SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE
WITH EMPEY
(Continued)
_______________ The man still
Tii Pactv P ald no attention.
® j y The foreman was
Faced speechless. In a
Doctor ew seconds the
stooping man
straightened up,
and looking the foreman straight in
the eye, calmly replied: "He's dead."
This did not seem to fease the fore
man In the least and he bellowed
out: "How do you know he is dead?"
The man answered simply: "I'm a
doctor." Then the foreman once
again exploded: "A doctor! Blawst
my deadlights, a doctor! Well, if
you're a doctor, what In h 1 are
you doing on a horse ship ? You
ought to be rolling pills for the
high-brows."
The doctor never took his piercing
look from the eye of the foreman.
The foreman was now like an en
raged bull. Spitting all over him
self, he blustered out: "Well, If he's
dead, there is no doctor that can do
him any good. A couple of you
skunks over there (addressing two
negroes who were almost blanched
to a bluish whlt<s and who were
trembling nearly), get ahold of him
and drag 'im out of the way." One
of the negroes, with a leering grin,
replied: "I shipped on this here ship
to handle horses, and 1 don't allow
nohow that it's my work to tote
corpses around."
Just then the second foreman
rushed over, gave the negro a push
out of the way and, grabbing "the
heels of the dead man, pulled him
away from the run. I turned away,
sickened with disgust. The fore
man then took an empty oat sack
and spread it over the bloody head.
Just then the clanging bell of an
ambulance was heard and a white
clothed doctor, followed by two men
with a stretcher, pushed their way
through the crowd of horse 9 and
horsemen. They were accompanied
by a policeman. Tho body was put
into the ambulance and taken away,
while the police officer went on
board the ship.
The pasty-faced doctor was hold
ing onto the rail of the runway and
coughing. I thought each gasp,
would be his last, me second lore
man was talking to him. The doc
tor paid no attention. Going up be
hind the doctor, the foreman coolyl
measured his distance and swung on:
the point of his jaw. The doctor
rumpled up and leel on the aocK.
At this cowardly and dastardly act
I saw red and made a leap at the
foreman. An onrushing light flashed
in front of me and a ( huge locomo- J
tive, going 60 miles an hour, hit |
me between the eyes; then black- j
ness. When I came to, 1 was lying |
in my bunk in the hold. I had an j
awful headache. Then everything'
came back to me with a flash. 1j
could hear the gurgling of water on
the ship's side and knew we were
under way. Kight then and there I
decided never again, especially while
aboard ship, to interfere with the
foreman. Among that gang of hu
man wrecks and cutthroats it was
every man for himself and the sur
vival of the fittest. I had two beau
tiful black eyes, and my nose felt
like a football.
I went up on deck. The moon and
stars were out and the twinkling
lights of New York harbor wero
gradually fading into the distance.
Leaning over the rail were the fore
man and the veterinariah, "Doc"
Casey, by name. The foreman was
talking. Snatches of his conversa
tion reached my ears:
"Load horses? Why that bunch of
scum they wished on me 'couldn't
load lump sugar, one lump at a time.
How Brown expects me to deliver
1,300 horses Into Bordeaux with this|
scurvy outfit, I don't know. We're (
luckv, I'm thinkin,' if five hundred j
o' them don't die. Why, there's not
one o' the blighters knows which I
end of a horse eats hay. I tell you, |
Doc, your work is cut out for you. i
If, In* a few days, you don't have a
couple of hundred cases of colic on;
your hands, then I'm a bloomin' j
iiar."
"Doc" Casey answered:
"Well, I'll tell you, Mr. Goorty,
this Is my third trip over and I have
seen some tough bunches, but this
one is the limit, and I sure have a
Always Caught Cold
"Kidneys Bothered!
Me Was
Nervous,"
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street, Harrisburg.
"For several years I have been
bothered with indigestion and ner
vousness.
"In fact was all broken up, - for my
kidneys gave me considerable trou
ble. I was stiff and sore and filled
up with rheumatic painp.
"My stomach would fill up with
gas after eating, and I felt tired and
worn out and would get very nervous.
"I felt cold and creepy, and was
always catching cold. It seemed I
always had a cold; this I think was
due to my run down condition.
"Well, I took a chance on San
pan, and it was a good bet for me,
as it fixed my stomach, restored my
nerves and kidneys, drove out all
pain, and I no longer catch cold as
before."
