Barnwell sentinel. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 185?-1925, December 11, 1919, Image 3
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
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