The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-09-16
I. 5. WOUNDED CARED
FOR IN BIG CHATEAU
nnaertcxn Ambulance Drivers and
AvsaSors Nursed Back 60 Health
By Wife OF Wealthy American,
EVERY COMFORT PROVIDED.
rouvalescents Play Golf on ChartiIiy
Isinks--Chafeau Faces the Famous
ChanSiIly Race Course.
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upon him as guests a dozen French
officers attached &c the staff Of General
Jafsre. Elliott Fit h shepard. the
American millionaire. has established
q oonvalesceut home for sick and
wounded American aviators and
American am rulance drivers
Shepard has resided AZ Chantily
gi-ce the beginning Of the war. Elk
Dept during the tieeting visit Of the
Germans Just before the battle Of the
Ararna Then ire Shepards drove
out IN Chantiily toward Paris IN their
big touring car twenty minutes he
tore the first troop Of Uhiaus csn'ered
unto Chnuti35N from sends which they
Rad 1ust put 20 the torch.
After the battle Of the Aisne, when
warfare starnatsd into fntrenched
positions. General Joffre selected
tsnant3i.N rs The seat Of his great
rea6quarters The 20. q O. ." as the
French aboreviate "Graude Quart Ter
Generate" remained at ChartilIy for
more r1an TWO years, or up 10 the
time that 1offre was made marshal
and General %ive1Ie took his place as
commander chief or the French
armies IN the field.
Then came tho German retreat 10
from the deH4~ted region evacuated
fty the Germans began 70 pour into
tCreiI. Senlis and Chanti}ly- shepard
turned over the rooms So recently
given UP by the officers attached To-
General Joffres staff 10 the refugees
and took twenty one under his roof
TIE FIRST night Gradually the French
nnth orItfes shifted the refugees to
che south Of France, and then once
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except for the family.
1t was then that Mrs. Eleanor Shop
ard decided to open couvalesceut
home for sick or wounded American
youths serving with the aviation the
Red Cross or any other branch OF
service Since she has started her en-
terurise Mrs Shepard has had an aver
age OF sixteen American youths rs
sfer guests at all times Some have
been suffering from. wounds more
and more American ambulance drivers
are being slain and MAIN ed ny shells
since their number Increases with
every arriving ship Others have the
dread malady known as shell shock.
when the nerves are literally set OF
and through being under continuous
baYnbardment. In most cases the III
ress of the ambulance drivers is trace
able directly to nervous indigestion
caused by the tremendous excitement
under which the boys work.
For these youths. averaging from
seventeen 70 twenty -one years, com,
direct from schools and colleges anC
go under fire IN the most terrible Wa
the world has ever seen, with no IRE
ItFninary preparation. II is only nee
essary that they be able to drive mo o
cars They have not the milltar'
training and drilling and fnculcatfo1
Of discipline which fits the soldier 10
abe life Of the trenches.
Mrs. shepard is aided IN her wor|
Try her sister. Miss Mercedes Terradel
formerly OF Trenton, n J., who ha
Teen In France doing war relief wor'
for more than a year She gave val
stabae aid 10 the French authoritie
st3 ssss M&rsh when che refugees wet
dumped into Chantiily BY administer
ing ffrst aid To the tiny babies VIII
-faTHaaa- -ee44s4A ara HE proportion O
the motley collection of suffering hu
Esnanfty that the Germans left IN thet
wake
Feeding the boys regular Am erica
,food prepared the way they have bee
accustomed TO having II at home is III
principal factor IN making them W."
sand strong again" said Mrs Shepart
sAmericans are not used to eating IN
coarse brown war bread which tn
French use and they are not used I
living on soup and stew. either. Ante
n boy leaves here. II he has wsa
stomach ] send him packages Of foo
every week ! send him wheat his
cults that he can cat instead OF iii
war bread. and rice and preserve
Vegetables that we put up here our
selves and occasionally. w hen there
an automobile going up 70 the part q
~ NAV f.t W
can send them fresh meat and poul
trv"
r I'm 81 SpHTT chateau faces m
1Chantiily race course. and fuet benin
* ere the Chsntt1ly golf links Shep
ard has plenty Of clubs and near al
- Of the -eanval escents learn somethiu
about golf before they are considere
well enough to be discharged and g
bac 20 their posts at the front
Richard NJ Atwater III of Scars
dale. the youngest member IF m
american field service he rs 1ust SIX
feen-has tust left Chanttlly 10 retur
ITO the front with hts ambulance sec
stson James Norman HAN. of Colfal
lowe alta ched to the LAFAYETTE Fsca
drilie who was wounded by machin
gun. bullets when 7ahtng a Germa
btplane near Lens hiss last gone bac
TO take up flying again after conva
1sscinE a. Cha rtiNE. =. Wyman STEELE
OF Easthamptou Long Island, has r.
turned to the United states afte
spending several months with IN
shepards following his discharge fror
I'm army hospital Lester "a Scheid'
Of Hartford Conn aud Russell Mich
OILS. Of Rranfora Conn. are row I'm III
yerGun sector with their aubulanc
after taking the cure at Chautills
Marcel Cnuy g French youth ofth
.--- - E y-'u Hundred Hrd seventy ninth Reg
fment who lived in ChantGly befor
the war was also a guest of III
Fhepards after he had captured
German machine gun and six Gerras'
Nriseners single handed !n the Ecrc
Fighting along the Ehemfu des Janei
tsnny s not yet twenty wears old an
had just been sent To the front whe
he performed the act OF gallantr
which won him the war cross with
star ard palm cn The rthhon. Gun
ere wled out IN mo -Msn's-I.snd-'
night on reconnaissance duty AT
forna a shell hole between the tn
belts OF barbeh wire ENHANCEMENT
OCCUPIED by the six Germans wi
were acting as a machine run tear