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By Arthur Guy Empev
job on my hands. It's too bad that
Pinero let ojit on that young fellow,
because, in my mind, that was a
pretty cowardly blow. He seemed to
know how to handle horses. What
do you say if I give. him the job of
assistant veterinarian'.' He s had
six years' cavalry experience."
"Throw him over the side, if you
want—l don't care. But 1 guess
you'll need someone to help you out,
so go to It."
I was overjoyed. Just then Plnero
came aft. The horse doctor turned
to him and said: "Look here, Pin
ero, I've seen lots of dirty work in
my life, but that exhibition of yours
on the dock is about the filthiest
I've seen in a long time. Now, just
take a tip from me. That young
fellow from now on is working for
me, and you lay your hands off of
him. if 1 find you meddling with
him, I'll push that silly grin of yours
down your throat until It chokes
you. Now, that's all I got to say.
lay off of him. Do you understand?"
Plnero started to mumble excuses,
but the doctor shut him up with, "I
don't want to hear any more. I'm
off o' you for life, but remember
what I tell you. Steer clear from
the two o' us, sabe?"
I guess the second forerfian "sa
bled" all right, because he vouch
safed no answer. My heart warmed
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to "Doc" Casey and I slipped away
unobserved.
The next morn
,<A . ing the doctor
Assistant fixed me up with
Veterinarian" ? ourt faster and
I was installed as
assistant veterin
arian at S3O for
the trip, i W as to sleep in "Doc"
Casey's stateroom, where he had his
medicine stock, but before entering
the room "Doc" told me, "Take this
bucket of water; put a few drops of
creosote in it, and go aft on the
hatch and take a good bath, and
throw your underwear away."
I asked him what for. He an
swered: "When you take your shirt
off, take a good look at It and you'll
I began to feel itchy all over but
minutely followed his instructions.
Upon taking my shirt off, one look
was enough, it was alive, and over
the rail it went. Doc loaned me a
white suit and took charge of my
outer clothing. What he did with
them I don't know, but that after
noon he returned them to me. They
were shrunk a size smaller, but wero
clean. I was satisfied. So was Doc.
Five days out we ran into a squall
and our work was cut out for us. We
even had horses on the decks in
wooden stalls. The ship was lurch
ing and pitching, and huge seas
would burst over the gunwales.
Several of the wooden stalls gave
way, and the horses were 10080 on
the deck. With every lurch of the
ship a couple of horses would fall,
and kicking and snorting, would slide
down the Inclined deck, hitting
against winches and the hatchway,
scraping their hide off. It was worth
a man's life to get into that mess.
Then I had more or less respect
for the foreman and second fore
man. Into the midst of that strug
gling and kicking bunch of horses
they went, assisted by Doc Casey.
Four of the horses received broken
legs, and Plnero, instead of shooting
them, cut their throats with a sharp
dagger he carried.
One of the negroes from the lower
hold staggered to the upper deck
with his face blanched almost white,
and his eyes popping out of his head.
Between gasps he informed us that
a whole section of stalls, twenty
fonr in all, had carried away be
tween decks, and that the horses
were loose. He said three negroes of
his gang were caught in this stam
pede.
The foreman mustered most of the
men, and dividing them into three <
groups, in charge of himself, the sec
ond foreman and Doc Casey, they
went below. I followed. Ati awful
sight met my eyes.
The ship was lurching in a hor-|
rible manner. All I could see was, l
one minute a pile of kicking horses, |
smashed-up planks and the three
negroes piled up'in one corner of the
compartment, and then, with a lunch '
of the ship, they would slide into the
other. Nothing could bo done by us.
It was madness to attempt anything.
The three negroes were dead.
That night and the following day
was a perfect hell on the ship for
men and horses. The ship rodo
through the r '4uall and when It be
came calm we all got busy. Out of
the twenty-four horses betweeu
decks wo had to shoot seventeen on
account of Injuries. Beside the sev
enteen, three had died from broken
necks. The four remaining horses
were still alive but hardly had a
square foot of hide left. They were a
pitiful sight.
The next day the three negroes
were buried at sea without a word of
prayer.
For the next couple of days noth
ing of importance happened.
