waiting to see what without auto rifles, or, in short, with-|we had was when one of the priests|remember, who failed to make it in} sODE how many happer » the first dozen 1 posted eggs which are handed out out any modern weapon of war. Our|from the section would distill some) that time, a little fellow by the name] y ould be i Lisies” within| clever miles above the right address schedule called for so many minutes'| liquor called Palestine, or “prune|of Grabino. «He always wanted to! g sno I ava The inst ors of the airplane ma ce claim that the new instruction in the’ use of the rifle] juice,” about 90 per cent. alcohol,|take a full breath before he started! piacksmith’s shop on iio | celling system of shooting mail ts mu shagrthe old’ mathod grenade every day, and I remember/and sell it to the men, Few would! putting it on too, He learned differ-| nding half a ; ee crawling along Uh may be faster, but there are some Jet. nding on a hillside with the com-{drink it~it was far worse than anyjently the first time up ONDA: t Need He, ters ta we don't wa ) get faster. And there is one phase of the pany lined up in front of me, trying} of the “ki!] quick” whiskey sold years! In the early part of Ma he RAE itn snes, dope that neither t rplane mall system nor jostling the cuckoo to teach them what a tromblon'ago on the Bowery der we had -been wa » lon re in loc! an hour w hange a Nha age due, When you looked like and using @ tin can as a A few weeka before we left we re-dcame to‘us. That was, we were to arnen up th ‘ et a letter colle ‘ Airplane or no airplane ma. substitute, Another officer talked on| ceived our 1 hgtmets, dubbed! move up and relieve another Continued on This Page To-Morrow.6 postage due is postage due , ‘ ) regi You said it One New York High School Is Helping the Red Cross MONDAY, MAY 27, 1918 Washington Irving High Sets Pace for All Schools In War Service and Work Seven Girls Serving ‘‘Over There,” 707 Stars on Big Service Flag, and Whole School Backing Them Up With Red Cross Work, War Savings Stamps : and Liberty Bonds. By Hazel V. Carter VEN names on the Nation's Honor Roll in the corridor of the Wash+ S ington Irving High School represent seven Washington Irving girls who are giving their services Over There. Seven hundred and seven stars on the big service flag, recently raised at the Washington Irving, stand for 707 brothers or fathera who are offers ing their lives Over There. And right within the walls of the Washington Irving almost 7,000 girls are backing up the 7 and 707 with probably the greatest programme of war activities of any school in the country, | When you enter the corridor of the Washington Irving you wonder whether you're in a canteen, a Red Cross hospital, a Flower Show benefit jor a War Savings headquarters. You see tables and chairs where coffee 1s served, girls in Red Cros (apron and veil, a booth where flowers are sold for the cause and a War vings office where pages of green stamps are changing hands across the counter for Uncle Sam. Sudtlenly the class bell rings, and | | the corridors are filled with thou-| 4re sands of middy bloused girls whose | OT for Latin grammars and aineeeadl| Last week was declared Birthday tucked under their arms, tell you| Week for the Red Cross, and each | that it is just an up to date, 100 per | Sit! brought one cent for every year. cent. American high school. | The German Department has also “{ got 90 in English for my theme | found @ unique way of doing its bit jon ‘Why We Should Give to the Red | #4 proving that it is German in |Cross’ and 95 on my Liberty Bond | !@nguage only. Coffee is served ip | Scrap Book,” one little girl tells her | the corridor each’ day, and the pro- chum as they pass down the hall toward buying gauze for “Oh, hurry up, before the bell| the Red Cross surgical dressing de- | rings, and let’s see how many War | partment. Savings Stamp stars are on the bul-| Up in a light, airy room the upper |letin board for our class,” her chum | Class girls give their spare hours | seplies. to the making up of this gauze into And, rushing to the bulletin board, | Red Cross dressings, under the di- |they join several hundred others| ection of Miss Florence Baxter, | who read with all of the anxiety of Chairman. Each girl has her own apron and veil, but they are left at bought for use in the art clas ature work. ceeds go | casualty list perusers, the day's war | schedule for the various classes, | the school lockers, so as to be clean | phey glance with pride at the| and sanitary for the work. Before | Third Liberty bond score, that shool and late in the afternoon the shows where Washington Irving "00m is filled with girls, cutting |High gave three-quarters of a mill-| 8aUze and basting pajamas. Hon