The evening world. Newspaper, March 17, 1919, Page 14

5 eal a et PIE MONDAY, MARCH 17, ‘Kelly,’ ‘McGrath’ and ‘Dooley,’ Names on the Fighting Front 1919 Capt. Harrigan’s St. Patrick’s Day Tribute M i Ss Sp r i ng t i me o f 1 9 1 9 OULU Mab to the Irish Doughboys Who Went Over ; : . : fi ; ) . ; With the ‘77th’ and Made Good. Artist Johnstone’s Sketches of the Modish Misses in the BY LIEUT, EDWARD STREETER 4 ° ° of the 27th (N. Y.) Division (a Fifth Avenue Daily Parade. (Author of “Dere Mable’) (Written Especially for The Evening World.) Mlustrated by CORPL. G. WILLIAM BRECK APT. WILLIAM HARRIGAN of the 307th Infantry, who served all Third of a Series of Letters to “Dere Mable” from “Bill,” the + through the fighting in France with the 77th Division, was twice Rookie, Describing His Further ¢ wounded, and finally took part in the relief of the famous “Lost | WRE MABLE: Battalion,” to-day paid a St. Patrick's Day tribute to the men of Irish blood THEY HAVE TaIeNt D Peavaeelon. oe Spring is come. The buds is stickin out on the trees. Piec who served with the National Army and particularly wanes ™ Mans baneY of tacksicabs is slickin up through the mud on the roads. Yes A MoeoLe VESTS terday Lcaughta fly, It makes a fello feel romantic some- TIRES YOU OUT how or other. Some of em shines there shoes and rites home oftener. Some has even had there picturs taken, Max Glucos was so sure spring was here that he got usin the Sibly stove for a laundry bag. dventures in the Army yright, 1919, by Frederick A okes Company), those young Irish-Americans whose homes are in New— York. Capt. Harrigan went through the thick of all the| fighting in which the 77th Division took part. He was | “gassed” once and then was crippled by a machine | Loose AND gun bullet while fighting in Argonne Forest. He is a Free From we nad a cold night, and An MacKenzie th son of Ned Harrigan of the famous theatrical team of SHoOULCER ‘TO was kindling. Max and Angus aint speakin nowWy Harrigan and Hart. KNEE that that matters much though, cause they never sald much when they did talk, It kind of makes me restless, Mable, when I think of you and Main Street and the fello with the long “hair in Billings and Stover what used to make us up ; Sundays. An I get lonesome for Maple Street with you an me sittin at jone end of the piazza pretendin we was listenin to your father readin the newspaper out loud, If I ever get old, Mable, dont let me read the news fhe American lads of Irish blood were the Jewels of our army,” id Capt. Harrigan. “I can see them now as they fought and smiled. They liked it—and they made the Germans like it. With the bayonet they | were wonders, these Irish-American lads. Close-in fighting was just their style, and indeed I've heard of cases where they threw away their bayonets and waded in with their fists. | 2g | | Paper out ioud. An do you remember how still wed have to sit sos the “We had a lot o; these Celtic tae Gana ieeat wits Ts 4 1 Rel ahce hammock wouldnt squeak after invert o'clock or your fatherd stick his head y ers in the 207th, and I'm|there was O'Connell, who used to ib he Moor had. May RE th ; i A say that Company J, which | Stick by me all the time. He was 4 UNCOMFORTARE 1 didn't have a home you did? An ‘ I commanded, boasted of many. All| Sort of ‘shadow.’ He always wore a : 3 Set | how wed go canooing at Weewill pack ' of them distinguished themselves. I] @ray sweater, because he thought It Saturday nights and stay out till the ' recall now on this St. Patrick's Day | brought him luck. Perhaps some fair at hired the boats out went to T was always a good spender. | w that, but thrifty, Thats the time that tho 307th first went into | colleen gave it to him, the trenches. ‘The famous 6ath—now| “One day, in Argonne Forest, we) the 16sth—was coming out. I was|had to get some food up front. CHOKING ee Couvars ly SHE HAS ‘me all over, Mab! | ' trying to get track of an officer named | O'Connell and six men volunteered AvoPrES , | min back to camp the oth Thompson, and I had a couple of or-|to do the work. The six men were suspenvens #f night and a guar @erlies inquiring for him, It was|killed, O'Connell was shot to pieces. as we ff jsays “Who goes the pitch dark’ and the troons coming|Ho reported to me at the Lambs AS VESTS TeelGhoukl HINRIN MMW AR MACE OVERS out couldn't see those going in, The/Club the other day, minus his right) orderlies would approach each unit} log and arm, and when he saw me he | and ask the name of the command- | whipped up to ‘attention’ and saluted! er. The ::sponse would be ‘Capt.