Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1917 — FLEECED PILOT BECOMES WARY [ARTICLE]

FLEECED PILOT BECOMES WARY

Experience has made Harry Poole cautious. Boole, a master lake pilot living at the Morrison hotel, Chicago, was swindled out of SSO by a gypsy fortune teller. Mary Stanko, twenty years ’ old, was arrested on his complaint. “Sign your name to this complaint,” said Desk Sergeant Patrick Brady, shoving an arrest blank toward Poole? “But what is it? Not on your life. They got me once, but they don’t catch me twice,” cried Poole. Sergeant Brady relieved the situation by filling out the complaint Then Poole, after read- •’ ing it, affixed his signature.

Three surgeons ar-> attached to the column, two nurses and five medical students. One of these students, Alexander Brailovsky, has comported himself with such gallantry that he wears on his breast the medals of aN four degrees of the Order of St. George. His distinction is, in a way, as’great as his commander, who was the first of the three colonels now decorated to be given the Cross of St. George. “Russia, like America, is a land of vast distances,” he said to a New York World reporter. “You, however, have mastered the art of conquering space as we have not. Our fighting fronts are w'ell supplied with roads, but we lack adequate means of swift locomotion,at any rate, for those in whose welfare I am most deeply Interested, the wounded. Rapid transit to the : rear-means the thousands Of lives.

Needs Motor Ambulances. “I have, after two years’ effort, succeeded in mustering 14 motor ambulances for my ‘flyer,’ but what are 14 ambulances for work with such fighters as the Siberian Ironsides? “Our whole Red Cross organization, which has 31,000 trained nurses working: at the front, does not boast more than 400 motor ambulances altogether, “Instead of 14 ambulances, I ought to have. to serve such a corps ar the First Siberian, from 100 to 150. I had been promised some cars by various British organizations.but they need all they have and friends have encouraged me to hope that in the nevei failing generosity of Americans I may find some assistance toward providing the Russian Red Cross with this sore-.. ly needed equipment. ' “Modern_warfare makes such terrfc. hie demands upon the physical and nervous powers that unless a wounded man can be got swiftly away from the inferno in which he has been at work, his chances of recovery are seriously Imperiled. Motor ambulances will do this, and no motors are so admirably adapted to use in Russia as your American makes. If I know, and I think I do know, the heart of the true American, my mission will prove an easy one.”