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. They had a rodeo down at the re
?ount station Sunday and that after
~moon everybody was talking about it.
Those who had not seen it wished
they had, but all learned what a
rodeo meant and most ef all that it
spelled “fun and thrills galore.”
Carl Romig’'s pink shirt will long be
floating in memory’'s breezes, and' the
shrill cries of Sergt. Jack Smith, as
he called “Ladies and gentlemen, we
will now have the greatest roper or
quan rider in all the world,” will
linger as a pleasant recollection of
& great and glorious day, one of
Meade’s real achievements.
Gen. Carter and Gen. Gaston vied
with each other in cheering the boys
on to nrore dare-devil performances,
and the Depot Brigade Band never
did finer work than it did in helping
the big crowd to appreciate the fact
that it was witnessing one of the
most spectacular events in the history
of entertainments in this section of
the country. It is one thing to show
_ grit in a nicely padded sawdust ring
of a circus, but it is a very different
kind of spirit which braves the slip
perty footing of a wilitary corral.
The bravery of Romig nearly re
sulted in his getting a bad leg in the
early stages of the contest when a
. fractious animal planted a vicious'
' kick in his direction which just grazed
. his knee. And Private Roy Osborne
' wrenched an ankle in a relay race, but’
, not so badly that he could not sum
_mon courage to withstand the pain
" and continue his wonderful riding. !
* Typical Maryland Afternoon.
- It was a typical Maryland autumn
. afternoon.- The air was sharp, the
sky clear and the sun just warm
enough to make it comfortable for
those who had tosit or stand through
out the three hours of the exhibition.
The “flu” had passed by, the quaran
tine had been lifted and passes were
again the order of every week end.
But who wanted a pass when Sergt.
Clinton of the wagon train was there
to play the part of a Jew? It just
made onhe feel that he wanted to pawn
his “Ingersoll radio.” turm it over to
the man with the three balls on his
back and then throw away the
ticket. '
*“Doc” Patton of the Veterinary
Corps ~ will never qualify on the
Broadway beauty squad, but he man
aged to put a little touch of humor to
‘the show that was quite irresistible.
%rwyot blacked his face and put on a
green tie and cook’s white suit that
g‘o him look like a genuine mil
naire dollar “coon” on the million
dollar pier. b A
~_Joave Brooksgot a lot out of thatgray
‘horse that did the one-step while the
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it was not because Dave did not put .
him through the paces. |
In the matter of fancy suits Private
Baist and Private Elsosser and Pri
vate. Steineman, the farmer, all |
crowded on all the lugs their clown
ish stunts would allow, to say noth- '
ir;g of getting ‘“Doc” Patten’s permis
sion.
And Corp. Jack Spencer. He will be
ever enshrined in the giant-killer
corner of the soldiers’ mental his
tories of life down here. He was
“there seven ways, with bells on and
each bell tingling,” a sort of grand
chorus, not the least inconspicuous
accompaniment being Jack’s purple
‘and white striped shirt. One of the
most amusing things that Jack did
was to say:
. “I'm too old to do any riding.”
Then There Was the ‘‘Pee-rade.”
But Jack, with the able and en
thusiastic assistance of Maj. Meade,
started things off with a fanfare of
trumpets and a display of stock, fear
less riders, comjc actors and yelling !
subalterns that wds worthy of the
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best efforts of P. T. B, the inimitable.
As a colored onlooker said, ‘“This is a
pee-rade what am.”
As a starter, “Gyp-the-Blood” and
Carl Romig of the remount and Wil
ki Williams, the Indian wonder of
C:::x}mny M, 63d Infantry, did some
roping that looked like noodle soup in
its gyrations and which a barrister
from Philadelphia could never un
ravel in a million years. Horses
were caught four abreast and the
Indian, for instance, jumping through
his own rope hoop, would in a twink- -
ling surround a charging steed with™
a noose that held him fast. %3
Fancy riding, such as jumping fi'%w
a horse’s back and back again bef. :
the animal could stop running, was
done by Sergts. Parr, Berlin, Burger, .
Barr and Sullivar o ko e
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GAS “AI lABK" RUU.I-S
Maneuvers Are Broken Up by an
Explosion in the Gashouse
Last Wednesday.
Two corporals, Clarence McConley
and Leon E. Frush, of Company E,
211th Engineers, had a “warm” re
ception info Meade, as they were sent
to the gas house for instruction just
after their regiment arrived here.
The house exploded the same da)‘r.
McConley and Frush were not in-
Jured, but their escape was due to
the command of their sofficers, who
sent them to a place of safety just
a few moments before the gas ex
ploded. The bench on which they
were seated was struck by flying frag
ments. \
While McConley, a natlve\ot Water
loo, Towa, and Frush of Indianapolis,
Ind., were learning all they could
about the peculiarities of gas, and
especially from the standpoint of ex
plosions, the escaped gas was being
wafted across the field toward the in
trenched troops taking part in the
big maneuvers. > 2
The machine guns and one-inch
mortars were pounding away in great
style, when the cry came “gas,” and
there were no masks available. The
troops scrambled out of the trenches
much as the English did in the early
days of the war when gas first came
into use.
~ There was a hasty retreat, not,from
machine gun bullets, but tron‘ the
gas which sooo unexpectedly played
such a big part in the defeat of the
“Blue” army or the “Red,” or what
gver happened to be its color for the
ay.’