| with his left hand, I'll confess that! Kelly,’ or ‘Lieut. McGrath,’ or ‘Major| the tears came to my eyes. And as Saturday night. ‘Thats the way I am now Max Glucos says poetry. Spring hits him that way. Sc ne gets hay y ifever, some rash and o' rs DP : Dooley.’ They were all good Irish| he saluted he smiled, just as he al- fever, some rash and others Bovtry i f » mames, and before I even knew who| ways smiled in battle, and said: ‘I | He says one thing that starts “In the| i { eat ay Pt SP ArRON and socks come into view." He says | The men were tired, but they weren't] that forgetfulness of self, to think of says Burns was a hot sketch, But} ther nomor contd ot telly Ou /a og ana anarm miata I guess you wouldnt understand that miter what wie ofa sine thy |” “eo te mined ot Were going to have a divishun i soldiers what a whale of a time they] 1 could tell hundreds of stories of | _ there going to hav adi * were going to have with the Germans, heroism by American lads of Irish Asa matter of fact, we were 60INE | p\o0d—1ade who fought for the United — ‘imto a quiet sector, States of America and fought smil- “When our selected men of the| ingly, pecause it is the land they love | National Army first reported at ComP| And so on this St. Patrick's Day let divishun isnt goin to be in it. A lot ,of them has to be detatled to watch t. They asked me w I could and IJ said most anything but Id like “Wi SOME ‘to say a piece 1 Gungadien, [ts “THE FELLO WITH THE LONG t Upton the great question was, ‘What lug pay our tribute to the Americans | y ‘5 sone o. BG UCC aE I Vene ah ie uit kind of soldiers will they make? They | o¢ irigh descent who took part in the| , ARE WORN pees ead ie looked rather bad the first time Re fighting in France, But at the same|{ time let us not forget the others, Let us remember that Jew fought side by {think any of los would know jit. They told me to report at the inside him than take k an theyd fix me up. 8 ec Dont send me trician, cause anybody could recite | things, Mable. Its g pieces but they had to have a fello | day. We f nails and let j they lined up for retreat, I made a a peedls talk to them—told them that retreat was like a man coming home after @| sag with Gentil » and that all of those | day's work, He washed up and made “ ' Sesat At to grest his mother, In the | 00" fought well. Thie applies par- SANDWICH f ‘case of retreat, I told these men their needy to the 77th Division. I know EFFECT HOBGLE SOME ARE WORN Low 2 a Jewish prize fighter from New York with a bean on him to be electrician. Its nice . heir flag, ‘The next day ; , "gee agi hs appt epick and |W2O Was sent to a Britivh school to jThey told me they was goin.to hold ay In the evening, at a conference | *Ud¥ bayonet work. He was so good me for an emergency. If the show tOWn. TI can run in any time and get é / wi at it that they kept him there went rotton an everybody got throwin Whatever T war Give my regards of the officers A aagerr Seen instructor of the Biack tessa Lge ill d The Evening World in 1915, and an-|the principle of give and take. Hej things then theed cond ir ah » your father. I hope hia liver ts fe Hae ares tore . pee swered her own rhetorical questior not a spo pampered, sensitive | 5.5 mee : : ft apse tat sure of that when 1| “There ts one class of men in the ar 1 n ango ancer, wered her own rhetorical question | is not a spoi pampered, sensiti Palins le BURKS Mabie, -Alnet of enn WOrkio n, U dont suppose he 4s saw an Irish-American lad gamely | W“T who have not received their full with two words: “Her sons! And/| little egoist. I always pity a child mess sl 7 ; When 1 went they told me I was no more nitted r every in France. arm there all he time, is a pretty fair sized t winter w by an an Fri i. when you ask em say they cant do g'and's | with no brothers and sisters, . hat," she continued, “is E : I got arrested f ‘ : sindors, | 8>are of praise. These were th % bs nothin, Then if they think they aint | 1 Sot arrested for a week up at the ° ‘About face’ on some cinder re the run- ney Faia GeKehbiet ORG GUI Sete he aie if th i . fo, open bare feet