The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-04
MRS. H.P. WHITNEY TO
HAVE FIELD HOSPITAL
Sails To-day With Her Own Doe
tors. Nurses and Auto
Ambulanres.
WILL. AID ALL NATIONS

Ms Harry Pavue WhitHev concluded
arrangements yesterday for establishes
o field hospital IN France Or the a'd
Of the wounded OF all the warning nations
Sh" will sail TODAY on the s,eamsh. p
Lusitania with - party Of surgeons and
trained nurses and will take with her
also automobiles. all the necessary equip
ment including Thousands OF blankets and
great amount Of clothing
In the party will ne + ur surgeons Or.
Walton Martin OF % West Fiftie,h street.
attending surgeon at 81 I.uke's Hospital
who will have charge OF the field organ.
zation, Dr. Kail Council Of ~ West
Fftleth street, associate Attending phys
clan at Roosevelt Hospital Dr. Donald
Gordon, formerly OF Roosevelt Hospital
and Dr W. r. brennan of birmingham
Ala. There will fifteen nurses and ten
automobile ambulancss and the drivers
Tor them All the surgeons. nurses and
others Will serve without pay.
The metz hospital will he established
somewhere IN northern France While
it will be behind the allies line II will
he absolutely neutral French. British
German, Austrian and all other wounded
will he treated alike. The Institution
will cooperate with the American Ainbu-
lance Hospital near Paris TO which Drs
DE Rauchet and Joseph A. Blake have
given their services
Mrs. Whitney has worked out this idea
herself ard thus far has supplied prac-
ticallN all the money. Sh. is hopeful
however. that others will come forward
with contributions nov that the work
has been started. !. i. Morgan co
will receive all contributions II is hoped
that $500. 900 will be sufiic ent to maintain
the new hospital
Robert Bacon, former Ambassador e
France. who ~ Interested IN the project
confirmed the rumor OF the enterprise yes
tefday.
please lay emphasis on one point.
said NJ Bacon. "aud tina. IS IN" neu
trality Of this fold hospital service. Ger
mans aud Austrians viii receive As muc'
attention as tho French or Euglisl
wounded II ls an entirely huy.anItariai
enterprise The national lines AZ" no
considered. Amhassador Herrick IL tho
oughly IN sympathy with tho American
Ambulance Hospital In Paris ana with IN
establishment 81 hospital unit IN th'
field. The American Ambulance Hospta
has the Endorsement ~ the British an'
French geNerals and | do not h.s!tai" e
say IL is considered by them the b'st nos
pijai i'm France
Mrs. whitney has been working IN
Enthusiastically over IN" project for s1m
time. she ltdN'N h'l' We IlHh' NV '''.'
loss OF the Presbyterian Hospital, WE
will direct the work here of gathering al
ditional men and women for the hOspita
and other equipment
Mrs Whitney IL the daughter of Cor
/ nelius Vanderbilt. She hss won fame a
sculptress and last year marble foun
tain made by her was exhibited in IN
Salon ia Pais. She received a comm. .
sion from the committee N charge or IN
Woinau's Titanic Memorial 10 make tn
memorial statue. Her last 'mportan
niece OF work was the fountain. which wi
he placed in the California Building a
the Panama Pacific Exposition.
Her husband. who is the son OF the LAT
william g. whitney. inherited s2i 10000
from his father Mrs whitney mas
large fortune OF her own.