The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-03
OLDEST OF WOMEN
WAR WORKERS BACK
Mrs. Burdick, Salvation
Army's Champion Pie Maker,
on Nieuw Amsterdam.
MORE OF nth MEN LAND
Engineer Who Compiled Fig
$ ures for Wilson Sets War
Cost at 5000, 1000, 900, 900.

The Holland-America liner Nieuw Am
sterdam. fine peacetime passenger
carrier, arrived yesterday with 2,oss
military passengers who had some dim
Guilty amusing themselves on the placid
trip from Brest. since there il no library
aboard as on the regular American
transports, and the army entertaining
talent was limited. But the band Of the
so2nd Engineers OF the Seventy seventh
Division worked overtime to Danish the
dizziness. willing women helped, and
Frank J. Hadley OF Indiana, former
Governor. a Y. NJ. c. A. worker. con-
tributed oratorical fireworks.
The oldest woman war worker, wife of
Salvation Army Ensign. Floyd Bur-
dick OF Texas. returned by the liner
declaring that she had beaten the record
! at the front for making mince pies.
turning out 324 in twelve hours, which
ware eaten by the doughboys in twelve
minutes. MA" Burdicl. as the dough-
boys know her. is sixty. anu was gassed
when making doughnuts as close to the
! frnnt lines as the salvationists were
permitted to 20.
| Many notable folk were among the
civilian passengers and American Army
casuals. Licut-Col. D. C. jackson, head
OF tho engineering department Of the
Massachusetts, Institute Of Technology,
who was sent to the devastated regions
OF France, Belgium and Italy to get
data on the war losses and costs for the
use OF President Wilson at the Peace
Conference, said that the entire cost of
the war was close to 5000. 900, 000. 900
He said he had turned over the result of
his work to Vance Mccormick.
Frnnco-BelEian Claims Fair,
He declared Germany could not posi-
bly, pay anything like the cost Of the
war, as II would bankrupt her for the
! next three generations. In regard to
I the claims Of SIC. 200. o0o, 900 and 81. 00o.-
100000 urged respectively by France
and Belgium against Germany Col. Jack
son said: These demands are very
I fair"
Lieut. Col Van Schaick, Jr, Commits
sioner for Belgium for the American
Red Cross. returned with his wife. Other
passengers were Col. Antoine de Page,
head Of the Belgian Red Cross Society.
& with his aide. DR.. Van de Velde, Mime.
Z Jean De Mott, formerly Of Baltimore,
whose husband. a Belgian officer. was
killed the last week of the war. and
Countess Mary Tolstoy Of Paris, a rela-
tive OF the Russian novelist.
For more than q year Col. Van
! schaick had his headquarters at Panne.
six miles from the German front, which
was constantly shelled from land and
air. The Colonel was the FIRST American
to enter Bruges, Client and Brussels
after the departure Of the Germans. He
has bsen decorated by the King of Bel
( GUM for distinguished military service.
Col de Page and Capt. Van de veide,
< who will represent Belgium at the Sur
I glcal Congress Mt Atlantic City In June.
went to the Waldorf-Astoria. Col. Page,
whose wife was lost on the Lusitania,
was professor Of surgery in the Uni
versity of Brussels before the war. He
Joined the Belgian Army with Capt.
Van de Velde. Col. de Page attributed
to DR.. Alexis Carrel Of the Rockefeller
Institute the improved methods Of treat
. ing wounds Of the head and body and
the process OF sterilizing, sewing and
+ healing laceration in Two weeks, instead
of two months. as by the old methods
/ Col de Page also gave credit to Dakin's
artiseptic In the treatment of wounds.
The Countess Tolstoy said she had
Joined the French army as a Red Cross
nurse at the beginning OF the war. Later
she Joined the Russians. She displayed
the medal of st. George, the Croix de
Guerre, Montenegrin medal and the
French hospital medal, indicating three
{ years of service.
Says Bulgars Are Misunderstood.
Dominick l. Murphy. who has been
fifteen years In the consular service of
the United States and Is returning from
three and a half years in Sofia, where
he represented Uncle Sam, said the Bull
garians were much misunderstood; that
they we're forced into the war by their
rulers. that they had a great respect
for the Allies, especially the United
States, and that they hated the Turks
Ex-Gov. Hadley OF Indiana said the
soldiers with whom he became intimate
z IN France were weary of being amused
and being looked upon as the poor SOL
dicrs." They wanted to come home and
20 to work Many did not care whether
! they got their old Jobs back. He felt
sure that a large number would migrate
West and even go down TO South Amer
Tea for more breathing space and bigger
opportunities. Mr.. Hadley said the fu-
ture OF America depended on the return
ing soldiers who were much bigger men
than when they went away.
Bishop NJ. c. Harris of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in Japan, who has
been In the battle area in France and
also has spent forty-eight years in Japan
as q missionary, said we need expect no
trouble from Japan. at is only rat
ural" he said. that Japan, which is a
growing nation, should desire to enlarge
her territory. She is very friendly to
America"
The 302d Engineers distinguished
themselves not only as bridge builders,
throwing fourteen over the Aisne and
the Vesle. but as combat troops They
lost in killed and wounded 400 men out
OF 100 In the original regiment Capt.
Harry L. La Fetra OF Company C. who
lives at sos West Eighty-sixth street.
said that his commands casualties were
fifteen killed and ninety wounded, and
that many were gassed later on the
Vesle in cleaning out dugouts left by the
Germans