The evening world. Newspaper, October 1, 1918, Page 16

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1918 ight Months at the Front With the American Army THE MEN BEHIND THE LINES. The Men of the S. O. S. Section Move Through, Over and Around Natural and Industrial Obstacles (Which Are! Heartbreaking at Times) the Supplies and Ammunition: Required by the Fighting Men at the Front—And They maniep Modish Gown in Black Satin for Afternoon Wear, - | And Smart Combination of Coat, Skirt and Waist PE A Lik SOB thd Bde # She Ach The “Really Truly Story” Of a Little Wooden Doll And a Real Life Romance The Other Day the Newspapers Told How, as the Fulfilment of His Dying Wish, a Doll, Long ‘ ‘ my , ttt a Are Doing Their Part as Faithfully, Efficientl dU | Treasured by His Deceased Wife, Was Buried in a re in} ir Part as Faithfully, cie se- i . ; {5 ih , espe the the Casket With Prof. Edmund E. A. Le Maire— a fully as the Men Who Are Risking’ Their Lives at the * i Th Ww Hint of U 1 Romance in the 9; Front. ere Was @ int 0 J/nusua pd e ¥ By Martin Green Fact—Investigation Brought to Light the Most ly Martin Gree : nr 7 “ee % — (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) ‘ Beautiful “Doll Story’? Ever Conceived his 9. wy, niet ‘ YH all the good nows we aro getting from the front in France these days One Was “Lived”’—Not “Written” —Here It Is: t the fighting man figures exclusively, and it is quite proper that he * ite M Marshall P shoud, tor ho ts up there beating the Germans and winning the war. But By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. there sre more than 250,000 soidiers in Frat who have never heard « gun | Copyright, 1918, by The Prove Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World ‘ fired in battle, never seen a trench, never witnessed the { | It was only a little doll, its head of quaintly carved wood, chipped awe inspiring glare in the sky at night which signalizes | and worn, the ruddy paint washed from its cheeks, its slippers of " the retreat of the enemy, and these men are doiug their § leather crumbling into dust, its flowered hat faded and pushed askew. £ part &s falihfully, as efficiently, as usefully as tho men But it was the vonfidante of a child's joys, griefs and dreams; the i who risking their lives, I refer to the personnel of treasure strangely—perhaps symbolically—dear to a woman;-in life ‘ the system of Service of Supplies—the 8. 0, 8. section, and death, the souvenir to ¢ man of his heart's joy and suffering. as it Is called in the army. | ji CHAPTER I. 2 They are the men who move through, over end ALF a century ago a small French Marie, dark-yed, around natural and industrial obstacles which are demure, well-behaved, as are the children of her race, heart breaking at Umes the supplies and ammunition salled away from France with her father and mother, required by the fighting men at tae front When She was only four years oid, but her parents were we went into the war our engineers uaa planned a sys. travelling players, and the compafhy to which they tem of docks, warehouses, railroad and truck trans- belonged bad an engagement at the chief theatre of Portation requisite for the equipment and support of 1,000,000 sol.iers, the fete ag Martinique. al ‘The system was practically completed in June and in fall working order in be arie, ca hha Vers ie ae Seat ito ce August. But by August there wero more than 1,000,000 American soliiers won ssid e wy ae phtly colored, tropical ave im France, at oy bound for the battic front, and now, while our fightors are the bidet Tas - Fab hee Lied ard ide to- Y Steqdily calling for more supplies, more artillery, more ammuuttion, while would a Fre ik 7 ¢ & ven we a si a ubaeedta @Ur Jine of communication is steadily lengthening with our advance (nto with 4 hia pod aE tea ork mi ait to be German