The evening world. Newspaper, September 30, 1918, Page 14

{ MosTLy abouT A PATRIOTIC DOG. —_ | Girl Types Who Succeed or Fail as Cantren Workers In France, as Described by Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt} :::at woman is toast pesvavie His Name Is ‘‘Vesle’’— Pronounced “Vale’’—and He Is French, and He Escaped, Amid a Shower of Rifle Bullets, From the Germans Who Had Taken His Body but Could Not Command His Soul—Now He Belongs to the War Corre- spondents, but Mostly to Ray Carroll—He'’s Shaken Hands With Pershing and—but the Story’s Too Good to Spoil by Any More Preface. By Martin Green (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World Copyright, 1918, by The Prose Publishing Co, (The New York Kvening World) VER in France there is a woolly litte black and white dog that has seen more warfare than any dog has seen in history. He bas shaken hands with Gen. Pershing and most of the Major Generale und Brigadier Generals and Colonels and officers in our army and many of the S@icers of all degrees in the French Army, and ts known to tens of wo sands of American privates and to the people of scores of French villages. He ts a personage, as it were, in Paris.! He {8 a member of the Intelligence Service of our army and he wears on his collar:a bow of green and white ribbon, the distinguishing tneignia of the war correspon- dent. He is Ray Carroll's dog. Ray Carroll is the war correspondent of the ,Phila- delphia Public Ledger. He was formerly on the staff of | The Evening World. This story is about the dog, but Carroll must figure in {t, because, as Don Marquis, the best writer of stories about dogs since Mark Twain, might put it, Ray is Vesle’s man, and Vesle is the name of the dog, and Vesle is pronounced as if it were spelled Vale. On « hot, steamy day last July, Car- yo and Junius Wood, the war cor-| dinner. Carroll entered the diniag respondent of the Chiego Daily| room carrying the dog, which was Nowa, rode up to the battle front south | still wet and tired and muddy. of the Vesle River in the Chuteau-| Up to that time no correspondent Teterry soctor of the war. They Inft|had accumulated a dog. Carroll and their automobile in the woods along- ood told the story of how the jittle #840 @ road and walked two miles toa! chap had run away from the Ger- headquarters, There they picked up|mans, and the whole correspondent & conducting officer, who took them to|crew got up and gave three cheers @ @heltered observation post, from! for the dog which they could look for m: long | “He's our dog,” said Herbert Bailey | the Valley of the Vesle. The Ger-]of the London Daily Mail, “and we'll iene had retreated across river!call him Vesta" that morning and American troops! “Where do you get that stuff—he's were aligning in formation on the! our dog?” inquired Carroll. “Ho's mv fouth bank to follow them. In the| dog; that is, he's Junius Wood's dog woods on the north bank the Germuns/and my dog, and it's up to him to ‘were forming to make @ stand, estab- | pick which of us belongs to him. We Nehing machine sun nests and dig-| might as well do it right now, Come ging emplacements for light artillery. | on, Junius As frequently occurs, even in the) ‘The two correspondenta started for Wusiest sectors of warfare, the scene! the door. The little dog jumped from was quict, almost pastoral. Artillery’ the chair he had occupied and fol- boomed in the distance, but there W483 lowed Carroll. ne eign of war in the valley over- “Vesin i your dog," said Wood, looked by Carrol! and Wood. although “put, by gosh, be belongs to all of us, the forest on both sides of the FIVEr at that, Hig name in Veslo and he's ewarmed with hidden men. A DTee# ihe correspondents’ dog, but. Ray | from the cast rustied the leaves and Carroll hay to take care of him.” emt successions of waves over fleld8 qerg was quite a ceremony in Car- of grain ripening in the marine a Folla rode AE WIGRLERC. Cartel ana brown, swift river, soon to ark Wood washed the dog, with soap, and — #00; Rowed along toward’ & * aria him and he came out of the “We are starting almost any time pasaalles oe Pars Sthbe Ohiasies ack save for a Mow,” the officer told the correspond= white collar about his neck and tous ents, “We have our guns In position, white foot, The ¢ npiwlie ation | and if you stick: around a while you ¢, ong ti " Correspondents decided that Vesle ix Are apt to see the woods wcross the wg crong betwean a spaniel and river all blown to hell and gone. Poodle, Ip response to orders fr ym} The sound of a rife shot in the Carrol! aolivered in Carrollian Frenc ‘eneh woods on the north bank attracted Vexte performed various trieka, c the attention of the correspondent® eron MacKenale, who aia dale . n and the officers and soldiers in the when he ia not reporting a war, and observation post. Looking acros th hax imagination, sumgested ther 4 ue river they saw, streaking It down ® be made of Vesle'u fecllngn tawon road through clear territory between Germans, H the woods and the river a little black returned in and white dog. He was running from the German lines toward our lines Reaching the river he plunged in ‘The current swept him down stream, @ black dot in the swirl of brown Water, Rifle shots attended the s ter of bullets in the river all abou the little dog., T toward went to his room aud fow moments wrapped in a gray blanket and wearing a Gere | Man officer's helmet Vesle sprang test hac him, growling. The d confirmed Vesle's patriotism With appropriate rites, in which Na poleon, the maitre performed an important in the way of car rying things in and opening bot sibly a few Gert be 1 such, Vesle was formally adog shooting at him. He reached the! as the dog of the war corresponds south bank of the river, clambered] with the American Army, Veale ae up the tank and chased up the road] veloped a pronounced appetite for the toward the woods, his pace slacken-|wine of Hurgundy, He drank whon ing as he climbed out of the valley.