in Third Liberty bonds; where; “We do not allow them to give | $22,000 has been spent for War Sav- their school time to this work,” Miss Baxter s: ‘although they are al- ings Stamps—$5,000 of which came Py Ways anxious to be in the worke Jin last week—making the biggest record of any high school in the "om. We believe that they should city; where the following figures for Tealize that this is a service of sacrle | Red Cross supplies are posted: fice, and it means using additional 560 surgical dressings (the larg- time. number from any school), 606 The output has increased from | hospital garments, 480 knitted arti- less than a thousand dressings In cles and 1,100 comfort kits, October to 15,500 in April. Almost And then they hurry from Red every girl home at night, not Cross donation totals to the most ex- Only with her Knitting bag filled citing news of the day to the stu-| With yarn or a sock ia the process of making, but also with a comfort bag which the The library Irving has aspect there dents—their French war babies When the news of adopting |two fatherless children of f |reached the girls they than elated, Notes whizzed the study hall desks whether such and such a class should adopt a tlond boy or a brunette baby. And, strangely enough, in th whole school of girls each class de- cided that they preferred a girl baby to adopt. In the senior class, how- ever, many were in favor of a boy “a boy not too old to be kissed | they specifled—however old that is. | On the day that each class became fifty- she is stitching for ance were more of the under concerning Washington so taken on a warlike Besides of Classes, up to date books on the which the girls use in connec- tion with their English and history ‘s work, War posters hang bere well as in the art rooms. Over on a table in the corner hun- dreds of books are daily stacked up for the soldiers. Over a thousand volumes were contributed during the rows are week of the d0o0k drive for the a godmother every member of the soldiers. 3 we a pansy and celebrated Probably the most popular spot “Sweet Sacrifice Day,” which meant in tbe library is a table where the that all of the money that would) Lfverty Loan ap books are on otherwise go for sweets would on display. One of the English teach- that day be dropped !n a box in the vised the idea of letting class rooms to be spent for sweets girls make scrap books with what- for the new babies. Up in the do er they considered best in the way | eo sclence rooms the machines |of art and literature in magazine or | | are whirring away to provide pretty;newspaper which promoted the clothes for the babies. Third Liberty Loan—and some ree Last Arbor Day, May 19, the Wash-|markably artistic scrap books are lington Irving giris gave a goody) the resuit | shower for the boys in Base Hospital| When you have waiched all of | No. 1, at Gun Hill Road. these forms of service going on at |" “gay, there's some mistake,” suid| the Washington Irving High School, {the commissary when the automo-|and then only seen a small part of biles laden with fruit and flowers|the whole service programme, you appeared: “We didn’t order this.”|are interested to know what. per One of the teachers assured him cent. of these 100 per cent. Uncle there was no mistake, and the con-|Sam bousters are of American par- valescent soldiers gathered around entage. And you have the surprise and looked on wide-eyed while the/of your life in store for you when | girls in middies deposited ten bushels | Principal Edward Cornell Zabriskie jof apples, eight bushels of oranges,| smiles and say |iwo bushels of bananas, several cases! “They are 88 per cent. of foreign of grape-fruit, home-made cakes and | parentage |two motor trucks and four automo-| The Evening World will be | biles full of flowers, including every | variety from the garden pansy to |rare orchids—and best of all, per- |haps, two clothes baskets full of | cigarettes! | ‘The flower booth in the lower cor- |ridor is an original idea of Miss | Mary Schuyler, a teacher—who, by Pleased to report the activities of other schools in Greater New York, aeeiae te MADE IN GERMANY. AUL GARY of Anderson, Ind., ia all American, with tion of a glass eye ptic is alien. the excep. The substi- ¢ ry tried to enlist in the United |the way, is @ great-great-grand-|States Marine Corps,qbut was. ree daughter of Alexande’ Hamilton, |Jected when his infirmity was dis- She lives out at Elmsford, and twice that the losa a week she brings in flowers from your safe her own garden, which she sells for Mt the Red Cross,s The girls are eager i explained 8 blinker is the ttt, Met waa made. tn q want to take aud Comment, ° “4 to buy a boyquet at the cost of a par G j few cents, and many of the dowers' puck.