The evening world. Newspaper, November 2, 1918, Page 9

Y ae = JUST A The Hazardous Duty of a to the Point Where He Is Sent With Information Which Other Means of Communication Cannot Deliver—Under Fire Is Only One of His Perils, and This Is a Story of How He Makes Good. By Mart (Special Correspondent Copyright, 1018, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) REQUENT references to run-Q3 3. eae herr appear in war stories from the front, Little detailed in- formation about runners and their duties has appeared, The runner is a de- spatch or infor- mation carrier, and while he fights at the front only when condi- tions allow him a chance to mix in, his duties are as hazardous as those of the shock ax troops — perhaps ‘ more so—becaus: “he ¢overs more ground than the »psoldier whose activities are confined ceeotely to fighting the foe in front of him and the more rround a soldier covers the more diversified are the perils he encoun!.rs. There are no eafety zones on a battle front. Runners are selected by battalion of company commanders—often by regimental commanders—out of the privates who have shown more than ordinary initiative or smartness, The parents of New York boys who write over from France that they are run- ‘ners may rcst in the assurance that thelr boys are out of the ordinary— ‘soldiers selected for special, extra- perilous pursuits. & few words about a runner. I was ip a divisional headquarters one «night during the advance on the Sois- ‘feone-Chateau-Thierry road, ‘The head- quarters was in a dugout in a forest. Light was supplied by a port- ape dynamo which was purring just outside the entrance, Tired, red- =pved, but satisfied officers were grouped over maps. Telephone mes- guages were coming in and going out unceasingly. But one unit of the di- «vielen was apparently lost. The tel- ephone wire establishing communl- cation between the unit and head- quarters had been “out” since 1 o’olock in the afternoon—and it was | a very important unit in the advance. Came stumbling down the steps into the dugout one of the most di hhevelled soldiers I ever saw. He was a private, His ragged uniform and hia face and hands were coated with mud, Sweat was oozing through the tod on his face. Perspiration was dripping trom his hair, But he was smiling. “Runner from Company ——" he panted, and he was immediately hu ted to a table where the division ourm- mander with his aides and French liaison officers were studying out problems of the advance of the day to eeme—problems complicated be- cause of the absence of information from one important unit at the front. ‘The General in command talked to the runner for more than ten minutes. The runner traced, on a map, the course he had followed in coming from his command—a six-hour trip through machine gun and artillery fire. * ~ “Can you go back, boy?” asked the Getteral, ‘eg, sir,” responded the runner. “By God,” said the General, “I be- Neve you could, but yon won't have to. Colonel (this to a member of his staff) send me a runne’ In a minute @ boy was at the Gen- eral's side, He was @ fortunate head- quafters runner in that he had a motorcycle. A message was handed him, he was shown the map and he went pounding out of the dugout. The runner who had come in from the ‘ saluted, staggered out of the as ‘of the electric Hghts over the (OV) ithdwe, dropped like a bundle of rags “ani went to sleep on the dirt floor of ‘ the dugout. He fell in a sort of pathway be- tween tables leading to the dugout en- @cltiers moving in and out rane stepped on him and went on, One soldier, wearing hobnailed boo*s, stepped on his face and he slept on. SQWWAET @’clock the next morning that tud WL) \embaatil] asleep with incoming and ing soldiers stepping over him ‘on him and he was enjoying his reposity aw him at noon at @ camp ifighen in the woods just outside the Jentragee to the dugout, He was still muddy and his face showed the marks of the boots of men who had used tt as @ pavement. He was pushing beans into his face with one hand and fortifying the beans with ‘"Dread in his other hand, His eyes were bloodshot, but ~ tfagonpolate, but observing. ' One, NOVEMBER 2, Fight Months at the Front | With the American Army he was awake, Seated on a chest nearby were two musopa iGerinen officer prisoners, They were feet tall, was batless and yens), 1918 RUNNER Despatch Carrier Is to Get in Green of