Barnwell sentinel. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 185?-1925, January 11, 1917, Image 3
BARNWELL SENTINEL, B
OUTH CAROLINA
AMERICAN TRANSPORT
four months /ago. Thaw and rhou
teatt Johnson ; arcf oh—their wrfy to
Amer-tcrron iofl Vfcf'Bm null. * for ren
sons best knowti rto himself, lias I
the American eStfadrtllc to Join
French group. /
Besides llufbcry and Didicr'M.i*'-
.nliuu-ili Ills ww-oit4-yeter-tw-n-4-rn
aviator, the “veterans" of the '-*•>
drille are Dudlev .„4lill, .wtili, f
months’ service: Paul Pavellm. JlidL
Rockwell and Frederick Prhi'ce,
Correspondent of the New York World Found the Meruof the
American Fscafl/^ With British and
Fran^h Rpr.aitsp Jhou Have Been An^at#4
• y. ' Same Soirit of Efficiency. ■ ~ :r
Neiihan’a, bfc
Ves, it’s a jiil.slake to do* trick > Just
.IP fill! " ' ' ' -
By LINCOLN EYRE.
<Corrospoml<?fit of tjie. New Yoi;U World.1
Headquarters * of the American-. Es*
•♦adrllle' on the Somme Front.—With
the Wench aviation js an artl with the
Britlsbi-h.sjtert. ami with'Americans—
The “Master of the'Skies.”
The next, man down was Guynemer—
I'.teiif. -GeorgeseGu jnemer;holder of* the
Legion of Jforior, the Military "medal
"and the Croix de 1,’netW with 14 palms,-
- since the—Geriftan Boellie’s
Is undisputed master .of. the
Even before 1 saw the famous
Charles’’ Inscription on the
cockpit of *the little Nieuport I knew
it was Gu^neniefr from the thrttng, of
■aviators and mechanicians gathered
about the machine. There Mas some
thing impressive about tip* silent way
they watched this stripling rise lip "but
With those o'd ♦
business. I came to^appreciate this
during r h}‘ four hours I spenf-j>h the
a.vi&llor . field which the Americans
•ha re \v [t h" tliree of t lie crackest of /U1
crack French esoa'driiies. One-cannot
from
f an
skies
witness trite r fetutu to earth
fligliti-f 1 Ji.u x the danger zone
Ainerican, ark Englishman and a
Frenchman witltiVqt Realizing to what
an exferif nationality counts'* nowa
days in the cun : ously tcni|n't 5 amental
•Crence-rrf Uaftle flying.'
Tjie American eseadrHlc k^eom-r
po>cd of y iiitlis wlio. compared tvlth
their French and British comrades
and their German antagonists. ar.>
the verie*.* apprentices of the sir. It,
Is lidding *ts own against bfg odds,
because its’ members are inspired
with every American’^ ruling passion —
efficiency They . tight'-with the ma-
chinellke precision . that lias made
American business‘...big,- Their -view
point embr t<v> neither the Briton^S
This ijLthe Fnited"State.*, transport Siimnei* which ran aground ,on the New Jersey coast off Barnegat
troops and civil Hi n paWseng.-rs which she was bringing from the Panama-Canal zone were taken off safely.
adays.
They never^ftStked that question at
Bar-le : Duc, bur then ijt's a long way
from Verdun to the Somme.”
REVIEW OF NATIONAL GUARD ON THE BORDER
-- AViyn-*-hiti--Hrrng ctrrthes had been
taken dff;he turned with a smile to the
iiroup of firemen waiting to hear, .as
they always do when (iuynemer re
turns, what he had to say. One would
fancy that having seen 22 foemen
tumble earthward under the lightning
of his machine gun. he would have be
come a bit blase aboujlt. But Guyne-
tner is a great artist, and-great artists
TO BE.RED CROSS NURSE
artistic
sporting proclivities .nor
tk-Cfise of • French.'
— No “Frills” to This Report.
Adjutant Givas Lufbcry, the
dr:lie’s star hy right of mention i
' tire In ver, blase about
A” casual, question from one of his
comrades started him off on tin Odvs-
ofiirial . onitnutjTqUe. for bringing jluwu
if.-,. tifLiX_- 1 .UU'n.iy's -phipc btmiiut frnrn-
« volunteer excursion info “Germany”
*—everything hevoudjhe French lines
i-’“Germany" to an aviator—soon after
my arrival at the field. 1 watched him
dismount and make his-report to <’np-_
t;.*n ; Then mR. the Americans' French
commander,-as follows: / . ‘ y--'
"1 Trier a couple of, bodies at b.UOO
f* *• t over H mchavfsnos and' .divetl on
ot.e of them, a thousand feet or -go
below mg He was an Albatross, T
gtit'ss, doing .observation work. The
other was ail Aviatik, protecting him,
•< he started for me »S soon as I start
ed for the Albatross, who-wvas heating
It away fast. I caught up in time to
•hoot a drum at him. It looked like
he wnS f illing, hut f didn't.have time
to watch, because r the Aviatik was
•hooting it me from above, isplraied
down out. of Iris reach, and then turned
up again, miking for him, but he’d dis
appeared. Maybe 1 got the Albatross,
though. You .haven’t henrd- front the
observation people, have you?”