territory and our field of activities is spread along w front extend. ontent herefore we may imagine what a cap y 30 3 tallized Event it was in Marie’s life when not long ing from Switzerland to the North Sea, our Service of Supplies section ia f alter landing in Martinique, her parents presented het Comironted by the task of duplicating the original plant, for in a short ; ay , with a doll, a native product of the island. It was about eightcen inches time we shall have to care for 2,000,000 inen, and within a your for an ad- acl atk FibGaLy (Alva BAT DAGAUAR woGdaa Readies ‘ Se | +] enious] ca i pia ee oods . ditional million. When I left France our high command was of the optaion |tall, a girl doll, with an ingen Aceh i. » a that the war would last until we hod 9,000,000 fighting men on the ground. Ne rats “4 ; tne | ——— ESE Ya nearcoly neceseary to n | blue an ee r A 9 en aw skillfu t f) Mise the fact that before our 8, 0. hi * day and fashion, even a t Race : chinery here,” said the Coionel, “but! ‘ ren ery oO a], aby “ ©) im France begins to function from|when we utrived thon Roane) Pek | \ze bit of. French millin * ie veloped into an endur B Werveaboard to the battle lines the|# monkey wrench on the ground. T| Found: head: Te sae 8 doll: to Oe gt | bubs one Wonders. IC ) material with which they work must| borrowed an old boiler and patched it| Bee eee eee en OE ae ee | teeuedred’. Weodit: we PE Sides davaes the . Atiant |UD. und bought a dinky little upright | }child, and the All Marie took it to] (rr Ryoaly dian P, Oeekn. Wo went into a country al-|tublisued In twenty tne ape tit her heart ly thule sti an 2 3 a e ‘ enty-four hours 1s Soon, I am su the time came] becam her gallant Ready atrainea to the uttermont Hinits] put ny boxt to Work on any kind of | tes when ‘ihe wocden-teated (doll. wan] Banden cher gallant a resources by nearly three years | @ © could buy or beg from the ent 70 f ; Eros ; PY Pag pee @f wartare. France could aiford us| kMnCh railroad und peg Bed dearer to Marie than anything in the t abe to0sh: ) only temporary assistance. We had | country ai oo. 8 this part of the world, and when nightly she fell | to build our system of supplying our! “Our. tools diy eh one tele , asleep it was with dollie's smooth )) foops and we had to get she ma-| from the United States until the mide} i cheek pressed tight against her own ~ >) terial from the United States. ile Mareb h n't tearstained one, for an epidemic of anguage SicBerell truth miracies bave been ac vgn p ee x in packing} 4 cholera gwept Martinique, and with y of New 4 5 orantinngon’, ‘0 0 rebutid a ng ¢ e vit dead! ears a P eemplished vy the men to whom was| practically everything that. rend the passing of the swift, deadty years a imtrusted this gigantic task. Their{U% In three months we have under plague ed Mario's her and pee y ea seldom figure in the public] %4¥ plant which will eventually | mother, leaving their four-year-old at Wel 7 Thousands of the executives | 7st 90,000, baby and her doll alone in a Sirange Te tho ports signg the rairond Uiner|ogt/Pil!t WD our tersonnet out of the! land ) an@ at the various supply contres and mM as they came yan oy an With their characteristic , D Gistriputing points gave up position " to my Skil loa Gan | kindness, the playe who Le Ataine tbe United State ante wade wonderful workmen of thett | through t Jomic tried to ¢ meticulows : , ui “ rms who never saw! z th when they c : nat year, a ee shheie | ples of machinery. ‘more intricate ‘ i iigeuniasas atte } : roan i her with ler gout) dole] N ase ae ke ee families and acquaintances and the|t40 a threshing machine beture i s i is i Si to France. Ma |) 4 anh rote Pusinees circles in which they exor.