The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-05-02
David Rice Makes Another Ap-
peal To Hawaii For American
Fund For Wounded
HOSPITAL SUPPLIES
" VITALITY NECESSARY
They Are Being Shipped In Large
Quantities As Fast As They
Are Made Ready D..

You must appreciate the suffering
now in France, after the great fight
at Verdun," writes David Rice, Of
Boston, who sends two more bulletin
to The Advertiser in his appeal to tn.
people Of Hawaii to lend financial as
sistanee to the work of the American
Fund for French Wounded
Mr.. Rice's initial appeal to Hawai-
in behalf of the New England braneL
Of the Fund was published in The AID
vertiser recently. The money thu,
raised in America is used to manufac
ture hospital supplies and the fecessar
les Of life for the wounded and con
valescent fighting men in France. The
quantity shipped regularly from tn,
States for the purpose is enormous.
The number of cases Of materials
shipped abroad by the New England
Branch since its activities began tn,
middle Of May of last year had reach
ed 5000 on April IA, while the aver
age weekly shipment at the presen
time is hundred and forty-fve cases
Large Shipments Made
The bulletins sent by Mr.. Rice Civ,
the following monthly report for thu
period from March Is to April 10 in
elusive Of shipments going forward +,
Paris: 1857 ,986 surgical dressings
1912 pillows and pillow slips, 1873,
sheets and blankets, 1928 knitted ar
ticles including 3691 pairs socks, 3l5s
flannel garments, 953 articles of under
wear, $4,000 yards hospital gauze. ia:
pounds absorbent cotton, 1000 yard'
zinc oxide adhesive plaster, 2l72 sur
gical needles, 600 pounds ether, 1OC
pounds chloroform, sig pairs rubber
gloves, l52 hot water bottles and ain
cushions. fifty and a half yards rub
Der sheeting, twelve instrument steril
izers, 504 catgut hgatures, 354 surgica
Instruments, hypodermic syringes, ano
hypodermic needles, 2SS8 towels. 200t
handkerchief, 422 pairs slippers, 72li,
sheets writing paper, envelopes, and
postcards, 6l42 miscellaneous article:
including comfort bags, puzzles ant
games, old linen, soap, suits, overcoass
wash cloths, hospital shirts.
france Grateful For Aid
The bulletin of April IA says:
1.-THE generous response to the recent
request for money to buy clinical ther
mometers has enabled the fund to send
abroad in this weeks shipment FIVE
gross which will be gratefully wei
coined by our Paris depot as they are
now almost unobtainable in France.
WORD has just come that one of the
two auto trucks semitic France by our
New England branch has started fol
Toulouse and the neighboring hospi
tails with large cons. gnment Of hospi 4
tai supplies-Miss Casparis of Ohio
driving, and Miss Norris of New York
accompanying her as distributor. The
many contributors of knitted sponges
will be interested to learn that i'm
answer to request from Mrs. Frank
Shaw, formerly of Boston, dozens of
these sponges, so much appreciated
in France, have been sent from our
Paris depot to the Val de Grace Hos i
pital. The Paris Office, in a bulletin
of March 10, especially speaks Of a
large consignment of pajamas from the
Worcester committee, with a card in
the pocket of each on which was q
message written in French, adding:
We feel sure that these will be ap-
preciated and admired as much by the
recipients as by the unpackers in our
depot. Do beg your contributors when.
ever possible to add this personal
touch
Thanks Given For Help
The deep gratitude Of the French
people for Americas generous help Is
expressed graphically in the following
letter received from Paris by the chair
man of the American fund:
wish to thank you for your beau.
titul and generous gifts which brighten
the lives of our wounded soldiers. To
q man who has Lived for months in the
trenches under all the hard and ar.
duous condition of war, it Is an mex
pressible comfort TO find in the hospital
that he is not merely a surgical case
but an individual man and that in
far away America, men aud women
are remembering the heroism and suf
fering of the French army, and are do
Ing their utmost to encourage the sol.
diers with some testimonial of their
, The following letter received from
Mrs. Breese, was written after she had
visited one of the open air establish.
ments in the Pyrenees:
81 visited yesterday the Sana tOrium
Franchet at Camho for tube-cu sol
diers and officers who have become I'LL
from the exposure and infection in the
trenches. 1t is high u2 in the noun
tains, they have shelters where the
moor sufferers lie in the open air all
day"
Breaking of a stern line of the Gar