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Show American Girl Travels by Aeroplane, Handcar, Tank and Wheelbarrow to Sing for Soldiers "r Actraaass who hava their own care or the uaa af elegant limousines may well bits their beautifully manicured nslls wtth envy of Miss Kste Horleherg. who haa been afnglng In V. M. C. A. hute to entertain the American expeditionary force soldiers tn France. In one tour ahe waa conveved from ana stand to another vario:i!) in: A eidecar. A tmutne. An airplane. A tank. A camtnnette. A sawmill carriage. Atop a pile of toe on a -.oer drag. ' On a railroad handcar, and finally la a wheelbarrow. I An army truck waa Included among her prospective conve a nee a. but it be- , came mired and could not be used. I Before the I'm ted Htatea entered the war Miss Hofiaberg. a Baltimore grt. j was a dramatic eoprano doing cburvh, i concert and MgM opera singing. Hhe toured forty weeaa la "Kverv woman." p Waving tha role of Conacten-pe. when , tbe Y. M. A. took up the giantic taak Of -entertaining the American lve In addition ad-dition la furntehing them iui menial eplrl t ual and pb y etca I refreah men t and recreation, ehe wae enlisted by tha Red J"J"fu' entertainment bureau for con-work con-work in the war none. She went Xer wtth the flrat quartette cent by the A'T," the Liberty quartette. In Decem-ber Decem-ber dnd baa aot etgntfied her Intention of quitting the work after mora fhan half atlas Herlsbsrg's singing tour took bar to many American camps where ahe appeared ap-peared on the atage st the V. M . A. hut a, the eoldlere' theatre tn the war aone. Overflow audience greeted her, for the Yankee boye tn ' France have learned to depend on the "T ' fa keep them aupphd with the beat, clean, healthy entertainment of th sort that is a Hnk with homo. The roung men In olive drab who ar ftshttng abroad for democracy appreciate thoroughly the an -aeiftah work which the men and women of tbe Red Triangle are doing for tnem there, the majority of them at the rick of their Uvea. The remarkable aeries of rides on unueual vehicle to which the boye treated Mice Horlaberg waa a mint-feat mint-feat a turn of their appreciation of the "Y" : work aa well as of their delight at chape- i roning an Americas girt through tha war i aone. j Her novel tour atarted la a epeeimen of that Quaint but ueeful type of army I vehlrie known popularly aa a "bathtub." 1 tbe rakiah convoy of a motorcycle. Hav. ing aatallowed enough duat while in thla, ahe waa traneferred to a mora proeaie I Urooualne, In whtr-h ahe arrived at an avtaiors' camp, ftha aeng her way Into the affections af the flier a, wbo took her by airplane to her next atop. Thia concert con-cert waa for the boye of ike first American Ameri-can tank dtvleton In France and. not to be outdone by the aviators, the tank ere in-staled in-staled thst they must "treat 'er rougn" br a ride n a traveling fort to the aeat stand. "It wssn't as com fori able aa tho- sir-plane sir-plane but !t was more thrilling. ". aatd the emar. when ehe arrived at the next V but. 'The boye kept 4rwa abort 1 cuta that aeemed to n er east late going over tha tope of oung foreere and acroee hue dttchee and shell holea. If they wanted to amaae me, they euoceeded. I held on deeperately and hoped for tha beat." The tank landed her In a dlvlalon of engineer, who promptly trotted out the great eel luxury they ppacweeed. offering It delicately but firmly, aitboiiffh it waa not Saturday night. They Isolated Mtee Horlaberg ia a little a hack heaide the railroad and hacked up a perfectly good American locomotive, to which they attached at-tached a hoee with He bueineee end In the shack. And thua "for the first time In France." Hee Horlaberg had all the hot water ahe wanted for a hath and ahower. Tbua refreshed, the elnerer went an ay ea,mioietfo--caled a flivver In the United ftietee. to a lumber mill, where ahe entertained en-tertained the men of the night ehift who had mieeed all the ehowe which had vial ted thet nerk of the wooda. Ho that thare wouid be no competition with her vote, the machinery was elopped durmg the ronccrt. Te fatten her aterate aa rhtmpton diversified rtder of the word, the lumbermen had her mount a raw mrvlsse and rids through the process of aavtng a tog tma oe-and-a-heif-inrh boArde, thos making ber an aetreea wbe not oety trod but rode the boaras On tho follow ing day aha rods thrwugh the forest atop a mountain ef toga d reared by a tractor.' a bumpy fnvrriey to which the tank ride had hardened her. I Then followed the handcar ride to her nKt atop, where, becaveo the trwck aeat for her waa mired, ehe finished bar atraage tour la a wheelbarrow |
