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By JESSIE DELL
(Historian, Quartermaster Corps, United*
States Army.)
big army transport,
with its solemn cargo,
• fljfl slowly and majestically
steams up New York
hnrbor « into tlle historic
Hudson, and home is
again reached 1
■H bringing home more than
a thousand soldier dead.
With her arrival the
solemn duty of the quartermaster
corps of the United States army of
bringing home the soldier dead nears
completion. More than 44,000 have
been returned for burial in their home
land. About 32,000 will sleep forever
overseas, according to the wish of
their next of kin. f
And this is the way of their coming
home of those who are to sleep for
ever in their homeland.
Faying its tribute of honor to the
memory of these heroes who are near
ing the end of “the last journey,”
the Flag slot s half-masted from New
York’s great buildings; from vessels In
the harbor. As the slip moors at the
pier in Hoboken, she is met by the
military guard of honor, two com
panies of the famous Thirteenth Unit
ed States Infantry, and by all officers
and civilians on duty in the graves
registration offices In Hoboken.
Hundreds of selected men under the
personal supervision of our officers
and soldiers commence the work of
removing the bodies from the ship and
conveying them by means of electric
trucks to the designated places on
“The Pier of the Dead.” A flag is then
draped over each one and stays there
until the coffin Is lowered Into its
final grave, when the emblem Is re
moved and given to the relatives.
As soon as the bodies are at rest
on “The Pier of the Dead” the name
of each Is listed. Then a telegram is
sent by the quartermaster corps offi
cer in charge at Hoboken, to the near
est of kin, announcing the arrival of
Hie body and requesting a reply con
firming the shipping instructions pre
viously given to that office. When this
Is received qt Hoboken, acknowledg
ment is promptly made by mall.
If, on the other hand, no reply is
received to the first telegram, a sec
ond one is sent and if within a reason
able time no reply comes, the failure
is immediately telegraphed to the
cemeterlal division at Washington
for their help in locating relatives.
After all attempts of the cemeterlal
division are futile, the Hoboken office
is directed to have the body sent to
Washington for interment in the Ar
lington National cemetery. Fortunate
ly. but tew ul such cases have oc
curred.
The officer in charge at Hoboken,
in addition to his other duties, co
operates with the committees repre
senting the American Legion, the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, and other
patriotic organizations, in arranging
memorial services to be held for the
dead arriving on each transport.
These ceremonies are most hnpres-
Permanent Teeth
When your permanent teeth are all
In place nature has finished her tooth
job. You have your share of teeth
and If you don’t take care of them
you will either have to do without
teeth or use artificial ones. Who
wants to do without teeth? Certainly
you and we don’t. Besides, It is not
very pleasant to have them taken out.
Your permanent teeth are a wonder
ful mechanism. They masticate your
sive. The military guard of honor
stands at “attention” as distinguished
men eulogize the dead. The President
of the United States, the secretary of
war and other members of the cab
inet, committees of congress, the chief
of staff and other general officers, as
well as thousands of relatives and
friends have attended these memorial
ceremonies.
Relatives from every state in the
Union, even from far-away Alaska,
have come to Hoboken to meet their
boys on “The Pier of the Dead.”
As soon as possible after notifying
relatives of the return of a 6ody, prep
arations are made for shipment to its
final destination. A telegram goes
from the transportation division of’ the
Hoboken office to the nearest of kin.
advising of the departure of the body
from Hoboken, the hour due for ar
rival, and the railroad by which it is
sent. When no relative or authorized
friend comes to receive and accom
pany the body to Its destination. It Is
placed in charge of a military escort
who remain as guard until the destina
tion Is reached and the body Is formal
ly turned over to the family.
Another matter given careful atten
tion Is in providing the escort to ac
company the body home. One soldier
is selected who can speak the language
of the family to whom he is taking It.
