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'‘JlSsiWrtfsKinw ninnmi^ f: i »r, 1 '! M 'i ;i Si i • ALWAYS TURNING THE CADUCEUS WORKS WITHOUT PAY Somewhere through the stretches of Camp Greene there is always an ambulance running. During the re cent influenza epidemic the entire squad of fifteen machines was splash ing through the mud and rain and racing through the night to answer the calls which kept the telephone at the headquarters of Ambulance No. 60 al ways jingling. Ambulance Company No. 60 has made 2,709 calls, and a part of them require hours to execute, since that organization was given control of the motor carriers on August, 6. It is es timated that more than 16,000 patients have been carried to and from the base hospital by the ambulance dur ing the past three months, as six pa tients per load , is the average for the . calls answered by the Company No. 60 men. During the month of October the ambulance drivers responded to 1,493 calls. ^Nearly 1,000 of that number was during the two weeks that the influenza raged in the camp. There were as high as thirty calls per day for a part of the machines and a part of the drivers would not leave their post for stretches of 48 hours. It was a fine show of American grit and the wild rides through part of the camp, when rain ■ and mud and darkness combined against the weary pilot gives a record to the nervy crew that stacks up well against the noble showing of their brother driv ers “over there.” The drivers of the twelve ambu lances, which are always in running order while three of the cars are be ing overhauled, are Fisher, Sharp, Ganey, Hancock, Brown, Arnison, Bck- land Jordan, Spencer, White, Busch and Bozanske. Sergeant W. A. Scan- lan is. mechanic for ,yie machines and it is through his efforts that the cars, which have been in constant service for more than a year, are kept in perfect running order. THOMAS D. GARDNER HAS HELP- ED CAMP SINCE JUNE. Without a cent of pay Thomas D. Gardner has given his services as head of the Red Cross organizatioit of Camp Greene since the first of last July. By his untiring efforts to aid the medical work and to help individ uals who seek information from the Red Cross he has made himself one of the most highly respected men in the camp. It was largely through the efforts of Thomas D. Gardner that the Red Cross building was obtained for the base hospital. THOMAS D. GARDNER. The home of Thomas Gardner Is in Quincey, Illinois. He had retired from the practice of dentistry when the war broke out and he felt called upon to give his service for humanity. WINS THE PRIZE JOKE BRINGS OUT STANDARD OF CONTRIBUTORS. The fact that one of the regular con tributors to he Caduceus won the prize for the funniest army joke in Judge, the national fun magazine, last week, is no rfeflection upon the standard of the contributed works of our base hos pital magazine. Private Hughes, who has written the Piedmont Fables and other Caduceus features under the name of Knight Audwhlee, has recent ly been transferred to the camp vet erinary corps but continues his writ ing tor our magazine. The following clipping from Judge tells its own story: THIS WEEK’S $5 PRIZE WINNER’. His Not To Reason Why. (By Private M. J. Hughes, Base Hos pital Detachment, Camp Greene.) The recruits were in line tor their first meal, which consisted of “slum” (hjeef stew), with ice cream for desert. The slum was served in the hollow part of their mess kits and the ice cream on the converted covers. In order to hurry along the line a little, the impatient mess sergeant cried: "Come cn, you fellows, shake'it up!” Immediately one of the embryo sol diers put his ice cream into the slum, closed his mess kjt, and vigorously shook the mixture. BACK TO DUTY. After a lengthy furlough for farm ing purposes Private George Ez4Il has rejoined the base hospital detachment for duty. . He came to Camp Greene on July 1. He,had volunteered for overseas serv ice and was tp have gone with Evac uation Hospital No. 3() as soon as he could be relieved here but the end of the war has stopped short all such plans. DIXIE STORES CO. Cor. W. Trade & Mint Sts. Phone 1378 Recently Remodeled In better position to serve you. Best and Most Com plete Line of Tobacco in the City. Make our store your Headquarters while in town. E. M. MURRAY, Mgr. The Textile Mill Supply Company Everything in Mill and Factory Supplies Phones 2781-2782 Charlotte - N. C.
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