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BYNOPSIB.
CHAPTER I—lntroductory. Pat O'Brien
tells of his purpose In writing the stony
ot his adventures.
CHAPTER ll—Tells of bis enlistment In
the Royal Flying corps, his training In
Canada and his transfer to France for ac
tive duty.
CHAPTER lll—Describes fights In which
he brought down two German airplanes
and his ilnal fight in which he was
brought down wounded within the Ger
man lines and waa made a prisoner of
war.
CHAPTER IV—Discovers that German
hospital staff barbarously neglected the
fatally wounded and devoted their ener
gies to restoring those who might bo
returned to the firing lines. Witnesses
death In fight of his best, chum, Lieut.
Paul Ralney.
CHAPTER V-He Is taken to the of
ficers' prison camp at Courtral. There he
began planning his escape. By great sac
rifice he manages to save and hide away
two dally rations of bread.
CHAPTER Vl—He confiscates a map of
Germany and Just half an hour later la
f>ut on a train bound for a prison camp
n Germany. He leaps through a window
while the train is traveling at a rite of 80
miles an hour. ..
CHAPTER Vll—For nine days he
orawls through Germany. hiding during
the day, traveling at night, guided by the
stars and subsisting on raw vegetables.
He covers 76 miles before reaching Lux
emburg.
CHAPTER VIII—For nine days more he
struggles on in a weakened condition
through Luxemburg in the direction of
Belgium.
CHAPTER IX—He endures terrible
hardships, swims rivers while delirious
from hunger, living like a hunted animal
and on the eighteenth day after jumping
from the train he crosses Into Belgium.
CHAPTER X-When well on his way
through Belgium he is befriended one
night by a Flemish peasant, who feeds
him and directs him to a man in a Bel
gian city who will help him to get a pass
port.
CHAPTER Xl—By mingling with, Be
lgian peasants he manages to eludtt Ger
man soldlerto and reaches the Belgian city
where he finds tbe home of U«0 hian from
whom he expects help. ,
CHAPTER Xll—Huyliger forges a pass
port fdr O'Brien and,promises to assist
nim In setting into Holland. Later Huy
ltger and his associates demand an ex
orbitant sum for their services and
O'Brien breaks with them.
CHAPTER Xffcl—He spends five days
and nights in an unoccupied house with
out food except tor the scraps he picks up
in night forays.
CHAPTER XIV—To fraln confidence for
the adventures to come ih his attempt to
fret into Holland, he ventures one night
nto a moving picture theater patronized
by German soldiers.
CHAPTER XV—Some observations in a
Belgian city.
CHAPTER XVI—He leaves the city In
the daytime and after some hair-raising
adventures reaches the frontier of Hol
land.
CHAPTER XVI.
I Leave for the Frontier.
To get out of the city, it would be
necessary to pass two guards. This I
had learned In the course of my walks
at night* having frequently traveled
to the city limits with the Idea of
finding out just what conditions I
would have to meet when the time
came for me to leave.
A German soldier's uniform, how
ever, no longer worried me as It had
at first. I had mingled with the Huns
so much in the city that I began to
feel that I was really a Belgian, and I
assumed the Indifference that they
seemed to feel.
I decided, therefore, to walk out of
the city In the daytime, when the sen
tries would be less apt to be on the
watch. It worked fine. I was not
held up a moment, the sentries evi
dently taking me for a Belgian peas
ant on his way to work.
Traveling faster than X had ever
done before since my escape, I was
soon out in tbe open country, and tbe
first Belgian I came to I approached
for food. He gave me half of his
lunch and we sat down on the side of
the road to eat It. Of course, he tried
to talk to me? but I used the old ruse
of pretending I was deaf and dumb
and be was quite convinced that it was
so. He made various efforts to talk
to me In pantomime, but I could not
make out what he was getting at, and
I think he must have concluded that I
was not only half starved, deaf and
dumb, but "looney" In the bargain.