It Is the duty of this military escort
to obtain the written receipt for the
body.' and the -burial certificate. These
records are exceedingly important and
are carefully preserved in the ceme
terlal division, because the war risk
bureau calls on the division for cer
tification that the funeral has taken
place, and on these records depends
the authority for that bureau to re
imburse relatives for funeral expenses
incurred by them. It Is to be noted
that the quartermaster corps bears al)
expenses up to the point of turning
over the body to the nearest of kin,
at Its final destination.
Sometimes many bodies are to be
sent to the same city; in these cases a
special train is provided for the pur
pose and a military escort for each
car. Again it may be that trains leav
ing Hoboken carry many bodies whose
destinations are in several states. In
such cases, bodies are segregated ac
cording to state and placed in cars
which will convey them to the dis
tribution point for that state.
There are sixteen of these distribu
tion points: Atlanta. Ga.; Arlington.
Va.; Cheyenne. Wyo.; Chicago. III.;
Columbia, S. C.; Columbus. O.; De
troit, Mich.; El Paso, Tex.; Little
Rock, Ark.; Louisville. Ky.; Omaha.
Neb.; Portland. Ore.; San Antonio.
Tex.; San Francisco. Cal.; St. Paul,
Minn., and Washington, D. C. At the
railroad station at each of these
points, the cemeterlal division has Its
representative who keeps In close
touch with the nearest army post or
camp from which a detail of soldiers
for escort Is provided to receive the
trains bearing the dead.
From this point each body has its
military escort, and If requested, fir
ing squads are furnished for the
funeral, provided It can he arranged
without too great cost of transporta-
food, give shape and expression to
your face and distinctness to your
voice. The loss of eveii one tooth Is
a very serious Injury, but the loss of
more than one is a calamity. The
longer you live the more you need
your teeth.—National Dental Associa
tion Journal.
Words of R. L. Stevenson.
The following words of Robert
Louis Stevenson (1850-1394), have
been placed on a mural monument
erected to his memory in St. Giles*
tion to the government, or without in
terfering with the duties of the men
composing the firing squad.
During the past year there have
been 2,364 of our overseas* dead In
terred in beautiful Arlington National
cemetery.
Telegrams announcing the date on
which interments will take place In
Arlington, are sent to relatives by the
chief of the cemeterlal division who
further advises that should they at
tend the funeral ceremonies, and
should they so desire, all Information
and assistance concerning hotel accom
modation und transportation to Arling
ton will be fiiven them by the Travel
ers’ Aid society representatives who
are on duty in the Union station in
Washington.
The splendid, efficient and sympa
thetic assistance of tills society has
been a blessing to the relatives of the
dead.
The District of Columbia chapter of
the Red Cross, at their headquarters
on Jackson square, receive all the out
of-town relatives and friends who
come to attend these services, and
on Mondays and Thursdays, special
luncheons are served for them. They
also provide motorbus transportation
to Arlington cemetery and return.
The interest of the Red Cross does
not stop there, for it has made special
arrangement with the quartermaster
general and the cemeterlal division to
have large canvas tcuts pitched at or
near the places where the burials take
place. Several women representing
the Red Cross are always in these
tents to receive the relatives and
friends and to make them comfort
able, or to let them rest until the hour
arrives for the services which Is an
nounced by the measured tread of the
military companies detailed for this
duty from the command at Fort Myer.
The detail, with its band. Its buglers
and Its firing squad. Is always accom
panied by at least two chaplains, one
Protestant and the other Roman
Catholic, and when necessary n Rabb!
is there, to conduct the last rites.
Another touching incident connected
with these funerals Is the dropping of
flowers hi each grave ns the final
prayers are said. This loving act is
performed by representatives of the
War Mothers, who never fall to be
present when Arlington is receiving
its overseas’ dead.
As we hear the sweetly doleful
notes of the band, and listen to the
soft-spoken wor6 us the chaplain, fol
lowed by the musketry salute, we feel
a thrill of solemn pride, a realization
that. In hours of need, our country
has ever had Its full quota of the
brave and heroic.
