The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1919-04-18

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Well when | was wounded | was car
ried back to dressing station where
the doctors dress all Of the Woun Is
then you are sent from there back
to the big hospitals. They sent me
back to big hospital in Paris, France
and it sure was some swell place |
was in the hospital for three months
and two weeks. | was in bed for
about 3 weeks then | could get up and
walk around with erutches and then
it was not very long until | could
walk alright, | was then put at light
work in the hospital until | was com
pletely well helped to take care
of the sick and wounded 1t was
not hard work and | liked it real we'll
and then they were lot of Red Cross
Nurses to talk too and to work with,
which made things real nice and we
could GO to town most every night
The Red Cross nurses took the wound
ed soldiers on sight seeing trips over
Paris in Automobiles got to go
on three trips and | sure saw some
wonderful sights. Paris is one of the
most beautiful cities in the world It
has SO many big statues and beauti-
fal parks and flower gardens and so
many amusements. | saw an old
church in Paris that was built in the
year 400 and all of the seats and all
Of the furniture on the inside were
hand carved. 1t certainly was
beautiful. 1t was a Catholic Church
and the walls were covered with
paintings of Bible stories. was in
the Madalene Church also. it was built
in the year 1900 it is one of the largest
churches in the world 1t covers one
square block and last spring when the
Germans were Smelling Paris with
there long range gun they hit this
church one Sunday morning while
church was going on and killed forty
people and wounded several others and
tore the whole back end out of the
church and they also hit several other
large buildings around there and tore
them down and destroyed all Of the
good III them also saw the Arch
of Triumph, this is a large statue
built IN the center Of Paris and all of
the main streets run under it 1t
sure IS a wonderful piece Of work ana
/ saw Eifel Tower. 1t is one of the
highest towers in the world 1t is
built out of steel and stands on four
large pillars at the bottom and
comes to point at the top. The
bottom covers about ten acres of
ground, so you can imagine how
large it is. They also have a large
Ferris Wheel there that is 50 large
II IS 600 feet high and 300 people can
ride on it at one time. It takes one
half hour to 20 around as it goes
slow so you can see everything when
you get to the top you can see all
over the city. 1t is Just like beng
up in an aeropIane. just made one
trip around on it, then we went to
Napoleons Tomb This is where
Napoleon the Great is buried. They
have a great statue built here and you
can go on the inside of the tomb and
part of the inside is made of gold. 1t
sure is pretty and they keep guards
here to watch it all of the time All
over Paris they have large cannons
on the streets and all kinds of guns
that they have captured from the
Germans. They had them on the
street for exhibition and they had big
balloons and aeroplanes that they had
captured and two of the largest guns
that We're used in the war by the
Germans. There is so many hospi-
tails in Paris for wounded soldiers.
Where | was it was big school but
when the war started it was turned
into 4 hospital. All of the big schools
were made into hospitals and also the
big hotels and AL the larger buildings.
Where | was the building would hold
three thousand wounded soldiers and
it was full all of the time up until
the armistice was signed. There
were all kinds of patients in it, Amer
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