The Garland City globe. (Garland, Utah) 191?-1925, 1917-10-25

guests dozen French officers attached
to the staff Of General Joffre, Elliott
Fitch Shepard, the American million
aire, has established a convalescent
home for sick and wounded American
avlators and American ambulance driv-
ers.
Shepard has resided at Chantllly
since the beginning of the war, except
during the fleeting visit of the Ger
mans just before the battle of the
Marine. Then the Shepards drove out
OF Chantilly toward Paris In their big
touring car 20 minutes before the first
troop of Uhlans entered into Chan
tilly from Senlis, which they had Just
| put to the torch.
After the battle of the Aisne, when
| warfare stagnated into intrenched POI
sitions, General Joffre selected Chan
| lilly as the seat Of his Great Head.
quarters. The &c. Q. Co." as the
| French abbreviate "Grande Quarter
Generate" remained ut Chantilly for
more than two years, or up to the time
| that Joffre was made marshal and Gen
eral Nivelle took his place as com
munder In chief OF the French armies
In the field.
Turned over to Refugees.
Then came the German retreat TO
the Hindenburg line and refugees from
the devastated region evacuated by
the Germans began to pour into CreIl,
Senlis and Chantllly. Shepard turned
over the rooms so recently given up
by the officers attached to General
Joffre's staff to the refugees and took
q under his roof the first night Grad
ually the French authorities shifted
the refugees to the south OF France,
and then once more the Shepard home
was emptied except for the family.
II was then that Mrs. Eleanor
Shepard decided to open GONZALES.
cent home for sick or wounded Amerl-
cnn youths serving with the aviation,
the Red Cross or any other branch of
the service. Since she has started her
enterprise Mrs. Shepard has had an
average of sixteen American youths
as her guests ut all times. Some have
been suffering from wounds--m0re
and more American ambulance drivers
are being slain and manned by shells
since their number increases With ev-
cry arriving ship, Others have the
dread mnlady known as "shell shock,'
when the nerves are literally set on end
through being under continuous bonn
bardment. In most cases the illness
OF the ambulance drivers is truceable
directly TO nervous indigestion, caused
by the tremendous excitement under
which the boys work.
No Preliminary Preparation.
For these youths, averaging from
seventeen to twenty-one years, come
direct from schools and colleges and
20 under lire In the most terrible war
the world has ever seen, with no pre-
lIminary preparation. II Is only neces-
sary that they be able TO drive motor
cars. They have not the military train
ing and drilling and incubation OF
discipline which Tits the soldier for
the life Of the trenches.
Mrs. Shepard Is aided in her work
by her sister, Miss Mercedes Terradell,
formerly of Trenton, n. D., who has
been In France doing war relief work
for more than a year. She gave yalu,
able aid to the French authorities last
March when the refugees were dumped
into Chantilly by administering first 4
aid to the tiny babies who formed u |
considerable proportion of the motley !
collection of suffering humanity that
the Germans left In their wake |
"Feedlng the boys regular American !
food prepared the way they have been
accustomed TO having II ut home is the
principal factor In making them well |
and strong again." said Mrs. Shepard.
Americans are not used to eating the |
coarse brown war bread which the !
French use, and they are not used TO /
living on soup and stew, either. After 1
boy leaves here, If he has weak I
stomach, send him packages Of food .
every week. l send him wheat bis
cults that he can eat instead of the
WAR hraad and rico and nraSarVad