Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1919 — GETS COLLECTION OF WAR RELICS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GETS COLLECTION OF WAR RELICS

I—Disabled British soldiers getting fit again through physical training. 2—Americans of the Three Hundred and Fifth sanitary wain washing in a French villager alongside the French women. 3—American and French sailors In Brest harbor signalling an arrival as they did that of President Wilson’s ship.

Rational Museum to Have Exhibits Covering the Great Conflict L MUCH ALREADY IN PLACE Plan to Preserve Objects Graphically Illustrating Military and Naval Activities of All Countries in War. Washington, D. C.—The United States National museum is now assembling and has recently begun the installation of a collection of material relating to the present war which will form one of the most important ever *hown in the mtiseum. The object of the collection is to preserve and exhibit for Jhe beheflt of the public a series of objects graphically illustrating the military and naval activities of all of the countries engaged in the war—the United States, the allies and the enemy—and will, in addition to the military and naval features includefoods and other -economic specimens. The collection will consist principalof the Tollowing classes of material, but will be expanded to cover others also: Military and naval decorations and medals, including types of military decorations, mtedals and badges awarded to officers and enlisted men of the army and navy for service prior to and during the progress of the conflict. •' Commemorative medals, including all medals commemorating notable events during the progress of the war, and other numismatic material during, the war, including medalllc souvenirs of all kinds. Mllitjary and naval service insignia, including all types of devices and designs showing the different ranks and branches of the service. To Show Equipment. Individual military and naval equipment, including the equipment of the individual enlisted men of the various branches of the service. General military equipment, including tank, field and machine guns and other objects employed or used by the military squads and organizations rather than by individual soldiers. Air service equipment, including airplanes and other accessories of this most important branch of the military war activities. " General naval equipment. Including models of ships, naval guns, and types of other war paraphernalia employed by the navy in the prosecution of hostilities. - Mementos of persons, including relics of noted individuals serving with the army or the navy dr otherwise Identified with the war activities. . Mementos of relics of events of special note occurring during the war. Pictures, maps, books, pamphlets, manuscripts and other objects of the same character relating to the progress of the war. The museum has secured- the cordial co-operation of the war and navy

departments, which are furnishing most Interesting exhibits of equipment and paraphernalia at present used in the army and navy. The materials already on exhibition, indicating the lines along which the collection will be developed, include the following: A complete set of the medals and badges awarded for distinguished acts of bravery and for faithful and efficient service in the army , and the navy, containing the new Distinguished Service Cross and the Distinguished Service Medal established in 1918 for award to members of the American expeditionary forces. Types of individual and general military equipment, showing the various the occasion of the funerals of AmerioWjects assigned to each enlisted man on his Induction, from the identification tag to the blanket which protects him from the cold in winter, and paraphernalia for use in camp. The activities of the medical corps are illustrated by types of the belts and contents worn by officers and men of that corps. Of very great Interest In connection with the general military ■equipment now exhibited are the latest types of the Browning machjne gun and machine rifle, which have been given a prominent place in the exhibition. IJerhaps the. most important single bbjects already installed in the

collection are a number of airplanes, showing the types of the machines of this character used during the present war. The collection also eontalns the following relics: The American flag made at Islay house, Islay, Scotland, by Jessie McLellan, Mary Cunningham, Catherine McGregor, Mary Armour and John McDougall, for use oh can soldiers lost with the transport Tuscania, and a distinguishing flag of the Zeppelin L-19, captured at Bourbonne les Bains, France, October 17, 1917, and a fragment of the gas bag and outer envelope of the Zeppelin. The naval features of the collection are as yet undeveloped, but there will soon be represented in the exhibition a series which will undoubtedly grow very rapidly through the co-operation of the other government departments and contributions from individuals.