The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-31
RUGGED FEATURES IN WAR
SHOWN AT THE MOZART HALL
ENTERTAINMENT
rableaux Representing Scenes In the
Lives OF Soldiers in Active Serv-
ice Are Produced, While DR..
Ohuge Explains How Such Cases
of the Nearly Drowned.

There was an entertainment given
at Mozart hail last evening for the
benefit OF the German American Red
Cross society that possessed the merit
of being distinctly unique 1t was
largely under the direction of DR.. Ohage
and the contribution of the doctor him
self to the programme, was by no
means the least attractive of the sew
eral numbers. The entertainment
proper consisted Of tableaux illustrat-
ing war subjects and these were efrec-
lively given by the aid of a dozen mem
bers of Battery A and several trained
nurses from st. Luke's and ST. Josephs
hospital. In the large groups a con-
siderable number of the members of the
society had part. The hall was very
well filled and the affair was a great
success financially.
The German-American Red Cross So
ciety, 1t WIS explained by DR.. Ohage,
is hot a competitor of the st. Paul Aid
society. There is no jealousy between
the two organizations, and DR.. Ohage
said that what was asked of the public
was that they contribute to the obje
which the society had in view. 1t made
no difference whether the contribution
were made to the German-American or
the Aid society-if one cou d not think
of the treasurer of the Aid society then
let him remember the treasurer of the
other association.
The society was organized and ready
to send nurses into sthe fed Wtnin
thirty hours of it's inception and in
corporation. There had been a class of
young women trained at the hospitals
Under the patronage of the society, and
there were a score of these now ready
to give intelligent aid to the sick, sui
ferins or wounded in the army.
The first number on the programme
was an overture composed of patr. Otto
airs, and so rendered by Frank Danz,
AID his orchestra, that the spirit OF
the people was fittsd for the scenes
that followed.
Miss F'reda Naumann, an undergrad
uate of the Central high school, read a
poem composed for and appropriate to
the occasion, by the way of a prologue.
The poem was written by DR.. Hinsch,
who is much interested in the work of
the society. 1t was charmingly deliv
cred by the young lady.
The first tableau evoked great ap-
plause. 1t represented the typical fig
ures of Columbia and Germania with
hands clasped over the shield of the
Red Cross society, a soldier, with arms
at the present, completed the picture.
Miss Ohage and Mrs. Feise were, re-
spectively, Columbia and Germania.
The next picture was full of life and
beautifully grouped. 1t represented the
soldiers departure, and was, perhaps,
the more effective from the fact that it
typified scenes with which people have
lately become familiar in real life. The
squad from Battery A, under Lieut..
Hurd, formed the center of the tab
leau. In the next picture a battle
field was shown, with the dead and
wounded lying about, and many evil
dences of a conflict on those who had
yet survived. 1t was a clever bit of
Illustration Of the rugged features Of
war
DR.. Ohage, the Misses Gallagher and
.Hikers, from st. Joseph's, and the
Misses Anderegg and Edgerton, from
st. Luke's, and Messrs. Alvin Her.
mann, Oscar Frey and Henry Rad
bruch, were engaged in the principal
number on the programme. Dr. Ohage
gave a chatty Lecturer telling Of the
origin, methods and aims of the Red
Cross society, and the other people as
sisted him in the Illustration Of the
work OF the society on the battlefield
1t was done very cleverly the nurses
and attendants acting as they would in
case of real work. Even the wounded
man for the nurses and doctor to work
on was done we'll enough by Mr.. Her
mann to secure commentator for that
gentleman.
DR.. Ohage told how the society had
been formed in Geneva, Switzerland in
1864, and its objects the succor of the
sick or wounded in time of war in all
of the armies of the civilized world.
The sign of the society, the red cross.
was a guarantee of neutrality and al
ways respected by eombatants. In
Turkey the sign of the society was diff
ferent, the crescent being substituted
for the cross.
After a BATTLE said DR.. Ohage.
''the battle-ground is held to be neutral
territory and is turned over to the Red
Cross people. The efficiency of the as
sociation was illustrated frequently
during the Franco-Prussian war. For
instance in one battle where the losses
aggregated nearly 10000 men in a
single day, so good was the work of
the Red Cross people that the morning
after the battle there was scarcely any
evidence on the ground of the frightful
carnage of the previous day.
1T is not our purpose tonight to at
tempt to show all of the work that is
done by the society in the field, but we
will show what the Red Cross atten-
dants do in cases where prompt aid is
required before the surgeon can be got
ten to-"
The first case illustrated was typical