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THE MONTCLAIR TIMES, DECEMBER 21, li)18 GRIPPING STORY OF SERVICE H. H. WELLENBRINK, LESSEE AND MANAGER CAPTAI.V BEARDSLEY THRILLS BIG AUDIENCE AT MOXT- CLAR. THEATRE. MONTCLAIR THEATO them during the day and bombs dropped from the heavens at night.

"It was a sight to turn the heart of the coldest. We piled those poor tired women and children on trains with their chickens and' goats, not knowing where they were going, but in their terror anywhere from the advancing Huns. "Those were dark days in Compiegne for us. We never knew when the Germans would be upon us. We never had our clothes off for ten days; and we were shelled by day, and the avions came and dropped bombs on the town by night sometimes three and four times a night." Unstinted praise was given to the courage and untiring devotion of the Red Cross workers at the front, whether they were the experienced USEFUL GIFTS Work of Red Cross Described by Speaker Who Had Been "Right Under the Guns" Iraise Given to' Courage and Ievotion of Society's Representatives at Front Moving Pictures Show Activities Organization.

"It was a desperate chance, for he was apparently doomed to bleed to death from the terrible machine "WHERE QUALITY REIGNS SUPREME" Matinee Daily at 2301 lc and 17c Evening at 8.15 17c and.28c Saturday and Holiday Matinees Balcony 15c, Orchestra 25c Two Evening Performances Saturdays and Holidays Only gun and shell wounds which had torn part of his left arm off. I held that boy's right band while the surgeon skillfully cut off his left arm, clamp doctors or nurses, or the young wo men called from canteen work, or ing and tying his arteries and all without san anaesthetic." Thrilling actual facts incidents like chauffeurs called from their trucks to relieve suffering or save lives in the terrible emergencies which constantly arose at the battlefront. that gave a Mbntclair audience Sun day evening the shortest, tenest hour it has ever experienced, as it listen Speaking of the arrival of the first MONDAY, DECEMBER 23 ONE DAY ONLY CHARLIE CHAPLIN In His Grea Comedy Sensation "Shoulder Arms" In Addition MARGUERITE CLARK in "Wildflower" Pathe News and Burton Holmes Matinee, 2:30 Evening, 8:15 TO-DAY, SATURDAY, DEC. 21 BILLIE BURKE arid THOMAS WEIGHAN In a delightful comedy drama "THE PURSUIT OF POLLY" Also Official Review and Two-reel Comedy. Matinee 2:30 Evening 7 and 9 American wounded from Chateau ed to Captain Sterling S.

Beardsley, of the American Red Cross. HAND-WROUGHT FURNITURE Tables, Chairs, Lamps, Mirrors, Screens, Lacquer Stands, Desks, Book Ends. ORIENTAL RUGS In Large and Small Sizes. FUR RUGS FINE WILTON RUGS From $7.20 Upwards. Thierry, Captain Beardsley said: Captain Beardsley's quiet, appeal "The corridors were filled, the ing story of the magnificent work wounded lying on stretches in the the Red Cross has done was tremen courtyard; blood trickled from step to step on the stairway; and yet these young women, untrained as dously effective, because the great audience which crowded the Montclair theatre beyond its normal capacity realized that it was hearing at nurses, worked among these ghastly scenes without flinching.

We work first-hand the story of one who has probably had more thrilling experi ed shifts, day and night, giving anaesthetics, working in the operating room, writing letters for the ences than any other officer of the Red Cross, for all of his work had wounded boys and in many cases taking what proved to be their last been "right up under the guns." When he spoke of Red Cross work messages. on the American or British or French "I had moved my kitchen-oh- fronts, they remembered that he had been on those front lines for the wheels to the railway station. I had to rely on the men of my trucks, seven of them, to run it. I taught HAND-BRAIDED RUGS, "HOOKED" RUGS CHILDREN'S PICTURE RUGS, $6.75 SLOANE VACUUM CLEANERS, $39.75 past seven months. When he spoke of Compiegne, they recalled that two of them to make coffee, and in France gave him a Croix de Guerre a period or tmrty-six hours, when a division of our American army THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, DEC.

