New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-04
10000 March
In Red Cross
Parade To-day
Nurses Who Have Seen Ser.
vice to Appear With
Those Soon TOGO

| Fifty Red Cross nurses who have
| seen service abroad will be honored
side by side with the nurses who are
about to sail for foreign service in the
parade of 10000 Red Cross workers
which will march down Fifth Avenue at
noon to-day. The women who have
seen battle service will wear no special
insignia save the tiny bronze medals
which read: European War-1914."
One of their number, Mrs. Maud Met
calf, now superintendent of the Park
Hospital, will carry the most famous
banner of the entire parade. II Is an
American flag which she made herself
and carried through the Serbian re-
treat from Nish. At one time the two
American doctors and two nurses which
made up the little Red Cross detachment
were overtaken by the Germans, and
only the presence of the Stars and
| Stripes saved them from capture.
Veterans of the Red Cross ship,
| which went abroad early in the war
will be headed by Miss Sophia Kiel, the
nurse who set up an American Red
/ Cross hospital in camel stable on the
! Turkish front. Another veteran will be
I Tristan, the Red Cross war dog who
went through the terrible days follow
! ing the Battle of the Marine with a
broken leg. He is now owned by Mrs.
Henry L. Haas, of Douglas Manor,
| Long Island, and he will be captain"
Of the Douglas Manor delegation.
General Hoyle to Review Parade
The parade will be reviewed at the
Public Library by Major General Eli D.
hoyle, commander of the Department
Of the East, and Major General William
{. Gorgas, surgeon general of the
| United States army. who is one Of the
members of the Red Cross executive
committee. Among the guests of honor
ut the stand will be General Emilio
Nunez, Nice-Presdent of the republic
of Cuba, and c. de Quesada, chancellor
of the Cuban Consulate.
Starting at Sixtieth Street and Fifth
Avenue at noon, headed by Lieutenant
John Philip Sousa's band, the nurses
will sweep down Fifth Avenue. Thou
sands of women in white, frightened
By flashes of crimson on their fore
heads and arm bands, will fill the ave
nue. with color, while the dull blue and
dust gray of their foreign service uni
forms" will be reminder 10 the public
OF the stern business upon which these
women are about to enter. There will
also be thousands of women in the
white uniform and flowing blue veil OF
those who have been making bsndages
and surgical dressings for the Red
Cross.
Colonel Hayward to Lead
The head of the parade will form at
| Eightieth Street and Fifth Avenue.
| The first division will include the
ward, and his staff; Sousa's band;
| members of the Red Cross War Coun-
ell, headed by II. P. Dawson, and the
| national committee of nursing service,
| headed by Miss Carolyn c. Van Blair
com. The second division, which will
| form at Seventy ninth Street. will in
! clude the units of nurses who are
about to sail for France and in whose
honor the parade is held, also public
health nurses and pupil nurses.
In the third section, forming at Sew
enty-third Street, will be women from
the Red Cross workrooms, teaching
centres, home service groups, member
ship campaign committees and refresh
ment corps The fourth section, form
ing at Sixty ninth Street, will include
canteen, sanitary camp and motor units
from Washington, headed by James G.
Blaine, jr. The fifth section, forming
at Sixty-eighth Street. will be made up
of delegations from Long Island. Staten
Island, The Bronx and suburban towns
Of New Jersey, New York and Con-
necticut.