The Evening World.) at regular intervals he mopped the top of his bald head with @ polled handkerchief. He wor: a mustache and a set of whiskers on hig cheeks and chin which had been trimmed shortly before he was captured. “What do the signs on the uniform tell about the rank of his wiener- wursts?” asked the runner who had come from the front, indicating with his bean loading hand the bald Ger- man officer, “He is, or was, a Colonel in the German Army,” said L “Well, the old etiff.” remarked the runner, “I kind of like him. He looks like @ dog I used to own out in Peoria, 1.” I might call the runners, in the sort of warfare our armies have been carrying on since July, the arteries of the service: When the telephone} system fails, when rain or fog makes} airplane observation useless, when homing pigeons lose themselves in the haze of smoke and gas above the battlefield, the runner functions, Often he is killed on his mission. Shrapnel shatters him, a high explosive shell drops in the road he is traversing and blows him to bits, he dashes into the enfilading fire of mechine guns, a German sniper picks him off—but al- ways there is another runner to take his place. There are many runners who have been acting in that capacity since our soldiers went to t ‘ont in France last winter and have come through unscathed thus far. They owe their good fortune to a combination of luck, experience and resourcefulness. Wonderful tales are. told of runners sent from one unit to get in touch with another unit on the flank; of how they squirmed their way through German detachments in daylight, carrying information which made possible surprise attacks of small importance in themselves but tending to help the general result. Frequenuly runners come back with numbers of prisoners turned over to them by soldiers who are too busy at the front to take the time to deliver prisoners. One, night last. winter in. the trenches on the Toul sector a com- manding officer called a young run- ner and instructed him to go back j to battalion yeadquarters with @ message. ‘TH+ runner ‘was about cighteen year: old, a smart, keen boy, but very inuch excited, He had been under shell fire for the first time that afternoon, and the sensation of hearing something that sounded like @ sawmill approach and burst and scatter all the scrap iron in the world had not calmed him. Beg pardon, sir,” said the runner, but I don't remember the counter- sign.” “You heard it this evening, didn't you?" asked the officer |" “Yes, sir,” replied the boy, can't ‘remember the name {them Maine towns.” A runner entered a regimental headquarters on a pitch black night ERSHING SQUARE! Look at the picture. its subway and surface connections city. Rtsing just beyond the termin Commodore, that twenty-eight story a hotel on Jan. 1, 1919. At the right of the picture we zone. Not elsewhere in all the world i, centred upon a railroad terminal. tire improvement soon to be seen New York Plan for a ‘‘Pershing Square’’ GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL ZONE, WHEN COMPLETED, AS SHOWN IN PICTURE, WILL BE WORLD’S GREATEST SQUARE AND MAY BE NAMED IN HONOR OF LEADER OF AMERICA’S ARMIES. LEXINGTON AVE. SUBWAY GROUP OF BIG HOTELS IN NEW “PERSHING SQUARE”"—LEFT TO RIGHT, NEW MURRAY HILL, BELMONT, MANHATTAN, BILTMORE AND COMMODORE. A fine name for the world’s greatest square. It shows waat Pershing Square is soon to be—as soon as improvements already completed, begun or contemplated in the Grand Central Terminal zone are realized. In the centre of the picture the Grand Central Terminal itself, with leading away to every part of the nal is tae Biltmore, already one of the world’s most famous hotels, while to its right is shown the colossal structure which is to be opened as see the contemplated new Murray Hill Hotel, which, according to designs in the hands of the builders, is to form a distinctive note in the already remarkable skyline of this Between this and the Grand Central Terminal are shown the two well known hotels, tae Belmont and Manhattan. 