Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-03-09

y 0NDON Feb 3-Carton House Terrace is in
terestng of great, cream-colored spacious
- houses. They are erected Crown prop
erty They face the gardens of the Athenaeum and the
United Service clubs. St. James, Park, the Horse
Guards parade, Mall that leads from Bucking
ham palace Victoria Arch lie in This is
possibly the desirable residence part of London
Interesting people and interesting
things being them. Curzon lives in
Sir Gilbert Parker in another. side of the
Duke or Iorks steps which divide Carlton House Ter
race into two parts is the former German embassy.
On the other side of the steps is Lady Ridley's town
house long converted into hospital for wounded
and convaescent officers. Further the at
No is, is Lord Astors great house which months
turned the Red Cross This is the center
and headquarters of the Red Cross work in Great Bri
tain. Here immense and important work is conduct
ed by hundreds Of women serving as volunteers The
work has outgrown two large houses At the begin
ming of the the Red Cross installed in Lord
Saisburys historic old residence in Arlington street
just behind Ritz When i, found made
quate the sta moved the larger residence Of
the Duke of Norfolk James square, and finally
Carlton House Terrace They occupy the whole of the
house. and every in it is crowded with workers
and huge Tarapherns ia of files, indexes and records
Before he was called to serve foreign
minister of blockade, Lord Robert Cecil in charge
of this work. He succeeded by Sir Louis Malet,
who had British ambassador at Ccnstantinople.
To these volunteer and unpaid workers at the Red
Cross the office admiralty send all of their
lists of casualties, wounded killed and missing The
ndertakers tell the nearest of kin where
the dead killed and buried, whether any personal
effects recovered where the wounded were trans
ported and the missing An admirable
been devised. The American embassies in Lon
Berlin Paris co-operated the fullest
extent. Many American families With killed in
the British army received their last account of them
through the devoted women, of them Americans,
who doing this Red Cross work.
1t two American working here who made
investigation resulted in discovering how and
where Johnnie Poe the famous Princeton football play
killed while serving with the Black Watch reg
iment Poe out in advance with bombing party.
Many letters written and many survivors were
questioned before known where he fell and where
he buried BY odd coincidence of the women
employed in making this search married to Bal
timore man and the other from Washington D. c.
Nearly all of the great houses Of London have been
given to form of relief work another.
The Duke of Devonshre's famous old house Plea
dlly is headquarters for the volunteer
houses have been turned into hospitals,
nursing homes or places of quiet retreat for
wounded but suffering from shell shock. This is
only of London but throughout Great Britain, Lord
Northclie fitted and maintained his expense
his country house. Sutton place, Guilford
pital for sixty wounded officers More than 1900
wounded soldiers mostly Canadians. taken of
at Clveden, the famous old estate Taplaw that
Waldorf Astor bought some years from the Duke
of Westminster. In park the Duke Of Northum-
berland at Alnwick castle there is rest camp for
wounded and convalescent soldiers where 5000
be taken of. The list might be continued almost
Indefinitely. 1t comes to this: virtually there is
in England who a large house or a large
property who is not devoting it
of relief work. In most OF support
and maintenance is born entirely by the owner Only
the largest enterprises rule has there been any
necessity Of government support. There is hardly
person in England who is not contributing directly
Indirectly to the form of personal service.
They working hospitals as nurses cooks or
chauffeurs, or they taking wounded out
drive or finding amusement and light for
do in the hospitals while away the time of
of the permanent pieces of furniture in every
is ON to ma
chimes hospitals in England and behind
the for lint and bandages and for
dressing continuous and unceasing, The of
the American embassy meet twice week with Mrs.
Pa al ambassadors house in Grosvenor
bandages for the hospitals These little groups
are meeting other houses every afternoon.
One anywhere woman with idle hands. In
underground in the theaters, dinner tables