| ered the army,” fore they | | Biack satin ue Tees suuty Reindeer brown duvetyn skirt, Lect ss adopted by an aunt (sors in America, “ot Which he wae elved their talents and abilities at] gg Wit NO frst came wo. bad no with facings of Ameri Coat of charmeuse, banded wth Jand went from Paris to the French nis wite ad’ Un noeie nent eet heme, nobody knows they aro in/os what thaber me saad Winches out! Silk -eccondion tea, duvetyn -~ Georgette waist of ecru, Island of Bourbon on the West Afri-| is so strongly develonad (gt wale’ France. and with the sole pee Bole of | Be waist Itne -+tun els tn watst Finished with fr Same Shade= iB can coast, the mu wvolled woudeh and dispensed simplu, gy hospitality ‘These men took with them a small Rasew hee in ¢ tw the § Came by ball. trimmea girdle New Sleeve line tf tntroduced * doll accompanied her, Tt was the) 0), 1iany of thelr countrymen and army of skilled mechanics and rail-| jing and 06 feet 8 marebouse feet| | R B ‘ tt P 8 sy last gift from papa and maminai| yvonwhite the little wooden don Foad operatives who had worked for| work is all stech, brown ia, ames | i f j fae : 5 around it centred her dim baby MUD-| waited, Did It listen impose eo them in great industrial enterprises. |Yhe United States, {tis Boltea. eee ig 7 rere sired bib eben ibs sid sesion qOneen 7 ories of them, and ing the hours of} saa confidences, frustrated hopes, of this nucleus they have built up My foreman of construction ssa Hae Mesias —s oreneapees? Se Tet a a et Te | lonielinens which must ome to. every | Mars the woman, even ax Marie ‘the 4 leita dg an forty-fve years old, fr ° 2d girl, howev diy her}Child had dropped tears on weet ie considered by all practical | Minneapolia, whe ous Id. from ° 2 6é 2.29 ee 99) orphaned girl. however xinaly em salina earn eid ie are a8 ius short Bipeinn Cains ars so | tenga eh ada ills an , Dr. *“Spike’s’’ Cure for Deadly ‘*Flao””|:iriivsei ns cas acy tie wise) Sih Pupkt, Ba bee 1 ben Spected it the sos perfect pivc “When I got iy ras is na! n : 9 @, : : 7 : lescent Marie finding an illogical but} would ever know, a pathetic reminder @empmilitary machinery ine world new plant 1 didn nace °o MI The Resourceful Ship Carpenter Stamped Out the Epidemic, but the Cat Died. very genuine comfort im her battered of the, lovely ive baby that, even ‘a hee rc They have been forced | PENspertatios >| t i : as dol ittle e reten Svar seen. They have been forced | TMMMETIM ON, A TOL of building tne ILE story of the wooden nutmess — |, The old man he asks me right off old man, it ought to have a peneficlal |old wooden doll, really 18? peptend der dell ‘ ah wg we what came wo iheir hands + mo te loca. | | hat brought fame to a certain | | the bat what about the pills, and IL etteot gn the rest ot the euies, san x , OHAP oR 1. ? ae Every woman with an imagination post thoy wore favored by the a Whioh were teiee! tate has nothing at all on a| says, ‘Oh, sure, Cap. 1 got ‘em all t did too, I threw It into all of| some hait-mystic tie there aust! will answer these questions for here initiative, cunning and indomttas of éur p ere lying ; . aay eis <4 for the i and they all gets well right off] 1... been between the doll fr self, It 1s a fact that when Mrs. Le MT ne Armerican ork Jaagih, Pants dowa the yarn that te making the rounds of | jright, and everything is 0 and says Twas a lifesaver, The skip- , nd its French girlemother, | Maire, a woman in late middle ae he American workin ped down there andj local shipping ebrele big epydemic.’ {ber he pats himself on the back and| Unique and Its Frene emowey | died, four years ago, t : 4 Revently 1 was in a great establiat a thom and sole somel wie eee ' “Well, as I was sayin, we're bound | siya if it wasn't for that dream and | for if grew too. old to play with} way ail! ene eee wooden doll ‘ and a | vl und vouched for yi ff her most treasured ment in France where, \ r the di ¥ and a locomotiy and!) fi xhip's carpor north about two days outa Colon, 1/8 foresight in sending me. hora for) it gh grew old enou Bive possessions. According to one story, Peston of a Colonel in the Keyuls Line eee néy man on-an| jWhen Clarice, the ship's cat, took Bi yice Wig a tine mtring of maritime | OF t she asked it be buried with her. ees Whe, prior to 1898, when he or order of| Ame well | |e and had to be chucked over the funerals afore we made Sandy Hook, two CHAPTPR UN, p, Matep as a private Spanish | ff he aleds tof known in . Petersen's vonses} | side in company with a flatiron, > now Ven pretty strong for this 1s) an this curious life of » doll, how it American War, ran aw drug store in| i) jcateria So wrhoncne Wey Ors A eatin to ot Btatue o! | » Skipper says that means that | how thought tuif, seein’ as how I've self-possessed, trim young Frene! Ml oy tiere is one more brief chapter, FP) Butte, atont., rovaire to motor truck +) Before we got under way iron deo | Liberty days ago, but it] | the big epydeniio is about to bust and | (ompnatrated the power of mind over | Sor foMwho had been Baby Mari he devotion of Prof, Le Maire to SBtepodiles and aeroplanes were sav-| struction work they dumped geoOena| wasn't ualll nike” breezed into | jwives mo orders to get the pills all amathine like the , "J came to America some twenty-five or{ Kit wife was genuine and profound imgathe Government millions of « {of auto ruck t Mo Us, ana} Pizen Pete's fainous t P lusted off and the medicine chest) Pizen VPotn had uo comment to [thirty years axo her doll came, (oo T shail leave this houss snip eben t . lage a onth anid sav bowid ure piled out there ' , is oll: He simply si dand dusted one me she was & governess r t a hae tomma \ ace oN ste (in of rubber, ana Ph A-' South Street that the tue was r ae. , abled Up. - : faded rir ge aye tn back [in the family of a New Yorker named aim caities out to follow her.” | Their we Space vn steamships which | under cover in a woek,’ Hm al ‘or eireulation Bure enough, we'd hardly chucked |e ina tar, Ttpond: “Tie Lord Lov. | Howell, a well-known ffgure Jn. the | marr apparently, was one of thos be required for uew imateriai| “You've been uloug the fronee pect ; 1 THE CAT TOOK A {Clarice into the Atlantic before |fth the Cheerful Tar. sugar business. fer relations with| fe partnerships commoner amon this repair shop Colonel F the front? the! “We're layin’ at Colon, x erica: 3 | ais Jons With) ing wronoh’ than With worl woe 4 Colonel with w crew of 186 mon,| “Tell png the = | me carpenter us he lowered a glans “Well, 1 go ashoM, and 1 hardly | Stretch Fiyam the copie, comes 1124 Napeapepiacesamumeanaa a | husband and wife have a community He Y enlisted soldiers who had been! haven't h puper” sinve I "a best Spanish sherry into | sets toot arry firmy before 1} With & Merce attack of chills and} q b Th | Jef work and interest, each contribut- 2 note experience, with mas orer here and yi eyginee. E Cam ‘ a dub'to leave tor lie any rr on |t¥er Ross, the mate, is next, witt ovle Actresses Te A out EMSELVES jing dennitely to the family exchequer > ebifiery, arrived ho French town is happeniy » what t et peer ataice vee # an old pal what T have influengy, and then Eddie, a deckband, | y 7p ,Op here Was little ¢ ining in th H Whgre the renair ie In operation people passing throng! deat Char w A stop at}in twenty years, We renew old 4 , t mae RUTH STONEHOUSE Maire home afte death of ) ene night iuvt prUary The nex r wk! Hy vid Norfolk, Where we to loagl ¢ friendship over a couple of bottles of | 40P8 over with the colic or somet aa tela ' Maire ived BemMeraing they took possession of ao! Gormuns marco Ny before t Well, while we're luytn’ there at {Jamaica rum, and don't eet back to} "The skipper is next, with gome|J'M from 4 4, and T firmly be- | tin littleneas meer rece”, Parracks which had by th of May. sd tone Qrensive on the] coton the skipper says to me, the old hooker for two duys._ more Influengy, und tien the cabin | ve people from that St *) pam ly @urrendered by (he brew v : “ Colonel that} *O°? . ba 9 em " A » anything. 