26, 27 William S. Hart In Evening Clothes! In His Latest "Screen Sensation. "Branding Broadway By C. Gardner Sullivan; also Pathe Nevs and Two-reel Mack Sennett Comedy Matinee, 2:30 Evening, 8:15 REMEMBER, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28 Maeterlinck's "The Blue Bird" MATINEE AND NIGHT TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY, DEC 24,25 Big Double Attraction Wallace Reid In a Dandy Comedy "Too Many Millions" By Porter Emerson Brown Also ROSCOE (Fatty) ARBUGKLE In His Latest Paramount Comedy "The Sheriff" Matinee, 2 :30 Christmas Day, Two Evening Shows 7 and 9 Tuesday Evening, One Performance, 8:15 FIFTH AVENUE 47TH STREET, N. Y.

was passing through, working all night, these boys served nearly thirty thousand cups of coffee, six large cases of eating chocolate and eight cases of tobacco; and these seven chaps worked without a word of protest at being assigned to a duty which wasn't in their line. "This is typical of what the Red Cross has done to carry out the duty imposed on it by the terrible needs of war. You, in Montclair, have given magnificent support to the Red Cross we all know of Montclair's part in Red Cross activities and I want you to realize how gloriously the Red Cross workers 'over there' FAMILY WASH, 8c THE POUND for his nine weeks of magnificent work there. He had been in the very midst of the bitter fighting at Soissons, at Chateau Thierry, at Bei-leau wood and the other glorious battles which saved and won the war. "That was the hardest task I ever had to perform," said Captain Beardsley in describing the incident of the unaesthetized operation which was necessary to save this American soldier's life.

War at Its Worst, "The scenes which I saw as we went through the 'woods of Villers-Gotteret were of war at Its worst. The roads were frightfully muddy from recent rains, the endless lines of trucks and wagons loaded with men and munitions, plunging forward stubbornly, the mule drivers beating their beasts, the long lines of artillery, the rain-soaked woods with the ruined trees splintered by shells and blackened by fire it was war. "I found my companions just opening a hospital on the front line, at Taillefountaine, in a blacksmith shop. I had brought a stove with me and some chocolate and bouillon cubes and I started a canteen ROBERT M'DONOUCiH WRITES. LESSONS FOR AMERICA.

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Street; write, or phone Mont- NEWARK.N.J., clair 1219. This Country Might Profit from British Ijibor Program. "What America Can Learn from the Program of the British Labor Party" will" be the subject of the address by Arthur Gleason in Unity Forum to-morrow evening. In 1914-15 Mr. Gleason was a stretcher bearer of the British Red Cross, first with the Belgian and then with the French army.

He was given the 1914 Star by the" British their heroic devotion would have been unavailing." Praise for Soldiers. Again and again the speaker changed from his quiet description of the gripping work of the Red Cross to burst out in praise of the American soldiers who fought "as men never fought before." "July 1, the night ol the battle of Belleau wood, now called by the Montclair Marine Saw Terrific Fighting In Last Days of War. A former employee of the Montclair Times, Robert McDonough, who Is with the U. S. Marines in France, got a real taste of war a few days before the armistice was signed, according to a letter just received by his mother, Mrs.

William McDonough, of No. 24 Williard place. Robert is one of four brothers in the service. Following his enlistment he started for Paris Island, S. and his ship was sunk in collision with another vessel.

The letter is as follows: "Dear Mother I fully realize your anxiety in not having heard for so long a time, but you can receive this letter with double thanks, and with the realization that your prayers for my safety were answered. "No doubt, Mae Sullivan has told you I was transferred to the 6th Government. In 1917-18 he was for French the 'Bois de la I five months with the Y. M. C.

A. at the "front. He is a graduate of Yale such as it was on the forge, for our wounded boys. It was a dirty spent in a front line dressing station," continued Captain Beardsley. "Belleau wood and the work of our marines will live as one of the most place, and the flies were there by and a journalist of distinction.

