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VALUABLE CARGO OF COTTON DESTROYED BY FIRE HAS UNIQUE JOB How Bnecn'rnt, in the l.uiicNillo sector. Willi mo \vn>? Fn*d Biiridschau of Louisville, a splendidly loyal hud efficient mat}. opened a lint aj Baccarat. Thou I "cut to Camp Dovre, known correctly sis ‘Mud camp.’ . ; “Sijuno -time later I went to Paris. " Imre I seized a K. C. kitchen car and carried it off to tiie front at Cle-ry. Thru was the Thhig; to do your otrfer- taiuing with-and I'll tell the whole wide world that a Tuxedo or a,n_eve niuji com would havebbeu sis funny tiiere as a suit of overalls at tiie-opetic "You see . the car begun work at dawn—In the summer that means font o’clock iff Krancp. VV toiTWild Son of United States Senator Found France Nt) Place for ^’Classy” Clothes. /e& 2,000 Cups of Chocolate Every orning—Had Many Difficulties, to Surmount and Encountered Many Exciting Experiences. rk.—This is the story of ranee; of 2,000 cups of- hot of tiie kitchen car that sup- of two Tuxedo ing" stttHf and of Owen Conner in Hr. Ford A Carpebter of I .os An geles has tiie distinction of filling the | only position of its kind In the United States. 11 ft,Is liead of the newly es tablished department of -meteorology and aeronautics in tiie Los Angeles ! chamber of commerce. "♦ • He rSsignyiT After 31 years in the_ government, weather bufehu service to apply his knowledge of climatic condi tions to tiie better development of ag riculture, horticulture and aerial navi gation. through practical application of established fucts of atmospheric conditions. . . e weren’t allowed a fire before daylight—it. might have aided tiie enemy: We got o.ut of our Hunks. Fred IlUridscfrnu.- Louis I.asn'ge and 1, at a little alter ’three, started tiie tires going ^is soon as we could get permission and then moved the car to n point .where the men going out to the trenches and j^tre men coming back would pass each other.—-- ' ‘‘(Mir greatest prnTe was that \ye were able to serve and did serve 2.0U0 cups of hot chocolate there every morning, besides giving out cigarettes and other. 'supplies to the poldters. And we kept it going, too. every day. Hard tc Get Sugar. “There were difficulties to be sur mounted. •The greatest of these was to obtain our own supplies of rhoco- are late apd sugar. Many times our trucks ** could, not get through because there me was s M 4nueh artillery and jtintnunitlon cried. Maybe my eyes were _un—tie* move. We simply had to have wet at that, the supplies for the boy*. After some “The other night I weut ini tlimigltt a wa\ "ti* worked out. Tiie tuunint in New York—otie-j Unde .Joe, writes tin* New York Herald Deck scene on the stetuiTshlp Oziinkee-ut her pier In the Fast river. New York, during the tire which destroyed 530,000 worth of her cargo of cotton. *> • . - T or America—llj was tin* ghastly, gray, grim break of day of gas-befouled .and shell-torn battlefields. The chocolate was tiie morning heartener served to men mi their wav to face death. The • ' ' k. n * kitchen car was one of tiie proud pos- sessioiis. of Knights of Columbus "nr workers. “Uncle Joe” was and is Jo seph F. Kernan oJfVUticu, N. Y’.. and tin* Argonne; a K. of C. secretary of perNomrt distinction and of enviable ns-oBil for-service. There is a new dawn in France, pink and rosy now . I fin chocolate figures largely in high cos-t of living tallies. Tin- kitchen ear went down to _it>. doom on ilie glorious pathway opened by tin- Americans to' Sedan, hut jt didn't fail until Just at tiie very end ’after it. had done “its dufv noble.” HELGOLAND FORTIFICATIONS BEING DISMANTLED i. On tiie way the car broke down, viir anything that breaks down, know. Is shoved ntY tiie road. Only active men and active machines :illowed place on the highways, fell, the car had to be pushed to stile and abandoned. 