sticking through |" Who carried messages to and as mela arr s Yop ecy oe 6 ar ons wennneeey Fe sees re OF Ument that & wonan coin to be urged they say there rotton | Artillery range, That ain t a disgrace ishing number of their sons.” might have gifts the expression of! Thon |like being arreste , Tie wnoce,, He tore his feet, byt never | from the front line, and in doing 80 Jude here a person not {nserarssly | which would be more valuable to the |Put theyll have a try at it. ‘Then 4 tt bara ee eee a whimper did he make, Passed through an inferno of shell Bat wedded to the propaganda for large| world than bables, Mra. Barr replied: | When they get down rehersin they get | own here some of the iceat fellos F “And then when we went across| te. Those men did heroic work. One} Back to the Old-Fashioned Mother and the Old=}ramiies mignt point out that, despite] “It a woman has a gift let her ex- |S Pleased with themselves they dont FUMheent tenet eines ae t of them in the 807th was so 5 ‘ “ want to quit an give nobody else a |!ive in @ different tent. I guess they and got into the battle! It was the sent out Fashioned Hom the “weakness” of England and Amer- | press it after her children are grown | ¥* a 5 1 Hi * . ould make your| With a message for the front line, and sh . e. t 2 ' . yhose ap ape wel . sla tarfyld o.{chance. Its part of the electricians couldnt think of any place worse to Celtic lads that w y ca, not to mention France, whose) up and out of the way. I didn’t be- heart sing. I had a lad who had gone| it never was delivered. Two weeks| Ip the Future Children Should Arrive on the Whole- |»: stood still for a generation, | gin my first book till I was fitty-|J0b to get them away when they get live in than a tent. Im in with a good ‘absent without leave for thirty-eight | ter the Lieutenant to whom the mes- | jcrowd, It makes a nice change from a these countries managed to defeat! four, A woman @oesn’t waste her ! 2 days at Upton. On tho other side he] MRS was addressed received a | sale Instead of the Retail Plan. super-prolific Germany. time by being a mother, for children Sine 5 poet en rnee wee net rom the runner, He was in a he % , F | - ; TRC NUR ater ee ce Se eseialigretnl FS % : But it was not only on national! are the best educators in the world. | , : voll wim out on a patrol and he had|*@l Severely wounded, He inciosea|Apartments Could Be Arranged to Accommodate) croinas va: tu: “le we was rn uthor of “The Bow | They are miniature men and women, | Ribbon" and so many other|and by a close study of them their es advocated the unlimited | mother’s nature may be tremendous!y he believed that many chil- | broadened and deepened. As for any |dren in a household made for the| genius or talent a woman may pos- eatest happiness of father, mother | sess, it becomes ripened by mother- | While we was firin at the range thi Jother day I was sittin on a hi |with the fone takin messages from \another bill. I was thinkin of you lan gettin kind of dopy when some j fa good scrap with the Germans, and|'he message and apologized tor not i . 4 5! whe jof Oran when he came back I asked him how Lok Gelivered it, saying he had Sixteen; Trundle Beds Would Come Back Into) popular t Ne liked patrolling. He answered: | printed top zoinusnel, and had Just re- Use, and Shelves Could Be Used, pence gained consciousness. Here was a cano *Bir, it's a hell of a fine life’ Then of sublime devotion to duty.” . ¥ By Marguerite Mooers Marshall i ‘i , x and children themselves, In the| hood. For that matter the world can one says over the fone “This ts the When Lawmakers Fight. MELIA E, BARR, eighty-elght years old, author of seventy novel6,| rretace to one of her last books, “The! get on without amateur opera aing- |General” I says “How do you do mother of fifteen children, died last week in her home at Richmond | \to.sure of a Man,” she wrote | ers or water color painters, But what air.” Gurteus, ‘hate me ail over, | Mable, I guess he didnt here me though. He says “Were golng to syncopate our watches." That was |a new one on me, Mable. I was goin to tell him that mine didnt need it. Its the one your father gave me an its been runnin in ragtime ever since |I got it. | Then he says “When I say check its ten fifty five (10.55)." I thought he was exceedin his authority but I |didnt say nothin an