New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 23, 1918, Page 10

“Safest Place in * Doclor Cockett said sim- o e et : soiled in had a decoration, to go home and cele- : : rora fortle /s 8 a long plank . . N CITYELE: safest place In the world for countryside. I fixed up a lobg D2 i “Weo couldn’t unders it ‘ourth and Fourteenth of brate; and you know how it is if you an Amerlcan woman s in an to hold nine more sightless men, and ) : Sk e G sl an s moric o another Serbian sat on the front seat French would comfort us as was still hard to look at the have had something nice hapr with me, and described the scenery Dr. Marguerite S. Cockett, just re- of the lands we passed through.” army camp in France.” That's what That's so magnil ke E when you realized what those you, something that you have done Tactfully, as we #ung rthe pa- men had done sir that you have been wanting to tell down impatiently when the inde- Do vou all kn e about—you like to go home and you createst, they would say: Jike? You ¢ ahe 3 turned from France, thinks of Amer- On the return to France, she em fca's fighters, With two other Amer- barked on a hospital ship at Salonica. tcan women Doctor Cockett was the The destination was Toulon, a trip a SR S : EHopwll el ournresca DRIEIERE R o ot ttiing e ¢ dues not poilus. The British had made friends ranean ordinarily. There were 600 . Sl e patients on this hospital ship, suffer- i :nn from cholera, fever, the deadly o inded L Bt (he b you are worl over the if you Wf::e not so far from Blighty Doctor Cockett, who graduated Serbian malaria, frost bite and gan- i b rench in' consoling s 7 America 1f 1 not have And he was quite alone, and looked Se ol B — roc = X e Jis uniform shoul wor lonely. We always spoke with the oo seanRcl s Iy RN PR g Off couzse when Ramerich LElGRo0 one P - societies. cnlisted men over there, if they the side a huge white cross and was T Ty been the hap- or wanting us to. And so I went over,, , Wil Ly e 2l ! I bowed and smiled at him and said, brightly illuminated. i allowed her to leave their se LVIC “r but A ¥ ‘Howdy?” And he said, ‘Hello, ¥." Shipwrecked in Africa s 1 n recognition of "l"; e \“' ’m;_“ an American Fle had a most wistful look in his y Erance gaveiiictia: e Sexy 15 wa p the boulev eye, and then I stopped and put my For twenty-one days the ship was : and told her to come back in het AN B sht sunny aft . hand out and he gripped it so hard chased by an Austrian sukmarine, and L 4 ice “any time.” We had seen el of decoradons, and pumped it up and down, and I fired upon once. A Greek island of- 3 : “You know something hapr the British w »ir modest colored started to say something more, woman, not even the famed heroes of fered a haven of refuge until the sea you when you set foot on the sacred Greek and Roman days, have under- Viber was thrown off the track. Then oil of France. I can't tell you what gone the adventurous experiences O [urious storm broke loose, the ship Jost her hearings, and in two days. they found themselves at Tunis. An- other storm was unleashed when they cherished testimonial of her servi left Tunis, and they weve driven fur- France placed on her right arm a blue ther down the African shore o to celebrate, and this fcllow's have known ov . This > ¥rench comrades went home, the first to establish a hut for Per- g's ; first res nake any diffe i \at unifc for four years in France and they shing's men when they first rested o RS o B mak 1y differ n what uniform foot in France. Philadelphia. in 1905 and later studied art under Charles Grafly, is well known to thousands of Philadelphians. Just before leaving for Irance she lived in Bryn Mawr. She is a fellow of the Academy of the Fine Arts. It is extremely probable that mno et nElthets bhots “T was going to ask him something t ghould be; and about how he got out and what he it {s. When your men come back to French } cir ribbons and was going to do with himself that vou vou will see something of it as . poqals ar it colors—the day, and I suddenly found myself un- a0 D amaPnIRticsutalvi R e G of the Legion able to speak at all, and he was e sions and the frills and the things that f Honor. They : 1eroes, and gently in the same case, because his do not matter drop off the minute ¥OU ., ¢ them ha two rows, cyes filled up and he pumped my 3 T i 24y set foot in