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“Over the Top”
By An American Soldier
Who Went
ARTHUR GUY EMPEY
Machine Gunner Serving In France
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(Copyright, 1917, by Arthnr Qny Hmpey)
SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER I—Fired by the news of the
sinking of the Lusitania by a German
submarine, Arthur Guy Empey. an Ameri
can, leaves his office In Jersey City and
goes (o England where he enlists in the
British army.
CHAPTER IT-After a period of train
ing, Empey volunteers for immediate serv
ice and soon finds himself In rest billets
"somewhere In France,” where he first
makes the acquaintance of the ever-pres
ent "cooties.”
CHAPTER III—Empey attends his first
church services at the front while a Ger
man Fokker circles over the congregation.
CHAPTER IV—Empey's command goes
Into the front-line trenches and Is under
fire for the first time..
CHAPTER V—Empey learns to adopt
the motto of the Brtlsh Tommy, “If you
are going to get it, you’ll got it, so never
worry.”
CHAPTER VI—Back In rest billets. Em
pey gets his first experience as a mess
orderly.
CHAPTER VII—Empey learns how the
British soldiers are fed.
CHAPTER VIII—Back In the front-line
trench. Empey sees ids first friend of the
trenches "go West."
CHAPTER IX—Empey makes his first
visit to a dugout In "Suicide Ditch.”
CHAPTER X—Empey learns what con
stitutes a "day’s work” In the front-line
trench.
CHAPTER XI—Empey goes "over the
top” for the first time In a charge on the
German trenches and Is wounded by a
bayonet thrust. ,
CHAPTER XIII—Each Tommy gets j
an official bath.
CHAPTER XIYr—Empey helps dig J
an advanced trench under German
fire.
CHAPTER XV—On "listening post”
in No Man's Land.
After about twenty minutes’ wait we
went out again and discovered that
the Germans had a wiring party work- ;
ing on their barbed wire. We returned
to our trenches unobserved with the
information and our machine guns im
mediately got busy.
The next night four men were sent
out to go over and examine the Ger- ,
man barbed wire and see if they had
A Hidden Gun.
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. “There is no half-way house be
tween victory and defeat.”—Lloyd
Oeorge. ,
cut lanes through It; If so, this pres
aged nn early morning attack on our
trenches.
Of course i had one j^p four
selected for the Job. It was Just like
sending a fellow to the undertaker’s
to order his own coffin.
At ten o'clock we started out, armed
with three bombs, a bayonet and re- |
volver. After getting into No Man’s 1
Land we separated. Crawling four or
five feet at a time, ducking star shells,
with strays cracking overhead, I
reached their wire. I scouted along
this Inch by Inch, scarcely breathing.
I could hear them talking in their
trench, my heart was pounding against
my ribs. One false move or the least 1
noise from me meant discovery and
almost certain death.
After covering ray sector I quietly
crawled back. I had gotten about half
way when I noticed that my revolver
was missing. It was pitch dark. I
turned about to see If I could find it;
it couldn t he far away, because about
three or four minutes previously I had
felt the butt in the holster. I crawled
around in circles and at last found it.
then started on my way back to our
trenches, as I thought.
Pretty soon I reached barbed wire,
and was just going to give the pass
word when something told me not to.
I put out my hand and touched one of
the barbed wire stakes. It was iron.
The British are of wood, while the
German are Iron. My heart stopped
beating; by mistake I had crawled
back to the German lines.
I turned slowly about and my tunic
caught- on the wire and made a loud
ripping noise.
A sharp challenge rang out. I
sprang to my feet, ducking low, and
ran madly back toward our lines. The
Germans started firing. The bullets
were biting all around me, when bang!
I ran smash into our wire, and a sharp
challenge, “ ’Alt, who comes there?”
rang out. I gasped out the password,
and, groping my way through the lane
in the wire, tearing my hands and
uniform, 1 tumbled into our trench and
was safe, but I was a nervous wreck
for an hour, until a drink of rum
brought me round.
CHAPTER XVIII.
Staged Under Fire.
Three days after the Incident just re
lated our company wus relieved from
the front line and carried. We stayed
in reserve billets for about two weeks
when we received the welcome news
that our division would go back of the
line “to rest billets.” We would re
main in these billets for at least two
months, this in order to be restored to
our full strength by drafts of recruits
from Blighty.
