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SAND SHOTS FROM
112TH REGIMENT
Franklin Man Supervises Vote
of Regiment. Band Concert on
Sunday Splendid Success.
Frank E. Lcmcke, of Franklin, Pa., ar
rived in camp on Sunday afternoon and
immediately set the wheels in motion for
taking the soldier vote of the entire 112th
Regiment on Tuesday. He acknowledged
that the task of counting the ballots was
going to be a difficult one, in view of
the fact that every soldiers had to write
in the name of the candidates for whom
he is voting. The Franklin man, whn is
mechanical superintendent of the Even
ing News Printing Company, js delighted
with Camp Hancock, and only regrets
that his visit among the boys is to be
so short. His report must be in Harris
burg within ten days after the election.
Another of those splendid Sunday aft
ernoon band concerts, for which the 112th
Regimental Band is fast becoming noted,
drew a large crowd to Pennsylvania ave
nue, within the proximity of regimental
headquarters, between 3 and 4 o’clock
last Sunday. Scores of Augustans were
present and liberally applauded the band
buys for their fine rendition of she eight
or nine numbers on the program. At
Colonel Rickards' suggestion, clerks in
the office prepared typewritten programs
for the visitors, a courtesy that was
greatly appreciated. John Surra, noted
vocalist of the headquarters company,
scored another successful hit, with “Good-
Bye Broadway, Hello France.”
There were plenty of ball games on the
112th Regiment’s drill field throughout
Sunday. Immediately following church
‘ ervices, Company A defeated company C
at. football 40 to 0, and this in the after
noon followed up this gridiron victory
with a baseball triumph from the same
organization, defeating C 9 to 1. The
< raekerjack football teams of Companies
B and I) played a tie game, not a score
being made on either side. It is esti
mated that at least GOO persons, many of
them from Augusta, saw this, whirlwind
battle.
The Kittanning boys are glad that
Lieutenant Carl Tinstman, whose shoul
der was hurt in a football scrimmage sev
eral weeks ago, is once more able to be
bark at duty arid is no longer confined to
the base hospital.
Owing to the fact that the regimental
orders prohibit the use of the conical
squad tent stoves until an adequate sup
ply of fuel is available, a number of
the company squads have purchased oil
stoves for their tents, and they are doing
fine work in heating the tents these
frosty mornings.
Fewer than a dozen men fell out on the
longest hike the boys of the 112th Regi
ment have yet participated in—the long
march south from the regimental camp
site last Thursday. The entire distance
was 16.2 miles, and the boys stood up
under the test in great fashion. A num
ber of companies proudly announced the
next day that none of their men fell out,
hut there were few organizations where
the boys didn’t feel the effects of the long
hike and complained of stiff limbs or sore
feet for the next 24 hours. But they
knew it was all in the game, and took it
good-naturedly Now they are ready for
another long hike whenever the word is
passed.
Saturday of this week marks the. end
of the second month of camp life, and
brings home closer than ever to the boys
the knowledge that they are in a game
that means business from the very start.
The assignment of men to the bomb
school at Division Headquarters only em
phasizes that no time is to be long in
training the boys at Camp Hancock in the
most modern methods of trench warfare.
Those who have been assigned to the
bombing school, conducted under the di
rection of Captain Carl Uller, 337th In
fantry. French Army, are: First Battalion
—lst Lieut. Gus I. *%nies. Company B;
Ist Lt. Clifford R. .Tourdet, Company A;
Sgt. Leroy Uetersen, Company C: Sgt.
H. F. Eshbaugh, Company D. Second Bat
talion—Lt, H. R. McCluskey, Company
E; Lt. John V. Mahoney, Company H;
Sgt. Eugene Emery. Company F: Sgt.
Burekeil, Company G. Third Battalion—
—lst Lieut. Gus I. Knies. Company B;
cent Welch, Company M; Sgt. Charles E.
Kryder, Company K, and Sgt. M. AV. For
ster, Company L.
