New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-13
AMERICAN HOSPITAL
IS A MASTERPIECE
Herrick Called "SOul Of
Generous Enterprise
at NeuilIy.
ITS PERSONNEL COMES
FROM BETTER CLASS
Well.KnOWn Club Member Works
in Kitchen and Lawyer Helps
TO Make the Beds.

Paris, Oct. 3.-Among the curious
sights which war has brought to Paris
is the bench Of orderlies in the Ameri-
can Ambulance Hospital at Neuilly.
There they sit, six or eight young men
in the white uniforms of hospital ser
wants. waiting to run the usual err
rands and do the usual hospital Jobs.
One stares through "A monoclc ut this
world, 50 very different, you may be
sure. from any he has known before.
To another you address some curt re
quest for information, and he hops up
and answers with a grace of diction
and charm Of manner less common TO
such surroundings than TO an embassy
tea.
Amateurs they all are, but willing
and industrious servants. nevertheless,
as indeed they have to be. Some few
thought when they started that volun-
tcer orderieS might go and come more
or less as they pleased, or have decent
daylight duties. at any rate, but they
soon found that a hospital is a hos
pital. although organized in an empty
schoolhousc in n polite Paris suburb.
and that beds must be made, refuse
even i'm "A hospital as difficult TO get
into as fashionable club. There is,
indeed. a waiting list of orderlies now.
the end of which will probably not be
reached before the war is over.
The whole personnel OF this unusual
place is similarly interesting. II seems
odd TO meet Presbyterian Hospital
nurses as far away from home as this.
In addition 10 the professional nurses
there are nearly as many amateurs
young women volunteers from the
American colony. One superintendent
of a group of inferno. is distin-
guished painter and member of the
Legion Of Honor.
a well known "clubman"-those most
mysterious OF animals - is in the
kitchen; one of the most "sympa-
thctic" lawyers OF the Paris colony
may be found with sleeves rolled up
making beds.
One Of First Hospitals To BE Filled.
But it must not bo supposed that
the hospital is a sort Of polite game
for the socially elect to amuse them
selves with during the dull days Of
war Il was one OF the first hospitals
in Paris 10 be filed On the afternoon
in whic- the trainloads of wounded
went through the broken railroad
bridge at Meaux score of motor am
balances brought survivors TO Neuilly.
The Lycee Pasteur, an unfinished
school building which was taken for
the hospital. is splendidly spacious and
clean. The surgeons in attendance are
among the most distinguished in Paris.
4 l. e.
do actual, helpful service and, in a
trality, could scarcely be devised.
"Le Figaro" in an enthusiastic two
column description of the hospital says
that il is not merely "a piece of Ameri-
can work. but masterpiece -C'est
mieux qu'une 9uvre. C'eSt une espece
de chef-d'puvre." Il tells how the motor
ambulances bring the wounded in from
the front or from the temporary hos
pitfalls, two or three hours away from
Paris; how the WORKOUT soldiers -
French, English and Germans alike
are bathed and taken in charge by bar
Der and dentist. Many of the wounded.
il seems. come in with teeth troubling
them because Of the difficulties of TAX
ing care of their mouths in the field.
lie Figaro "who escape this incon-
venience of var. The native soldier al
WAYS carries with him little bits Of
wood. with which he scrubs his teeth
and mouth The Arab soldier can 90
through the severest campaigning and
come out of it with teeth in good con-
dition."
"An atmosphere OF peace" continues
bne
white rooms. where already faces re-
veal an expression of contented Sc
curity. In their white pajamas these
victims of war seem like elegant
sportsmen. just come from playing
some closely contested game"
Those Connected with Hospital Modest
He regrets that those connected with
the hospital are SO modest he may not
mention their names-at least, they
will permit him TO mention their chief.
Ambassador Herrick, who has been
the soul of this generous enterprise
We shall never forget it; on the CON
trary, it will be pleasure to remem
Der it. Gratitude is sometimes the
most agreeable of duties"
/ It is no secret that the French hos
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weeks of the war left something TO be
desired. 1t was not that there were not
hospitals enough, for thousands OF
beds had been prepared in empty
hotels, in private houses and other
places. One particularly attractive
hospital was made ready in the offices
of a Paris magazine. But during the
early fighting along the Marine the ma
q n a al 20. ri l.
~ and there was a certain amount OF
jealousy and lack of cO-operation be-
tween the civil and military authori.
ties. Where fighting was going on in
so thickly populated n region as that
about Paris the army had naturally "a
be unusually strict in keeping out hap
hazard civilian interference. and arden,
patriots, anxious 20 help. often faced
the same difficulties as the devastat.
ing race OF newspaper cOrrespondents
BY the time the battle along the
Aisne began protests were appearing
in the French papers But for the cen.
sOr there would have been more. His
rule is az ironclad as in ENGLAND. but
although the Paris journalists were
under his heel. they did not let thi:
quite subdue them. and from THEN
PROSTATE position looked IN. so &c
speak, with a wink NJ the hubble.
Paris Editor Sarcastic.
The following ironic remarks Of IN,
editor of GA Gucrre Sociale," a radica
paper, suggest both the attitude tow
ard the censor and toward the red tap,
Of the sanitary service.
81 respect the censor" he says. 81
venerate the censor. could not live
or write in country where, with de.
rlorable license. journalists had the
right to express their thoughts or
events of the day without any other
control than their own consciences and
their personal judgment. After the
var, if Russia, contrary 70 all proba-