The Portland daily press., 1893-03-08
WHISPERING ANGELS AT TIE FAIR.
The Red Cross VIII Care For the Sick at
Chicago Next Summer.

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Chicago Next Summer.
Especial Corrcspondence.l
CHICAGO, March 2--The sick and the
ailing will be well taken care of from
the beginning to the end Of the Worlds
lair. OF the great procession that Will
wend its way Chicagoward between May
and October it may be set down as a GER
tainty, unless the laws of nature are re-
versed, that a percentage--it may be
large, but let us hope it may be small
will require the attention of minister
ing angel.
/ Who is there that went through the
centennial period that has forgotten the
terrible heat of July and August at Phil
Rdelphia2 The sun was on the rampage,
and his victims were counted by the
hundreds. Weekly records of prostra-
tons and deaths filled columns in the
newspapers. For days at time the at
taches Of the board of health and the
coroners Office were compelled to work
the "a hours of the day. Many strangers
were stricken down in the streets, and
having nothing about them by which
they could be identified were consigned
to unmarked graves in the potter's field
of the Quaker City. Possibly there are
mothers and wives and children mourn
| ing for them today, and yet hoping
against hope that some day the missing
one will return to the fold. It is de-
voutly to be trusted that the history of
| 1876 will not be repeated in Chicago this
summer.
| And there will be sick women and sick
children-little ones that, commencing
with the colo, may run the whole gamut
Of infantile disorders; women whose
tired feet and aching heads are but the
precursors to a fainting spell or an at
tack Of Mysteries. There may be those
unfortunate enough to fall over the side
of crowded launch into the lagoon or
to get entapgled in the machinery, and
some of our country friends, especially
If they hail from the Prohibition states,
may place too great reliance in the al
legged health giving qualities of the water
Of Lake Michigan only to find cut later
to their cost that the beverage in ques-
tion, undiluted or unfltered, as the cases
might be, is very good beverage to let
alone. Altogether one need not neces-
sarily be prophet of evil in setting it
down as fact that there will be work
for the willing hands of physicians and
surgeons at the Worlds fair.
Let it be recorded, however, that am
pie provision for all such emergencies
will be found both inside and outside the
board fence that for the time being in
closes one OF, Chicago's breathing spaces
for the uses of the world. The red cross
upon it's background of white that glori-
Gus emblem Of humanity; that flag above
all flags that sends thrill through the
coolest heart-the red cross will be there
It is a grand old ensign, grander than
any flag of victory that ever was hoisted
over the camp Of a conqnering army,
and it brings back memories of sanguina-
ry conflicts, in which it hraved shot and
shell, while the horses with the white
flag and it's insignia of Calvary plunged
into the thickest of the fray and threw
it's protection over the manned and
wounded, bearing them away, some
times only to dissolution, but oftener to
final recovery.
pieces of the American section, with that
chief among Gods women, Clara Barton,
rs it's guardian angel, and that prince Of
Geographic journalists, Walter F. Phil
lips, whose name is household word in
every newspaper sanctum of his own
country and of many abroad, as its gen.
sral secretary and director, will again
be seen displayed upon breasts, upon
ambulances, upon invalids' chairs and
floating aloft over the gates of jackson
park.
Especial provision is to be made for
the women and children. The Illinois
women's board has undertaken this task.
and its work will be well done. It pro-
poses to have a portable hospital, which
exteriorally will resemble an ornate cot
tage, and the main location of which
will be between the Illinois and Horti-
cultural buildings It will be a practi-
cal emergency hospital. The staff Of
nurses will be selected from the Illinois
training school, while the corps Of ply
sicians, and they will all be women, will
represent nearly every section Of the
state. There will be no charge for treat
ment. Independent Of the cost of the
structure and it's fitting up the board
has appropriated $4,000 Of it's funds, or
$1,000 per month, for the maintenance of
the institution. This, it is thought, will
be ample for all purposes.
The facilities Of the United States
army hospital will also be called into
requisition should occasion arise. This
feature of the United States exhibit, and
which occupies a building Of its own,
will show the workings of the medical
department. in the field, including the
makeup Of emergency outfits used by
scouting expeditions and the different
methods of transporting the dead and
wounded. In another department of
the exposition there will be a life saving
section from which prompt assistance
can be dispatched should an accident
take place on the lagoon. Koch, the
German bacteriologist, is to have lab
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