8 such a cluster of giant hostelries Yet they do not constitute the en- in this zone, Next week the last span will be added to the great steel viaduct built by the city, carry- last spring. He was dripping wet ing Park Avenue over Forty-second Street to the driveway which will bats was asked what had moistened! extend around tae Grand Central Terminal to the same avenue above m. i — — “I swum two rivers to get here,” ‘said the lad. ‘But that can’t be," said the Colonel. \""There is no river between here and the front. You ought .o know that. You went out there from here not long ago.” | “IT went out in a truck and it was dark, sir,” said the private. “But all the same | swum two rivers coming back.” Investigation the next day showed that the boy had lost his way soon after leaving the front line and had R By Hazel V. Carter. | N opening reception will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock in encountered & canal, running generally A north and south in a twisted cours the new bungalow of the Madi- Inside our lines, He ewam, the canal son Square Auxiliary of the New York | from west to east, wandered about for! ¢, 5 pte a time with only an occasional die- | COUny pel gli ot ey Rea a tant star shell or rocket relieving the) ith the opening of a perman gloom, encountered the canal agatn, | butiding for the auxiliary the story swam it from east to west, followed /of one of the most unique groups of @ road and found his way to bead-| workers in the city 1s apropos. aR tere, Last winter Mrs, Thomas M, Vinton he un- | raen, the. bogs ona fers Bee ‘originated a plan to utilize the noon \Tng stories to tell than the soldiers !nours of the many girls and women ees . of the district. She gathered together \Woods That Are Heavier! smatt circio of knitters and they \began knitting in the hallway of one, Than Water, HE question has arisen as to) Square, The girls brought their girl! eh what woods will float and what! friends and before long the circle had will not, even if dry. The fol-|outgrown the hallway, When spring | United States which are heavier than| have their noon hour knitting bees in | lwater at all times, but there are a|the square, where they could enjoy number of other species in which oc-| the sunshine while they worked. heavier than water when dry, such! gift an attractive tent and fittings| las the oaks and hickories, for exam-, where each weekday throughout the ple, There are a great many foreleD) coring and summer as many as 200 heavier than water, says Dr, Edward| young women gathered to knit socks, F. Bigelow in October Boys’ Life, scarfs, helmets and sweaters, When Canella alba (white wood), Mgnum| ime cool weather came, a number of ; 00 (augustifollay (eon wood (reynosia | cided It would be & good Idea to build | jatifolia), black iron wood (condalia!g house which could be used as @ who did nothing but fight im the line.) wig work in the offices and factories of the larger buildings near Madison lowing is a lst of the woods of the|came, the girls suggested that they | casional specimens may weigh| Mrs. Vinton procured by voluntary [species of woods that are much vitae (guajacum sanctum), porlieia | merchants interested in the work de- ferrea), logwood (condalis obovata),| workroom through the week and a can- fron wood (olneya tesota), (vanque 5 ol aye linia (torrei), Montana ‘mahogany | tee? 08 MUndays And pensar eh wae (cercocarpus ledifolius), mangrove | men ta the : coffee and sandwiches. Mrs, Vinton ured the portable house, carpets, furniture and heating apparatus with a small stove for the kitchenette and sieberi), black mangrova! even Window-boxes with yew trees (rhizophora mangle), stopper (euge- nia longips), seven-year apple (gen- | ipa clusiae folia), mastic (sideroxlyon mastichododendron), wild dilly (mi. this afternoon and the bungalow will be thrown open for inspection. HE War Counetl of the Amerie Red Cross urges the utmost co- operation on the part of its chapters and members throughout the country with the United War Work campaign to be carried on dur- ing the week of November 11 to 18 in support of the seven recreational or- ganizations indorsed by the National jovernment. Here is an extract from the appeal of Assistant Secretary of War Keppel: “In view of the United War Work campaign and in order that there may be No confusion, the Red Cross War Council will not authorize any campaign for Ited Cross funds for the National organization during the tim: of the campaign.” Balancing the united drive in the fall, there will be a Red Cross driv in the spring HE American Red Cross opened four workrooms in Paris to produce surgical dress- ings which are needed to meet ex traordinary emergencies, according to advices