We returned to Washington and eventually made our home in an apartment on Lamont Street, In Mount Pleasant, I went to Kindergarten School. It was here that I met Malcolm Hay. We played together; going to the Zoo, and Rock Creek Park. His mother worked and sometimes she was not home at night. On these occasions he would come to my home and we would play there. After a while Malcolm would ask my mother what time it was, and when she told him it was ìnine oíclockî, Malcolm would say that he must go home now, and he would leave.

About this time the Kaiser was rattling his sabre, Dad went back into the Navy and became a recruiting officer at 306 Ninth Street N. W. Washington, D.C. He was there for sometime, and then he went to Roanoke Virginia. Here he would sign up the recruits , and then they were in the Navy. But they had ten days or so to prepare to leave home. Some of them would get back up in the hills and their friends relatives and girl friends would talk them into not going .On these occasions he would have to take a squad of shore patrolmen and bring them in.

Eventually, he managed to be transferred to sea duty. When he reported for duty, it was aboard his old Spanish War Ship, the ìCulgoaî, still a regrigerating ship He crossed six times during this War. He landed in Cork Ireland, Brest , France and ports in England.

As Chief Engineer, he was in charge of the ìBlack Gangî; the ìoilersî, and the ìCoal Heaversî, those who heaved the coal up and into the furnaces to heat the water for the steam boilers. Needless to say, these men were strong husky fellows. One time in Cork, one of the fellows went into an unfrequented part of town,found a bar and went in. The Irishmen had a grudge against all American Service men, because they had the money and the inclnation to attract the Irish ladies. Just what started the brawl, I donít know, But they ganged up on the sailor. Some of them using short three or four inch lengths of broom handles with sharpened nails driven through them. Taken in their fists, they could make dangerous weapons. our sailor got out and ran down the street, and seeing a sign hanging over a door, he jumped and pulled it down. With it he laid out six of his assailants, He wound up in the hospital.

The men in the Black Gang went to see him, taking him candy and cheering him up. Apparently, getting the location of the bar. Working in the part of the ship where they did, they had access to pieces of sheet lead, which when rolled tightly, and then concealed in their neckerchiefs, could be warn around their necks. Thus equipped, they got liberty and visited the bar. The report is that it was a shambles when they finished.

Dad took trips Into the country round about in Ireland when he was there. Sugar and tobacco were in very short supply and considered contraband. At one place, it may have been in the Kilarney Lake Region, he had taken some sugar f or his own use. When the proprietor saw it he became very excited and thoroughly frightened. Dad was sympathetic and was discreet in his use of the sugar, but I believe that he managed to see that the proprietor had some for his own use.

On one of these trips, into the hills, he rode a donkey. He said that the donkeys were very small, so when the donkey got tired, he would drop his legs down on each side and pull the donkey up between his legs and carry him for a while. So, you donít believe it? I was but a child. So, I told him to bring one of them back next time. He could keep it in the engine room. I never got my donkey.

On one of his trips, moving in convoy, an alarm was sounded that meant that they were under attack by submarine, it was night. When the officers assembled on deck, Dad was the only one in uniform and he was buckeling on his side arm. The others chided him for sleeping in his clothes. That, he would never do. He reminded them that they were at War.