The evening world. Newspaper, March 27, 1915, Page 5

_— -——__-— — WOUNDED CARRIED TWO MILES ~ IN TRENCHES, SAYS AMERICAN — 202 Sometimes They Are Killed on Way to Safety— Endure Many Hardships Before They Reach Pans Hospital whol @ A fomous P cign Legion he strength of I 4 change made pursibie onthe of wer hie preperation of we of articles by Phil Mader, 4 wre the wars outbreak has boon serving with of the French wi sy After fowr in the trenches bis regiment of an ortginal 0 men wes reduced to Beh of Maders aasgnment, entar 4 furlough in London, theese article By Phil Rader. ARTICLE Wo. 8. (Cuvrniats Wh Ww the Usitet Pram) LONDON, Mareh 1 (by mail).-Belng wounded to our treuehe Grucsome business @ame limping up the trench one day the leg. If a wounded man éropped back to safety be that wae done for him during the fret few hours only jth and wee ikely to make his condition worse Often « man would not know he was wounded for some time Ope chap complaining that he hed been shot tn He could hardly put his right foot to the ground. We ripped open his trouser jeg and could find no bullet mark. Then we discovered that he had been shot through the forearm and that the wound Was bours old. | To be hit feels like being punched, eo many suldiers have told me. Wh k in our trenches the fel @n hour the come If the wound man would remain trenches, efter the doctor had roaked it in fodine, which burns like fire, If the wound was serious the doctor would do the best he could tn the way of dressing it, and then one of us, oF perhaps two, would be detailed to take the unlucky man back to safety, He had to be car through two miles of trenchen It was impossible to use a atretcher, sharp turns and, if k, you places to low the trench ing to the ik through the one of the in our of a comrade head and killed one day many dangerous turnings trench system. HOSPITAL WAS STILL MANY MILES AWAY. After this two-mile trench journey was ended, the man had to be car- ned along 4 pathway down a 200-foot elif, Here he was safe from bullets or shells, but a warn, clean, hospital bed was still millions of miles dis- tant. Here he w be taken into a peasant’s house, where the first ata men were on duty, There would be nothing but straw for him to He upon, The tirat n would dash cvld water onto » Wash his wounds and bind them as best they could. Then the wounded man would le the straw until nightfall, it w necessary to carry him through r zone to gett the which for a8. a in little wheeled canal on a st > baby carriages, wh nected by a board, would carry him in Obaron was an old peasant with long, white wh His boat Was floored with straw because arried only the most Bravely wounded men, who often died during the mile journey down the canal, we used to call him “Charon” and we named the canal the Styx. At the infirmary there real surgeons, but they work and they w cessity, to perform their operations hastily, in an linprovised operation room, FINALLY PUT ON TRAIN AND RUSHED TO PARIS. If the wounded mun were still alive by this time, he would be put into @ Ret Cross wagon or automobile or some «cher sort of a vehicle and car- ried thity miles to a large town (which [ csnnot for obvious reasons name), and Sere he would be put on the next Red “!ross train and started | \ Qed in the train might rd, second or first for Paris. His be a seat Ina jclaas coach; or, tt he wae lucky, it might be @ sheeted ood tn « reguiar| | be ansigned to the hospital whieh he ‘represents. To them he is only # num- | ber, or perhaps @ chalk mark on the door of the car. ‘They will put htin on a stretcher, pl him in @ huge ctor ambulance, perhaps with who have been ar will race th the city to the warm, gentle nurses, flowers and no respon- aibility await bim, GLAD TO GET LOOK AT WHITE NURSE. It 1s no wonder that the wounded men who ach the hospital wards ink by of relief and simile when they eatch the first glimpse