The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-19

her husband have charge of the Cotes du Nord and Finistere departmente. Mrs. Murray Davey and her lord of that of He ct Vilune, in Brittany; Miss Anna Vail. those of Charent and Charante Jn- ferieure; Mrs. Wethey of California those of Manche and Calvados, in Normandy. Mrs. Hendry, who Is a daughter of Char cot the great doctor, and sister of the explorer, and her husband look after the interests of another district, Eure and Orne. and Mrs Klots and Miss Polk of still others, and so the work goes.
 These visitors use what Is known as the appeal" system. This means that the funds representative on arriving at hospital, goes into the linen room and the instrument room and sees for herself what is needed and how much of it. Then. with the help of the medicine chef she makes out a list and forwards 1t to Lon don at once If the case Is an urgent one, a bale is made up at Lowndes square at once, and is delivered at the hospital for which it is desired within 36 hours after the appeal" is received. Since the work started by the way. over $10000 has been spent in providing surgical instru- ments alone.
 Sending Them Direct to London
 Some of the workers in America inquire. quite natHally, why they may not send lHtiT DOlH III Cttsll anu kind. direct to France instead of to Lon don. The answer is that the London branch Is able to know definitely not only what is needed and in what quantities. but where it is required, and thls latter Is a great point, since these war hospitals are SC frequently moved. Since the begin ming of the war, in fact, the location of over 10,VJV Bed Cross hospitals has been shifted, owing to the war eyigencies, and frauueptlv tho now 1oeatiou ie r.1ilee way from the original one. In the course of a few weeks, too, the needs of any one hospital may have entirely changed. and for these two reasons coupled with the previous lack of systematic direction. no end of earnest tabor on the part Of American women has gone for naught Woolen articles, accompanied by Christ mas cards, arrived in May, valuable ship ments of ali kinds of things that were soreiy needed in other districts have ar rived in towns where there was no longer a war hosp.tal at all. And so and so on In so:na cases. too. needs are special and so urgent that the needed things must be bought nt onco, ano .n many French towns owing to tha paralysis of war; almost nothing ia to ne had. In Dinard, the once fasaious he watering place, for example, ore cannot now buy a box of writing paper.
 Soon after the emergency funds work ir London was got going we'll the organizers began to get busy in tine United States. In New York a com
 nittee that included Miss Anna Nor gan. Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, and Mrs. Ethelbert Nevin, the wife of the {. composer of The Rosary" (Chair- woman). was formed and soon after ward Harold Goad one of the few men connected with the work, sailed for the United States to arouse iterest else where. Goad. who is an Oxford man. has been prominent in many other works of philanthropy. having been particularly instrumental in reviving the lace industry in Assist and other Italian towns where distress has been widespread.
 Largely as a result of his visit spe- cial committees of the French wounded emergency fund now exist in Boston, Baltimore, Chicago. Philadelphia Co., lumbus, Madison. Wisconsin, Kansas City. Washington D. C., and St. Louis. as well as at many other different points throughout the United States and Canada In 73 suburban places around Boston, for example. work Is being carried on with the result that i5 cases of supplies of various kinds are now being sent weekly. Already no cases have been sent and these have been made up of surgical instru ments. pajamas by the hundred, band ages. slippers games, vaccine. cat gut, serum. bolts of gauze exactly the things, in fact. that are wanted most.
 Has Eight Motor Cars
 The fund already has eight motor cars. five America1 ones and three English. and wants more badly. The city of Washington has given three and is providing for their upkeep, and if is the ambition of the American women on the central committee that the provision of the automobiles used fin connection with the funds work should be distinctly American "cnd" of the work. It is hoped. in fact, that other cities will follow the example of Washington go that in time every car used will bear. besides an Amer