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MOVIE ACTORS 
‘MANCHESTER Boys Posk FOR CAMERA 
On THE BORDER. 
Corporal Harry D. Baker of Man- 
chester, wrote from El Paso, Texas, 
on Sept. 12, an interesting account of 
a recent experience of Co. H of the 
Sth Mass. infantry to which several 
Manchester. boys belong: 
“We have no reveille on Sunday 
and are allowed to sleep. Well this 
Sunday morning (the roth) they 
woke us at 4.45 o’clock and told us 
to be ready to move at 6.30 with field 
equipment.. This, coming right after 
24 hours guard duty, rather took us 
off our feet and nobody knew where 
we were going or what it was for. 
There were all sorts of speculations 
on the move and we didn’t fearn until 
just before piling on the trucks that 
we were to take part in a moving 
picture scene to be staged about 18 
miles from El Paso. «(It was the 
longest 18 miles I ever saw). Off we 
started. Our truck was_an old red 
affair that must have been picked ut 
anc 
of a scrap heap. It spitted 
coughed, but we soon were left be- 
hind for the other two were new 
regulation trucks. Well, we kept along 
after a fashion until we were IO or 
12 miles out in the sage brush then 
that truck refused to budge. Lost in 
the wilds of Texas! 
“It was some country, too. Four 
of us lay down by a thorn bush with 
our hats hung on the thorns to shade 
our eyes. To the right was a range 
of mountains and away to the left 
was nothing but a plain, covered with 
sage brush and cactus. Over the 
mountains circled three large eagles. 
They did not fly, they just soared 
around, coming over us several times. 
We didn’t have to wait very long be- 
fore one of the good trucks came 
back and picked us up, having taken 
the bunch it had to our destination. 
We continued travelling to the foot of 
the mountain, a great place for this 
sort of a moving picture stunt, a deep 
cut into the hills. with steep ledges on 
each side. When we struck the camp 
of the Fox Film Co., we found that 
the management had changed the rest 
of the company into the wildest look- 
ing bunch of Mexicans you ever saw. 
Old coats, pants and hats of all. de- 
scriptions, with paint and, moustaches, 
disguised the men so we:had to in- 
quire who they were. They all had 
cartridge belts and rifles, the old 1873 
U. S. rifle, 45 calibre. We had-a,din- 
ner before we made our change, a 
box lunch and coffee, furnished by 
the film company. After that every- 
body fell in for ammunition (plenty 
of blanks). Sergts. Murphy, Donald- 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
son, E. Barnes, Grady and _ yours 
truly were mounted. I, of course, 
acted as bugler for ‘Gen.’ Murphy 
and he sure was the hardest looking 
‘Spic’ you ever saw. Our first stunt 
was an attack on a machine gun (one 
from the 8th). The funny part was 
that this could fire only ball ammiun- 
ition and this went over our heads 
out onto the plain. The gun was 
stationed half-way up the hill. The 
manager a* first said, ‘When the ma- 
chine gun opens fire | want about 30 
in the middle to fall and you and you 
and you to fall off your horses.’ Of 
course that included ‘little- me’ and 
that was the end of my 
riding, for after blowing. the ‘charge’ 
in the midst of the attack, | obedient- 
ly fell off and away went that bronco, 
‘over the hills and far away.’ Well, 
all the afternoon we were scrapping 
or being beaten up. I won’t go into 
more details, but it was some day, es- 
pecially for Sunday, our day of rest. 
“We came back to Camp Cotton 
about 8 p. m., being on the first truck, 
which towed the red one in. ‘The 
last one came in about 10.15 p. m. 
We had some supper, beef stew, fried 
oysters, potatoes, bread and _ butter, 
some fine pudding, lemonade and 
cocoa,—and ice cream. 
“Enough said—Pay Day, today. 
You should have heard the cheering 
when we played ‘pay day’ for the 
reveille march. Our company was 
the first to be paid as Clerk Ham- 
mond was the first to put the payrolls 
in complete and correct. Our com- 
pany is understood to be the most 
efficient. That was why it was picked 
for the movie stunt.” 
MANCHESTER 
Allen Post, G. A. R., had its annual 
inspection last Friday evening. T. A. 
Eastman of Post 89, Beverly, was the 
inspecting officer.. Refreshments were 
served following the ceremony. 
Miss Christine Campbell, who has 
conducted her dressmaking establish- 
ment at 45 Beach st. during the sum- 
mer, closed last Saturday and left the 
first of the week for Boston, where 
she has a store in the winter. 
W. B. Calderwood 
Successor to DAVID FENTON CO. 
Builder of Yachts, Launches and Tenders 
Paints, Oils, Varnish, Cordage, Oars, and all kinds of 
Marine Hardware constantly on hand . 
Marine Railways, Yacht and Boat Repairing of every description 
Boats STORED FOR THE WINTER AT OWNERS’ RISK IN CASE OF FIRE 
Manchester, Mass. 
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