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CORDOVA, ALASKA
Headquarters of Cordova
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Club House founded in 1908
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from 1 p. m. to 10 p. m.
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“Over the Top”
By JU American Soldier
Who Went
ARTHUR GUY E1WEY
Machine Qetnntr Serving in France
(Copyright. 1V17. by Arthur Suy «mpey)
"SYNOPSIS.
CHATTER1!—Fired by the news of the
sinking of the Lusitania by a German
submarine, ATthur Guy Bmpey, an Ameri
can, leaves his office In Jersey City and
goes to 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 billet*
■■somewhere In France,” where he first
makes the acquaintance of the ever-pres
ent •■cootlS3.’’
CHAPTER III—Empey attends hfs first
church services at the front while a Ger
man Pokksr circles over the congregation.
CHAPTER IV—Empey’s command goes
Into the front-line trenches and Is under
file 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 get 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 his first friend of the
trenches "go West.”
CHAPTER IX—Empey makes his first
visit try a dugout In “8ulclde 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 itlmo In a charge on the
German trenches and Is wounded by *
bayenie; thrust. ,
CHAPTER XIII—Each Tommy gets
an official bath.
CHAPTER XIV—Empey helps dig
an advanced trench under German
fire.
CHiAPTER XV—On “listening post”
in No Man’s Lana.
CHAPTER XVI—Two artillerymen
“put one over” on Old Pepper, their
regimental commander.
CHAPTER XVII—Empey has nar
row escape while on patrol duty in No
Majlis Land.
CHAPTER XVIII—Back in rest bil
lets Empey writes and stages a farte
c.os»edy.
CHAPTER XIX—Soldiers have
many ways to amuse themselves
while “on their own.”
CHAPTER XX—Empey volunteers
for machine gun service and goes
back rtnto the front-line trenches.
CAPTER XXI—Empey again goes
“over the top” in a charge which cost
his company seventeen killed and
thirty-one wounded.
CHAPTER XXII—Trick with a ma
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chine gun silences one bothersome
preceded by gas wave, is repulsed.
CHAPTER XXIV—Empey is forced
° ta*« fiart in an execution as a room
ier of the firing squad.
CHAPTER XXV—British prepare
or the Big Push—the hatlle of the I
CHAPTER XXVI—In a trench raid, I
•receding tht Big Push, Empey is des. j
•erately wounded and lies unconscious '
n No Man s Land for thirty-six hours. |
CHAPTER XXVII—After four
months in a British hospital, Empey
’ discharged as “physically unfit for j
urther war service.”
I'm inside of this train looted like
cuven to me, just pure white, and we j
let our first Red Cross nurses; we !
bought they wore angels. And tliev I
:Ze- ‘ i
Xice little soft hunks and clean, I i
’bite sheets. - j ,
A Red Cross nurse sat beside mo i .
(luring the whole ride which lasted
iluee hours, she was holding ui.s
I 'vrist 1 1 thought I had made a hit, and
", ^ieil to tell her how I got wounded,
i but she would put her linger to her lips
j and say, “Yes, I know, hut you mustn’t
j talk now, try to go to sleep, it’ll do you
■j doctor’s orders.” Later on I
. | leal ned that she was taking my pulse
! every few minutes, as I was very weak
from the loss of blood and they ex
; peered me to snuff it, but I didn’t.
From the train we went into ambu
lances for a short ride to the hospital
ship 1 antima. Another palace and more
angel*. I don't remember the trip
j across the channel.
I opened my eyes; I was being car
! Hed on a stretcher through lanes of
people, some cheering,* some waving
' j and others crying. The flags wen*
1 nion Jacks, I was In Southampton.
1 Ei ghty ^;t last. My stretcher was
strewn with flowers, cigarettes, and
chocolates. Tears started to run down
my check from my good eye. I like a
booby was crying. Can you beat it?—
Then into another hospital train, a
five-hour ride to Paignton, another am
bulance ride, and then I was carried
into Munsey ward of the American
j n omen's War hospital and put into a
I real bed.
I bis real bed was too much for my
unstrung nerves and I fainted.
W lien I came to, a pretty Red Cross
nurse was bending over me, bathing
my forehead with cold water, then she
leit and the ward orderly placed a
screen around my bed, and gave me a
much-needed hath and clean pajamas.
Jbeil the screen was removed and a
mu 1 of steaming soup was given me. i
It tasted delicious.
Before finishing my soup the nurse
came back to ask me my name and
number. She put this information down
in u little book and then asked;
,u m .— 1 ■
"W hf% come from ?" I an
swered l-vjl
“Frnijjg fryug town behind the I
Statue flirty -*• upon hearing this
she ^t^fimptng up and down,
cf|>pin;r ihnnds, and calling out to |
three Ov^spross fjje ward:
girls—at last we have i
got a r^yetTfunkee w'th us.”
