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Show THE GRANT8VILLE NEW8,'gRANTSVILLE, UTAH. I MAPPED $inthe CITIES $15&30 IS EQUIPMENT RUSHING SHELLS TO BUTTLE COST OF EVERY SOLDIER FRONT NO When Wor0 Comes Men Behind Lines Work With Desperate LOUI8. A fine, new automobile ambulance, with equipment up to the ST. Speed. arrived at police station No. 1, Hanover street, the other day. Old Fire Horse Makes Way for Auto jVIth much snorting It backed into the garage. Stonewall Jackson, who had occupied the garage ten years under the impression that it was a stable, snorted also. He had been off Ills feed for days ever since George Mo Chrd, his driver, had dropped a hint that his hay day was over and his gasoline day was about to dawn. I see my finish, sald Stonewall Jackson to himself In horse language. Then he closed his one remaining eye in resignation. There was some basis for his pessimism. You cannot expect an elderly horse to leap with joy at the sound of an automobile engine. But he went jfoo far; he did not really see his finish. Immediately before him Is the realization of the dream of his life the fruition of the hopes of fen years. This jweek he will be taken to Red Acre farm, near Lexington, where In the green fields he will live again the happy days of his youth. The police department has assured for him a comfortable old age; it has made him a life pensioner. Everybody in the North end knows Stonewall Jackson, the white horse i$lth the one staring eye. In his time he has saved hundreds of lives. Though normally of phelgmatic disposition and somewhat leisurely gait, at the sound jof the gong behind him he would leap out of himself, as it were, and display unsuspected speed. In this uncertainty as to form, at least, he resembled some race horses. In other respects he was very different from a race horse. And even his best friends In the North end admit that the new automobile ambulance will do better work. Mans Last Stronghold Is Ruthlessly Despoiled YORK. Trousers for women are really here. As a matter of fact, of New York's best dressers have been wearing the bifurcated dress for some time, but now that the gown manufacturers are exhibiting the models jto buyers from Painted Post and other g sections of the country, Ht (the trousers) looks as if they would jbecome popular as feminine decorations. The Invasion of women of men,s fsacred prerogative has brought about la strong protest from the humble male. He can see nothing but his last ves-'tig-e of superiority going by the boards. 'And with the death knell for old tradi-!tio- n sounded he Is waiting for the 'announcement that he can store his 'evening trousers in some- safety deposit vault where they will be safeguarded. He, the mere man, also realizes that the time is coming when It will be Impossible to tell who is who on the main street When women took to tight-fittin- g breeches, ostensibly for riding; automoblllng and motorcycling, men sighed and made little protest When the fair ones took to overalls for farming and munition factory work and for repairing the limousine, men looked startled, but muttered something about "war necessity. But when they adopt evening dress trousers good night There is nothing left that Is exclusive for men. NEW :corn-buBkln- - Connecticut Fishermen Declare War on Sharks CONN. A dozen large sharks were shot by fishermen, whose BRIDGEPORT, been menaced by the deep-se- a Invaders of the Sound, Captain John Wirth of the sloop Mary and Ann, which made port again after a days cruise in pursuit of the mam eaters, reported the capture of three, which were taken to Muttituck, L. Li by fishermen. One, be said, was IS feet long and Is believed to be the shark that attacked and tore the flesh of Jonathan Briggs, a Mattituck boy. He also reports that the big school jflrst sighted has been broken up by the attacks of the fishermen and by encounters among the fish themselves, which are apparently ravenously hungry. Captain Wirth reports viewing a battle resulting from the voracious appetites of the sharks in eating their own wounded. He saw two of the flsh jump five or six feet into the air in a death 1grlp. When a shark became wounded and blood flowed the captain says that water became a seething mass of white as the big flsh rushed to devour the the wounded. A battle between two of them raged for five minute in front of the sloop off New Haven. The big flsh repeatedly shot far out of the water. Fishermen arriving in Bridgeport report having sighted groups of the flsh in various sections, the largest number seen at one time being 2a said that the school was broken and that the groups were widely sepaThey rated in the Sound. No casualties have so far been reported at the beaches. Lookouts are. to give warning of the posted at various points where bathers congregate show their fins above water until which Invariably of the sharks, approach ' nearly ready to strike at their prey. big-finne- d I ( Sleeper Lucky in Recovering His Agate DELAY MAY MEAN DEFEAT . Road Builders Who Follow Fighting Ranks Taxed to the Utmost Motor Lorries Play an Important Part Iq the Work. By F. W. WARD. (In the New York Tribune.) London. To render an advance pos- sible and to Insure that everything shall be kept up to date behind the line is no small order. There is no time for sitting down and thinking things over. It anything has to be done it has to be done at once. A few hours delay might be very convenient to the organizer, but such delay would probably vitiate my plans he might make. That is why, when anything has to be done in the matter of repairs and rearrangements behind the line It has to be done