The Washington herald., 1918-03-17

The women's Volunteer Aid Of the !
District OF Columbia Chapter in the |
nine months of its existence since |
last May has accomplished q great |
work. It u divided into four depart |
merlts including a uniformed division
Of between 1000 and 5000 women.
The supply service, under, Mrs.
Theodore w. Richards, has. three sec
tons. A garment and, linen section.
OF which Mrs. F. F. Fletcher, Is the
head, and which includes refugee
clothing. has provided a total of TO-
4I3 articles. The layette committee
has completed 100 layettes OF thirty
two articles each for French. and
Belgium babies. In addition the
navy auxiliary, of which Mrs. George
Dewey is the chairman, has made D.
900 hospital garments for. the navy
and over Looo knitted articles.
..- LIES Dressings.
The surgical dressings section, in
charge Of Mrs Montgomery Blair,
has made 751. .12s surgical dressings,
including the equipment OF sixteen
battleships and cruisers. Washington
was the third city in the country to
complete its = large quota for this
equipment.
Cleveland and Chicago alone finished
before 1t and their quotas were not
as large in proportion as that of
the Capital In addition the navy
auxiliary has provided surgical dress
ings for a navy base hospital and, for
a number Of the ships. The knitting
service, under Mrs. Franklin Roose-
welt, has made S.s7s articles to date.
In these two sections Of the supply
service there are more than eighty
active auxiliaries several of which
are composed Of a large number Of
churches united in one auxiliary.
The auxiliaries include those of the
Senate, government departments,
Congressional Club, Masonic Orders,
Federated Women's Clubs, D., A. r.,
Harriet Tubman Branch, community
centers and various other prominent
women's organizations.
Embassy Women Help.
The ladies of the French embassy
have many hospital garments which
-, at their request have been shipped
to France for the benefit of the
American soldiers over there.
The Comfort Section which has
lately been reorganized and is now
in charge of Mrs. Henry r. Rea. has
with the assistance of. the large
auxiliaries of the chapter provided
between 1000 and 5000 comfort
bags and $4,000 Christmas packages
for shipment abroad and to the can
comments at home.
At Christmas time Christmas
trees and decorations were pro-
vided for the camps around Wash
ington with 10000 stockings made
by the Junior Red Cross And 10000
packages of tobacco. This local
Christmas work was financed by
special contributions. The Navy
Auxiliary shipped $4,000 Christmas
packages to men in active service
in the navy and Marine Corps and
, contributed to those sent to the
army.
The Red Cross Kitchens. with
Mrs. Allyn, Capron as supervisor,
have made and contributed to the
Walter Reed Hospital. the Naval
Hospital the Fort Myer Hospital
and for foreign shipment 9,552
glasses of jellies and preserves be-
sides nine gallons OF jellies and
apple butter.
A total of over 1,ooo,ooo articles
have been provided by this Red
Cross Supply Service OF the District
Of Columbia Chapter.
Clerical Corps.
The Clerical Corps, under Miss
Stella NJ. Osborne, has ninety-three
| members in the Uniformed Division
and over 800 in its reserve. The Cleri-
| cal Corps, with its reserve, have a
number of times given extra clerical
| assistance in addressing thousands OF
notices on sudden call
Volunteer clerical service has been
provided for National Headquarters
! and the chapter in this line Uf work.
Its members aided in making the hos
pital magazines and in the Christmas
celebration and have given other sim
liar service. .
The Motor Corps, the fourth depart
| ment of the District chapter, with
Mrs. Floyd Waggaman in command,
IS now serving National Headquar-
/ tiers, Potomac Division and the Dis
trict chapter. The transports for the
District chapter. of which there are
three each day, do all sorts of errands.
carry supplies, deliver messages and
render various other transport ser
vices. The Civilian Relief workers for
home service for soldiers families re-
| ceive the aid Of two or three cars a
day from the Motor Corps.
Three afternoons a week in fair
weather convalescent soldiers from
Walter Reed Hospital are taken for
an airing. This will be increased In
warmer weather.
The Refreshment Corps has four
cars detailed to its eeIvice each day.
At 5:45 the first shift of workers is
carried to the refreshment station.
Three other shifts are taken to
and from duty. the work often con-
tinuing until late at night. Trans