When night came X looked around
for a place to rest I bad decided to
travel In the daytime as well as night,
because I understood that It was only
a few miles from the frontier, and I
was naturally anxious to get there at
the earjlest possible moment, although
I realized that there I would encounter
the most hazardous part of my whole
adventure. To get through the heavily
guarded barbed wire and electrically
charged barrier was a problem that I
hated to think .of even, although the
hours I spent endeavoring to devise
some way of outwitting tho Huns
were many.
It had occurred to me, for Instance,
that It would not be such a difficult
matter to vault over the electric fence,
which was only nine feet high. In col
lege, I knew a ten-foot vault Is consid
ered a high-school boy's accomplish
ment. but there were two great dif
ficulties In the way of this solution,
la the first place It would be no easy
matter to get a pole of the rtgfct
lergtfc. weight and strength to serve
the purpose. More particularly, how
ever, the pole-vault Idea seemed to me
to be out of the question because of
the fact thpt on either side of the elec
tric fence, si* feet from It, was a six
foot barbed wire barrier. To vault
safely over a nine-foot electrically
charged fence was one thing, but to
combine with it a twelve-foot broad
vault was a feat wnfcTi even a college
athlete In the pink of condition would
be apt to 'Bunk. Indeed, I don't be
lieve It is^osslble.
Anotherplan that seemed half-way
reasonable was to build a pair of stilts
about twelve or fourteen feet high and
walk over the barriers one by one. As
a youngster I had acquired consider
able skill in stllt-walklng and I have
no doubt that with the proper equip
ment It would have been quite feas
ible to have walked out of Belgium
as easily as possible In that way, but
whether or not I was going to have a
chance to construct the necessary
stilts remained to be seen.
There were a good many bicycles In
use by the German soldiers In Belgium
and it had often occurred to me that
If I could have stolen one, the tires
would hove made excellent gloves and
insulated coverings for my feet In
case It was necessary for me to at
tempt to climb over the electric fence
bodily. But as I had never been able
to steal a bicycle this avenue of es
cape was closed to me.
I decided to wait until I arrived at
the barrier and then make up my mind
how to proceed.
To find a decent place to sleep that
night, I crawled under a barbed wire
fence, thinking It led into some field.
As I passed- under, one of tho barbs
caught In my CBttt and In trying to
pull myself from it I shook the fence
for several yards. f
Instantly there came'out of the night
the nerve-racking command: "Haiti"
Again I feared FVas done for. I
crouched close on the ground in
the darkness, not knowing whether to
take to my legs and trust to the Hun's
missing me In the darkness If he fired,
or stay where I was. It was foggy
as well as dark, and although I knew
the sentry was only a few feet away
from me I decided to stand, or rather
lie, pat I think mj» heart made almost
as much noise as the rattling of the
wire In the first place, and it was a
tense few moments to me.
"* I heard the German say a few words
to himself, but didn't understand them,
of course, and then he made a sound
as If to call a dog, and I realized that
his theory of the noise he had heard
was that a dog bad made Its way
through fence.
For perhttt* flvo minutes l{dldn't
stir, and then theiGerman
had probably continued onTitli beat 1
crept quietly under the wire again,
this time being mighty careful to bug
the ground so close that I wouldn't
touch the wire, and made off In a dif
ferent direction. Evidently the barbed
wire fence had been thrown around an
ammunition depot or something of the
kind, and It was not a field at all that
I had tried to get Into.
I figured that other sentries were
probably In tho neighborhood and I
proceeded very gingerly.
After I had got about a mile away
from this spot I came to an humble
Belgian house and I knocked at the
tioor and applied for food In my usual
way, pointing to my mouth to Indi
cate I was. hungry and to my ears and
mouth to imply that I wus deaf and
dumb. The Belgian woman who lived
In the bouse brought me a piece of
bread and two cold potutoes and as I
sat there eating them alio eyed me
very keenly.
I haven't the slightest doubt that
she realized I was a fugitive. She lived
qo nmir the border that It was more
for Sjjjjt" reason, I appreciated more
fully the extent of the risk she ran, for
no doubt the Germans were constantly
watching the conduct of these Bel
gians who lived the line.
