El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-06-15
MRS. TIFFANY SENDS
DEATH MISSILES UPON
ADVANCING GERMANS
RED CROSS MEN And WOMEN
ARE CAUGHT IN BIC OFFENSIVE.
Mrs Tiffany Uses Hammer and Saw to Build Booths to
Serve Fighting French Soldiers Food Under Fire;
Weary Women and Children, Fleeing From
the Advancing German Army, Are Aided.
By HENRY c. WALES.


DARIS. France. June 15-Mrs. Bel
L mont Tiffany. Of Nsw York. is the
first American woman TO fire shrapueI
from French cannon at the German
army. The incident occurred during
the big German drive while Mrs. Tiff
fanny was assisting Red Cross work
ers in serving food to weary French
sunners holding back the Germans.
1Irs. Tiffany. Sterling Beardsley. Of
New York and Palm Beach. and James
oliver and Mooney Wheeler. Of Pitts
burg. worked ten days and ten nights
at a Red Cross can,eeu with practi-
cally no sleep caring for retreatinE
French and British soldiers and the
mass Of civilian refugees who
srreamed through Comp-eEue during
the early days Of the German often
sive-
Beardsley. whose duty it is to or
ganiZe Red Cross units iu the field
and get them started in fun operating
order, had just arrived in the neigh
borhood OF COmpiesue on the eve Of
the enemy's drive He was organ
lZlnE cauteeu at a certain place
north Of C0mpiegne- oliver and
Wheeler were with him 20 take over
the outfit after ne had established it,
Mrs Belmont Tiffany was visiting
that section Of the front and insnect-
ing Red Cross and T. H. C.. A. units
when HiudeuburEs blow fell.
But One Car to Work With.
In the first stride forward the Ger
mans occupied the place where
Beardsley had intended to open his
caureeus and a large supply Of stores.
as well as several motor trucks and
automobiles fell into the enemy
hands. Beardsley. oliver and Wheeler
got away i'm an automobile donated
20 the Red Cross By Airs. B. ID. spill
man, of Warrenton, Va. and 70 was
mat car that they used 1or the en-
suing two weeks in bringing up their
supplies and In distributing them JIG
was the only piece of rolling stock
that the Red Cross had in that re-
giou, as the roads were SO choked
with troops and guns II was impos-
slole 20 get other machines up from
Paris OF elsewhere
Mrs Tiffany Volunteer
Mrs Belmont Tiffany had been an
the front and narrowly escaped be-
ing hit in a German commandment
with long range guns She was taken
back TO CampieEue by the French
starr orflcer accompanying her on her
trip, and there she met Beardsley. who
Was organizing his base supply sta
ton there as a Cauteeu- Mrs Tif-
fanny volunteered TO help him during
the rush and her services were eagerly
accepted, as oliver and Wheeler were
the only others on the job.
A counter was improvised. long Ia
nles were set up with boards on
boxes. and benches were made. and
then the Red Cross Canteen sign was
placed outside. Hot coffee and sand
wiches made from French and Ameri- T
can bread and ported meats were
served all day and all night. as troops
.H .H-r Haa
versiug the town and refugees from
the territory over Which the enemy
was advancing were streaming back
Works With Hammer and saw
Mrs Tiffany welded a hammer and
saw as well as Beardsley in their
storehouse into canteen- Then when
10 was ready for business she pre-
sided nj coffee and sandwich making
and In pouring the steaming hot beV-
erase from big pitchers
Meantime, Beardsley stocked up the
automobile with ciEarets. chocolate
and timed goods and toured In vari-
Gus directions out Of CompieEue. dis
tributing these articles 20 the weary
soldiers HeardsleE covered the dis
tricts near to- the town in the day
time, and then ran up nearer TO the
'front.'. iu the Noyou-LaSsign region. I
at night He was practically always
under fire from the euemy's six inch
guns, as the Germans were c0utin-
ually spriuklinE roads and villages
far behind the lines with shrapuel and
high explosives.
On one occasion AIRS Tiffany was
riding with Beardslev as they were
carrying coffee as well as sandwiches I
and she had 10 hold the big tub steady /
as the little automobile skidded F.
around she'll holes I'm the road.
They STONED directly behind a E
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