|anybody else did, Soon he was lost to view. Vesle adopted Carroll. Every day “Well,” ejaculated womebody, “the| he rides with Carroll along the front nervy little son of a gun, He's de-] When Carroll serting from the German army.” trots at his heels. He was in the b Bome two hours jater Carroll and] advo oD Solasons, in the battle o Wood reached their car in the woods.|the Oureq, in the Battle Tee chauffeur was asleep on the] Miniel salient and he iw at t front seat. And aslee Fr) now in the Verdun. sector seat was a wet, muddy, exhausted | up th Mtle woolly black and white dow—| away the dog that had escaped from the} Among army officers Veule is rv German army |Kurded as a mascot, They like to se Carroll picked the little fellow up) him appear with Carroll when an im. | and stroked his soaking back. The! portant engagement is pending. There dog, barely ablo to raive his head,|is always a place for him Meked Carroll's hand. The practical! ficers' mess, He is a friendly di Junius Wood spoke to the dow in|he carries with him ac French and the dog feebly wagged hie| which forbids more tail. greetings on “He's a French de sald We “The Germans picked him up s where about here and were tuk him away, and he beat it back, our dog.” * “Where do you get that stuff, he's!a ohair and » our dog?” as Carroll, He's my} head @og. 1 was the first to grab him.” w “We'll leave it to the dog.” said Wood, still pr chooses you, hi Gorma leaves the car Ves! on the re following jermans who were taking hin in an of mu rrival and formal fare- Wells on dep of his time in the sound of big gur but he never appears to notice can He's | nonading. He is a war dog, and some ure, He spends much |times as he is crouched on a tabl ly strokes his ws soft brown eyes hich there appears to be a world memories, tical. “If the dog| 1 ta nurs, If he chooses saw Vesle in Paris, T was ’ AviNis of an early morning train me, he's mine, Le and 1 went to Carroll's room in our At 10 o'clock that night the dog and! pote) ¢ ay Carrol] and Wood reached the hi doy. Carroll was in the town t at time, t spi beadquarters of the correspondents. | with They were t in from ah hut the others had not precedot me to Dm them jong, and the whole crew report. Sake Wa ping the war, Americans, British and jo\noq thy ‘French, were in the dining room at ents, Eight Months at the Front With the American Army) DOING THNGS THis WAY’ MISS EFFICIENCY Fairs DOWN OVER THE GUTTERFLY MAKES THE BEST CANTEEN WORKER THE FAT Giris TIRE OUT Quickest yi Muzzle Bursts’ By Candidate ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER, 4th Observation Battery. @ candidate's stance by the direction in which his Put a set of No, 7 feet in a pair of No. 11 boots and feet can tenshun while the shoes are doing squads right. IKE DONALDSON, trainer of the famous Stanley Ketchel, is n in all the bally- When the 69th was stationed at land, Mike started out in @ rowboat on a So fired with patriotism was fighting 69th. booing on the western front. ‘amp Mills, Long arrangements expedition to get the Kaiser the foot of the Eiffel angle it looks as if that bouquet can be made out of blooms from cen- tury plants, with a bouquet at in bis rowboat before discovered he didn’t have any oars KLY MATH. QUIZ. 7 > of & bisected parallelac Ten years ago gas a flatwheel cirel n and then stull you a quest soap down your mouth so you can't answer him? If the range of a S-inch fleld piece reached its maximum degree of 5,000 yards centrigrade, other three Was 12 cents @ gallon singing, “I wish T bad woman in Xenia, O., secured a husband wrote a song entitled “When the War Is Over, Lena, We Will All Go Home and Fight. THE HARD RANGY TYPE STANDS THE STRAIN BEST, No. 11 brogans are made usions that she has drawn ‘is this That women are the least de- because her sions of the unknown quantity on Fourth Avenue and gives him a Chine problem on salmon colored cards. whon a candidate passes a loot salute with a camel in his Give the answer of thi It's an awful blow to candidate to furlough back to the old home ais exemption blank national flags » Kaiser chirps that he had left no stone unturned to end the Eacept that one between his ears. \g of the his- is boycotting the food profiteers. Not so bad to be boy- of each fag flerce to be girleotted. ‘'Yhe boys who married in order to eseape the draft now have two cans are now a When calling the battery to ‘tensaun, no commander should judge | liar with the national flag of hervle perpendicular Newest Things in Science te handling invented by a North) ium has perpetuated th { the Duchy of Bra- bant, which were also red, yellow and Belgium flag in an octo- among banners, dating from the founding of the Belgian Kingdom countries, | in 1831, | Black is the rareat color found In ancient colors Annually exports about 1,000,- Britain for hand. | fr food purpose invented in Great handles of a was and alr Wire bandles which can be attached | against the water to be gifted, Civilization