My theory that she realized that I
was not a Belgian at nil, but prob
aby some English fugitive, Jfas con
firmed a moment later, \wben, as I
made ready to go, she touched me on
the arm and Indicated that I was to
wait a moment She went to a bureau
and brought out two pieces of fancy
Belgian lace wblch she insisted upon
my taking away, although at that par
ticular moment I bad as much use for
Belgian lace as an elephant for a
safety razor, but I was touched with
her thoughtfulnes* and pressed her
hoad to show my gratitude. She would
not accept the money I offered her.
I carried the lace through my sub
sequent experiences, feeling that It
would bo a fine souvenir for my
mother, although ps a matter of fact If
I had known that It was going to de
lay my final escape for even a single
moment, as It did, I am quite sure
she would rather I bad not seen It
On one piece of lace was the Flem
ish word "Charite" and on the other
tho word "Esperage." At the time I
took these words to mean "Charity"
and "Experience" and all I hoped was
that I would get as much of the one
as I was getting of the other before I
finally got through. I learned subse
quently that what the words really
stood for were "Charity" and "Hope,"
and then I was sure that my kind Bel
gian friend had Indeed realized my
plight and that her thoughtful sou
venir was Intended to encourage me In
the trials she must have known wers
before me.
1 didn't let the old Belgian lady
know, because I did not want to alarm
her unnecessarily, but that night I
slept In her backyard, leaving early
la the morning before It became light.
Later In the day I applied at an
other baese for food. It was occupied
by a father and mother snd ten chil
dren. I hesitated to ask them for food
GRAHAM, WC., THURSDAY, SEPIEMBER 19. 1918
without to pay for It, as I r*
•Used w3t a task It mug have been
fitf jjjiMy to support themselves with-
MjdPTng to feed a hungry man. Ac-
WBnigly I gave the man a mark and
then Indicated that I wanted some
thing to eat They were Just about to
•at, themselves, apparently, and they
let me partake of their meal, which
consisted of • huge bowl of some kind
of soup which I was unable to Iden
tify and which they served In ordinary
wash basins. I don't know that they
ever used the basins to wash In as
well, but whether they did or not did
not worry me very much. The soup
was good and I enjoyed It
All the time I was there I could see
the father and the eldest son, ■ boy
Again I Feared I Waa Dons For.
about seventeen, were extremely nerv
ous. I had Indicated to them that I
was deaf and dumb, but if they be
lieved me it didn't seem to make them
any more "comfortable.
I lingered at the house for about an
hour after the meal and during that
time a young man came to call on the
'eldest daughter, n youftjr woman of
perhaps eighteen. The caller eyed me
very suspiciously, although I must
have resembled anything but a-JBrltlsh
officer. They spoke Flemish bfldX4ld
not understand a word they tald.'ftgfc*
I think they were discussing my prtSb-'
able ldenttty. During their conversa
tion, I had a chance to look around
the room. There were three alto
gether, two fairly large and one
somewhat smaller, about fourteen feet
long and six deep. In this smaller
room there were two double-decked
beds, which were apparently Intended
to house the whole family, although
how the whole twelve of them could
sleep In that one room will ever re
main a mystery to me.
From the kitchen you fould walk
directly Into the cow-barn, where two
cows were kept, and this, as I have
pointed out before, Is tho usual con
struction of the poorer Belglun houses.
I could not make out why the caller
'seemed to be so antagonistic to me,
bnd yet Lam sure he was arguing with
. the family &«»JUut nPerhaps tho
fact that I wooden
shoes—l doubt whether I could have
obtained a pair big enough for nai,
had convinced him that I was nof
really a Belgian, becauso there was
nothing about me otherwise which
could have given him that Idea.
At that time, and I suppose it Is
true today, übout 04 per cent of the
people In Belgium were wearing
wooden shoes. Among tho peasants I
don't believe I ever saw uny other
kind of footwear and they are more
common there than they uro In Hol
land. The Dutch wear them more on
account of a luck of leather. I was
told that during the coming year prac
tically all the peasants and poorer
people In Germany, too, will adopt
wooden shoes for farm work, as that
is one direction In which wood cun be
substituted for leather without much
loss.