Incidentally, it .was declared, that
espite this unfortunate episode which
sulted in the injury of two men in
he gashouse, the maneuvers were
the most elaborate and successful of
any which have been held of its kind
in Camp Meade.
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Roy Osborne, 63d Infantry, Prom
ises to Return'to Cowboy
Life Later.
Roy Osborne, headquarters, 63d In
fantry, who trav,letg 18,000 miles with
Buffalo Bill as ¢y horseman, can
Zide a horse at breakneck speed, dis
mount, grab a steer by the horns,
throw him, and fall prostrate on the
ground with the steer’'s neck across
his (Osbeorne’s) body.
In short,'Roy is able to ride almost
any kind of bucking animal, but he
does not lay claim to having been suc
cessful on all occasions. In fact, he
says that the fellow who wears wide
belts with his name imprinted there
on in gilt letters and brags about be
ing able “to ride any wild horse that
ever walked” r pretty apt to be a
poor rider. =
“In the west we call that kind of a
fellow a ‘leather hanger,’ because he
clings to the saddle with both hands.
‘We consider it more creditable to be
thrown than to be holding fast to the
saddle with both hands like a scared
monkey.”
The horse and steer act i{s what they
term “the bulldog and steer stunt” in
the far west according to Osborne,
and he says he would like to be able
to stage the thing in Meade. He is a
great admirer of Buffalo Bill and de
elares that the old hero of American .
boyhood never had much to say when
he hired a new man, but seemed to be
eble to tell a good one at sight.
Osborne went with the circus when
it came to Frisco several years ago,
~and he liked the life. He has been in
-the y several months, but declares
2 t n it is all over he will return
.to his ranch in California, near Fres
no, and settle down for the rest of his
by : :
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LETTER To JA e
the home folks gB~ ) e
telling themto [ea%Zss
Give freely iy
to thedrive for boi¥e i s
$170,500,000 J%° 1 Sil A,
By the YMCA J 22) 7
the KofCand &X" 0 /) 0% )e &
others. _ S L
Extensive Work Being Done . 3
‘ By Organizations Quverseas
Uncle Sam’s Boys to Find When They Land in Eu
Seven National Badies Busy Day and ;g
Night for Their Comfort. 8
BY FRANK PARKER STOCKBRIDGE,
“We go with him every step of
the way,” is the motto of the six wel
fare organizations whose work with
and for the soldiers and sailors ex
tends overseas. The War Camp Com
munity Service alone confines its
work to the United States. In jthe
nature of things, its sphere of use
fulness stops at the_ Atlantic sea
board; but every one of the other
great civilian agencies that have
combined if the united war work
campaign has developed its overseas
work to keep pgce with the rapid
growth of the A, E. F, and it is
primarily for the further extension
and development of the work over
there that the great fund of $170,-
500,000 is beirig asked of the Ameri
can public.
In last week’s Trench and Camp
1 told only of the work of the Y. M.
C. A, Y. W. C. A, the War Camp
Community Service, the National
Catholic War Council, the Jewish
Welfare Board, the American Library
Association and the BSalvation Army
on this side. Very few, even of men
in the service, realize that when they
get over there they will find these
same organizations working with
them, wherever they go, in some
cases even up to the first line
trenches.
Only men who are disqualified for
military service are sent overseas #s
workers in these organizations, but
many of them take all the risks the
soldier takes.
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Many Casualties Among Workers.
There have been something like a
score of Y. M. C. fi secretaries, sev
eral of K. of | etaries, and
rovicers killed in the Dattles of the
ARMY NEWS
FOR ARMY MEN
AND
THEIR HOME FOLKS
last few months, so close to the
. Iline do they press in th ~effor ;
be of service to the fighting men. ==
And it is a service—a geéenuing
~ ice—for the tired, hungry or ° 04
~ soldier to find close at hand W
ever he may ge Salvation Army §
~ sies frying doughnuts, K. of €
retaries with cigars and cigares!
Y. M. C. A. canteen with choe
' and hot coffee, or any or all of |
other efforts and provisions for
welfare which it is the duty of 1
and the other organizations to #
ply. I can only sketch here with'|
~ greatest brevity the bare outlines
what each of these organizsations
doing overseas. TR
At an average rate of 100 fi? on
the Y. M. C. A. is building in Fre
- huts of various kinds. A eat des
of building has had to be '*fiw"
- summer _because nearly & huht
" huts were destroyed when ¢ "
~ mans made their drive beginning
latter part of March, 1918. The
M. C. A. follows the Army am L W
soon be building anew in tk ¥ y
~ quered territory in France and
gium. e
~ In general, the hut is a long, |
frame building, with a big ;',’T‘j‘j'
- room, having a stage at one end a
a canteen at the other. The ¥. M |
A. has gone into the I‘w ifi'}
the moving picture business on
large scale. ; e
Entertain OQur Troops. =
Twenty-five companies of play
and 100 actors, singers au‘
~ talners tr/avel on the “Y” cireults
the time.” Fifteen miles of me
- picture’ fllms are sent to France ¢
week. The average weekly a
ance at the movie shows in the A
ican camps is 2,600,000. Admissh
free. g e
The usefulnesss of the canteen |
- ¥.:M: C. A. hut is shown the
that in scores of towns and 3
- where our soldiers are billeted
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