Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-30
$50. Surgical Dressings, Hos
pital Garments and Supplies
for U. S. Military Relief.

PlIdl Ntl1 utclitS duu supplies
| for U. S. Military Relief.
/ April 81, 1917
| Base hospital units (see A r c 1859
| have been organized under special in
! structions from the Surgeons General
! Of the Army and Navy, and the public
/ is earnestly requested to assist not only
! in the contribution of money but in the
| preparation of the necessary supplies,
especially those which can be made by
| volunteer workers
| The Red Cross is anxious to have
| available a sufficient quantity of non
| perishable goods to meet the first de-
mands of our Army and Navy When
! the needs of war arise, the means OF
| meeting them should be available to
avoid the vast amount of suffering
which otherwise would result.
STORAGE AND SHIPMENT OF
SUPPLIES
| 1t is suggested that each chapter
should make some local arrangement
! for the storage of supplies, made or
! collected from other groups and agen-
! cies, until a sufficient quantity has &C
! cumulated to warrant shipment 1t Is
! desirable. when practicable, that sup
! plies for hospital purposes should reach
/ Red Cross warehouses through a hed
! Cross chapter, as that will afford
: greater certainty that they are made
! according to standard specifications
+ But when it is not convenient to send
! such supplies. when made by another
! agency. to the reares, Red Cross chap
+ ter, they may be shipped directly, as
! should be done by the chapters them-
! selves, to the central warehouses pro
vided for that purpose.
| Warehouses for the collection and
storage of these supplies have already
! been established by the Department OF
| Military Relief, which has organized
! for this purpose the bureau OF Reo
; Cross Supply Service" CA r lo4).
! These warehouses; and Offices of the
Directors in charge are:
New York Branch
! warehouses-Red Cross Supply Ser
I vice, Bush Terminal, Brooklyn y. \.
/ Ofices-Otto T. Barnard, Room 34Z,
| METROPOLITAN Tower. New York City.
Northeastern Branch
Warehouses-Red Cross Supply Ser
vice. 1000 Washington Street, Boston,
Mass.
Ofices-Henry S. Dennison. 1000
WASHINGTON Street, Boston, Mass.
Chicago Branch
| Warehouses-Red Cross Supply Ser
vice. 225 East Illinois Street, Chicago,
| III.
Offlces-A. A. Sprague. I'd, 112 West
| Adams Street, Chicago, Ill.
! New Orleans Branch
| Warehouses-Red Cross Supply Ser
vice. United States Mint, New Orleans
| La.
Ohices-H. r. Labouisse. sos Hennen
Building, New Orleans. La.
Denver Branch
! Narehouses-Red Cross Supply Ser
| vice. 1912, 18th Street, Denver, Color
| ado.
| OfHces-W. c. Evans, 500 Central
Savings Bank Bldg, Denver, Colorado
San Francisco Branch
! warehouses-Red Cross Supply Ser
vice sal Mission Street San Francisco,
! Calf.
| Ofices-A. B. c. Dohrmann, SOP Cali
| fornia Street, San Francisco. cam.
! 1t is suggested that the directors OF
the respective branches OF Red cross
| Supply Service" be notified whenever
| shipments are made or about to be
made. These directors will supply the
/ suitable form of invoices to be used 1or
| all such shipments.
! Materials in bulk will later be placed
| in each Of these warehouses to ne
! sold at cost for cash to chapters of the
/ Red Cross Blank forms on which to
make such orders will be supplied by
the directors of branches Of Red Cross
! Supply Service. The directors Will
| sell only prescribed minimum quanti-
! ties.
DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING
SUPPLIES
When definite directions for making
garments and supplies are not given IN
this circular patterns and samples OF
material together with sample boxes OF
surgical dressings accompanied by mi
| mute directions, also Red Cross en-
blems can be procured upon request
from the following distributing centers
Boston Chapter will supply requests
from all new England States except
| Connecticut. Address:
| Miss Ellen T. Emerson S+'