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CREEDE, COLORADO AND WORLD WAR I — A KNITTER’S TALE By Robert Moll

“Grandma, do you know how to knit?” It was the summer of 2000 and eleven-year-old Lizzie, a beginning knitter, hoped she’d found a mentor—her ninety-four-year-old grandmother, Mary Elting Fol som. Lizzie’s question took Mary back to 1917, several months after the U.S. entered World War I. Yes, Lizzie, I do know how to knit. I learned during the summer of 1917, when I was eleven. Surprisingly, my teacher was a British army recruiter who had come to my hometown of Creede, Colorado.

dle-class family. Her father was a storekeeper who sold hay and grain for the town’s horses and mules. Her mother was a former schoolteacher who gave Mary a proper up bringing. When Mary asked why the women standing in front of a house down the street were wearing kimonos, her mother answered sharply, “You’re too young to know.” Years later she realized that the establishment had been a brothel. In summer the family retreated from rough-and tumble Creede to Antler’s Park, a former dude ranch they owned west of town. Mary’s father, Charles Elting, had come to Creede as a young man—his doctor had recommended a move from New York State to the western mountains as a treatment for his tuberculosis. He arrived in Creede during the boom years and for a while stayed in a tent next to Bob Ford’s. Twenty-five years later, in 1917, he had become a prominent citizen. That spring he was appointed Mineral County’s representative to the Governor’s War Council in Denver. Then, in August, he played Cotton Mather in the town’s production of Anne of Old Salem , a fundraiser for

Located high in the San Juan mountains of southern Colorado, Creede was a silver mining town when Mary was born in 1906. Silver had been discovered there in 1889, just before the U.S. Congress passed the Sherman Silver Purchase Act. This legislation required the U.S. Treasury to make substantial monthly purchases of sil ver, for which it issued special silver-backed paper cur rency. The price of the metal quickly shot up, and in a matter of months Creede became one of North Amer ica’s wildest mining camps. The silver craze attracted more than ten thousand prospectors, miners, and adventurers, who took up residence in tent cities that ringed the town. Legendary figures of the Wild West were among the town’s new inhabi tants. Bat Masterson turned up, not as a lawman but as a saloon keeper. Bob Ford, killer of Jesse James in Missouri in 1882, also came, only to be gunned down himself in his own saloon in 1892. Swindlers and gunfighters, gam bling halls and brothels—that was Creede in its heyday. Then, in 1893, an economic panic hit the country and people began ex changing their new silver-backed paper currency for gold coins. Fearing a run on its gold reserves, the U.S. Treasury stopped buying silver altogether. The price of the metal fell dramatically, ending Creede’s three year run as a silver boomtown. Work continued at the largest mines, but the population of the town soon fell to about a thousand. Still, Creede’s early rowdiness re mained a part of town life through the time of the First World War. In the midst of Creede’s roughness, Mary grew up in a respectable mid

Mary, 1917. Family Collection

the Red Cross. While we were at Antler’s Park during the summer of 1917, the English re cruiter stayed with us in one of the cabins on the ranch. Recently disabled by a war injury, he came to my school and talked about what life was like for sol diers. The stories were horrifying. Everyone squirmed when he gave a graphic description of “cooties”—the lice that plagued soldiers night and day. That summer the war was on everyone’s mind. News of the conflict filled the pages of The Creede Candle , the town’s four-page weekly newspaper. The Candle exhorted young men to volunteer for the army and urged everyone else to get to work: “‘No work, no eat’ is the slogan. The war leaves no room for slackers.” Slackers took a beating all summer long. A Candle feature called “Local Siftings” was Creede’s public message board. Townspeople could post announcements or proclamations on almost any topic. Rental rooms with electric lights were advertised. Special events were noted: A Tom Thumb wedding, where small children dressed up as

bride and groom and acted out a wedding ceremony, was a great hit. And there were expressions of outrage. Colorado had be come a dry state in 1916, and an irate pro hibitionist railed against unchecked drink ing in town: “This constant flow of booze has disgusted many of our better citizens and should it continue, an awful roar will be heard.” The Siftings reported all sorts of com ings and goings: Ada Skinner was in town between trains, and John Glendinning stopped by while bringing his sheep to higher pasture. Especially prominent were reports about anyone going anywhere by

