Show The Man ho E Everybody very tod y in Paris t and the Boggle at Pau Pan w r. r American Red Cross Cross Quits France Washington a Lopp Director General of American Red Cross The Grand Grand A American m e r i ea n Hospitals Hospital s I For Lack of T Funds Funds' L I Work in isz France Will Not w Admit His Grade 01 Continue I IT f- f A cablegram to Paris runs as f s s Washington July 26 The The American Red RedCross RedCross f f. f Cross rosf society gives n notice tice that tha after fter October I 1 it wIll ivill withdraw all its physicians lons and nurses f from rom Ef Europe rope Belgium and Se ua excepted for lack o of f funds i s. s While rendering g justice to the beautiful work o of f the American Red Cross society Americans in France hope lJ that at it will be nail mais known that thus this withdraWal does docs not affect the great American hospitals in France which hove have h ve won such stich glory for American Americast surgery dentistry eye and brain work and nursing The independent American hospitals continue con con- time sup supported by bv private ate a and td public American American Amer Anzer- ican contributions Such contributions are arc urgently needed as ever Cl RIS Aug 21 I H 7 would rather rathe-r have Washington Wash- Wash r in ington n Lopp Lapp to back me than President Poin- Poin core said an em American conversationalist in Paris Pans The president do anything g while La Lopp p Americanised Paris Parts society taught society taught them to dance the Boston U I asked Ev Everybody who od who ho is ir anybody the anybody the the Perier Casimir-Perier the Wa and mid so on He and Andre Andrede de were two wo but Lopp Lapp built the Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington palace ala e Gay qualification for Red Cross tact in cruel and aud bloody blody times yet Jet justified by th the recent and striking appointment of the French minister of oft t war Who is Washington Lopp He i is the man who knows everybody in Paris II He refused to be minister of Paraguay He is the fri friend nd of the king of Spain He is a member of the transportation committee He gets passes to the front He is general director-general of f American Red RedCross RedCross RedCross Cross work in ih in France France Oh Oh you must be mistaken mistaken mistaken mis mis- taken on l-on on condition that he dont don't tell ten it So they dispute I go to the 1113 manIs manIs man Is it true e I asked that you are are aro I 1 i deny It 1 r They say that you yon have been appointed appointed- U Do Do not to them I And sparring like this in style he suddenly turned serious This is not for ton tion Just a friendly talk Well Veil Ill I'll tell you you I Itam tam fam femme de but chambre chambre but wont won't am premiere wear Ithe the uniform I IJ r J T that moment an ambulance chauffeur AT passed passed passed-it it was in the courtyard of the American American American Amer Amer- ican hospital at where twenty idle men of the garrison are building Mr Lopps Lopp's lawn DIs Ds Is done Clement Cement he said those new ambulances ambulances ambulances am am- are too narrow for this service Take them to the Dames de France His answer to Clement dement was was the true one 9 As he ho turned aside a moment a nurse nudged me See those ornamental shrubs hundreds edged the lawn They are worth five fraD francs apiece and Mr Lopp got them for us for far nothing A Paris American can dentist smoking a after lunch hinch added He got grit us our mechanical mechanical mechanical me me- workmen released from the trenches And I perceived both answers were Vetere were true In a word there came a day when American supporters noble women of the colony the clearing clearing clearing clear clear- ing house busy American surgeons and the French war office felt the need of someone having time to obey the superhuman order Whosoever will be chief among you let him be your servant Their choice fell eU on the tho man roan who knows everybody everybody everybody every every- body in Paris o FOR OR instance Mr Lopp would n never have chosen Pao Pau 1 I tell you what the in well formed say Ray Pau was a well meaning boggle done at a distance distance-by by men and perhaps women not in touch with the war or the tho natives Pau is w i an ide ideal lI for fOt a hospital nest hospItal nest of color in the southern mountains exclusive American Amor- Amor t. t ican lean r resort sort of rich hotels and aristocratic villas with a n. palatial glass glaes winter garden Jor for the little HUla I white cots But Pau Is as far from rom the fighting line as Florida is from New Nets York I l Pan was is chosen b by our home hone organization called The American Red Cross That is to say when the they sought ought a D. place for their chief hospital i in f. f France ce they made marll their request through our 1 r T IN N A the photograph at at the left leftare are shown Washington ton Lop Lopp P on the he right On the left Arthur Arthur W Wellesley y Kipling of New York captain of the American ambulances and 1 author of The Shadow of Glory published i in n 1910 in In which wInch the present war was remarkably f foreseen including the German aU attack on Belgium L Antwerp h pf etc Clu In the center is is the French Commandant Comunal who is responsible for forthe the provisioning of Paris It