1 almost a little frmit empty. They had right hearty, sixty years young, patrol the I tower) looking for and find -oldlers lie met ul) the, *«-etliilii lapped me on young cluip. bark and said “And it wa good for me to see him. for the last time we had met he was grlijiy and exhausted after trench work In the Argonne. "The. trunk with the Tuxedo coat* and -tli# evening clothes ha* arrived hack from France. I haven't opened It since I* packed it. Somehow. I hate to think.of putting a*Me my K. of C. uniform for such ordinary garments h* silk fared Tuxedos and swallowtail cunts.” did of them? All through the hours of fhnny night* the hospital cars tore up otir headquarter*, dumped our l»oxe* of food and cigarettes and then took on the wound**! men. “\\ e stayed with tin* men of the Seventy seventh and moved when they did. That k car was the. apple ,of ni) eye. It did wonderful service on more than one sector. Then when tin* march to Sedan began vve put the car in line iitfri starti^f with the sol- two 1 uxedo coats and the tvvo evening h th are hero also. • Nicknamed “Uncle Joe,” lie »UMI ] “l II- Li^.loe" lyitil after tie had gone to Frame. He loves the nick name. for H was given him by Ameri ca n soldiers In fact he like* it hotter than any pel mime ever Ix-stovved up on him in the days he sparked tiie glri*^ ut old time dances. However. I prom ised not to tell about that Mr. Kernan Is the »ot Kernan The tiertiiuus. in nceonlance with the nnnlstlce term*, arc dismantling the fortification* of Helgoland, their stronghold in the North *e«. Thin new and exclusive photograph shows one of the great gun emplacements. MAY BE BRIDE OF WALES DAVISON WELCOMES. SIR DAVID HENDERSON senator from New York, lie was appointed an oversea* *ecreti|rv h) the Knights of Coluuihus in Mareh. 11*1 H. To him fell the honor .of establishing tin first K of l’. lint In France, in May. Ibis From the *tart the possibilities of serv- Ice of tiie kitchen car appealed to h:.* Imagination and he couldii t he torn away from the front win-re he had a -ebn+iee |o Wtuk t«l' fbe— s*d«li»-rs tin* kitchen car as a base of opera- tlou*. Alter lie had opem-d several K. of huts, he went to Paris, tovk pos- acsshih of a kitchen ear and went up t.» Cher) with It. Tiiere the Seventy .seventh-div is|on wa* fighting and It was tiie men of that division who nick named him “Uncle Joe,” lie insists that full credit must he given to Fred erick Hundsei.au of lAuisv ille. Kv.. it fid to Louis |.usage for the able and devoted assistance given by them. Here is ids story as he tells it him- Bogus U, S. Bills in Vienna Counterfeiter* Are Arretted and $50 000 - in Spurious Money Seixed. j Wad of Chewing Gum Discovered in Eel Hoynltun. Bn.—-John Penning ton. who has an eel camp along the JiNihita river, has discov ered the original chew ing gum eel. WliilA cleaning eels* he found a **uh*tttnce adhering to the inside walls of a large eel’s stomach. Investigation proved this to he a well-masticated wad of chewing gum. Tin* cud probably had been In the mouth of n fair damsel who canoed on tiie moonlit waters of the river, listening to a lover’s erootiings. and in a fit of rare ecstasy dropped the gttm from her lips, it being gobbled up by ostensibly from- Hie police, rep papers resenting they the; a Ukrainian coni a uLh uiTt v froli FTTh incut to print an I “When I started for France I was told there would lie considerable Vn-- - uii the other— joiekFy, once I the entertain- I the crl who happened that wny. ATiloi-b ATT govern side. 1 realized Tt.c .wad of yum plainly showed 4 the marks of human teeth. NEW BIGGEST WARSHIP BUILT MKID titwfMPW L’*!