New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-07
RED CROSS WAITS
TO PARADE RIVER
Mercy Ship Delays Sailing
a Day So New Workers
Can See Her.

NdiI OCC llCl.
The Red Cross, with her complement
( OF doctors and nurses, who are goinf
to the European baxlefelds, was quite
ready last night to sail this afternoon
at 1 o'clock, as announced, but it was
/ decided not to send the ship to sea to-
! day. As it is, she is in a position
rather difficult for many people tC
reach, and as the American Red Cross
is anxious that she shall be seen before
/ she sails on her mission she will &C
up the Hudson River first and sail to.
morrow morning at 10 o'clock.
/ She left her dock at 33d St, South
Brooklyn, yesterday morning and went
around to the pier at 42d St, so that
/ her supplies, medical equipment anc
( some personal baggage could be more
| easily loaded from one of the Bush
! I criminal piers.
The mercy ship will return to her
! original dock early this morning, and
remain there until 4 o'clock this
afternoon, when she will leave for the
North River. The most suitable place
to anchor her for the night is off West
10th ST., and there she will lie until
tomorrow morning, when she will
start on her trip down the river to the
accompaniment of whistle blasts from
other craft in the river and harbor.
She was in almost complete readl-
ness to leave the port yesterday. Only
two things would nave interfered. For
che thing, the nurses and doctors, who
all went on board Saturday night, had
the "day Off" and some of them took
advantage of their last chance to visit
friends and relatives in the city. The
oJher thing was that Miss Mabel
Boardman went TO Washington to be
sure that the formal papers proclaim
ing the ships neutrality had been for
warded by the State Department. The
papers and Miss Boardman are both in
New York now, however.
Visitors of all kinds saw the mercy
ship. Some went to pay calls on the
doctors and nurses, some went out of
curiosity, and others went with a par
ticular interest, these last having
fathers, brothers, sons and husbands
fighting in Europe. The nurses and
doctors, many of whom are not New
Workers. took up a good part Of the
day writing letters and putting their
cabins in order for the voyage. The
first leg of the journey. to Falmouth.
is expected TO take something inside of
ten days.
VIcVcd from tie pier, the Red Cross
is an entirely different ship from the
Hamburg. which she was until a few
days ago. Her cleaning white sides
are striped by a broad red band, and
the red insignia of the International
Red Cross is painted on her white
tunnels. BY day she is entirely dis
tinctive. No enc could mistake her
for any other ship.
At night an electric sign bearing the
Red Cross on a field Of white will re-
veal her identity to other vessels. The
sailors of the Russo-American liner,
Car, tied up in the same slip with her,
inspected the Red Gross with evident
/ interest.
Like Captain Armistead Rust, her Of
fcers are all retired L. S. naval officers,
and we're selected by the Navy Depart
ment at the request Of the Red Cross.
They are, besides Captain Rust, Com
mandcr j. s. Doddridge, Commander h;
/ II. Delaney, Lieutenant g. Dart and
/ Paymaster r. d. l.. Mohun.
Her crew, too, is said to be all Amer
/ lean; that is, every man IS supposed 10
have taken out, at least, his first papers
! of citizenship. This is necessary, Tor
many of the crew are Germans. with
cut the papers they are liable to be
taken off the ship at Falmouth and held
as prisoners Of war. The stewards all
sneak with broad, German accent, and
nIany of the sailors sat about the deck
Yesterday reading German newspapers
Others of the sailors were said TO De
Dutch. Swedish and Norwegian. One
man had a can of the Red Star Line
but said. no, he wasn't a Belgian, bat
q German. lie was leaning over tne
rrow of the Red Cross, polishing, the
/ hIue and gold Hapag shield, the emblem
Of the Hamburg-American Line wnlc1
still remains on the stem of the SNIP
From Falmouth, where she VIII lahI
two units for service with the BRUSH
army and two for service with the Rus
San army, the Red Cross Will go 20
/ Havre to land two units for the French
armv. and then TO Antwerp to land
INIT to work with the Belgian SUI
Potterdam will be visited, and three
units landed, one for the Austrian aT arm
and two for the German forces. Inc
Srrvian unit will proceed 10 urseh
mort on a merchantmen.