The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-10-14

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Danube. The river is wide. thora ::
ioiis embankment and a long BRIDE
.ioI!-IHy car window, while crossino
'i.e river, l saw many large huildings
with lights shinig from every Wiz
uow, and / suspected that these We
hospitals, otherwise they would MOI,
pe Hghted at SO late an hour. Nv CIV.
pe.Iehce aIterward demonstrated that
ens was true. Admitting some nery-
business when the train stonna1
belgrade. ! got out and to my yreat
oeiight was greeted by the American
consui. Mr.. Summers, who had been |
watching n waiting for nv trains
LOT several hours. How he came m
recognize me I dc not know un,aso
ne guessed from my appearance that
l was the only American big enough
!ooi TO be coming to Belgrade at that
e.Hne OF the night. But he guessed
rlgntiy and 1 looked the part.
Riding Rocky Roads.
MIR. Summers had q copvevance
IN waiting and we were not long i,
-ong on board. Our ride was the
rockiest l ever experienced. The
streets OF Belgrade, with one excep-
ton, are paved with cobble stones
N the wheels Of the conyeyanoes
&C not have rubber tires. We made
noise enough to awaken the Bull
garian army a good many miles away.
FINALLY We reached the hotel and /
retired. Mr.. Summers proceeded to
MS own home, and as re related the
next ~, vas drenched with rain.
:ar.hermore he had been gone from
home SO long that his good wife was
concerned in regard to his welfare.
The next morning Consul Summers
escorted me to many of tie hospitals
in the city. There are forty-two of
L non 0nd
and public building: also a large
sugar mill and other factories.
There are at least $1,000 wounded
men in the hospitals in Belgrade.
Nobody knows the real number APP
parently no records are kept. A SOL
der is taken to the hospital, and
when he dies l presume there is a re-
cord made but when he gets we'll h
goes back to the front, n there is
no record. There are no officers
standing rou the hospital doors
with blank descriptive rolls prepared
4, to account for every mar who goes
IN and every man who ONE out.
: There are to be no persons when
; this war is over. The men who live
,, will go back to their little farms;
1 those who are dead have already re.
!, turned to the soil.
II Girls As Nurses.
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station where we came in by thu
e number OF soldiers lying around OF
{ the ground OF on the walks. Eaci
n man had a small pack beside him; il
some cases the pack was strapped L
his back. This is the usual equip
I ment Of a soldier coming from tn
FROM or waiting to go to h front
Uniforms are out Of the question
a Where they do ave uniforms the.
II 800 a @orL 0r0v mr. dH0h color no
inappropriate-in fact. a good look
n ing uniform.
II but this war is not carried on 70
le the sake of showing uniforms. no
% for tn display OF authority. 1t /
r carried on at the present time for tn
a pun, Of whipping the Bulgarian
d Of the earth by shot and she'll. I wa
ID Impressed early the first morning b
IS the people going along the stree
es They. as a rule. walk in the center
re the street. The majority were so.
a. diers, some Of them evidently just OF
re Of the hospital, others getting read
r. to go away.
A few girls were going to the
IN work. But there is little work II
OF girls in Belgrade. excepting in TT
IL hospitals, where thousands Of Their
wholly unframed, are helping to DIRE
wounds. Ii one hospital my first de
here Iobserver fine looking your
I girls, cleanly in appearance. doir
IN their best to assist in the dressing
Ill wounds on the persons of very hItl
rs men. Their business had been figh
- ing and they probably had never SCI
ct bathtubs in their lives
II was also impressed with II
nv general stiffness Of Belgrade and Il
VS. total absence Of the display OF Tia
or the sound OF music. Flags al
music usually play an important pa
w. in wars, but not so in the Baikal
mt When l wanted a Servian nag ~
To Summers told me I could not ind or
xn but that l would have to have O
re made. He conducted me to a piat
ordered a flag Of silk; paid for 1t al
a in two hours it was at my room at {
he hotel. thought if I met savage m
a in my tour farther down IN n 81
n kans they would not XIII me II II
the Seryian fag-or if they did
a.. +hov would do it deCently-Dut