Thcyae|over and besieged me \
with <Pofts. until the doctor ivr
rived. ,n learning that I was an \
Amerio;e Almost crushed my hand
in his ,,-of welcome. They also |
ware A'jjsgUs, and were glad to see j
me.
The o(* I very tenderly removed
my liaPes and told me, after view
ing my mgs,'that he w'ould have to
take m«:tho operating theater tm- i
mediatfipprsonally I didn’t care
what wutc with me.
In a 'minutes, four orderlies who
looked i- Undertakers dressed in j
’White, igbt a stretcher to my bed
and plajSe on it carried me out of
the wu across a courtyard to the
operati-Aom or “pictures,” as Tom
my cnliflf
I doicemember having the anes
thesticilied.
Whs{j®ie to I was again lying in
a bed Mtinsey ward. One of the
nursesfllraped a large American
flag ocjjie bead of the bed, and
claspct!8iy hand was a smaller flag,
and it de me feel good all over to
again the “Stars and Stripes.”
At t time I wondered when the
boys ihe trenches would see the |
ernblerf Ihe “land of the free and
the ho of the brave” beside them,
doing bit In this great war of civi
Uzutioi *j|
My mfls were very painful, and
severuflts at night I would dream
that uads of khaki-clothed figures
would ss my bed and each would
stop, 14 over me, and whisper, “The
best otefc, mate.”
Soal with perspiration I would
awuketh a cry, and the night nurse
wouldipe over and hold my hand.
This tJBnlng got to be a habit with
me m that particular nurse was
transffl to another ward.
In ee weeks’ time, owing to the
caret spent m ent received, I was able
to sit I and get my bearings. Our
ward 'Itained seventy-five patients,
90 pejpbt of which were surgical
cases.,t the head of each bed hung
a tenHgture chart and diagnosis
sheet. ic ross this sheet would be
wFlttefl S. W.” or “S. W.,” the for
mer nilTiig gun shot wound and the
latter M wound. The “S. W.” pre
domlnfl especially among the Royal
Field ftp cry and Royal engineers.
Ahon irty different regiments were
repres 3, and many arguments en
sued a the respective fighting abil
ity of regiment. The rivalry was
wonde A Jock arguing with an
Irishtt) then a strong Cockney ac
cent w I butt in in favor of a Lon
don re put. Before long a Welsh
nmn,A.|ve(l by a member of a York
dlaflrdfle themselves and the argu
meiflaxes loud and furious. The
patfl in the beds start howling for
then settle their dispute outside
andl ward is in an uproar. The
heatftter comes along and with a
wav! the hand completely routs the
dou« warriors and again silence
reig«upreine.
Wlesdny and Sunday of each week
wercMsiting days and were looked
fonvl to by the men, because they
men ila reels containing fruit, sweets
or fal When a patient bad a regular
visitilhe was generally kept well
suppl with these delicacies. Great
jcnloM is shown among tiie tnen as
io th®fisitors anti many word wars
rnsuelter the visitors leave.
Wh4i man is sent to a eonvales
-ent !■>. lie generally turns over his
doadBitor to the man in the next
Mo* Iitnrs have autograph albums
l,1d lS Tommy to death by asking
tint ' j [rite the particulars of his
vountfl in same. Several Tommies
big tliKitors that they cannot write,
but thBeyer phases the owner of the
album® or she. generally she. offers
",,Pt for them and Tommy is
stung ® telling his experiences.
The lotions asked Tommy l>y visi
tors '#1 make a clever joke book
to a i tiRry man.
SomBindly looking old lady will
stop a Bur bed and in a sympathetic
voice Bress you: “You poor boy,
woundBfiy those terrible Germans.
Yon i be suffering frightful pain.
A lulli«,lid you say? Well, tell me,
I haveBlayg wanted to know, did it
burt wft going in or coming out?”
TomBgenerally replies that he did
not st p i figure it out when he was
One |[ey nice-looking, overenthusi
astic y jig thing, stopped at my bed
and asl be “What wounded you in the
face?” 6
i
plite but bored tone I an
ti rifle bullet.”
R look of disdain she passed
(5 bed, first ejaculating, “Ob!
billet? I thought it was a ;
Wiy 'die should think a shell i
^ more of a distinction beats ;
f'i’t see a ■whole lot of differ- !
r
WOrican Women’s War hospl- I
heaven for wounded men, i
They wen allowed every privilege pos- i
sible coiMicive with the rides and mill- :
tary dis|i;)iine- The only fault was I
that the peg’a passes were restricted.
To get a pass required an act of par
liament. Tommy tried many tricks to
get out, bat the eommundunt, uu old
Boer war officer, was wise to them all, (
and it took a new and clever ruse to
make him affix his signature to the 1
coveted slip ()f paper.
As soon as it would get dark many a
patient clitnbed over the wall and went
“on his own,” regardless of many signs
itnrlng him In^the fare, “Out of hound*
'or patients.” Generally the nurse*
wrp looking the other way when one
>f these night raids started. I hope
:hls information will get none of them
nto trouble, but I cannot resist the
temptation to let the commandant
know that occasionally we put It over
m him.