Bob Ford’s tent, circa 1891. Family Collection

Creede, looking southeast, 1918. Courtesy Creede Historical Society

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automobile: Doctor J.A. Biles mo tored up from Del Norte to look in on Mrs. Broadhead; a fellow named Duncan was driving around in a new Buick he had bought from sales agent Lulu Voss; and Charles T. Elting, Mary’s father, had been a business visitor in Monte Vista the previous Saturday, making the trip in his automobile. Mary’s father had just bought his car in Denver, and with no instruc tions and no training had man aged to drive the 250 miles back to Creede without mishap. The next day he taught eleven-year-old Mary to drive—licenses weren’t required in Colorado until the 1930s. Some time later his car stalled along a high mountain road. Enraged when he couldn’t get it started, he tipped the vehicle over, flipping it into the ravine below. Apparently his some

Both sides also dug attack tunnels. Long and deep, these tunnels extend ed beneath enemy lines. The British enlarged the far ends of their tunnels and packed them with explosives, to be detonated underground just as their soldiers began a surface attack. By the spring of 1917 the British had built a series of attack tunnels under German lines near the town of Messines, in Bel gium. Altogether these underground bomb chambers held almost five hun dred tons of explosives. When they were detonated on June 7, the enor mous blast killed ten thousand German soldiers and was heard in London one hundred fifty miles away. At the time the blast created what was thought to be the largest artificial sound ever pro duced. Wartime tunneling efforts were huge—as many as forty thousand men worked on trenches and tunnels for

Mary, her brother, and their pet burro at Antler’s Park, circa 1915. Family Collection

Creede Candle, August 4, 1917. Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection

times-volcanic temper was well-known. Mary was reminded of this during a visit to Creede in 1994, when she encountered an old man who looked dimly familiar. Evidently, he thought the same about her, leading to this exchange: Old-timer: “Are you from around here?” Mary: “Why yes—I’m Charlie Elting’s daughter.” Old-timer: “That old sonofabitch?” While The Candle and its Siftings column had much to say about many aspects of town life, it never mentions the British army recruiter.

Britain. Because trench and tunnel work was miners’ work, the British re quired a steady stream of fresh miners for its military efforts underground. While Cornish miners were highly skilled and especially sought after, they were in short supply by the time of the First World War. In the first half of the nineteenth century Cornwall dominated world tin mining. But when much cheaper ores from overseas became available in the 1870s, most tin mines in Cornwall closed. The region’s copper mines suffered a similar fate. In the last decades of the nineteenth century sev

eral hundred thousand people—mostly unemployed miners—left Cornwall for mining regions around the world, including Colorado. During World War I the mining of coal and metals were considered so essential for heating homes, power ing factories, and manufacturing armaments that when conscription began in 1916, miners were generally ex empted from military service. At the same time, Brit ain was desperate for soldiers with mining skills. Corn wall’s miners were offered double wages if they agreed to enlist, and as manpower shortages continued, Britain searched overseas for expatriate Cornish miners who might be persuaded to return and join the fight. Mary’s knitting teacher was part of that overseas mission. Creede’s immigrant miners who had not taken Amer ican citizenship were put in an awkward position once the U.S. entered the war, and a Candle editorial on June 16 underscored their predicament: “Alien citizens of all allied nations in this country should not be allowed to remain in safety here while our own boys are sent abroad to fight. Put ’em in the army or send ’em home.” The grim physical realities of soldiering during World War I made joining the British army a difficult choice for Cornish expatriates. Soldiers endured unending bombardments in trenches that were filled with deep,

The recruiter came to Creede because he was look ing for Cornish miners—miners from the Cornwall region of England—who had not taken American cit izenship. His mission was to persuade them to return to England and fight in the war. Because mine management would not have wanted any of Creede’s skilled miners lured away to join the British war effort, the recruiter wisely did not publi cize his visit. Much of World War I took place underground, in trenches and tunnels designed, dug out, framed, and shored up by miners in the military. When troop ad vances stalled in late 1914, a meandering front line, extending from the North Sea to Switzerland, separat ed the German army on the east from the British and French armies on the west. Soldiers on both sides dug deep trenches along the front line so that combatants could stay below the enemy’s line of fire. A narrow strip—“no-man’s land”—separated the two sides. Side trenches linked the trenches along the front with un derground living spaces, first-aid posts, and command centers.