received at the headquar- ters of the Atlantic Division, The productive capacity of Red Cross surgical dressings workers in Amer- has ica ig more than sufficient to meet all needs abroad, But from time to time unexpected calls for supplies in France, due to fleld operations on a vast scale, require an enormous number of dressings. When lack of shipping space and 4 in trans. portation Makes uncertain the rec of supplies from America emergency workrooms aro ¢ upon to Make good the reserve sup- ply Phe hing (avicennia nitida), crab wood (se-|growing im them. The furnishing pbastiana lucida), white oak (quercus| Was subscribed by the Red Cross oblongifolia), live oak (quercus vi-| workers themselves, There will be addresses and music a ee ney it, thus making Park Avenue a con formerly the Grand Union Hotel 42d Street and Park Avenue. This waiting for trains. Also space will front of the buildings in this vicini The suggestion that tais great men. Abingdon. and eloquent friend, William Pitt, I pected to relicve the congestion which Fifth Avenue has long suffered. Another marked improvement is intended to be converted into a breathing spa of automobiles, which thereafter will not York City, be named in honor of Gen. Pershing came from John McE. Bowman, President of five big hotels, all located within this zone York is dotted with squares commemoPfating the names of distinguished Abingdon Square, for example, owes its name to the Karl of Chatham Square perpetuates tae name of America's early Earl of Chatham. lin Square, for Benjamin Franklin; Washington Square, for Gen. Wash- ington; Madison Square, for President Madison, and others, fitting now that Gen. Pershing’s name should be similarly commem- orated. So, it is said that in December next the Committee on Thor ougafares of the Board of Aldermen will favorably report a resolution naming this Grand Central Termina! zone “Persaing Square.” WY NSS tinuous thoroughfare, which is ex- will be a public stood, at the soutreast corner of property is owned by the city and e for passengers be set apart here for the parking be permitted to stand in ty. centre, close to the heart of New New We have Frank- It seems ed Cross News of the Week Jew Bungalow of Madison Square Auxiliary of the New Yark County Chapter Houses | One of Most Unique Group of Workers in the City, Who “‘Outgrew” Former Quarters work is needed was shown by fact that there were practically front line parcels in that city. The second workroom produces only surgical dressings, Two hun- dred women do the work. | The third workroom doos eme¢ wency work, About 100 are employed | in making whatever is needed The fourth room is operated by Russian women refugees, who are )0 | dire need. ‘The Red Cross h. @ sur- plus stock of wool here and y are knitting it into sweaters and socks for the ehildren, All operatives are paid, as they are poverty-stricken the] no | | PPVHERE have been shipped from | the Supply Department, Brook | lyn Chapter, No, 130 Pierre- | pont Street, during the week 26 cases and one carton, The following new auxiliaries were organized during September and October; Seventh Day Adventist, 80th Precinct of Po-| lice Reserves, “Carry On,” Women's| Naval Auxiliary, Grace Gospel | Chureh, Hendrix Street Baptist) Church, 18th Street M, E. Church, |manuel Lutheran Church, Ply-| mouth Church, Christ BE | Lutheran Chureh, | Soctety, Cuyler Presbyterian, al New Thought, Ocean us Democratic Club, Grant, Bush Avenue Congregational Churen, F Neh Lutheran Church of the deemer, Gowan- k ng Re- ROM an Atlantic Division let- ter we quote the following: "It | is of the utmost importance that every pound of yarn at our dis. posal be used with the greatest car and only knitted into the garments that @re called for and in accordance with the standards presented in the official Red Cross instructions. “De net knit colored toes ‘The first of these workrooms em-| socks, Do not knit stripes at the top ploys 370 women and twenty-six men,!of socks unless absolutely certain There front line parcels are produced, the color is perfectly fast. As i During July this workroom produced cent dyes are not reliable, it ia best 100,00) of these pare That this to use NO color, White is always , SI en oc eee NE | 66 33 | city | to arouse ial bitterness in the Germans and was bombarded day in and day out. Aw at Rhet the Germans justified the attack by