Show J 7 THE GARLAND UTAH TIMES GARLAND AeCrippled UTAH BRIEFS By ELMO SCOTT WATSON mBCENTLT there was added collection of In museum Institution In Washington an exhibit that ta unique In atrange contraat to th Imposing array of trophies and other relics of the conflicts In which this nation has engaged la the stuffed body of a pigeon with one leg shattered and twisted out of shape yet it Is muta testimony to on of th heroic deeds of th World war For this bird is "President Wilson" the moat famous carrier pigeon of all that served with tha A EL F and hero of long and dangerous flights during tha World war It began at Orand Pro On the aaornlng of November 0 1018 advance Wilts of the Americans were dismayed to find their communication lines dead Radio failed too because of the over 25 miles crowded air At Rampont where staff away was headquarters officers anxiously awaited word from Grand Pre Between the two points lay an Inferno of Ore and smoke shot and shell But there was no other The way mesaage was Intrusted to "President Wilson" which was soon winging Its way toward Rampont ing bird minutes later fluttered down In the pant- front the headquarters at Rampont sage Intact dangling from the of mes- torn Like of Its wounded ligaments leg "President many a human warrior Wilson" had been safely through the fighting from the start only to meet almost at mishap with tha armistice haad That was the faithful tittle flyer's last time under lire Nursed back to Wilson" for the recovery "President past eleven years has been an active member of the army pigeon loft at N J Fort Monmouth giving ths younger birds valuable pointers In the art of message bearing under war conditions Death came quietly to the famous bird while asleep recently and tbs army decided to have the body An officer of stuffed and mounted ths signal corps accompanied It to the Smithsonian Institution where It la now enshrined But even though "Taps" have sounded for this hero bird there are still living others of his tribe whose record are nearly as remarkable Visit Fort Monmouth between Red Bank N and Long Branch J today and you can sea some of them Hers you will sea most of ths famous war birds which rendered such valiant service with tha signal corps In Francs among them those two veterans "Spike" and "Mocker" almost as renowned as "President Wilson" Hers also you will see a number of Oerman 'birds but perhaps captured most Interesting of all are ha various pigeons which played an Important rots In ths operations of ths famous "Lost Battalion" Tha story of th "Lost Battalion" la so familiar to moat Americana that It needs do retelling— even though the name la a misnomer and most Americans therefore have a wrong Idea about It For Major Whittlesey's outfit never was really "lost"— -- It was “cut off" or "beleaguered" But b that as It may tha fact remains that had It not been far seven carrier pigeons which th commander of that devoted band sent out from time to time Mcould not have sent ajor Whittlesey word of his location back to his superior officers they could not have rendered him such aid as they did the Germans probably would have wiped the detachment out of extsteuce before help arrived and It would bav been a “Lost Battalion" Indeed It was during the "push" of the division In the Seventy eeventh on October 2 that six companies of the first and second battalions of tbs Three Hundred and Eighth fantry one company of the Three Hundred and Seventh Infantry and two sections from the Three Hundred and Sixth machine gnn battalion all consolidated under the command of MaJ W Charles Whittlesey discovered that German forces were behind them BDd they were cut off from communcatlon with th rear At 8:50 a tn on October S Major Whittlesey sent his first pigeon with this message "We are being shelled by German artillery Can w not bar artillery support! Fire la coming from northwest" At vari- - president ThePlattsburqh Came Cock he sent mes bis regimentof developof October 4 h had only two pigeons left and one of sent o'clock he about eleven these wltb a message telling of the of the" alluation growing seriousness for the detachment That afternoon the American artillery started to lay down a barrage but Instead of falling upon tha enemy It shell and shrapnel the rained upon detachment Then out of beleaguered that Inferno of noise dust and con last pigeon fusion flew Whittlesey’s Late that evening a soldier In charge of the pigeon cote at division heada came upon pigeon blinded quarters In one eys by scattered shot and The other leg standing upon on leg was almost severed and attached to the dangling leg was the pellet conare along "Wa till message: taining the road paralleled 27(54 Our own artillery Is dropping a barrage directFor heaven's sake atop It" ly on us the barrage lifted and Immediately