The daily sentinel., 1913-02-27
AMERICANS FIND
SEASIDE RESORT
CHOLERA STRICKEN
Associated Press

Associated Press
Constantinople Feb. 27.-The re-
newal of fighting along the Tchata-
| liza lines and at Adrianople will bring
again to Consautinople the long
lines of wounded men. some in litters
others walking st0ically by themselv-
es, still others supported by hospital
stewards or tneT own companions
in-arms. The situation. however, for
these unfortunate will have improv-
ed in some way, Tor today the Con-
stantinople hospitals are betterfixed
to care for the wounded.
Two months have passed since the
/ fighting was discontinued to give di-
diplomacy a. chance to make peace
/ in London, and these weeks have
| been utilized to make preparations of
many kinds. The possibility of fur
ther fighting has never been lost
sight of, and CHIEF among the even
Qualities 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 have 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 num-
Der of infirmaries Tor the housing of
conva lescents.
| The December horrors of the chol-
era camp at San Stefano are now
/ happily thing Of the past. The no.
/ BILE women and men for the suffer-
| ing Turkish soldiers brought not on
t INf fat inn Dt a .xshA ha
/ situation in the camp was at its
worst, but it has resulted in the es-
] Enlistment of better sanitary and
general conditions at the camp, so
that If the dread visitor cholera once
more makes its appearance among
the Turkish soldiers at the front, a
place of refuge will he open for the
stricken.
The American and British resi-
| dents of Constantinople, including
Mrs. w. w. RocRhill, the wife of the
American Ambaasadnr: Lady Low
ther, wife of the British Ambassa-
dor; Hoffman Philip, Secretary of
the American Embassy; c. f. Gates,
| President of Robert College; Mary
Mills Patrick, President of the Amer
lean College for Girls, and Major c.
S. Ford, U. s. A., are interested in
the cases of Miss Ait and Miss Sch
neider, two old ladies', residents of
San Stefino, who not only did such
valorious duty at the cholera camp
before help came from the outside,
/ but who continued at their self-im-
posed tasks until the former became
ill of the disease and the latter was
compelled to stop on account of abso-
lutte exhaustion.
RI nf A mn ri hn lat
part of November came to San Ste-
fano 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 door
yards and the now famous Greek
School We're filled with terrible cho-
lera-stricken figures, the dead lying
unburied as they fell by hundreds,
the dying moaning for help, those
able to move about trying vainly to
draw water from the wells to as
sauge their burning thirst
San StefanO had become a cholera
camp, and there the stricken men
from the army, fighting desperately
at Tchatalja. were sent by trainloads,
but in the strain and stress of the
| days of battle when all eyes were
turned toward the front and the ter
rible danger from, cholera had not yet
been realized the camp was still un-
organized, and no help was ready for
the miserable suffering hundreds
left there by the wayside.
Only two women. Miss Alt and her
friend Mrs Schneider residents of
San Stefano, had stuck to their posts.
and devoting all of their small saw
ings to the task, We're making soup
and feeding and caring as best they
could for the soldiers stricken down
with this terrible disease. These wo-
men, both nearly seventy, had been
working there alone, quietly. care
/ less of self, for several days when the
! little party in the automobile discov-
cred them at their wonderful labor;
and for many weeks more, even after
sort of "field-cholera hospital was
started at the Creek School and 9TH
ers were there to bear the burden,
they continued their noble work,
stunning recognition, wishing no
thanks, working for suffering hui
manity in its most repellant form.
Miss Alt is now recovering from
an attack of cholera; both ladies are
much broken in health by their ter
rible DAYS at san Stefano cholera
camp, and both are in very straigh-
! tened circumstances. Their friends
/ ia this city are endeayoring to make
them some recOmpense for their self
sacrifice. and Miss Rockhill has en-
| listed friends in America to aid in
the recognition of these heroic wo-
men.
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