Everyone was happy and contented
at these tidings; all you could hear
around the billets was whistling and
singing. The day after the receipt of
the order we hiked for five days, mak
ing an average of about twelve kilos
per day until we arrived at the small
town of O’-.
It took us about three days to get
settled, and from then on our cushy
time started. We would parade front
8:45 in the morning until 12 noon.
Then except for an occasional billet
or brigade guard we were on our own.
For tlie first four or five afternoons I
spent my time in bringing up to date
my neglected correspondence.
Tommy loves to be amused, and be
ing a Yank, they turned to me for
something new in this line. I taught
them how to pitch horseshoes, and this
game made a great hit for about ten
days. Then Tommy turned to Amer
ica for a new diversion. I was up in
the air until a happy thought came to
me. Why not write a sketch and break
Tommy in as an actor?
One evening after “lights out,” when
you are not supposed to talk, 1 impart
ed my scheme in whispers to the sec
tion. They eagerly accepted the idea
of forming a stock comrmny and
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A good citizen is known by the food
he eats.
could hardly wait until the morning 1
for further details 1
After parade, the next afternoon 1
was almost mobbed. Everyone in the 1
section wanted a part in the proposed
sketch. When I informed them that it '
would tnke at least ten days of hard
work to write the plot, they were bit- '
terly disappointed. I immediately got '
busy, made a desk out of biscuit tins 1
In the corner of the billet, and put up
a sign “Empey & Wallace Theatrical '
Co.” About twenty of the section, ]
upon reading this sign, Immediately
applied for the position of office boy. i
I accepted the twenty applicants, and
sent them on scouting parties through- i
out the deserted French village. These
parties were to search all the attics for
discarded civilian clothes, and any- <
thing that we could use in the props '
of our proposed company.
About five that night they returned
covered with grime and dust, but load
ed down with a miscellaneous assort
ment of everything under the sun.
They must have thought that I was
going to start a department store.
Judging from the different things they
brought back from their pillage. i
After eight days’ constant writing I I
completed a two-act farce comedy s
which 1 called “The Diamond Palace ]
Saloon.” Upon the suggestion of one
of the boys in the section I sent a proof i
of the program to a printing house in i
London. Then 1 assigned the different i
parts and started rehearsing. David |
Belasco would have thrown up his
hands in despair at the material which
I had to use. Just imagine trying to ■
teach a Tommy, with a strong cockney ,
accent, to impersonate a Bowery tough |
or a Southern negro. ,
Adjacent to our billet \yas an open i
field. We got busy at one end of it and !
constructed a stage. We secured the
lumber for the stage by demolishing
an old wooden shack in the rear of 11
our billet.
Thp first Hppnp wn« eiinrwiQPil tr» ppn.
resent a street on the Bowery in New
York, while the scene of the second
act was the interior of the Diamond j
Palace saloon, also on the Bowery.
In the play I took the part of Abe
Switch, a farmer, who had come from
Pumpkinville Center, Tenn., to make
his first visit to New York.
In the first scene Abe Switch meets
the proprietor of the Diamond Palace
saloon, a ramshackle affair which to j
the owner was a financial loss.
The proprietor’s name was Tom j
Twistem, his bartender being named
Fillem Up.
After meeting Abe, Tom and Fillem
Up persuaded him to buy the place,
praising it to the skies and telling j
wondrous tales of the money taken
over the bar.
While they are talking, an old Jew
named Ikey Cohenstein comes along,
and Abe engages him for cashier. After
engaging Ikey they meet an old
Southern negro called Sambo, and
upon the suggestion of Ikey he is en
gaged as porter. Then the three of
Preparing the “Chow."
them, arm in arm, leave to take pos
session of this wonderful palace which
Abe has just paid $6,000 for. (Cur
tain.)
Iu the second a*t the curtain rises
on the interior of the Diamond Palace
saloon, and the audience gets its first
shock. The saloon looks like a pig
pen, two tramps lying drunk on the
floor, and the bartender in a dirty
shirt with his sleeves rolled up, asleep
with his head on the bar.
Enter Abe, Sambo and Ikey, and the
fun commences.
One of the characters in the second
act was named Broadway Kate, and I
had an awful job to break in one of
the Tommies to act aud talk like a
woman.
Another character was Alkali Ike, an
Arizona cowboy, who just before the
close of the play comes into the saloou
and wrecks it with his revolver.
We had eleven three-hour rehearsals
before I thought it advisable to pre
sent the sketch to the public.