Whlttlesey'a men were no longer swept fire of their own artillery by th A "war bird" of another type and mors picturesque perhaps than these veterans of the Vorld war feathered was the famous eagle "Old Abe" which served three year of the through Civil war with a Wisconsin regiment taking part In 22 battles and 30 skirmishes and being wounded In three of "Old Abe" was captured by an them Indian Chief Sky on the banka of the Flambeau river In northern Wisconsin In 186L The Indian sold the bird and Anally It came into possession of a company which was formed at Eau Claire and which became Company C of the Eighth Wisconsin regiment when It went Into camp at Mmllson Thera Captain I’erklna of Company C named him "Old Abe" In honor of the President a standard was made for him and he waa carried beside the regimental flag When the regiment went Into action "Old Abe" gave evidence of the wild ekt delight In the smoke and roar of battle Spreading his wings he would Jump up and down on his perch uttering wild and piercing screams which could be clearly heard above the noise But this Berserker of the conflict spirit was not the only evidence of “Old Abe’s" being a true soldier If we are to believe the stories that hav been told of him before he Jiad been year In the service he would give heed to the commands of the officers on parade or when preparations for a Of his military habits march began one chronicler has written: "With bis head obliquely to the front his right eye turned upon th he would listen and obey commander orders noting time carefully After parade had been dismissed and the ranks were being closed by the sergeant be would lay aside his soldierly manner flap hts wings loll about and make himself at home generally "When there waa an order to form for battle he and the colors were the Ills actions upon first upon the line those occasions were uneasy ' would turn his head anxiously from right to left looking to see when the line was completed Aa loon as the regiment got ready faced and began to march he would assume a steady He could always and quiet demeanor be seen a little above the heads of the soldiers close by the flag That position of honor was never disallowed him "At the battle of Farmington May 9 1SC2 the men were ordered to lie down on the ground The Instant they did so OId Abe flew from his perch He Insisted upon being protected aa well as they end flattened himself on tha ground remaining there onti! th men rose when with outspread wings ous Intervals that day sages by pigeon keeping al commander Informed ments By th morning lie Wilson-Mount- ed back to hla place of peril and held It until the close of the contest At the battle of Corinth the Confederate general Price discovered him and ordered hla men to take blm If they could not kill him adding thaf ‘he would rather capture that bird than the whole brigade’ It Is of "Old Abe's” conduct at this same battle of Corinth that another historian writes : "The regiment la in Mower’s brigade and ‘Old Abw’ Is oil hla perch looking out over tha scene Cannon are thundering around blm the there are long rolls of musketry air la thick with bullets From the flank comes a fearful volley enfilading the line cutting down scores of men und levering the cord which holds ©td He flaps his wings Abe' to ths staff rises above the two armies circles out over the Confederates then back agala to hi friends and lights once more on hla perch The regiment la In retreat and Old Abe goes with It to be tn a score of battles and to coma out of them all unharmed" Almost as renowned as "Old Abe” of th Civil war In our national tradition Is a game cock which enjoyed a brief moment of fame during the War of In 1812 1814 Lieut Thomas was placed In charge of a fleet on Lake Chamsmall American plain to resist a strong British fleet which was moving down the lake to On the attack northern New York 11 the British morning of September attacked the Americans In Plattsburgh Commodore hay At the beginning on Dowale the British commander hla flagship the Conflance attempted to break the American line hut was met by a devastating fire from the Sara flagship toga MacDonough’s Thereupon the battle resolved Itself Into a sort of a duel between the tw anflagships both of Which dropped chor and at a distance of 250 yards from each other prepared to “shoot II out” The first broadside from the had heavier Conflance which gun than the Saratoga all but wrecked But It did some the Amertcah vessel to one of else out According thing school histories "At the first broadside fired by the enemy a young game cock kept as a pet on board MacDonough'i ship the Saratoga flew up upon a hts wings he gave a gun flapping crow of defiance that rang like th their Mast of a trumpet Swinging men cheered the hats MacDonough'i Ha had plucky bird again and again