7 r Pevting a " y’ better blow ashore 1 ain't sure whether I ever did buy | boy’ turns in with go ing like the to our military autiy Rude bay Mai advance j ev | ae a aaact Mt preparations had be me medi ; ; Aer ell skipper} When 1 was a tittle girl Tor sasi't nud been made 1 some medicine and pilis|them p: or not, but al I had when! Armenian um s. Wel pper | | : z ause I had a dream last | (hey sv mo in over the ship's side| te yells at me to got out them Colon! # that many men would hav “| ie to be up ne kc we're gonna have a lot of was « harmonica and @ swell pair of, pills, and of course I'm up against it. |} 1 up us unsafe. 1 also learne: Pb i tr n the Phili and is on this here balloon. pink suspenders He might Just as well have tuld me to ss shoot rifle and thr i! a sone is wh th ? - Sie — - nes ; y life in the open gave me nfi- | Pheir kits, but they » it ’ wey me |bring him a grand planner | ; though ~ . ein myself, a n vhy U] B yisited tho plant hehe mht Low att Th F | f | A | d N : “But L shouts back, ‘Ays, aye, sir! |ence tn myself, and that is w | ond Blo men at work there and | MG Lai he vo a supetine | he ags of the ie BtlONS asd cunts tor tue nir ahop, 1/Nave imads a good showing in the | ; Et eaten ere: Cornen miles away ‘ aundred | By T. L. Sanborn. re doplets the skies at Rio de| knew if L didn't produce them pitts Pa | MOY 4M constructing an additional |! 1 i'r ae te f uneiro ay they appear when the} be run up to tie wain tuck by the! J was a dancer in vaudeville when | and storage plant for motors |! An officer passing t NO, 2—-BRAZIL, wautiful constellation of the South. | neck, I met the daughier of & motion pic- | tor supplies on a plain twenty | Mere the other day who was a are oe ad) 9 Sha Cross stiend4 at the meridian | “looks around the carpenter shop isan atic iukmantad dias nial Bt rhe Cokie, ety when the war broke om He Baallian 6 ne of ty aeil is the greatest of the South |and don't vee anything but shavings |) u05 lnas and have him put me 1 nuked’ in the of both places, superintending | 20's & Brikadier General a moat distinctive and striking) American republics, Founded . as a) until my eye lights on a botile of BB) 86° t - thick grape urbor. trellised patr work in the main plant aai| *! soon heve comma in the world, and one of four) Portuguese colony, it became an em-| buckshot what the cabin boy used to | films, I had never thought of doing | the diminutite piuxsa MZ atier the construction work | lv But it's ail part only in which green predomi: | I when Ws08 the Portuguese |use in an old air rifle, They looked | sereen acting, and for a moment 1 ne Braaennirane bie, Ril aiesine other logation, which ix now | Kane On en field is a yellow | Pye umily, forced to leave tho | just ke the black pills that a doctor | wondered if 1 could succeed in that d-looking Frenchman died tast Oat repair project for motor Mt mart oO: rame home land by Napoleon's armies, ¢ | up In Saybrook Junction used to pre- | wo hen my old Arizona confidence : . f prtation in France larger and | Particular Colonel, | was told jater at} 2@mend | KB 4 blue sphere |igrated to Mraz, In 1889 the Bra. {scribe for pale people, came into the game 11 told her| Hitt the: wogden anit hea eee efficient even than similar planty|KeMers! headquarters, had, by” his sprinkled with) tillank overthrew the Tinperial Gov-] “L was in a desperate pinch, so 1! tg call on dad at once, As @ result of sible, Perhaps it waa put away tained by the British Army. onderful executive nility and his v stars, the sphere | ernment and made thelr country aj grabs the shot, gets a pitcher of