One afternoon I received a note,
through our underground channel, from
tuy female visitor, asking me to attend
a party at her house that night. I
answered that she could expect me and
to meet me at a certain place on the
road well known by all patients, and
some visitors, as “over the wall.” I
told her I would be on hand at seven
thirty.
About seven-fifteen I sneaked my
overcoat and cap out of the ward and
hid It in the bushes. Then I told the
nurse, a particular friend of mine, that
I was going for a walk in the rose gar
den. She winked and I knew that ev
erything was all right on her end.
Going out of the ward, I slipped into
the bushes and made for the wall. It
was dark as pitch and I was groping
through the underbrush, when sudden
ly I stepped Into space and felt myself
rushing downward, a horrible bump,
and blackness. When I came to my
wounded shoulder was hurting horri
bly. I was lying against n circular
wall of bricks, dripping with moisture,
and far away I could hear the trickling
of water. I had in the darkness fallen
Into an old disused well. But why
wasn’t I wet? According to all rules
I should have been drowned. Perhaps
I was and didn’t know It.
As the shock of my sudden stop
gradually wore off it came to me that
I was lying on u ledge and that the
least movement on my part would pre
cipitate me to the bottom of the well.
I struck a match. In its faint glare
I saw that I was lying In a circular
hole about twelve feet deep—the well
had been filled In ! The dripping I had
heard came from a water pipe over on
my right.
With my wounded shoulder It was
Impossible to shinny up the pipe. I
could not yell for help, because the
rescuer would want to know how the
accident happened, and I would be
haled before the commandant on
charges. I just had to grin and bear
It, with the forlorn hope that one of
the returning night raiders would pass
and I could give him our usual signal
of “siss-s-s-s,” which would bring him
to the rescue.
Every half-hour I could hear the
clock in the village strike, each stroke
bringing forth a muffled volley of
curses on the man who had dug the
well.
After two hours I heard two men
talking' in low voices. I recognized
Corporal Cook, an ardent “night raid
er.” He heard my “siss-s-s-s” and
came to the edge of the hole. I ex
plained my predicament and amid a lot
of Impertinent remarks, which at the
time I did not resent, I was soon fished
Taking off our boots, we sneaked into
the ward. I was sitting on my bed in
tfte dark, just starting to undress,
when the man next to me, “Ginger”
Phillips, whispered, “’Op it, Yank, ’ere
comes the matron.”
I immediately got under the covers
and feigned sleep. The matron stood
talking in low tones to the night nurse
and I fell asleep.
I' *1( n I awoke in the morning the
night sister, an American, was bending
over me. An awful sight met my eyes.
The coverlet on the bed and the sheets
were a mass of mud and green slime.
She was a good sport all right, and
hustled to get clean clothes and sheets
so that no one would get wise, but “on
her own she gave me a good tongue
lashing but did not report me. < hie of
the Canadians in the ward described
her ns being “a Jake of a good fel
low.”
Next visiting day I had an awful
time explaining to my visitor why 1
had not met her at the appointed time
and place.
A|H: t"1' a wetx every time I passed
a patient he would call, "“Well, well,
here’s the Yank. Hope you are feel
ing well, old top.”
The surgeon in our ward was an
American, a Harvard unit man, named
Frost. We nicknamed him “Jack
Frost.” He was loved by all. If a
Tommy was to be cut up he had no ob
jection to undergoing the operation if
“Jack Frost” was to wield the knife.
Their confidence in him was pathetic.
He was the best sport I have ever met.
One Saturday morning the command
ant and some “high up" officers were
inspecting the ward, when one of the
patients who had been wounded In the
head by a bit of shrapnel, fell on the
floor in a fit. They brought him round,
and then looked for tile ward orderly
to carry the patient back to his bed i
at the other end of the ward. The or
derly was nowhere to he found—like
our policemen, they never are when
needed. The officers were at a loss
bow to get Palmer into his bed. Doc
tor Frost was fidgeting around in a
nervous manner, when suddenly with
i muffled “d-n” and a few other
lunlifying adjectives, he stooped down
tud took tlie man in his arms like a
baby—he was no feather, either—and
staggered down the ward with him, put
aim in bed and undressed him. A low
Murmur of approval came from the pa
rents. Doctor Frost got very red, and
is soon ns he had finished undressing
Palmer, hurriedly left the ward.
(To be Continued)
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Special Attention to
Prophylaxis and Pyorrhea.
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BOX 13 CORDOVA, ALASKA
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store,
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Drug Store. Residence,
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PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
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Phones—Residence 115; office 132
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Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Room 1.
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA
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Specialist in the treatment of
diseases and deformities of the
eye, ear, nose and throat; glasses
fitted.
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FRANK H. FOSTER
Attorney at Law
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