foretold victory That was enough They went Into the fight with such ardor and managed their vessels with such skill that In less than three hours all of the British ships that had not hauled down their flags were scudding to a place of safety as rapidly as pos slble" he flew Townsend Brady give a Cyrua version of the slightly less theatrical Incident lie say “It has been fondly noted by various writers that the first terrible broadside of the Conflance smashed a chicken coop on one of the American vessels thus liberating a which sprang luto the rig game cock encour glug and wtth luRty crowing Inasmuch as aged the cheering crews nearly every writer puts the chicken Is It lif a different safe to conship clude that there must have been one chicken there and the Incident prob At any rate If It was ably did occur an American chicken It would certain ly crow upon being made free" Before the battle bgan "MacDon ongh hade his walt'ug crew to prayer There at their stations with bowed head they knelt dvwn upon the white decks soon to be stained with their while with hla own lips In own blood the familiar words of the Book of OntmnoB Prayer the young comnmn der Invoked the protection of the God of Battles for the coming conflict— a scene Indeed!" rare and memorable ta com Spears the naval historian mcntlng upon these two Incidents alt du says “with repect to religion that for the purpose of rousing the seamen a roceter In the rigging la worth more than a dozen prayers os ths quarter deck" The Central I’tah Crain 7 Growers’ Inc expects to market million lui'bele of wheat from L’tab nml southeastern Idaho for the InstallatSpring Wile— DM power plant auxiliary ion of an equippipe and all necessary electric of mouth ment at the Spring Creek i anv on have been melveed have been Rhhfleld — Arrangements nude for the op ring of the Richfield Relic hall during the summer months Provo— Work will be begun on a new Junior high school building on similar Plana for another July building have been approved are being received Ogden— Entries for the first annual dog show of the Kennel Club Ogden 33(10 employ Ogden— Railroads of $061(1257 persons with a payroll making this Industry the largest payroll builder In this city class of graduating Provo— The has the Brigham Young university fund added $17500 to the endowment of the s howl Msrysvale — A celebration with repfrom surrounding town resentatives of the held In honor present was new train service beginning June 1 of Third Provo— Property owners East Street urged the city commission to Improve and pave this district embracing eight blocks Girls’ clubs have Kaysvllle — here been organized l Gunnison — The vocational project improvement over last year shows a decided gain of a right of Mapleton — Purchase way for a new road at Mapleton from the Utah Idaho Sugar company has been made Veterans’ War Lehi—The Indian celebration will be held here August 12 to 15 American Fork—The American Fork canyon road Is being Improved-anwidened in a number of place Logan —The Western Farm Economwill hold Its annual ics’ association convention In Logan and Salt Lake City June 10 to 14 Only 128 Pleasant were in a total of 17488 found tuberculosis for In Utah cattle county Coalville — A temporray gate has been installed for the storage of surwater from the Echo plus to dam It is expected to amount 10000 acre feet Oluflne Logan — Mrs Marie been a Gold Star mother lias the 8 notified that she will sail on the 8 Washington July 23 to visit grave of her son Colton— Bids have been opened for the 104 miles of graveling project from Colton to Rolapp Echo— A celebration la being planned In the near future In honor of the completion of Echo dam the Sprlngville — With completion of a new brick warehouse and spur leading from the Salt Lake and Utah tracks the canning factory la ready for the early crop of peas been subBingham — Flnhs have mitted for the three bntldings to the new Bingham high comprise school to be erected at a cost of $350000 Ogden — 23 delegates attended the annual conference of the six Congregational churches of Utah held In Ogden ray son — 175 000 baby chicks have ben shipped in here up to this time Trovo — An exhibit of paintings by Provo City and Utah county artists’ league will be held In this city Sunset — Forty additional grain containing tanks each wltb a capacity will constructof 25000 bushels ed by the Globe tnlllk Bountiful — Pea growers of this pool tlrlr cinity will surplus pea crop and market It through the Utah Bate Fruit and Vegetable association Richmond — The Cache Valley Poultry association met at Richmond for of (agauizlng another the purpose unit of the association Price —Citizens have voted In commissioners vor of the county Issuing bonds for $103000 to finance road building this summer of the Cedar City— Representatives