Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-19

W and changed owing to the eXigencies
Of war Katherine Register was married
yesterday up in Boston to Geraldyn Liv-
ingston Redmond, L. S. ~ r. Flying Corps.
The wedding was celebrated at Katherines
grandmother's home on Commonwealth
avenue, and IL you've ever been to Boston
you know what perfect avenue that Is
on which to live. Mr.. and Mrs. Albert l..
Register are Katherines parents and they
all formerly lived in Ardmore, you know,
and are members of the Register family
here So naturally we are all interested
in this wedding. especially Katherine's own
friends, and they are many!
Barbara was one Of her bridesmaids and
Doris Taylor, of Springfield. Mass, was
the other. One of the reasons for the post
ponement of the wedding was the fact that
Captain johnson Redmond, Geralds
brother, was to come home from overseas
shortly and they wanted him for best man,
so they waited and changed from Novem-
ber to December, and then they changed
from December II to December Is. But
he finally got there.
Katherine's paternal grandmother is
Mrs. I. Layton Register, and she is niece
of Mrs. Matthew Baird, Jr, Of Ardmore.
Her maternal grandmother is Mrs. Eliza.
beth Simmons.
r READ such an interesting letter from
Jack Blynn, who was in the ambulance
service in France during the war. that l
begged permission to give you a few ex-
tracts. You know we are so apt to think
Of the risks the soldiers take as the only
risks in the war; but, my goodness, what
those ambulance men have gone through
and what they have done for the wounded
and dying is one Of the most wonderful
things of tho great conflict And they are
so modest about 1t. This letter was written
TO a friend. and in 1t he asked that 1t
should not be shown to his mother, Mrs.
Harry BlynnS until after the war was over,
as he knew she would be SO worried about
him. But now the war is over she has
seen it, and I'm glad to be able to give
you an extract or so Indeed. If I were his
mother I'd be proud to think I lad such
a son.
1T was bad enough" he says, when
we used to carry the wounded French. but
when those poor things were our own
Americans"- CThis letter was written
Just about month before the armistice.
when the Americans were forging ahead
so fast that they covered the ground as
signed for three days in one) "By this
time we were not using roads at all. but
were running over hills through what must
have BEEN fields. Four other fellows and
myself-1ve ambulances in all-loaded up
with stretchers and stretcher-bearers and
tried to establish a new advanced dressing
station, but the Germans had the lead on
the road for fair and dropped shells all
around us. So the infantry lieutenants in
I'VE got shelled out Of that, too, and how
the cars came through l could never tell
You.
."The post was finally established right
where a .boche machine-gun squad had
been blown up, and there all those Ger
mans lay! Shutdown brought us another
horror-gas! Three Of our men had to
be sent to a hospital and j. G.. and 1 were
bleeding at the nose and mouth when it
finally let up. The most terrible sight Of
the whole attack was right here. Many Of
the wounded were hurt in the head and
the bandages made it impossible to put
cries! - ." .....
He goes on to tell in detail how they
worked on and on and the second car of
the five was finally caught by a shell and
set afire and the driver burned to death.
He tells also how two shells fell near his
car with such conclusion it rocked from
side to side, and 1.-THE patient on the top
,stretcher fell off onto the man below. A
voice from the back Of the car said: Hey
there, can you help this fellow up? I've
got leg Off myself and I'm too weak
You can see from that the wonderful spirit
that the wounded men had. So stopped
and helped him up, and just as was get
ting back into the drivers seat another
shell landed behind. us and blew the tail.
board of the ambulance to splinters. But
again no one was hurt
In another part Of the letter. to give an
idea Of the utter exhaustion Of those am
bulance boys, though he just tells it in
passing, he says: "At the end of the third
day j. M. found me lying across the wheel
of my car in front of the dressing station.
He grabbed me and gave me coffee, the
first thing we had had to eat since the
advance. Then came three hours of sleep,
blessed sleep, in a little hole in the ground
six feet long, two feet wide and three feet
deep" Now, does that give you some
idea of what those men, not on the fight
ing line. but helping those on that line,
have gone through in this war?
Jsck Blynn is a very young fellow about
twenty-three or four, and think Of what
his experience has been. My hat is off
to him!
IND you know that Ellen Mary Cassatt
~ is going to give dinner for Bessie
Porter tomorrow evening? The Cassatts
did not open their Spruce street house
this year, you know; they moved into
Gardner's house on Walnut street. Mrs.
Gardner is living with her parents. the
George Dallas Dixons, while her husband
is in France.
Bessie's marriage to Fred Fearing is