6 ECHO OF FATAL STATION CRASH Compensation Claim Filed For the Results of Engine Mishap on Feb. 22 Chester W. Cummlngs, workmen's compensation referee of the Harris burg district, is hearing to-day at the Masonic Temple building, two death claims for compensation, two claims for compensation for dls "IE" FOR ACHING SOREJIRED FEET Use "Tiz" for tender, puffed-up, burning calloused feet and corns. People who are forced to stand on >their feet all day know what sore, tender, sweaty, burning feet mean. 'They use "Tiz," and "Tiz" cures their feet right up. It keeps feet in per-1 feet condition. "Tiz" is the only rem edy in the world that draws out all the poisonous exudations, which puff. s up the feet and cause tender, sore, tired, aching feet. It instantly stops! the pain in corns, callouses and bun ions. It's simply glorious. Ah! how your feet feel after us- ! <lng "Tiz." You'll never limp or drawl ;up your face in pain. Your shoes ■won't tighten and hurt your feet. j t Get a 25-cent box of "Tiz" now from any druggist. Just think! a whole year's foot comfort for only 25 cents.—Adv. The New Store WM. STROUSE Prepare For the 4th This will be the most momentous . Fourth of July in the life of the United States. Be attired to make We're Prepared For the Boys Serviceable Summer Suits v A * n "Palm Beach," "Crash"and "Kool Kloth" 1 k ; v $5 to 15 ,■ Nobby manly styles in all Sizes • y p VWash Suits HKr* fn • New Military Style vV/ The Man's S.toreof Harrisburg 310 Market Street FRIDAY EVENING, ability and a petition for modifica tion of a compensation agreement. The big case Is the claim of Eliza beth K. Schell, 1512 State street, Harrisburg, tiled against the Phila delphia and Reading Railway Com pany, for contpensatlon for the death of her husband, Joseph P. Schell, who died March 3, 1918. The peti tion Rileges that the accident occur red February 22, 1918, when an en trine ran into the Harrisburg station and Schell died of his injuries nine date later. Kate A. Martin. 122 East Emaus street, Mlddletown. has filed claim against the H. ,S. Krelder Company, Mlddletown, for compensation for the death of her husband, Benjamin G. Martin. The accident occurred March 18, 1918, when it is alleged that he sustained serious injuries as a result of a fall and died March 30, 1918. The claim, of Frank L. Creager, 1827 Rudy street, Harrisburg, against the Philadelphia and Read ing Railway Company, for compen sation for the loss of an arm has been filed. The accident occurred December 26, 1917.^ C. M. Kopenhaver, 736 North Sixth street, Harrisburg, has filed claim against the Austin Company, of Philadelphia, for broken bones In instep and ankle sustained January 13, 1918, while employed in con struction work at the' plant of the Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending Works. Kopenhaver claims that he was unable to work from January 13, to February 5. 1918, and that he has not fully recovered. The case of J. H. Balsbaugh, of Swatara Station, against Walter T. Bradley, of Ninth and Thompson streets, Philadelphia, for a modifi cation of an existing Kompensation agreement will also be considered. /' "—" ■ 1 " Select Your Home Site in RIVER VIEW Before It Is Too Late Call 801 l 1390 • Dial 3573 FLYING WITH SHAFFER TOURING THE FRONT _ y LETTERS FROM A DAUPHIN BOY TO HIS MOTHER Somewhere in France May 1, 1918. Dear Mother: We left the pace with the drunken name ( Boozy> Monday and are now,* visiting at "Fme. Alger." The handle to that name means "farm" and not know ing how to spell it, 1 abbreviate, but there is quite a farm here and the aviators use one of the big- fields all of which is owned by "une dame" living in a "petite chateau" nearby. We like to get ourselves in Dutch the tirst day we arrived, for we ran away to Chalons, without permis sion. having become heartily sick of the escadrille visiting and watch ing the rain fall. Chalons it was for us,*if we spent the rest of our days in prison. One of the Frenchmen here decided to go with vis, so we started walking down the road, stopping the first auto which came along, which fortunately, one of our number knew the driver. He gave us a lift to the railroad and there the Frenchman lost his nerve and went back, but we bought tickets and continued, getting through the station without being stopped. Nothing was too good for us, so we went to the best hotel In the city, ordered a. 25 franc room, with •double bed and bath, and having rounded up three American girls, absorbed a good dinner with their help. Hard On the Eyes To be exact, one girl was English, and a Quaker at that, which same I was afflicted with. The memory is rather painful so I won't give de tails, but although I come from a Quaker state, my curiosity regard ing the feminine portion of that sect is entirely satisfied. I like to see girls make the best of their charms no matter whether few or dazzling, and an ugly gray uniform certainly don't bring out any good points, be sides it's awful hard on the eyes. Anyway, we had dinner and even Ha rrisburg W&S& teleghpb such a feminine disappointment didn't hurt my appetite. And