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American dentists. n masseur. a bar
her. photographer. &c. The diet
kitchen is under the care OF Miss Salt,
who makes Il speciality OF invalid foods,
and the rest of the cooking is under the
care Of the housekeeper and chef OF the
Carlton Hotel Then the whole after
noon we are besieged by ladies bringing
armfuls OF lovely flowers and baskets Of
luscious fruIts--pears and grapes and
peaches, &c.--and picture papers--and
what they like the best, endless guam
tties Of cigarettes and pipes and to-
bacCo. OF course, when we get in more
these will have TO be less spoiled but in
the meantime they are pampered
darlinEs.
Mr. Harjes, too. has been most public
spirited, for he has not only kept the
hank open, when 80 many French banks
have closed and the Banque dc France
has followed the Government, but he
gives us all The money that we ask for
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/ into France by the north are moving
away from Paris and concentrating
toward the southeast
Paris. the light hearted city. goes out
IN crowds 10 the gates Of The city 10
watch the trenches being cut and the
trees feiled and then trimmed with wire
entangiements and placed outsid. Of the
trenches And AZ night the city is won
ierfully picturesque. lighted only by
th" great golden harvest moon and the
s,Itteriug points Of the few Government
flashlights that s'our the skies for Ger
man dlstardly Tauhes II w Ike an
etching hy a master hand
Ns an American | am very proud Of
[ the stand ~ tho Ambassador and his
who." stan. They have done everything
I n "A most orderly and mastery way for
! Tho thousands of stranded Americans
| who flooded Paris for nearly month.
| most OF them without money and some
! without even chance OF clothes Be
sides his own people he has had 10 look
after the interests OF the Germans and
! tn" Austrians
| The Government having gone 10 Ror-
! d~auX. tho allied embassies and most OF
the newspapers have gone there too.
| hut Mr. Herrick has wisely and nohly
| decided To stay In Paris and has per-
suaded the few other neutral Powers
10 do the same. This IS a great moral
support 70 us all and We cannot he too
grateful to his broad views and wise
! policies
! To-day have dav N a. the Ambu-
/ lance, for We have Il nj last IN perfect
order--over 300 beds ready. md ~ far
| only th!rty-five wounded As he trained
nurses can care FOR them we-;he aux
! iiiaries-have been pU' CH diSpori-
btht" until more wounded come in. And
/ mat ~ likely 10 occur tonight. az one
can now and then hear the thunder OF
The distant Cannons: so our holiday IL
! likely 10 be only one day. INT II IL n
great boon and will seem al too short.
/ The weather continues perfect;
cloudy skies. fairly lot sunshine. but
| with pleasant breeze. We are told
! that even great heat IL better for the
! wounded On tn" battlenelds than rain,
so we are satisfied
The only way TO do good work q sim
ply to keep ones mind on the work In
hand ana not let II wander to those i'm
mense bloodstaiued fields that are all
about us, or TO the suffering soldiers or
tho heartbroSon women. II takes away
all courage and force % think. That
| way les madness"
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An Interesting Record Of Things She Saw While on DUTY
Nurse in the American Ambulance Hospital, With
Introductory Note by Brander Matthew'S

left the ambulance just at o'clock
with my head ringing with the ago
nized screams Of a poor fellow who had
both legs shattered fve days ago and
who had been strapped to a stretcher
with a musket used as splint. How
IL IL that human creatures can do such
terrible things to their brothers IA
thousands when man to man tho same
thing would be considered dastardly?
am told that down town Paris Is
like a quiet provincial town-there are
so few vehicles OF any kind. The only
bushes that is fiourishing Is the bicycle
trade, for every one who can Is Obliged
TO wheel now II he does not want to walt
from fifteen minutes to an hour for n
tram or Metro train.
