The Glenwood post., 1918-07-20
INTERESTING LETTER
FROM MISS NEBEL

Miss Edith johnson, superintendent
of the Glenwood sanitarium, has just
received the following letter, written
to the Glenwood nurses, from Miss
Clara Nebel, former Glenwood nurse,
but now in training for Red Cross ser
vice beyond the seas:
New York City,
Hotel Van Rensselaer,,
Base Hospital Unit No. Al.
Dear Girls:
Your letters received, and surely was
delighted to hear all the news. 1t is
so easy to get poky about writing let
ters here.
This is such an unsettled life we re
living, that I really think days and
days pass me, and they only seem like
hours.
Do not know what | last wrote you,
but / will tell you about the Fourth
of July parade.
Wednesday we dressed up for review
Cross capes, and walked up to 34th aad
Park to the armory. There were one
thousand nurses present for ten units
were listed. Three units were in full
blue uniforms, and some had their
capes and the rest in just the white.
You cannot imagine what a pretty
sight it was, with those flaming red
| cape Innings showing here and there,
and those natty blue uniforms, tan
shoes and gloves (the foreign service
uniform).
Well, we sang and marched past the
massed close up and whom do you sup
pose rose up and talked to us real proud
| like, but Miss Noyes Clara D. Noycs
is director of the. Field Nursery service.
! She s little gray haired woman with
such a pretty face, and she talked to
us of our wonderful opportunities we
had, and the high ideals, etc. Then a
colonel told us how glad the men are
to have women nurses. He is a vet
cran of the Spanish American war an
recalled how dreadfully they Jared
under the care or lack of care unless
there were women nurses.
Then we were formed again and the
colonel and captains and Miss Noyes
passed through the ranks to inspect
us. I smiled right thoughtlessly At
Miss Noycs, and she smiled back
very unmiIitary I'm sure.
Then Thursday (the Fourth) was
about the biggest day I've ever expert
enced in my young life, so II tell you
about it.
At a. m. we gathered, dressed as
we had been on Wednesday for review,
assembled down in Waverly place. Got
in lines of sixteens which filled the
space between the squares and at nine
the parade began to march. Turned
into Fifth avenue at Washington arch
and marched to 72nd street and across
to Lexington where we were dismissed
1t took the nurses division of the pa.
radr two hours steady marching. We
were dismissed in Central park, where
we watched the rest of the para lie
pass by.
There were eleven hundred of us
nurses, and people seemed surprised to
know there were so many. Got plenty
of applause along the way for the
streets were packed as usual from
start to finish.
A flock of senators and congressman
were in the reviewing stand and Sec,
retaries Daniels and Baker and Champ
Clark. But IN sure I didn't see a
familiar face as we were ordered to
"eyes left" when we passed them and
so do them the honor which was their
due. Their stand was opposite Madison
Square just after you pass the Flat
iron building.
/ We watched the rest of the parade
for a time and then went home to the
hotel. At seven O'Clock they were
still marching, and the bands flourish
ing. Guess that was the largest pa.
rade New York has yet had, and some
of the banners the Slovacs carried said
"The Kaiser will hear about this pa.
rade.' You see it was an information.
al affair, and every country on earth
was represented officially, but Ger.
many and Austria, and yet there
were great many of German and
Austrian descent there, too. Surely