Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1918-10-26
Chaplains and Sisters Nursing Sol
diers Are sticISen With
the Influenza.
Rector and Priests of the Sacred
Heart Retreat Untiring
Workers.
People of Louisville Have Been
Very Generous i'm Fur
nishing Delicacies.
COMPLIMENT X. G. WORKERS.

Due to their close contact with
the soldiers sick at Camp Zachary
Taylor three of the chaplains doing
relief work and four Sisters became
victims of the influenza during the
past week. The sick chaplains are
Fathers Donough, Bindle, Behan
and Calmus. At this writing all
are pronounced out of danger ex-
cept Chaplain Calmus, who has
been removed to private room at
the officers quarters, where he
will receive the best of attention.
Chaplain Fealy, of the training
school, has been confined at st.
Joseph's Infirmary for the past ten
days but expects to get back to the
camp soon. The Sisters who were
taken i'll while nursing at the
emergency hospital were taken
| home from the camp and all are on
the road to recovery. The work
of these Sisters will never be sur
passed, says Capt. Maher, of the
emergency hospital headquarters.
The night and day force of the
Knights of Columbus Secretaries
and chaplains are still very busy.
although their work Is much easier
/ than it was last week. The camp
is under the strictest quarantine, as
one of the chaplains found out in
going on sick call into the area
of the emergency hospitals. The
J colored guard called:
Halt. who goes there?"
A Catholic priest answered,
Father Vincent of the Passionists,
who has been doing relief duty"
! "Whar's your CROSSE" replied the
guard.
Father Vincent reached into his
pocket and showed the guard
small crucifix he carries.
dat amt no good. sab. You
have to have 1t on your shoulders"
II was necessary to call the Cor
lporal of the guard before the sentry
would be satisfied. as he saidNof-
lders Is orders. especially litter
dark.
Col Pyles. of the base hospital,
paid the K c. workers quite a
compliment when he called a
meeting of all workers on Monday
last and said he wanted men to
handle the serious cases in the hos
pital at night, to relieve the officers
and men who had been on duty so
much over time. The chaplains and
Secretaries had been on duty every
night since the seige began and
knew exactly what to do. The next
night the Y. M. c. A. Secretaries
also Joined in the work under the
direction of the Red Cross.
Father Alphonsus, rector of the
Sacred Heart Retreat on the New
burg road, has been ar untiring
worker with the priests at the
camp, and three from his mon
astery, one priest from the Passion
lists staff doing relief work during
the day and one at night. This
made the staff of chaplains four
during the day and three at night,
with three sick during the past
week, who of course were off duty.
1t was very edifying to see the
way the soldiers received the sacra-
ments and how resigned they
seemed to be after visit from the
chaplains.
The people of Louisville were
very generous sending delicacies to
the men, which were carried to the
diet kitchen by Tom Brocar, Mrs.
Berkeley. Mrs. Murphy and many
others
There were many sympathetic
scenes during the past two weeks at
the base hospital, especially in the
case of Private Gabel, of Fremont,
Ohio, who died October IT. His
brother died the day before at
Camp Sherman, and the telegram
from home notifying him of his
brothers death found him corpse
also. He was prepared for death
by Chaplain Barrett, which was the
only consolation to his young wife
at home. The double funeral of
these two heroes was the largest
one ever held in the city of FIRE.
mont, Ohio.
The officers training school for
infantry men opened Monday with
several well known young men of
louisville among its students. Rob-
j ert G. Wulf, who was formerly Di-
recaor of Construction for the
Knights of Columbus War Activi-
ties, being enrolled
The K of G. buildings are still
closed for entertainments and the
only activities allowed is writing
home to the folks, which the boys
do with vengeance. The interiors
Of the halls have been painted
during the lay off, and footlights
have been installed, so that things
will be in good shape when the ban
Is lifted The Secretaries are yet
kept busy answering telephone
calls from the city and can be seen
all over the camp delivering mes
sages.'