And the Boy Scouts are everywhere-
there must be thousands and thousands
Of them And they were doing splendid
work-always willing and always 50
hus, We have whole squad OF them
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MONG the comma nders OF the
"A armies fighting in Europe there
\ Is not one who furnishes more
striking example OF the incon-
sistencics Of life than Gen. Carl Rem
nenkampf. who is In charge Of the Rus
sian army now attacking Germany in
East Prussia He is n living paradox
His life has been n constant contradic-
ton marked in turn by acts Of Kindness
, and uf cruelty
Strange as II may seem. the man who
Is leading the Slavic invasion OF Ger
many IL German by descent. habits
and education-a Teuton without drop
! Of Slavic blood in his veins. A little
over a century ago Alexander J. Of Rus
STA. being Impressed with tho remark
able efficiency OF the German military
machine. invited the Rennenkampfs to
come to Russia and train his vast army
| The invitation was accepted. The Rem
nenkampfs settled In the Baltic prov
| incee OF Russia, and the present Rem
| nenkampf was tho first Of the family to
be born in tho land OF the M,iscovites
His early education, as well as his
military training. Rcnnenkampf re-
| ceived In Germany. From his early
! youth he has been a great admirer Of
B
/ In the force II IN" mailed fist, In the
rule OF blood and iron. Of bayonct and
bullet And he has never failed 10 carry
ont hts theories whenever opportunity
! presented Itself
Astd" from the Little Car" In the
/ whole Of Russia there IL perhaps not
another individual who Is so much
feared and hated as Gen Rennenkampf
To the millions Of Russians who are
struggling for liberty and progress his
name inspires fear and terror More
thrn o1rc he has been the target for
revolutionary bombs and revolver shots,
but somehow he has always escaped I'M
scathed
II was during the uprising Of 1905 6
that Remembering suddenly became
conspicuous, When every artempt OF
the Russian Government To suppress
the revolution had failed when tho fall
! of the komanon dynasty seemed inn
mincnt the Gar called upon Gen. Rem
| nonkampf Following the call of tn,
CA" Rennenkampf started campaign
against the rev0iutlouists. punishinp
right and loft all those who displayed
the l"aS' sign of dissatisfac, ion lie
spr, al terror wherever he went III,
desputlc measures more than anything
else caused the failure of the uprising
At the close Of the revolution n,
started on his famous expedition o
rcprisals His trip took him across tn,
Russian Empire from the Baltic prov
inces TO the heart OF Siberia, and It 4
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described ny Russian rcvoutionists az
one Of the most dread inspiring cXpedi-
tionS ever undertaken 10y "A human be-
ing. Hundreds Of Russ!a's best youths
were executed by him on that trip
Thousands were hanished TO the wilds
OF Siberia, while the aortrcSses were
crowded by his wholesale arrests
when the rcvolutionists learned Of
his mission they vowed vengeance
Traps were laid FOR him More than
one n!hilist was willing 70 sacrifice his
life IN order "a assassinate Rennon-
kampf. They planned revenge He
was not 10 return alive. But Rennen-
kampf anticipated az much. His an
swer 20 their threats when he learned
of them Is characteristics OF his methods
Very we'll" ne said nonchalantly;
III they kill M they shall aIso kill a
number OF their leading and most be-
loved comrades. They will pay dearly
for IL"
This was followed By an order to
twelve prominent revolutionists cuI1ed
from various Russian prisons. They
were placed on the same train with the
General and he set off on his Journey
As a prccaution he had all the news
papers publish the names Of the rebels
who were travelling with him.
In New York there IL to-day ono Of
the men who spent four months as the
unwilling guest Of Gen. Rennenkampf
He travelled with him on the same
train and saw MIA friends executed by
the Generals CossaCks while he was
silently and impatiently awaiting his
own end
His name IL Ivan Okuntsofr He IL
, tho editor OF the RusSkOcy Sloro Rus-
sian World, the largest Russian daily
! newspaper outside OF the Russian En-
p'rc. The paper IL published In New
York city and has the distinction OF
/ being barred from Russia.
Okuntsoffs father lS "A Don CosSack
| During the RusSo-Japanesr war he
fought under the command OF Gen
! Rennenkampf His reckless bravery
and daring spirit attracted the atten-
: tion Of his commander and won him
several decorations.
! His son, Ivan, did not display war
/ Ike tendencies There was little OF the
4 soldier IN him, but much of the dreamer
He was arrested In st Petersburg or
( the same day that he was appointed
district supervisor of the Siberian
schools, when h. was taken from his
cell Of the fortress of St. Peter and
ST. Paul, the Bastille of Russia, h,
thought that his day had come, II,
was ready to die. But soon he founC
himself upon luXuriously equippe,
train, He was AT loss tn understan,
u the meaning OF It until he was COZ.
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SEPTEMBER 80

SEPTEMBER @S.
Yesterday was my first day of in five
weeks. Mrs. Vanderbilt. who has
charge VI the auxiliary nurses, insisted
uptN my taking rest; hut did not in
the least need 81, as | am really much
less tired than | was the first few days.