France. We saw “”"’ they had so many rati hand down, and we neither of us service stripe, while above it are two The surgical dressings gave out, as : - : = i : men parade in Pari y.mmr‘lww: s I was not (hinking much about spoke. We would not have been any: Rola atrinet e Ii;:i]a:ttl‘wlz(j::\'r: :}:J::\tnl‘l]:v:'.fl:\nlvl ;Dlrl)c;.or C i - i 3 % of July, 1017. They w i them lmn ~;m. lc m.l mH(I a block thing else but A;:m»"-:ns for mz;:xx;gr Cock g - in all her away, I saw, head and shoulders above els world. We were ez After practicing medicine for eight experiences did she undergo s e i e ws; we Z1:vqlix]ilto(]:‘\?ov\e there. But that is the years following her graduation from keen them, than the men lad seen, know them with civilian clothes, be- kind of work the American woman British and the French. We could o 0 ook us straight in the eye can do. I wish I were sure they hardly see the flag ut all, T may “1¥, 1 g\ (nis fellow, a roughlooking knew us by the look in our eyes &8 went by. And then we SaW ., qomer. He lookew like a lumber- e are sure that we know them. led sck. 1le was not very well shaved 10 I7irs sion i i ey he 1first DIVISIOn, i pygiees were upside down. He True to Their Women made up of those W derful men who revise all hor plans. She cunceled hep Po2% and the long journey back was ; : were at Canti They had called % "g ociing station, 1nd his clothes here. When I talk to a roomtul of one of constant anxiety for fear ot ; ; for volunteers for a raid, and the trou- (o 1 yceq up. "hev sad been rolled women, T like to tell them that, and s : v ble with the American hovs s that "¢ ng stained, and had not been T tell them also that when they stand 11, 1914 On her return Doctor Cockett was g L e when you ask them to volunteer they .. .., and lean on the counters, with thelr glven an old car, with horse lorries ¢ 1 k all volunteer, and the: you have to sut he had his liead up high, and elbows on the counters and look and fastened to it. With Amiens as when I came near enough to see I look and look at us, at first we are Week after week she delaved sail- se. Doctor Cockett and ten other Parading in Paris saw shinir cast 4 brand-new bit embar °d and then we real- inz, always hoping that conditions American ambulance drivers made b ¢ P g R e raal s i Oroix Tde . Suddenly it came that they are not seeing us at aff. their way through sh-apnel right into ; : % SO RN ' the trin over me that we dow't mind the They look straight through the work- the actual field of battle. Between FE 7 ' ey, ounds shen 1‘ ) ‘-mm m‘”. wounds so much in a way. You just er, the American woman over there, the eleven American ambulance driv e ) 5 | and eoung AEhemastys Paris. And have a sort of a numb sorrow about ‘way across the sea to some woman got impatient and went o Philadel ers operating in that sector S000 Al AR T L S . e e Sl thing that sot us was that they have left back home. It phia, where she studied sculpture un- Wwounded, gassed and refugee French if |10 5 e 3 i B Sy m‘:(\\ e of those men when adds to our responsibility 50 per cent. der Charles Grafly. At the cnd of WCI® (ransported each month i S the ""U“‘f":‘*l‘l; {hey had not heavd right, (hey come out of battles. This fellov: If you are just representing yourself, two years at a studio exhibition in ”m:,','l" ,‘“: .‘l;:,'::,l::g:f : "r“,"fl:i e ”y:u\ 5 W andSootialiiraiodias BEIEASCYIGED LY 1 ““* vart, and, I you can be any kind you like, but it 1 5 a E s as we did in DR. MARGUERITE S. COCKETT nd so they paraded. Veter thought to myself, there he was alone you are representing splendid Ameri- them,” Doctor Cockett mused. & LAl {he mud of the trenches st on those houlevards among all the ecan women to the men who have. hen not content with remaining Added to all the distress was the NS ”’?:mf And then, T assure you. rest of the men. They sgive them {deals, and high ideals as they havi :'\“Y:‘”.