The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-09
HUNDRED YOUNG AMERICANS
 IN FRENCH RED CROSS CARS
Splendid Band Ceasess Work in Bringing in the Wounded
 France Appreciates It-Several of the Drivers Have Been Given the Cross of War for Vaor

| bulance, they know how German shell. whistle. and. if getting to the front was why they lme to France, they have | the satisfaction of knowing that they 1 are as much there as any soldier no- | actually facing a winter in the first line | trenches.
 DOING SAME WORK And about 100 other Americans scat tered from Dunkirk to Belfort are doins I just the same work of touchingly appre ] ciated mercy. The American ambulance of Neuilly has four corps or sections al the front. Each section consists of 2 l Ford ambulances, a staff car and ( 1 repair car. Each ambulance has it's drive and theoretically one o1 two extra driv- | CTS are attached to every section. Bu not during many months of it's histor! l have the authorities at the headquarters in Neuilly had enough men at their dis posal to make this possible.
 So when one of those weeks comes | in which even the best organized sani- l tary service at the front is compelled tc work in blind stagger there is noth- | ing for an ambulance driver to do ex- 1 cept to stick it out AS and 60 hours al | the wheel just like there is nothing fol doctors to do except bend over the op- erating table like factory hands paid by the piece and driven under the speeding | up system.
 The worst thing about the front is 50 hours of constant rolling without a minute away from the wheel except per haps to change a tire in the road with every wounded man in your car grooming in agony. You fill your canteen with 1 coffee every trip and then you can't keep awake, Graham Carey of Cam , bridge and Harvard "A wrote in a letter which he gave to "Vic" Caldwell of Omaha and Yale IS to take home and it aptly describes the situation
 And Carey has had experience with shells as well as with weariness. In September the. officer commanding the automobile services of the army to which his section was attached kissed him on both cheeks and pinnec on ms breast the Croix de Guerre for gallantry in per- forming his duty under fire. And short ly afterwards the ambulance committee in Neuilly made him, along with Henry SuclSley and Durant Rice who both come from New York, squad leader and re- sponsible for the efficiency of 10 of the cars under the general command of Lov- ering Hill.
 The strong forces of this committee are. besides Lawrence Beney, the chair man; A. Patt Andrew and Wellesley Kipling. MT. Kipling has written several books on military subjects and MT. An crews occupations include teaching economics at Harvard and serving as assistant secretary of the United States treasury.
 Fred Bate, a young Chicagoan with mechanical vision, is in charge of the shops at the headquarters in Neuilly and the general physical condition of all the cars in the field, both he and MT. Andrew making frequent trips of inspection
 In addition to the four sections in the field the American ambulance of Neuilly puts at the disposal of the French war office 10 cars for use in Paris and it's environs and as many more for use in connection with the fine hospital which Mrs. Mary Payne Whitney has estab- lished in a famous chateau near Juilly, picturesque little town about 30 miles from both Compiegne and Soissons Amer jeans volunteering for ambulance work must pledge themselves to remain for three months, and, generally speaking, they spend several weeks on the Paris or Juilly service before being sent to the front.
 All the cars used in the field work are Fords and the French poilu already has picked up the habit of calling them me chanical feas.' In the Paris service big cars of various makes are used, some of them carrying as many as eiglft stretcher cases and eight "sitters." These are stationed at that great clearing house Of suffering at the La Chapelle freight depot. from which thousands of wounded are distributed to the innumerable hos pitals in Paris and it's nearby towns.
 This station is not far from the erst- while "wicked'' spots of Paris Place Clichy and Place Pigalle, where the doors and windows of the Dead Rat are deso- lately boarded up and the ruins of the Moulin Rouge remind one little of other times. One of the drivers who in one year before the war had spent S1O O0C in Place Clichy once in the very early hours of many bright Parisian mornings drove slowly with wounded through the former bright spots which he knew so well. He could not place a single cafe, so great a change has closed shutters wrought.
 MEANS LONG HOURS
 The Paris work, too, means long hours when the Red Cross trains block the La Chapelle yards and stretchers cover