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Show MAGAZINE SECTION. THE SALT LAKE CI TV, UTAH, SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, N, jl ai v in TTIffldDllJSAMP YANK EM 'Vast Sums Given for the Relief of War Sufferers in the " - I '; - - V- 7 HI H , QS s " MAGAZINE SECTION. 191(5. t to L r UJ . menca irn HERALD-REPUBLICA- France EM Seek to Way Amer-lean- .V. -- 1 .s .v v v v. ". v vv...: xc'.v vxv-v'j- 14. OA 4S 4. ' V v 4 ...T4, - J 1 - 4rv -- V : - v V"- 4.r - .: '' . V p ' x - 4.V4jf . ' - c i , : s3 : 4V -- f '4-- 3 A i ; 4"'.3 '4v 5.4t; S I - 4j4 4!v 'I ' ' S - i - ex- aggeration. - S j .. g i. Vet ti e ' s t Thin estimate is rccarded as an S (if lis." 4V V 4 r ' and many may be surprised to learn that it already probably exceeds the rtOoo French troops which France sent us under Ilocham-ben- u ' : Upper left Foreign legion on the march in France; this legion is composed almost exclusively of Americans. Right American aviators in the French service: Sergeant Elliott Cowdin, Sergeant Norman Prince and Lieutenant William Thaw; Thaw has been decorated for his audacious work in destroying enemy aircraft. Botleft to right President tom, Poincare; "Ambassador Jusser and, France's diplomatic representative in the United States, and Madam Jusserand; Mrs. Sharp and Ambassador William G. Sharp, American ambassador to France. i " - :7- e ; in May. 1761. : M 4 The regrettable ' I thine: is that while the approximate number of survivors is likely to be known after the great war. no stati-I'm-of fallen Americans ean ever be collected, liven their families, in the mass of eases, ean receive no notifior honors from cation?, thanks France. France regrets it enormous-I- f .s t. ' l ( because, as row will ee. she has place to honr us upon imperish- : able stone. '0 000 Al.IERICAKS ARE FIGHTING IN FRANCE. It is a peculiar situation. Paul Ay res Rockwell of A; la Ma. a. (brother of Kiffin Rockwell, the with the anator recently of military Mfdal and the Cro Var. etixates the total number of American volunteers up to the present at 10.000. Invalided from the Foreign Legion, but extremely busy hunting up this data, he is the American t ported on the subject. Ivn't look for them in the For44 Pereign Legion." says Rockwell. sonally I have known or received the names of enly "20 real Americans in the Foreign Iecion, rcgu-larlunder their own names as Amer-i-aTo succeed in it. they were obliged to come to France. 0md. struggling with a foreign language, get thempche incorporated. No. theeasv .tep wat Canada; and it is amon? the Canadian contingents that we must seek our fellow citizen?." NO LISTS OF SOLDIERS v" , V '.. J, ' t - - ..44 - 4 ; V .4. .. 1 V J - 4'- - 4 4 v.. I - A ? ?4 . V. vs r- , '.,,",v.,.'A , V74 r7AX7'J : J 7 7r- 3 - 7x 4.r'A:rS::xxr.:5X 4" 4' 1 . P'-V- k- - v. K 250,000 Cf r-- x ,". v4v- - r I i 7 - rA, Vf 77 , t wy 4 V xs'X Vi vvl J. ' J ' ,f777'7 v' 4- ec :y inu-ent- 4!- - 4 X4- - s 4J4 ;.'.";: ; 1 y , 5 ' , 'J V4 .'.XT'- C!7.- yi - f- - -v 4- : ' :- - A well-dispos- S j m 1 f to-cr- et I foi-malitie- s. 1'er-hap- .s ng y n. a-k- ed - RHINELANDER RECRUITING CUP - - 1 ' v . '.4-- 4 . - - f d, .. -- f - XXv'1 ivy AL4esr -- T.- yy:.y RAYMOND NEWTOH HYCC Credited with having recruited more men for the variotis organizations of the National Guard than did any other member of the Veteran Corps of Artillery, Mr. Raymond Newton Hyde, corporal pinner, has von the Rhmelajider Kecruiting Cup knees. The knees wore those of Washington and Lalaette, packed half-wa- y up their marble forms with flowers, but. the homage was to the unknown dead of our 10.000. Almost daily tho French preis has some anecdote from f- c- . the front concerning "an American' regularly without name, because wc are anonymous. Of late there has been much about Victor Chapman, tho dead aviator, typical American, in French eyes, because of his personality, enthusiasm and recklessness, equally of life and money. CHAPMAN WON HEARTS OF FRENCH COMRADES. Chapman, like many on the spot (he was a Latin Quarter student of architecture), engaged in the Foreign Legion. Digging trenches, he dug with such ardor that an inspecting officer inquired (they were all dressed alike and equally muddy) : "Say, you, you must have been a navvy?" To which a French pal replied: "My you're mistaken, he's a million caj-tai- n, aire t After the Foreign Legion was twice all but wiped out, Chapman and most of the surviving Americans were transferred to various line, regiments. In charge of a machine gun near Rheims, his "cabin" became the "club" of tho section because he received all the Paris, London and New York illustrated papers. One day he got a ball in. the arm and t lie surgeon wanted to evacuate him. "Leave me he," he begged, "the boys will renew ' ue s - . V 4 squadnlla. TYPE OF STORIES THE Washinsrton (total f2,5SP,- FRENCH CRAVE TO TELL. 