e as soon as possible. I sailed on
August 2nd for Cherbourg but as we were pursued by two German ships
our course was changed and I landed in England. After many trials and
tribulations I reached Paris. The next day I went to the headquarters
of the French Red Cross and offered my services. I showed the American
Red Cross certificate which had been given to me at the end of my
services at Camp Meade during the Spanish-American War. As I had had
practically little surgical experience since the course I took at the
Rhode Island Hospital before the Spanish-American War I asked to take
a course in modern surgery. I was told that my experience during that
war and my Red Cross certificate was more than sufficient. After
serious reflection I decided that I could render more service to
France by getting in the immense crops that were standing in our
property in the south of France than by nursing the wounded soldiers.
Far less glorious but of vital importance! So off I went to the south
of France. By the middle of October thousands of kilos of cereals and
hay and over 20,000 hectoliters of wine were ready to supply the army
at the front. I then spent my time in various hospitals studying the
up-to-date system of hospital war relief work. It was not difficult
to see the deficiencies--the means of rapidly transporting the wounded
from the "postes de secours" to an operating table out of the range of
cannons--in other words auto-ambulances--impossible to find in France
at that time. So I cabled to America. The first was offered by my
father. It was not until January that this splendid spacious
motor-ambulance arrived and was offered immediately to the French Red
Cross. Presently others arrived and were offered to the Service de
Sante. These cars have never ceased to transport the wounded from the
Front lines to hospitals in the War Zone. I heard of one in the north
and another in the Somme. This work finished, I took up duty as
assistant in an operating room in Paris to get my hand in. I next went
to a military hospital at Amiens. This hospital was partly closed soon
afterward, and, anxious to have a great deal of work, I went to the
military hospital at Versailles.

The work in the operating room was very absorbing, as it was there
that that wonderful apparatus for locating a bullet by mathematical
calculation was invented and first used. There, between those four
white walls I have seen bullets extracted from the brain, the lung