Lufbery’s toile was as matter-of-fact
ay a sfo-ik broker tellituf iiliout the
day’s' doing*, -en^. the .Street, He omit
ted to remark that his plum; bore srv-
eral fresh Imjjef holes, any one .of
ta filch, i few'.kithes to right or left.
inuinisi'iou
tell wns no rnrire linportafit than Luf-
ber.v's laconic report; the way lie told
it- was like Oheiiai singing the; “Mar-
sciliaise." All the Celt 'uritT all the
arfot in Ills make-up . riished ' to the
StyTai'e. His eyes flashed, ills hands
’shot out in 'nervous, expressive ges
tures, his“whole slim body keetned Ip
vibrate with emotion. His listeners'
Jietng Frenchmen, .were otUhralled. One
realized why this l.oy of twenty-one is
the-adored'of aH - France. /
“What’s |R> so excited about?” asked
one of the Americans, whdse-knowi-
edge of French and Guy aether is lin-
perTect. “Ho must have firouglit down
about ten today to go on like that.”
From Verdun to Picardy.
Without attempting to pass upon the
merits or demerits of the various racial
characteristics outlined above, I may
sajG that the Americans- have wpn for
•'themselves a perfectly good pj^ce la
the sijn of allied aviation. The proof
oMt is their having been shifted from
luxurious pstiibli
Sonic ol the J.'5.uo<) •soldiers of tlie Xational tJuard stainined in the lower Bio Grancle valley (^strict parading
iiefore (ien. Jtinies ^Xrker. F. S. A., during a recent ,grand review at. Brownsville.' Tex. The'site <Jf the review la
historic as a part of the battlefield where-General Taylordefeated the Mexicana durlug the Mexican war.' ^
BUILDS .BUNGALOW ON ROOF
sht|ients at Ba- ie-Ouc
an«f 1,11X0iiII to leaky, cabins amid the
eternal mud of this .field in Fivardy.
TesteiLirr the blazing furnace of .Ver
dun, they wore mu -f<ritnd wanting. So :
niiu they are privileged to share witli
France's aerial aristocracy the hurd-
'■hji's and glories of the greatest battle
of -them all. ' , - ■ -
Doubtless
not worth
Miss Muriel Oakes, one of the most
pntrod~..:-h.
-etrty, fs-'gntng nrTritnce to serve~a¥Ti
Red Cross nurse. Aliss t lakes thinks
that att young wom£n who are not
otherwise occupied and who cah ar-
rnnge to do su^. .JoiuLd taio^aiiiaLliUiiat
ot me oppornitiity to serve liumanity.
^Thc photograph was taken at ttie
Russian hazriar in tin- Seventy-First
Regiment armhry. New York, whenSlie
was' helping to. make" that Venture a
success. She is s
struct ure* ..into- which -wind and ‘ ratn
enter ^without knocking. Eacli pilot
hip* a culihyhole the size of a Pnlim t irV
drawing room, but wholly devoid of
l > ullmaq_.comforfK. partitioned off ns a
tied room. The"- t»ed ' +v- : '"Tr^f^Tfrp “eoT
i here is no head except that grudg
ingly dispensed by a small stove in
the common, uiessroom, an jipartment
ri>Mndriing the least desiralde dwell
ing ib\the -nnvkt primitive of lumber
eamps. T^pyre is elect Tic light, but for
In.scfutfflde military reasons It is
Jolly Good ' Day.” • •
--Soon^-ifr..pwarfL-n ftitfTsTi airman.
Ot'lig«Mt » r->*n*k his allies - -hospi tn lily
•Hii-Ertreh-ni mf' |ioTf’rTf; l -s\t'^^ , dri < trtrfrr
front French hangj,ij>. \f|,. was
quickly surrounded In a rriwtk of
I* rencti p;oc> and mechanicians, eager
t»» iaspAw an airplane so, different
from their own >mike*. Disembarking,
h*' shook h inds all around, lit a ciga
rette,and observed airily:
"Jolly good day todjiy, eh what? Per
fectly ^ripping to have a go at the old
txichos again after all this rotten
weather, I'Ve just been .having a hit
<if a sii'tw .with four of liinjr—all Avtn-
hown selling-souve |;
PLAN TO STOP AUTO THEFTS
Georgia Congressman Claims' He rian
Found Practical Solution
of Problem;
.\ffgnta. Ga.—AUtomoinTe theft>r in
.the luritHT cities have -reaidieu stich
alarming proportimis -thatctltanv plans
IiUve; bpeu cotmelvcil^by various auto
owner* for tireakm^u[) tlie practice.