of the white nurses. lwok back at the journey he has taken sinco that motnent be was hit in the trenches and you can under- stand how a hospital ward looks like heaven to a wounded soldier. ‘To get into @ hospital is one of a soldier's dreams and there are strict laws in all armies against men wounding themselves, In the French army this self-wounding is knowa as “mutilation” and the punishment is death. In our regiment an ex- nvict, who had been released after erving fifteen ye: mit him to enter the army, persuaded another soldier to shoot him through the hand. In return for the favor he punctured the hand of the noldier, When they came to hav thelr wounds dressed the doctors noticed powder marks on vingled hands and the truth came vit, Both men w executed poem =a New York. kon to the pillows with sigh | in order to per-| | Claims She Is THEE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MARCH 27, Plaids and Checks in All Combinations the Rage For Suits and Frocks, or Even in Gloves and Parasols FIND “ESCAPING RUTH” AFTER SIXTH FLIGHT AND SEND HER BACK messin Married, That Fails to Her. | their! caping Ruth,” many cities call Ruth Smith, as wierd oe “ fea ont wr but Save the police of twenty ee Ya { | | | There seem to be few things in wearing apparel this spring that lack @ touch of biack and white, elther in a striped effect or in plaid or check | | Many suits are made up in combinations of plain and check matorlals | “*STONEWALL'S’ WIDOW IS |WILSON AND TAFT AT 2 | IN-VAULT BESIDE HIM RED GROSS DENIGATION SAY SHE STOLE TO WED. of the National ‘Training . | = or Incorriibles at Washing- | With Military Honors Wife of Con- Cornerstone of Memorial to Women| 4 b Girl Wanted ; +} ‘ Ty yun id arrested 1 : Police Declare Nurse Gir! mted ton, D.C. hus been found and arrested | federate Leader Is of Civil War te Be Laid 1 Money to Buy Troussea: in New York after her sixth flight | : | Mra, Frederick Withard, wife of a| fom prison. She was caught at No. Buried. Vo-Da | Manufacturer, came to ew York to | 869 West One Hundred id Dwenty> LENINGTON, Va, Mareh 27—-With WASHINGTON March Prest-| shop yesterday, leaving her home at No. [sixth Street and says she was MUP) many of her husband's comrades In| dent Wilson will lay the nerstone #44 Angelique Street, North Bergen, N./ ried Jan. 20 last to John Alexander | arms present and with unusual mile | oe aye permanent home of the Amer. J., In charge of the servants and her two| Wilkins, a negro chauffeu itary rs, Mary Anna Jack- | | Red Cross here at «| small children In the care of Anna! Since 190% Ruth has escaped from | son, Gen newall” Jack- | 1 afternoon, and former Prost Bredz, a nurse, of eighteen years of age. | the Washington institution where she} Son, nfederate Jeader, WAS) dont ‘Tut will be the principal When Mra, Withard got home last eve~| was placed at the axe of twelve yours] buried best her ibe in the) speaker. Miss Mabel Hoardman of the fing Anna wae gone ante 0) re en by her parents. Her first runaway vault b Lictapsede ay emiiraaay d Cross and Asststaht: Secretary handsome dresses and about $200 tn seind andthe Rent: toc In Lexington Cemetery yesterday of t ry Department | Jewelry, The children were being taken | “*% eh asiapabs * i Pee \ ue Among thoae at the Interment ware ake addressen, ' | care of by the other servants. pa Shind tine abe tRllad tO'SSC | nembere or the nfoderute Veterans.) ie building will be « memorial to Anna war caught last night as she tho Kone of Confederates, tho Dauih- to. vomen of the Clell War It in| was about to board a Hoboken ferry for Years ago sho got as far as] ters of the © iin vere! first building & Itod States | New York, The police say she admitted | Trenton, after getting out of the) of the faculties of the Virginia Mile] U0" | eral aes the theft, explaining that she was en-|Washington institution by a ruse.