| . Speculating on the bride the prlnc# of Wales - may choose, social gossip la England frequently names Lady Iris Capell as a favorite. Lady Iris Is the lovely yojing (laughter of the earl and countess of Essex, her mother being the former Adele Grant of New York. Monster Battle Cruiser Hood to Be Launched in Great Britain. 1 t-Sir David Henderson, director generul of the League of lied Cross Socie ties, who arrived on the Haltic, shown as he vYas greeted bfc>Hen$y I*. Davison, head of.'lfu* American Ited Cross. Hood. Its builders-shy it Is not- only the largest In tin* British- navy, but the largest warship ever constructed. Not that trunk. 1* didn’t fit in with the Glasgow, Scotland.—A new- even the four superdreadnaugbts .be ing built for the United States navy, ships.of 42.000 thus, approach the enor mous bulk of tiie Hood. Its* normal “dtsplacmiienr Is 44,000 tons and at full t *ad about 48,000. Fitted with oik fired boilers and ‘geared turbines, which develop 1-14,000 shaft horsepower, tiie Iloid Is ex pected to show a speed of 31 knots. scheme of Things'as I saw It with my own eyes. I’ll tell you more about tlie trunk Inter. warship In the world" will soon slip down the ways to establish new rec ords In the annals of-mivnl construe- PRINCE OF WALES SEES WOUNDED SOLDIERS GAVE NAME TO TOLL ROADS ltnn^cdiatcly ufter landing 1 went to | tlun. The ship,**! buttle, cruiser.. Is the To Weapon Carried by Collectors Can Be Traced the “Turnpike" of Modern Days. - t GOING TO AID ALLIES/BLINDED IN WAR Undoubtedly the naitae turnpike, as applied to s,r„ro roads, comes from the fact that pikes orgates were set across the roads by the keeper : or toll- collector. In addition to collecting tolls, it was a part of the toll-keeper’s business to keep' the* Kind in repair. His wages and other expenses for doing this were received from the tolls collected from the people who used the road to ride on In carriages, wagons, etc. The Book of Wonders, published and copyrighted by the Bu reau -of Industrial Education. Inc„ Washington, I). C.. says that In the early days the toll-collector was-armed with a pike, a longWandled weapon with a sharp Iron head, which he used to prevent fieople who traveled his road from going 1 by w-jjhout giving up their tbll. Later on a swinging gate was built across the rrmd. which mad# it unnecessary to use the pike, though the name was retained, for no one could pass while the gate barred the ,way. When the passerby had paid his tolls, the ndl-collector opened the gate and let him pass.’ If he did not pay. the gate remained closed and th# driver had Jo turn hark or deride t# pay. llmce cornea the name tunt- Hke. In some parts of the country they call tbeee highway* tall roods/. GIRL TRIES ON HAT AND RUNS She 'Pretends to See Mother and Es capes from St. Louis Store. St. Louis.—A stylishly dressed wom an walked into the millinery store of Mrs. Llewelyn Uosehrough and asked permission to be allowed to wait for her mot her: * In the inferlm-she tried on numerous lints. After selecting a $23 lint the woman suddenly turned towards tiie door. “There's mother now.” she ex claimed.-and ran out, crying, “Mother, h, mpther She did not return. Mr*. Ilosehmugh turned over the hat the woman had discarded to {he police later, and of fered ir-tn them as a possible clew through which they might trace the woman! * Dog Must Wear Bell Artirvilh*. N. <V—The ettr dec Have itmotitio Hr. aad Mr*, tipufgr Alexander Krwaier. founder* «»t the |«-moment bltad relief war fund for ooidier* and wilon of the allfe*. which *>i reerarty to corporwted Ja New Tact, snapped oa the deck of La Lorraiae oo the eve of their departure tor Tr-fore While a brood they will visit all the evuntnoo o4 Che work ot the eraaaiaatteoL d which Hr Krosier ia Mimdiii. resident of tht* Hty mu*t wear a b during the arxt jVor. aad to pen their eaniestoewk they have pwreha* • large supply of the armnry aei • • « ^