The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-04-26
Enlisted for Service in France.
zalmon G. Simmons, III.
Lucien Lance.
Enlisted for the Navy.
George Milgen. a

Still more of the finest Of Kenosha s
many splendid and patriotic young men
have heard the sound of the war tocsin
and are answering its call.
The oldest of Kenosha' s families are
joining with those less we'll known
to offer the services Of their sons
to their country
Yesterday the announcement was
made that sZalmon G. Simmons, Jr.,
third of that name, but nineteen years
old, had completed his plans for join
ing the American ambulance field serv-
ice in France. His passage to France
is engaged for May 5th and he hopes
to take with him the Ford ambulance
which he will drive in the service, thus
contributing not only his services but
his equipment to the country which
he is serving
Mr. Simmons is in his senior year in
Hotchkiss school, preparatory school,
and the school has arranged to give
to seniors who enlist in the army, navy
or American ambulance the diploma
which would otherwise have been
presented in June.
At the same time the announcement
of Lucien Lance's engagement to enter
the American ambulance service is
made. Mr.. Lance is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. III. Lance and a cousin of Mr..
Simmons. He is also pupil in an east
ern school and is fred with the same
loyalty and desire to serve which act
uated young Mr.. Simmons. He will go
to France at the same time.
In entering this branch of the serv-
ice Mr.. Simmons and Mr. Lance will be
following the example of nearly a
thousand other young Americans who
have enlisted in the same service in the
past two years, many of the names
being those of the oldest and most illus
trious of eastern families.
These young men work directly at
the front, evacuating the wounded from
the trenches to a first dressing station,
entailing as great hazard as actual
service in the trenches. In the past
two years our boys have carried over
four hundred thousand Of which num-
Der over one-half have been returned
to the trenches, showing the excessive
Importance of the motor ambulance
service, for without it most of these
four hundred thousand would have
persisted.
The people of the middle west are
not as familiar with this branch of the
service as with the army and navy, but
the east is more keenly alive to the
great work it has been doing. Mr.
Sleeper at the head of the Boston local
headquarters, received letter from
Secretary of War Baker this week in
which he gave the ambulance work his
highest praise and approval. He com
mended the young men who are so
nobly giving their time and effort in be-
half of the suffering soldiers in France.
The influx of college boys into the
service doubtless will now be acceler-
ated all over the country as Cornell,
Harvard, Princeton, Washington Uni
versity and others of the large univer-
sites are granting the same academic
privileges to those entering the am
bulance service as to those entering the
army or navy. Andover Academy,
Andover, Mass, sent whole unit of
thirty men to France, April %; the
University of California is sending two
units May 5, and Cornell sends thirty
five men next Saturday. Leland Stan
ford University sent a unit of twenty
men in February. All of these young
men, who are under tWenty-one,
are compelled to obtain the consent
of their parents before they are
accepted for the service.
Young Mr. Simmons is now home from
Hotchkiss. He is being inoculated as
preventive of typhoid fever and is
getting his equipment ready. He win