| Itary Inetitute, in which Hee TOON) achition ‘ahd palelotlain, of We gaged to marry William Haverst She and her captor started back to] *" ce rope esrehenera ene sa structure will grac onteenth a jumped through a window while the} N.C), whore Mtr Jackson died. ne | organdie tn the entive squat “on train vas moving. ‘The conductor had So eee tiene trom Confederate soe | the Corcoran Art Gntlery and the| the train backed and the girl was] cleties. | headquarters of the Daughters of the found beside the track, stunned, —_—--—-- ~~ American Revolution, White Vermont ‘wo seare ago ue a5 STATEN, ISLAND NOTES, | marble 1 be used tn tty comstrus and came to New York, Detectives ahaa Mion and ite style will rein | found her in an apartment at } 7) tt tm reported that Chief Engineer | sy DIET SOBEERDONAIAR tO: He WALI West One Hundred and Fifteenth | Theodore Oxholm will Ie, ay ainted | Howne, raletaesweit ; who st sioner of Public Works, suc- | © total cost, When completed, w : Street. She stepped into a bathroom paloner of Pu rt ixon, reslened be $800,000, of which $257,000 wan ex- | HIS is a message to several | ty dress, an sive had on only a himone, | “ermink Lewis Nixon, resign I eetden fos (inaleae - CONRVAAA SUGEC and from the bathroom she ved easy 00,000 and emoaining thousand women who have Pe errr a Jprlated $400,000 and the remaining lately come to live in or near out by way of another bullding, It Now York, Mr unset was six months before she was caught | 3! " Ho Harriman and th tor the Bt George ferry approach and again, wall Poundation he bulla On Dec, 28 last she and two other| state Engineer Frank A. Williams, | te Cumpleted bythe spring giria overpowered & man guard and e jed by Ds Some of you from the | ee eee tore mate nats | weet Was Due eer Bar South, from a great many of you the West and many others from all over nearer by: Ever since you used to count on yo known only p' whole country forthe children. Will perime! ur fingers you have about Best’s as the lace just like it in the you not make an ex- ntal visit to Best's as a shopping-place just as indi- vidual and different in its ser- vice and its merchandise for yourse lves? Fisth Avenue, West Bide, Corner of 35th Strect One Hundred ar ten day penalty. |Foar Small Six Morris Saltpet Across Theatre. departing when so that ‘The leas ¢ has been len | Bronx Are Practic fied that she had friend Twent there was diMculty in clearing the tres the engines could was ted at true! at the Wi ye-sixth xth and Detectives Berminghan rmick of the Fourth Branch Bureau watehed for her there, ar resting ber when #ho appeared las night She told them that she and Wilkins had been keeping house at No, 2 West Ninety-ninth Street, and said) she thought her marriage ought t entitle her to freedom. Sue will, how ever, be returned to Washington Each time she has escaped her d by a ait _——>——— TWO-STORY BLOCK AFIRE. tures in the y Destroyed, through. tr 6 number of tc Was second of nal termin | Dr. dona 't Mure Frtend 1 ” \ tie on pendiedty # returned to his home | ond ay OR reh Al, from le from Florida, He has pit ) 2 fohased a farm in thi ate and will nd oper of thn 1 | -hortly return there with his faintly reone Hr than f Rudolph Alessandro haw been named | Mr Mea wi is District: Deputy Grand Master or {or {on for append lihe Independent Order of Odd Mellow eo Hospital t ‘ York ltor Staten Island, suee ng Charles jannounced then that t perk Newton, William Shields has beea ly su f as menniadl jcleeted District Deputy Grand & posed that hi 1x wan re Mr. and Mrs. C. C, Wincapaw recs Bay have had Mra Wiytnes | NEEOLE IN HER TWO YEARS. 