The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-09-13
RELIEF WORK CONTINUES
Pullman Car to Take Place of
Cots Now in Use.

This morning there was slight lull in
which the Soldiers Relief Committee at
the p r. R. station, this city, could rest
long enough to draw their breaths. Not
that there was nothing to do-that Is
something which has not, and will not
happen until this Heaven OF Rest, as
the sick soldiers call II, has no longer
any need of existing. This morning there
were three men in the cots who required
constant attention. and another who
really needed to be put to bed but could
not be persuaded to go.
Mrs. Noe was, as usual, working like a
beaver In company with Mrs. Coykendale.
Mrs. John Dickinson, Mrs. Justice slater
Miss Bowers of Orange, the Misses
Brooks, ar. G. E. Coykendale and Dr.
corps Of nurses, who never show thslr
patients any sign of fatigue. although the
suffering witnessed by them is enough %
make any ordinary person sad. LasI
One of these invalids was Assistant Sur
geon a. H. Simonton, of the u s. Hos
pital Corps, Camp Wikof. He was too
sick to leave his cot until after midnight
when he was helped aboard train bound
for his home in Alabama Meny. stories
of this kind, where the soldiers have TO
be wheeled and helped aboard the various
trains, have already been cited until It is
the usual occurrence of every outgoing
carriage used for their transport.
Not only are the sick soldiers well cared
for but those in the best of health as
well. Sandwiches, fresh ham and tongue
sandwiches, never more than few hours
old, and all wrapped in oil paper dainty
enough for the most particular eplcure,
are given these men, besides milk, tea,
coffee, lemonade, etc, in unlimited guam
titles, and the ravenous way in which the
men dispose of the viands is enough to
crafty the good SaInaritans, who have
in many instances given up pleasure trips
to seaside and mountain TO do this work
During the hot weather good sized
window was cut in the room used for the
purpose of hospital, IN order that the
sufferers might get more air, but now as
the weather is growing colder that air is
more than enough, so that superintendent
E. F.. Brooks was applied to yesterday
for the use of 6 Pullman sleeper. This
he promised, although as those on hand
We're all needed in the railroad service
one had to be sent for and will probably
arrive today AS one of these sleepers
will accommodate about thirty there viii
be no difficulty in providing beds, where
patients will be out of danger from
draughts.
Although money is coming in constantly
1t is just as constantly put to use, and
when the fact that last Thursday t,100
tral depot another branch of the Relief
Committee is brought to light, it is an
easy matter to see just where the money
goes and why more is needed. Donations
OF the following drugs would also be very
acceptab table:-fodine, oalomel, carbolic acid
disinfectants and quiniue. Yesterday a
present of IS was received from Mrs. Dr.
Hornblower, and another of a like amount
from Mrs. A. J. Newbury. Mrs. Jeiiff, OF
Newark, also gave s. and a number of
sheets and pillow cases A working
woman who refused to give her name was
the donor of a third five dollar bill
IN many instances the Relief Committee
have to buy tickets for their charges out
right, and in many more where trans
portation Is furnished and the boys IN
blue are too weak to travel in the regular
coaches, they pay for the privilege of the
Pullman passage.