New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-16

Enow for days at time. But III IL pfiF'''b
70 know the good cheer OF the men VINO are
enduring these things. The raytailiemen'
} may be delayed their allotted period IN the
tor soaked trenches may be doubled and
vet it is always Ca ne fat rien.' 30 writes
Preston Lockwood
That is one Of the best services rendered
by the ambulance-to enable these boys 10
know the French race IL is good Tor us 10
know the premier race Of the world
After the battle Of Hartmannsweierkopt
, the section was decorated as whole. ana
: twelve men individually were decorated
lowering Hill, of Harvard, has been in charge
of this section. He has received two clta-
|, tons, two Croix de Guerre, which ne doesn't
wear. because he knows that the western
front is full of good men who have not been
decorated. The boys formed "The Harvard
/ Club of Alsacc Raconquis," and had Harvard
alumni dinners when the fighting eased up.
Suffering That Is Saved.
az think that we have saved the wounded
nrany hours of suffering" writes Henry NJ
:, Suckley, of Harvard, 10. In that quiet state
ment lies the spirit Of the work done by the
American Field Service.
From the head of the Valley OF the Fecht
over ten miles of mountain, five up and tve
down, to Krvth, on the other side that has
been the run.
". X. II. Emerson, jr., says:
"Once / went over a bank in an attempt to
r ass a convoy wagon at night without head.
light, such light being forbidden over part OF
the Mitlach road | was lucky enough to lean
up against a tree before slipping very far
over the bank, and within ten minutes ten
soldiers had lifted the machine and put u
back on the road, ready to start. Nothing was
wrong but the loss of one sidelight, and the
car went better than before. There was
GREAT merrment among the men who helped
to put IL on the road
At every point you touch that morale Of
, the fghting'men. There will be no premature
reace.
After four months the section had its bar
racks. at the 4,000-foot level, blown down by
a gale. So they use a new road. SuckIey
writes Of finding two huge trees across the
= path
II had three wounded men in the car whom
was hurrying 10 the hospital walked
down two miles TO get some men at camp oil
; engineers, the road being too narrow to per-
nit turning. There is a new service to
1.-THE famous Observation-Disclosures or rather
within half mile of this most southeriy
. mount contested by the Germans. For three
miles il is cut out of the solid rock, just wide
enough for one of our cars to pass. You can
p, imagine the joys of this drive on dark
night, when you have to extingulsh all llghts
and when the speed of the car cannot be re-
duced for fear of not making the grades. The
first aid post is only 200 or 300 yards from
: the famous crest which has been the scene OF
many fierce combats The bursting of shells
has taken every bit of foliage from the wood
CO crest carried pines to the ground, so tnat
: only few splintered stumps stick up here
- end there. At the post no one dares snow
himself in the open. All life is subterranean
IN bombproofs covered by five feet of timber
; The road is concealed everywhere by screens.
End the sound of a motor may bring hail OF
shells down on your head The stretcher
L.arers are so used 10 meeting death IN It's
, worst forms-by burning oil, by shell frag-
) ments. by sufrocatng shells that they have
grown to look at it smilingly'
Terrible Road
It is st. Paul's School car that operates
there.
Another time the run was UP TO an artil-
t lorv post in the mountains. The road was
} extremely steep near the top, and covered
: with gravel. 1t was only by hard effort that
{ dozen men could push the car up. We ran
to the communicating trench, where they had
the man waiting. He was wounded on the
abdomen and in great pain. We started down
over the terrible road; at every pebble be
would groan. When he reached the worst
Race of all. where the road had recently
been mended with unbroken stones, his groans
began 10 grow fainter. They ceased, and
stopping, we found that he was dead. But
there had been a chance of saving his life
A larger car could not have gone up.
wagon or a mule would have caused his death
almost Immediately
"On one of our hills in winter team of
six Red Cross men was kept on duty waiting
for our ambulance TO come along. The cars
would 90 as far as possible up the incline, and
before they lost speed would be practically
. carried to the crest on the shoulders OF the
pushers mules, with their drivers hanging
on the beasts tails to make the ascent easier
Strapped on these animals were barbed wire
and hand grenades, red wine and sections OF
the army portable houses"
Such is winter in Alsace.
. Luke DOYLE had driven his car 10 the en-
> trance of the Hartmanns trenches, and our
last post when heavy bombardment forced
every one to make for the bombproof. Sew
eral men we're wounded, and he came out to
crank his car and carry them off, when he
was ordered back to safety. A few moments
later a she'll landed close TO the 'abri.' 1t
i, struck a man and killed him. flying piece
reached DOYLE and entered his elbow An
other of our section, Douglas. arrived, and
was knocked fiat by bursting she'll He
rose, put Doyle in his car and drove him up
the road to safety"
Under an Archway of Shells.
A few days later a new driver of the same
car writes:
For two kilometres I passed under what
, looked like an archway of shells Branches
fell on the car. At one time, half stunned
and half scared. fell forward on the wheel,
stalled my engine and had to get out and
c.ank up
you know thai Richard Hall killed
Christmas morning"
another time, J. Clark writes:
car 161 still lives up 70 her reputation
Yesterday, in a blizzard, she was blown off.
the road between two trees, over three piles
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