Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-27
WOMEN OF CITY
FORM PLANS FOR
AID TO SOLDIERS
Preparedness Division Work
Discussed in West Phila-
delphia
$25,o00 FOR HOSPITAL
State League Gives Fund for
Work at Border in Case of
Mexican War
$4,000 FOR HOSPITAL

number Of west Philadelphia women
who are interested in the plans of the
Pennsylvania women's Division for Ma
tlonal Preparedness to supply refresh
ments to soldiers and make surgical dress
inEs and other hospital supplies held
q meeting this morning In st. Philips
Protestant Episcopal Parish House. 42d
street and Baltimore avenue. An address
was made by Mrs. I. II. O'Harra, vice
president of the body.
lishment of base hospital will be turned
over to the Red Cross here by the Penn
sylVahla Division.
This announcement was made yesterday
at a meeting of the Executive Committee
of this organization at the home of Mrs.
George w Childs DrexeI. 18th and Locust
streets. The meeting. which was one OF
the most enthusiastic ever held by the
board was called In the interest of pa
triotism. II was unanimously decided by
the board, which is headed by Mrs. Drexel
to work in time of peace or war under the
direction of the Red Cross
ORGANIZATIONS UNITE.
Among those present were DR.. Richard
II. Harte. chairman of the Red Cross for
southeastern Pennsylvania. and Mrs. Cor
nelius Stevenson, representing the Elmer
gency Aid. which also has decided to do
home relief work in connection with the
Red Cross The agreement reached be-
tween the three organizations will mean
that the work of aiding the United States
Government In the event of war with Mex.
leo will be along systematic lines. Repre-
senting the women's preparedness organi-
zation on the Red Cross board here will be
George Wharton Pepper, George w. Childs
Drexel and George Quintard Horwitz
Doctor Harte explained the base hospital
offered by the division l.. obably would be
established near the border in the event
of war. The institution will be called the
n liza TT,,tN
of the Red Cross. Included in 1t will be 500
beds. laboratory equipment. X'ray plant and
all other material needed for such pur.
pose. There also will be corps Of phyei
clans, trained nurses, pharmacists and
cooks.
Work of furnishing surgical dressings and
other hospital supplies and performing
duties arising In time of war will be divided
between the Red Cross, Pennsylvania
womens Division for National Prepared
ness OF the Red Cross and the Emergency
Aid, according to Doctor Harte.
The womens preparedness movement will
be represented at conference today of the
Citizen Soldiers Aid Committee by Mrs.
George Dallas Dixon, Mrs George Quintard
Horwitz and Mrs ]. Gardner Cassatt.
During the meeting yesterday members
of the executive board decided to at once
join the Red Cross. Mrs, Drexel said every
effort would be made by her to induce at
least % per cent. of the members OF the
division to take out membership cards In the
Red Cross
Doctor Harte warmly praised the women's
preparedness body for it's plans to supply
refreshments to soldiers who have been en-
trained for six or more hours and for other
preparedness steps taken by the organiza-
tlon. Work OF supplying refreshments to.
the troops at Pittsburgh, Harrisburg and
Philadelphia will be entirely in the hands
of this body.
It was explained by Doctor Harte the 55
homes, pledged by women in various Sec
tlons of the State, may be used as con-
valescent places in case of war. These
houses, he said, could be used for soldiers
needing long treatment to put them on the
road to recovery. Long treatment OF the
wounded in convalescent homes, he said,
would be OF untold value.
Among the members of the executive
board who attended the conference with
Doctor Harte were Mrs, ]. Gardner Cas-
satt Mrs Thomas Mexican, Mrs Robert
f. Strawbrldge. Mrs. Paul Denckla Mills,
Mrs John w. Geary. Mrs l. VI. C'Harra,
Mrs Alexander Van Rensselaer,. Mrs
Henry Brinton Coke, Mrs Barclay Fl. War
burton Mrs. George Dallas Dixon, Miss
Mary NJ. Mitchell. Mrs George Quintard
Horwitz and Mrs John. King Sharpe OF
Chambersburg, Pa.