declaring the Cathedral tow- rs had been used as observation posts by French and British artulery observers, ‘This, declared the Bish Plaza where | SATURDAY, MAGINE your beautiful St. 66 outpost of the Allied lines in that portion of France for the past four yours, when I saw him at the Van- derbilt Hotel just before his de- parture from New York for a brief tour of the large cities of the country prior to the embarkation of himself | and suite to return to France to face | the great problem of reconstruction of the ruined ses, now that the Boches have been driven from its gates for all tim Bishop Juli ® see, centring in Arras, has been a sort of no mans nd since the beginning of the war In their first grand swe across | Belgium and northern France, the| Germans occupied Arras for a couple of days, but never made any effort! to consolidate the capture or organ- ize @ military government for the They were driven out and dug in just beyond the outskirts and fur four years the town was torn and ripped up by German aneils. beautiful Cathedral, like all things In Belgium and France, was absolutely untrue. “But what would you?” he said sadly and with a little shrug of his shoulders, ‘The Germans seemed bent on the dostruc- tion of the Cathedral and they have destroyed it. Nothing is left but the ur walls. In my diocese alone 300 hurches have been utterly ds stroyed. Most of them were de- atroyed in the fortune of war. They were in the line of fire and they had to go, but in many cases, I am sure, the destruction was wanton, It *s going to be a great struggle to re- build houses of worship for our peo- ple. We cannot begin to try to r build the churches as they were for a long time yet. As our land is re- claimed we are doing our utmost to rush up such temporary structures NOVEMBER 2, In Graphic Word Pictures Bishopof ArrasPaintsScenes _ From the War in France Describes What Destruction of Arras Cat Would Be Like if It Happened in New Ye Discussing Peace, Declares France Is Safe President Wilson’s Hands and Will Carry Message Back to His Country. By Mazie E. Clemens Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening Worth) Patrick's Cathedral a flame smoke stained pile of four cracked walls, its great high altar its beautiful small altars a piled up mess of broken stone, and timbers, surmounting the sacred crypt in which lie the bodies of prelates who have lived and died that the glory of Cod should be sung Im. thia land; imagine the surrounding buildings torn asumer, Fifth At & battered road on which no living or growing thing could exist; imagine — radiating from this centre of destruction miles and miles where,all Ge) monuments of human progress have been laid waste by the ruthless han@_ of @ bitter and savage power, and you will know what the great war Bal brought to Arras and the diocese of which it is the centre.” So spoke the Right Reverend Eugene Louisa Julien, Bishop of An the 1918 to regather tho scattered strands our religious organization and them together again. will arise a new o for spirit of our people is breakable.” I asked the Bishop on peace; if he thought really as flat on her back as her munications to the President Indicate, and whether France felt President Wilson would inatist terms that would adequately: recome ‘rance for the four years of mposed upon her, saw the President in Washings said the Bishop, “and I feel that rance {# safe in his hands ‘There some of our people who have e to face with this thing o erinning, who have been to grinding poverty, . crippled, thelr families scattered that they : find the means to keep body and together, who feared that the humanity of the President tempt him to make concessions to ¥ jermans whieh would leave them ® position to again plunge the into horror. But after seeing Proaident, after hearing him, [ that T can tell my people with confidence that they have no to fear; that the President is stanch friend of humanity and In So far as it lies in his hands, that, I think, is very far indeed, tl fh settlement will leave Ge powerless to ever again renew her ase sault upon civilization, “In conclusion, said the Bishop, or would not like you to go_mntil T say, through The Evening Work, how much “we appreciate the splendid ‘courtesy we have received ever singe we came here, Sweet and graceful af it has been to us, nevertheless it waa what we had expected after #e