Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-22

Under the escort of French officers ?
the party was taken Co 81 Maurice, "A
short distance outside Paris. whett
wounded are brought after the physi-
cares of surgery have becu given. toi
hc nursed into couvalcsccnce diverted
from the loss of limbs. and gradually
educated into some new lime which
rccreates them into useful members
of societN ST. Maurice Is Of vast III
menslons, the buildings ana grouuds
ocDupyiny an area probably create,
than Central park n New York Thc
butdngs stretch as far as the eye eaH
see. low, two-story stone structures
SO that the crippled are not climbing
long stairs. and near the gardens
everywhere abundant With flowers and
shruhbery. to lend cheer TO the ocyu-
pants.
"Two hundred more wounded are
coming saii am attendant, as the Of
ficer lea the way into the first build
ing. the receiving ward
Here they ARE" said the officer
pointing 70 200 large glass photo
graphio plates ranged and numbered
In case
N-ray Photographs.
The photographs of the quo wound
cd had been sent ahead, the plates
showing with precision the exact
wound and its process of healing, some
OF them being N-ray plates
"Sec this one said the officer
holding nr large glass plate show
mg the side profile of q wounded sol
dier. with gaping bullet hole back
of the ear ana around the hole it'll
sutures on cracks of the skull
IT is not fractured skull-that
would be hopeless" said the officer
mo, that man eau be made over"
But this receiving ward WAS merely
the first stage iu a sort of ascending
scele. which improved the wounded
mans condition at each stage until
he was finally landed In the school
where he was made over into a condi-
tiun more useful to himself and So
cicty than he was before Il was to
this school that chief interest was
directed
This enormous school at ST. Mau-
rice is a hive OF work shops OF all
kirds-shoe-m making shops machine
shops, auto repair shops, blacksmith
shops with blazing forges and clothes
making shops and the worlmon were
the wounded soldiers from the firing
line minus an arm. leg or eye ON
which they had before depended but
now punched on a new line which did
not need that arm, leg or eye. As a
whole 1t was as efficient body OF
workmen as one would find in any
well regulated factory The men had
smiling faces; those working IN sroup8
were chatting and laughing.
Arts Not Neglected.
Attention was also given 70 the fine
arts and the professions. and here also
were schools for sculpture and paint
ing and architecture, SO that legless
or armless or eyeiess soldiers, who
had taste for the aesthetic, could be
led into some new line, which ala not
require the use of the lost member
one palc-faccd young soldier, his left
hand gone near the elbow was deli
cately modelling a Venus Of Milo with
his remaining hand
The soldier architects were making
designs, with blue prints OF eirders,
arches ana columns. ana calculating
the strength of walls and roofs All
of these men had something missing,
but their work was SO chosen as to
make absolutely negligible the lost
member and to make what remained
Of their members entirely efficient for
this particular work Near the sol
der architects were ranged two long
lines Of soldier typewriters, men who
had lost a foot or some other mem
Der. but whose hands had now been
taught skill they had not known be-
fore in rapid typewritlng.
In the shoe shop the men were
turning out a good grade Of shoes,
selling for twenty-thrce francs Cabout
SA6O) also, wallets and purses of
al kinds, leather watch chains and
belts. A large glass case exhibited
the diversity Of their product. II was
the same in the machine shop, the
shop and all the other |
branches Of this hive Of industry.
zone soldier with both hands gone %
said the officer. lis making eighteen
francs day as q carpenter
He explained that special tools had |
been made for this handles carpen-
ter. fitting on TO the steel hooks on
hts arm stumps The plans. for in
stance automatically permitted the
arpentcr to do his work with preci-
don, bell ringing If pressure was
900 great to the right, another bell II
pressure was too great on the left,
md other bells Of forward and renr
pressure. SO that the hAndleHs SOL
lier carpenter learned his trade auto
bells warning him Of each
alse move until he had become eX-
BERT
The st. Maurice institution and
chool which Ia thus making soldiers
Iver for a new ana useful occupation
Ias a capacity OF 500 men who have
heir wounds dressed so far as re-
main necessary are housed and fed,
nd at the same time curry ON these
Xtensiye shops which turn out use
al products OF all kinds, and what is
more turn out useful men skilled in
he arts architecture, mechanical
rts and the many branches Of manu-
acture.