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Show AMERICAN WOUNDED BEING CARED FOR IN BIS CHATEAU IN FRANCE Ambulance Drivers and Aviators Nursed Back to Health by Wife of Wealthy American Convalescents Play Golf on Chantilly Links Chateau Faces the Famous Chantilly Race Course. Chnntllly, France. In his big clin-tcuu clin-tcuu here whero for more thnn two years ho had billeted upon him as guests a dozen French olllccrs attached to tho staff of General Joffre, Elliott Fitch Shepard, tho American millionaire, million-aire, hus established a convalescent home for sick and wounded American aviators and American ambulanco drivers. driv-ers. Shepard has resided at Chantilly since tho beginning of tho war, except during tho llcctlng visit of tho Gcr-innus Gcr-innus Just before tho battle of tho Manic. Then tho Shcpards drove out of Chantilly toward 1'nrls in their big touring cur 20 minutes beforo the first troop of t Uhlans entered Into Chun-tllly Chun-tllly from Sculls, which they had Just put to tho torch. After tho buttle of tho Alsnc, when warfare stagnated Into Intrenched positions, po-sitions, Gcucrul JofCro selected Chantilly Chan-tilly as the sent of his Great 'Headquarters. 'Head-quarters. The "G. Q. G.," us tho French abbrcvlato "Grnndo Qunrtlcr Gcncrulc," remained ut Chantilly for moro than two years, or up to tho tlino that JoITro wns made marshal nnd General Gen-eral Klvclle took his placo as coin-mauder coin-mauder In chief of tho French nriulcs In tho Held. Turned Over to Refugees. Then came tho German retreat to tho Illndcnburg line uud refugees from tho devastated region evacuated by tho Germans began to pour Into Crell, Scnlls and Chantilly. Shcparu 'turned , over tho rooms so recently given un i by tho olllccrs attached to Gcucrul Joffro's staff to tho refugees und took 21 under his roof tho first nights -Gradually tho French authorities shifted tho refugees to tho south of France, and then onco moro tho Shcpnrdhomo was emptied except for tho family. It was then that Mrs. Eleanor Shepard decided to open u convalescent convales-cent homo for sick or wounded American Ameri-can youths serving with thu uvlatlou, tho Red Cross or any other branch ot the service. Since sho hus started her eutcrprlso Mrs. Shepard lias Jiud un average ot sixteen American youths as her guests ut all times. Homo have been suffering from wounds moro-and moro-and more American ambulanco driver 1 nru being slain and maimed by'fhclU nlnco their number Increases with ev-.cry ev-.cry arriving ship. Others huvo tho dread malady known ns "shell shock," when tho nerves arc literally set on cud through helng under continuous bombardment. bom-bardment. In most cutcs tho illue. of tho ambulance drivers Is truceablo Hllrectly to nervous Indigo: tlou, caused by tho tremendous excitement under, which tho boys work. No Preliminary Preparation. i For these youths, averaging from seventeen to twenty-ono yours, como direct from schools und colleges und go under 11 ro In tho most terrible wur tho world bus over seen, with no preliminary pre-liminary preparation. It is only necessary neces-sary that Uioy bo ublo to drlvo motor cars. They huvo not tho military Jrulu-Ing Jrulu-Ing and drilling und Inculcation of discipline which Ills tho soldier for the life of tho trenches. - Mrs. Shepurd Is uldcd in her work by her sister, Miss Mercedes Terrudcll, formerly of Trenton, N. J., who has been In Franco doing wur relief work for moru than u year. Sho gave valuable valu-able aid to tho French uuthorltlcs lust March when tho refugees were dumped Into Chantilly by administering first ' aid to the tiny bubles who formed u I cousldcrublo proportion of tho motley ' collection of suffering humanity that thu Germans left In their wake.) I "Feeding tho boys regular American I food prepared tho wuy they havo been accustomed to having It at homo Is the principal factor In making them well und strong again," mild Mrs. Shepard. "Americans uro not used to eating tho course brown wur bread whrch tho French use, and they aro not used to i living un soup uud stow, cither. After j . u boy leaves here, If ho hus a weak 1 stouiuch, I seud him puckuges of food every week. I send him wheat biscuits bis-cuits that ho caa cut Instead of tho war breud, and rlco and preserved , vegetables that wo put up hero ourselves, our-selves, und' occasionally, when thcro Is un automobile going up to tho part of tho front where they uro stationed, wo can send them fresh meat und poultry." poul-try." Take Up Golf. Tho Shepurd chateau faces the Chantilly Chan-tilly race course, uud Just buhlud It are tho Chantilly golf links. Shepurd has plenty of clubs und near ull of the convalescents learn something about golf beforo they aro considered well enough to bo discharged and go back-to back-to their posts at the front. Rlchurd M. Atwatcr, Ud, of Scars-dale, Scars-dale, tho youngest member of tho American Held service ho Is Just sixteenhas six-teenhas Just left Chuntllly to return re-turn to thu front with his iiinjmlauco section. James Normuri 1 1 1 1 1 ot Col. fax, la., attached to tho Lafayette Ks-cadrllle, Ks-cadrllle, who was wounded by machine, gun bullets when fighting a German biplane near Lens, bus Just gono back to take up Hying again nfter convalescing conva-lescing at Chantilly. O. Wymnn Steele of Kasthampton, L. I., has returned to tho United States after spending several sev-eral months with tho Shepards, following follow-ing his discharge- from nn army hos-pltal. hos-pltal. Lester 11. Schelde ot Hartford Conn., and Russell Nichols of Bran-ford, Bran-ford, Conn., uro now in tho Verdun sector with their nmbulnnco uftcr "tuk- I lug the euro" at Chantilly. I Won the War Cross. ( Mnrcol Cuny. u French youth of tho Two Hundred and Soventy-nlnfh regl- ( ment, who lived In Chuntllly before tho war, was also n guest of tho Shep- ! nrds after ho had cuptured a German machine gun nud six German prisoners j slngle-hauded In tho fierce flghtlug along tho Cheuiln des Dames. Cuny Is not yet twenty years old and hud Just been sent to tho front when ho performed tho act of gallantry which won him tho War Cross with n stur and n palm on tho' ribbon. Cuny cruwled out In "No-Man's-Land" at night on reconnalssanco duty and found a shell holo between tho two bolts of borbcd-wlro entanglements, occupied oc-cupied by tho six Germans who were acting as a inachlno gun team. Cuny wns armed only with grenndes, and ns ho squirmed forward on his stouiuch to tho edge of tho crater and raised a bomb to throw In among tho Roches, they all six raised their hands and cried, "Knmerado." Cuny ordered them to tho French fines und madu them carry their ma-chlno ma-chlno gun with them. Ho took tho six steel German helmets off to Chuntllly Chun-tllly ho was granted nlno days leave for his bravery and guvo them us souvenirs to tho American ambulance boys recuperating there. J |