Sun, as she insisted and as ! want TO
last as long as the war does, | nnaliy
gave in: and it was good to stay in bed
until II o'clock and to play with my
fascinating little dog
Then ! dressed leisurely and went on
to lunch with the s. and on the
way | came mighty near 10 having my
DAYS ended there and then by bomb
which fell from a German Taube in the
Rue de In Pompe. Just about hfty yards
from where | was II luckily did no
damage. only making slight hole in
the ground But others fell at the
Trocadero and killed n man and manned
a poor little girl. These are the first
FOR three weeks. II is supposed that the
slight fog prevented the French aviators,
who are always patrolling over Paris,
from seeing the TaUe" approach.
OF course the ~ mans all aim for
the F;iffel Tower. .ch is the biggest
and tallcst Of all the wireless stations
But Il seems very difficult to get ac-
curate aim in an airship Of any kind.
and the Germans have during this war
not proved good marksmen in any way.
They rely on the quantity OF their guns
and the hail OF project.les much more
than on the accuracy of their aim.
Il seemed very strange 10 me 10 he
dressed up and in the streets by day
light; everything seemed unnatural ,o
me. and my hospital Ne after all
seems more my life than the careless
life Of woman of the world. | won
der II Il will always he so now, and II
my books and my harp, and the play
and concerts can ever again seem vital
| enough to me 10 make that life worth
while.
When ] arrived al the Ambulance
I this morning felt that | was AT home
once more. II is amusing to find now
that We have had patients for four
/ weeks, how each one OF us has quit
7 unconsciously found her plac" in the
work Mine seems 10 he to stay witt
IN" men when rhey come back from tn
I GENERATING room and 10 soothe them ant
quiet them az they come out from The
chloroform. II seems that | have ;
very calming influence Sometimes
/ have az many az three in a day.
To-day there was a poor black Fellow
most frlghtfully wounded, who lnsistc'
upon my holding his poor fever burned
hand FOR couple of hours until | an'
a hypodernic Of morphine stopped his
pitifu cry. And W, have had two die
! i'm our ward; and have sat with then
! too. and have seemed To he Of some little
| comfort. II Is all very p'nful.
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tent and accomplishing, and 90 CRATE
ful for what We do for them
But it is terrible to hear these strong
brave men scream with pain when the
surgeons dress their wounds, and TO
know how long they have been bearing
that same agony, lying in heaps in sun
light and starlight for days and nights
since the great battle. | wonder II any
Of us wha have come near to such sur
ferlng can ever again ne az light
hearted and care free as we were be-
fore.
And they are not all 80 bitter against
the Germans one told me that when
he was wounded he was taken prisoner
by the enemy and that a slightly
wounded German soldier did all that ne
could TO care for him. When the Ger
mans were forced 10 retreat and abandon
their prisoners he brought "a bag oi
biscuits and tied IL around the French
mans neck. whose hip and knee were
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NEW YORK WON1ANS EXPERIENCE IN PARIS WAR HOSPITAL

To-day the fifteenth Of continues
and violent fighting. we are told ma.
TIN, enemy have been pushed bach e.,
along the vast battle front. n o..
we could get them out Of France = ..
moral effect on the two countries w.I.
be immc nse.
hear that II tho Germans can
no more gasolene (which they us'
get from RUSSIA they will bc sp -..
riously handicapped that the war ut.
no ended sooner than We now cNpe.
~ only II could he SO! But stlu To-
their power greatly. although Doc D."
never for n moment doubted the uu-
mate result. Right must conquer.
And now to sleep 80 az to be fr"-'
for tomorrow.
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GEN. RENNENKAN1PF RUSSIAN COMMANDER AN ENIGMA

fronted by Gen. Rennenkampf, who
made the situation very clear to him,
Presently he found himself In the com
pany OF hts comrades and learned that
h. and they were hostages
According TO Ivan OtuntsoN the atroC-
tiles OF the Spanish Inqulstion fade
into insignifcance before the acts OF
Rcnncnkampf. The twelve prisoners
upon his train were dined and win d
luxuriously, only 10 he treated later on
to tho horrible experience Of seeing
their own friends and comrades shot
OF hanged Every ono Of those on the
train was under a death sentence. but
no one knew when he was 10 breathe
his last.
Okuntsoff's death sentence was re-
mitted whom Rennenleampf learned that
ne was the son OF his brave Cossack
friend He was banished for life 20 81
beria- Three years ago he escaped from
there by way OF Japan and has resided
In New York ever since.
