Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 232, 10 August 1918 — Page 4

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i PAGE FOUi: THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. SATURDAY, AUG. 10, 1918.

As a courtesy to Miss Ruth Kinsey

will be married next Saturday eve

ning to William Jenkins, Mrs. John M. Lontz will give a one o'clock luncheon at the Country club Thursday. Covers will be laid for sixteen guests. The East End Aid society of First Christian church will meet Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Will Eaton at her home, 122 North Seventeenth street. All members are urged to be present. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Shively and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shively and daughter, Georglana, of Greenville, O., will spend tomorrow with Mr. and Mrs. James Fry of South Seventh street. Miss May Wiley and Joseph E. Hills were married this morning at 10:30 o'clock at the parsonage of the United Brethren church. Rev. H. S. James performed the ceremony in the present of a few relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Hills left for Indianapolis where they will reside. Mr. and Mrs. Gath Freeman will return next week from Washington, D. C. where they have been visiting Mr. . Freeman's sister. All former students and prospective students of Indiana University are invited to attend the meeting in the Westcott hotel, Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Prof. Rothrock of the university will give the talk of the evening. The meeting is under auspices of the Wayne County Indiana University Alumni asscoiation. Members of the W. C. B. class of the Central Christian church will have a business meeting and picnic at Glen Miller park next Wednesday afternoo Members are requested to bring lunch for the supper and meet near the playgrounds at 2:30 o'clock. The business session will be held in the afternoon and supper served at 6 o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur S. Evans have returned to their home In Chicago, at ter a few days visit with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Evans of north Sixth street. Mr. Evans expects to go It training at Ft. Sill, Okl., soon, j

The Epworth League of the First Methodist church will enjoy a hay ride to the Shute form, southeast of the cit Tuesdaye venlng. All members and friends are invited. The party will leave the church at 7:30. Mrs. Retta Knollenberg and Mrs. Nora Norrls were hostesses for a meeting of "Do Your Bit" knitting club, which was held Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Norris. The U. C. T. social club will meet Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. M. R. Davis, at her home, 2301 north E st. The Loyal daughters of the First Christian church will meet Monday evening, with Mrs. F. II. Burns, at her home, 503 South Tenth street. The Missionary society of First Christian church met Thursday afternoon at the church. Mrs. Maude Allen led the devotional and Miss Margaret Windsor read a paper on "Pioneer Missionary Women." Mrs. Genette Wilson and Mrs. J. A. Walls gave short talks and Mrs. Shirley Rust and Mrs. Benjamin Harrison read papers on missionary subjects. Twenty-nine members and four visitors were present. Two new members were added to the membership.

RED CROSS MEN WORK 72 HOORS WITH 14 HOURS SLEEP, WRITES MARVEL

Miss Grace Woodyard and Miss Vivian King returned this wek from Chicago where they have been taking a summer course at Chicago university. Miss Maude Flannlgan and Miss .Helen Lawrence will leave this evening for a two wek's vacation at Lake James, Rome City, Ind., and Detroit, I Mich. 1 Women of West Richmond are urg,ed to go to the West Richmond Red Cross rooms to help get out the August quota which must be sent August 23. The rooms are open each Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons from one ao five o'clock. This next week the rooms will be open both Thursday morning and afternoon if enough workers come to the rooms. The Mary F. Thomas W. C. T. U. will meet Monday evening with Mrs. Reynolds at her home on Main street. All members are urged to be present.