was he who put the lead head of live stock in in the Bois de B Boulogne a year ago when the Germans Germans' w were ere descending on the capital This copyright photograph by Ellis was taken in in the courtyard of the American Hospital of Neui Neuilly ly lly The other picture also copyright by Ellis was taken at the opening of the American cons conservatory s- s at the Washington palace in in 1910 and shows Washington Lopp LoPA on the right 7 1 i j I U vi SS f f. f 1 s sD D Jp I f f ft t A r Y y c J r h u Ft y G S h fY r y to wo i tf p A 4 sr r A t tv v Aw fr r A w w w ff F. F r i r v Ss S t t w 4 fem tt qI x S 'S F d 7 Zi liar t F N F J i S 'S Gfa e a ww LL embassy at a moment of interregnum between two ambassadors When hen offered someone should have insisted No uNo we want surgical cases and anda a spot where we can get them But no one explained explained explained ex ex- and Pau is beautiful and a lot of doctors and nurses on salary have been practically idle ever since examining the historic sites and lovely scenery Which explains the cablegram exciting the colony Washington July 26 26 The The American Red RedCross RedCross RedCross Cross gives notice that it will withdraw its physicians physicians physicians phy phy- and nurses from France after October i 1 for lack of funds As this piece of news has been variously misunderstood misunderstood mis mis- understood it should be stated that The American American American Amer Amer- ican Red Cross organization referred to which to which which- will continue to work in Belgium and has never supported our grand American hospitals in France which have won such glory for American American Amer Amer- ican jean surgery dentistry and nursing Their surgeons and specialists arc are not salaried Their nurses work for their board or are paid separately by private Americans at home hom or in France Franco Their supplies are donations direct or through the American clearing house Their cash comes from anyone who gives gives gives- and is s continually needed eded Their field ambulances are at the front I have just seen a Harvard boy who with twenty twenty- eight of his fellows one the son of a senator who have not quit the vicinity of Pont-a-Mousson Pont fo for two months Their town ambulances are arc constantly going out to get big wounded meticulous wounded meticulous work of preparing military passes passe I IT T IS all an a labor of delicacy if only y because French functionaries are nervously y strained They need us 18 badly But it is an invaded land Do you realize what it means an means an invaded land Even doing good we must go about it with p patience often repeating tho the same proposition in the right quarters quart r Those military y passes for example Whoever procures them must Ico keep tho the section In his b head d bo be on the tho spot continually and make the tha o of war easy In his mind Washington Lopp has taken this responsibility Surgical alcohol for tor example The Tho cut ent American hospitals had hod Imported great quantities quan quan- titles title Into France Franca on which they paid francs customs duties dutle In the thc past year All agreed they should have got gut the money back bade but it dragged Now Washington Lopp Lapp has secured It t. t Y N y c y 1 y t 1 v b S' S y D. D f r n n r ys l sr i wu rr vJ t i i S 'S St t x h z c 4 W Ww w r 3 S- S Z 3 44 S eji Z w TI 4 f I t fa Accident insurance for example Our great hospitals had paid out during nearly a year premiums against damages which might be done by American automobile We Ve ought to have it off as all aU agreed The man who knows everybody in Paris took it up and now the French government pays the insurance through Washington Lopp American tobacco for the soldiers for ex ex- ample They clamor for it They are enthusiastically enthusiastically enthusiastically cally grateful The Paris papers thank us insincere in insincere insincere sincere editorials But the bureaucrats of the government government gov gov- monopoly were sodden suspicious and admitted each consignment with difficulties Now No our tobacco goes in smoothly thanks to Washington Washing Washing- ton lon Lopps Lopp's work on behalf of his wife daughter of Everisto Machain recent minster of Paraguay to France She is called Lady Nicotine because she started to collect 1000 pounds of tobacco among her friends of New York and New Jersey She a got actually pounds the Lorillard company doing all the packing and receiving an autograph letter of thanks from General J Joffre o fre OW Lopp came to know everybody in Paris Parisis H HOW is a story of pure American patriotism He loved lowed society and had one conviction conviction- the absolute superiority of American dances the Newport the Waltz Lancers and particularly the Boston It was fifteen years tears ago and sharing his enthusiasm enthusiasm enthusiasm en en- were the cream of the colony like Mrs Wilkinson and her nieces Mrs 1 Van Dusen Reed and her children Boni de Castellane ditto Rodman Wanamaker the Terrys the Perking Perkins Perkins Per Per- kins king the Duchess of Marlborough before her marriage and so on They are Am Americanized Americanised Paris society that the British ambassador Lord Dufferin erin commanded Washington Lopp to run over to Buckingham palace and acid initiate the royal children before they