The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-11-12

tered. he said. not from fear of tho
war or guns. but at seeing two pei.
~ women with both hands cut of.
i know that the Germans are do.
ing what they can In America TO deny
these things. but I have got II from
the men themselves-plaln, unedu.
Gated soldiers a great many OF them.
The Coldstream guards regiment was
nearly wiped out because the men re.
fused to fire on tho Belgian women
n children whom the Germans had
put In front OF their guns at Mons.
This soldier was wounded there and
told me this himself"
Mrs. Astor has assisted in the con.
vaiescence OF men at Plymouth by
taking them In large numbers for au.
tomobile trips over the moors.
washing Dishes In hospital.
Perhaps Paris has seen more OF the
benevolent ministratlons OF American
women than any other city. II is re.
lated that a visitor to the improvised
American hospital at NeuIlly found
Mrs. Herman Harjes. wife OF the part.
ner In the Morgan Paris banking
house; Mrs. W. X. Vanderbilt and her
friend. Mrs. Munroe, all washing
dishes In the kitchen. They had re.
ported at eight o'clock every morning.
declaring they were ready for any
Kind OF useful work. from scrubbing
floors to assisting In the operating
chambers.
The American hospital at Neuiliy,
near Paris. was established in 1906
through resident Americans and Am.
bassador Henry White. II has 35 beds
and is one OF the finest hospitals on
the continent. Bur these 30 beds were
not enough for Americans TO give
when war broke out. The American
ambulance committee obtained from
the government the use OF the new
Pasteur high school at Neuilly and i'm.
provised a hospital here. Hero are
accommodations for wounded 70 the
number OF a thousand. The stan Is
led by ne distinguished DR.. Joseph A.
Blake OF New York, DR.. Charles Pc.
land. n former United States army
surgeon, and DR.. George d. Hayes.
This hospital Is specializing In the
most serious cases because there are
few places in France where such splen.
did talent and appliances arc avail
able.
Has Motor Ambulance Service.
The American committee Is also op
Grating a motor ambulance service and
brought some OF It's own patients from
the battlefield OF Meaux, the engag
ment fought nearest TO Paris.
The first wounded were received
September ., consisting OF fair English
boys. brown Turcos from Algiers and
black men from Senegal. Fifteen
American surgeons living in Paris and
twenty mor as a relay were ready 10
treat them. Doctor Blake sent q call
TO New York for volunteer surgeons
and a party Of six soon left, among
them DR.. Richard Derby. who married
Ethel Roosevelt. Mrs. Derby left
behind in America her six.months-old
baby son In order TO 20 with her hus-
band In the capacity OF nurse.
The four million dollar marble pal.
ace OF the former Anna Gould. now tho
duchess OF T%allyrand. ia today filled
with French wounded. The duke drives
n OF her motor cars In the service
OF France. while all the rest OF her
cars have been turned owe TO the gov.
eminent also. The duke carries mes.
sages between Paris and Bordeaux or
between Paris and tho battlefield.
The duchess had her heart touched
by the plight OF the large class OF
women In Parts who live faithfully
with men TO whom they are not legal.
ly married. Their men havo now gone
to war and they and their children
o without friends. II seemed. Anna
Gould, with her all-inclusive charity,
came 20 their relief. She opened a
workshop and employs the women ut
sewing. They receive three meals q
day and are paid n small amount be-.
sides. The duchess had promised her.
self n visit TO her old home in New
York this winter. but she has given Il
up in order to continue to supervise
her work OF mercy.
Mrs. Peter Cooper Hewitt OF the IN.
nous New York family has sewing
women in her Bots de Boulogne man.
sion. There shirts and oandages are
turned out In large quantities. Mrs.
Vanderbilt and Mrs, Edith Wharton
arc also keeping many Eeamstresses