The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-12

connection with the Queenss central soounaftEee of women's employment.
 The fund had it in mind to give a fully equipped hospital ship to the war office. But Lord Kitchener, when the idea was communicated to him, said that he would rather have some motor ambu1ances for convey ing wounded soldiers from the firing line to the field hospitals. As a mat fer Of coI1rSeY the plan was changed thereupons and the women used the money to purchase several such am balances. each of them mounted on 80 horsepoWer Chassis and fitted with every modern contrtvance for the comfort Of the disabled fighting man. Each of these vehicles has room for two hospital attendants and four stretohers. or will accommodate two stretehers and hix men who are able to si tsup.
 The Countess ef suffolk is another who is taking an active interest in the swar work. Before her marriage she was Miss Daisy Letter. a sister of stJoe3 Letter, and dAughter of Levi 2. Letter, the zEnillionaire of Chicago and Washington.
 Meanwhile, on this side Of the water. many women or wealth and fashionable prominence are enter ing upon the same kind of work with an extraordina enthusiasm.
 Mrs. G1nord Pinchot, but recently a bride has gone abroad to join her sister-in- law, Lady Alan sJohnstone in the organization of 8 field hospital Lady Alan Johnstone Gas above i'm p1fed9 is AEr. Pfnchot.s sister, and her husband was formerly a secretary of the British embassy in Washington.
 The hospital will be paid for out of
 the Pinchot millions.
 Mrs. Harry Whitney, the wife of 8 we1l-known American millionaire. and sportsman, and daughter-in-law of former secretary of our navy Is
 now in France with $25O, ,0o0 to spend. in organizing and equipping a com plete Held hospital. She was, before her marriage, Miss Gertrude Wander
 Tn the way of giving and collect ing money for war help, the fash tonable women of Newport are do- IinE wonders Headed by Mrs St,1y-
 yesant Fish, sth ey raised for the pur- pose $48.7s5 at one sbazaar.'' over and above all expenses. Associated 1 in this humanitarian work are Mrs.
 French B. Chadwick MT Pembroke iJones, Mrs. HerEnann Oelrichs who I was Miss Virginia Fair daughter Of of the Great Bonanza9. Mrs. w K Wander biit, JF., tvvfo was Miss Elsie
 French. Of New York), and Mrs
 George D. Vgidener.
 Another Vanderbilt heiress, by
 the way-G Gladys, daughter of the elder Corne1fus and sister of Alfred
 vanderbf f1t-has organized and paid
 for a field hospital in Austrtas She is the wife of a Hungarian noble
 man, Count Ladis1as Szechenyi
 Anna, the sister of George Gould ! who married Count Boni Castellane, and who, being divorced, is now the wife of the Prince de Sagan, has 1 taken conspicuous part in the same kind of work in France.
 It is well worth mentioning, in conclusion, that a woman physician of distinction, pr. Sophie Nordhoff- Yung, who through several admin
 istratfons has attended protest onally | the ladies of the White House, as well as those of the diplomatic corps in ! Washington, Is now in Munich, in feharge Of a great base hospital that is conducted by the American Red | Cross Born in Germany, but con ] sfdering herself an American, she Happened by mere chance to be in Munich when the war broke out, and 1.-the Bavarian authorities were only too glad to avail themselves of her
 skilled services.
 1 Connected temporarily with this hospital for emergency purposes | are a number of nearby houses, l which are crowded with British, French, German, Austrian and Rus 1 sian soIdi CTS. The high esteem in (which its management is held may l.be judged from the fact that men Iwho are seriously wounded are pick led to be sent thither- Under Dr.