association Trl Community Poultry Irou and Washington counof Beaver ties will visit the Draper and American Fork poultry districts Kiwanls club NephI — The Nephl gave a banquet and program In honof Neor of the 1030 boy graduatephl high school Tooele — Paving and other Improvements amounllig to $08502 will be made In this city radio pro Pleasant Groe— Two of the Utah grams wril be features Strawberry Day celebration here Moroni — The Secmd Annual Maple canyon day Is scheduled for June 28 at the forks of Maple canyon U "Evergreen Provo — The B Y Class" of 1807 and the “Century Class" of 1900 and twelve other classes will hoi da reunion at the university le Splmgvllle — The have been Gunnison — An $18000 shown In the assessor’s of acreage valuation t city ceme- and decrease is report of tha real i estate asDavis county shows Farmington— The sessment list of decrease Murray City— A new pipe line is to for the municipally owned be placed electric light and power plant Midvale— Interest la keen In the addition to the city consisting of t co S operative v two enlarged teries proved poultry i colony ' Doubled Dwon CHAPTER XII— Continued — -e He went' to see Carls soon after He had taken ward great deal of pride In the clean white hospital he and oow had built fot the company be blessed It forwent lold biro what It bad meant for Parle They had X extraordirayed her sod had made the nary discovery that 'nere wu not a But tome broken bone In her body thing bad happened to her back and she was paralyxed from her waist he believed down Temporarily what Paul would have dune Knowing under the dcumstances be had sent to Quebec and Montreal for expert assistance to consult wltb the company staff Carla was propped np against mass of pillows lu her snowy bed when Paul arrived Everything was white about her except the rich darkness of her hair— the room the bed ber lacy gown her face Like that with two silky braids streaming over ber shoulders she might have been a child one who had been long time sick with an exquisite fragile beauty about her Be bad not expected to find ber so like Illy peta led flower whose soul a breath m:ght carry away He seated himself beside her and she let her band creep over the coverIt was helplessly weak let to him Her fingers were only a feathery about hla “Please don’t scold me Paul" she "Yon said faintly trying tc smile see 1 was right If the rocks bad buried you I could never have got out and brought you you borne Could He did sot answer but held ber band so closely that a Joyous little melody of content came for a moment In ber throat "1 am glad waa afraid you would be angry with me Now I know I shall get well quickly I” It seemed difficult for them to find things to say Paul flght'ng with the grimly set lines of so Indian In bis face was holding back what he wanted to tell ber Carla knew A cried little moro and the would her own weakness letting down the thing which both were valiantly muk Ing an effort to hold between them He told her about the siteviallsis who were on their way and that their own Staff had no doubt but that she would very soon be on ber feet again He tried to talk without a strain Id hla voice yet he could the falseness and pretense of hts effort when he wanted to take her ir his arms and kiss her pale sweet face Carla knew this too At last when It was time for him to leave her she said: "Wliea are yon going home?” “I don’t know" be replied "It must be soon' she urged "1 want It that way You must ttnrt to day— or tomorrow Only that will Claire want make me well you Please— read this—" She gave him a crumpled yellow slip of paper “tf was a Telegram' 'crushed as tf she had been holding It a Iona time before be came tie emootlied It out and read the words which hla wife bad sent her The message was almost Identical wltb tbe one be bad received giving him tbe Impression that lairs In tbe stress of her emotion bad been able to find but a sin gle thought for them both “1 am ao happy" It said "Send Paul to me as quickly as you cgn Only God knows how glad I am" "She has faith In me" said Carla “She asks me to send you to ber What a privilege thaf la Paul fot one woman to give another No matter bow hard I try I can never be a wonderful aa Claire The world doe aot hold many women like her She loves you She wants yon When will you go to her!” “You sold— tomorrow" “Yea tomorrow" He rose and stood looking down at ir hv her “1 will go" he said “But some will come for you Carla May now not In this life hut somMs I continue to dream that 7“ Is not a dream" she said "It “It I am giving la faith you up tor e little while that la all Sometime In another life these test which God put will us return upon you to me" When be looked back at bet from the dour ahe was smiling het eyes Oiled wltb tears He tried to readjust himself be tween