New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-03
S. S. Red Cross to Sail on
Her Voyage of Mercy
Next Monday.
TURKEY AND GREECE
WANT SHARE OF AID
Miss Boardman to Urge Citizens
Committees as Soon as
Vessel Departs.

The local Red Cross headquarters al
1870 East 22d ST., buzzed with activity
yesterday. Miss Jane A. Delano, chair.
man of the General Nursing Service OF
the American Red Cross, to whom the
nurses who will sail on the ship Red
Cross Monday report, arrived from
Washington, and instantly the place
was filed with nurses
"How do | feel about the expedi-
ton ?" said Mrs. NJ. II. Metcalf, of Chi
cago. "Why, feel that it's an advent
ure. | know how serious it is, and |
realize there's hard work ahead OF US
and horrible suffering to see. But, for
all that, I'm a-tingle with the excite
ment of it. / can hardly wait to be
off,"
at isn't for the excitement that
we're enlsting," said Miss Margaret G.
Egan, of Brooklyn, though we know
we shall be in the thick of the war.
No woman is allowed on the field, but
we shall be assigned to the emergency
hospitals to which the wounded are
brought. We have no fear, any OF
u.s."
Other Brooklyn nurses who reported
yesterday were Miss Frances II. Meyer,
supervisor of the group from that bor-
ough; Miss Sarah A. McCarron, a
Board of Health nurse; Miss Alice B.
Weston and Miss Louisa Z. Siegel.
Miss Egan is district nurse. Among
those from a distance were a group
from Cleveland, Ohio, with Miss Alice
c. Beatle as supervisor.
To Weigh Anchor Monday.
Saturday, at 2 o'clock, the army Of
nurses and surgeons, with Miss Helen
Scott Hay in charge of the nurses and
Major Robert Hugh Patterson in COM
mand, will mobilize on the Red Cross
formerly the Hamburg, of the Ham
burg-Amer Line-at Pier 80, Brook
Ign. They will remain on the ship.
Sunday morning the vessel will move
to dock near a Bush Terminal ware
house to take on supplies. She will
sail at 4 o'clock p. IN. Monday.
Miss Mabel Boardman, who spent
Yesterday morning at the warehouse,
said supplies were pouring in in huge
quantities.
-Four hundred thousand pounds of
cotton, absorbent and non-absorbent,
and 100000 yards Of gauze were being
unloaded from the railroad cars as |
left" she said. THE factories have
been making cotton for US at the rate
of 10000 pounds a day. Fifteen thou
sand pounds of bandages and 10000
yards of starched gauze were in the
warehouse. There were eight complete
surgical equipments, and thousands Oh
gallons of iodine and cases of ether.
Among the other things were three
large cases of linen sheets, towels,
nightshirts, pajamas, handkerchiets.
ETC., made and sent by the women OF
Hartford, Conn. Another case came
from Southampton. We shall give one
each to Belgium, France, England and
Germany. We are not sending many
sickroom garments this trip, but we
hone that there will be many contrl'
buttons of such garments as women
return home from summer resorts, anc
we can send them later. We furnish
the Red Cross patterns to all who ash
for them.
1--WE wish we could send more sup.
plies on this trip, but as the ship mas
to coal and provision for the round
trip our space is limited
Asks Aid Of Chicago.
Miss Boardman has appealed to the
Mayor of Chicago to form a citizens
committee there to raise funds for the
keQ CfOSS. AS SOON rs tHS iSlISA on
is off, she said, she would take up the
matter of a citizens committee here.
"The fact that Turkey and Greece
seem to be getting into the hostilities
makes our relief more necessary than
ever" she said. Turkey has asked US
for hospital supplies. She asked us fol-
one hundred cots, but we will not be
able to take them this trip. Greece
wants nurses. She asked US: If neces.
sary, could you let us have nurses and
surgeons, and what would the salaries
be-? We cabled back: we can let you
have nurses; there will be no sala'
ries.'
Each nurse promises to remain SIX
months. If she returns sooner, she
PAYS her own expenses. If the wal
lasts longer than six months, all those
who desire will be returned, and others
sent in their places.
Mrs. Rose Peters, Of AZ Main ST..
Flushing, Long Island, registered yes
terday at the Red Cross Office in Hobo
ken for duty in Europe as war nurse