When the young man left, I, .left
shortly afterwards, as I wus not at
all comfortable about what his Inten
tions were regarding me. For all I
knew he might 'have gone to notify
tho German authorities that there was
• strange man In the vicinity—more
perhaps to protect his friends from
suspicion Of having aided me than to
injure me.
At any rate, I was not going to take
! any chances and I got out of that
neighborhood as rapidly as I could.
That night found me right on the
frontier of Holland.
CHAPTER XVII.
Getting Through tho tints.
Waiting until It was quite dark, I
! made my way carefully through a
i field and eventually came to the much
dreaded barrier.
It was hll that I had heard about It
Every foot of the border line between
. Belgium and Uolland Is protected In
precisely the same manner. It Is there
to serve three purposes: first, to pre
vent the Belgians from escaping Into
Holland; second to keep enemies, like
myself, from making their way to free
dom ; and third, to prevent desertions
on the part of Germans themselvife.
One look wss enough to convince any
one that It probably accomplished all
three objects about as well as any con
trivance ootid, and one look was sll I
got of It that night, for while I lay
on my stomach gazing at the forbid
ding structure I heard the measured
stride of a German sentry advancing
towards me and I crawled away aa
fast as I possibly could, determined
to spend the night somewhere In the
fields and make another and mora
careful survey the following night
The view X had obtained, however,
was sufficient to convince me that the
pole-vault Idea waa out of the ques
tion even If I bad a pole and was a
proficient pole-vaulter. The three
fence* covered a span of at least twelve
feet and to clear the last barbed wire
fence It would be riereaaaqr to vault
not only at least ten feet |t|gb, but at
least fourteen feefwlcje, wit&the cer
tain knowledge that to touch tbe elec
trically charged fence meant Instant
death. There would be no aecond
chance If you came a cropper the first
time.
_ The stilt Idea was also impractica
ble because of the lack of suitable
timber and tools with which to con
struct the stilts.
It seemed to me that the best thing
to do waa travel up and down the line
a bit In the hope that aome spot might
be discovered where conditions were
more favorable, although I don't know
Just what I expected along «those
lines.
It was mighty disheartening to real
ize that only a few feet away lay cer
tain liberty and that the only things
preventing me from reaching It were
three confounded fences. I thought of
my machine and wished that some
kind fairy would set It In front of me
for Just one minute.
I spent the night In a clump of
bushes and kept In hiding most of the
next day, 6nly going abroad for an
hour or two In the middle of the day
to Intercept some Belgian peasant
and beg for food. The Belgians In this
section were naturally very much
afraid ot the Germans and I fared
badly. In nearly every bouse German
soldiers were quartered and It was
out of the question for me to apply
for food In that direction. The prox
imity of the bonier made everyone
eye cnch other with more or leas sus
picion and I soon came to the conclu
sion that the safest thing I could do
was to live on raw vegetables which I
could steal from the fields at night as
I had previously done.
That night I made another survey
of the barrier In that vicinity, but It
looked Just as hopeless as It had the
night before and I concluded that I
only wasted my time there.
I spent tb« night wandering north,
guided by tho North Star which had
served me so faithfully In all my trav
eling. Every mile or two I would mnke
my way carefully to the barrier to see
If conditions were any better, but It
seemed to be the same all along. I felt
like a wild animal In a cage, with
about as much chnnce of getting out
Tbe section of tho country In which
I was now wandering was very heavily
wooded and there was really no very
great difficulty In keeping myself con
cealed, which I did all day long, striv
ing all the time to think of some way
In which .1 could circumvent that
cursed bawier.
The Ides' of a huge stepladder oc
curred to me, but I searched hour after
Spur In vain for lumber or fallen trees
IgMfrLarhlch I could construct one. If
I o£drifeply obtain something which
me to reach a point
about nine feet In the air It would bo
a comparatively slmplo matter to
Jump from that point over the electric
fence.