stands heavily in debt The Flags of the Allied Nati By T. L. Sanborn BELGIUM | August, 1914, MANS. fighting until tack ‘| GENUINE NOVELTY. WOOD, ate | pupa | | to se as one ir “Reminds me extraordinary gonaut, to little Belgi against terrific Single-handed, one | fights in history, the | |rhe onrushing German masses | France time to prepare storm and so saved Europ he noble little nation Is once more re-establish: sovereignty, free (This series of articles on the \ lied flags was rel i ning World for publication by the Lib- Jerty Loan Committee deral Resery > two that beat was commenting with which marriage ix regarded by 80 many of the ‘who was seen at the thea marked attention to a young w him #0 attentive to a lied his friend, | library of thousands of books her MO DAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1918 Butterfly Girl Makes Best Canteen Worker in France,” | Verdict of Mrs. Vanderbilt Says Head of Canteen Work “Over There;”’ “She Tires Quickest, Becomes Im- patient and Gets Sick; Thin, Wiry Woman Has Most En- durance, and Woman Who Has Had Executive Experience Has First to Forget Her Own Notions of Huw Things Ought * to Be Done.” By Helen H. Hoffman. f Dt, WIS, by The Pr Kerning Wort PARIS, Sept. 10 voted their sam- y will pause F there are any strong, athletic young women who ¢ mer to golf and other seasonal pleasures, perhaps now and consider this call to rvice in France. The call was voiced to me recently by Mra, W. K. Vanderbilt. For more than a year, directly after our country entered the war, Mrs, Vanderbilt took charge of the canteen service for the Red Cross As the American Army grows in numbers, the increased demand for such canteens presents a pressing need, Mrs, Vanderbilt explained. At the same time, she pointed out, girls engaged in the | present service were working, often fourteen hours a day, and that girls to Hghten the work of this number were very much needed. “We are anxious to establish a number of ad- {ditional canteens at points taroughout France,” said Mrs. Vanderbilt “through which the American boys pass on their way to the front. If we had the workers we could do this, as this is the only reason we have not been able to open these extra canteens.” Walle the desire to recruit a large number of women for this work fills Mrs. Vanderbilt's working bours with considerable anxiety, she ex- plained that the women who present themselves for this work should be ntially the right sort. “The chief consider Mrs, Vanderbilt, Unless a girl is sald] Aa war has dem 1 many the health. | ories in vote for years, and some of age of centuries J has spien-| them musty with the this| Mrs. Vanderbilt ¢ one that she Hd health she 8 work.” herself can vouch for, and that is, that 1s Vanderbilt what class | fat women are even pered, good- of gi wed the best workers. atured and ¢ going, “T . tyne rl so-| “We have always thought that rolls called Mrs, Vand of fat covering the nerves somenow been magnieynt. She is most| Protected the nerves from strain, said Mrs, Vanderbilt, “However, this is not so, as I have observed in. this only women who grew tient, and now and again adaptable to conditions, This is be- cause she bas had no preconceived sut how to do and how not work. Th n pieces of work. The adap Lis invaluable, Of| byst were fat women, sourse 80! r they all adapt| “And, besides, it has been proved themselves perfectly to the work, but | tat they cannot stand the strain of come do it much more quickly and|the work nearly so well as slender ly than othe | women. 1 say his in reference to the an who has had execu: | *mall desree of sickness we have bait ‘ce, 1 find, has a much| Mong our canteen workers, Coide, pneumonia and bronchitis cases, at t may seem to you, were notions @ |to carry hor or 1A he wor lve experi difficult time of adjusting her-| » tis work. She has her own! {how things should be done.| Confined to the stout women in the ; mii service r n this service, working in . . i atest ith the American] Ano thing,” added ae Van- pit } subject to ite regulations, |temwit, “it ts m difficult fo stout women to get abou oe in to pursue stance, We serve at vailway sta. not | Stance, We serve mon at railway 8 Innovations and experiment ms, and often in order to factli- work wome climbed train te and there i that slender | women m eit better than the stout girls thing in all army work, and even the cots are narrow, and often have to be | fitted into sma.) space | This seems a bit b ired, particularly at this tim broadly Mr hilt sna there only one cours t such smal ft w m useful in of these con te she 1 ff his service. An saile rd on the stout ineu reasons given by Mra.|Women, but these are she says, that from actual Gay after day experienc Vande jor this they t endurance thi tain, }in canteen serv wiry women have eahibited under! | "The, ideal age of i eantec i. ‘ie nderbilt, “1 wich coffee, &c., at the canteen und rbilt, “that serving them at stations and camps | er thin dewoription, wil means long hours of standing, and| me Ore BER MALES foes Say women who are heavywelghts | American soldiog over here, ery qu this Iwery great servic A Book Agent Who Is Always Welcome rma MISS CAROLINE JONES AND HER SANDWICH WAGON OF BOOKS. P at United States General Hospit 1, on Gunhill Road, in the | Bronx, the American Library yclation has installed for our wounded men back from France what the men call the “sandwich wagon of the A. L. 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