South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-06-25
HI Sibley Sends Photos and Writes
Impressions Of First Days IN Service
At American Hospital in France

Herewith f. presented a sketch by
HI sibley giving MS Impressions of
the life at the American hospital ct
Neuilly- Seine, France, where he
recently took up relief work with the
Red Cross. The photographs show
the South Bend man with some OF the
wounded who are being taken care OF
az the hospital. Sihley is driving an
automobile In the Red Cross service
and recently was dispatched 20 Dun
kirk, which place was bombardcd a
Few days ago b. the great German
siege guns from q distance OF % miles.
These Impressions form part OF a
personal letter written by Sibley 10
relatives in this Editors note)
An English Tommy" who had 10
have his shattered leg amputatcd
three times, is continually "spoOfing"
his French companions in pure
brand OF cockney, and "a Frenchman
who has lost both legs amuses his
ccmpatriots by doing some fancy
roller skating on the terrace in a
wheel chair
As for the Chauffeurs. in which sec
ton / have enlisted they are a cOsmo-
pOlitan lot But thes e a good sort
For instance, a genuine Italian Mar
Quis Che has red hair and blue eyes
and IS only Isl has been working on
car UP 10 his ears In grease, an
other volunteer once fought a bull
with a Ford in Madrid. He said the
Ford was stripped, and i assume that
IL was. after the encounter. anyway;
Texas lad of 20 worked his way
over on "A cattle ship. and was strand
cd three months in London before he
could get enough money to reach
Paris. and he, by the way, is one of
the most efficient workers in the en-
nj "a 4
schOOlmaster of Virginia has just join
ed us; an eX-secretary OF the United
States treasury has been promoted TO
a captalncy: Henry SydnOr Harrison,
author of "Queed- is now with the
field hospital at Dunkerque; a locally
famous race driver by the name Of
SChwarz takes a Ford out now End
then and all Paris holds it's breath
until he is safely corralled at tre aos-
pital again-in short. every a. -NOus
mothers son OF them has Consider
a bic OF career back of him mas
much as 1 have had a call &c 20 TO the
front at Dunkerque, tonight. / believe
have somewhat OF hair-rsising
career ahead OF me. 1t is about 200
miles 10 the north. and this far from
the guns. 1 feel very brave. / make
no promises for the future. however
Somewhere off 10 the east of us the
battle RACES necessarily. We do not
hear the guns, but we daily see the
pitiful carnage they have wrought
Nearly every day, and sometimes twice
a day. we of the ambulance squad
receive a call 20 La Chapelle TO bring
in the wounded. La Chapelle is an
immense freight station on the other
side OF Paris that has been converted
into a systematic emergency hospital
and receiving station. 1t is here
that the seriously wounded are
afs411 inv.
trains for distribution TO the Paris
hospitals
Last night at EIGHT we received an
emergency call TO send all the cars
we could muster. We were Off in a
minute: every available ambulance in
the yard. With the klaXOns Shrek
ing-ambulances only are Allowed TO
use them-we Numbered TO our 0esti-
nation while the pedestrians scattered
from the right OF way There is no
speed limit for an ambulance; the
people know the significance of its
warning note.
At La ChapeIle the cars are uned
up inside a long shed. as closely as
they can be packed together. The
other end is occupied 10y a number
Of neat little portable cottages. abCut
20 by 40 feet for receiving the wound
and caring for their immediate needs.
Each cottage is trimmed in a different
color: there - 'maison rouge" or red
cottage, and blue cottage, and green
cottage. and gray cottage and so on.
Inside they are Immediately white
and cool: at the entrance 20 each is a
little bank of growing palms and
flowers. They are made as comfort
able and attractive as it is possible to
make them.
In these cottages the wounded are
classified according 10 the nature Of
their injuries: abdominal wounds go
into the red cottage. for instance; leg
wounds into the green cottage-it is
into the gray cottage that men are
taken who must be operated upon be
fore they can be removed 10 a hos
pital. Last night a handsome French
officer was taken i'm there in a dying
condition; he was too far gone 90
survive an operation. and the most
comfortable ambulance was selected
10 remove him 20 some hospital in the
city Of Paris.
On the particular train we met last