Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1917 — WAR PICTURES AT GAYETY [ARTICLE]

WAR PICTURES AT GAYETY

Shown for ' Benefit of Red Cross and Belgian Relief Fund. Official war pictures, taken by a corps of about a dozen expert photographers under the auspices of William K. Vanderbilt, president of the Charity Relief corps, are being shown at the Gayety airdome each Wednesday evening. These pictures show as much of the actual operations as it is possible for the camera to get. Life in the trenches and the bursting of shells, devastation of the country, barbed wire entanglements and other fortifications, and also the discharge of the giant allied cannon are vividly shown. Scenes about the hospitals at the front and the carrying forth of the dead and wounded, while not presenting a very pleasing situation, yet are shown in all their stern reality.

The pictures are authentic and the royalties received from their exhibition are devoted to the Belgian relief fund and the Rec Cross. If you want to see genuine pictures of the great European war, extend the Gayety each Wednesday evening.