The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-13
Under the Sheltering
Sign Of the Red Cross
Frances Ellington Tells Of the Start and the Working
Of the Society Respected in War and Peace

, The war has wrought upon the fair and
! vivacious countenance CT Paris are the
conversion OF many of her most pa'atial
hotels into temporary hospitals for the
care of the wounded. and the utilization
OF exclusive clubs and similar institu-
tons as working centres, where ladies'
: or all grades of society meet together to
sew garments for those to whose doors
the war has brought the spectre of
want. over some of the most fashion
able quarters of the city the Red Cross
flag flies freely. Auxiliary hospitals seem
to have cropped up everywhere. and in
their wake these ouvrors, or work.
rooms.
Yesterday paid n visit 10 the Hotel
Majestic, in the Avenue Kleber, up by
the Place L'Etoile. where a splendidly
equipped English hospital has Just been
officially installed. under the supervision
OF DR.. Guest, London medical practi
TONER, well known for the interest he
taxes in all matters concerning public
hygiene. No wounded had yet come, but
| everything was in readiness to receive
them-competent medical staff. trained
nurses and energetic lay assistants or
orderlies. AZ a hotel the Majestic like
so many other establishments OF the
IL looked not only closed but super
closed, as 1t were. inasmuch as most of
its ground floor windows were boarded
up for the. greater part OF their height.
This. as | afterward learned. was de-
tsiEned to insure greater privacy for
| the humane work to which the building
has for the moment been dedicated.
Rearing in mind accounts which have
reached me as to the rough and ready
treatment which has perhaps inevitably
| fallen 10 the lot of the wounded in
sections of the vast theatre of war
| where the tide OF battle has ebbed and
flowed with bewildering rapidly. I
! could not but wonder how the wounded
soldiers will fec. when they find them
| selves under the care of the medical and
/ nursing STATS attached to the Hotel Ma
| testic hospital To stroll through the
| ample corridors and public rooms Of the
| building is easily To imagine oneself in
! royal palace. whose occupants have sud-
! denly vacated it, Pa,atial Is the only
| word 10y which to describe its Internal
/ proportions and its decorative embel-
/ liShment. \ change this. truly from the
| railway shed and waiting rooms where
/ by the pressure Of sheer necessity. some
of the wounded have hitherto received
their first medical attention That. par
enthetically, is a subject on which
might say more, hut for obvious rca
sons | forhear.
AS Or Guest observed in showing
ME around. the spacious. airy pubic
rooms of the llotei Majestic make quite
ideal wards. y; the present moment tho
number Of beds installed is MY. divided
about equally between two Of the main
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accommodation which the huge building
could afford is almost infinite. To sur
voy these two rooms, with Their neatly
appointed beds. is Ike taking peep 4,
the show wards Of some Srca' public
hospital over in England something
which the King and Queen might be in
vitsd tn inspect in the course of a royal
visit 70 one of our large cities. Every
/ thing is otessly white and scicntiti- !
Cal,Y ordered
And the operating theatre which has |
been established In what was the ladies' !
cloak room Of the hotel Is something !
To- admire II i had been specially de- |
signed for its present purpose IL could |
not have been more adaptable TO |
the surgeons requirements. \ fuzzy
equipped N-ray apparatus has also been |
Installed. How different from the goods |
Sncd ot which some ono has told me |
where the operating tahl, consisted or a |
stretcher supported upon a couple of /
trestles. And talk of medical stores! |
DR.. Guest hrough, over with him some
thing Ike coupe Of tons OF these.
Although at the time Of my visit no |
wounded had Vet arrived nj fhe Hotel |
Majestic. the doctors and nurses haNe
already. in certain portions Of the war
area which | may nor nam. baan
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and have rendered snrelv ncndad cor
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