there the hot bath—first one in a month-—was worth any amount of punishment for running away with out permission, besides crawling into a bed so soft that one sunk in two feet and felt it fold right around one. "fwas indeed a relief after these dpringless, mattressless and sagging army beds. In fact, one of these same army cots collapsed one night with me. The significant part being that it was the head of the bed, and T had no idea my head was so swelled, or perhaps the ivory is Browing thicker. And then to wake up in the morping, have another bath and breakfast too, what with bacon and eggs, "cofe" with milk and sugar, and toasted bread with cherry jam. Sounds sort of filling don't it? Well, it was, and goodness knows we needed it, for we started to walk back to our temporary home right Not however, with any idea of walking the whole way, it being twenty miles. We had hopes of getting a lift on an auto that came along, and we did not hesitate ,'to stop anything that passed. We , were in luck too, as American am bulances came along just when we needed them, so by changing cars three times we finally reached "home." ' Never a Peep The commandant of the escadrille I never said a word about it and hasn't yet, and I am beginning to wonder if we were even missed. Anyway, if he did know, it didn't break any of his plans for us, as tjie next morning at the ungodly hour of 7 a. m. we set off in a staff car, with a lieutenant for guide to go in the trenches. To be on the safe side we were given steel helmets and gas masks of which none of the former fitted. Our heads seemed to be large 'but after we had worn them awhile, the uneven geography of our heads either smoothed out or the hair was i rubbed off the bumps, for they fitted fairly well. Nevertheless, I felt cer tain that a mighty small top would dislodge my armored garret, besides considering how much worry my heart consists of, the helmet was really only needed for "camou flage." I have never ridden much in autos but ev.en I could mark the difference between the driver who showed us Rheims and the one we went to the trenches with. Whereas the former would take a turn on two wheels and dodge between two wagons doing it, the latter wriggled all over the road and nearly ran us into the gutter several times on a straight road, in fact, I still think he was learning to drive. The scenery was very inter esting, if not from beauty, certainly from curiosity, for as we neared the trenches, the country asslamed that aspect so much spoken of as "blighted" and "uninhabited." Every where could be seen the havoc of shells, forests stripped, ruined or absolutely blotted off the face of the earth. In fact, our guide showed us a place which was nothing but white shell craters. That, said he, "was once a thick forest." The road end ed several miles from the trenches, and then we donned steel helmets' placed the gas masks within easy reach and began walking. Seeing Things , Our course lay along a very nar row gauge railroad, used to bring ammunition up I presume. Then it was we began to see things we had heard so much of. No matter which direction one looked there was barb wire. Ye gods!! I bet there was enough wire stretched around that small portion of the front to fence in the United States, with enough left over to go half around Canada. It generally ran in four rows, with every conceivable kind of "bob" and "wire" interlaced between rows and up and down and cross ways, and every which way. And they followed no general direction either, seeming to zigzag like a calf on a ramble— or probably a better comparison would be a loving couple on a moonlight night. They didn't know or care where they were going, but they were on their way. Anyway, I gave up trying to discover what the idea was, where it all led to and why there was so much of it going so many different directions. It may have been to make the Boches dizzy trying to figure it out, and truly there were enough "wiggles" to do It. The weather was very bad, with a low hanging fog, which was why there was no shooting going on, so the lieutenant told us anyway, for we were beginning to wonder where the war was when we had not heard a shot since we arrived and we were rapidly coming to ' the trenches. Speaking about barbwire, much of the ground in this sector had been retaken from the Germans, so we came on many patches of wire en tanglements which had been blown j flat by artillery fire. Shell holes were every where witth many uneploded shells lying around of all caliber and shapes. From the size I even think I saw some "Big Berthas." We also passed lots of barracks. That may convey to your mind at least a house, but they were nothing of the kind, being simply caves going down to a depth of 30 feet with an opening carefully "camouflaged," so small, one had to stoop to get in. In such quarters as these do the soldiers live, and indeed after seeing these things I person ally think every infantry man should have a "Croi de Guerre," for mere ly living there. No Other Way No other way, however, is pos sibly', for even if barracks could be