The sun., 1918-07-23
EFFICIENT WOMEN
NEW TO JAPANESE
Red Cross Organization Is
Revelation to Prince
and Party.
MAKE TOUR OF BRANCHES
MAKE TOUR OF BRANCHES
Visitors Inspect Operation Of
Americas Army
: of Mercy.

Mrs. Leonard Wood. wife Of the
senior Major General OF the United States
Army. wore Two service stripes and a
cross bar on her left arm yesterday. as
she received Prince Tokugawa and the
nine members OF the Japanese Red Cross
Commission at the Model Work Room OF
the New York County Chapter at 20
East Thirty-eighth street. Each OF the
stripes represented 1000 hours OF volun.
tary work for the American Red Cross
and the cross bar showed that the work
began In 1914.
The women in the department also
wore the same kind of service badges
and the chief thing that Interested the
Japanese visitors was the part that
women are taking In the war programme
without requiring the direction of men
The gentlemen from the Land Of the
Rising Sun found 1t somewhat difficult
to estimate the vast increase in wal
power that the United States had drawn
from women.
Prince Takes Life Mem bership.
The Prince became a life member Of
the Red Cross, and his associates ordi
nary members. before they left the build
my AMY "cIc pieheeu Whoh NAa II
Wood gave them each Red Cross
package OF the kind that is sent to thu
front. Ribbons in the Japanese colors
were attached to the packages.
The commissioners are making thor
ough inspection Of the workings Of thu
Red Cross. They wore the uniform
Of the Japanese Red Cross and wen
through all of the local branches Of the
big American organisation.
Mrs. Austin Baldwin showed them thu
process Of drying sphagnum moss, new
substitute for absorbent cotton, anc
when they left the Model Room. Mrs
Wood sent after them the parting o.
their native tongue" ''sayonara." tn
au revoir of the Flowery Kingdom.
When the commissioners left the
Waldorf-Astoria for their days wori
they were accompanied by Arthur w
Hahlo. Mrs. Henry P. Dawson. Lex
Arnstein, Miss Florence NJ. johnson
Mrs. w. X. Draper. Mrs Z. L. Ade'
and William Lawrence Keane. Tive
motorcycle policemen preceded the sever
automobiles that conveyed the party.
Women Drivers . Novelty.
They visited the supply department
the land battleship Recruit, the reclama
ton department and the model room
Then they went to the japanese
Auxiliary at rs Madison avenue. WHERE
sixteen Japanese women IN charge o.
Mrs. c. Yada, wife of the Japanes,
Consul-General. were at work. TIT
women arose with military precision q,
their fellow countrymen entered the
room.
What seemed to impress the visitor,
also was the fact that Miss Isabe
Worden. who Is a captain in the Rec
Cross Motor Corps. and other women o.
the corps drove their machines.
The Prince said that the women o.
Japan, while active for the Red Cross
drove no motor cars, and did not entel
into the comprehensive work that ha!
been undertaken by the women o.
America.
The Botanical Garden was visited
the party had lunch at the Lorillart
mansion, and In the afternoon they were
taken to the United States Genera
Hospital No. l, In Gun Hill road, TIT
Bronx After inspecting the hospita
the women OF the Bronx chapter served
tea in the Red Cross house at tn,
hospital.