DOGS ME LEARNING
' TO LEAD THE HUE
PLESSIS-TREVISE, France—Th<
training of dogs to lead the blin<
has become* an important institu
tion at Plessis-Trevise, where thou
sands of anibals will eventually b<
\ prepared to lead sightless soldiers
The work is being done under tht
direction of the military authorities
by amateurs who owned kennels
of police and hunting dogs befors
the war.
Several hundred poodles are con
tinually trotting about the neighbor
hood and through the the village
writes an Associated Press News
gatherer, some of them “graduates’
of the big training school, leading
■“poilus” who left their sight in th<
trenches or in the battlefield. This
Teal experience puts the finishing
touch to the dog’s education.
The training is divided into twc
periods, during the first of whicl
the dog learns what is called “car
riage,” or road behavior, abstenance.
from quarrels and resistance to
temptations to playing with other
| dogs, neglect of grabage boxes and
butcher shops. Next he is taught
! to avoid obstacles and how to pick
1 his way across the street with regard
' for vehicles.
Then he is turned over to a sight
less hero of the war and kept under
obseravtion for a few days to make
sure that his training is complete.
The blind man, too requires a little
training with the dog, for he finds
it an entirely different matter to
follow the string af*er having been
, led by the arm. Guided by a per
son, he abandons himself to his con
i ductor and loses all notion of self
1 reliance, feeling that he is domin
■ ated by another will than his own..
Consequently he insufficiently de-'
velops his remaining senses to make I
up for the one that is lacking. Led
by a dog which must be ordered, no
matter how efficient his training,
he develops the seneses of touch and
hearing with remarkable rapidity
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NOTICE REGARDING ESTRA1
ANIMALS
Nenana, June 19, 1918
Commission.
After June 20, 1918, any estar;
animals found on Alaskan Engineer
ing Commission property will bi
taken up and cared for at the Com
mission stables. The cost of taking
up, posting description and care am
feed of same must be paid by thi
owners to Recover animais.
The term “estray animals” will in
elude horses, mules, cows, dogs am
pigs that are running at large.
The charge for taking up am
posting notice will be One ($1.00
Dollar, and the cost for care and fee(
will be Ten ($10.00) Dollars for thi
first day, or fraction thereof, am
Five ($5.00) Dollars for each sue
ceeding day, for horses, mules an.
cows;* other animals Three ($3.00
Dollars each day, or fraction there
of.
FRED’K D. BROWNE,
Engineer in Charge
Townsite.
After this date estray animal
found on To nsite streets, side
walks, alleys, lots or reserves wil
be handled in the manner describe!
in the above notice for Commissioi
property, at the Commission stables
All property owners who find estray
Dn or near their property are aske<
to take up same and deliver to thi
Townsite officials.
The public has suffered consider
able damage from this source and i
is earnestly hoped that they will givi
their hearty co-operation to thi
measure for protecting public inter
ests. This action complies with thi
laws of Alaska and strict enforce
ment is intended.
F. S. RYUS,
Townsite Manager
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Largest Guns Ever Used by U. S.
Against Land Enemy Fittingly
Christened.
“The American heavy artillery as
sisted,” said a sentence in a French
communique recently. There was
just that mere, simple statement but
the five words marked an epochal
event—the first participation of
American big guns in this war. The
details were not given.
It is now permissible to tell, for
the first time, how these American
guns assisted in demoralizing the
German defenses at Butte du Mesnil,
enabling the French infantry to in
vade the enemy’s lines to a depth
of 1200 yards on a 1500-yard front,
and then helped in maintaining a
barrage, which prevented a Boche
counter attack until the new posi
tions were consolidated.
The first shots from the American
“heavies” were fired on Feburary
13, from a French made 320 centi
meter gun, the largest weapon used
by the United States against an ene
my on land. It was a sort of invi
tational proposition. The French
notified the Americans that they
were preparing a surprise party for
Fritz and asked the artillery divi
sion if it wanted to get in on it.