He spent fifteen months in England millions. I succeeded in getting a -I studying the British Labor Party, load of medical supplies and some brilliant pages pf our history. Big food at Pierrefond, about seven miles shells cut off the tops of all thehavinS over two hndred interviews made great holes in the earth; with like Lloyd George, myriads of machine gun bullets left 'Arthur Henderson, Sidney Webb, trunks perforated like sieves and Northcliffe and others. He has co-operated with Paul U. Kellogg, We worked night and day in this grimy blacksmith shop with its shattered windows and its shell-torn roof, and what sleep we got in a Week was snatched in a' field opposite on some newly mown hay.

v-- "I can't tellybu how many wounded passed through the hospital Candy There is nothing like presenting them with a nice box of our Home Made Candy on Christmas morning. Besides our own make we carry a line of other candy. PARK TILFOROS, COLUMBUS AND SGHRAFT'S CHOCOLATES Get your orders in early for those delicious home made candy canes for the little ones. New York Ice Cream Confectionery Go. 3S7 BLOOMFIELD AVENUE 'Phone.

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"On the morning of November 1 4:30 o'clock to be exact I crawled Germans as well as Americans. Thou sands of German prisoners sullenly marched by us with their happy guards; out of my hole, slung my pack, loaded the editor of the Survey, in a book on the British Labor Party and is considered one of the best American authorities on the Britsh labor situation. He is also the author of "Golden Lads," a book on the war. Unity Forum makes the following announcement: "The platform of the British Labor Party is ranked with the addresses of President WTilson among the great documents of the war. All authorities seem to agree that Britsh labor will control the British Government within the next few years and their platform, therefore, is of the first importance." "It was there that the hardest task came, to me that I have ever had to perform.

Fifty yards from the black Describing America's entry into the war, he said: I arrived in France there were little more than 100,000 troops, and they untrained no guns, no airplanes, nothing but a promise a promise, made by a country, which has neved failed to make good. Today the American army is a reality; as real as the forty-year-old German army. And today two million men are on the other side of the ocean two million men who smith shop a German shell exploded, just beside a truck loaded with my rifle and started out across No Man's Land to catch some Huns. We were not out more than fifteen minutes when I realized what war was. Whizz bang, and soft whistling around your head and feet (machine gun bullets), with the groans and cries of the wounded around you, was the program all day.

At dark American wounded. Among them was a boy whose arm had been punc tured by a machine gun bullet. -A fragment of shell struck this same arm, nearly tearing it off at the we went into the woods, dug holes Mr. Robert P. Butler Engaged.

shoulder. big enough to sleep in and about two feet deep. Then, with one blanket. "They, brought him in, bleeding measure the value of their lives by their worth in winning the war; men who, with new blood, new enthusiasm and flred by new. ideals, fight awfully.

We had no anaesthetics, you lay down to sleep until Heinie for we could only do bandaging in found your position and sent over this front-line emergency place, as men. never fought before. At sending the wounded after this was Cantigny, at Belleau wood, at Chateau Thierry, at Fisme, at St. Mihiel, done to hospitals further back. He shells.

All night long he kept up the firing, and if six or eight made 'hits' we would have to get up and move. If you did not, you could not sleep for fear of being hit or gassed any they met and conquered through ROAD STREET THEATRE The Ail-American football player, Mr. Robert Parker Butler, of Montclair High School and of the University of Wisconsin, is to wed Miss Lillian Eastlund, of Superior, Wis. Both are graduates of the University of Wisconsin. They will make their home in Cleveland, O.

Mr. Butler attended the Montclair High School and was captain of its football team in 1909. At that time he was placed on the all-scholastic football team of New Jersey and the last two yars of his university course was placed by Walter Camp on his All-American team. sheer bravery and might of will, the was apparently doomed to bleed, to death, and I held that boy's right hand while the surgeon skillfully cut There is still time for you to have those CHRISTMAS PHOTOGRAPHS. We make sittings the Eighteenth of December, and deliver them for Christmas.