water | hor ploa ta my behalf, ber father gave eats ia ninee tages p , away Colonel siept room in the | M#lent in handling mon, yanked tie being cut by aa] TepUbl jand ty it for tne skippers bunk! me uw minor position acting in film Fe |was propped Up aghinst a cere ‘ . He got up eve yorn| tor transport service out o} er Always the firm friend of the} where he's squinmin’ like a guy with | productions in Chicago. At the time ee WONemowse a P Inst a ¢ Lil oll rode ink side car out t| bad hole and thus uided ‘mate rlally are displaying the! Ujitod States, and the seat of-atable| the ehol Pourin' out three of the | Pict tho ‘ciottre’ werk ft ‘hed srone| {photograph on i vol, Le Matre's desk aw ‘construction work and|' the success of our operations whicy Words, | “Ordem | democratic institutions, Brazil was! BH’, 1 yells ut the top of my lunes: | hooked @ long tour in vaudeville as %/say nouiing of a Spanish dance, but |r, the table beside hig be in re Of workmen on| Dewan on the Marne about the frat © — progresso” ~/ iN strong sympathy with the Allies |‘Awright swally these quick and take | featured dancer, and this | had to|I immediately volunteered and wes), The little housekeeper knew where his first shift of workmen t Pp e Ob at 6 o'clock. He got back to| of JURE and turned the tide of battl RAZ I ew und prog-| ftom the beginning of the war, a] drink of water!’ abandon, Now I'm glad J did accepted. At home 1 went to the|to find it, for she had been given her + pl 9 - against the Germans, he hi .. | feeling intensified by tue existence of downs*em like a man, and inal!” Our in Arizona ladies of our{attic and dug out an old mantilla ang orders. “When I go, the doll goes,” plant at 7 o'clock in time to 48 | ” B | a } tae REA eo ithe rep plant start. ine and | Bet been forgotten by Gen, Pershing | reas © resi lan aggressive and obnoxious German| minute he says: ‘Ah, thanks, Peter- | church decided to hold a “festival” to|then I conceived and learned a Span-|her master had said simply, At the the day there. In the evening | (ter , He Is one of the 250,000! tans made considerabie use of sym-| clement which Was a latent danger to| sen, I'm feelin’ better already.’ valxe {unds. ‘This Was befure T-ever|lsh dance. ‘The audience was kindly | last a neighbor's kind band placed tt, iild ride out again in hin sida] Moroes behind the lines doing their om in designing their national) the independence of the republic, | “Well, siz, he was up und around an | (hought of appearing in public, Faney/and one of the ladies offered to pay|a worn, imperturbable, mysterioua Mae ee cut Again in his ids) bit through /the monotony of long fl Is green stands for the vex-| Brasil soon reallzed that her-own | hou bey ar Cycitet ho wey Bie ele dl a a AER ocd a dE IU Ie eta Praia Mt |talieman, bewide whut haa? tao Phere Uni dark about 39! Pore of toll and destined, because of etable wealth of tin great South | fate, ax well ay that of all other free | the same dose into Stretch Mlynn und | programme. I happened to hear one|mother permittcd me to accept her| French. gentleman and scholar, “With shout 980° their skill and usefulness, to wn American republic; tue yellow. re ‘ouniries, depends upon the defeac] Ross and Bddie, the deckhand and {of tho patronosses say they needed aleffer, and that was tho real begin-;him in Woodlawn: is lying to-day the to the United States without having rese! Bravii'y rich mineral | re-| of Germany, and oo Oct, 26, 1917, sho] the cabin boy. [ figgered that if a| Spanish dance. ning of my stago career which led!old wooden doll loved by the womms of ma- taken part in @ battle, « jeources,. while tho . wlarstudded entered the wan lowd of buckshot wan good for the! J couldn't dapoe @ Virginia reel, to}me into the films he loved, ee tte Ot coma candle Odi ldnanid ow ne ORRADeNEC MIMS ee ae serra