New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-04

shown how 10 get well and receive tne chd"N0
=, get well. One hospital is already IN oP''a-
t,on and three large sanatoria are nearing
completion. with 100 beds each. Inc w"
iect is not only TO cure the suherefS' "U'
N teach them a trade. enabling them 20 earn
their living i'm the country. Tu0ercu'ous sol
dicrs are coming daily to the oihces OF U'''
charity in ever increasing numbers, ASKING ~
be taken in. The answer VIII depend o."
American generosity
A croup Of Americans, headed by Mrs.
P,bert Woods Bliss whose husband IS fltSI
Secretary Of the American Embassy in Paris
have instituted and carried on DISTRIBUTING
Service" in France The name Of the organ
za,ion g; "Scrvicc dc Distribution Ameri-
cine" 7, was established on its present
Lasis IN December, 1914. and grew out OF
norsonal work done by Mrs. Bliss since the
beginning Of the war. The purpose has been
o. suDply hospitals throughout France WIN
whatever they need. ~ the end Of 1916 the
results were these:
Number Of towns visited....... l'Z'V
Number OF hospitals inspected
and supplied. wv
Number Of articles distributed 4,SJ''9O-
The director Of the organization - Russell
Greeley. The secretary Of Godfrey Dodge
Tho service has garage outside the gates
I Of Paris with ten cars and lorry. All the
staff. except the stenographers and packers
arc volunteers.
Aid for Serbians
This work for the French is connected
Nth the American Distributing Service Tor
the Serbians. which was begun by sending
- ID 10 AQr
p member of the American Sanitary Com
mission headed by DR.. r. p. Strong, in the
spring Of 1915. Mr. Cross made an investga-
ton Of inc situation in Serbia at that time
from the point of view OF the American Dis
tributing Service.
In January. 1916, Mrs. Charles Henry HAYES
Of the Greek Red Cross, wife Of Professor
Hayes, OF Dartmouth College, Hanover, being
on her way 20 italy and Greece for the pur-
pose Of conveying relief into Albania through
Janina. offered her services to the Distrlbut-
ing Service for the conveying and dlstubu-
ton of supplies Mrs. Hawes's offer was
accented and she was furnished with & small
fund for the purpose Of supplies. Events
forestallod her. but she succeeded in landing
and distributing TO the last Serbians leaving
San Giovanni di Mcdua thousand rations.
A. the same time she took an active part
in relief work at Brind.si and distributed
about thousand dollars worth of supplies to
the Serb refugees passing through that port.
Meanwhile the French Army Medical Ser
vice had created the mission de COordna-
ton de Secours aux Armees d'OrieEt' for
the purpose Of distributing relief supplies
&C the Serbian and other allied armies IN
the Balkans member Of the Distributing
Service was appointed a member OF the Mis-
sion and fund OF 100000 francs placed al
the disposal of the Distributing Service. which
thenceforward Co0perated actively IN the
" ork OF the Mission Urgent representations
Of the need of help in Corfu having been
made early in February 20 the Mission by
the French Army Medical Service, Mrs.
Uawes. representing the Distributing Service
and the Mission jointly, was sent to Corfu.
where she established soup kitchen and
did other valuable relief work at Vido. She
was later Joined at Corfu by Countess de
Rcinach- Foussemagne, lntirmiere Deleguee or
the Mission.
When the crisis at Corfu was at an end
the field depot of the Mission was moved to
Salonica. There the service distributed to
Serbians various shipments Of relief and hos
pital supplies; total Of 451 cases.
Mrs. Bliss and her friends have also con
Quoted q work for frontier children dat
ing from August, 1914. which has cared for
French. Belgian and Alsatian children to the