when he said check I just passed it over, He walte— jed a minute and then he says “When |I say check its ten fifty seven (10.57)."" |It struck me that I might have however splendidly ap-| would the world do without moth- is ill-furnished without the | ers? avening World, “the grind old lady of| sound of children’s voices and the} To the economic argument in favor American literature” made a remarkable prophecy. patter of children’s feet. It may be|of small families Mrs, Barr answered The old-fashioned mother, now almost extinct, will | Strictly orderly, but tt is silent and|that children thrive best when they come back to us if we have a war,” deciared the dean | forlorn and has an air of solitude. | are brought up most simply, Granted, af Ainerinah WOnsa Wallara, (When tha Gilioue now ine itude is a great affliction and|of course, but even Nature's sim- iomestic solitude is one of its hardest | plest food—milk—is in the luxury volved emer, fre 8 fe the ave nd olved emerge from this awful strife they will have 00) tons, No number of balls and din-|clnes to-d ner p HEN lawmakers don the war, who held that matters had gone far Hill, New York City, Three and a half years ago, long before| “A home, W paint and go off the reserva- | enough, : ei America’s entrance into the war, in an interview she | pointed, tion, all traditions of parlia-~| Although Griswold and Lyon were gave me for The mentary decorum and Senatorial dig-|the first to aettle thelr grievances nity are shelved, and a “rough|by public combat, they were by no house” ensues that would startle @|means the last. ‘The “ink battle’ be- prize fighter, Such “ructions” have|tween Senator Bailey of Texas and been numerous in the Congress of| Senator Beveridge of Indiana in 1902 tho United States, and American Je&-|was one of the mildest of these in- “\islators, although they have stiff|cidents, Larlier in the same year} competition in London, Paris and| Tillman and “‘cLaurin of South 4 other capitals, are probably entitled | Carolina engaged in one of the most use for women tango dancers, Old-fashioned mothers and old-fashioned families will again come into being.” By the shioned motner, Mrs. Barr had in mind Barr w tes, no visits from friends,| Perhaps Mrs. right, Per- can make up for the absence of sons| haps the counter-revolution against und daughters around the family she called the American moth- to the championship, It was | sensational bouts ever “pulled off” in the woman whose children arrive on a wholesale rather and the family hearth, ers strike even now is under way 1 Jan. 80, 1798, that mem- | Washington, It began with the wor | NaH & TeUll basis. Mrs, Barr believed In families which would overflow he old-fashioned mother," Mrs,|among after-the-war wives and House of Representatives| "liar," uttered by McLaurin, en. | {fm our modern apartments like the Mississippi river on a spree, Even | Garr told me, “realizes that being a| mothers. 1 only hope that a re- their first battle Mathew |swered with a right . the average suburban two storys-and-a-finished-attic would be hard put to| mother is her highest duty and her|Vival of the old-fashioned fuimily Ponty ——— oe Fs 3 38 Qe. -9% upper-cut to , a Democrat, representing Ver-|tie faco from Tillma Jit to accommodate the half dozen, or | - reatest joy. She wants all the chil-, Will not be accompanied by a revi- worked that out myself but I didnt Sitar and Roger Griswold, Federsl-| covered up,and aren, Peron el dozen, or even dozen and @ half/ting bunks into the modern apart-| Uren whom God will send to her, She| Val Of the old-fashioned rate of in ay se tres Shize. THAT | say nothin, ‘Then he says after a fat, of Connecticut, were the princi-|jab to Tillman's nose. “The Hoes youngsters which were tucked away) ment or small suburban home, from | (res to avoid neither their coming beeps Lexy Rete upregtes ae / minute i When say check its ten pals. [Pitchfork countered with bis tert, |‘, Solonial homestouds, | Bo far a8) aix to sixteen children perhaps could |Hor thelr care after thelr arrival.