Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-23
GREAT TASKS CHEERFULLY.
UNDERTAKEN BY RED CROSS
WORKERS OF HARRISBURG
Demands of the Army Are M ct Time and Still Women
Find Time to Meet Eme rgences at Home; Many
..-.. Help Great Organization
Hail to the Harrisburg Red c

Hail to the Harrisburg Red Cross
workers!
With the first chance in three
weeks to take a. full breath, to-day
the order went out that 1000 pairs
of socks and 1000 sweaters must be
produced by this chapter before
February /, not to. mention OrOOO
pads and many other necessities.
The great Institution under the
management of such women busi-
ness managers as might put to shame
a Schwab or Hoover, knew to-day
in looking over the record of its
magnificent cooperation in the in
fiuenza, that it had made good, and
there was an air of intense satisfac-
ton for the call was a stupenduous
one. AS Mrs. Lyman Gilbert recall
ed, the very first toscin sounded
when the dread disease made its ap-
pearance here. 1t came from the Mid
ldletown Aviation plant: In heavens
name can the Harrisburg Red Cross
supply us with some nurses, bath
robes and hospital garments?"
1t was then that the siX-cylinder
system of our local establishment
showed its speed and efficiency. In a
jiffy the motor maids were winging
to the stricken camp with nurses
aids and all sorts of essentials for
use in pneumonia hazards. Finding
that many colored men were among
the sufferers, an appeal was made TO
the Colored Emergency Aid, headed
by Bertha Zedricks, and this organ
ization responded instantly so that
the colored men victims at Middle
town had the very best of attention
and service. Two physicians, Cramp-
ton and Marshall, were very active IN
this feature of the great human
drive to save lives in our own Nicin-
ity.
Unlike many another industry, the
Harrisburg Red Cross Chapter, was
not capsized with the sudden demand
TO convert its resources from the
usual routine to one entirely new
and unexpected. Among tlaeheJds
of this organization are Miss Anne
Mccormick and Mrs. Mercer b.
Tate, who grasped the situation in
stanter, and Mrs. Tate, who guides
the producing part of the factory
dropped all war work Immediately
and set her forces to local efforts.
Big Demand For Masks
Far and wide came the requests
for face masks and the record to-
day showed that ten thousand OF
these were made, the volunteers
often sticking to the job all night
and thus were supplied Harrisburg
Hospitals and those in twenty out
side places. Pneumonia jackets were
one of the greatest boons supplied
BIZ this chapter, a soft, comfortable
affair which eased the sufferer tre-
lmendously.
System was the cry, and so the
work was partitioned out, covering
such activities as nursing, house-to-
house visiting, food and supplies and
transportation. In the latter MI,
Burtnett, of the National Defense
Council, made himself so useful that
the Red Cross women say he may
have a permanent job there.
Here was a crisis which illustrat-
ed the vision and preparation of the
! local chapter, for nearly 25O girls
/ had been graduated as nurse aids
land the heroism displayed by this
band will be part and parcel of Har-
risburgs gallant war record. HOS
pitfalls and private homes for radius
| of miles were supplied with these
Icapable girls. many of whom had
destitute families and there were
many, fell to the mangership of
Miss Ringing, who proved herself
most competent.
The State Emergency Hospital, but
more especially the City Emergency
Hospital, established at Fifth and
Seneca streets, found themselves
greatly indebted to the Red Cross
for their nurse quota. DR.. Raunick
paid the aids highest compliment.
Food and nourishment to suit a
pneumonia patient, was the next call
and. hurry call, too. Mrs. William
Jennings knew precisely how to
handle this and in n very short time
hundreds of matrons, high and low,
lwere making good rich soups, bullion