The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-09
MEANS LONG HOURS

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 The Paris work, too, means long hours when the Red Cross trains block the La Chapelle yards and stretchers cover the floor of the great station. In early October the chief of the Paris squad, A. Travers Ewell, New York civil engineer, and Waldo Pierce, former Harvard grid iron star by the actual ambulance rec ords, were on duty and mostly en route for 72 hours and finally were compelled by swollen wrists to knock off for a night
 The men at the front are generally hilleted in some base pretty well out of danger and near ra1lhead. At night they go up to the first dressing stations. At these points they are. of course, under shell fire and sometimes even under rifle fire as was shown the other day when an ambulance driven by Mahlon Davis of Brookline Mass, got 14 r1fe bullets through it. Another car in the same section driven by James Mcconnell from North Carolina, and a son or the senator from that state, had part of the front mudglard torn away by a piece of shell. The men take the danger of the work ouite as matter of course and as a r,;le those who have been the most under fire can do the least towards describing how it feels
 "It's something like batting against Walter Johnson who is out to mt you on the head" is the way Allyn Jennings or Philadelphia once described the sensa- tion to Powel Fenton of the same city' and the saying has made hit.
 rba men m charge of section rank os first lfeutenants in the French army The three squad leaders under them rahh as second lieutenants in the French army. The rest are considered as prlVates and the section, officers as well as the
 ,.,x ata'c hTeAd with inc date of the baking stamped on if canned beef which the French sol diers call "monkey-meat,' rice or pota- foes generally rice, and red Wlne called bx- the soldiers ''pinard. Each man IS also paid by the French government one sou a day. equal to one cent Tn Aherlcan money. Pay day. known as sou oay' comes around once every two weeks.
 ..Ned'' Salisbury, who entered the am- hnlance service as one of Mrs. w. k Vanderhjlt's orderlies in the hospital at Neuilly and who now is in command ol the section that has seen the sternest service and been mentioned several tunes in the Orders of the Day, was Cmcago contractor before the war ana accus- toned to controlling men
 Its the first time in my lire tha' have not thought it worth while tc watch the day after pay day, ne IS re- | ported to have said in reference to the | sou a day his men drew. when ms sec ton was first mentioned Salisbury was given the Croix de Guerre, as were sew | eral of the other men after an occasion when the section was bombarded and the messroom destroyed and the French | cook attached to them killed. Henry , Sydnor Harrison. the novelist, was one of l those who recently returned to America l after four months of the front and sev- | eral months of work in Paris
 | But the front is not all hard work and | by no means all tragedy. The spirit of the French soldiers is so contagiously cheerful that even a dressing station 1 takes or brave and sometimes an al l most gay appearance. Funny things come up from time to time that become regu- lar section jokes, and draw laugh even