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FIRE DRILL
THE CADUCEUS.
CITED FOR BRAVERY
SUNSHINE LETTER
HOSPITAL PERSONNEL TURNS
OUT STRONG.
Despite the intense heat of Monday
afternoon when the fire call sounded
at 2 o’clock, the men instantly left
their duties and dashed headlong for
the fire house; where they were as
signed to the various pieces of appar
atus, which were rapidly rushed to
the scene of the supposed fire in con
valescing barracks No. 4, near the
nurses’ home.
Although there was some slight con
fusion at the fire house the men did
very well as a whole, what little in
terruption occurred arising from the
over anxiety of the boys to do their
best and in so attempting were not
as observant of the rules of discip
line as was possible.
“That is one failing that should be
overcome,” said Fire Marshal Harvey
to the boys later on,” for there is
nothing that so upsets the efficiency
of a fire-fighting organization as the
lack of the proper discipline.”
It is interesting to note the vast
improvement shown by the men since
they were called upon to fight the
threatening and disastrous fire that
destroyed the laboratory and operat
ing room on December 31 last. On
that occasion the men were compell
ed to dash madly into the very path
of the flames with axes and chemmais
to arrest the further advance of that
all destroying element fire. The fact
that they were successful in saving
FOURTH ENGINEERS IN THICK OF
THE FRAY.
Official despatches from Gen. PersU
ing Thursday, contained the names ot
Lt. L. P. Mail, E Co., Capt. J. P. Grow-
den, P C., and Maj. Newcomer, in
command of the second battalion, of
the Fourth U. S. Engineers, cited for
bravery under heavy fire.
Lt. Mail, under heavy machine gun
fire, succeeded in laying large planks,
as a foundation to a temporary bridge,
across the Vesle river.
West of Fismes, Major Newcomer
anad Capt. Growden felled a tree on
the South bank, which spanned the
Vesle; then crossing to the North
bank, they felled another which reach
ed the South bank, thus forming
stringers for a temporary foot bridge.
All this was done in the zone of in
tense fighting and during daylight.
These men were in Camp Greene
for four months. Lt. Mail will be re-
meembered as having charge ot the
two companies who constructed the
stretch of cinder road from the Ad
ministration Building to the Tucka-
seege road.
The following extract is taken from
the daily newspaper of Sedalia, Mis
souri;
“G. A. Smith, living on Route 7,
Sedalia, is home from Camp Greene.
North Carolina, where he was called
by the illness of his son, George, a
member of the Fourth Company, Third
Motor Mechanic regiment, who was
stricken with pneumonia.
“Mr. Smith found his son in a hos
pital, surrounded by the best, with at
tendants who gave him every possible
attention. He left his son much im
proved, out of danger and on the road
to recovery.
“Mr. Smith was impressed with the
surroundings at the hospital and the
careful attention the officers gave the
boys.
“ ‘My boy received better attention
than he could have been given at
home, and it equalled that at public
and private hospitals in cities,” con
cluded Mr. Smith.”
BREAKING
the remainder of the hospital is one
that caused many praising comments
from the press and the officers of the
hospital at that time and no doubt
Lieutenant Harvey is well pleased to
have an organization which has acr-
ually withstood the test and faced
the flames, under his immediate con
trol.
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