The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-06
WOMEN. RENDER AID
T0PLANT'S VICTIMS
War Service Organizations and
Volunteers From N. Y. Hos
pitfalls Respond Quickly.

Bow Scouts, vomen's war service or
Ranixations ana volunteer workers from
New York hospitals stepped efficiently
into the situation, both in this city ana
closer to tho scene of the disaster. ana
rendered material aid, both In caring
for the wounded and preventing more
widespread damage as result OF the
recurrent explosions that shook the
metropolitan district from time to time
during the day.
At the request of the United States
medical authorities the National League
for Women Service sent ten ambulances
each with two, women aids. 70 SCUM
Amboy to aid In removing the dead ano
injured from the Gillespie plant Inc
call reached the local headquarters OF
the league before o'clock in the morn
ing. Almost Immediately afterward
seven automobiles we're on their way
from the Newark branch Of the league
Later three ambulances and six women
aids from the New York city prancn
were despatched to South Amboy. ana
for the rest Of the day and last night
did valiant service at the scene OF the
explosion. The women were IN com
n1and OF Capt. Agnes Jones, heao Oh
the newark CORPS.
Relief Corps Organized.
Miss Lucy NJ. Ryder. superintendent
of tho New York Inhrmary, at 321 East
Fifteenth street, organiz ID a RELIEF corps
of nurses and left for Sewaren, N. j.,
| lust after noon, that being the neares.
noint through which relief workers and
supplies might be sent to South Amboy
Among the nurses who left the IN,
! Urinary were Miss Cicely Campbell ano
Mrs. Henrietta M. Day.
| Organization of these RELIEF forces wa
placed in the charge of Miss Margaret
Christie of the War Camp Community
Service at Long Branch the only large
New Jersey city close to the scene OIL
the explosion with adequate hospital
facilities to care for any large number
| of injured.
! Miss ,Christies work began almost i'm
nnediately after the first explosion FIJI
day night, which rocked the building IT
which her headquarters are located
That building was the new War Camt
Community Service Girls Clup,' iui,s
equipped and ready TO be opened. Il
had Accommodations for apprSximatel!
fifty wounded.
without official word that the building
would be needed Miss Christie on hei
own initiative began preparing TO nave
II taken over as an emergency hospitai
She summoned a corps Of volunteer as
! sistants and undertook to mobilize all o.
the facilities Long Branch AFFORDED
Eight experienced graduate nurses wer'
found in addition to the regular star
which already was at the club.
The Emergency Arrangements.
BY 6 o'clock yesterday morning surgi
cal supplies were listed under her direc
ton: ambulances from Camp Vail, nea
Long Branch, were ready to report: TIVE
Long Branch department stores wer
holding their motor truck fleets in readi
ness for service carrying beds. beddin,
and other things as they might b.
needed. and even a coal supply had beef
arranged for. When The wounded begal
to come in and the Long Branch cit.
hospital was filled the emergency ar
rangements completed in advance b,
Miss Christie worked without hitch.
The boy scouts stepped into the situa
ton late in the afternoon when the re
port spread that another and NOR
gigantic explosion than any that ha
gone before was feared. They went fror
house to house all over the city notifying
nervous women and children in institu
tions and private homes that the bias
would cause no harm in New York. an
advising every one as precautio
against damage to open windows On
otherwise protect themselves against til
, slight damage that might possibly occur
/ but which did not.