THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1919.
Railroad Laborers
Obdurate in Demand
for $1 Day Increase
Detroit, Sept. 9. Although the
national committee of the United
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
Employes and Railway Shop Labor
ers has been empowered by the ref
erendum strike vote of the member
ship to call a continent-wide strike
if a wage increase demanded of the
United States railroad administra
tion and Canada are refused defi
nite action will be decided on the
. floor of the international conven
tion being held here, if the rail ad
ministration submits its answer be
fore the sessions close. This was
announced by officers of the broth
erhood this morning. The men, ac
cording to their leaders, are deter
mined not to accept any compro
mise of their demands, but will
strike if wage increases of $1 per
day per man and the new working
agreement asked are refused.
Propose $30 a Month Bonus
for Service Men and Women
Washington. Sept. 9. All mem
bers of the Wisconsin delegation in
the house introduced identical bills
proposing bonuses at the rate of
$30 a month for each month's serv
ice of soldiers, sailors, marines and
Red Cross nurses. It was estimated
$1,400,000,000 would be required to
make the payments.
Pershing's "Gang Fights" In Laclede
As a Boy Told By Ancient Negroes
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Nurse Says He Squalled "Hallelujah" When She Got
Soap in His Eyes on Washing Him Had "Terrible
Time" Putting Girl Dresses on Him Won all the
Boys' "Aggies" When Playing Marbles.
It may "not be digressing to tell
a story of Warren. For in all the
world there is none who holds the
place in the general's heart that
Warren holds. None ever will.
Warren, it seems, does like to play
soldier. The fact is, he is "captain"
of "his army" of boys at the Pres
cott school in Lincoln, the public
school which he attends, just as his
father was "captain" of "his army"
of boys back in Laclede.
Uniform from Foch.
Now Warren's love of soldiers and
his love of playing soldier, it ap
pears, came to the attention of Ma
dame Foch, wife of General Foch,
who is in supreme command of the
forces of the allies. A short time
ago Mrs. Foch wrote to Warren's
aunts, Mrs. Butler and Miss Ann
May Pershing, the third child of
the Pershings, born June 30, 1867,
who also lives in the B street house,
and secured from them the child's
measurements. Mrs. Foch had a
uniform made for the boy. Such a
uniform I In every detail it is a
replica of the uniform which her
husband, the famous General Foch,
wears. Warren received it not long
ago and within five minutes of un
wrapping it, maybe less time, he had
it on. Only once before in his life
was he more proud. That was when
he first put on the uniform of an
American genera! one like his fa
ther wears.
Mrs. Butler did not tell me of
this incident. She is rather retleent
when questioned concerning War
ren. The general does not wish
undue publicity to attach to the
child. He desires that the boy
grow up a simple, American boy,
unconscious of the fact he is the
son of a great man. He wants the
boy to be a man, not a snob. Which,
certainly, there seems no danger of
Warren ever becoming. He is a
real boy. He will be a real man.
For is not his father his hero?
Pershing Developed Fast.
John Pershing developed fast
after the bushwhacker raid. From
a tow-headed toddler he grew into
a tow-headed boy, ready for all that
calls the natural boy. And John
never had to be called twice not
then. When he was a teacher and
had to get up early in the morn
ingbut that, too, is getting ahead
of this story.
Old Negro's Story.
Back first to the Brown hotel in
Laclede for a visit with Allen
Thomas Allen , Warfield, general
factotum of the ancient hostelry.
Drawn up beside the cosy stove, one
of the high, brass cuspidors con
veniently near, old Allen will tell
many and many a story of those
childhood days of the general. And
his stories are corroborated, all of
them, yes, each and every one the
old negro tells. '
"It may seem strange I know so
much about him," old Allen will
state in sort of preamble, "me a
negro. But it never made any ctit
ference to John when he was a boy
whether you were white or black,
rich or poor. It doesn't now. When
he returned here last time he called
to see us all, rich and poor, black
and white. He had a handclasp of
friendship for us all, and a laugh
and a smile for us all."
Gang Fights in Old Laclede.
"I first recall John playing sol
diers." Allen told me as we set by
the fire one night. "He was cap
tain and at first we fought a make
believe enemy at first. Later we
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fought a real enemy, other gangs.
John was always captain of his
side and I was always on his side.
I liked to be. John always won."
Right here, perhaps, it should be
said that Allen talks as I quote him.
Allen went to school the negro
school, for Missouri then, does to
day in many parts, drew the color
line and John often helped him
with his lessons. So today Allen's
language is as good as the next
man's.
"You know," Allen resumed,
"when we were kids it was just
after the war. One side or gang
would be the Yanks. The other
side would be the rebels; John
was always captain of the Yanks.
Sometimes he attacked the stock
ade. Sometimes he held the stock
ade. We had wooden sticks for
swords and guns and dishpans for
drums. John only carried a sword.
Was Winner at Marbles.
"In the winter" and Allen, seem
ingly reminded of the cold, got up
to put another log in the stove
"in the winter we would fight. More
than once the snowballs would
bring casualties. We would freeze
them," Allen confessed with a
snicker. "That meant black eyes
and bruised lips. Yes, we did have
casualties.