should get sot in their ways And here behold how patient we must be in doing good good it it is a lesson to us In this war I I. I had it from Mr Lopp personally at the time He got gat discouraged with British royalty A young fellow named Argyle mocked m my American accent in Buckingham palace saying when I said aid dance Until one day I asked politely Is there not by chance a n parrot In this room r That night I took the boat bott for Paris Lord Dufferin came to me You Yoi have pained and wounded British royalty he said Bald but here Is n a diamond pIn pi from rori the Prince Princ-e of Wales Please come hack bade When the l undaunted d American refused Lord Lard Dufferin said But you arc are the first I ever knew to refuse to go to court Put court 1 Put Put it down in history his his- I tory tore said Washington Lopp and he wrote a aletter letter of acceptance to the young king of Spain at San Sebastien to go and ini initiate him with his friends the Dukes of Alva Berwick and Medina- Medina Celi H HIS IS organizing ability developed later tater Often in Mr Lopps Lopp's presence Paris society had re regretted regretted regretted re- re the inconvenience of t tearing aring up ones one's house to give a ball ban or dinner Why dont don't you build a place with dining rooms dressing rooms and modern kitchens com corn complete complete said Washington it would be easy Build it if you think it so easy the they said and we tive will wm take stock Such was the origin of the Washington palace which had a long period of glory before they turned it over to Nothing lasts But before that generation had grown up and turned it over to the caterer Americanized Americanised ed Paris society wanted to do something for American students of opera They persuaded Mr Lopp to start a a. American c conservatory in it When the Marquise de Ganay and Mrs l John Jacob Astor gave their names to the Washington Palace Cons Conservatory it was a new thing in pat pat- The Marquise de Ganay was Miss Ridgeway of the old Philadelphia family S She has grand grand- children When Then the Germans on her chateau near they demanded the keys of the wine cellars cears She gave them two keys but they argued that so great a dame must be concealing concealing concealing con con- her grand vintages Find us a third key said the general or we will shoot you ou And ma foi she found it I 1 Her son Gerard who bought in the Ridge Ridgeway way town house which was wasso waslO wasso so O long rented by our ambassadors has now loaned it to the American clearing house Her daughter married the Irish French-Irish Chevalier OConnor O'Connor of the Chateau Bignon- Bignon Bignon and her granddaughter the Comte de la Tour de Pin Other members of the Ridgeway family espoused d dother other great French names Another American patroness was wu the Marquise de formerly Edith Gam Garner r to whom King ling George orge V confided the young Prince of M Wales Vale on his six months French visit She and two orphan sisters were brought up in the Lawrence mansion at nt Pau Pau-at Pau at Pau which the American Red Cross is quitting One sister married Sir Gordon Cummings The other es espoused espoused espoused es- es Comte von Moltke 1 of the thc Danish branch of the marshals marshal's family amil Their cousin Miss Law Law- rence married Lord Vernon and their daughter r recently wed Raoul Duval of Paris You see how you get et to know everybody in Paris Among those who tried to help the Washington Washington Washington Wash- Wash ington Palace Conservatory were the Jacques de Bryas Miss Rose Clymer of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York whose hose husband is a l Jockey Jocker club member son of the marquis and connected with the Gram Gram- monts and The Gaston de Maigret nee de has her Americanism from Mary Garrison who became Com Com- tesse Gaston de Chandon de r. Montesquiou is a sister-in-law sister of Rita Bell whose uncle is James Gordon Bennett and who is herself Paul The mother of these was also an American Princess Fisher of a family sixty years settled in Florence IT T V WAS AS a noble effort to protect American girl students On the old list of patronesses were half the great names of Paris I can only mention those of distinctly American connection The Baronne Jean de dc Bellet was the daughter of the of the Avenue du Bois and of the old family of New York The Marquis de dc deBrou's deBrow's Brous Brou's daughter married the son of the American Marquis farquis de Saint-Paul Saint nee Bloodgood The Princess Guy de Faucigny was Miss l Natividad Terry daughter of Antonio b by his first wife Her Ier cousin married Stanislas Castellane The Baronne Fa eret de was a Miss liss Seymour of Boston in accepting the presidency of its jury for competitive examinations declared the American conservatory conser to be interesting and necessary It H was not It was neither interesting to girl students of opera nor necessary to budding composers They prefer to choose their own teachers said Washington Lopp after considerable experience experience ex ex- experience and paddle their own canoe And Washington got married The brides bride's father had long been minister of Par Paraguay guay av in Paris a kind of family dignity his brother Eusebio Machain having preceded him He Pie desired l his s son law to accept |