\,, il niot <ce the bright stars twenty-four hours off, if they have it is a great, blg responsibility.” that have fallen to Doctor Cockett in the last three years. As a fondly " fitted into their uniforms ye such o e e " i sy looked m paler, some of anguish as hearing the groans the Woman’s Medical College, Doctor Of those poor fellows who w for.ed Cockett in 1914 closed her practice in 10 80 unattended for more than fifteen days. Everybody on board was the sea- I, which added to the general dis- the great war mmenced and, like comfort. The full southern moon cast thousands of others, she was forced to its effulgent beams directly upon the Boston to study art abroad. And then WAL them parade n They had c; 1tly had had first-aid somewhc TTel heattal Atc Ebuciutely oven passage on the Mauretania for Au- gpoepe “pooo AT Volunteer for Serbia om ong them . fr m choose would change so that she could take up her cherished art work. Then she 1916 all her works were sold. away from so much adveuture she ¢ONStint anxiety of the eleven Ameri- into the war 1 her share to wipe I had made up my i bought a car and went abroad under NS 1OPINg that America would come out the world scourge come back if America did the American fund for French wound- She put a federal ambulance top . . Ve N o 7 r H ) v e st How Shipbuilder Coonley Moved Texas Towns 2 (A Tractor to Match His New Railroad “Dixie.” find our place in the sun and also the For three months Dixie was a well eaGeiean - county seat, and we told them a price N . i . that was modest—w v RI DDY of cheek and clean of limb, shrewdness one day dropped this role - - o fix ' A o at least n-;‘;:o “(e H!\:)u;:ht 1 % ey ' 5 A T hAEatit sy % A2 5 S anta Fe people de- Hows: 1s N ic res. O pic 1 i ¢ leyv of 2 ac 3 n i X % r Howard W. Coonley, vice presi- (0 pick up the Coonley of the adven- . = MO = ; 3 murred, and we told them that we dent and general manager in char turous past, the Coonley that grabbed Sipesi \ e 5 b 8 . : didn’t want to sell that bad, anyway. “Finally there came another day. i 3 Tlie railroad needed our road and they, Seide ¥ - e o e offered to buy us out by giving ue y the business man X Lty h S AR St honds and securities for our road im- on! ress man belons o e pro . g ¥ VL ‘ 3 | theirs. We looked the tive dollar to its lair. When my father died,” said the 3 cw that 3 > ose first Of administration of the Emergency luck and fortune three months of service Doctor Cockett 1 1eet Corporation, looks like - golfing and, jed by gained & love for France and Lier holy Clubman rather than a shrewd, keen- Mars, brought home the cause that has been her onme pre- witted business man who pursues the Co occupation. gay and fe France sent troops to Serbia to savithe t stem the IHun tidal wave there, and Z b iering were selling st 81 when the call for doctors was issued, and clear of eye as an athlete, he is his estate with my severa g S 5 on the market. So we took the offer Doctor Cockett stepped forth. She content as a patriotic duty to sit in others, We had visions that ou Y e soll : 4 e 8% bl ) | Then with these bonds and securities another selling campaign, I Sy % Sy \ 3 < \ and when we counted up and c apparently too remote fields and pastures new in order to 2 Sl : x R heskan on the span of years we found out and serene to be bitten by the bug of 8row into such an orn many things. : Getting the Breaks road » > L Cetlos established places and offered to move . & : AR . “Not only had the Coonley dollars |h;‘m bodi : houses all, to our G o R 9 . S { v‘rm 1{\“; the ground, but they had railvoad. ¥ 1t fexas is very § 5 " . N \ ablished towns, made a county seat, Aot there and all you lad to do to b x e LR ] | built a rallroad and last, but not least, i move a town was to hitch a tract b S St 1d permitted the various Coonleys at the same time, Wander in retrospect to the days when stand alone as a monument to the - 0p 9 5 OV ROE L B0 LT e : W iutan S S ARd Sentrots fqucat e he was the architect of his fate in sagacity and the s of the per i weir e ¢ eak even on the money they had Aim town, and pull away. X S o L romance and the captain of his soul manent owners. Looking about, we spent. ( o enes took place Tight I adventure. decided that we would zet into cattle oS alie M Eag alo N yreaking scenes took place Tigh ) : B, S SRReN And this chapter de luxe came forth : 5 arazing in the famovs Texas tures attractive we of aske % 5 § 6 o \ from the Coonley of the t during a of her eyes. Desolation was Yomantic S T K sy 1 v oevery c - 3 . v 2 tn t ot 1 Desolat A Romantic Son of Nebraska AT of our beauteous land for y act g . | on of the future of Hog on all hands, and often supplies fa and how Philadelphia financiers market over nd saw that the bonds and securities Well-groomed, brown