| {CP P20 shee country und In their) {MFURs One fello plays a ukaylaly |iriy MOE Cea! Mien just to wave is After s wordy debate, in which|but missed, and they went to |". ation goes, the average) be accommodated. But, supposing | She nurses her own babies, as Nature " and sings Howareyoun songs He{him trouble I says “I got a watch number of offspring in a suburban family is three, while the average in a New York apartment is one or country’s next generation | Mrs, Bare’s prophecy comes true for | intended, cares for them he amentary language was conspic-|clinch, The Assistant Sergeant at ari every family, whe in our already | ‘uously absent, the gentleman from] Arms sought to break the clinch, and If, and d that he almost |myself sir. And as a matter of tact s them to standards of right liv- thinks there so every time. We think so too|¥our five minutes fast." I guess I re be room | ing. The Founder of Boy Scout ara REP PRE PINE was siow. But bein in arrest aint no oe “Vermont expectorated in the face of| ®t @ Stiff one in the face from ‘Till- | tony promaha helen aNd ‘ ce like be ; as Cannaowit, ws (mea Tt ook Renata ; ; ee \for the youngsters In congested A woman's highest duty 1s to be Thank your mother for the spring | 4ssr ke bein in the city, Bs oe ada si sen Gonna, MF to put an a eine es Fence! Now, are we going to change al{centers of population, playground} 4 mother. When sho deliberately puts | Movement tonic she sent me. Its funny that a xe me SgAras to your mother es cane, and Mr. Lyon repiied with a] In the early days of the American| at? History, I believe, shows thi ape ofl en w is fay too scanty for| off the crown of motherhood she 4 EN. SIR ROBERT STEPHIN-|bottle of medicine was the first thing |’ uae ve m concerned to your pair of fire-tongs, which happened to| Republic, revolvers often figured in| after # war the birth-rate of the jhe any i f papas ae And even | mmitting 4 vin aMainat God and a ( 7 SON SMYTH BADBEN-|ihat ever came through the post fe a seaiira tipestion ‘ be convenient, The latter would seem | Congressional disputes. Congressman | Hons involved goes up almost he family “Tin Lolesle” has ite Hits ain againet herself, 1 wouldn't blame | POWELL, the founder of tice without bein in pieces. I cant ! r times te be the more formidable weapon, |Hley was shot and Killed in @ duel | Me and that despite the number |! the ma of accommodation! any man for separating from the wo-| Boy Scouts movement, was born six ay much for the taste. I guess thats : Sane act ae PE Loe Bilal Mai nt aid not prove vo in this case,|DY Representative Graves in 1aay,|of fathers and potential fathers) Let us, however, consider Mra,| man he has married if she refuses to] ty-two years ago. His greatest fume] why it got by the post office wo well. | 7, sumacte a B ALL Bee acter whurt knooksdown-ana, |Benator Foote, Henry Wiee of Virg| Killed oft But if, instead of merely | Barr's arguments for big families, At|ve the mother of his children, He| ts based on his brilliant dere ot| Your mother rote me sto take it regu med (eine ved cut combat, Lyon went to the| mina and Congressman Churchwei | ‘iking about it, all everyday, na {least she had the courage of her con- | has the right to expect her to do her| Mafeking, which made him one of the|lar cause it put iron in my blood. | Grag-out combat, 14 . Jao on occasion went gunning for|ttve-born American couples begin to|victions, for she herself on fifteen oc. | duty greatest heroes of the Boer War. Angus seys We got enough stuff to; HIGH TEMPERATURE IN ACETY¥« it a Preto ypresaeteryiss colleagues. Bartlett of ( ae ana {Dave large familes, what changes will /casions pa a much] since his retirement from the army ng] LENE FLAME, by Brumm of Pennsylvania were the| Mot be worked in the fabric of ourjaringing life int getting on with the| Sir Robert has devoted his time to the|our insides with iron, After he tasted | | y els il the perform- Y | oxygen in a bu ‘es ball by mie he A wet 4 e gh principals in @ riot in the House of | ¢ivillzation? | “What is Ge nh if he were an only ebild. | organization and extension of the Boy}it he said that if he had to have iron | ¢isy produces 4 nee was siopped by other members, | Representatives back in 1898, ed thre the ordeal of ‘One of a large family hi e world | better eb around now without ballist ~« fered aluminum an@ ' a Swedish scien many's strength to- | world th a higher tem By reviving trundle beds, or pul- ' day?” she demanded im the Columns of | He Jearus, from bis eariicst yeoars,! Scouls movement, jo his blood bad rather swallow #! than the oxygen-acetylane ioe 4