El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-15
TURKS READY
To CARE FOR
WOUNDED
Renewal of HostilitiesMakes
Constantinople Again One
Vast Hospital.
CHOLERA IN TURKEY
is UNDER CONTROL

/ ~ ONSTANTINOPLE Turkey, Feb. Is.
Renewed of fighting along the
~ Tchatalja lines and at Adrian
/ ople will bring again to COnstantinople
the long lines of wounded men, some in
litters,- others walking stOicalIy by
! themselves, still others supported by
hospital stewards or their own com
paniOns in arms. The situation, how
ever, for these unfortunates Will have
improved in some ways, for today the
COnstantinOple hospitals are better
equipped to care for the wounded.
Two months have passed since the
fighting was discontinued to give di-
plOmacy a chance TO make peace in
London, and these have been utilized
to make preparations OF many kinds.
The possibility Of further fighting has
never been lost sight Of, and chief
among the eVentualities provided for
has been the care of the wounded and
the sick. Many Of the wounded who
were in the city hospitals when the
armiStice was declared hav recovered
and been discharged to return again
to the firing line. The hospitals at
the front have been cleared of all cases
that could be moved to make room for
new cases, and in COnstantinople there
have been established a number of in
firmaries for the housing OF GONZALES
Cholera is Conquered.
The December horrors of the chol-
era camp at san StefanO are now hap
PLY q thing of the mast The noble
and self-sacrificing work done here by
devoted women and men for the SUI
fering Turkish soldiers brought not
only alienation at the time when the
situation in the camp was at its worst
but II has resulted in the establish
ment OF better sanitary and general
conditions at the camp, so that If the
dread visitor cholera again makes its
appearance among the Turkish soldiers
at the front, a place of refuge will be
open for the stricken
The American and British residents
OF COnStant1nOple. including Mrs. W.
w Rockhill, the wife of the American
am baSsadOr. lady HLOWther. wife of the
British ambassador Hoffman Philip.
secretary Of the American embassy: c.
+. Gates, president Of Robert college; /
Mary Mills Patrick, president of the
american College for Girls, and Mai.
clyde y Ford U. ; A, are interesting
themselves in the cases of Miss Alt
and Miss Schneider, two residents of
San StefanO, who not only did suck
valOr0us duty at the cholera camp be-
fore help came from the outside, but
who continued at their self-imposed
tasks until the former became i'll Of
the disease and the latter was com
PEELED to stop on account of absolute
exhaustion.
san Stefano stricken.
A party Of Americans the latter part
Of November came to san StefanO in an
automobile They found the gay little ,
SEASIDE resort sadly transformed. The
population had mostly fled to the city,
and the streets, the open squares. the
1OOryards and the now famous Greek :
school were filled with terrible cholera [
stricken figures, the dead lying unbur- !
ed as thew fell by hundreds. the dying |
for help. those able still to |
move about trying vainly to draw wa I
ter from the wells TO assuage their /
burning thirst
San Stefano had become a cholera /
camp, and there the stricken men from
he army, fighting desperately at 4
were sent by trainloads. But I
n the strain and stress Of the days y
II battle, when all eyes were turned \
toward the front and the terrible dan /
ger from cholera had not yet been I
'eallZeQ, the camp was still unOrgan- ]
zed, and no help was ready for the
miserable suffering hundreds left. there /
1y the wayside.
Only two women, Miss Alt and her
rlenQs MS schneider, residents of san
stefanO. had stuck to their posts, and /
leVoung all OF their small savings to (
ne task. were making soup and feed
ng and caring as best they could for
ne SOlolerS stricken down with this
errible disease These women, both I
nearly 40 had been working there !
lone, quietly, careless of self for sew
RAJ days when the little party in the
automobile discovered them at their I
wonderful labor. and for many weeks |
more even after a sort of field chol- Z
"a hospital was started at the Greek /
ne burden, they continued their noble
York, stunning recognition, wishing no l
hanks, working for suffering human
" in its most repellant form.
tack Of cholera: both are much brok-
n in health by their terrible DAYS at I
an StefanO cholera camp, and both I
re in very Strengthened circumstances |
heir friends in this city are endeay-
ring to make them some recOmDense |
or their Self-sacrifice, and Mrs. Rock
i'll has enlisted friends in America TO |
id in the recognition of these heroic