Evening star., 1915-09-19
Caring FOR HEALTH
| OF CAR. VETERANS
Hospitals Provided for Those
Who May Be Stricken
With Illness.
ENCAMPMENT PROGRAM
OF MEDICAL COMMITTEE
Arrangements for Attention to Any
Who May Be Overcome During
Reunion Parade.

Following a conference between DIR.
louis j. Battle. chairman of the med
ical committee for the Grand Army en-
campment. and DR.. Coursen B. Conkin
and DIR. Samuel Z. Watkins with Col.
Wilbur F. Wilder, commandant of Fort
Myer- DIR. Battle stated last night that
all arrangements have been perfected
by his committee for the physical care
Of the veterans.
Three big hospital stations and fourteen
ambulance stations along Pennsylvania
avenue are the most important parts of
these ARRANGEMENTS. Col. Wilder agreed
to furnish an outrider for each of these
ambulances and orderlies for the hos
pitals.
Hospital Locations.
The three hospitals are to be located
as follows:
No. AT the Union station. in charge
of DIR. ]. F. Hilton. The room in the
Union station will be furnished with Red
Cross nurses and all appliances for emer-
gency cases.
No AT Camp Matthew G. Emery,
the old census building, in the southeast
corner of which building there are three
rooms for the exclusive use OF tJe med
ical committee. This station IS under
the charge of Or. George c. Clark. Miss
Moree Elizabeth Buckles, a trained nurse
from Kansas, and Mrs. Harriet L. Her
bert of Washington will assist IN the
emergency hospital in Camp Emery;
No ; will be known as the field hos
plIaI, located under the trees at 'he
intersection of New York avenue ana
18th street northwest, near the. Corcor
an Art Gallery. This station VIII DE
in charge of DR.. Samuel f. Watkins.
Besides the surgeon in charge, eacn
station will have at least twenty ,hHe
physicians, who will serve in relays.
Each station will have strong fofce
of Red Cross nurses.
The third station will be known as
the army hospital tent and IS the
largest tent the War Department pos
sesses In this tent will be army cots,
blankets and sheets and each OF these
stations will be furnished with a COM
plete medical and surgical chest con-
tanning appliances necessary LOT any
emergency.
There will be a large metal sign
about SKIS feet which will have
white background with two red crosses
al each end and the legend on the sign
will be Field Hospital, G. \. K
Line of March Extension.
Dr. Battle has consulted with Maj.
Pullman, chief of police; medical men,
veterans and others, and it is his opln-
ion, borne out by those with whom ne
has consulted, that it is wiser instead
of stopping the parade at nth and
PENNSYLVANIA avenue to let the line OF
march continue on down 18th street,
only one block south, to the big army
hospital, where there are shade trees,
cots and chairs for the weary, plenty
of nurses and doctors in attendance Tor
those who may have suffered IN any
measure from the heat.
1t is feared that if the parade is dis
missed at 18th street and PENNSYLVANIA
avenue the congestion and confusion
to the veterans unacquainted with the
city will cause trouble, and should be
avoided This might also prove dan
gerous, in a physical way. to men al
ready overheated by longer walk
than any of them have taken in years,
and as the Emergency Hospital is only
half a block away from the great army
hospital tent it is thought best to con-
tinue the parade this short distance.
Many of the veterans, if dispersed at
18th street and Pennsylvania avenue,
having become tired with unwonted
exertion, might go beyond endurance if
they went to their homes and hotels
before resting at the hospital tent.
A water company has agreed to fur
nish their water for each of the three
stations during the G.. A. r. encamp-
ment.
Provision for Badges.