The whole brigade was crazy to
witness the first performance. This
performance was scheduled for Friday
night and everyone was full of antici
pation ; when bang! orders came
through that the brigade would move at
two that afternoon. Cursing and
blinding was the order of things upon
the receipt of this order, but we
moved.
That night we reached the little vil
lage of S-and again went into rest
billets. We were to be there two
weeks. Our company immediately got
busy and scoured the village for a
suitable place in which to present our
production. Then we received another
shock.
A rival company was already estab
lished iu the villiure. They called
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hemselves “The Bow Bells,” and
>ut on a sketch entitled, “Blighty—
Vhat Hopes?” They were the divl
iional concert party.
We hoped they all would be soon
n Blighty to give us a chance.
This company charged an admission
>f a franc per head, and ttiat night
iur company went en masse to see
heir performance. It really was good.
I had a sinking sensation when l
bought of running my sketch in op
losition to it.
In one of their scenes they had a
■ouhrette called Flossie. The soldier
hat took this part was clever and
nade a fine-appearing and chic girl.
iVe immediately fell in love with her
intil two days after, while we were
>n a march, we passed Flossie with
‘her” sleeves rolled up and the sweat
louring from “her” face unloading
shells from a motor lorry.
As our section passed her I yelled
>ut: "Hello, Flossie; Blighty—What
ilopes?” Her reply made our love die
Hit instantly.
“Ah, go to h—1!”
This brought quite a laugh from the
narching column directed at me, and I
nstantly made up my mind that our
iketch should Immediately run in «p
losition to “Blighty—What Hopes?"
When we returned to our billet from
he march, Curley Wallace, my the
itrical partner, came running over to
ne and said he had found a swanky
dace in which to produce our show.
After taking off my equipment, and
'ollowed by the rest of the section, I
vent over to the building he had picked
>ut. It was a monstrous barn with a
datform at one end which would make
in ideal stage. The section got right
in the job. and before night had that
dace rigged out in apple-pie order.
The next day was Sunday and after
•hurch parade we put all our time on
i /Irneo roVino real u nH If tuont flno
I made four or five large signs an
louncing that our company would opea
ip that evening at the King George the
^ifth theater, on the corner of Ammo
street and Sandbag terrace. General
idmission was one-half franc. First
:en rows in orchestra one franc, and
ioxes two francs. By this time our
irinted programs had returned from
London, and I further announced that
>n the night of the first performance
i program would be given free of
■harge to men holding tickets costing a
franc or over.
We had an orchestra of seven men
und seven different instruments. This
orchestra was excellent, while they
were not playiDg.
The performance was scheduled to
start at fi p. m.
At 5:15 there was a mob in front of
our one entrance and It looked like a
big night. We had two boxes each ic
coinmodating four people, and t! • se
we immediately sold out. The a
brilliant Idea came to Ikey Cohens •*.
Why not use the rafters overhead, U
them boxes, and charge two francs r
a seat on them? The only difficuliy
was how were the men to reach these
boxes, but to Ikey this was a mere de
tail.
He got long ropes and tied one end
around each rafter and then tied a lot
of knots in the ropes. These ropes
would take the place of stairways.
We figured out that the rafters
would seat about forty men and sold
that number of tickets accordingly.
When the ticketholders for the boxes
got a glimpse of the rafters and ware
informed that they had to use the rope
stairway, there was a howl of indigna
tion, but we had their money and told
them that if they did not like it they
could write to the management later
and their money would be refunded;
but under these conditions they would
not be allowed to witness the perform
ance that night.
After a little grousing they accepted
the situation with the promise that If
the show was rotten they certainly
would let us know about it during tha
performance.
Everything went lovely and it was a
howling success, until Alkali Ike ap
peared on the scene with his revolver
loaded with blank cartridges. Behind
the bar on a shelf w-as a long line of
bottles. Alkali Ike was supposed to
start on the left of this line and break
six of the bottles by firing at them with
his revolver. Behind these bottles a
piece of painted canvas was supposed
to represent the back of the bar, at
each shot from Alkali’s pistol a man
behind the scenes would hit one of the
bottles with his entrenching tool
handle and smash It, to give the im
pression that Alkali was a good shot.
Alkali Ike started tn and aimed at
the right of the line of bottles instead
of the left, and the poor boob behind
the scenes started breaking the botiles
(To be Continued)
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