Sittings Made on Sunday, by appointment. Make your appointment at once. The Arnold Studio Headquarters for Good Photos Madison Building, Opp. Postoffice Telephone Montclair 2997 horde of Huns who thought them minute. This was the program until NEWARK, N.

contemptible." off his left arm, clamping and tying 10:56 a. m. on November 1L, when, thank God, the last shell landed in his arteries and all without an an aesthetic. Montclair's Generosity. In presiding and introducing the the city of Beaumont.

speaker, Mayor Dodd dwelt on the "The night before, however, we "When it was over and I looked down and saw that brave boy's arm lying' on the dirt floor with the magnificent part Montclair has had crossed the Meuse and taken a taken in every Red Cross activity, from the giving of funds to the A Merry ChriHtnian to All STAHTIXC; AM AS MATIVKK 2.45 Extra Matinee Thursday. Usual Matinee Saturday. The Musical Romance "The Kiss Burglar" For the Tired Business Woman, with a brilliant company and a delectable delegation of Broad-ay beauties. All Matinee 3.e to 1 Kveninjc. except Wedneivdajr and Saturday.

to 91JM big hill with great loss of life. I was a runner that night and was on my watch strapped to the wrist still ticking away, I felt sicker than any mending of garments." v. way back across the pontoon bridge for relief when I fell in the water "In the Red Cross campaign of 1917. $320,802 was Dledeed from and was soaked from head to foot. I 3,819 subscribers," the mayor said.

stayed with the company through In the second Red Cross drive of the sickening scenes I had witnessed had ever made me. Game to the Core. "An hour. later I saw that boy in the yard, propped up, talking with the boy next to him, and smoking a cigarette. He was very pale -but the night, but next day I started for $355,374 was subscribed by 9,615 the hospital, because I feared pneu people.

The membership drive last monia, and now I am in a nice warm OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL 11 O'CLOCK Bargains in Christmas Cards BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS year resulted in obtaining 11,350 building, with sheeted beds and' 'coo- new members, and added $14,228 to the funds. I am proposing to the TELEPHONE 1484 LOCKSMITH town commissioners that the names of all who respond to the present Christmas roll call for Red Cross membership be inscribed in an honor roll which will be a part of the town records for all time to come." tieized' clothes. It is called a hospital, but it is really a rest camp, and it will not be long before I am in the pink of condition and ready to go back to my company. And the neyt move will be to go home. "Things are quite over here now, and it surely did look funny to see big bonfires up on the front line after so many night3 of cigarette spark caution.

And now, instead of digging in, we follow up the fast evacuating Huns and sleep in the villages, where we get protection from the heavy frost." Archdeacon Frederick B. Carter Dere 75c Fragments from France 50c Brilliants from Poets 40c Winged Hira $1.50 Outwitting the Hun. Shavings $1.50 Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Seaman Si 50c Abraham's Bosom. 50c Billy and the Major $1.00 Our Navy in the War. Gunner Depew SOS Stand Fast.

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drews led the community singing. Frank P. White, the de lighted the audience with his music HERITAGE game to the core. "They are all. like that-r our American boys their patience under their wounds, their "utter disregard for -danger, their wonderful enthusiasm is something that cannot be As soldiers, and as men, they are marvelous." Captain Beardsley's description, of the refugees- fleeing before the advancing Huns in March and April was particularly vivid.

"The flight of the refugees was as sad a sight as one could witness," he. said, men and women, many beyond their four-score years, old farmers with their wives and their children, some on carts, great wagons drawn by oxen, some pushing wheel-barrows, with every conceivable article of the household, bedspreads or tablecloths tied full of things, some carrying chickens and driving goats, all came down from the line as animals run from as usual. 61 Greenwood Montclair, N.J. A three-reel Red Cross motion pic ture, "All for Humanity," completed the program. Murphy Out of National Committee.

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wood, for several months, are en route home, via. the Southern Pacific S. S. line from New Orleans a prairie fire; shells crashing around to New York.