at top speed. There are no hows" in the army. If a job has to be rushed, then everybody buckles to the task and keeps on slogging until the job is finished. Tommy may grouse he wouldnt be much good if he didnt but he gets away with the job when he knows it is important Once a job had to be done at a spot where the Huns had been shelling for three solid days. It was just the rfi moval of stores, and all the spare R. A. M. CL and A. S. CL men bad been pressed inti, the service on this particular occasion. It was carried through at night naturally, and there were no lights to be shown. The party would have been blown out of the earth if there had been any indication of their -presence. It wasnt an easy. job. In fact it was real hard work, the loading up of lorries, wagons, anything that could be got in the way of wheeled transport Now, thenyou chaps," said the officer In charge, I dont know who you are or where, yon come from. But weve got to get this job done in about three hours. If we dont we shall be There shelled to h at daylight was some dieerful growling, but the job was done well under the time, and a dixie of tea at the finish put every ,one in a thoroughly good humor. Motor Lorries Used. This was only a small job, somewhere in France, but it was typical of an infinite number. As things are now, there are plenty of stores and material to do practically any job, but of necessity they are not as a rule on the spot where they are actually required. Rail heads and engineer dumps cannot be carried forward on the very heels of the advance. That can be easily understood. But when something has to be done in a hurry, these materials can be brought up by means of motor lorries, with an A. S. CL driver at the wheel and an engineer officer in charge. Ammunition dumps,' with their millions of shells; have to be built so. as to be within easy reach of the transport But other roads have to be made, leading through the dump from the main route. This Is necessary in order that a lorry may be brought in and loaded or unloaded from either side. These roads are of the corduroy variety, a floor of pit props being laid and made secure, for the time being. But when it does rain in France well, you know all about it It isnt long before the logs begin to sag, as the water gets into the ground beneath, and the first thing yon know is that a Eye LEAVES MILU0NS FOR RELIEF WORK ABROAD of 668 Eckert street, placed forty-fivsecond floor when he reon room the his of window. the s rolled out of In his slumber.-- He about toss him made The tired. humidity Mrs. New York. Warren CL the to the window. A fall of 16 feet Van Slyke, millionairess In her he Then him. awakened pavement own right and wife of a leading found lils glass eye was gone. Clad attorney of this city, has sailed crawled he underwear In his only France to take up once more for the for about the pavement looking relief activities she dropped a missing optic. year ago. Policeman William Bailey came She will join the hospital unit dewas Charles Thinking along. which she belongs and which to was he mented, the officer asked what is now stationed along the westdoing. ern front Her husband joined I am looking for my gloss eye, the Naval Regerves the day affell when I it lost I Charles. replied ter war was declared, although out of the window. he. Is beyond the military age. Charles and the policeman were searching for the eye on their hands and knees when Lieutenant of Police William Hayris came along. Thinking the policeman and Charles were intoxicated, he asked Bailey This fellow lost his lamp, replied the policeman. COLLEGE HEAD DOING BIT what was wrong. Policeman Bailey was Intoxicated, Lieutenant Harris that then Positive What kind of a lamp was It, electric or oil 7 and started to ring Farmer President of Geneva College asked: tOT Working as Stevedore Somehe fell !q glass eye, said Policeman Bailey, He lost it when where In France. PmT.ATOirr.PTiTA. It costs the 1156.30 .to Just States United servequip an infantryman ,for made France. ice 'In Figures public show that of this total clothing represents ' $101.21, and lighting equipment $7.73. utensils eating The soldiers gas mask costs $12, his steel helmet $3 and his Washington. SUCKERS JOB . jFaithful r John Charles, aged e, lorry dips down at an awkward angle, one of the wheels disappears up to the axle; and the logs splay out in all directions. Thats where the rush begins. A strong pull and a long pull gets the lorry out of the way, up come the loose logs, the ground beneath is made up with brushwood or short lengths of timber, well pegged down, the surface is relaid, and a couple of hours later things are going on well again. Perhaps, though, there are , not enough pit props available. Round krusbes an officer, gets a chit from the office of the chief engineer of the army corps operating there, hops on a lorry, and away he pelts to the nearest rail head or dump. The chit is handed in to the officer in charge there, the necessary material is Issued and loaded, back goes the lorry again, and the job Is done; Perhaps a road is under water. Well, iron pipes are necessary to take the surplus from one. side of the highway to a ditch on the other, and Iron pipes have to be found. They do not grow on the bushes by the side of the road. They are stacked perhaps miles away on a dump, and they have to be brought up. Then, and not till then, the work can be done, and the route released for traffic again. Even steam rollers have to be considered, for a steam roller has a soul, and has to be humored. The first steam roller I saw in France came from a London suburb, and she was resting in a