Then I thought that perhaps I could
construct n simple ladder and lean It
.agulnst one of the posts upon which
tbe electric wires were strung, climb to
the top and then leap over, getting
over the barbed wire fences In the
same way.
This seemed to be the most likely
plan and all night long I sat construct
ing a ladder for this purpose.
I was fortunate enough to find a
number of fallen pine trees from ten
"■to twenty feet long. I selected two of
them which seemed sufficiently strong
and broke off all the branches, which
I used as rungs, tyfcig them to the
poles with gruss and strips from my
hundkerchef and shirt as best I
could.
tf"wag, not a very workmanlike
looking ladder ..when I finally got
through with It. I leaagd It against
a tree to test It and It wobbled-consid
erably. It was more like a rope lad
der than a wooden one, but I strength
ened it here and there and decided
thut It would probably serve the pur
pose.
I kept tho ladder In the wood* all
day and could hardly wait until dark
to make the supreme test. If It proved
snccessful :ny troubles were over;
within a few hours I would b« In a
neutral country out of all danger. If
1 failed —I dismissed tho Idea sum
murlly. There was no use worrying
about failure; the tiling tb do was to
succeed.
The few hours that were to pass
liefore night enme on seemed endless,
but I utilized re-enforce my
ladder, tying the rungs more securely
with long grass which I picked In the
woods. "
At last night came, arid with my
ladder In hapd I made for tho barrier.
In front of It there was a cleared
space of about one hundred yards,
wblch had been prepared to make the
work of the gpnrds easier in watch
ing It
I waited In the neighborhood until I
beard tbe sentry puss the spot where I
was In hiding and then I hurried
across the clearing, shoved my ladder
under the barbed wire and endeav
ored to follow It. My clothing caught
In tbe wire, but I wrenched myself
clear and crawled to tho electric bar
rier.
My plan was to phuys the ladder
against one of the up to
the toft and then Jump. There would
be a fall of nine or ten feet, and 1
might possibly sprain on ankle 01
break my leg, hat If that *»« all that
stood betwe-n me and freedom I
wasn't ("I UK to atop to consider It
I put my ear to the ground to listen
for the corning of tbo sentry. There
was not a sound. Eagerly bat care
fully I placed tbo ladder agalnat the
poat and started up. Only a few feet
separated me from liberty, and my
heart beat fast
I bad climbed perhaps three rungs
of my ladder •whfn ' became a war*
of an unlooked for difficulty.
Tbo ladder was allpplng.
Just aa I took tb« next rung, the
ladder slipped, came 111 contact with
the live wire, and the current passed
through the wet Sticks and Into my
body. There waa a blue flash, my
hold on th 4 ladder relaxed and I fell
heavily to the ground unconscious.
Of course. 1 had not received the
full force of the current or I would
not now bo here. I must have re
mained unconscious tof a few mo
ments, but 1 came to Jtut In time to
hear the Oerman guard coming, and
U»e thought came to me If I didn't get
that luTder concealed afdficehe wonm I
see It even though, fortunately for me, \
It was an unusually dark night
I pulled the ladder out of his path
and lay down flat on the ground not
seven feet away from his feet Ha
passed so close that I could have
pushed tha ladder out and tripped
him up.
It occurred to ma that I could have
climbed back under the barbed wire
fence and waited for the sentry to re
turn and then felled him with a blow
on the head, as be had no Idea, of
course, that there was anyone In the
vicinity. I wouldn't have hesitated
to take life, because my only thought
was to get into Holland, but I thought
that as long as be didn't bother me
perhaps the safest thing to do was not
to bother blm, but to continue my ef
forts during his. periodic absence.
His beat at this point was apparent
ly fairly long and allowed me more
time to work than I had hoped for.
