The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-10-25

teau here where for more than two
years he had billeted upon him al
guests dozen French officers attached
to the staff of General Joffre, Elliot
Fitch Shepard, the American million
aire, has established a convalescen-
home for sick and wounded American
aviatOrs and American ambulance driv
erS.
Shepard has resided at Chantilly
since the beginning of the war, except
during the tieeting 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 po-
sitiOns, General Joffre selected Chan
lilly as the seat of his Great Head
quarters. The &c. @. g." as the
French abbreviate "Grande Quarter
Generale," remained at 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
mander 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 Chantilly. Shepard turned
over the rooms so recently given up
by the officers attached to General
Joffres staff to the refugees and took
Fl 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.
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
as 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 ev-
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 traceabie
directly to nervous indigestion, caused
by the tremendous excitement under
which the boys work.
Mo 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-
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 Terraden,
formerly of Trenton, N. j., who has
been in France doing wal, relief work
Tor more than year. She gave valu-
March when the refugees were dumped
nto Chantilly by administering first
lid to the tiny babies who formed a
proportion of the motley
collection of suffering humanity that
he Germans left in their wake.
Feeding the boys regular American
God PREPARED the way they have been
ccustomed to having it at home is the
factor in making them well
nd strong again." said Mrs Shepard
Americans are not used to eating the
oarse brown war bread which the
'rench use, and they are not used to
wing on soup and stew, either. After
boy leaves here, if he has weak
tomach, send him packages of food
very week. 1 send him wheat bis
uits that he can eat instead Of the
ar bread, and rice and preserved
egetables that we put up here our
elves, and occasionally, when there is +
n automobile going up to the part of :
lie front where they are stationed, we 3
IN send them fresh meat and poul- L
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Take Up Golf
The Shepard chateau faces the Chan
lily race course and just behind it v
e the Chantilly golf links. Shepard
is plenty of clubs and near all of the
nvalescents learn something about
IF before they are considered well
ough to be discharged and go back M
their posts at the front b,
Richard M. Atwater, Sd, Of Scars L,
lie, the youngest member of the st
nerican field service-he is just six so
en-has just left Chantilly to re- In
IN to the front with his ambulance I'M
ction. James Norman Hill of Col in
<, Ia, attached to the Lafayette Es- les
1rille, who was wounded by machine er
n bullets when fighting a German
)lane near Lens, has just gone back wi
take up flying again after conva- pl,
cling at Chantilly. c. Wyman Steele ar
Ea ST hamntOn r, has ret11rnad RI | th.