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COMFORT
SERVICE
SA FETY
To Yukon. Territory, Atlin District, Imterlof Alaska.
During the winter season ol 1917-18 our regular train ser
vice will be maintained Nortfc »*d South Beund between Skag
way and Whitehorse, trains learlsg both terminals on Tuesdays
ind Fridays. TiX1'..'*•! : 1
WINTER STAGE SERVICE
Our through Mall, Passenger ud Freight Service will ba
operated between Whltahorse tad Dawson, affording eredy pos
sible facility for comfortable wiit«r travel by means of a
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THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED STAGE AND AUTOMOBILE LINE. |
For full information apply to
C. W. CASH or A. F. ZIPF
upt. Mail Service Department Traffic Manager
WHITEHORSE. Y. T. 612 Second Ave.. SEATTLE, Wash
White Pass & Yukon Route
TIME TABLE No. 40.
Every Tuesday and Friday
Xo 1, X. Bound
1st Class
8:30 a. m. Leaves
11:05 a. m. "
11:15 a. in
12:40 p. m. "
2:20 p. m. "
4:50 p. m. Arrives
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SKAGWAY Arrive*
WHITE PASS Lfvea
LOG CABIN . "
BENNETT Jk "
OABCK06S , "
WHITEHORSE "
1st CtMSS
3:50 p. m.
2:20 p. m.
1:80 p. m.
12:60 p. m.
10:48 *. m.
8:00 *. to.
Passengers must be at a«po« u> urn u> u»yo I
spec ted and checked- Inspection Is stopped 30 minutes before j
leaving time of trains.
150 pounds of baggage will be checked free with each full
fare ticket and 75 pounds -wltfi e&di half fare ticket.
Relieves CATARRH Of
the
BLADDER
and all
Discbarges ia !
hours:
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name Cj* /^N
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GOT HIS HAIR BACK.
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Butte. Mantana, bought a bottle of New
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24 days be i*«d hair all over his head
On July-1 be -writes. "and today my hat
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Go To
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428 Broadway
I was very much Interested to learn
how a man's mail was taken care of
when anything had happened to him.
It seemed to me that the chance of his
letters being returned before his people
could he notified was very great On
asking about this I found that when a
man has been killed his letters are
marked "Killed," but instead of be
ing sent directly to his people they are
returned to the wnr oft lee and are sent
from there, after the casualty has been
made known, to his relatives. In this
way many people are saved a great
deal of premature worry and uneasi
ness.
I shall never foriret the time I saw
the Royal Horse artillery go into action,
for a more thrilling sight would be
hard to imagine. I was out alone in
the car. and I bad been doing patrol
duty. I went rather closer to our fir
ing line than I intended to, but decided
to push on until 1 struck the "route
uationale," so I would have a good road
all the rest of ihe way back to camp.
I had to go through the village of
Dickebusch, and as I came to the cross
roads just outside the village a sentry
stopped me and said 1 could not go on.
It seems that some Germans had got a
machine gun in the steeple of the
church and were cleaning tip every
thing that tried to pass. The horse
artillery had been sent for. and I learn
ed that they wen- on their way even
then.
1 decided to wait around and see
what happened, so l pulled in to the
side of the road. I had hardly stopped
when I heard a rush and rattle that
sounded like an old tlivver in the dis
tance. Around the curve dashed eight
horses on the dcul gallop, pulling an
eighteen pounder behind them. They
dashed by. but a! out fifty yards ahead
of me they swung around and trained
that gun on the church.
There was a moment's pause, and
then she spoke, and away weut steeple,
WIL1 1AM J. ROBINSON
Ucrilluiin. UUMIU.V —
first shot had bwa a clircct hit, nnd It
. couldn't have been better If they had
tried u thot!sand years.
It was tlii» very next day after this
event tlmt I g. t into as tight a fix as I
ever care to lind myself. 1 was order
ed to take three officers to u place call
ed Kemmel. I had been tliere before,
and from what I had seen then I wasn't
eager about making I lie trip again.
We started off about 1 o'clock and
expected to lie I a' k by .">. I noticed as
Ieante to tln> Kemmel road that there
were two sentries on duty there, but
as the.- only saluted the officers and
didn't say anything 1 thought no more
about it. Kemmel lies at the foot
of a hill and is tucked in between
Mount X«'lr and Mount Kemmel. It
would be a cozy little place In peace
time, but it is an awful trap to get
caught in when there is a war on.
1 sent the car up the hill as fast she
could go. ami it was a long climb. As
we went over the brow and started on
the down grade we ran right under the
nose of the German artillery observers.
This road was officially closed, and
those sentries should have stopped us.
Well, it scared me so that I went
I down that bill so fast those officers
must have thought tliey were in a para
chute. As we entered the village the
shells commenced to drop in on us, and
' we ran for the nearest shelter, which
' happened to be a brewery.
There wasn't much left of the place
• anyway. «s it had been in German
i bunds, and we had shelled them out or
1 it, and when we hitd taken it they had
shelled us out of it. An.vway, we left
i the car und crawled into the cellar. It
was wet and lilihy, iiut it lonked just
i like heaven lo me that day.
