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THtSffBKBSE• . . Ks ;•?? 'ffi :■ r-v‘^ *v '* 5 ?;•.y * :■?-■: •. 1'• ^“ -*■■• - :?*;* ??.:•, V *.■■ 1‘•• ?V* -:KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUSTAKEOVERLARGEHOTELAS CLUB FOR SOLDIERSSURE TO EQUALSHOWING MADEBY THE-MARINESSyracuse Boys at Gamp Upton Will Enjoy Benefits of This Fine Place on the Ocean Front—Entertain 3,000 Daily.Bound to Do His Bit E ven SfUncle Sam Doesn't Want'HimLaw Student Enlists inPrivate Jim Kehoe Writes of Good Work Artillery Expects to Do.Has Been Attend!The Kichts of C^VuniLuj? havo taken over :l large modern ho tea. located on the ocean front, seven miles from Camp Upton, which will he oppratnrl under the name of the Tangier Service club. Fyrncnsmis ;it Camp Upton will have opportunity to enjoy the sea hrecr.cs in true ■'club style as a result.On this property ;i military campha? been established. nml each day1,000 soldiers will hike in full march -ini; equipment from Camp Upton to the Tangier club where they will remain for a day. Tlio government has construe:cd dressing rooms and provided bathing suits for more than 2.000 men. Those rooms are Tutuaied right at the water's- edge on a splendid clean while sand beach— ideal for ocean bath;nr: and a sand bath.A suite of rooms at the hotel has •been set aside for General Kell ami Airs. 13eh and it is expected lie will spend many week-ends? there during the summer.Conduct Canteen,A Knirfus of Columbus secretary will be stationed there permanently. A canteen will ho conducted, In charge of a committee oC women From the Womens South Shore club i\X]d overythsag rerved wi 11. bo sold at actual cost.There was a great scramble for permanent rooms at the Tangier club by officers anxious to lease them for the season, but it was derided r 1 j r: t no other than General Dei I would be so favored- The others must take their chances of getting down there when men in their command go.The former hotel, row the Tangier ohib. is the property of .lob Hedges, noted for. political activities in New York*. Jt i * ;i modern building, equipped with ovorv comfort usually found m .i first class hotel. Xo.w furtiilitre hnlt;? been Installed and every thine is in ship-shape.Lucky wili ho the soldier included hj ihc 1 .lt;00 men selei'iril each day for a hike ;o this delightful spot.March Across Country.School in Small French Village.Canada After Turned Down Here.fJ. L. Kemp’NUniversity Buy Overseas WithCanadians.jis j dan nod to march the troopsthere ‘vrossr country” and notllie regular roads. This will give:uldi’il ton ehthem on p;i ign iug.Airs. UYederick Eden is and .Mrs. Vhmgkis Paige isreal cam-c nan-mantreasurerC. J. c'Dad;) Xu gent has received a iclter from Private James F, Kehoe. who is with Battery A. Fjfty-nimh regiment* in France, which Isremarkable in that the censor permitted the writer to say where he has been and where ne is now stationed. Private Kehoe is well known, many of his letters having appeared in The Herald. The latest one foiloves:“Deer Friend Dick: —“I suppose you think ili.it it has been a long limo betweenlOLtin* Women's South ^horc club.lpreseuur.h’es of that urbanizationwa I: ornate for volunteer dutyeach week ni the club. The cinh isletters, hut r.o doubt you realize that the err*?nr is a verv busv;i!rra el y hi o pe ra t i o n.Captain Click, in charge of athletics at Camp Upton will bo incharge of sports, wl:ieh will he especially featured at the Tangier club.Arrangements by which the KiiHKns.- of Columbus will be re pro -man find that we are restricted tn two loners a week. Kindly let tin* rest of the bunch know • hat. I wifi write them as soon asI possibly can. Suppose Georgeseined in Hie management m tnechili were made last wee it at n meeting where General Secretary John D. Fly ini n mi Associate Secretary A. 1\ Hogan represented the K. of C.In Country's ServiceZoit mid ‘Klaus’ (Jim Slattery) rrc over hc:v by lb:?; lime, as 1 rccoivvJ i\. letter from ‘Sinus' about six weeks ago. Faying tiiat i hey ex pec tod to leave the States soon. The newspapers have doubtless told you of sonic of the doings over here, so will notCorp. W. E. Murphy.William E. Murphy, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Murphy, No. 307 prospoct avenue, has been pro-noted to corporal. He is a truck Iriver in the aviation section of die signal corps, now stationed st Fort Worth, Tex. He snlistedn November.Lieut. S. 