The artillery service did.
Much Stage Setting Fir»t
Firing a salvo from a battery of
really big guns doesn’t consist mere
ly of pulling the firing string and
sending the projectiles across No j'
Man’s Land. It requires a deal of j “
preparation and stage setting and I ^
nice engineering work and observa-1
tion. For, before a “heavy” begins j
to pound away, it must be known 1
exactly what mark ft is shooting at!
and exactly where that mark is. I
In this instance, the marks were a
few German strong points—a fort,
a machine gun nest, a communicat- j
ing center—one of which had been !
spotted by French aviators and were
located with exactitude on a map
j which was turned over to the Ameri
j cans. [ ^
A week before the attack, a group ;
; of artillery officers selected the lo- a
j cation of the battery. They took f
tripods and transits and levels and
finally staked out lines for the run- ;
ning of “epis.”
“Epi” is a brand new word in the
tl
American soldier’s vocabulary. It is ^
the name for a sidetrack which F
; leaves the main track on a curve a
! and bears off until it is pointing a
directly toward the object to be
,. , | e<
I fired upon.
| Somewhere back of the front is n
j an American heavy artillery base. :a
I There are stored and groomed, as- y
sembled and repaired, some of the °
big guns of the American army. ri
Most of them are mounted on spe- a
cially made railroad trucks. After Vl
the artillery officers had made their i
reconnoiter and staked out the “epis”
a train pulled out from here one w
night bearing several hundred husky
artillerymen going, enthusiasticlly to ^
their first “job”. | ^
Some time later, the train pulled ~
up to the chosen site and the crew *;*
started to work. They unloaded rails ' ♦{•
and ties, laid the sidetracks, and bal- •{■
lasted and braced them to support
the shock strain of the “heavies”
in action, which is infinitely greater
for instance than the weight of the
biggest locomotive.
First “Barrel Off on Trip.
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They did not do it all in one night. X
It was a four-night job and, as the X
German aviators have a habit of <*
bombing stray cars behind the lines “
when they see them, the train and jj
men were pulled away each morning
before daybreak and stayed during
the day in a cut several miles away.
On the morning of Februray 13
the work was completed and the
guns were brought up and “spotted”
on the new tracks. They were
“shored up” during the morning and
at 2 p. m., as the French began
I their attack, they began to fire.
As each gun was fired, the 16
wheel truck upon which it was
mounted bounded backward several
feet and a sheen of smoke covered
the gun. As this dissipated, the ar
tillerymen watched something re
sembling a barrel soar and eventu- ^
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Ily disappear, to be followed in a
?w seconds by an explosion eight
r ten miles away.
Right after the battery opened,
ie German strong points began to
y into the air and dissolve. The
rench smaller artillery, pounding
vay ahead, cleared the foreground
id when the French infantry dash
1 across the Ge-man lines, they j
et with only disorganized resist- i
ice. The French gained 1200
irds on a 1500-yard front and co
•dinated the positions while a bar
ige was thrown up, with the assist
ice of the American pieces, to pre
rnt a counter attack.
J. D. Reagh and son Jack, who
ere passlngers on the Yukon,
>und for Fairbanks, stopped off at
ot Springs and will probably joiw
e Tanana to complete the journe
BILLY THOMAS RESIGNS
TO JOIN THE ARMY
\\ illiam Thomas, locomotive en
gineer in the employ of the Alaskan
Engineering commission, has re
signed his position and will accom
pany Ed Mclnnes on the steamei
Yukon and enlist in the 57th En
gineers soon after his arrival in
the States.
Billy was one of the first railroai
men to arrive in N'enana and for a
time worked as foreman in charge
of the gang that made the first
clearing on the present townsite.
He has since worked for the Alas
kan Engineering commission in var
ious capacities, his last appoint
ment being locomotive engineer 01
the 270.
Billy is after big game and says
he sure will get the kaiser if he
can.
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