As mark OF grath ude for his work
IN suppressing the revolution Car Mich
olas appointed Gen. Rennenkampf as
commander in chief OF the Vtna mill
tary district. Incidentally that district
10 the seat OF the Polish and Jewish
revolutionists. The distrIct Includes the
Jewish Pa,e and the whole OF Russian
Poland, Never have the Jews and Poles
suffered such hardship and such oppres-
sion az since he took charge Of tho
district
The recent events. however have
brought TO light incompreheneibl char
aCtcristics az Rennenkampfs It was
he, tho pronounced ant! Semitic, who
spoke highly In favor Of the plan OF
advancing meritorious Jewish soldiers
to the rank Of officers in the Russian
army. lie went 40 far as to recommend
II personally TO the Gar For the f,rst
time IN his life he spoke kindly Of n
Jewish soldier. When he learned Of the
heroic deed OF young Jewish soldier,
who hravcd death 10 save the colors of
his regiment, h" gave orders that spe-
| nj care he taken TO save his life. He
| ordered private nurses for a man whose
! coreligionists he prosecuted.
To his military STAFF and his army
| ~ Cossacks and soldiers Rennenkampf
| has heen constant enigma. Though
severe by reputation. he has heen known
To- do acts OF the greatest kindness and
generosity to his soldiers. While aooi
and reserved in manner, he at times
shows himself TO be more than demo
cratic by nature.
Perhaps in the present war Gen. Rem
nenkampf will display characteristics
which will win him the love and admira.
ton Of the Russian people. So far hs
Is more hated and feared than loved
and respected
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Continued from First Page.

bcrv and arson But take the tale OF
the little girl OF ten being stabbed 10y
n hayonet. She had hidden under
bed, and. in searching the house for
some citizens who had taken refuge
there. q soldier had plunged his bay
onet through the mattress and wounded
the child.
In the hospital OF 81. Pierre that |
visited were a woman and her little
daughter OF -four years, both shot
through the legs. The mother had 10
suffer amputation She said she was in
mrcd crossing the street to a place OF
safety from burning house. Acts OF
deliberate and wanton cruelty no doubt
took place, but these were the doings
OF the few and not OF the majority OF
the Germans.
I had a talk with a little boy OF thir-
teen or fourteeen who was wounded
twice IN the shoulder. He had seen his
mother and his father shot before his
eyes; both were trying 10 escape at the
time.
It IL very hard, IN viewing the many
outrageous awful and almost unbeliev-
able acts OF cruelty and vandalism, TO
keep from falling into the tendency 10
hysteria that tinges every ones judg-
ment. 1t exists on both sides. ! have
always been led to think of the German
per Sc as a rather phlegmat!c and nerve
less individual ! never have seen any
soldiers more jumpy and nervous than
the German sentries and outposts.
They have been fed upon regular
campaign Of lies and transformation.
Many OF the rank and file have told
me tales OF the mutilation Of their
wounded: their eyes having been
gouged out, their limbs cut off; they
have been buried alive or thrown to
drown In the rivers. | never have been
able TO suhstantiate n case, but they
believe these things, and in regard to
the history OF the war the average sol
der knows nothing.
A retreat IL a change of route, for the
sake OF strategy. A defeat Is a tenn
psrary stop In order to wait for sup
plies. The numbers of their losses are
concealed from them, their wounded
| are moved at night,
| Beside the roadway between Namur
! and Maubeuge the numbers OF ON
GERS graves alone must show the great
! mortality. over almost every one
rests a helmet; in some cases q coat is
hung ON stick or spread over a grave.
The ordinary soldiers are buried in
great trenches.
Away from the fighting centres and
the burned villages and towns, even
IN sections OF the country through
which the invaders have passed, there
are miles and miles of smiling country,
with peasants ploughing and working
In the fields. gathering in the crops.
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in reason. OF course our deposi $.
After all t. said and done. ! am very
proud OF my country and its people.
Y
SEPTEMBER l6

SEPTEMBER l6
VIII send YOU another instalment Of
journal tonight. although | am v'ry
tired. This has been "A terribly busy day
FOR We have received about n hundred
wounded. all French and English with
the exception Of one German officer,
young boy Of Il.
They come In covered with mud ana
cakcd with splashos Of blood, with their
clothes haf shot away and their hair
matted DOWN with sweat. They are cN-
anlned In a room near the entrance and
then are brought into the wards on
stretcher- and laid on their beds. Then
We undross them. often having just 20
cut their uniforms off them. and hey
are covered with blankets and lie st'n
unit, rhe surgeons come To eNam.u"
their wounds. .\fter that We hathc
them and put clean shirts on them and
tuck them up INFO bed.