your soldiers in France. FE fe them admirable from every point view. Their bravery and their chive ry, two qualities that generally @ together, Impreased me deeply, 63d ih youth, thetr. and perpetual cheerfulncas, even under great suffering, were Hk? a tonic to our poor, war-riddeg nature as will shelter our flocks while we try Franc Want Flagship permissible, Have no knots or imps anywhere in socks, Measure |as well a# count stitches to deter mine size in both sweaters and he Atlantic Division bag given Brooklyn chapter the following quota of 6,000 sweaters and 8,000 pal of socks monthly for three months, The Business Administra tion Committees has dectded to give to branches and auxiliaries for this| month the woot for sweaters, hoping | the auxiliaries will furnish as many | socks ag thelr funds will allow. | | | just bully!” This is what the Red Cross nurses are saying about their new club house at No. 11 West Tenth Street, Most any time a day finds a ttle group of nurses, many of them en route for over-sea service, chatting and drinking hot chocolate in the cheery club rooms. The guest regis- ter contains names from practical'y | all over the United States and also of visiting nurses from various parts of the globe HE Brooklyn. Supply Department ts auxiliaries not to hold their finished articles and pring them in during the last few) Jays of the month, It is impossible for the receiving department to check up and classify correctly within a| few hours a month's or even two| weeks’ supply of finished articles, | brought in by many auxiliaries, The shed goods must sent to the department weekly, as it in| sible for the amall force of| at the receiving counter to m such short t tho | ‘great bulk of supplies brought in ring thé last two or three dayg of each month. | | Red Cross News Is Printed in Th Evening World Every Saturday. || i Bea ht atest | U. & HARTFORD, ADMIRAL FARRAGUT’S FLAGSHIP, urtford, ts lying at Charleston, 8. C., and is condemned to an| ignoble end unless American patriots rescue her from the scrap heap. The first flagship of the first Ad- miral of the American Navy 1s al- already a dismantled hulk, the bully old boat that distinguished herself in the battles of New Orleans, Port Hudson, Grand Gulf, Vicksburg and F ‘tarctora: to old flagship, the I Mobile Bay, and which was the home of that gallant, fighting sailor, Farragut during the entire Civil Wer. The Hartford isn't going to the boneyard if the Associated Veterans ot Farragut’s Fleet can help it, There isn't a great mumber of the} veterans of those wonderful old dayn left, but enough of them to stir up American patriotism with the rattling old slogan. “Don't give up the ship!"* The voice of the late Admiral Dewey was raised on behalf of the Hartford, as well as that of veteran organization in the The efforts to save the snip historic ry ntry bh pe Navy. The of the Se retary of the Veterans of Farragut’s Fleet following resolution was adopted at the last G, A. R. convention, as we! as that of the Union Veteran League ¥ ty mand: ‘Hartford’ Saved “Whereas, It is reported that the Hartford, the flagship of Admiral are ragut at the battles of New Orleans Port Hudson, Grand Gulf, Vicksburg: arnd Mobile Bay, is to be thrown mte the junk heap; therefore, be it “Resolved, That we, the delegates to the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, direct our Commander in Chief and the Com~= mittee on Law and Legislation to take up t matter with the President and Congress in order that action be at once taken to prevent the des (> struction of this glorious old relic of the great war of the sixties, cnd te” request that she may be semt Port of New York, now th metropolig of t world, and her rigging, armas” ment and other historic eq At rom stored to the condition in which they were when Admiral Farragut com= manded her, a8 an object lesson im” patriotism for future generations and to keep green the memory of historic deeds of the men who on and sea made American history ved the Republic from disruj e ‘There 18 but one Hartford and was but one Farragut.” + She is only a@ wooden ship, is old Hartford, and was built in 1 But she was built on the lines of the clipper and was the ple of Admiral Farragut's eye, It het Tigeinae that Pareeus nself during the battle of and shouted his famous Fow Sao } “Damn the torpedoes! ahead, Draywn.” buoyexe \ | ‘| { | \