the time of this last visit with Carla and hla departure for home His effort was an honest one a strug gle to lit hlmaelt to certain demands which he accepted as necessary and Inevitable He was sure of himself as be returned to Claire It wa almost so exultant aureneas which left upon blm no sign of spiritual or He waa possessed physical torment now by memories which blessed even aa they burned It was as If somewhere In him were e little song s pert of himself which said: T have a teoea whereunto no one enters save time I be not etime ea4Ca K- L elona There slta e memory on fi There centers" throne my Ilf Carla was the memory He made no effort to turn away from the truth or harden himself In hla contemplation of IL 8ome one bad said that memory waa a paradise from which Fate could not drive one Anl the room which had built Itself In his heart could never be leveled or taken away from him It was Indestrnctlble like e soul Claire In a way became the keeper at tbe door Because of ber be bad closed It and because of ber be would never open it except to himself Be could conceive of no one but Claire In this sacred place A long time ago when be was a boy there bad been In his room a picture of tn augel with She snowy wings and golden hair seemed to be floating through clouds end he remembered that bis Bret Ideas of heaven came from this angel and that she Inspired him to aak questions which his mother sometimes found Tbe picture bad difllcult to answer always remained !n hla mind It recurred to him In thinking of Claire It was Impossible for him to feel resentment against his fate or even a desire to change It In going to ber There wereoccasIonaJ womeun? WhoM breasts the world found Its spiritual Claire be knew was one of glory them— like the angel In bis room It wne he who had been tbe misfit In their lives and this defect Id himself he was prepared to remedy — If he could He read Claire’s telegram many south He tried to lines He tried to clearly tbe change Derwent whlcb had come over her had told him bow she bad watched where the water roared out of tbe “Whiter than death aa tf she chasm would die unless you came out alive'1 he hafl said And Carla: “She loves She wants you" And now ber you owu words on the yellow paper tn bla hand entreating blm to come to her as quickly aa be could There was a strange singing In his heart and a If she should love blm— dull grief at last— like that After years of waiting and hoping and of yearning for a woman to be a part of him— children— a borne he bad dreamed of— He folded tbe telegram for a last time and put It In Ms xcket- lie was seeing the tears In Cnrla'a eyes times on the way read between tta understand more CHAPTER XIII Paul had told only Claire that be wus on hla way to her At the sta- tlon a familiar face came out ol tha hurrying streams of humanity to greet It waa Jimmy Ennerdnle whose him gave him greater presence always comfort than that ol any other man He had known Ennerdnle for a long time and Claire had grown dp with him like a sister Jimmy had always seemed older than Haul wltb a premature grnyness In hla hair and a sllghi stoop In his thin sensitive body Hla affection for Paul possessed th qunllty of the marble unchangeable out of which he was slowly and perchiseling fame for himself sistently He had been working as sculptor In the West and Paul hod not seen Ennerdale him for a year had grown Hla older In that time he thought face was thinner bis hair whltei over hla physical his temples tone even less robust than when be had seen He had the same quick him last about him and It nervous alertness In did Paul good to see the rlndm-shla face as they gripped hands Be knew that Claire onahle to meet him herself had sent Jimmy In her place “She Is like a child waiting for as they rode you" said Ennerdale “I was there sltb toward hla borne mother last evening and she asked me to meet yon 8he cried and laughed and Is damnably happy If you don't mind I'd like to come over when yon two bave settled down and have you tell me about this 'monstrous happenMay ing “You know yon don't need an Invitation" said Paul "Come tomorrow’1 (TO BB CONTINUED) ir Uktii ia Electricity Tbe weather bureau says that the In a single flash of lightelectricity Tbe largest ning varies greatly amount of which the bureau has any was the measurement approximate equivalent roughly of 1000CU amperes for 001 second or 1000 amperes for 1 second the average disPrrbnhly charge Is of the order of of this amount Scotland's Ancient Nan Albany was the ancient name fot Scotland and Is still used at the present time tn poetical works etc It was made official In an sc of a Scottish council held st Scone In June 1398 when th title duke if Albany was conferred on the brot er of King Itoliert HI the duke at Hi e set Mg as regent for tbe kuucioui tht t |