We lay there in all this filth hour
after hour, while the shells literally
i poured in all around us. They cer
tainly wasted a lot of good ammunition
trying to get us, but the best of it was
. that they didn't succeed. One of the
. officers remarked during a moment's
silence that the crown prince of Ger
| many must have made his headquar
I ters in the place when it was In Ger
k man hands. Another officer replied
that he wished the crown prince was
| there now.
We lay there till the fire let up,
| which it did about 5 o'clock. I /was
worrying about getting back, and I
| was also wondering what had become
. of the car. If it was gone we might
} just as well kiss ourselves goodby, for
I our chances of getting out on foot
I would be slim.
k When the fire had abated we came
' out and looked around. The enemy
) certainly had made a mess of the place.
for even the top story of the brewery
I had been shot away from over our
J heads. I went to look the car over, and
J you can just believe I was relieved to
| find that, aside from having a few
" holes through the body, it was all
' rkht.
FOURTEEN
MONTHS
VAT //
THEERONT
An American Boy'a
Baptism of Fire
By WILLIAM J.ROBINSON
Copyright, Little, Brown & Co.
The most graphic account of ths
great war that baa ret been written
comes from the pen of a twenty-two
year-old Boston boy, who haa Just re
turned from Franco, where as dragoon
guardsman, dispatch rider and motor
car driver he served fourteen months
under the British flag. Out of thirty
one motorcycle dispatch riders he was
one of four survivors.
The officers decided to wait until It
was dark before chancing to run back.
I didn't know what was going to. hap
pen to us. I wasn't very familiar with
the road, and I was afraid they would
have some kind of barricade up or
have a few machine guns trained on us
or something equally unpleasant.
I certainly was dreading that ride
back, but there was no other way out,
and we were between the devil and
the deep sea. It was at a time like that
that I wished that I bad never seen
the British army. I turned the car
around, and as soon as it was dark we
got in and started. I opened her up
The British Tommy Will Gambl# With,
On or For Anything.
wide, and by the time we got to the
bottom of the hill we were doing about
fifty miles un hour, and I couldn't see
very much, either, for of course I did
not use any lights.
1 didn't Mow what was waiting for
us at the t"|> of the hill, but I did
know that if there was anything there
we were going right through it, even
if wo didn't go any farther. The ridic
ulous part of It was that we went right
through and never saw a thing. Abso
lutely nothing happened, but I don't
ever want to feel again the way I felt
going up that hill.
Shortly after this I learned that the
British Tommy Is a great gambler and
will gamble with, oil or for anything.
Trench pools used to be very popular.
About ten fellows got together, and
each put 10 francs in a pool Just be
fore they went into action. They left
this money with som4 one behind the
lines, for thev would be ill action any
where from six days to three weeks.
The Idea of tlu pool was this: Those
who lived to get back would take ttu>
money and split it evenly uiuong them
selves. If only one lived he would
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have the whole lot. sometuues Un3
pools would be fairly b'g and some
times the reverse, but whatever the?
bad went In.
It was the only gamble I ever saw
where you couldn't lose. If you came
out safely you were bound to get your
own money back at least.
The Tommies are strong fur carrying
pets with Jhem too. They keep cana
ries, rats, mice, dogs, cats, goats and
even pigs, and they will go hungry
themselves rather than see the object
of their affections want for anything.
On the march if they get tired they
may throw their equipment away, but
1 never heard of one yet who would
give up bis mascot.
During the winter there was a lot of
talk about the "mad major." lie was
an artillery officer who was just about
the biggest daredevil I ever heard of.
He kept an aeroplane himself, and if
he wanted to correct a range he would
go and drop smoke bombs over the
point he wanted to get. He was abso
lutely fearless and would fly so low
that they would be potting at him with
revolvers, but it didn't seem to bother
him.
I have heard that be did more dam
age with his battery than a whole bri
gade of ordinary artillery could under
ordinary circumstances. I don't know
what became of him In the end, but the
lust of bis stunts that I heard about
was this: There was a big seventeen
inch howitzer doing us an awful lot of
damage. It was out of range of our
guns, and we were much put about as
to how to geflt out of action.
The "mad major" went out alone in
his aeroplane and took with him Just
one bomb, a hundred pounder. He lo
cated the gun he wanted while flying
at an altitude of 3.IHXI feet. lie got
right over the position und stopped his
engine. He did a nose dive to within
44>0 feet of the gun. Then he dropped
(lis bomb and blpw the Ilii'i■- to iituiiw
ITe got'tfacET safely, but fBe pTanes of
his machine were riddled with bullets.
Soon after this we were on the move,
and, us it happened, we went from bad
to worse. The fii'ot day we 'entered a
little place that was unoccupied by
troops, and we decided to spend the
night there. The Germans must have
heard of our arrival promptly, for be
fore we had been there an hour shells
(Continued Tomorrow) |
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milk and oraam to all poptit.
oa White Pa« & Yuko*
Route.
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