Dr. Charles Marvel has

the following letter from his son, Josiah, who is with Friends Unit No. 2, 4 Rue Gabriel, with the American Red Cross in Paris. The letter was written during the battle of Chateau Thierry, in which the Americans were victors. The letter follows: We are in the midst of the greatest battle of the world's history. The tremendous offensive was begun on the 14th and we all feel that upon the results of this crisis depends the future of everything. The Americana held so wonderfully at Chateau Thierry, at terrific cost, especially to .the marines, but they established their reputations by not retreating one step and the result of their fire upon the Germans was awful. This seems to have quite upset the morale cf the Germans and in this present drive in the sectors opposite us they show little willingness to fight when they find out that they are pitched against our men. I have been wondering if in the midst of all this thee has not had a little twinge of disappointment that I was not helping directly toward this common end but was in civilian work. It was rather difficult for me and I felt it a little myself so I proceded to get busy along with all those of Unit No. 2 in Paris. I am really proud of our unit we all volunteered for Red Cross stretcher work in the immense relief station here. The way the wounded have poured into the city has just paralyzed the hospital staffs and sanitary trains. The ambulance men have driven until they almost went to sleep at the wheel. Another fellow and I went to sleep on a street car coming home this morning and rode to the end of the line. I've had 14 hours sleep In the last 72. I had never worked before in my life; I thought I had but I hadn't. The doctors work 24 hours at a stretch with

out resting at all and then it is a mighty short time until they are back at it again. Celebrates Bastile Day. !

received business. The Swiss border has been

closed and the Rhodes have waited seven weeks to get in, and the embassy has just informed them that it will be open for a couple of hours soon, so they are going down and wait. Hi3 business won't take very long, but there is no telling when they will get out of the country when they once get in. Meanwhile yours -truly is planning food, ordering meals, etc. I was so amused at the clipping from Amerl-

; ca about the 31 pounds of sugar ra

tion. We have one pouna a montn and none extra for canning. If I do say it myself, the fellows here, at least they arn't starving. .1 wish I had an American cook book. One doesn't link up ginger bread and war in France. Wounded Show Courage. Monday night two fellows were here for dinner. I invited them in to meet the men in the house. They are first unit fellows and most interesting. Had just come irom the hispital at Chalous and were cn their way south for a vacation. "We arranged a hike together for Tuesday with Walter Wildman. We rode on the train to Sceaux Robinson, walked to Malabry, from there to Versailles, all arcund the gardens and then rode home. I know it was the hottest day this summer, but we all had a mighty good time. I think Bob has been there and thee has probably heard what he wrote. The Museum and palace are colored, the fountains are not going and the flower gardens are planted in vegetables. The statues are all sanbagged, but it is still worth the trip, because one can see what it once was. Then a beautiful terrace and grove are still there. One of the American trains that came in was in command of 'Major Rolle, a surgeon from Chicago. I reported to him to inquire what special cars needed to be taken off first. First we take off any cases which may have died enroute, then the contagious diseases, the most serious surgical, the officers and all the rest of the men as we can find them. $It is sickening when one gets into a car

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wounded and then most likely gangrene had set in. These cars have good ventilating systems, but they are not adequate for that. The hospital trains usually bring in about 600 cases. Of course the American trains are the best. They carry 15 cars with 36 men to a car. One surgeon .(major or captain) in command with one or two lieutenants, two orderlies for each car, and a kitchen force make up the personnel. There are no women nurses. I have never seen any spirit finer than that of the doctors and those orderlies. They handle their men with a patience

and tenderness that is touching, and then it is such a pathetic sight to see

Charlie Twigg of the Motor Mechanic school at Purdue university is spending the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Twigg. Young People to Conduct Central Christian Services The young people of the Central Christian church will have charge of the Sunday evening church services. Following is the program: Song, "Day is Dying in the West", Congregation. Invocation, Charles Roland. Song, "All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name," Choir. Hve Minute Talk, Vernon Bramnier. Violin solo, Richard Mansfield. Scripture lesson, Ruth Horr. Duet, "Shadows of the Evening Hour," Lova Mansfield and Harry McMlnn. Prayer, Kenneth Whitnack. Reading. "The Last Hymn," Mrs. Harry McMinn. Sermon, "Live Your Life." Invitation Hymn No. 131, Congregation. Flule solo, Robert Roland. Benediction.

More than half of Sweden Is covered by forests, only Finland having a greater proportionate area of timber land.

