The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08
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LUST now when the soldiers are being
 moved from the different mobiliza- A% ton camps" to the border and ev- anywhere the women are aiding and add ing to the comfort in every way they can and a recent account of the way the Philadelphia women have come to the front by providing refreshments for the soldiers as they passed through their city will be read with interest, especially as the Birmingham chapter of the Red Cross society has undertaken to do this same work in our city.
 ''Hurrying back from seashore and mountain resorts. or deferring projected trips, prominent women who are chair men of the chapters in and near Phila- delphia of the Pennsylvania womens di- vision for national preparedness mo- bilized yesterday at Wootton, the Bryn Mawr estate of Mrs. George w. Childs Drexel.
 'Immediately they set on foot plans to provide refreshments, coffee and sand wiches to troops passing through this city, Harrisburg and Pittsburg on the way to the Mexican border. No matter how many trains arrive in day or how soon they begin to come, the chapters will be able to take care of them.
 Mrs Drexel, the head and founder of the division, presided at the meeting. It was announced that the Pennsylvania railroad has agreed to noafy Mrs. Drexel 24 hours in advance of the arrival of troop trains
 'tThe plans of the organization are to bo houa on trains six hours or more When they reach the distributing points. Announce ment was made yesterday of huge do- nation of coffee and sugar by an anony- nous individual ill t-hs city.
 The chapters have sections of young women who drive their own machines and are trained to act as messengers. These will act as carriers of the supplies from Mrs. Drexel's garage at Eighteenth and Locust streets and other headquarters to the railroad stations.
 Besides the chairmen of chapters at yesterdays meeting there were present the general directors of the commssarlat of the division, including Mrs. Robert E. Strawbirdge, Mrs. Thomas McKean and Mrs Barclay H. Warburton and Mrs. George Boyd of the Pennsylvania railroad chapter.
 Arrangements were made for differ ent chapters or chapters to take care of the task of feeding the entrained SOL diers on different days. The assignments were as follows: First day. Pennsyl- vania Railroad chapter, Mrs. George Dal- las Dixon, chairman; second day. Urqu- hart chapter, Mrs. George w. Urquhart, chairman; third day, Army and Navy chapter, Mrs. Frances Howard Williams, chairman; fourth day, Main Line chapter, Mrs Charlton Yarnal chairman; fifth ,Jn1YN Oh "a nj Henry Brinton Coxe; sixth day, West Philadelphia chapter, Mrs. J. Hamilton Small; seventh day, Old York road chap ter, Mrs. Harry E. Asbury, and Wyncote chapter, Mrs. M R. Neiffer; eighth day, Langhorne, Mrs. Warren E. Tryon, and Lansdowne chapter, Mrs. E. Wagner Smith.
 It is expected that several train loads of troopers from a distance will shortly pass through Birmingham en route south to the border and the Red Cross chapter has been notified by the headquarters in Washington to furnish refreshments to those .7no come our way.
 Every citizen should assist in this un- dertaking and respond at once to the ap peal Notice of the soldiers coming will be furnished only short time in advance and the chapter must be prepared to act without delay Contributions of money should be sent to MT. w. H. Manly chapter treasurer, at the Birmingham Trust and Savings bank and acknowl- edgement will be made through the daily press.
 Contributions of pies, cakes and sand-A wiches should be sent to Mrs. J. A. Roun- tree, the secretary, 1900 South Eleventh avenue.
 Mrs. Rountree will be glad to communi cate by telephone at once with all those who will contribute so she may know what to count on when it is needed.
 On Wednesday evening the Sixty-sev enth Street Epworth league, at their reg ular league hour had very interesting musical programme, after which the league went to the home of MT. Archie Feltus for their regular monthly social. Music was enjoyed during the evening. Those present were Miss Virginia Feltus, Miss Lena Hardin, Miss Agnes Dubose, Miss Charlie Hardin, Miss Maybelle Du-