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12 THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK a n d RIO GRANDE RATTLER HEADQUARTERS 54TH INFANTRY BRIGADE. B rigadier General Jam e s W. L e ster and Aide 1st L ieutenant, R. D. W illiamson, have returned from Camp Sheridan, Mt. Mont gomery, Ala. General Lester was ordered to Camp Sheridan on m ilitary business and during his absence Colonel E. S. Jennings, 108th Infantry, was in command of the B rig ade. F irst L ieutenant Dudley B. Lester, son of B rigadier General Jam e s W. Lester, has been a visitor at Camp W adsw o rth for the past few days. L ieutenant Lester has been commissioned in the national arm y and has been ordered to report to Camp Dix, W rights- town, N. J., for duty December 15, 1917. The -Headquarters D etachm ent are being instructed by P rivate W. S. Kimball, who has been detailed to the School of Liason, m the Morse Signal Code. The men are pick ing it up very quickly. Private John IT. Patton, of this detach ment, has been transferred to the Supply C o m p a n y of the 108th Regiment. P a t ought to make good in the Supply Company as he has had a great deal of experience around automobiles and trucks. He will no doubt be assigned to duty as a chauffeur. Mew woolen uniform s and underw e ar have arrived and are being issued by -Supply Offi cer, F irst Lt. R. D. W illiamson, and there is great joy in the H e a d q u a rters camp. The boys of the detachm ent will he quite con spicuous throughout the camp by their spick and span assortm e n t of new clothing. All we need now is “Pay Day” and the spirit of Christm as will begin in all its splendor under the circum stances. Most of the boys are anxious to get home for the holidays. T. J. McE. J r . 14TH INFANTRY. Nov/ th a t the companies of the skeleton ized 14th New York Infantry have consoli dated their mess, the hoys are living like kings. Due to the efforts of the Mess Committee, composed of Corp. G randin of Co. D, Corp. T u rner of Co. C, and Corp. DeRoever of Co. K, w ith the assistance of the mess ser geants of the different companies, they have overhauled Company G’s mess shack and it now looks like the inside of any New York restaurant. The hoys of Co. K, 14th N. Y. Inf. are never lacking for entertainm e n t, as there are lots of talent in the outfit. Corp. Dick DeRoever can always be counted on to en tertain the boys w ith anything from, the sublime to the ridiculous, while Corp. Jack McConnell, the eccentric dancing comedian, can furnish a laugh w ith his funny steps. A quartette composed of Sgt. Burke, Sgt. B e rnstein, Corp. M o rrissey and Cook S tuart keep the boys awake nights w ith their w o n d erful harm ony. We suppose Sgts. Jim Fullum and Bob W illigan feel sore at Sgt. Bill Mutell, whose favorite pastim e is to yell in the m o rning before reveille, “Hey, Fullum ! Hey, W illi gan, are you up?” Corp. M a rt Kimmelsman, our company clerk, is getting to be som ew h at of a foot ball player. He is training on a pipe now, as nobody is sending him down cigars. The company is a well drilled outfit, due to the efforts of 1st Sergt. R o a ring Bill Kee gan, who lias whipped the boys into first class s h a p e . ------------------ • COMPANY E, 105T3EC INFANTRY. Company E is now at the Rifle Range at Glassy Rock. Sergt. Joe McGovern, better known as “The F ir e m a n /’ was picked by the C. O. to attend the Division Gas School. Good for the Cap., say we. They say it “takes fire to fight fire” so the same thing should apply to gas. In the future Sergt. McGov ern washes to be known as the “Gas F igh t ing Firem a n .” We think it was Prem ier Painleve who started this “set the clock ahead an hour” stuff. Our company clerk suggests th a t he m ight make the day a few hours longer. As the men have no money left them to allot, • and every possible report and “list” has been thought of, it m ight be possible for him to get a little sleep. Sergt. “H e rkim e r” H e rrick is in the dumps. He says that “everybody has a girl in town but lie.” He m et “Holy Joe” P rim m er in towm, last night, w ith three dames and couldn’t “horn in.” We wonder why. “H