The bugler now steps up to the
grave, and ns the notes of his trumpet
echo amongst the hills and trees,
through our thoughts pass the words
of “Taps”:
Fades the light;
And afar
Goeth day,
Cometh night;
And a. atar
all,
Speedeth all
To their rest.
And thus ends the last journey.
cathedral, Edinburgh. “Give us grace
and strength to forbear and persevere
Give us courage and gayety and the
quiet mind. Spare to us our friends,
soften to us our enemies, bless us if
It may be in all our innocent en
deavors, if It may not, give us the
strength to encounter that which is
to come, that we may be brave in
peril, constant In tribulation, temper
ate in wrath, and In all changes of
fortune, 'and down to the gates of
death, loyal and loving to one
another.”
Reptiles Have
Sixth Sense
Famous Zoo Curator Says
Snakes Are Endowed With
Startling Intelligence.
POSSESS VERY KEEH EYESIGHT
Distinguish Sound by Their Tongues
and Scales—Sense of Taste Very
Acute—Tells of Lizard That
Walks on Water.
New York.—When next you meet a
snake In the woods or fields du not,
as yuu leup nimbly out of reach, give
way to thoughts of loathing and con
tempt. Snakes are extremely useful
members us society—even the poison
ous ones—and they are endowed with
far more intelligence than they get
credit for, according to Raymond L.
Dinners, curator for reptiles at the
Bronx zoo.
Also, Mr. Ditmars told 60 or 70 men
and women, members of the Reptile
Study society, at the sixth annual
dinner of the organization, that snakes
might even have a sixth sense, an
attribute that man cannot even gauge,
for human beings have to be content
with only five.
“There Is a possibility that snakes
are far superior to any supposition re
garding their attainments,” said Mr.
Ditmars. ’‘Though their ears havei
deteriorated, we know that they hear
quite well. They are sensitive to sound
on their tongues and on the scales on
their bodies. Their eyesight is wonder
fully keen, especially for moving ob
jects. They have a marvelous sense of
taste und of smell.
Investigate Pit Vipers.
“Science Is now investigating the
various species of pit vipers for proof
of another snakfsh sense that as yet
we know nothing about. A pit viper,
you know, has a strange organ In the
skull, a deap pit which is lined with
microscopic nerves all joining a main
nerve that goes straight to the brain.
Science has not yet fathomed the use
of this pit. It may be that snakes
are actually superior to man with a
sixth sense we can’t even gauge, for
we do not have It.”
The dinner at which Mr. Ditmars
made this assertion wns held at the
Case Boulevard. The average person
who attended the dinner would get
something of a shock to find the guests
passing around two or three-foot
snakes in bunches and longer fellows
singly, handling the reptiles as though
they were Interesting curios or relics.
While these snakes, which, of course,
are all harmless, were crawling around
the necks and shoulders of men and
women, a member of the society,
Arthur H. Gillam, brought out a bag.
He got a wide space despite the gen
end craning of necks, for In that bug
were rattlers and rattlers are rattlers
even to the enthusiasts of the Reptile
Study society.
As Gillam cautiously unwound the
cord from the bag a hissing, buzzing
sound filled the room. Nevertheless,
Mr. Rattler was left loose on the floor,
a forked stick pinning his neck before
be could wriggle an Inch. Then Gil-
Amundsen’s North Pole Airplane
View of the Larsen (“J. L.”) all-metal plane with which Captain Roald
Amundsen, celebrated Norwegian explorer, hopes to fly over the North Pole
soon.
TRY TO STOP AIR ACCIDENTS
New Aircraft Engine Eliminates
Use of Gasoline.
Use of Heavy Fuel Oil, It Is Believed
by Experts, Will Prevent Such
Dieasters as That to Army
Dirigible Roma.