My mishap with the ladder had con
vinced me that my escape In that way
waa not feasible. The shock that I
had received had unnerved me and I
was afraid to risk It again, particu
larly as I realized that I had fared
more fortunately than I could hope
to again If I met with a similar mis
hap. jßiere waa no way of making
thatladder hold and I gave up the idea
of using It
I was now right In front of this
electric barrier and as I studied It I
saw another way of getting by. If I
couldn't get over It what wnß ,he
matter with getting under It?
The bottom wire was only two
Inches from the ground and, of course,
I couldn't touch It but my plan was
to dig underneath It and then crawl
through the hole In the ground.
I had only my hands to dig with,
but I went at It with a will and fortu
nately the ground waa not very bard
When I had dug about six Inches,
making a distance In all of eight
Inches from the lowest eleetric wire.
I came to an underground wire. I
knew enough about electricity to real
ize that this wire could not be charged,
as It was In contact with the ground,
but still there was not room between
the live wire and this underground
wire for me to crawl through, and I
ether had to go back or dig deep
enough under this wire to crawl under
It or else pull It up.
This underground wire was about
as big around as a lead pencil and
there was no chance of breaking It
The Jack-knife I had bad at the start
of my travels I had long since lost
and even If I had had something to
hammer with, the noise would have
made the method Impracticable.
I went on digging. Whefl the total
distance between the live wire and the
bottom of tbe hole I had dug waa
thirty Inches, I took bold of the ground
wire and pulled on It with all my
atrength.
It wouldn't budge. It was stretched
taut across tbe narrow ditch I had
dug—about fourteen InchM wide —
and all the tugging didn't serve to
loosen It
I was Just about to pfro up In de
spair when a staple gave way In the
nearest post. That enabled pull
tbe wire through the gromA'i'ji'tHfi
and I renewed my efforts.
moment or two of pulling as I had
never polled In my life before, %
staple on the next post gave way,
and my work became easier. I had
more leeway now and pulled and
pulled again until In all eight staples
hsd given way.
Every time a Itaple gave way. It
sounded In my ears like tbe report of
a gun, although I suppose It didn't
really make very much noise. Never
theless, each time I would put my ear
to the ground to listen for the guard.
If I heard him I would stop working
and lie perfectly still In the dark till
he had gone by.
By pulling on tbe wire, I was now
able to drag It through the ground
enough to place It back from the
fence and go on digging.
Tbe deeper I went the harder be
came the work, because by this time
my finger nails were broken and I
was nervous—afraid every moment
that I would touch the charged wire.
I kept at It. however, with my mind
constantly on the hole I was digging
and the liberty which was almost with
in my reach.
~ Finally I figured that I bad enough
space to crawl through and still leave
a couple of Inches between my back
and the live wire.
Before I went under that wire I no
tleed that the lace which the Belgian
woman had given me as a souvenir
made my pocket bulge, and lest It
mlglit be the Innocent means of elec
trocutlM me by touching the live wire,
I took It out, rolled It up and threw U
over the barrier first
Thetj I lay down oo my stomach and
crawled or rather writhed under the
wire like a make, with my feet first,
and there wasn't any question of my
bogging mother earth aa closely aa
possible bemuse I realised that even
to touch the wire above me with my
hack meant Instant death.
Anxious as I was to get on the other
side, I didn't hurry this operation. I
faared that there might be some little
detail that I had overlooked and I ex
ercised the greatest possible rare la
going under, taking nothing for
granted.
When I Anally got through and
straightened up, there were atlll sev
eral feet of Belgium between ma and
liberty, represented by tbe six feet
which separated the electric barrier
from the last bsrbed wire fence, but
before I went another step I went
down on my knees and thanked Ood
for my long series of eecapes and es
pecially for this last achievement,
which aeemed to me to be about all
that was necessary to bring me free
dom.
Then I crawled nnder tbe barbed
wire fence and breathed the free air of
Holland. I had no clear idea Just
where I was and X didn't care much.