About four days out of Bordeaux
one of the large steam pipes In the
lower hold hurst. In this hold there
were sixty-four horses. The engineer
of tho ship tried to repair the break,
but it was almost worth a man's life
to go down thero In that hissing and
scalding steam. The cries of the
horses went straight to my heart.
All we could do was to turn streams
of cold salt water from three pair of
hose into the hold, thus trying to
keep the heat down and save as
many horses as possible.
Why the engineer did not shut off
the steam I don't know. I noted tills
fact In my report. After about four
hours the steam was shut off and the
two foremen, Doc Casey and myself,
followed by twelve other men, went
into the hold. I will never forget the
sight as long as I live. Nearly every
one of the horses was dead, and
those which still remained alive had
to be shot. Some of them were
practically boiled alive. The weath
er was hot, and it was not long be
fore the rotting bodies of the horses
made the stench on board unbear
able. We had to get these bodies
out. Long tackles were rigged up,
a chain around the neck of a dead
horse, and I worked the winch. The
bodies were snaked along the pas
sageways in the hold and up to the
hatch. Some of the bodies would
not hold together, and It was a com
mon sight to see a dead horse sus
pended in the air by his hind leg
drop suddenly Into the hold below,
leaving his leg hanging to the tackle.
EJvbry horse ent to" France is
branded with a different brand. They
have a system of indexing them. As
each dead horses was snaked to the
upper deck. Doc had to stoop over
and make a note of the brand be
fore the horse was thrown over
board.
As the dead horses were dropped
over the side, a resounding splash
could be heard and the water was
churned into a foamy white as the
body momentarily sank from view.
Then the bloated body of the horse
would reappear and disappear in tho
wake of the ship, the sea gulls ho
vering and screaming around it.
The grub on that ship was awful,
and a day out of Bordeaux the gang
of horsemen refused to work. The
foreman mustered them on the main
deck, and standing on the bridge let
out about twenty minutes of religion
and advice In their direction. The
whole gang immediately got religious
and -returned to their duties.
I was heartily sick and disgusted
with the rest of the trip because the
stench was awful, there being about
twelve dead horses that we could not
get out. t
Just outside of the entrance of the
river leading to Bordeaux, a small,
rakish boat, flying the tricolor of
France, came alongside. We hove to
and up the gangplank came three
French officers. They were closeted
with the captain of the ship and our
foreman, and after about twenty
minutes, left and we continued on
our course.
ARMY HAS A
RAINBOW CO.
Engineer Unit Recruited From
Men in Every State
of the Union
In a letter to a friend in this city,
C. Iv. McCormick, of this city, a mem
ber of Company C, Twenty-flfth En
gineers, Camp Devcns, Ayer, Mass.,
raid that the company with which he
is connected is known amonk the
National Army camps as the Rainbow
Company. This does not rpean that
it is a part of the Rainbow Division,
far be it from such, for that gallant
division of former National Guards
men has long since landed in France,
but that the members of this com
pany have been gathered from all
corners of the globe.
A part of his letter follows:
"Company C, Twenty-flfth Regi
ment, has the unique distinction of
having In Its ranks men from every
state in the Union, including Alaska.
The occupations of the men In civil
life Is almost as diversified as their
names.
"In the ranks of the company are
men who helped harness the moun
tain torrents to haul the tra.ins over
the Rockies. They have bridged
chasms in the Andes, dug for gold in
Afaska, shot oil wells in Mexico and
Rumania; the Sphinx of Egypt ha*
looked Into many of their faces and
the Eskimo has shared his seal blub
ber with sCme. Were they passing:
in review their description would run
like this: The tall fellow was genernl
manager of a power plant in South
Africa; tlie short, muscular fellow fol
lowing- was special duty man for tho
Pennsylvania Railroad. Here comes
the mechanical engineer for Blank
and Company; beside him marches a
young fellow who can whip his
weight in wildcats—and so on the
kaleidoscope description would run.
Do you wonder there are no vacancies
In Company C? WHfcn tho fellows
get together in the evenings and
swap experiences, their adventures
sound like the tales of the Arabian
Nights. The leadership of this cos
mopolitan bunch of energy has been,
assigned to Captain Rhodes, and to
say the boys are proud of their cap
tain is putting It mildly. When the
word comes to go over the top, Cap
tain Rhodes will have a bunch behind
him that will leave Its Impress on tho
phiz of some of Kaiser Bill's Huns.
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