New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-02
RED CROSS BOAT
SAILING DELAYED
Hamburg Will Not Start
on Its Errand of Mercy
Until Monday.
NO FEAR SHIP WILL
CAUSE U. S. TROUBLE
precautions Taken to Observe
Neutrality-Gets Permission
to Land at Open Ports.

TO Land at Open Ports.
The Red Cross relief ship will sail
from this port next Monday, instead of
Saturday, as planned. Miss Mabel
boardman, who came from Washington
yesterday, and will stay until the YES
sci departs, said last night that so
many details had come up to be settled
That 1t was impossible to keep TO the
original date. Also, the Hamburg, lent
to the American Red Cross by the
hamburg-American Steamship Com
pany, needs four coats of white paint
to give her the snowy tint which, with
the broad red band all around her, will
be a sign to all nations that she is a
neutral craft bound on a deed Of
mercy.
Miss Boardman said she had no fear
that the ships neutrality would not be
respected
Those who dread complications be-
cause we are using a German boat do
not know the precautions we have
taken" she said. Every one on that
shlp-the nurses, the surgeons, the
sailors the oticers. the stewardesses-
will be American born. The Hamburg
NShpohg 10 NuHHllk ~ ON0i
absolutely to us. We have assurances
from the ambassadors Of the various
countries through our State Depart
ment that the ship will be welcome in
their ports. When ] first went to M.
Jusserand, the French Ambassador, he
said: You are taking a German ship?
| Then II cannot enter a French port
But | explained our plans to him, and
now have a letter from him telling
me that the ship is free to touch
French shores where she will.
I'VE could not take an American
ship because we were not offered one.
We might hire one, but we have not
the money"
More Money Needed.
The expedition will consist of 100
nurses and thirty surgeons. The nurses
will be in charge of Miss Helen Scott
Hay, graduate nurse, who was chosen
by Queen Elincra of Bulgaria to over
see the building of hospital in that
country. The whole party will be in
charge of Major Robert Hugh Patter-
son.
The ship will touch first at Falmouth,
where twenty-four nurses-two units
and six surgeons will be landed for
England. At Rotterdam two units for
Russia, two for Austria and two for
Germany will disembark. The nurses
for France will be left at a French
port. Nurses for Servia will be sent
over early this month in a Greek ship.
Holland, Greece and Italy have asked
the American Red Cross if there will
be nurses for them in case their coun-
tries become involved in the war, and
Miss Boardman hopes that when the
relief ship returns it can be fitted out
again and dispatched to Europe.
Money is the thing we need" she
said last night. ut is incomprehensible
to me that we have not received more.
In former calamities that did not touch
this money has been given US in much
larger measure. ! want 100000 for
this war, and it would be better to have
81, 900 ,000"
AS one way of raising the 100000
Miss Boardman hopes to have citi-
zens' committee formed in New York
similar to that in Washington. She
said she believed that Mayor Mitchell
would see his way clear to head such
committee and that members of the
Chamber of Commerce and other re-
sponsible men would aid.
Supplies Piling Up.
"In the meantime" she said, I'VE
hope to pay the operating expenses of
our relief ship by bringing Americans
home on the return trip. They would
pay the Red Cross, of course"
The supplies which the ship will take
are rapidly piling up ct the Bush Ter
minal Warehouse, in Brooklyn. Among
them arc 1000 cans of chloroform, g.
900 cans of ether, 80 gallons Of iodine,
/ 900 stretchers, 81 cases of surgical
! equipments, 100000 cases Of absorbent
cotton, gross of ligatures, quantities
| of bandages, cases of nightshirts and
pajamas. They will be divided equally
| among the warning nations.
"But we must remember" Miss
Boardman said, "that it isn't only the
present crisis that must be met This
war will leave behind it terrible con-
dition of wounded men,
/ thousands of widows and orphans and
ruined homes. The Red Cross has gone
ahead trying to do what it can in this
crisis without quite knowing where the
mouey was coming from. But we hope
/ the public will realize the need later
as Vt doesn't now"