Baltimore, Md.—Experiments con
ducted by the national advisory com
mittee for aeronautics, under the gen
eral direction of Dr. Joseph S. Ames,
have developed an aircraft engine
eliminating the use of gasoline, which
Doctor Ames described us the •‘funda
mental cause” of lire accidents in the
air.
By the use of heavy fuel oil. Doc
tor Ames said. It is hoped to prevent
such disasters as that to the army
dirigible Roma, in which only three
men out of forty-tive escaped. Doctor
Ames Is professor of physics at Johns
Hopkins university and chairman of
lam took him by the scruff of the
neck (If snakes have scruffs) as a
child plc>;s up u kitten. The venemous
reptile held thus wus passed around
for inspection.
A “cotton mouthed” moccasin was
then put on displuy. Another snake
that received a great deal of attention,
being allowed to recline on the speak
er’s table at the start of tjie dinner,
was nn eight-foot • bon constrictor.
Boas, It was said, make great |>ets
und tire absolutely harmless, so long
us they are not too big. Then a play
ful sque.ie might crush tin. ribs of a
man or woman, as an Inquisitive child
crushes a beetle.
Lizard Walks on Water.
Professor E. B. Dunn of Smith Col
lege told of experiences with snakes In
Central America and Mexico.
"At a water bole," he said, "we saw
u two or three-foot lizard that stood
upright when It saw ns and ran to the
water. Without pausing It kept right on
running and crossed the water hole on
top of the water. I hardly expect any
of you to believe this, but It Is true.
The lizard had webbed feet that carried
It over the water at top speed. Os
conrse. ho couldn't stop or turn around
on the water, but must keep going
ahead." -
Edward F. Bigelow, editor of Guide
to Mature, described snakes ns the
Americans Plan
to Study Italy
Arrangements With Royal Uni
versity of Rome Designed to
Promote Friendly Relations.
TWELVE SCHOLARSHIPS OPEN
Diplomats and College Professors to
Address the Classes This Sum
mer—Language, History and
Culture Featured.
New York.—A series us courses for
Americans, to be given in Rome dur
ing the summer of 1922, has been
organized by the Assuciazlone Italo-
Americana. in collaboration with the
academic authorities of the Royal Uni
versity us Rome and under the patron
age of the American ambassador to
Italy.
The courses are planned with a view
to making better known in the United
States the language, history, culture
and economic conditions of Italy, so
that the mutual understanding and
friendly relations of the two countries
may be Increased and strengthened.
instruction in the courses, which
will extend from July 10 to August
317 will be adapted to the needs of
the American student. A large num
ber of the courses in the literary, bls-
the executive committee of the aero
nautic organization.
The new engine, a high speed air
plane wing, and a device which Is
being developed for obtaining data and
making tests under actual service
conditions, will be reported nt the
semi-annual meeting of the advisory
committee in Washington.
No special processing of the oil em
ployed in the new engine Is required.
Doctor Ames said. The motor Itself
is a modified Liberty, with pistons
made much longer to provide greater
compression. It has no valves. The
oil, very thick and gummy. Is forced
through a jet by a compression pump,
and enters the cylinder under high
pressure.
The greatest problem involved, Doc
tor Ames said, vias to make a motor
of this sort light enough for aviation,
but he regarded this as largely accom
plished. He added that the oil could
be used for automobiles.
WEDNESDAY, MAY p, 19:
Falls Dead in Grave
He Dug’for Another
Weehawken. N. j._ Aft
completing the digging ot u grav .
In the cemetery here Christ l u „
Bock, forty-two years old, of 5
River Road. North Bergen, w H ’ 8
stricken with acute Indigestion
and fell Into the grave he had
dug for another. ,
As the man toppled over the
funeral*cortege hearing the body
of Mrs. Mary Bruggman. of Jer
sey City, had entered the
of the cemetery. When the
casket was about to be lowered
to the grave, the body of the
grave digger was discovered.
Bock was a veteran of the
Spanish-American war, and
server! as one of the late Colonel
Roosevelt’s Rough Riders.