Lunch-time is Toastie time

POSTlOASTIES Choicest Of Corn Poods

gining or the week because I have done such a multitude of things and if I want to get them all in I will have to recount them as they happened. I am afraid that this letter will be stupid because I am so sleepy but I want to get it off and then I can sleep. It has been a week since I have written. On the 14th, Paris had its great celebration. I promised myself that the cooks and I would have this day off, and not have any such performance as we had on the 4th, so I ordered the dinner for everyone at the Hotel Odeon. It is a good thing that I did for on Saturday the chef at the Hotel Malabry called up and said that there would be 33 of them in for that day. I just ushered them all around to the hotel. Every one in the house made his own bed; three fellows washed the breakfast dishes, so cook and all departed at nine for the parade. I arranged for three of us to

be on the Red Cross headquarters building overlooking the Place de la Cocorde. It was a wonderful loca

tion because the troops marched dorff

the Rue Royal from the Madelein to the Place and then to the Tuilleries. There were thousands of people watching in the Place. Real "Jazz" Music. First they had the crowning of the statue of Luxemburg and then the great parade 6f all the allied armies. It was the most attractive military parade one could imagine for every single soldier wore or carried flowers and roses except the Americans. The children and girls would run out and present the fellows with bouquets, and then it was quite 'laissezfaire" to bestow a kiss. I was thrilled and thrilled with the bands, uniform and all. Of course the whole thing depended upon the location and I was where I could see everything. (Well, I was interrupted last night by the arrival at 11:00 p. m. of ten men to stay all night. I had beds for six but had to put up cots for the other four, and by the time I had gotten the linen and blankets out, and seen that the fellows had towels, etc., I was ready for bed myself.)

To continue about the 14th. After

lunch Bob and I went up to the house and he and Walter Wildman and I talked and talked together about every one we knew and what every one was doing, and what the latest news from home was, etc. Wildmancame up to Paris on his way to Memaise, and I asked him to stay here with U3 while in the city. About 4 o'clock I went to call on Henry Thompson, the young lieutenant from Wilmington. He had gone to the University club for their open house and I went down there and didn't I have a good time.

For the occasion they had a real.

American colored jazz band from Gaby Desley's theatre. The most wonderful rag music I ever heard, and real American frozen custard, lemonade or punch, and French pastry. All the stores, that used to sell them are closed now because they are not allowed to be sold now. Whom should I meet but Harry Ross. He is located in Paris all the time and is working for the Red Cross in the bureau of Chaplaine. Every one there was an American or else spoke English and we certainly had a good time. I planned a buffet lunch for our men at home so it would be easier for the cook. We boiled a ham (a great luxury) potato salad, cream cheese, fruit, walnuts and tea with cream and sugar. Hear Big Guns. We had our usual Sunday evening service at 8:00 o'clock. Bob stayed for supper. He seems to be getting along very well at Malabry and is enjoying the work. I had heard at the club that the offensive had started and we could hear the big guns all night. In the trenches the noise from the firing must be deafening if it can be heard so far and so plainly. At Malabry they can hear it quite often, but Malabry is high up on a hill and Paris is in a big valley. On Monday my housekeeper left

eration or dressing room and morgue. Down the center of the building between these smaller rooms on one side and the waiting room in the other runs a wide hall which leads out into the big room at the . end Into which the ambulances are driven and loaded. Six of our fellows usually work together on one of the teams to fill the ambulances. The wounded are carried Into the big room which Is large enough to accommodate what one train can carry. After a train is unloaded they start filling the ambulances which are probably just returning from carrying the cases which were on the previous train. The doctors go around among the stretchers while waiting and administer what first aid they can to those who, have not had it already and pick out the most serious cases to be sent to the hospital first. The stretcher bearers then carry the patients down the hall and as they pass through the door into the room where the ambulance is waiting they tell the door man whether the case is gassed, wounded Or operative (rUshed) and assign an ambulance going to that hospital which treats that case. The French have been doing this for four years now and have got it down to a pretty good system. We handled one night as many thousand cases as there are members in our family at home now. Maybe some of those men aren't heav" I carried everything from Gem- French officers, and privates, American officers and privated to colored troops from Africa. The latter feel as if they were made out of solid iron. They all receive the same attention. It was startling at first to see a German walking along with both arms around French soldiers. One African I carried had had his face cut in moons and circles like one sees in the pictures of savages in missionary magazines. Mother Finds Soldier Son. I was given a present at the station which I prize very much. While walking among the fellows on their stretchers, I was attracted by the remarkable fine face of a husky. He had a frank open countenance and large brown eyes. I asked if there was anything I could do for him and he said no. that

