Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1917-10-12
AMERICAN WOUNDED Being CARED
FOR IN Big CHATEAU IN FRANCE
Nbanes Drivers and Avatora Nsed Back u Health by wife Of
III eatiy Amercan coNaescents Play Coli on Chanthy
Msk unks- chateau Faces the Famous Chantlly
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MI Cl1jttfly, France Am hin big chm,
te6n ere. where for more than two
years Do had bllleted upon him a
guestlA ! dozen French officers attached
70 th<staff OF General Joffre, Elliott
Fitch &hepard, the American million,
aire, m established q convalescent
home lbr sick and wounded American
aviatot ! and American ambulance drtv,
pFs. St
ShejArd has resided at Chantilly
siace ee beginning Of the war, except
during the fieeting visit Of the Ger
mans lust before the battle Of the
Marnef Then the Shepards drove out
or Chdhtilly toward Paris in theif big
touring car 20 minutes before the FIRST
troop bf Uhlans entered into Chan.
tilly flbm Senlls, which they had just
put to the torch.
Aftet the battle Of the Aisne, when
warfare stagnated into intrenched po-
sitionsl General Joffre selected Chan
tilly al the seat Of his Great Head.
Quaxtsts. The ''G. Q. c." as the
French abbreviate "Grande Quarter
Generale.r remained at Chantilly for
more tAGa two years, or up to the time
that J0ifre was made marshal and Gen.
eral MYelle took his place as COM
mandet In chief Of the French armies
IN thelneld.
Turned ovsr 10 Refugees IA \
Then came the German retreat TO
the HIndenburg line and refugees from
the devastated region evacuated BY
the Gsrmans began to pour into Creil,
SenliS and Chantilly, Shepard turned
over tie rooms 80 recently given up
BY the officers attached to General
Jofre's staff to the refugees and took
n under his roof the first night. Grad
ually the French authorities shifted
the refugees to the south of France,
andthen once more the Shepard home
was emptied except for the family.
1t was then that Mrs. Eleanor
Shepard decided to open o GONZALES.
cent home for sick or wounded Anneri-
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 I
when the nerves are literally Get 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
80 under flre In the most terrible war
the world has ever seen, with no pre-
liminary preparation. It Ia only neces-
sary that they be able to drive motor
cars. They have not the military train
Ing and drilling and inculcation Of
discipline which hts the soldier for
the life Of the trenches.
Mrs. Shepard IA aided in her work
By her sister, Miss Mercedes Terraaell,
formerly Of Trenton, N. J., who has
been In 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 flrst
aid to the tiny babies who formed q
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 Il Of 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 rsc. and they are not used to |
living on soup and stew, either, After
! boy leaves here, II he has q weak
stomach. ! send him packages Of food
svery week. ! send him wheat bis
suits that be can eat instead of The
war bread, and rice and preserved |
vegetables that we put up here our
Ielves, and occasionally, when there u
N automobile going up to the part Of |
he from where they are stationed, we |
m send them fresh NEAR and ponl-
;ry.H
Take up Colt.
The Shepard chateau faces the Chan
lily race course, and jnsk behind II
lfe the Chantilly colt links. Shepard
las plenty Of clubs and near all Of the
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