Even with the increase in the price
of postage from two cents to three, ef
fective last Friday, the mail orderlies at
headquarters reported there has been no
let-up in the great volume of mail, out
going and incoming. “Girls will keep
on writing love letters just the same.”
said one fellow, while another added:
“And so will we follows, you can bet.”
The fellows in the 56th Brigade are
of the belief they have one of the nicest
Y. M. C. A. buildings in camp, since No
76 has been completed, given a coat of
green paint, adorned with white trim
mings and curtains placed in the win
dows. Certainly it could hardly be more
home-like than it is at the present time.
Every night the attendance is over th?
500 mark, and during the Sunday serv
ices the building is packed. Last Sunday
morning it is estimated that more than
700 soldier boys packed the building to
hear Chaplain Willis Hall deliver his Sun
day sermon. Added features were: A
beautiful solo by Mrs. Charles Rowe, for
merly Miss Rheta Rodgers, of Oil City,
and wife of the Top Sergeant of the
Headquarters Company; a violin solo by
Major Olmes, of Oil City, who used to
have an orchestra of his own back in the
days now gone, and a solo by Private
Caldwell, a feature that was" certainly
worthwhile.
“Over the top, and at ’em.” That’s the
regular program practically every day, for
several hours least, at the 112th camp.
The boys, with bayonets gripped securely,
rush down the slope, leap into the trench
es, take a stab on the prone dummies,
leap out, take a fresh rush and then stab
away at the dummies on the gallows,
which have been considerably dobbed up
by would-be artists. Many of these bear
the names of "Villa,” “Kaiser” and other
Page 2
SIDELIGHTS ON BOYS FROM PENNSYLVANIA
TRENCH AND CAMP
“Imperial dignitaries” that the boys in
haki haeve been after at one time or an
other.
The installation of hot water heaters in
the bath houses is about the most wel
come piece of news any soldier boy can
desire, and the hope goes up that they’ll
be in operation before this week is out.
The arrival of sidewalls, front walls
and boad floors for the tents, as well as
green shades for each squad light, are
among the thoughtful improvements that
Uncle Sam slipped into the hands of the
112th Regiment boys during the past
week.
No moving picture show ever played to
more appreciative spectators than that
which is given weekly at Y. M. C. A.
building 76. There were so many sol
dier boys present. last Friday evening
that all of them could not get in the build
ing.
The clerks at Regimental Headquarters
as well as those of each of the companies,
have just passed through the busiest
week since the southland was reached.
This was due to the signing and making
out of pay-rolls, the transfer of 84 draft
ees from the old 13th regiment and the
designation of 165 men and their transfer
to the 109th Machine Gun Battalion.
70 PER CENTTSIDIERS
BUY LIBERTY BONDS
Camp Hancock Subscribes for
$1,490,550. Interesting
Facts.
Camp Hancock soldiers subscribed for
$1,450,550 worth of Liberty Loan bonds,
which was $52.04 per capita. The total
amount throughout the entire country,
taken by officers, enlisted men and per
manent employes, was $89,000,000. An
average per capita of $76.86 for.the en
tire army, and an average for the sub
scribers of $113.25. Seventy per cent of
the entire army subscribed for the bond.
The per capita amount taken by national
army camps was $58.72, while that of the
National Guard camps was $59.18.
We give below the total amount sub
scribed by each camp, and the per capita
value of the bond taken by each soldier
in these camps:
A mount Per
Subscribed. Capita.