ditch. The next I saw was one from the county council of a southern county. She was in a ditch, too. Both were got out, of course, but the edge of a road in France has an uncanny habit of breaking away, and then the trouble begins. One roller I knew was the most perverse creature I ever met She made a start by blowing out the plug of her boiler and had to be assisted from a small river twice by means of a couple of "caterpillar" tractors. Then, suddenly, she appeared to change her mind, and when I heard of her last was working as though she were at home. She had to be kept at work, too, and her repairs had also to be rushed. When the plug blew out for instance, an officer who happened to come along took a couple of men round to a French blacksmiths shop, found some lead, made the repairs there and then, paid half a franc out of his own pocket and wasted only a few hours ever the task Instead of a couple of duys. Economy of time means everything, and an hour saved means an hour gained. Real Rush Repair. Somewhere In France there is a little river about the width of a canal and with the water confined between banks some feet higher than the surrounding country. The Hun naturally shelled these banks, with the intention of letting all the stream into the fields. Now and again he got home on his objective: But In a few minutes, with sheets of corrugated iron, posts, wire bindings, rolls of brushwood in fact, anything that was at hand the gap was filled In and the damage repaired. This was a real rush repair, and it went on at Intervals, day and night, for a week or ten days. Then Tommy shoved the Hun back, and he had something else to occupy his attention. Getting up material for these repairs by means of motor lorries Is, too, not a task for children. When you walk across a field or through a wood there isnt usually much danger in it But the Huns know yrhere the roads are, and he also knows there is transport coming up or down practically all the time. So, suddenly, he - . $47-8- 0 . rifle $19.50. The first 000,000 to 800,000 of Americas fighting men will be equipped with the present Springfield army rifle, those to follow will carry the Enfield used by English troops. starts 'shelling, and then you have to get a real move on. You are also, I may add, just as likely, to run into anything as to run away from it Once a lorry was going down to fetch some stuff from a dump about twelve miles back. Then the shells began to pop over. That meant putting on speed, and for five or six miles it was a race between the shells, the lorry and a motor car. The trio traveled "some, but the car couldnt gain a yard on the lorry, am) eventually; both ran out of range. When the lorry came back, loaded, a couple of hours later, it was found that four shell craters ijad been blown in the road, but that the engineers had already been on the spot and repaired all the damage 'done. THE LEGION OF DEATH'1 - One of the courageous girls in the "Legion of Death on parade. When the soldiers at the front refused to fight and became laggard of discipline, a number of heroic Russian women organized themselves Into the Legion of Death and took the places of the men at the front They fought furiously and the Germans were put to flight at the sector, where they were engaged. The wonderful story of their deed has thrilled the world and made his- tory. Every girl in the battalion carries a dose of cyanide of potassium to use In event of her capture. They do not fear death, but they dread capture life of Rev. Dr. William Henry George; former president of Geneva college here, who is doing his bit somewhere in France; Mr. George enlisted as qn ambulance driver in the American Red Cross unit of Harvard university, of which he is an aluidnus. Arriving In France, he found that there were more ambulance drivers than ambulances, so he volunteered for work in the supply division. He is now doing the work of stevedore and ordinary laborer, according to a letter received by bis sister here. FINDS HIS PAPERS an alien. His status was asked and he said that M had been naturalized in 1900. The naturalization records show that around that time about 7,600 fraudulent papers were Issued in an effort to pad the election registration. Mackle was told to produce his papers. These showed that he apparently had been naturalized October 15, 1900. The records of the St Louis court of appeals show that no papers were Issued to Mackle. Mackle, an innocent party in the matter, surrendered his fraudulent papers to M. B. Bevington, chief naturalisation examiner, and will VOID file for .pew papers. Cat Hunts Rabbits. Alexandria, Ind. J. F. Merker, lira chief of Alexandria, is the owner of a g cat In two nights SL Louis. William J. Mackle, su- Tommie brought to the rear door of perintendent of the American Car com- the Merker home two big rabbits. pany, who, has believed for 17 years Friends of the Merker family have that he was an American citizen, has asked for the use of the hunting cat learned that his naturalisation papers when the hunting season opens; wihis and that he must file fraudulent were ,0mt and be, too; got on his hands Beaver Falls, Pa. From college new papers. Coast guard stations will be wfcrfs different, said Lieutenant Harris, not been damaged In the faU sad president to stevedore Is a long step; Ten days ago Mackle appeared in the equipped with airplanes for rescue and id knees. They found the eye. It had bat that is what has happened la the naturalization office as a witness for observation work. juries returned to his room. Innocent 8L Louisan Is Unknowingly an Allen for 17 Years Files for New Papers. rabbit-huntin- |