"But then, there was nothing
John did not excel in. I remem
ber how he could play marbles.
Why he always had all the aggies.
I know he'd have all mine. Then
I'd do things for him and get my
pay in aggies. And couldn't he
skate and swim and shoot when he
got to be a little older! Couldn't
he? He could lick all the rest of
us.
Swam Pond at Six.
I remember we used to go swim
ming in Pratt's pond. It isn't there
any more. Filled up," the old negro
declared. "But it used to be a great
place to swim. It was about quar
ter of a mile from here, 30 feet
across and about six or seven feet
deep. John learned to swim when
he was about six learned all by
himself. I never could learn; can't
swim today. He used to taunt me.
Then, at other times we would go
swimming in Lotus Creek. Some
times we would fish there. Lotus
Creek? It's about three miles west
of here, on the road to Mead
ville. Regular Stage Mammy.
Right here, it would be proper
to tell of John's old negro mammy,
Hattie Gilham now Hattie Lewis
then. I found her out in that part
of Kansas City, Mo., where the
negro people live, out at 1609 13th
street, in a .little colony of brick
and wooden tenament houses and
rookeries, many of them like the
old negro cabins of slave days, gar
den plots in the yards with old
fashioned flowers growing and vines
twining about the doors.
A typical negro mammy a regu
lar stage mammy is Hattie.
" 'Member him. Law, honey I
should say this old negro does
'member John," she declared, when
I explained my mission.
"Ah, don't guess I know jus' how
old ah am," she said. 'But ah was
13 when the wah ended." It was ob-
"His father over again.1
Butler, Bessie."
Warren Fershing, the general's son, and the general's sister, Mrs. D. M.
vious that Mammy Hattie meant
the civil war.
"Ah knovved John when he was
jus' so high," she went on, stretch
ing out a hand about three feet
above the floor. Perhaps it was
not quite three feet. "My, but he
was a lively boy. Ah first 'member
him a wearin 'dresses. Ah'd have
a terntil time a dressin that child.
An' ah'd have a terribl' time a put-
tin' him to bed some nights. If
you slapped John he'd slap back.
But 1 think he loved his ole mam
my. He d a kiss me fore he went
to sleep.
"An' he'd usually lie quiet when I
washed him. But how he did yell
when if I got soap in his eyes. He
didn't cry. He wa'n't 'fraid o' noth
in'. But he didn't like soap in his
eyes and he'd yell.
"He was always a gettin' his
clothes torn. For he'd always be a
playin' soldiers and huntin' and
shootin' in the woods.
Great as Washington.
"But who'd a thought," and Mam
my Hattie became introspective,
"who'd a thought it would ever come
to this his a bein' a great gen'ral,
as great as George Washington."
But to tell of the general's boy
hood in one chapter would take too
much space. More later of it of
the peach orchard raid, of "Aunt Su
san's" pies and of his study time.
(Continued Tomorrow.) ,
Newsprint Paper Industry ;
Investigating Body Named
Washington, Sept. 9. Chairman
La Follette of the senate manu
facturers' committee has named
Senators McNary, Oregon; Gronna.
North Dakota, republicans, and
Reed, Missouri, and Walsh, Massa
chusetts, democrats, as members ol
a subcommittee to investigate the
newsprint paper industry.
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Home of General Pershing at Laclede, Mo., as it looked in 1864, when he lived there as a boy.
(Photo Loaned Br the General'! Sister. Mrs. I). M. Bntler.)
Peters Trust Awarded
Road Bonds of County
The Peters Trust Co. of Omaha
was awarded the $1,000,000 of Doug
las county highway improvment
bonds by the board of county com
missioners yesterday, on its bid of
$1,023,000.
There were nine bidders, the com
missioners rejecting all but the bids
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No raise in price.
of the Peters Trust Co. and the
Omaha Trust Co. The latter com
pany's bid was found defective upon
examination and was also rejected.
The commissioners will proceed
at once to determine the first county
roads to be paved and will then ad
vertise for bids on the work.
Advertisement must be made for
30 days and then the successful con
tractors will start on actual paving
work. Work will begin, it is be
lieved, within two months and, if
the winter is "open," will continue
most of the winter.
The total bond issue authorized
by the people at the election last
spring is $3,000,000. Bids on the
other $2,000,000 wi'l be called for as
the money is required.
Grand Lodge of York
Masons in Annual Session
A meeting of the Most Worship
ful King Solomon's Grand Lodge of
Free and Accepted York Masons at
the'U. B. F. Hall, Twenty-fourth
and Parker streets, opened yester
day, the occasion being the S2d
communication. Grand Master W.
H. Ford of Kansas City presided,
and about 350 delegates were pres
ent from points in Kansas and Ne
braska, including Dr. W. S. Jen
kins, past grand master, Dr. J. F.
Wilson of Kansas City, past grand
secretary, Rev. J. A. Boarnax of
Omaha and Past Grand Master
Smith of Missouri.
The Grand Court of K. S. G. L.
of F. and A. Y. Masons national
compact opened during the after
noon with G. M. A. M., Mrs. Yeager
of Baltimore presiding.
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One seldom has too many hand
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In fact, the handkerchiefs are
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Although the Handkerchief
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