"sweetest, loveliest things In creation.”
The purpose and object of the Itepu
tlle Study 'society, as set forth in their
prospectus. Is to educate “everyone
everywhere about the life hlatunes of
reptiles—snakes, crocodiles, lizards,
turtles and tortoises, and amphlblnnti
—frogs, toads and salamanders.” The
society aims to “benefit mankind nml
these animals by substituting Intelli
gent consideration nnd kindness for
ignorant dread nnd atrocious cruelty.”
It \uas said by members nt the dinner
that the fear of snakes was not In
stinctive. as generally believed, but
was Inculcated In children by scared
grownups.
torlcal and economical development of
Italy will be. jn Italian, supplemented,
when necessary, by the use of Eng
lish.
Twelve Scholarship*.
Twelve scholarships, to be assigned
by rhe universities on the basis of
merit among the applicants, are of
fered by the A-ssociazione Italo-Aiuerl
canu to students In the several Ameri
can universities. All students enrolled
for the summer courses of lectures
will be entitled to the dally use of the ,
Library of American Studies in It
and various rooms open also In the
evening, for soclid gatherings nnd fur
study, situated In the center of the city
of Rome, not far from the university.
Here muny American newspapers and
magazines will be available. Stu
dents will also be entitled to the
use of the university library. Each
student will also gain free admission,
during the period of the courses, tr all
the antiquities, monuments, galleries
nnd museums of the Italian govern
ment and of the city of Rome.
The offices of the Assoclazi<>n<* Italo-
Americana in Rome, of the Institute
of International Education. 4IP West
One hundred and seventeenth street;
this city, nnd of the Italy-America j
society. 23 West Forty-third street.
Wifi furnish on request information 1
as to the courses, as well as answer I
questions and make suggestions n- J
cernlng living conditions in ih -•- fl
hotels, boarding houses, etc. V fl
Ta'Promote Friendly Relation*.
The Assoclazione Italo-AimTi >ma I
was organized in Rome In 191'.', uixb-r I
the auspices of persons prominent in I
governmental, scientific, industrial and I
financial circles, for the following’ p'ir
poses: “Tc foster cordial relat' n •"*• fl
tween Italy and the United S' ' I
means of courses of study, pub I .■ 1 I
tions, lectures, etc.; to estabi.-' 1 I
operation with Italian citizen imi - I
in America and Americans Ihiiu* I
Italy; to increase economic ' ■
and to assist industrial nn I • ■
mercial organizations of ltn! ; . •' lli: I
Americans, under condition- v.’i I
shall not e nffect the economy |
pendence <pf the two count ri< ~ •
Among the speakers in lb '!
year will be Tqmmaso Titt"ii ;
dent of the Italian senate, w l 'I
the United Staten last fall; l'
Rodolfo Lanclann, authority ' ||
cient Rome, and Professor- I ■
Bonfan|e and Carlo Formlehi. > g
the Royal University of Ron * I
association has undertaken t< - I
for the exchange of professors ■ I
ns the establishment of scholar
DEAD REBELS ADVERTISE U.”S.
Pajamas of Hanged Albanians 3e*
Label “Gift of American
People.”
Scutari. Albania. "Gift of tM
American people" read labels on ”
pajama-clad bodies of two notor* 011
Insurgents which hung from a tn*
the center of this town for severs
days- ...
The incongruity of the labels •
dently did not strike the Albanian •
thorltles who carried out the exe€ j
tions, ns all the pajamas given out *
the poor by American relief wor 1
are so marked, and these * r ” ni " I '. #
evidently were the only ones availa>?
in which to clothe the condemned
Hens Worked One Day.
Gettysburg, Pa.—John M< , D'”‘ r ,
has a brood of 15 black Minorca <•!>;*
ens which do strange things,
other day the flock laid 10 eggs,
of the eggs .were joined end m '■
Both eggs in this -freak rombln>.t
are perfectly formed and about
size of ordinary eggs.