built they would quickly be discov ered by the enemy and destroyed. Destroying these caves is nearly im possible, as a shell could land right on top of one and never harm either the cave or the occupants—see? Then we came to the third line trenches and discovered what mud really Is anrt having no hobnails in our shoes, walking was rather dif ficult—two steps forward and one back. This unxisual exercise scron had us in a healthy, albeit "chand," per piration; but we continued to follow our lieutenant, slipping in the mud. sometimes wading through several feet of water and our steel helmets growing heavier and more uncom fortable every second; so much so that Putman and I finally removed iand carried them under our arm, much to the amusement of the Poilus we passed. We were still Interested as we passed along the white colored trenches, for this is the Champaign district looking down in the open ing to the living quarters which showed in the side of the trenches here and there, noting the unexplod ed shells lying around or ammuni tion displacements cut in the side but we hads not seen any war yet and were Bomewhat disappointed, for all the shooting we heard was a machine gun popping away in front some where and that didn't make enough noise to sound warlike. But soon we were in the second line trenches and were shown an obser vation post, which was only big enough to two persons. A three-Inch opening was all that was used tor light, air and observation. I Given a pair of excellent glasses we had pointed out to us the Boche trenches some hundred meters Dis tant, and what interested me more— "No Man's Land." The latter could be distinguished by its green aspect, as green grass marks where It started at the French lines and where it stopped at the Boche. I don't know who used the . lawn mower, but it was not high. This was so noticeable because every where else was white and brown dirt, shell craters, trenches and masses of barbwire. I may have seen barbwire back of the lines fur ther but it was nothing compared to what I beheld now. Wire was scat tered around here like rolled up' snowballs, every bit as big only not so soft .and the Boche had even more -of it and thicker. I can still understand why artillery must first knock down the wire before an at tack, for the only way a man could get across that wire would be a spread eagle dive and that probably end on a Boche bayonet. Turns and Twists We were in the second line trench es then, you know, and the way those trenches turned and twisted would make a snake envious. So after we had ambled along awhile I lost all sense of direction and didn't even know which way the Boche trenches were. 1 soon found that out though for we next passed two guns which shot torpedoes by compressed air. We were ail inter ested, and naturally stopped to look it over, seeing which the two soldiers in charge obligingly fired half a dozen times. Rather hard o# the Boches, I admit, but we were having a wonderful time, for we could watch them sail through the air, follow them nearly to the ground and see them explode, for they were not shot with a lot of force. Watching these little torpedoes going up, coming down and explod ing, sure did tickle us, and then we wondered how soon Boches would send an answer back, and promptly put on our steel helmets. The lieutenant called us away just then and we continued our personal ly conducted tour to the front line •trenches, right out to the furthest point, some 75 meters, we were told from the Boches. Here was situated what they called a listening post, be ing simply an Iron cage holding one man, who used a glass to watch for suspicious moments through a small crack. One after another we were allowed to go in this cage, which by the way, was covered with dirt to hide its position, and see what we could see with the glasses. Furthermore, we were given care ful directions to be sure and close the small opening we looked through before opening the door to come out. I'll be doggoned if I could see any thing but barbwire and dirt, and I could see right down in a German trench too. After we had all had a peep at Fritz's home, we stood in the trench looking down coun try we had come through to get here and then it was we suddenly heard a whining and singing sound over head coming nearer and nearer. Even us, with no eperience, knew a German shell was coming and stood with curious and open-mouthed wonder as it passed overhead and struck a mile below us, sending trees and dirt in every There was a French battery near there some where, for it immediate ly answered. The Answer The answer wasn't long in coming —five of them! It was quite easy to distinguish their separate whines as they went singing overhead. The curious part of it was we could still hear the whistling song after they struck and exploded. The Boches, I don't suppose, ever knew what a kindness they did in putting on such an exhibition for us, for it sure was wonderful to hear those big shells come whining overhead and see them hit with a mighty explosion. 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