N E W YQR] DIVISION - O'Ryan's Roughnecks
N E W YQR] DIVISION - O'Ryan's Roughnecks
N E W YQR] DIVISION - O'Ryan's Roughnecks
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GAS ATTACK 3i<br />
AMBULANCE COMPANY NO. 105.<br />
There was great excitement in the office<br />
of the 105th Ambulance Company last week<br />
when sparks from an overheated stove set the<br />
tent on fire. Lieutenant Ballantyne came to<br />
the rescue with the "skipper's" wash basin<br />
and irreparably wrecked Lieutenant White's<br />
manuscripts and data and incidentally put out<br />
the fire. Wonder where the clerks were during<br />
the excitement? It is understood by the<br />
company that Lieutenant Ballantyne is now<br />
seeking our "skipper's" job as fire chief of<br />
the Sanitary Train.<br />
Our chief "eanopener," "Lefty Louie,'' is<br />
showing signs of life. We lay it to Grapenuts.<br />
The company is now being instructed in<br />
calisthenics a la Converse College by Lieutenant<br />
White since his return from special duty.<br />
Our Yiddish Corporal, "Izzie" Ratnour,<br />
finds it hard to talk above a whisper since his<br />
right arm has been in a sling.<br />
Lovers of good music should stroll to the<br />
mess hall when "Betsy" Moss and "B-ville"<br />
Frawley render The Lost Chord.'' They<br />
i 4<br />
have the Syracuse Rendering Co. stopped a<br />
mile.<br />
*' Mabie,'' one of the company's canine<br />
mascots has converted part of "Handsome"<br />
Jack La yd en 's developing room into a parade<br />
ground and now has nine rookies doing litter<br />
drill there daily. Jack has been blamed for<br />
many things in connection with his dark room<br />
but this is the grand finale.<br />
"Rosle" Phelps changed his socks the other<br />
day and they shortly afterwards turned up<br />
missing. When last seen they were heading<br />
in the direction of the shower. We understand<br />
he took his semi-annual bath last week,<br />
and since hasn't been seen at drill call. Too<br />
bad he sunk the rainbow.<br />
The drill dodgers, otherwise known as Wagoners,<br />
had to doff their mackinaws one day<br />
last week and wield pick and shovel, much to<br />
their chagrin. Rumor has it that the cooks<br />
and clerks will shortly join them in their<br />
course of instruction, including "fours right''<br />
as given by our Topper "Neewah."<br />
Sergeant Benny Hale has gained several<br />
laps on Bill Bentley in their sleeping contest<br />
as he hasn't showed up for drill call for several<br />
days. Sergeant Blint is running a close<br />
second to Benny. The contest closes April<br />
1st.<br />
ALLEN K. MARKS.<br />
COMPANY M, 106TH U. S. INFANTRY.<br />
Bugler<br />
Heller called the Sergeant of the<br />
guard and reluctantly made this statement:<br />
Sergeant, I can't blow fire call, but in case of<br />
necessity let me know, and I Ti call a fellow<br />
from Headquarters who knows how, and he<br />
will blow it for me.<br />
One of the reasons why Sergeant Scharf is<br />
so popular is this: Roast beef and mashed<br />
potatoes.<br />
This company, being quarantined, is enjoying<br />
a few days of rest. Undoubtedly the other<br />
companies are all jealous, but if they were<br />
only wise, they could profit of the time we are<br />
idle to catch up with us.<br />
KEEP YOUR<br />
MATCHES<br />
DRY<br />
The E-Z-Ope Match Box<br />
keeps your matches and<br />
strikers as dry as dust.<br />
It<br />
grips the matches so they<br />
can't fall out, is flat enough<br />
to fit snugly in your pocket, and<br />
is so simply<br />
constructed it can<br />
be opened with one gloved<br />
hand.<br />
Made for loose wood<br />
safety<br />
matches.<br />
E - Z - O p e , $1.00<br />
SOLID NICKEL SILVER<br />
At Post Exchanges and stores. If your dealer cannot supply you, we will send<br />
the Box, prepaid, upon receipt of $1<br />
Scharling & Company, Mfrs M Newark, N. J.<br />
Saturday afternoon, to break the monotony<br />
of the confinement. Lieutenant Stevens suggested<br />
some boxing bouts. They proved a<br />
big success, and, if it is true that boxing is<br />
of the greatest importance in a bayonet<br />
charge, we pity the poor Germans who will<br />
buck up against this bunch.<br />
Many, of our men have something that they<br />
can show to prove that they enjoyed the pastime.<br />
Private Maehenheim received from<br />
Private McComack the prize souvenir of the<br />
whole entertainment.<br />
J. J. Murphy proved to be a much better<br />
actor than he is a boxer. In boxing he was<br />
stopped in just about five seconds, but we'll<br />
be darned if anybody can stop him when he<br />
starts reciting.<br />
T. A. F.<br />
WAR RISK INSURANCE DETACHMENT.<br />
Just a minute please—are you insured ?<br />
Those are the words that have been keeping<br />
us awake nights, and when we slept, we<br />
were busy shoveling out insurance applications.<br />
Now that the biggest<br />
part of the work in<br />
camp has been done, we do not want to be<br />
forgotten, so this is our contribution:<br />
Of course you all know Harvey—what?<br />
Sure, Private Harvey Hancock, the guy who<br />
chews his cigar when you come in and tell<br />
a sad story about not getting your allotment<br />
and when you have finished he says,<br />
"Veil, it's your own fault." He is there<br />
though<br />
when it comes to insurance, and<br />
keep it up, Hanny old boy, you'll be wearing<br />
bars yet! And—then there's Dingbat—<br />
he's still on. the job—although he doesn't<br />
wear silk shirts now, "like he used to • when<br />
he was in civil life, etc., you know."<br />
Still,<br />
he has that happy faculty of getting the<br />
girls at Converse interested in him.<br />
Frankie<br />
Fitzpatrick, that wizard of the fists, is training<br />
hard—yeh, he's training all right!<br />
He<br />
used to be a light weight but if he keeps on<br />
he'll be in the "heavy" class, then, Frank<br />
Moran, look out for your rep.<br />
good scout but he gets talkative about<br />
Frank is a<br />
Taps<br />
—"you know him all over." The Hall Room<br />
girls in our tent are on the "outs" but<br />
then us girls do have our tifts.<br />
Springer, who weighs<br />
Chubby<br />
about 240 pounds, is<br />
still talking aviation—-we think he'd be better<br />
in a submarine. Johnny Neale is a<br />
speculative and optimistic guy, he's figuring<br />
how to save money enough to get a furlough<br />
—we<br />
notice he hasn't gone to town in a<br />
couple of weeks.<br />
The World's expose of the German propaganda<br />
made the people gasp but—all the<br />
schemes the Germans used had nothing on<br />
the inventive mind of the Insurance Officer<br />
of the 27th Division in his endeavors to<br />
have a 100 per cent insured camp, and if<br />
he doesn't get it, it won't be his fault.<br />
J. PI. N.