Camp Cody ...$2,300,000 SIIO.BB
Camp Meade 1,697,800 89.39
Camp Custer 1.389,750 81.80
Camp Kearney 1,256,550 80.44
Camp Greene 1,359,000 71.12
Camp Tavlor 1,732,850 64.69
Camp Grant 1,900,200 64.46
Camp Lee 1,783,250 63.95
Camp Wadsworth .... 1,861.850 63.83
Camp McArthur 1,842,700 62.97
Camp Sherman 1.500.000 62.49
Camp Upton 1,781,850 62.25
Camp Shelby 1,349,500 61.73
Camp Devens 1,865,800 60.31
Camp Dix 1,231,400 . 59.75
Camp Funston 1,809.650 ■ 57.74
Camp Pike 1,208,850 57.22
Camp Dodge 1.310,000 56.42
Camp Doniphen 1,310.400. 55.94
Camp Serier 1,382,950 52.37
Camp Hancock 1,490,550 52.04
Camp Bowie 1,151,000 51.55
Camp Beauregard .... 794.950 50.10
Camp Travis 1,469.600 49.24
Camp Jackson 672,900 46.71
Camp McClellan 1,068,800 44.97
Camp Logan 964,8’00 43.28
Camp Gordon 718,400 42.38
Camp Lewis 1,248,600 32.50
Camp Wheeler 617,200 32.50
$3,750,000YE! NG “raised
TO MAINTAIN MORALE
War Camp Community Recrea
tion Fund Will Benefit Sol
diers When They Go to
Towns.
A nation-wide campaign is on this week
for the raising of $3,750,000 by the. War
Camp Community Service, the money to
be spent in the cities at camps and can
tonments, to provide recreational facili
ties and clean amusement, as well as to
preserve the morale of the troops.
President Wilson, Secretaries Baker and
Daniels endorse the campaign and the
following statement has been issued rela
tive to the work to be undertaken:
“In the first place,” says the state
ment, "the proper community reception
of the American soldier and sailor will
make them more efficient fighting men.
"Stronger national spirit will be de
veloped in the men because of the feeling
that American people, having taken them
into their homes, hearts, having enter
tained them, are expecting nothing less
than the best feom them.
"The communities around the training
camps and the communities from which
the men have come and to which they
will return after the war, will be the
gainers by War Camp Communitv Serv
ice, which will help to keep the men clean
in body, mind and spirit, substituting all
■sorts of good club, home and social en
tertainment to take the place of harm
ful influences to many of the men might
fall prey.
“To carry on this extensive work at all
army, navy and marine camps and posts
throunghout tire United States there is
neeted a fund of $3,750,000. The leisure
hour activities of the men when they
remain in camp is well taken care of by
the Y. M. C. A., the Knights of Colomhus
and other organizations. But the men
leave, camp whenever they get opport un-.
ity ‘to go to town,’ for the monotony
of camp life soon grows wearisome, and
they need a change; if they did not get
it they would soon grow stale. The work
of the War Camp Community Service
is to look out for the welfare of the
men when they are outside camp, to see
that they have clean clubs and plenty of
other good places to go; and when they
return to camp instead of being made,
unfit for sei vice, they are keener in
spirit and more desirous of serving Am
erica because of the way in which they
have been received by the American peo
ple.”
HALLOWE’EN AT
FIELD BAKERY
Hallowe’en was celebrated by mem
bers of this organization just as If they
were at home. The party was a huge
success in every way. There were
many visitors and soldiers present
who, outside of the show', moving pic
tures and eats, were greatly impressed
by the Bohemian favors which were
hand-painted by four bakers, formerly
inhabitants of .Greenwich village. Out
side of the regular routine of Hal
lowe’en paintings, the .subjects of the
“oils” were centered around a big
nose, a moustache, a whistle, and an
imaginary officer —christened Lieut.
Hook. There were also many lettered
sayings in old English script, such as
“Odervise,” “Plow' de Vissel” and oth
ers too numerous to mention.
There is soon to be a military funeral
at Camp Hancock. Baker Claire Cryt
zer has announced his intention to
commit matrimony. Capt. Mueller will
present him with a wedding cake drap
ed in black crepe.
The peroxide twins have been at it
again. Limie and Lemons had better
look to their laurels.
A tragedy was barely averted a cou
ple of days ago. Big Chief Minehaha
challenged one of the pale faces to a
duel to be fought w'ith tomahawks and
bow's and arrows, but after consider
able coaxing he consented to ..battle
w’ith mud-pies.
