The sun., 1918-08-01
WARS HORRORS END
FOR DRAKE buckles
District Attorney Orders Am
bulance Corps de Luxe
Mustered Out.
HEADQUARTERS AT RITZ
Pink Pajama Military Parades
at Bayside Held for the
Last Time.

Nineteen patriotic and wealthy young
women from all over these United
States who have formed the backbone
Of the Drake Section Sanitaire" re-
been under rigorous military discipline
at their camp at the old Jacobs man
sion at Bayside. L. l.. but the camp is
to be dismantled. Never again will
the nineteen trip by moonlight across
the lawn OF "The OAKS" clad In their
snappy patamas Of military pink, TO
lay their tired young selves upon the
nineteen cots in the fourteen tents
which were their home
And not In one thousand years, they
are convinced, will they ever see France
as a detachment Of the one thousand
women ambulance drivers which the
Drake Section had announced II would
train and send over in return for the
ridiculously nominal fee OF 500
monthly which was exacted
Miss Ethel Langdon Drake. who was
born in Lincoln. Mass. and who once
was in the millinery business in Chi
cago. and Mrs. s. J. Symons, the wife
Of Major in the British army, came
down town from the Ritz Carlton. where
they are living to see District Attorney
Swami yesterday. in response to his
Invitation. As a result of their call they
agreed to abandon all further activities
In connection with the Drake Section,
and to turn over to Jules Jusserand.
the French Ambassador at Washington.
the $4,000 which has been collected In
its behalf.
Were Ordered Anyhow.
Miss Drake admitted. according to
Edwin p. Kilroo. Assistant District
Attorney. that tho, statement made In
her prospectus to the effect that the
section had already turned twenty-five
ambulances over to the Sixth French
army wasn't exactly so. But she said
they really had been ordered-to be
paid for on delivery-and that she GER
tainly intended to send them.
She admitted. too that she was liv-
ing at the Ritz-where the Drake Sec
ton headquarters had been established
on money which had been raised in
furtherance of her great idea to train
wealthy young women to become am
buiance drivers, and on the $4,000
yearly income belonging to Mrs. Symons
which the latter turned over to her,
paid in quarterly installments
II bit off more than I could chs
that's been the trouble with livery
thing" was the way Miss Drake
summed up the situation.
Miss Drake had made contract
with Mrs. William A. Gavan, the woman
Metropolitan Golf Association champion,
and Mr.. Gavan to collect funds for
her organization. They are now In
San Francisco and have forwarded
$4,000 as a result of their activities
there. The District Attorney yester-
day wired them to send any further
amount they may raise directly to NJ
Jusserand
The money turned over to the Dis
trict Attorney Yesterday included ST.
600 on deposit at the Bankers Trust
Company s1,o25 in a Detroit. Mich.
hank and s2.79l at the Fifth avenue
branch 81 the Guaranty Trust Company.
There are also two other accounts in
the latter institution, one In Miss
brakes own name and one In the
name of "Sytrons- Drake"
Free From Frying Eyes.
Diamonds rings valued at 5000 he
longing to Miss Gladys Rhoades 2O23
North Nineteenth street. Omaha. Neb,
one of the girls at camp have been
given to the authorities by Miss Drake
They had been entrusted to her safe
keeping by Miss Rhoades. as the regula-
women from wearing jewelry which was
considered unmilitary.
The District Attorneys investigation OF
/ the Drake Section was the result OF A
tip from the Army Intelligence Bureau
Detective SergeantS Grover Brown and
August Mayer found the Baysde camp
on hill beside the Oakland golf links
overlooking Long Island Sound The
| girls pitched their own tents. They ate
N the old Jacobs mansion. and wriegled
out Of their natty uniforms there each
night TO don their regulation pink pa =
jamas and scurry over the lawn TO their
| camp cots under canvas each night when
taps sounded. The nearest house was
half mile away. so they were quite
safe from prying masculine eyes
Saturday Bath Barred.
The camp was under the command Of
Capt" Virginia X. Chandler, 14s East
Forty-ninth street. Miss Chandler told
Mr.. Kilroe yesterday that one Of the
| very hardest things at camp was the
| failure OF the water supply system She
explained that the girls worked hard all
the week and when Saturday night came
around they sighed for bathtub such
| as-being refined and wealthy young
women-they all naturally had In their
homes.
Although bit of a martinez "Capt. 4"
| Chandler sympathized with the embryo
| ambulance drivers. Accordingly she
| loaded them into the two automobiles
| which were used for instruction purposes
and took them to the shore Of the Sound.
where the entire nineteen splashed about
with soap and eponges and turkish
towels quite as though they enjoyed Il.
But Miss Drake was displeased. so
Miss Chandler said. when she came down
| to camp from the Ritz one day and
| learned about the baths.
What chance would these young
women have Of bathing IL they were on
active duty in France" Miss Drake de-
manded sternly to know. according to
| Miss Chandler And Miss Chandler had
| to admit that they would have very, very
little chance. SO after that there was
! no more bathing.
No Social Calls Allowed.
Reveille sounded at 6 A. NJ, and the
nineteen had but scant time to leave
| their tents dash nimbly Across the 100
| feet OF lawn to The Oaks, step out of
| their military pajamas and button up
their attractive blue uniforms Mess
| call sounded at $3.50. After breakfast
they poiiced their quarters, and at 1880
! they had fifteen minutes for recreation.
| Then came drill and study until ~ mess
| again from IL to I. more drill and
! study until S, when they had fifteen min
| utes more to themselves. They had to
remain in camp In the evenings and
never, never were male persons allowed
I 10 drop around for social calls 1t was
strictly business. 90 Mr. Kiiroe was as
| sured.