Those who came to-day were fam
ished. they had had nothing TO eat for
two DAYS and had been IN the water
part Of that time. II was pitful TO see
them devOur the bread and soup ina; we
! gave them al once. They are so pa
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1t has been privilege read the personal letters which
American sending from time to time
friend This record of things in the
lurid glare interesting. illuminating and
that obtained permission for its publication
written, with only few omissions.
The dashed of night after xhausng
American hospital native of New York. who
friends and French be of
little she in the French capital foryur
n OF
September the day of procla
of republic by Gambeta Then she able
left
Now she has stayed in Paris of
as he
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Senator Thomas OF Colorado "a A per-
son who does things in his own way
For instance. he wears a neat gray
wig in the winter time. but lays q ~
with the coming OF the first spring days
along with his high shoes and v'A'''
underwear. when he came TO the Son
ate last year he made n long spec. ale
most as soon as he had been ASSIGNED
to a seat-regardless OF custom ~ The
contrary. Always he goes ahead ny
whatever route occurs to him. Il Wa
the same way when he was a ca MIA
lawyer out in Colorado years aEr
In one case Thomas appeared ~
man accused Of numbering "A prominent
citizen who had received bullet wound
under the shoulder blade. Tho qN"'. Va
was whether the man had been ~
dercd or committed suicide TN'77'
took an optimistic view Of the Fitu','--'
and advanced many theories to show '''
Jury that IL was a case OF suicide
But the prosecuting attorney ass ~
How could It have been suicide
II Is physically impossible for a 'u'h
10 point a gun at such an angi" a-u.'
, his own back? Men aren't hui,f u"
long enough arms"
Jaw, shucks'" declared Thoms' ~
that point, and he picked mp N" poe
volvcr, which comprised exhibit 4 ana
with his long right arm pointed tho TO-.
rel in the very manner the pros, Of
! had said couldn't he done.
That won the case for Thoma
the murderer went his way rcjoicir
"But," suggested one Of ThNu
| friends after II was ell over, "tho ~ 81.
dered man had short arms and You .
unusually long arms. | doubt NJ '
could have pointed the gun the N''
you did"
80 do l." said Thomas.
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shattered and whose arm was useless
with bullet through IL, saying. Here.
little one, this Is for thee 70 make thee
know that all Germans are not brutes.'
And he had tears N his eyes as he said
H.
one e glad 20 hear things Ike his.
II offsets a little the s.brc saws and the
dumdum bullets ana the torturing 90.
The old men and young children AID
women.
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THE REAL STORY OF LOUVAIN

and war might be n thousand milo
away. Yet half an hours motorIr-
will bring one into a region Of black
cned ruin.
II has been part Of the general polio,
OF terrorism To he able to point ~
these two extremes.
See what we have done where yo1'
troops have not fought us and wh"r'
We have been allowed a peaceful co.
try See what We can do whore w
meet with opposition Observe, loa'
and reason. you people Of Belgium
But the toll and reprisals that m
be cxacted when the French and R'
gians find themselves on German
will be terrible and staggering. H1'
as an English officer once said 70 m
in referring to Englands attitude aNd
method:
I'VE have entered into this war Wit
clean hands; pray God that this may
be said OF us when the war ia over
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VI I
SEPTEMBER y

SEPTEMBER Il
Trey have ruined tho Cathedral OF
Rheims The vandals, the harbarians'
All day Yesterday they bomharded the
town, an absolutely unfortified quiet
title city. and to-day we hear that the
cathedral is IN flames. II IS hard to be
Hove hits. for it was perhaps the great
est glory of French Gothic architecture,
with superb thirteenth century glass, and
Of course the most interesting historical
~ speaking, Of all the wonderful French
cathedrals. with perhaps the one ex-
ception of Notre Dame de Paris. As II
stands on n hill its destruction was not
az all an integral part OF the Smelling Of
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al the Ambulance: and the work there
il going to make them much finer men
than they would ever have been II they
had not been brought in contact with
the patriotism and the pain and the
patience OF all those poor soldiers.
1t is touching To see their serious
faces as they rather fearfully look at
the new patients as they dart through
the wards on crrands for some OF the
committees or bring the families who
come To see their wounded every after
noon This young generation will sure
ly De n fine one II T. grows up 10 peace
and prosperity