1 Mra. Brown of Friendship, M {is their guests Entered Girls Brenst and Emerges The members of the Tormpkinsvili Pro Her tailoring shop on} Boat Club will hold an informal dance nd floor of the two-story house; in the boat house, foot of Arrietta| A fter 4 , caught fire | Street, Tompkinsville, this evening b 4 Three | John G, Clark haw returned Jot « t i'n 1 home from a Southern bh ' t w of similar ateu: A foo) a th ” a i i fay Bridge Club was ent r “ “ ne ni y anre AVY tained yesterday afternoon M und a inoh and whi Touses practically destroyed, Mheodore Milla at ber home on Broud. | curered ast, After a few daye of the street is the Metropolis way, West New Brighton: pa fe forget about it \ The matinee audlance vas i) ust Miss Marion Houseman of Clifton ts | 4.737 huh. Maint PR Peg d, “and in Yonkers, | her mother nt herb. Mr. and Mrs oy. Jost of Pleasant‘ struck # pointed “Ubdect and she eae ‘Canada. ne GUS the Beedle, Plains have gone to o \e — 1S FATALLY INURED WHEN AUTO CRASHES INTO TREE IN’ DARK Bennel’s Two Companions Are} Badly Hurt When Steering Gear Is Disarranged. Vhree mon were tnjured fotally, In an aut early one pers | haps this mor ut the of order and the machine 4 nto @ tree on the hell Road near Kimburst, Queens teh, ‘Tho injured are George Kenney slide may die William ; skull fra Mont CONTUSIONS 4 ad and fa Henry Kemp, of Ho ah, of West nd Jacerations of s Hayat he yville Koad, Bayside; serious contusions and ab- rasions of thy body, All were re+ sed to. th Hea Hospital, was owned by An of Lawrence Houle. and hine wi) An wrecked. OBITUARY | NOTES. Taine, President of the Now Pennsylvania Company the tem A. G 200 Fifth Avenue, F nt in the or anil na and J. Corbesier, United St Marine Corps, for more than forty years sword master a the Naval Jin the Nawal Hosp Ile 8 yesterday was John MeTammar rt, who aimed to have de 1 Urst play or pauno ever made at Stam Vr ‘ rpit i “ot rM ary Ws tau ft Know f New i fi teht t story Wrank PE rmorly busine the Ws City Pun 1 ' al Mtivid Con Ned hone: ina Ne Phot ' our f ! 1 fatiroad nl n J 1 pay BEST FOR COLDS | Contains no injurious Drugs or Alcohol | nwier WwiDGW ¢ AFTER N P NICE WLU (EAPED Ff Mis her home Arriving a found o abl tar felook iehard | Rtna Club Hrookivn, ja When w much \pollahing. «window, » He kir airshatt ' eluted Wier’ ouple ived larrel between the couple “| # \ C1 iM | Hh? i it Wilt - A t ono o Mis BuMnetor a M a W ‘ fa on the ton fi he Falta © Dette pkirte ows supported her Husband. regularly rare of ly ) » Down £ aiok and | ence ody Deawe Her repeated |, now a in the r dis f hor husband roof which The auleide followed oo : SKIRTS HER PARACHUTE. They Let a Wom om Window, old-fashioned nin the wind th a DISCUISED AS A 1, AAANES, SHE VISITS OLD HOME ; SIGH ) SEE HER CHILDREN he, A® for oes ne oevitie Ineoe dren. presented to Scudder ta mow Washing ey for (60, They . youre ago: 6 1891, Her complain’ Mra Hoe, aime five owyer, ereat years, @e- 1° hes no property ying the al and that be f the court winty ven in wife ft dor went to Mra tut 1 place at Rook- m On the bed tay ville Centre, « an toterest In some ve Waa fully dressed og ve tote, j ling ber life Mra. Mut Sena’ tinea were trae ‘To SAVE BOSTON AND MAINE, nv mer wl a ‘cel Gov, Try to Held Leg Mra, Meott ts the ot Recetvership fn spent much of her At @ confer- ! Maine Federal Tras. night, Gow. Walsh declared that sid not adjourn if he velp it until it had passed some Kisiation to relteve the road, “With the financial Investments end entangiomenta of the Boston and Maine toon tant “ag at g | tiere could be nothing worse than @ Fe The husband, ship.” the Governor added. “Lam Janitor of the ul that out of this conference we Logan Ktreet It nave the ratiroad from going tate recelvers’ hands io by Friction. ted in the bottom of on the south alde of yway station at One Hundred and Highty-feat Street and St, Nicholas | Aven auKht Are last night. 1s of smoke shot up through the Jehatt, but litte of It Cound tt» way into Fi with sand. ‘non tho north aide of the nd to run and little ine was caused to th passen- \s thought to have tty fow Chance! Tomorrow, 28th to Get Stunning Wm. 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