'W! Houston.Lieut. Samuel' W. Houston, who is stationed at Camp Upton, L, 1.4 is spending a five-day leave with his family in Wolcott. Lieutenant Houston was formerly a practicing physician in Wolcott.hero you with details.Attended Auto School.“I have, just relumed to my liutlory afisv a month's vacationin Lemoge.1*, where T a iron tiedaino school for two xvo.tdlt;g and noted us instructor to drivers for ihe rest, of the time. It cer-;nhily was 'some' fine sport, driving an English seven-passenger lt;'nr through the country, ci.-peciully during the mcuiy very warm d;ys wc have been h.avlug. ] am :ii present in a burg caked Dotr/e::*\ which is just about ns largo ah North Syracuse and in almost every house you come to yon ran buy practically anything you call for in the way of TaisJ ’ itc.. (if you have the price.) iu l^moges It was ex-trentelf V\o. left thoserestaurants with a smile and u*e k-ft that town with regrei.'Mail has been slow in reach-Jng 125 for .some reason ar other. Jinvi? only received one letter in tlie last ihree weeks and that lt;uie wa:; from Utica! It was dated April 11 and judging by t ho many postmarks, it must have iraveled all ovr the United States before it came across.Sure to Reach Berlin.“Suppose Syracuse is a little quim just m*w on account af su many uf the fellows going into t mining camps. But we all know that it must be done. However, from the way our battery is working I doubt if jlie fellows now going )2to training will ever see the front line. We ore certain to make as good ;t showing as the marines have i;iJ. L. Kemp, Law college, Syracuse university, is now in France with the Unnmllau artillery. He tried to en- I list in Undo Sam? army while in! this city but Wits not accepted. He r left JiaHfax for England February! i:i;h. and was transferred to France!May 2Dth* !His grandnmtIter. Mrs. Mary J.Lewis, No. 123 Grace street, with whom he made hi? home while in j this city, has received a number of; letters from him. In a recent letter' ho said:’T have arrived safely and nm in \ the best of health. At present I nm at the base and do not know how long I shall remain here. Mumps have broken out in our par 15*. but j have not a? yet affected onr lent j and wo are in hopes of escaping, quarantine. i■'YVe had line weather for the trip Iacross. Wo came up to the base in Ja rickety old train. The cars were j box cars, w with accommodation for either eight horses or forty memTnics is a fine camp and we are j as comfortable as a located in ihe best part of it. ) McGibbon and I double up with our£ ... . • blankets and In addition to this there!Tells of Bombing Hospitals. : j.s plenty of straw •beneath our |Tii a later letter he said; • ground-sheets.We ore no longer at Che base but; “One thing seems strange to me have moved lip to a pretty little vil- S While English money is at a. riis-j lage that the Germans have not as! count in Canada it is at a large pre- [yet \ovchoih Tl'jo French people1 mi uni here.hero seem to be a much superior loti “Discipline is greatly.relaxed here io The ones I saw at the base. This Lind every man is put on his honor to part of Die country is a good deni j do what is expected of him. I hope Ilike Ontario. The climate being about ■ and pr:iy that it. will not be ’igjthe sarne ns in Southern Canada and;until wo are united again. Wo 1. je the Starts now. iVe can lick lha Huns this summer.”“Fritz's latest stunt, ns you will! While in college here “Jimmie probably read, is to bomb our hos-I was very popular and he hns n large pit;iIs. It is simply cold-blooded number of friends in Syracuse, lieMred N. SmithWins Promotionat Camp CusterMember of Engineers Reserve Corps Is Made First Lieutenant,News Ls received litre of the promotion of Second Lieut. Alfred X. Smith. Engineers Reserve corps, to be first lieutenant, dating from July lilJb Lieutenant Smith is now stationed nl Camp Custer, Mich., with the cJlkli Engineers.He is n graduate of Syracuse university, ekiyy of 191G, and took an active part in *he earn pi is improvement. laying out the system of concrete walks about Sims hull, etc. During his stay here, he was for four years n member of the choir of St. Pauls Episcopal church. He is a meiiibcz of the I». T). 