New Britain herald., 1915-12-03

 structures, so that the cripples are the gardens, everywhere abundant with flowers and shrubbery, to lena cheer to the occupants.
 200 Photographic Plates.
 1.-TWO hundred more wounded are coming" said an attendant, as the officer led the way into the first build ing, the receiving ward.
 Here they are,' said the officer, pointing to 200 large glass photo graphic plates ranged and numbered in a case.
 The photographs of the 200 wounded had been sent ahead, some of them being X-ray plates
 See this one,' said the officer holding up a large glass plate show ing the side-profile of wounded soldier, with a gaping bullet hole back of the ear and around the hole little sutures or cracks of the skull.
 Not Fractured Skull.
 '3It is not a fractured skull-that would be hopeless,' said the officer No, that man can be made over
 But this receiving ward was merely the first stage in a sort of ascending scale, which improved the wounded mans condition at each stage until he was finally landed in the school where he was made over into con- c!tion more useful to himself and society than he was before. It was to this school that chief interest was directed.
 Hive of Work Shops. This enormous school at St. Maurice is a hive of work shops of all kinds shoemaking shops, machine shops, auto repair shops, blacksmith shops with blazing forges and clothes-mak- ing shops and the workmen were the wounded soldiers from the firing line, minus an arm, leg or eye on which they had before depended, but now launched on new line which did not need that arm, leg or eye. As whole it was as efficient body of Workmen as one would find in any Well-regulated factory The men had smiling faces: those working in groups were chatting and laughing.
 Attention was also given to the fine arts and the professions, and here also were schools for sculpture and paint ing and architecture, so that legless or armless or eyeless soldiers, who had taste for the aesthetic, could be led into some new line, which did not require the use of the lost member. One \pale-faced young soldier, his left hand gone near the elbow, was deli cately modelling a Venus of Milo with his remaining hand.
 Architects and Typwriting.
 The soldier architects were making designs, with blue-prints of girders arches and columns, and 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 soldier ar- cnitects were arranged two long lines of soldier typewriters, men who had lost foot or some other member, but whose hands had now been taught a skill they had not known before in rapid typewriting.
 In the shoe shop the men were turning out a good grade of shoes, selling for twenty-three francs (about $46O); also wallets and purses of all kinds, leather watch chains and belts.
 
 versity of their product. It was the same in the machine shop. the black smith shop and all the other branches of this hive of industry.
 Handles Carpenter.
 "One soldier with both hands gone.'' said the officer. "is making eighteen francs a day as a carpenter"
 He explained that special tools had been made for this handless carpen- his arm -stumps The plans, for in- stance, automatically permitted the carpenter to do his work with preci- sion, bell ringing if pressure was too great to the right, another bell if pressure was too great on the left, and other bells of forward and rear pres sure. So that the handless soldier car penter learned his trade automatically bells warning him of each false move until he had become expert.
 The St. Maurice institution and school which is thus making soldiers over for new and useful occupation has a capacity of 300 mon, who have their wounds dressed so far as re- 1 mains necessary, are housed and fed, and at the same time carry on these extensive shops which turn out use full products of all kinds, and what is more turn out useful men skilled in the arts, architecture, mechanical arts and the many branches roan11fac