as a berry shipbuilder of the present shared 5 . o rseive ¢ t £ ' § 3 R | we started was sent to establish a Franco-Ser- his office the day through and wrestle Nebraska patrimony must ceek other 3 R " e bian field lios Nine ambulances with figures, which start v Dboat for the hos- Mediterranean their brave drivers, sunk 1 U-boats. PBut Doctor an axiom in baseball that the star count that we felt was necessary. and Dixie made the long trip shortstop wants to pitch and Ty Cobb entimentally, we feit that the ind from France to Serbia. would rather play first base than shine COCPeY fortune had come out of the the tedious hature i : < = ground of the West it should be put > in his own element and outfield, sc ck ther: 1 < For three months Doctor g 0 > back there n to thr and wax ambulance ana does the Coor thoughts at times fat and become so robust that it bankroll adventure and romance. But as it is that we coul have the sige 1k ac- hat wa ehcalal would several days with- and day the most Romance has for him the same re “We bhou ac ve they deserted, and the lure was too ing revitalizing as the breath of stocked the ri We went along Strong—they all came with us. In the ’ ; et A e morning has for the sunflower or the carefully and the first year we found Midst of our joy we finally came to & X ¢ project in the time to come. dew for the grass. Richard Harding that we had just about made ou: ends the belief that we m have the Davis could easily have taken the im- meet, but that the future was still an county seat in our town. perturbable Coonley and lifted him uncharted sea for us. The following “This was in Crosby County, T . hodily into one of his novels, without year we lost 1200 three-year-olds, that and the only way to do that was to having to draw on his vivid imagina- spelled a loss of $50,000 for us, and we bring enough immigrants and settlers fnes tion for a moment to invest his hero decided th the cattle business into the place to make the largest Helping the Blind with the adventures which a Davis must in the county. An acre of land to a i hero found essential in order that the S o : man made this possible. Then we crop of best sellers might still be Linking Up the Sante Fe a special clection called. We had reaped by the scythe of the author. We still were enamored of the for tractored enough homes and voters in Coonley, the adventurer, is a sturd tunes that lie in the ground, howevar, them into Crosbytown, where we lived son of Nebraska. But Coonley, the and we hit upon a to reach the hospita gions Doc aauntl « ades » almost faint from lack of fo Pitched high i the st air were the shrie of the desperately wounded Serbian and French, who were without dre that Doc Cockett lost nd now she wears it ped like a little boy, bobbed. Had to do she explained laconi- Too much dirt.” A sad leave-taking was 1 with “Dixie,” when Doctor Cockett was or- ploneering scheme to carry the clection and we became agzacious business -—an, the careful that we though' was a lulu, We de- the county weig of words and posse after the cided that we would farm our broad “We also introduc ur expert dollar, is a Bostonian, president of a and fertile acres, and after we had y farming to dered back to France once more corporation hallowed by :ge and grown such crops that we should pe- the almost human affection had spru sturdy by steady growth over nearly come famous, Ye anxious rmer hecame If, Doctor three-quarters of a centur: The would purchase our lots we wouid Coonley that secks adventure is the make money son of the plaing, who mounts Pegasus “So we engaged the best ‘dry farmer’ d. “In the morning sometimes with a flying start and rides him to in the State of Texas—he didn't ¢} grumbles a little at the cold. And (he domaln of notes and bonds and this, but he was entitled to ti ays when he should have been guitclaims and othe «pixie' was wonderful,” she ex addenda to those and we started. Our crops flouvis 1% his rest like the other fleld am- who lead the hosts who \ces, there he was out all through show. \e long day, crowded with blind Ser- The careful Coonley of busingss per- seek and and grew like the green bay trec one by one the & le m an to buy our lots &t farm, P HOWARD W. CPON pian scoldiers, darting all over ibe spicacity and nalive conunercial our price. The Coonley fortunes “We thought of