■Georgia clatmaflt iiiost > Tdn <1 ^ r *^ aoiit-
tion, -Kubpdfted 'by* < ’ongriGsman AVI -
HanKJ^mley 1 toward »f Atlatnhv—=—-
^5lr. Howard’^ itjeii is to have AUe
license, laws require a duplicate il-
the new batty (hippopotamus in the Central Park zoo.
’Ceciltly s^d to a circus, but his evey-atert mother foiled
•periKto' crate her. offspring. " „ '
-r.H 1 ! 4 . machine*.in - order again
‘Englishman -started 'off for his
Tines. Before leaving, however^
lettained hie. audience on the
ATLANTIC
with a series of loop-the-loops, spiral
ing and other stunts that made the
Frenchmen gasp. A dozen ti'mes it
Jooked as if this spoTtive gamboling
were going to end fatally. .- .
■ save that stuff for .the
of -the American^ re-
a French pilot replied,
, nble
surliitrbiyill^
This is to be shown on demand tu
nny officer of the law.
Mr. Howard suggests that .each -city’
detail one or morc~pi+Hn clothes mrii
to this special work.. Any tnah ‘start
ing a cat couTd be asked to show bis
identification tag. This demaniHrould
Cause nd eihbartussment or resentm -*nt
on the part- of "theowner-, In ^Ir. How-
ard’s ojHnion. but would make It Im
possible foi a tliief io get away wl*h a
car without the ue vssary tag.
twists “Whisky’s” tall, and he does the
growling for everybody.
Temper Gets Shorter. ,
| shorter every Ilay* and his teeth hmger!
| so that he will soon he sufficiently; ran-
j tured, ns the distillers say, to fulfil!
liis appointed destiny, which consists
; of being carried over into the German
Nines by airplane and deposited there.
What
bodies,” one
mTHfked. arid
$ HAS H1S APPENDIX
& - FOX-TROTTED OUT
t rees.
eanttm*> City CT thg~Dead
grown i. 1 ilratj
vl i v *
tickles his
Promises Odorless Onion.,
room It was. psed by twh sur- V
X ccons to assist lb giving nneW,
»♦. thetic.s. Dr. Thomas A. Cartdf^
r«^ )r - Martin Ritter brought ,
fa n tfllkingvniachlne intb the oper- X
X ating room’ at the Columbus hos- %
pita! and put on'popular airs to X
distract ‘ resisting” patlei^s’ at- %
X tentiwu .st) they -wmM b$^kus-
ceptible to anesthetics, '
X “I belte^e lt will prove a big
V success.” ritid Doctor- Bitter, X
Chicago—The odorless onion \;lll
soon be, given to tlie world, according
to various delegates to the ninth an- i
nual^ convention of , the Vegetable
Growers’ association of America.' “It
willT>e an ionion that anyone-can eat
nndi. still g<> abroaii among ori:»’»
■friends,” declared a local deirier*a
.will be a'tearless onion, too* Mts popu
larity will soon approach that of *.he
small houses, in each of whidi rbeorpse
Is- lodged jit tli»* rate of fur (Jty
first three mouths, .and then at. a fc
duced rate until the 'geonmneers etii-
ployed by the relatives of the. "dead
person decide when and where , the
cofpse khull lie hurled. Silk o.f paper
la'ritems and imitnfion fruit are hung
from Hu* roof. There are scpehTis in
ttfUl Villi
coffin. T**a., fruit and any. At her kind ||: >. ,'j*
of food wliiirh the <le%d person liked || N
when on earjli are placed on.an altar
before the‘coffin each'morning. There
ore cn.txlboard servants standing: trbont ~
to wuit on him with pipes or cardboard •*, Caju. a. Sumistedt (-left) at
cups ofltea. There are a^so twahand-j Djvnext April^rom St. Johi
some- paper females placed .there to. tefl^tTtn, four-paisenger aif^laae.
• ’.l. N . .. * . -N • '' U AA n t » A-W .
theticst. and music soothes them X
to accept.’^ . j : : - S
P. W.^Coombs of 5^23 North X
Reaching the Idegl,
Of coutse, none of your neighborl
are’ perfect. Bub then, a re you? But
if you are ^to ope-another what -you
ought to be andfean be you cah be" ax
perfect as It Is possible for mortal*
to be here upon earth.—Exobiiige.
Winchester avenue, Was the
down, which make his return tp active
-ice jdoubtfuL James McConnell la
Vi ic. \ ’ici^ig from a bad fnirbe bad
V -trotted out
1 convgiesC
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