1L and The La XiSends Mother Shoulder* • iStrap From Huh UniformArchie W. Card Writes Troops Will Soon Be Coming Home.Archie W. CardnOnly 17 But in the XJ. Sf Army Two Years.frniemitics.NEWS OF SPLITROCK EXPLOSIONREACHES CAMPSfarmer's boySergt. Gray Says Boys at Newport News Were Sorry to Hear of It.Archie W, Card Ls now a dispatch bearer Tie didn’t get back to eelc-braJe Hie Fmiuh of July at home ’this year, despite his promise lo his mother. Ho is the same old Garik however, although he Li still but 17 and has been in the urcuy foe the past two year?.With his latest letter ta his mother.. Mrs. Nettie G. Card. No. 21 Montgomery street, he sends the shoulder strap from u German soldier's uniform. The German, who was a prisoner, gave Archie the souvenir In exchange for some tobacco. The letter-pays:“I nm very well and happy, but of course i will he more happy when 1 get orders to start for the good old United States. I clo not ihlnk it will be long. There are many rumors in regards to the First division going back, and I think we would have gone but for the advance the Germans made upon the British. Just the same there are rumors all over 1'ranee a rnonir the Am ex (soldiers) that the First division is gains: back before long, r.nd I think we will.Carries Messages to Front.“I am not In the infantry now— that i?. for a while anyway. Hut 1murder and wo were very foolish to grant him immunity Corpus Cheisti day.'GVe are billeted in a farm and areis a member of Fhi Delta Phi hon- j nr.vry ' law sucintv, Monk's 3 lend i junior society, ami Sigma Jksta fraternity.r■'x lt;r\George E. Gaber | Charles J. BlakeWho Will Enter School al l Returns 10 Camp AfterThu news of tho Split Rock explosion made the rounds of the' American ramps, apparently. Sergt. Charles XV. Gray. Company E. Forty-eighth Infantry, who w:if at the local camp last Rummer, write? a friend about ii from Camp Stuart, Newport News. V:u, ok follows:“■Wasn't that explosion at Split Rock' something terribleV So many lives lost and one of the important industries of the country destroyed in such a ruthless manner: Sergt. Charles E. Colbert received a telegram to-day telling him that his brother-In-law was killed in it.am (loins: my bit. I go up lo Lhefront quite often with importantmap*5 anH papers. So you see 1 nm no war dodger. I am still with the intelligence section, driving a motorcycle. I have Impes of a better position. driving an nil to, but I am not sure of it. It means more pay if 1 grr ir.“This morning an American officer captured n German soldier, and on the way in with him he was very seriously wounded by sellrnpnel. .The prisoner only got a very slight wound in tlie leg. Tie bandaged up Lhe ofllcer the best he could and made- him comfortable. Then he leftLhe officer and found some IT S. boys whom he took to the wounded officer. and they carried him in.“So you see they are not all bad-He had all he could eat at our moss this noon. I gave him some tobacco, I am sending, hi? shoulder straps from his coal, which he insisted upon’giving me as a souvenir, in exchange for tho tobacco.“He hod not had anything to eat for live day?. When we asked him why he dul not escape when he had the chance, he said that he had heard how the Americans treated prisoners and 'was ijuUe willing to become one.”“How did you enjoy your FourthI-,-. fA’l'[Of July? I had a fine time. As luck would have it E company did nothappen to be on guard and ilid noihave to march in the parade, so that. 1 had nil day lo myself-■‘Jn the morning X went to see the launching of three destroyers at the shipyard hero. Then the big parade at 0:20. That is. it was a large parade for Newport News. Came back home for dinner. Sure wps one grand iced.#‘\Ye had the finest roast pork I have tasted in quite a long while, apple sauce, creamed potatoes, cucumbers, squash pie. cake, can--taloupe, iced tea and lemonade. It 'would cost over $2 to buy otie like it in the restaurants here. J think ii was juat as good as many well-to-do people have and there are any ! amount of people who would be glad ! io act even half of it.“In the u I'ter no cm I took a ride out the boulevard. It runs along Hampton- Roads and is a tine view all the wnv 10 Old Point Comfort, There .is always a breeze blowing in from | Chesapeake bay. There is an elderly S couple living about half way be-1 tween here anil Hampton. They are I fine people, loo, i took dinner with \ them.GeOrgo U. Gaber of No. 21G Gre^n-Chrirtes J. Dlnke, Company A,RASHRAM, GAINING.Raymond Marquette.Raymond Marquette, yeoman on the U. S. «S. .Black Hawk, has arrived safely overseas, ;ic-onrrfiiv Jo word received bv nis,W. F.' Gorman.tV I ilia m .F.. Gorman, naval re* serve corps,.has.returned to hii station at the ammunition depot Portsmouth.- Ta., after spendins
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Syracuse, New York, US
Fri, Jul 12, 1918
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