The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-04-28
".ONE WONDERFUL DAY.

>. CONE WON
That was the unanimous verdict of
the fifty patients from Base Hospital
No. SO who made the trip from Cannes
to L1sle Sainte Marguerite. We, that
is, Miss Agnes Y. Orr, of the Ameri-
can Red Cross, Captain lngle, G. 0. of
the Pavilion, and the fifty patients,
| left the hotel about nine o'clock, pre-
coded by a loaded ambulance with
whose contents we were to become
better acquainted. ror..g ..I,gl'., I'll !,
When we reached the beach near the
Casino, seven sail boats were ready
and we embarked. Ours was 4 brave
flotilla with white and vermillion sails
cleaning brightly against the blue Of
sky and sea. AS the shore receded the
view grew in beauty. The eye fell
first upon the white walls and red tiles
Of Cannes, trimming the league.long
beach; then it was drawn to the green
hills behind the town, where glimpses
of white masonry and of half hidden
towers limited at the presence Of tree
encircled villas; but finally, irresis-
tably, it rested on the sn0w-clad
heights of the Maritime Alps. Ridge
after ridge appeared, the rugged,
towering crests mingling the white
ness Of their snow fields with that Of
the, clouds until one could not tell
where mountain ended or where cloud
began. re KIN, 81. ,,,fe, ,v,S
AZ, length, we approached TIE land
ing on L'Isle. Saintes MargheSiite,. Qntf
ashore we climbed a, steel path that
led through the outworks Of an old
fort and finally reached the interior
Of the island. Here a long avenue bor-
dered by eucalyptus trees took us to
the SEWARD shore where our picnic
place. was.
! And what picnic place. At ones
feet, the breakers crashed, GXeE, great
rocks, Across a half a .mulhet 81 Tossing
water layta heavily wooded ii:s;lliainpd with
a single tower that Sover-topppeed the
trees, silhouetted against the sky, a
reef ran into the sea from the farther
island. and upon it the rolling waves
from. the open, stretches of the Medi-
terranean broke in a fountain Of foam
and spray. The picnic was worth of
the setting, sandwiches, coffee, cake,
sweet chocolate, oranges and cigarets.
Talk about picnics at .home-Oh boy!
they didn't have a thing on this.
After everyone had eaten until he
could have looked unmoved on one Of
mothers own cakes, and after every
one had been in at least a couple Of
snapshots we were ready to break
camp. Speaking of snapshots, Miss
Agnes V. Orr is surely one of the most
photographed members of "A. E. F.
No picture was really complete with
out her.
On the point where the two islands
We're nearest we found a square stuc.
co-covered tower, a chapel prison built
some THREE hundred years ago as an
appendage to the monastery across
the channel The ground floor, q sin
gle room about thirty feet square, had
been used as a chapel. There were
traces of mural paintings and niche
in each corner had evidently held a
statue. A narrow spiral stairway en-
tered from outside the tower, led to q
second floor. Here was central room,
opening on one side to a balcony over
looking the garden and the sea and,
at either corner, into cell. The cells
were about ten feet square, and had
a window that afforded plenty Of
light and air, altho blinds shut off
the view. These were comfortable
enough, but the tower contained one
more cell. In the floor of one Of these
rooms was hole that formed the en-
trance into q dungeon. The erring
brother was lowered by a rope into
his living tomb. Food and water were
supplied the same way, and thus the
unhappy monk existed for six months
or year, almost entirely shut of
from light and air.
In the garden we saw the entrance
1 to tunnel that at one time went
under the channel to the monastery
It was eight hundred meters long
and must have been, one Of the engi.
neering triumphs Of tn, day. For {
hundred and fifty years It has beer
useless because Of cave-in. The oh
guide told US that prisoner monks
were brought from the monastery Il
the tower thru this tainnel-a Longer
and more somber journeysthan thai
Of Venetian criminals who passed 0vel
IL canal to prisoa, or to death, upon thu
Bridge Or Signs. 5. 81
Crossing the island once mors, VI
entered the fort. With it, outworks
/ its tortuous passages, ito re-entyant
langles and its loop holes, it b splen
did example Of the military engineer
ing Of century or 50 ago. The mar
part Of the fort is only about two hun
dred years old hut the chapel date.
hack to 1867. The various statue,
and the altar itself are rather com
monplace, but on the wall behind TIKI
lehoir is IN excellent pastel Of TIL,
4 Crucifixion. 1t is done in black ans
white and Is the work Of one Of TIN
two hundred German soldiers WIKI
lhave been imprisoned here.
4 But the old fort has held prisoner
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