000) France and Belgium. All the .French know vaguely more American Women's War Relief Fund ........... of onr.relief, hospital and ambulance American Fund for French work than you might think possible. American Wounded; Who among ourselves or them can branch. Fund for French Orphans; American Comknow it nil? The Paris papers have mittee for recently attempted to make approxiof French Mutilated; Belmate estimates. The Lecture Pour gian Aid (Appui Beige); Cardinal Merciers Cash. Tons (a monthly magazine published Box; Relief of Belgian by the great house of Hachette) adds in Prisoners Germany; 400,000 on war hospitals receiving clothing pajamas, gauze, compresses, bandages, instruments and ward materials from a single American work whose name probably you have never heard the Work of American Distribution, patronized by our embassy, with its own big offices and storehouse in the Rue Richelieu, Paris. up, between December 31, 1914, and Committee for Men BlindTJIETEXIC TERRORS. ed in Battle, and Dollar "You don't care much about the menu April 1, miG "more than $20,000,000 1,000,000 at the training camp." Fund for Belgians collected in America for the allies." "I don't complain." replied th rookie. Fund Relief 3,085,000 Belgian "The people who have been inviting At the same time, noting the impos- Belgian Relief Commission our hostilities have to eat chile con carne and tamales." Washington Star. (general subscriptions up sibility of doing justice to individual Sam A. Taylor, rural mail carrier on to $SO,000,000) 7,000,000 10, East route gifts on the spot, like .lames Still-ma- n American-Britis- h Tenn., handles ReWar mere mail thanNashville, other rural carrier any lief Committee; Committee in the United State. During" the month handing checks, respectively, for this year he collected and deof April 45,817 Fund of Mercjr; Duryea $20,000 and $."30,000 to the Paris Mulivered pieces of mail on his serves 523 'families. In the allies); Relief which (for route, one day Carrier Taylor has collected nicipality and Prefecture of the Mari Committee of Philadelphia and distributed 6549 pieces. time Alps for widows of French sol(Emergency Aid CommitRockville, near Rockport, Me., boasts tee); American Red Cross, diers; Frank Gould furnishing 6000 of Mrs. II. E. Wotton, aged 84, who has New York State 2.430,000 recently planted eight rows of bean", ready-mad- e houses for refugees, the each row 160 feet long, doing the work American Navy Committee alone in seven hours. She says she will American hotels and refugee shelters also do the hoeing and harvesting alone. (de la Flctille), FrancoMrs. Edith Wharton in of Paris, the FAMOUS BRIDGE AT MEXICAN BORDER Franco-Belgia- n cloakroom which Mrs. -- Charles Scott runs with her; the children of the frontier work, by which Lawyer Frederic Coudcrt, Mrs. Peter Cooper Hewitt, Mrs. Robert Bliss and others have rescued 1000 little Alsatians in seventeen country houses and two magnificent chateaux; but how is it possible to make a list of the unlisted t James Stillman hands over $100,000 for " Christmas 'jrifts for the poilus." Clara Washington Lopp collects 1250 tons of tobacco, cigars and cigarets for them. Men like Still-maHyde, Wanamaker transform their chateaux and Paris town houses into hospitals and convalescent homes, which they maintain financially! "official" list From the generally circulated by the Paris pa pers, I take only the large totals: i - the dressings. 1 don't want to myself (take a safe place, in the rear)." Later the boy who ran the machine gun next to Chapman's complained of the doctors: "They claim that my stomach's going and I must drink milk a month. They're going to evacuate me ." "Just wait here," said Chapman. It wa-the noon hour. He disappeared. In an hour be returned leading a cow bv "There!" he said, "it's ours. I have bought it." Later, when American Ambulances and $ he became an aviator, it will be rehospital, Taris Relief War membered that he got into the fight American Cirls Fund (Fran.-ewhich caused his death whilo carrv- - American IteU Cross of em-busq- . W4Vf ing oranges to a sick member of the . be--- ' 4 and magnitude without being in possession of even their approximate totals. Such are the Women's Auxii-- ' iary of the Technical Committee of France, the Reconstruction league, the Philadelphia Emergency Aid and Scott Paper company, the New York Mayfair Relief and Wanamaker Stores Funds, the American and St. Bartholomew's Girls' Aid, Junior Committee of Mercy, (the Providence Public Service League, the Baltimore Red Cross Auxiliary and the Relief of ii Refugees in Holland. (Everything which helps Belgium is recognized as direct and precious friendship for Fraace). Such is the French list with all its errors. It is more interesting so. No Americans have thrust this list upon the French. It is their own work, gToping in the smoke of battle, happy to verify how much we. care for them to show themselves how well America pays back. WTiy, they 1,500,000 are circulating a map of France, on which are marked the 1500 French 4 ed Total $18,865,000 Such is the French list with its confessed slips and regretted omissions. Publications like L 'Illustration and the Lecture Pour Tous cite other funds and works, describing their beauty Bel-;ia- de-rate- . 