Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30
Khaki-CIad Troops Appear in
Bloody Fight With an !
Unseen Foe.
ELABORATE MODEL SHOWN.
BY NATIONAL RED CROSS
Feature of Campaign Under Way to
Increase Membership of the !
District Organization. Il

The United States Army is at war. It's
khaki-clad troops engaged in a
bloody battle with an unseen enemy on
the ground floor of the business block
at the corner of 18th and streets
northwest. and already a number OF
Uncle Sans soldiers are. CfisurativeiyD
''hors du combat" through death or
wounds: but through the efficiency OF
the American National Red Cross many
of the terrors of old-time battlefelds
thirst. exposure. gangrene. tetanus
and the results of insantary Ignorance
generally-are lacking.
The representation of this mixture of
strife and lfe-conserving activities takes
the form of a most elaborate model,
showing all the phases of modern war;
fare and of modern military medical
science, which is the feature of the eN-
hibition of apparatus and methods
| staged there by the American National
Red Cross in connection with the local
campaign, part of simultaneous ma
tional movement. to bring the District
membership in the association up to
5000 persons. The exhibits Will be open
to the general public at o'clock Mon
day morning. and Will continue during
the week. A view of the battle, with its
attendant ambulance service and field
and base hospitals. is calculated to go
farther toward making the average man.
woman or child understand the condt-
tons incident to modern war than WILL
many written descriptions.
Model Includes Separate Units.
The whole model, many feet in length
and containing a remarkably large num-
her Of separate units, is made on the scale
of one-half inch to a foot and shows in
great detail a section Of country being
fought over by infantry and artillery.
AS trench warfare is the modern form
Of combat, trench fighting is here repre-
sented and from the fact that the SLOUGH
hated forces are occupying the foremost
of several rows Of these excavations,
leaving the ones first dug for the Red
Cross organizations. the pleasing fact be-
comes at once apparent that the United
states soldiers are slowly but surely
driving the hated invader (whomever he
may be- from American soil
The front of the model shows sec
ton of trenches. with their dug outs.
connecting galleries and bombproof
shelters. occupied by the advance in
imaginary foe. A destroyed dwelling,
disabled aeroplane and the first-aid
trenches and dressing stations are the
principal landmarks.
Farther in the rear is battery of
artillery. the guns having been made
according to specifications given by
the ordnance bureau of the War De-
partment, and placed by artillery ex.
perts of the army. A range-inder on
an eminence is telephoning the result
of his observations to the officer in
charge of the firing. At the side of a
railroad running from an imaginary
town to one side of the model to an
other in its rear, is a first-aid station
where the wounded may be entrained
after being brought in by stretchor
bearers and field ambulances.
Complete Field Hospital.
Still farther back is complete field
hospital consisting of group of tents.
The flap of one is lifted showing the
wounded men and their nurses, and
backed up at the track nearby is an
ambulance containing the more severe
ly injured whose condition admits OF
or makes imperative their transporta-
tion to the base hospital.
This base hospital itself occupies the
campus of a small college school in
typical American village. The aca-
demic building itself has been trans
formed into the hospital proper. while
adjoining residences are used as quar-
tiers for convalescents and for nurses'
and surgeons homes. Temporary bar
racks erected in the rear of the main
building show how other convalescents
or lighter cases may be cared for. and
how any good-siZed structure of a
pubiic nature may be enlarged to form
a base hospital
The roof of the top floor is removed
showing typical floor of two wards.
diet kitchen. nurses rest room, and
connecting operating. sterilizing and
supply rooms. The cots in the wards
are arranged on the scale laid down
in the army of a certain number of
cubic feet of air for each patient.
Reserves on Way to Front.
Scattered throughout the grounds
are columns of reserves on their way
to the sorely pressed front, and drawn
up in front of the main railway sta
ton is a Red Cross train of freight
cars rebuilt to serve as ambulance
coaches. Farther down the line is a
warehouse occupied by patriotic men
and women rolling bandages and SUI
pervising the storage of supplies need
ed both for the hospitals and for the
army, for in case of war. it is pointed
out, the army would soon come to de-
pend on the Red Cross for certain OF
it's needed material. Still farther to
the rear is a platform from which
woman volunteers may serve refresh
ments to and redress the wounds of
those who, unable to be accommodated
here. are going on to more distant
bases
The officials of the American National
Red Cross, who have arranged the ex.
position, have aimed to mahe this par
ticular feature not only instr uctive.
but also suggestive-to show citizens
what they may give or lend that will
be useful to the work of the organiza-
ton in case war should come.
Ambulances Labeled as Gifts.
To this end some of the ambulances
are labeled as the gifts of colleges and
universities, and the gray-hued. GRIM
son cross decorated railroad cars bear
legends indicating that they are the
gifts of various clubs and organiza-
tons The model, with its many human