I waa oat of tbe power of the Germane
and that was enough. I bad walked
perhaps a hundred yards, when I re-
EMnttMNWd the lace I had thrown over
tbe barrier/afld dangerona aa I real*
tied tbe undertaking to be, I deter
mined to walk back and get It This
teceseftated my golag back onto Bel
gian sou again, b«t It seamed a shame
bet 4 tha
cfsing a little faro" I bgiired I could
gat It eailly enough.
When I came to the spot at which I
had made my way under the barbed
wire, I put pjr ear to the ground and
listened for the (entry. I heard him
coming and lay prone on the ground
till he had passed. The fact that be
might observe the hole Is the ground
or the ladder occurred to me as I lay
there, and it; seemed like an age be
fore he finally marched out of ear*
shot Then I went under the barbed
wire again, retrieved the lace and once
again made my way to Dutch terri
tory. i
It does not taVe long to describe the
events Just referred to, but the inci
dents themselves consumed several
hours In all. To dig the hole must
have taken me more than two hours
and I had to stop frequently to hide
while the sentry passed. Many times.
Indeed. I thought I heard him coining
and stopped my work end then die
covered that It was only my Imagina
tion. I certainly suffered enough that
night to last me a lifetime. With a
German guard on one aide, death from
electrocution on the other, and starva
tion staring me In the face, my plight
was anything but a comfortable one.
It was on the 19th of November,
1017, when I got through the wire. I
had made my leap from the train on
September 9th. Altogether, therefore,
Just seventy-two days had elapeed
since I escaped from the Huns. If I
live to be ss old aa Methuaaleh, I never
expect to live through another sev
enty-two days so crammed full of In
cident and hazard and lucky escape.
To ba continued.
IAUISABOUTTULSA
AND BK REUNION
FINANCIAL STRENQTH IS
EQUAL TO ANY UNDER
TAKING
BANK STATISTIC SHOW WEALTH
Ready to Kntortaln Old Confeden
September 24-27 Inclusive—
A Solid Week of
Pleaeure.
Tola*. OUa., August When the
ex-Confederate aoldiara, and theif al
lied organ lxatlona, aaleot a city In
which to hold a reunion, It they hare
•aver mat In that otty before, deelre
tor information oonoernlng the new
neetlng place la wldeipread through
out the aonthern atataa. The Con
federate! Uat year In Waabingtom
alty aelected Tulaa, Okla., aa the
tor tha reunion of 1811. It waa the
Brat time an Oklahoma city had been
■elected aa a reunion city, aad tha
inter eat already mentioned attachea
to Talaa flrat, to Oklahoma aacond.
Tha frat aad moat important con
sideration among the very large num
ber of people Intereated la reunion*,
la tha matter of ability of a reunion
city to flnanoe the meeting. It la well
known that, to properly entertain •
Confederate reunion, from $75,000 to
SIOO,OOO ia neoeaaary. The queatlon.
therefore. In tha mlnda ot the people
or the aonth la, "Can Tulaa furnish
the money?"
No Confederate reunion city haa
more money, population conaldered,
than Tulaa. Few of tbem have aa
much, with no conalderation aa to the
population. A brief atatement of Tul
aa'a financial atrength ahould dlapel
any doubt that may have erlten on
this acore. In fact, the fond for en
tertaining tha reunion la already «üb
■crlbed and aaiured. One hundred
thouaand dollara. It neceaaary,. will be
expended to entertain the reunion.
A conaolldated bank atatement re
reala the atrength ot the community
In money. Under the comptroller's
call for bank a tat amenta of the date
of May 10, 1111, tha banka of Tula*
■bowed the following wealth!
Total capital aad aorplua, $1,010,000.
Total undlrlded proflta. $490,15».t1.
Total dapoelte, silillJll.BT.
Total reaourcee, $8»,»»1,87401.
Examine now the table of N bank
clearing!. In the month of June, Itlt,
the total elearlnga, aa akown by the
report of the clearlnghouae aaaocla
tlon were $47,0*1.041.17. Taking theae
•guree aa a monthly average for the
year, the total cleariaga tor IMS will
be $M4,M4,540. Thla atatement la
under, rather than above, the flgnree
for the year, becaaae tha olearing*
are laoreealng every month. It la
■ate to eatlmata the total bank clear
ing* tor 1(11 at all hundred mlUlone.