A certain general of the Twenty
eighth Division recently stated that he
would like to see the eyes of the men
black and blue.
Looking at this as an order and not
wishing to disappoint the general,
Private Moffo has done the desired act
and now looks upon himself as a
martyr.
“Good Luck, Boys,
Give Them Hell!”
American Troops Display
Great Spirit in Going to the
Front Line Trenches
News dispatches, from American
headquarters in France-state that the
spirit of the men entering,the front
line trenches in France is splendid.
The men go along singing and return
singing, w’hen they are a sufficient dis
tance from the trenches.
“Good luck, boys. Give them hell if
they start anything.”
“Thanks! We’ll do it. Tell them to
have a good hot fire going at
village when we get back.”
It was a low-toned conversation be
tween in and out going American bat
talions taking lessons in trench war
fare by actual experience.
This is the spirit of the American
soldiers as they go to and from the
firing lines to battle with the Bodies.
The first battalions, having complet
ed the given period of training in ac
tual battle, moved silently out of the
trendies on a certain moonlight night.
The raturn march was over frozen
ground and was marked only by the
sudden encountering of other Ameri
can battalions en route to the trendies
and distinguishable the French
only by the shape of their li?**<.23.
There were few other exchanges.
The returning ones were tired and
muddy, but thoroughly happy.
libertYloan “bonds
IN CAMP HANCOCK
We have referred elsewhere to the
large amount of money subscribed in
the various national army and national
guard camps for the second Liberty
loan. It will be of interest to our
readers to know the value of the bonds
purchased by each unit at Camp Han
cock. The official lists follows:
109th 1nfantry..5145,450.00
110th Infantry 160,400.00
111th Infantry 258.800.00
112th Infantry .. .. 112,300.00
4th Infantry and Machine
Gun Battalion .. 75,750.00
3rd Infantry 44,300.00
13th Infantry 27,800.00
Sth Infantry 86,750.00
107th Field Artillery 65,750.00
108th Field Artillery 76,650.00
109th Field Artillery 118,050.00
Ist Cavalry 74,160.00
103rd Engineers 28,000.00
103rd Sanitary Train 39,550.00
103rd Ammunition Train .. . 34,650.00
103rd Signal Battalion .. ~ 28,450.00
103rd Supply Train 16.000.00
Military Police_ 8,200.00
103rd Field Bakery 4,600.00
■headquarters Troops .. .. 4.400.00
53rd Depot Brigade 24,350.00
In addition to these the headquarters
of .the 53rd field artillery brigade, sub
scribed $2,600, and headquarters of the
55 th Brigade subscribed $5,500.
BOMBINGIxPERYi HERE
Captain Carl W. Ullern, of the 337th
French Infantry, who wears the Legion
of Honor, the French War Cross, the
Serbian War Cross and the Croix de GueF
re, has arrived in Camp Hancock and has
already begun classes in bombing. Cap
tain Ullern speaks English fluently and
his knowledge of trench warfare will be
of great value in the training of the Penn
sylvania troops.
Nov. 7, 191/.
STITCHES FROM
AMBULANCE CORPS
On October 31st, the One Hundred
and Eleventh Ambulance Company held
a very enjoyable and home-like Hal
low'e’en party. The mess hall was
artistically decorated with pumpkins,
autumn oak branches and pines. The
stage was set off by a large American
flag as a background. Lieutenant
Compton acted as toastmaster. Pump
kin pie, cider, apples, grapes, and nuts
were served. The evening w>as spent
in informal talks, recitations, read
ings, music, comedy skits and jigs.
The company’s tw’o comedians, Mur
phy and Dembo, as usual, made a big
hit. The entire company was present
and were honored by the presence of
officers of the battalion, and some of
their wives.