1 V " "4 V-- difficulties in military red tape, so that the only way to make an approximate list is to obtain estimates from first Canadian eent s ere sim- known Americans in Canadian regioffiply mowed down. With them I esti- ments and a few mate Americans pcri?hed. The cers, able to give the time to it amid commissioned officers of the Cana- the elaner of battle and add them her. dian regiments notify the parents " calculate H.na Americans fightwhen they have names ad addres-es- v of America';-- , you set-- ing in Prance from the beginning," but th mn-shav nhvnys enlisted as Canadians, say Vaul Ay res Koc'iwc'l. "Some day. five vears. ten years from now. by givinir false nanvs and addres-e.- s. It was ea?ier avoidefl dit"fic.iltie- - and proce oi elimination, a comparativeWhen camped in Kng-la- ly exact calculation of mere numbers will bo arrived at. Bv going over the t'.e Americans sat titrht. tl;ey had an idea that they might Canadian lists at home, the fake h sent haek. I remember, w.ro in names and addresses may a pear. Also the arlv da?. when a newspaper in- the real names and numbers of surquiry was l) in,r made, the rejortcrs vivors will, doubtless, tome out, more a certain bunch: 'Why. you're or lcs. But who can ever know the Americans!' ' Xaw, we're Canadians, details of the fallen? The families replied their spokesman; anil five of many may have received personal minutes later 1 heard him call: 'Say. letters from the front. Then, one day, All such ijeorge, where. s that Cleveland pa- - the letters ceased arriving. letters should be religiously preserved per by relatives, in view of making future MANY DIFFICULTIES IN FROM AMERICA. lists; but America is wide and they PATH OF INFORMATION. over forty states. It iri Since those days, he says, "The are scattered "Have you a list?" I asked. wants to know "There is no list." answered Rock- bovs liave crown leso suspicious ;', but a pity for France well. "Onlv beginnings of lits. The unofficial inquiry meets all sort of tuem t't? r1 MP TT PAV POr.TTf! TRIBUTE TO AMERICANS. AINS leanwhile. the poem of Magali-Boisnar"To the American Volunteers Dead for France," has literally, gone all over the land. In Paris it was recited by Mile. Marie Leeonto of the Theatre Franeais at the Decoration day ceremony in their honor, around the statue of Washington and Lafayette in the Place des Etats-Uni- s. I can only give its first verse, in rough translation: - -, if V " V . v : . i Since in the furnace where pathetic fury rages, V.. 14' LA NDQi ill -turrit ,1 We cannot visit your heroic tombs, i. j tCRurrm3 Friends from across the seas. CUP So, to the. rhythm of Verdun's cannon roaring. Flowers of France with our own souls we're strewing. And Paris simply puts them at your en-li-ti- v 1 American Committee for Children of Occupied DeFund for partments, French Orphans, Fund for Belgian InvaJided, Lafayette Fund, National Relief Committee for the Allies. Queen of the Belgians Fund, Relief Committee for War Prisoners (allies). Relief Fund for Families of French Artists', National Relief Fund for "Wives and Children of French and Belgian Refug-ee.... 1,600,000 Vacation War Relief s "pav back" our revolutionary debt to 1 ran-is far greater than is treneral-I- v supp osed 4K!kV VC:,V 4.V Vf ,VW 4tS tnip number of Americans who have j'tnnrhl. died. Wen wounded :ird are t izlitinu in a pious effort to n J. Depth of American Interest in the Welfare of Jacques Bonhomme and His Countrymen; a Wealth of Money Poured Out for the Succor of War Victims, While Whole Battalions of Americans Have Volunteered Under Tricolor Ex- arc lighting for France? A recent cablegram quotes the New York Staats Zcitum as suggesting thnt "the .10.000 American volunteers fighting with lite allies in France had the Mesi-c- a letter return and fi-,rh- lDi) Jla Some Figures Showing the 1 press Their Appreciation; Friendship of Traditional Character Welded by the Course of Americans Since the Great Struggle Began T) All IS. Aug. in. How many JLLLii A Republic; Grateful French' men JLT1 ) vVr ysIKTCR.KPCTIOMftLV i 7 ' I " t II 1 1 BRIDGE. AT liW 11 I J ; 7 . r a. mw rsJLf3 yz?&-- X 4" 1 " n, ed so-call- - v 600,000 SOO.0.00 .vi y.lb KAr.?. 1bM444i' $ y T'.-i- rfrjfM. 'Z&S''? vf4t - ' TX - ,?4 4 This picture shows the approach to the famous International Bridge at Brownsville, on the Mexican border. Although quiet prevails at present, this particular point might mark the scene of lively tloin? at am' moment. " |