Mary’s parents, with their first car—a 1917 Dodge—that Mary learned to drive with, and that Charles later pushed into a ravine. Family Collection

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oozing mud, and they were preyed upon by the cooties Mary’s schoolmates had heard about. As protection against the ever-present muck, high boots were an essential part of every soldier’s outfit. Unfortunately, American soldiers were issued boots that leaked. This created a dire need for a second layer of protection: thick wool socks. Shortly after he arrived at Antler’s, the Englishman asked me, “Little girl, do you know how to knit?” I admitted that I didn’t. He replied, “Well, by tomorrow you will.” He started me off with wash cloths. They were boring. So the next day

She paused, looked over at Lizzie, and added: Then the Armistice came in 1918—and I haven’t knit since. *** Mary died in 2005. A literary editor for ten years after college, by 1940 she had begun translating French children’s books into English. She soon realized she could write books for kids herself, and launched her career in 1943 with Soldiers, Sailors, Flyers, and Marines . Written to explain the Second World War to children, the book had an un expected second use. The Navy ordered

Mary on horseback, Antler’s Park, 1918. Courtesy Creede Historical Society

three thousand copies to help teach illiterate sailors to read. During the next half-century she wrote almost ninety books, mostly for children, many co-authored with her husband, Franklin. She created a “First Book of” series that began with The First Book of Boats , and went on to trains, trucks, automobiles, and nurses. In her “Answer Book” series, she gave interesting answers to questions about science, geography, computers, and the human body. Along the way she also wrote about dinosaurs, volca noes, archaeology, robots, and the history of corn. Her 1980 alphabet book Q is for Duck , written with her son, Michael Folsom, is still in print. Mary had other interests. She was in on the founding of the Council on In terracial Books in 1965. A longtime member of the Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards Committee, she read hundreds of books every year in order to make recommendations for awards. Late in life she edited The Skeptical Inquirer , a periodical dedicated to debunking non-scientific claims about the paranormal and the supernatural. An intrepid world traveler, Mary, with Franklin, took an eighty-day bus tour from London to Kathmandu. Afterwards they flew to Sri Lanka, where they did research for a magazine article on Buddhist eye banks for the blind. In her seventies she backpacked across the Grand Canyon, and in her eight ies, she visited Lhasa, Tibet, as part of a Boulder, Colorado sister-city del egation. On a ninetieth birthday trip to Rome in 1996, Mary observed that the city had “changed a lot” since her last visit— in 1930 during the Mussolini era. With almost one hundred years of material to work with, Mary was a great storyteller.

he brought me wool and small needles for knitting socks. His stay at the ranch lasted long enough for him to keep me at the task until I could turn the heel and “toe-off” properly. In the summer of 1917 the Red Cross called for a half a million pairs of socks to be knit by civilians for soldiers going off to war. Mary had been recruited to help with this huge project. The effort she joined brought to gether knitters from a broad cross-section of American society, and includ ed firemen in Cincinnati, lifeguards in California, and women inmates at the Colorado State Hospital for the Insane in Pueblo. By the end of the war, participants had knit 370 million socks and other items for soldiers headed to Europe. I jumped right in and started at it. This was how I could help our soldiers overseas. While Mary was knitting socks, Lizzie’s grandfather, ten-year-old Franklin Folsom, was also determined to contribute to the war effort. He was spending the summer of 1917 with his grandmother in Pueblo while his father was serving with the army in Europe. Drawing on a fourth-grader’s sense of geog raphy, he was expecting a German attack on Pueblo from across the nearby Arkansas River. To prepare for the attack he grabbed a shovel and began dig

ging a trench behind his grandmother’s house. Sadly, he dug too close to the family’s five-hole outhouse, weakening its earthen supports. Later, when his rather large grandmother took a seat in the five-holer, the building collapsed, dropping her into the unpleasantness below. It took three men to pull her out. Was the recruiter able to persuade any miners to return to England? I just don’t know. It’s unlikely that many of Creede’s Cornish miners returned to England to enlist. Most had been away for decades, and tales of the unrelieved horror of trench warfare had surely reached Creede’s Cornish community. Of course, the recruiter would have pointed out that returning was a “now or never” decision—a British citizen was subject to Britain’s conscrip tion laws, and so by refusing to return to fight, a miner would risk jail if he returned home at a later time. In fact, only a sin gle Cornishman in America has been identified who returned to Britain during the war to join a tunneling company. Mary thought about the war and her contribution. All told I must have knit a hundred pairs of socks for our sol diers.