We are glad to report that all units
supplied with Army Y. M. C. A. ath
letic equipment, in charge of the ath
letic officers, are making full use iof
the equipment, at off times. Many
games of playground baseball, quoits,
and volley ball are being played in
company streets. Medicine balls are
very popular with- the officers. If you
want your football field or company
streets rolled, put in a request at the
administration building of the Army Y.
M. C. A. for one of the rollers. One
weighs five tons and the other 800
pounds. Tell us which you want.
We are indebted to the ladies of the
Williamsport Chapter of the Red
Cross for six comfort kits which were
distributed to members of the Army
Y. M. C. A. force who plan for work in
France. Needless to say, these kits
are very much appreciated, containing
as they do, post cards, letter paper, en
velopes, safety pins, tooth brush and
paste, trench mirror, sewing material,
laces, etc.
Y. mcTaZin
PRISON CAMPS
Ambassador Gerard Describes
Work Done Among Prisoners
Near Berlin. .
In his recent book, “My Four Years in
Germany,” Ambassador Janies AV. Gerard
tells of the work of the Y.‘ M. C- A. in Ger
man prisoner of war camps: :
As I have said in a previous chapter,
I was ridiculed in the American newspa
pers because 1 had suggested, in answer
to a cable of the League of Mercy, that
some work should be done for the pris
oners of war.
I do not know whether the great work
undertaken by Dr. John R. Mott and his
associates was suggested by my answer or
not—that does not matter. But this work,
undertaken by the American Y. M. C. A.,
certainly mattered a great deal to the
prisoners of war in Europe. Doctor Mott,
after serving on the Mexican Commis
sion, has gone to Russia as a member of
the commission to that country.
The Y. M. C. A- organization, headed
bv Dr. Mott, who was most ably assist
ed by the Rev. Archibald C. Harte, took
up this work, which was financed, I have
been told, by Mrs. Medill McCormick, of
Chicago, Cleveland H. Dodge, John D.
Rockefeller and others. Mr. Harte ob
tained permission from the German au
thorities for the erection of- meeting halls
and for work in German camps. When
he had obtained this authorization from
Germany he went to Russia, where lie
was able to got a similar authorization.
At first, jn Russia, as I have heard, the
prisoners of war were allowed great lib
erty and lived unguarded in Siberian vil
lages, where they obtained milk, bread,
butter, eggs and honey a tvery reason
able rates. As the war went on they
were more and more confined to barracks,
and there their situation was sad indeed.
In the winter season it is dark at 3 in
the afternoon and remains dark until 10
the following morning Os course, 1 did
not see the Russian prison camps. The
work carried on there was similar to
that carried on in the German ramus by
Mr. Harte and his band of devoted as
sistants.
I was particularly interested in this
work, because I hoped that the aid given
to the German prisoners of war in Rus
sia would help to do away with the great
hate and prejudice against - Americans in
Gernjany. So I did all I could not only
to forward Mr. Harte’s work, but to sug
gest and organize the sending of the ex
pedition of nurses and doctors, whirl) I
have already described, to the Russian
camps.
Os course. Mr. Harte, in this work did
not attempt to cover all the prison camps
in Germany. He did much to help the
mental and physical conditions of the
prisoners in Ruhleben. the English civilian
camp, near Berlin. The American Y. M.
C. A. built a great hall, where religious
exercises were held, plays and lectures
given, and where prisoners had a good
place to read and write in during the
day. A library was established in this
building.
The work carried on b ythc Y M. C.
A. may be briefly described as coming
under the following heads: Religious
activities, educational activities, work
shops and gardens, physical exercises and
outdoor sports, diet kitchens for con
valescents, libraries and music, includ
ing orchestras, choruses and the like.
Commands M. G. Battalions
Major Robert W. Vail, of the old 13th
Infantry, has been transferred to the
command of the 108th Machine Gun Bat
talion. and Major John W. Fees, of the
old Third Infantry, will command the
109th Machine Gun Battalion. Both bat
talions were formerly part of the old»
Fourth Infantry.
Additional copies of this issue
of Trench and Camp may be
had at any Y. M. C. A. building.