he could not move, but was not suffer- j ing very much. I brought him a glass

of water and then he told me that he had been wounded by machine gun fire. The shot had passed through the bladder and into the spine s? he had no feeling nor use of his muscles from the waist down. After he told me this h took hold of my hand and looked up at me with those big brown eyes which I can never forget and said, "You think I will get well don't you?" The first thing I thought of was Tom. I talked to him a little and then called the surgeon and ordered him sent to the hospital at once. We put the stretcher on the cart and wheeled him out to the ambulance. Just as they were putting him in he handed me his trench helmet and said, "It is all I have and I want you to keep it, "You have been so good." - He was wounded at Chateau Thierry. What these fellows suffer America will never know because they will never tell. A remarkable and most happy co-incident occurred Saturday night. Mrs. Bacon, a Red Cross worker from New York, had been working there night after night and I rad got to know her pretty well. She told me about her

son. wno is a lieutenant in tne Ma

WITH THOSE IN ARMY AND NAVY

This column, containing news of Richmond and Wayne county soldiers and sailors, will appear dally In the Palladium. Contributions will be welcomed.

Sergeant Daniel Zuttermeister has arrived safely overseas, according to word received here by his sisters, Mrs. George Zuttermeister and Mrs. Ernest Renk, South Fourteenth street. Sergeant Zuttermeister has served eighteen years in the regular army and has just finished some extra training

at a camp in South Carolina before j

going across. He was formerly a resl-J dent of Richmond. Private Orbia Bell has returned to Ft Adams, Rhode Island, after a tenj

days' visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Bell, 220 Charles street. Bell is the driver of the Post ambulance.

Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Wallace, 720 South Fifth street, have been notified that their son, Corporal Walter Wallace, has been stationed at the Walter Reld Hospital in Washington, D. C. James Cadwalladar has sent word to Miss Gladys Collins that he has arrived safely overseas. Merrill Slusher has arrived overseas according to information received byMr. and Mrs. Charles Rurl, 403 South Tenth street.

SOLDIERS "STRONG" FOR RED CROSS

When we get hungry over here we just go and get hot chocolate, coffee, soup, cheese, sandwiches, cigarettes and almost anything we want at the Red Cross headquarters and it does not cost us a cent," said Private Raymond Yundt in a letter to his mother, Mrs. Dora Yundt of Greensfork. He continued his praise of the Red Cross and the Y. M. C. A. "Anything people back home can do for either the Y. M. C. A. or the Red Cross Is a wonderful thing. Their work over here is certainly fine. I do not know what we would do if it were not for them," he said. Yundt has been in the army for two years, and he said in his letter that, although he thought of home very often, life over here had become so natural that he could no longer call it being homesick. He is In Field Hospital No. 13, First Division. A. E. F. TONEY HAS FOUR SONS IN SERVICE

Lieutenant Fred White of Detroit Is here for a few days visit with friends.

Mrs. William Krammer has received word from her husband that he has arrived overseas with an artillery company.

front. She had not heard from him and began, to be a little anxious. She is very handsome, and had been a mother to all the boys that had been in her part of the station, and we all just love her. Three Marines were Drought in early Friday morning. She went to them right away and found that they were members of her son's company, but had net seen him since they had gone over the top. She was wonderfully calm and poised and yet we all knew how anxious she was.