e rk” is some Brummell. Five foot noth ing, w ears an eleven shoe, and has his hair cut in a soup bowl style most approved by the E lite of H e rkim e r County, N. Y. This Company wishes to publicly thank somebody for the supply of “reincarnated” woolen -clothing received last Saturday. W ith our “pink tea” physical exercises, bay onet drills, trench locomotion, (knees, bel ly and elbows) and the U. S. Laundry, these clothes should last us fully ten clays. The big ditch crossing the lower p a rt of our street has been christened “Gowanus Canal.” Since the christening, some F Com pany men from Brooklyn, w a n ting to feel at home, have been trying to make it “A TRUE COPY” of the original. But, be lieve us, Capt. DeLanoy, w ith his trusty “Foreign Legion” cleaned it up. W hen it comes to cleaning up canals and trenches, Capt. DeLanoy runs Generals Byng and Goethals a -close second. On behalf of Mess S e r g e a n t. W ilson, we wish to announce th a t we get butter three tim es a day. J. A. P. to drive trucks—now over 500 of us are in mule or horse outfits. Such is the life in large training camps. S e r g t Katzee, of Truck No. 1, is the cutest little non-com th a t ever wore a trench coat. “Big B a ttie” in Truck No. 2 will sure he out of luck if they don’t return his left trench shoe, size 13 1-2. Some rascal is using it for a wash tub. Mess Sergt. Daymont, of T ruck No. 3, serves such an appetizing feed th a t daily he has from 5 to 20 visitors who just drop in for lunch. These “drops” are like a steady rain. “Goldie” Van W agner, W agon Co., another sarge, who never has smoked, chewed, drunk or swore, got sore last week and said “darn.” H e’s been asham ed to show his face since. Top Sergt. Brown: “Does sugar make you lazy?” Pvt. Frick: “'Only loaf sugar.” I’ll he in the m idst of shot and shell, where the bullets are the thickest.” “W here is th a t?” “In the Am m u n ition T rain.” G. D. F. 102ND AMMUNITION TRAIN. They call this the Am b ition T rain and rightly, too, for if ever there was a n . a m bitious bunch, this is it. Some of the men are so anxious to m iss drills they willingly go on Sick Report. Some are am b itious to be leaders in civil life, some am b itious to transfer to the Navy. There is even one m an who hopes to some day he a famous corporal. So much for ambition. Napoleon was a corporal; Caesar was ambitions. A ctually, this is a w o n derful life, “if you don’t weaken.” Most of the men enlisted REAL WORKERS OF THE ARMY. Military PostofB.ce. The M ilitary Postoffice, headed by M ajor Daly, Capt. Hicks, and Lt. W eeks, is one of the busiest m ilitary postoffices in the U n ited’ S tates, handling from 1,200 to 1,500 sacks of mail a day and keeping open night and day to give the best of service known -in any m ilitary training camp. On the arrival of the boys at Camp W a d s w o rth experienced men w ith N. Y. Post- office. experience were needed to run several of the departm e n ts. G ilbert H. Swartz, of the 22nd Eng.; Thom as J. Callahan, of the 22nd Eng.; J. Law rence Goldhamer, of Field H o spital TO8, and F rank A. Quinn, of Field Hospital H e a d q u a rters, w ere first called on special duty to work at the M ilitary Post- office. They are now at the heads of sev eral im p o rtant departm e n ts on account of their faithful work. During the Holiday rush, Lt. W eeks, who is Asst. M ilitary Postm a ster, ought to re ceive a lot of credit for arranging night and day service so the men in camp can receive their packages in tim e for the Holidays. The m ost popular civilian at the Camp Postoffice is Jim m y Kenney, of Boston, Mass. If we m ention the gentlem an from BEAN-TOWN’S- name to any of the sen tries, it is an open sesam e to all the rest of the clerks. Tommy Killduf, please write. W hen Gil Swartz gets a billet-doux now-a- days he gets so excited th a t he stuff’s the m essenger in an empty sack and sends it to the 23 Infantry. W h en you have a kick to make see O’Rourke. He will straighten it out, if pos sible. W o n d er why R e iser alw ays has a grouch on? Do you miss her? Take heart, young m an, P u rtill is just as bad. T h e re’s a reason. J. L. G.
