The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-11

work.
Yesterday afternoon, when I visited
the Red Cross rooms, l found at one
long table half dozen women work
ing under the instruction of Mrs.
Berry, and many had been equally |
busy in the morning, and others later
in the afternoon.
Since I have visited the Red Cross
headquarters from day to day, l have
been much impressed with the re
markable executive ability of Mrs, !
Berry, and that bright enthusiasm
which seems so much part of her.
1t is an interesting fact in connec-
ton with Mrs. Berry's work that on
Saturday morning there appeared IN
The Journal a picture of the women
enrolled in the work in New York
City, one of whom, Mrs. Austin Bald
win, Mrs. Berry was associated with
while working with the New York
unit.
To talk to Mrs. Berry about the
Red Cross work is to get most IN
teresting glimpse not only Of the
work that she has done-and of her
own work Mrs. Berry will say very
| little-but into what the Red Cross
means, i'll the scheme of living.
"First of ALL" Mrs. Berry said, 81
want to make it plain that [ am not
a D. A. R., but for many years IN
New York City l worked with the
Captain Robert Nichols Chapter, ID.
A. R., at the time of the Spanish
American War, in 1898, joining forces
with them, and working with them
frequently since.
"At that time the work had not
been systematized as it has since, but
there was a tremendous need for the
supplies, and the call for clothing,
bedding and surgical dressings was
constant.
"Since that time the work has
grown from its almost primitive stage
to the most scientific plane, carefully
worked out and standardized in every
way.
another thing I want to impress
upon you is that | am not nurse
The examinations which I have taker
have been in the surgical dressings
"When I went to New York, in Feb
ruary, 1916, I joined the Red Cros'
unit on Fifth avenue and for fou,
: months l worked with them ever!
day from ten in the morning to fiv,
in the afternoon. l passed my eX
aminations there, and my box of sur
! gical dressings which l have used s
: much for instructions, made Their
e and received my credentials for.
! This box, which Mrs. Berry shove
h me, is most interesting and open
$ ones eyes to the work that is waitin
r to be done. 1t contains five kind
= of bandages, muslin, canton flame
gauze, flannel and crinoline; thre
= sizes of drains; one and three var
y gauze rolls; big and little wipes
| single and double compress; an al
dominal binder; four tailed hea
bandages; a T-bandage; one yar
muslin sling; three sizes laparotom
pads, with tapes; absorbent cotto
pads; knitted sponge.
| "These are all the things used
the home reserve work." said Mr.
Berry. "The foreign relief work
different in some respects"
an the event that the United Stat
is not involved in war, will the SUI
plies made at the local Red Cross un
be of immediate practical service ?"
Mrs. Berry laughed at my que
ton.
There is never a time" she sal
"when the supplies equal the deman
And they are needed no less in tin
of peace than of war. But they a
not used in local charitable work. T.
dressings are placed in water-pro
. boxes and are stored in governme
depots. They are used not only
- the service, but in all great nation
disasters. In San Francisco, at t
time of the terrible earthquake, a
more recently in the awful Mississip
flood, the Red Cross workers we
the first at hand to offer relief"
at is a wonderful thing for Pens
cola" 1 said, "to have you here
- give the work your time and yo
. experience"
y az am glad of the experience. The
papers mean much to me, for tn
represent much work, day and nigh
. Written across the back of the exam
> nation papers were the words: an
Berry's work is done with exception
/. merit"
But Mrs. Berry seemed to ia
much more pride in the fact that t
= New York unit, with which she h
worked, had taken a prize at
American bazaar in New York, o7
hundreds of supplies sent in fr
other parts of the country.
Speaking of the interest that
women in New York have taken
the work, Mrs. Berry said:
- at is not only in New York, but
~ over the country that the women Y
- have been known as society won
are taking their part in this or
preparedness movement which
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