Sitting at the kitchen table, in her late nineties, glass of sherry in hand, she talked about how Creede coped with the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic (several of her schoolmates died); she recalled sorority life at the University of Colorado in the 1920s (sorority members mailed their dirty clothes home to be laundered); and she told stories about working for publishing houses in New York in the 1930s:

Let me tell you about the easiest job I ever had. Mary let that sink in while she sipped her sherry.

One morning in 1936, when I was working as an editor, my boss came by and put a kid’s book manuscript on my desk. ‘Let me know after lunch if you think we should publish it,’ he said. I knew in a minute that we had a winner—the book was the children’s classic Ferdinand the Bull.

Mary, 2000. Family Collection

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DOES IT HURT? Many of our patients report that they feel little to no pain at all! We do everything possible to minimize any pain from the procedure, from pain relieving spray and a local anesthetic, to precision guidance that ensures we are always in the right spot. WILL MY INSURANCE COVER HYALURONATE? This procedure is covered by most major insurance companies including Medicare. Our insurance department pre-verifies every patient. WHO WILL BE PERFORMING THE HYALURONATE PROCEDURE? Dr. Scot Paris is the medical physician who performs the Hyaluronate injection. Dr. Paris is trained as a general surgeon and has extensive experience with a variety of surgical procedures. With his conservative approach, he has excelled in the non-surgical treatment of knee pain with the use of fluoroscopy guided Hyaluronate injections. SO HOW DO I KNOW IF YOUR KNEE PAIN TREATMENT PROGRAM WILL HELP ME? If you are tired of suffering with painful arthritis of the knee, and you want to see if the latest advances in non-surgical treatment can help, all you have to do is call 732-683-1800 to set up a risk free consultation. During the consultation

WHAT IS HYALURONATE AND HOW DOES IT WORK? Hyaluronate is a natural lubricating fluid that acts as a lubricant and shock absorber inside the knee joint. The substance in Hyaluronate is normally found in high levels in healthy joints. Replacing the hyularonic acid with Hyaluronate lubricates the joint and reduces pain. Hyaluronate has been administered over 40 million times and has been proven to provide long-lasting relief of knee pain from osteoarthritis. WHAT IF YOU ALREADY TRIED KNEE INJECTIONS? If you have had injections like this in the past and experienced poor results, there is still hope! Many doctors in this area offer similar injections, but very few use precision fluoroscopy guidance. Fluoroscopy guidance ensures that the pain relieving Hyaluronate reaches the knee capsule where it bonds with the joint fluid to create a lubricating and cushioning layer. Without fluoroscopy, it is estimated that doctors “miss” the capsule over 30% of the time resulting in poor results. We want each and every one of our patients to have the greatest chance of success, so every injection is done with precision fluoroscopy guidance to ensure that the Hyaluronate gets into the capsule 100% of the time. Because of this, patients who previously felt little to no relief with non-flouroscopy guided injection are now getting excellent results. The other “big difference” in our results is the multitude of other supportive care options that we have available to enhance the effectiveness of the Hyaluronate procedure. These options include state of the art medical laser treatment, physical therapy, manipulation, corrective osteoarthritis bracing (takes pressure off the damaged section of the knee), and natural anti-inflammatory products. The combination of these treatments offers you what we feel is the most comprehensive non-surgical knee treatment program available.

all of your questions will be answered in a warm and friendly environment. Knee replacement surgery is a very extreme measure to take without considering all of your other options first. Once it’s done there is no turning back. For that reason we encourage you to schedule an appointment to see if you are a candidate for Hyaluronate treatment.

We are proud to offer our patients a comprehensive knee pain treatment program that includes the best non surgical methods to relieve pain all under one roof. We look forward to having the opportunity to help you feel better. Take the first step in ending your knee pain and call to schedule an appointment today!

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