Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-12
GIVE REAL FIRST AID
Injured Boy Scout Attended by
Red Cross Team.
BIG AUDIENCE is ON HAND
Program Of Field Events Consumes
Four Hours.
MIMIC MINE BLAST FEATURE
Sword Presented to Mai. Charles
Lynch-Public Invited to
View Exhibit.
BIG AUDIENCE is ON HAND
MIMIC MINE BLAST FEATURE

Inc team captatned by Miss AIys
Meyer, daughter of the Secretary of the
Navy. had an opportunity to do some
real first aid work yesterday afternoon
In the first aid competition presented
as a part of the field exercises and
demonstrations given by the Red Cross
organizations on the Monument lot near
the Red Cross exhibition pavilion.
Bonnie Abraham, a member of the Hull
Rouse Boy Scouts troop from Chicago
White running across the field tripped
ana Tell. A scrap Of tin concealed in
the grass cut a deep cash in the boys
hnser as he tumbled. and the wound was
bleeding freely when Miss Meyers first
aid team swooped down on the lad. The
wound was quickly cleansed and BAN
dased, the incident being the only bit of
real first aid work of the afternoon. Miss
Meyer and the other young ladies Of her
team received round of applause from
the spectators.
Audience overfiows Stands.
An audience that filed the temporary
stands built for the accommodation of
spectators saw the program of field
events. which. starting at 2 O'Clock yes
terday afternoon, was not concluded
until almost pm. Tickets for the affair
were exhausted early in the day. and
spectators unable to obtain seats stood
thrugh the entire program, being bank
ed in almost a solid wall around the
field
The frst event was the competition in
frst aid work. in which six teams par
ucipated one each from the Hospital
corps L. s. Army, the District of Co
lumbia police department, the Women s
First Aid Detachment, miners first aid
team, Boy Scouts first aid teams and the
held corps of the American National Red
cross. The prize went to the team cao-
famed by Miss Marion Oliver, daughter
OF the assistant secretary of war repre-
senting the Women's First Aid Detach-
ment.
The mimic mine explosion. in which the
roof or mine" that had been built on
the neld caved in, an explosion of gas
following, proved of greatest interest to
the spectators. The cavern and explosion
were made extremely realistic, real min
ers from the Pennsylvania coal fields be-
ing the actors In the mimic tragedy. The
rescue team. representing the H. c. Frick
Coal Company of Uniontown. Pa, was
awarded the prize in this event, the men,
bers OF the team plunging into the mouth
OF the smoking mime and bearing i'm
prisoned miners to the surface. where
nrst aid and resuscitatory measures were
rapidly applied. The members of the
team worked with the precision plainly
due to careful drill, and the rapidity OF
the work aroused the spectators to the
point of enthusiasm.
Hull House Team Winner.
An interesting feature of the exhibit
ton was that given by a team represent
ing the United States Naval Hospital
Corps, in which the method of removing
wounded men from a battIeship at sea
was shown.
In the first aid competition for Boy
Scout troops the troop representing Hull
House. Chicago. captured the prize lis
is the team of which Ben Abraham, the
only participant really injured during the
afternoon. is a member
The program of events closed with an
exhibition drill by the Illinois Field Corps
OF the American National Red Cross This
drill included stretcher drill. ambulance
drill and other work performed by a hos
pitai Held corps in relief work
AT the close of the program the win
ming teams were presented with silver
cups, individual members of each team
receiving medal. Teams taking sec
ond and third place In the competitions
will be given certificates of merit.
A feature of the afternoon that was
not included in the program was the
presentation of a handsome sword TO
Maj. Charles Lynch, in charge of the
American Red Cross first aid department
The sword was the gift of the Illinois
Field Corps of the American Red Cross
the presentation being by DR.. G. NJ
Biech of Chicago, director of the Illinois
division.
Public Is Invited.
OfHejaIs IN cbor1> 80 e.. n, 49,.
exhibition desire that the general public
shall visit and inspect the exhibit, which
is housed in the temporary pavilion tina,
has been erected near the Pan-Americar
building. in which the sessions of the
conference are held. The exhibit in
cludes every imaginable device for the
alienation of suffering on the battlefield
and In field hospitals, and embraces every
possible form of stretcher, litter anc
ambulance. from the sort carried or
horseback to the elaborate automobile
which is fitted up as an emergency hos
pital in itself.
Portable X-ray machines, with the
motors to operate them, are included
in the exhibit. along with sterilizing out
fts for the use of surgeons, every
imaginable style of bandage and splint
queer looking caps to be used in cases
where soldiers are wounded in the head
complete operating rooms for field work
IN which any kind of amputation may
be made in the field. and completely
equipped operating room such as is Il
be found on American war vessels.
The exhibit IS open to the public each
day. from 10 o'clock in the morning Il
| 8 in the afternoon. Today the exhibi
will be open from l pm. to ) pm
The Red Cross officials wish il fully un
derstood that a general invitation is ex
tended to the public to visit the exhibit
| there being no charge for admission
Yesterdays Red Cross activities con
Guided with musical and reception
given last night by Mr.. and Mrs. Henri,
A Strong of Rochester, N Y, in tn,
ballroom of the New Willard Thu
affair was in honor of the visiting dele
gates to the conference and was attend
| ed by several hundred guests.
FEARED THE WORST.
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