Tha clearing* In June, 111$, were MJ
per cent above tho*e of the aame
month of IslT.
While Tulaa la the great money
eenter of the *outhw*et, her people
are patriotic *l*o. They are giving
and lending their money to the gov
ernment for war purpoeee In large
volume. At the cloae of the campaign
for the third liberty loan, the oom
munlty had donated and loaned to war
purpose* $18.#07,#00. Thla atatement
Include* three or four comparatively
email donations to educational aad
charitable Inatltutlona, altogether
amounting to leea than a million dol
lara. So. Tul*a haa contributed more
than $17,000,000 to the varlooa war
loan* and atralgbt donation fund*.
Her quota of $4.(00.000 In tbe third
liberty loan, waa cubiciibed in leu
than a week.
A community that enjoy* the finan
cial atrength that theae flguree in
dicate, can flnanoe any undertaking
It may Invite. Tulaa invited tie
Confederalea to come her* with their
I*ls reunion, fully understanding
what It would coet. And Tulaa will
pay the reunion bill.
Tulaa will not only pay the reuniea
MU, bat abe will pay it angrodgingtt.
She will alee extend the glad band
to an reunion viaitora. Tha dates of
tha retmioa are Sept 14-17 Inclusive.
Tbe railways have granted a rate el
one cent n mile eaah way, tioketa to
*o on sale September It, good for
returning boma aa late aa October $L
NO. 32
fIB AH AM rHITBPP .«.« ■liafaß
Graham Baptist Church—Rev. flfl
V. Weston, Pastor.
Preaching every first and tUifl
Sundays at 11.00 a. m. and
Sunday School every Snaday.i|H
9.4# a. m. W. L Ward, SnpTj.f
Prayer meeting every Tueadax.ttfl
7.30 p. m.
Graham Christian Church—N
Street—Bev. P. C. Lester,
Preaching services overy Bee-'S
fourth Sundays, at lljiW
Sunday School every Sunday itfl
10.00 a. M.—w, R. Harden, Superr 9
intendent.
New Providence Christian Church I
—North Main Street, near Depot—
Rev. F. C. Lester, Pastor. Preacb-3
tng every Second and Fourth Sun- 3
day sights at (.00 o'clock.
Sunday School every Sunday at €
** Su P«*s*|l
Christian Bndeavor Prayer Meet* 9
o'clock.*** Tl,ur * dlly night at 7.4£ M
ii Fr 0 l6 ? d, T Jt !, orth ol Graham Pub- M
lie School, Rev. John M. Permar.fi
Preaching Ist, 2nd and 3rd Sun-H
days at 11.00 a. m. and 7.00 p. m. ?
Sunday School every Sunday at a
0.45 a. m.—Belle Zachary, Superln- 3
Undent
Prayer meeting every Thursday®
evening at 7.30 o'clock.
Methodist Episcopal, south-cor, %
Main and Maple Streets, Rev. D.'ifl
B. Brnhart, Pastor.
Preaching every Sunday at ImIII
a. m. and at 7.30 p. m,
Sunday School every Sunday at\ffl
i.4» a. m.—W. B. Orms, Supt.
M. P. Church—N. Main 111 it stiw
Rev. R. S. Troxler, Pastor.
Preaching first and third Sua- -1
daya at 11 a. m. and • p. m.
Sunday School every Sunday at i
0.45 a. m.—J. L. Amies, Supt.
Presbyterian-Wat Blm Streets I
Bar. T, M. McConneU, pastor.
Sunday School every Sunday llil
m.-Lynn B. Williamson, So* I
perlntendent
. p . r .? ,b 7. t#rUn (Travora Chapel)-, 1
1. W, Clegg, pastor.
Preaching every Second and |
Fourth Sundays at 7.30 p. m.
Sunday School every Sunday at I
P. J. Harvey .White, So- ,1
perintendent.
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