The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-10-18
Turned over to Refugees.

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Then came the German retreat to
the Hindenburg line and refugees from
the devastated region evacuated by
the Germans began to pour into Crell,
Senlis and Cbantilly. Shepard turned
over the rooms so recently given up
by the officers attached to General
Joffre's staff to the refugees and took
2l 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 emptled except for the family.
1t was then that Mrs. Eleanor
Shepard decided to open a GONZALES
cent home for sick or wounded Ameri-
can 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
us her guests at all times. Some have
been suffering from wounds-more
and more American ambulance drivers
are being slain and manned by shells
since their number increases with. ey-
cry arriving ship. Others have the
dread malady 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 traceable
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 fire In the most terrible war
the world has ever seen, with no pre-
llminary preparation. 1t 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 fits the soldier for
the life Of the trenches.
Mrs. Shepard Is aided In her work
by her sister, Miss Mercedes Terradeil,
formerly of Trenton, n. j., who has
been I'm France doing war relief work
for more than year. She gave valu-
able aid to the French authorities last
March when the refugees were dumped
into Chantilly by administering first
aid to the tiny babies who formed
considerable proportion of the motley
collection OF suffering humanity that
the Germans left in their wake.
"Feeding the boys regular American
food prepared the way they have been
accustomed to having it at 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 tC
living on soup and stew, either. Aftel
n boy leaves here, If he has q veal
stomach. / send him packages of foot
every week. / send him wheat bis
cults that he can eat instead of thu
war bread, and rice and preserved
vegetables that we put up here our
selves, and occasionally, when there Il
an automobile going up to the part o
the front where they are stationed, w
can send them fresh meat and poul
try"
Take Up Golf.
The Shepard chateau faces the Chan
tilly race course, and just behind |
are the Chantllly golf links. Shepar'
has plenty of clubs and near all of tn
convalescents learn something abou
golf before they are considered wei
enough to be discharged and 90 bac
TO their posts at the front
Richard NJ. Atwater, Sd, Of Scars
dale, the youngest member of tn
American field service--he is just siA
teen-has just left Chantilly to r(
turn TO the front with his ambulanc
section. james Norman Hill Of Co
fax, Ia., attached to the Lafayette E'
cadrllle, who was wounded by machln
gun bullets when fighting a Germn
blplane near Lens, has just gone bac
Co take up flying again after conva
lescing at Chantllly. c. Wyman Steel
Of Easthampton, L. l., has returned
fhe United States after spending se'
kral months with the Shepards, follow
ang his discharge from an army ho'
,ltal. Lester B. Scheide Of HARTFORD