She had worked all night, but she kept on working all day without any signs of anxiety and yet with a desperateness because she could not do enough for the other mother's sons. At 10:15 Saturday night she was still going around putting little pillows under the fellow's heads and doing little motherly things when someone called out, "Mother! Mother;" It was her her son and he was only slightly injured. Well we were so happy too, to see these two, a mother and son united this way while each was giving up of his most for the others. I must go out this morning and try to buy some food. I got a note from the Red Cross this morning with

these fine big fellows painfully wound- j rines and whose division is now at the

ed but if able to hobble at all helping another whom he thinks is worse off than himself. Trains Carry Wounded. Inside the American cars the bunks are arranged in tiers along the side of the cars, like Pullmans, except that the berths are narrower and the aisles

wider. The entrances are double door in the center. The beds have springs and very comfortable mattresses covered with sheets. There is always a

blanket to throw over the men. The cars are painted green outside, white inside and have plenty of sunlight and air from the windows. There are usually six stretcher bearers to a car, two men carrying a stretcher. They hold the stretcher levej with the bed and the orderlies help the patient to move on to it. Then the stretcher is carried out and placed on the station platform. If there are enough Frenchmen on duty they carry the patient into the big waiting room and leave him there. The French have some very good ambulance trains but the only ones I have seen are just ordinary freight cars. These are whitewashed and are pretty clean on the inside. They do not have beds but use the stretchers for the men to lie upon. They are hung in three tiers on movable iron frames, which can be taken out of the car if necessary. The only advantage of this is that the patient does not have to be taken off the stretcher from the time he leaves the field until he arrives at the hospital. Of course he

does not ride as comfortably on the train. The French freight cars are so small that they have only room for three tiers or nine men with two on j the floor. They usually have blankets. '

a table and old stove and a smoky oil i lamp. It is not" the most cheery place I in the world by any means. It takes) five men to take a stretcher out of a ; car. They set it on the platform and! two other men carry it into the waiting room. Many Cared For. Another relief station was formerly a large freight station. It is a long! one-story brick building with big' double doors opening into the big'

covered platform which runs along on '

each side. When the trains are brought in they are split and half the cars placed on one side and half on the other. The immense big waiting room has supports for 600 stretchers 60 that they are held up to about the height of a cot. At one end of the room are the benches for the sitting cases. Next to this room is a smaller one for officers? Can thee imagine those rooms being filled and emptied six times in one night? On the other side of the building are the doctors' offices, a canteen and kitchen, emergency op-

Mahlon Sheridan, formerly of The Palladium business office, has been transfered from Camp Humphrey, Va., to Camp Forest, Ga. He is en listed in an engineers company. cheering news that they would not be able to furnish men with chocolate, cocoa, canned corn, tomatoes and bouillon ubes. To buy these things here is simply out of the question because of the price. They have to be saved for the hospitals. We have just enough potatoes for one more day and there are absolutely no more to be bought in Paris. I do not know what I am going to do, but I am not disturbed because something always turns up. I simply do not have time to write. I am so busy that I feel as if my soul weren't my own.

Mr. and Mrs. Levi R. Toney, 203 South Ninth street have four sons In the service of their country. One son, Harold L. Toney, has been in the regular army for seven years, having served one year in training at Fort Matt, N. J., three years in the Panama zone, one year on the Texas bor-

der, from where he went directly to j France with the first expeditionary J forces. He is now serving at the headquarters of the 2nd Brigade, Ma- ! chine Gun battalion.

William H. Toney Is at Camp Lee, Virginia, serving in a veterinary company. Alphonso Toney Is in Ca. A, 34th Regiment Engineers, Fort Benjamin Harrison. Ivan Toney is enlisted in the navy and is in Company 481, Camp Boone, Great Lakes, Illinois.

0. R, WEBB RECOVERS

FROM GAS ATTACH

Sergeant Owen R. Webb, who was gassed early in May, has written home that he was burned about the face, neck, chest, arms and eyes, but has fully recovered with the exception of a slight heaviness in the lungs on rainy days. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore J. Webb, received word recently from Col. Robert H. Tyndall, 6tating that their son had fully recovered and was back on the firing line. Webb went over in the Rainbow Division.

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