New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-08

Hoboken, an Amerlcan-0orn sailor, VINO
had received his discharge from the
American navy, made d scene at the
gangplank when the official there re-
fused to allow him on board
81 want to see Captain Rust" he IN
sisted. 81 want to tell him what a
rotten deal American sailors are get
ting on this boat"
He said that he shipped as a sailor
on the Red Cross, but that the Ger
man sailors were shown "all the IA
! voritism," and he was so badly treated
/ that he left. The other eighteen Amer
/ lean sailors, he declared, couldn't leave
/ because they needed the work, but they
( had appealed to the British consul, he
said, and had told the consul that the
! German sailors had confessed below
| decks that they intended to desert and
enter the Kaiser's army as soon as
/ they reached the other side.
The consul, Sir Courteney ". Ben
/ nett, said last night over the telephone
4 that he had received no deputation.
"Fiddlesticks and nonsense!" was his
reply when told what Kadien had said.
Captain Rust said he had heard OF
no disaffection among the American
sailors. eve have fifty Of them" he
/ explained. 1--WE have also German
" -
/ lean citizens. We have to think of the
safety Of the ship, and we must have
/ men who know how to sail it. We
1 couldn't give any American sailor
| who might apply preference over
/ German who knew the ship. But the
neutrality laws have been respected,
/ and this ship will be respected, no
matter what waters she may enter"
Who's Who on Board.
In professional command of the eX-
petition is Major Robert Hugh Pat
terson, of the Medical Corps, [. s. A,
while the chief supervision of the
nurses is intrusted to Miss Helen
/ Scott Hay, ex-superintendent Of the
. Illinois Training School, from which
I she resigned to establish. by invitation
of Queen Eleanor, a school for nurses
in Bulgaria.
The directing surgeon of Unit A,
which will 60 TO France, is DR.. Reynoid
W. Kirby Smith, health officer of the
/ University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn.
. The supervising nurse with this unit is
Miss Margaret Lehman, OF Philadel-
phia, a graduate Of the Pennsylvania
Hospital. The director of Unit B. is
DR.. Roades Fayerweather. instructor in
orthopadic surgery at Johns Hopkins
Medical School The supervising nurse
with Unit B is Miss Alice +. Hender-
son, Of Baltimore, graduate of Johns
Hopkins School for Nurses, and su-
pervisor in the same institution. This
unit will go TO France.
The director of Unit c is DR.. Will
lam S. Magill, surgeon Of the Medi-
cal Reserve Corps, L. S. A. The su-
pervising nurse of this unit is Miss
Lucy Minnigerode, of New York, a
graduate of Bellevue Hospital, and re-
Gently superintendent Of the Savan-
nah City Hospital This unit will go
to Russia. The director of Unit d is
DR.. Robert L. Kinds, graduate of the
Harvard Medical School, and recently
surgeon at the Boston City Hospital.
The supervising nurse of this unit,
which will go to England, is Miss j.
Beatrice Bowman, who has been grant
ed leave of absence from the Navy
: Nurse Corps, in which she is chief
nurse, to do the Red Cross work.
The director of Unit + is DR..
Charles Macdonald, of Salem, N. j..
, who has seen hard service in the
. Philippines as an army surgeon. The
, supervising nurse with Unit is Miss
Alice c. Beatle, a graduate of, and
later an instructor in, the Illinois
is bound for Austria.
The director of Unit f, going to Eng
land, is DR.. Howard \. Beal, of Worces-
ter, Mass, member Of the American
College of Surgeons. The supervising
nurse is Miss A. Burgar, graduate OF
the Boston City School for Nurses
The director of Unit G is DR.. Bial f
Bradbury. of Norway, Me, surgeon for
the Louisville & Nashville Railroad
This unit, which will 90 to Germany
has for supervising nurse Miss Frances
H. Meyer, a graduate of the New York
Hospital and a public health nurse.
The director Of Unit II rs DR.. Ed
ward Egbert, of Washington, d. C., a
graduate of Dartmouth and Baltimore
Medical College in 1913. The super
vising nurse is Miss Charlotte Burgess
for years acting superintendent in the
Illinois Training School for Nurses
This unit is bound for Russia.
The director Of Unit ! is DR.. Charles
H. Sanders, resident surgeon in Gar
field Memorial Hospital The super
vising nurse is Miss Anna Reutinger
directress of nurses in the New York
Lying-in Hospital. The destination
OF this unit is Germany.
The director of Unit is DR.. Cary A.
Snoddy, superintendent of the Knox.
Vile, Tenn, General Hospital. Unit J
will 90 to Austria. The supervising
nurse is Miss Elizabeth Dooley, night
superintendent Of the Jewish Hospital
in Cincinnati, Ohio.