Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-25
OFFICER WOUNDED
IN BATTLE TELLS
OF EXPERIENCE
Captain E. j. Stackpole Jr of This City, Hit Tuice by Ma
chine Gun Bullets. Lay All Day Battlefield in Hot
Sun After Failing in Charge German Positions

women they were, whether from
lear or naturally, we did not know.
The train puffed alongside and
the work of loading commenced.
TWO hours were consumed in this
task. The interior of the hospital
cars was a thing of beauty. Three
deckers along either side held the
patients and pretty nurses attended
to every want. The trip to Paris
consumed three hours. Darkness
fell long before the train pulled into
the metropolis. There was no at
tempt to shield the lights from out
side observation. The sense of Sc
Icurity from raids that this gave was
delightful in it's novelty. The alb
sence of shellfire was too good to be
true.
I'm the Paris station a few min
utes' rest was afforded while crack
Iers and delicious hot chocolate put
la new aspect on things. Ambu-
lances were again pressed into serv-
ice and the aggregation of sufferers
from German kultur vanished in all
directions on the last lap of the
journey from the front to the base
hospital.
The hospital to which they sent
the officers and where l was sched-
uled to spend an unknown number
of weeks appeals to me as
about the incest and most conf
plete place I've encountered in
France. 1t is located in the Latin
quarter, on the Rue de Chevreuse,
the hospital itself having been an
American Art Students Club before
1t was converted to its present use.
Under the direct authority of the
military it goes by the name of the
American Red Cross Military Hos
pital No. 3, but the power behind
the throne in this case is Mrs.
Whitelaw Reid, and to her the inner
man of many a wounded officer has
doubtless cried out in grateful de-
light.
American Care
THE long stretch between break
fast and lunch is broken by cup of
egg-nog with plenty of life; the aft
ernoon is shortened in an agreeable
way by the serving of u large cup
of cold lemonade and crackers at
4.30 p. M, and at night, just before
lights out our popular Mrs. Wiley,
the night-nurse from Texas, dis
penses delicious hot chocolate to all
who are awake. 1t seems that very
few find it convenient to sleep be-
fore this witching hour. Macaroons,
purchased at a shop in Paris by the
Iconvalescent on my right, aid ma
terially in the successful putting
away of said hot chocolate.
Were it not for the wounds, the
dressings, the aching limbs, the
Iumpy nerves that give the impress
sion of a million active needles, and
found in every hospital, Blighty
(Which we Americans are forced
to call our convalescent areas for
want of transfer back to the States)
were Paradise indeed. AS it is, l
must testify to the excellence of the
care that America and Americans
are taking of her sons, who have
done their bit and only await re-
turn to the firing line.
"Out of four wounds which are
being treated, two are the result of
previous fighting and had not heal
ed, one in the shoulder and the other
in the calf of the left leg. The two
remaining, caused by machine gun
bullets, are more serious, but both
are doing nicely. One caused a
compound fracture of the lower
right leg. The other, which still
shows a bit of infection, was the
worse of the two. 1t barely missed
a fine collection of nerves and ar
teries."
Captain Stackpole assures his
family that while he will be in the
hospital for some weeks yet, when
I'm we'll again I'll be just as good
as ever" He speaks proudly of the
men of his company in all his letters.