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"The Road of a Thousand Thrills." Trying itself into a score of knots, unwinding coiling and dipping crazily down the sheer side of a mountain 3,000 feet high runs the road that gives Montenegro its only outlet to the sea. But American trucks loaded with American supplies are negotiating this highway that was formerly considered safe for burros, and mountain goats and ox carts. Every week a convoy of American motor cars laden with Red Cross relief material for the starving and destitute people on the other side of this natural Chinese wall makes its way over the road
American Trackwalkers in Montenegro. In order to get their convoys of supplies from one place to another in safety, the American Red Cross not only had to protect itself against bandits in Montenegro but also send out a trackwalker to examine the mountain roads. This shows a R.C. man discovering a washout on a mountain road over which a Red Cross convoy is about to move, so he has left two guards to flag the American drivers while he goes on to the next town to gather a crew of natives to repair the damage. The Red Cross workers throughout the Balkans were continually meeting with this and many other transportation difficulties
The Roadway into Montenegro, presents tremendous difficulties to the successful transportation of supplies during the winter months. The narrow roadway is cut from the sheer face of the mountain and rises to the height of over 4000 feet. While many accidents have occurred along this road, and the rocks beneath it are covered with the wrecks of Austrian army cars, the American Red Cross has had a remarkable record, never having lost a single truck on this "Jacob's Ladder" road in the past year and a half
Farming on a Mountain Side. Showing how the people of Montenegro, the rockiest, most mountainous country in Europe, have to build terraces for their gardens. The hillside from a distance presents the appearance of a huge flight of steps. Upon these small patches which must be worked by hand, the Montenegrin must raise enough to support his family. During the war the man power was reduced so the American Red Cross, upon bringing relief to the country after the armistice, found the majority of the women and children under fed. Note the overturned truck at the right. It tells the story of a load of Red Cross supplies that never reached their destination, the car sliding off the road
A Royal Welcome for Americans in Need of Good Roads Movement. Unrepaired for five years and chopped to pieces by heavy military traffic, the highways of the Balkans present a difficult problem for modern means of transportation, the motor truck. This shows an American five ton vehicle laden with clothing and medical supplies for remote mountain villages of Serbia stuck in the mud. It required all the oxen and horses in the village to move it. It was the first motor truck many of the villages had seen and its inability to negotiate this road, which oxen drag heavy carts over daily, did not impress the natives with its capabilities. The farmers returned to their field rather unsatisfied with their ancient methods of transportation
Crossing An Impassable Mountain. Illustrating one of the little transport irritation of life met by American Red Cross workers in Montenegro. In order to get sorely needed relief supplies to a certain section of this country, the Red Cross had to get its trucks beyond an impassable mountain. The trucks were driven to the last negotiable point and then taken apart and carried on the backs of eighty porters to the other side and assembled again. The work was accomplished in two days and the relief arrived on time. This picture shows the trucks being "knocked down" and porters starting across with the parts
The Jacob's Ladder of Montenegro. Leading from the city of Cattaro to Cettinje is the great stone highway that winds its way up the mountain side making 27 turns before reaching the summit overlooking the bay. The distance direct is a mile, but by the road it is ten. It is over this highway that the American Red Cross hauls all its supplies from its bases at Teodo and Cattaro for interior points of Montenegro and Albania. The route is very dangerous at many points as the rustling hulks of trucks and cars at the bottom of the cliffs will testify
Still Running on Scheduled Time. At the wheel of the American motor truck in Podgoritza, Montenegro, is Sergeant Andrew Gerald, a naturalized American citizen who came back to his native country to help her fight the Austrians. He was a locomotive engineer on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad before the war, and after his demobilization in Montenegro he joined the American Red Cross unit, which is fighting disease and destitution in his native land put in charge of this five ton supply truck he kept up a regular schedule over a 52 mile dangerous mountain road. It is said in Cetinje that people set their watches by the arrival and departure of Sergeant Gerald's truck. This picture was taken in front of the Red Cross Hospital at Podgoritza
One Day's Work a Week. That is all that many men in Montenegro can find. These two old men, each of them having passed the four-score mark, amply illustrate that condition. They are harness makers waiting in the market at Podgoritza for business. But as there are no horses left, the enemy having driven them all off the harness trade does not flourish. They work at their trade but one day a week. On the other five they are employed by the American Red Cross along with many other needy persons, to clean the streets, improved sanitary conditions and aid about the American relief station. In this way they manage to earn a comfortable living and at the same time help their less fortunate brethren
"The Road of a Thousand Thrills." Trying itself into a score of knots, unwinding coiling and dipping crazily down the sheer side of a mountain 3,000 feet high runs the road that gives Montenegro its only outlet to the sea. But American trucks loaded with American supplies are negotiating this highway that was formerly considered safe for burros, and mountain goats and ox carts. Every week a convoy of American motor cars laden with Red Cross relief material for the starving and destitute people on the other side of this natural Chinese wall makes its way over the road
Summary
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office.
Group title: Transportation, Montenegro.
On caption card: (12987)
Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
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american red cross
montenegro
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road
side
american motor cars
american trucks
american supplies
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library of congress
france
paris
Date
01/01/1920
Location
Montenegro
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "American National Red Cross photograph collection," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/717_anrc.html