New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-04-12
NURSES FOR RED CROSS
Organization Preparing for Possible
EmPY0PnCICS.

To be in readiness for any emergency requiring
trained nurses, whether q war or calamity IS 'ne
preliminary purpose of the meetings 10 ue n'4
this week under the auspices of the New 1ork o'a'e
branch of the Red Cross. The first VIII De III INC
Astor Gallery of the Waldorf tomorrow afternoon
at 4 O'Clock, when Major Charles Lynch OF the
medical department of the army; Dr. . w Lam
bert, chairman of the medical advisory connli'tee
Of the state branch and dean of the Cohese VI
Physicians and Surgeons, and Mrs William hlhh-
cutt Draper secretary of the state branch ana
chairman of the committee on Red Cross nursing
service Of the state branch, will speak. "liila'"
Cary Sanger. the president. will preside
More than fifteen hundred invitations nave neeh
issued to nurses throughout the state, training
schools hospitals organizations of nurses ana
alumni associations 1t is expected that at least SIX
hundred nurses and others will be at the WaldorI
for the first meeting They will be informed OIL
the advantages of enrolment with the Red CrosS'
so that they may be called on IN times OF eh'eI
eencv Two meetings will follow, on Wednesday ana
Thursday evenings. at Florence Nightingale nan
in East list street. where demonstrations OF the
work will be made Military nursing etiquette hed
hospital technique and how TO make army requlsl-
tions will be the subjects.
There will be a practical field day at Governor
Island on Saturday, when the visiting nurses VIII
see a field hospital. fully equipped as IN time Oh
war Captain ser, the medical officer on the ISL
and will give a demonstration and an address
General Wood will also speak on the work IN times
of war.
The New York State branch committee having
these meetings in charge has arranged that they
shall be attractive apart from their instructive
features The Governors Island military band will
play at the waldorf and tea Will be served There
viii be music at the island and inspection
Mrs Draper said yesterday that there were only
! from eighty eighty-fve nurses enrolled In the
Red Cross in this state at present More were en-
rolled in the California branch she said probably
| due to the experience gained at the time OF the
| earthquake. It is the intention to enroll as many
! as possible Of the here VINO are graduates
| and in good standing. They would be summoned
| by telephone in OF an emergency This would
.obviate the necessity looking the records Of
| the applicants in times OF need, time consuming
| proceeding as it found to be during the span
| ish-American War and when relief was sent 10
| the cyclone stricken districts in the South
| Not more than about . per cent OF the nurses
| enrolled Mrs. Draper said, would be able 10 re-
spond but that would in almost case be sufti-
! Client II Is estimated that about 70 per cent are
regularly occupied The lists Will be revised every
| six months so that changes in address may be
! learned In the Spanish the Red Cross had
| more than four hundred and fifty nurses IN the
| field
one OF the purposes Of the meetings, Mrs. Draper
! said was to give the nurses and others an Oppor-
| tluitv 10 learn what the Red Cross really stands
| for and something about It's history and accom-
| pllshments Mrs. Draper said that perfect
| was the national machinery that more than $1,000
| 90 was sent to the earthquake districts In Italy
| through the Red Cross. without the least delay
| or hitch. OF that sum the New York state branch
| handled more than s325.00)