New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-06
Women Gather
To Show Devotion
To Preparedness
100 Volunteers Start Train
ing for New Wartime
Duties
Auto Course Given
Groups Begin Wireless, Am
bulance Driving and
Cooking Glasses

More than 100 women OF New York
gathered yesterday in various parts Of
the city TO show their devotion 10 the
spirit of preparedness b. beginning to
learn how 20 send wireless messages,
how 20 run automobiles and how 20
cook food for soldiers.
A girl who knows how 70 clean en-
gines and even put on tires, having
done motor wartime service IN Eng
land; a woman who is proficient IL
wireless and a telegraph operator. and
a little French girl, who has come over
from her own country since the war
began. were among the dozens who re-
ported for duty.
Sly months haro work. no frliis. %"
fluff. no fun and an SIS fee was the
proposition enthusiastically hailed by
dozen or more prospective wireless stu
gents. who met last night al Hunter
College. Sixty-eighth Street and PARK
Avenue. to register. Mrs. r. L. Vaughan
Of q West Eighth Street, will be their
commandante, and the work will all be
under the auspices of the New YORK
State Committee OF the Nauonal
League for Women's Service. @: which
Miss Robinson Smith is chairman. with
a force Of 5000 women behind her IN
New York City alone.
Must Work Diligently
Only the most diligent work, the
girls are warned. would prepare them
TO send messages with skill after six
months instruction but they are so
eager TO be ready to serve their coun-
try in the event Of immediate war that
some of them will double Oh classes.
which will be offered at different hours.
Il have taught wireless. and ! know
what a hard proposition the girls arc
facing" said Mrs. Rea de Mort Flehlng
haus. of 257 West 10th Street.
I'VE want 10 work hard said one OF
the girls.
After putting on tires and cleaning
engines and generally organizing the
York women for war work in England.
Miss Florence A. Young, Of 4S0 last
Sixty-ffth Street, was eager 70 NJ her-
self for still another branch of service
by taking up the wireless lessons.
at is wonderful 20 see the American
women 50 quickly getting ready to
help" said Miss May jacquard, OF 500
Park Avenue. who came from France 10
New York.
Don't know Necessity
But they don't ye, know the neces-
sity for IT as ! do. They haven't heard
the cannons booming. and they haven't
vet seen their brothers and fathers and
friends marching away. | want 20 learn
how TO send the wireless messages. II
do war work here. shall feel that !
am helping my own country. which will
be an ally then.
Among the others who enlisted IN the
wireless class were Miss Barbara
Brown. OF POI West Eleventh Street;
Mrs. Arlo Banopulo, of 52i West lSfth
street; Miss Bessie G.. Bent, of 23S
West Fifty-frst Street; Miss Bessie
Weber. Of 100 Fifth Avenue; Mrs. Eda
FOREIGNER. Of II West 10th Street,
Miss Bertha Sandberg. OF IA East
Ninety-soveuth street; Mrs. Mary G..
Tvrrell. of 961 jefferson Avenue. and
Miss May G.. Davie, OF SIC East lS0th
Street
Fifteen women began their training
as future ambulance drivers yesterday
morning at the Y. VI. &. A. automobile
school. go West SiXty-siXth Street. up-
der the leadership Of !. G. Gregory
Their first lesson was on ignition. as
explained on an eigh--c cylinder car.
They will work TWO hours every day
except Saturday and sunday. Miss
Florence s. Young. OF the wireless
class. reported in the ambulance driv-
ing class also.
Many Own Cars
Among the other women OF the class
most Of whom own their own cars and
are ready TO turn them over 10 the ser
vice OF the country in case Of war, are
Mrs. Arthur Little. 4i9 Park Avenue;
Mrs +. /. Dillingham;. l3l Riverside
Drive; Mrs Frank W. Smith. - West
Tenth Street; Mrs. 4. II. Nelson. II
East Eightieth Street; Mr.. Samuel
Wag taft 405 Park Avenue: the Misses
Lois and Mary Martin, l7S East Sixty
fourth Street: Miss Isabel Warden.
Plandomc. Long Island. Miss Nandinc
Montgomery. 80 East Fifty-third
street; Mrs. T.. H. Griffith. 10 East
Sixteenth Street; Mrs Louise Franzcl.
3l6 East Seventy Street: Miss
Corinnc Brooks Short. $40 East Eighty
fifth Street; Miss Cecilia Allan. So