Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-23
NO USE IN DREADLNG GRIP,
SAYS GIRL IN AMBULANCE
Marion kcang Johnson One Of Main Line Hooinc Of Epidemic,
Stops Bc,uccn Trips to Tel Of
Her Experiences

MORE than one woman has won her
lNl spurs IN the last few weeks, during
the stress and horror Of the influenza
epidemic. and not inGreuuenty have
they been won with quiet gallautrN,
which has been an inspiration to count
less others ~ go also and give their
best
Miss Marion Heating Johnson, Of
Eoscmont has been serving for the
last two weeks a. an ambulance driver
for the Bryu Mawr Emergency Hospi-
tai. covering the greater part of the
Main Line She is the only woman
ambulance driver in that section.
Miss johnson organized a motor corps
as an auxiliary to the Main Line branch
Of he Red Cross, and when the head
quarters at the former Lancaster Inn
at Morris and Mont gomery avenues, IN
Bryu Mawr. were turned into an emer-
geucy hospital the motor corps was at
tached to II.
There are about Twelve regular MEM
bcrs in the corps and at present ABOUT
ten volunteers Miss Johnson is, how
eyer. the only one who is doing ann
bulauCe service.
There is something pleasantly COM
morplace in a woman in uniform today.
The uniforms are no longer crisply new,
nor is the work; ant, likewise, people
who know women down TO the ground
have given lIp making remarks on UNI
forms being worn for show and prophe-
swing that none of it will last long
Miss johnson drove her ambulance
round TO the back door of the hospltai
Yesterday afternoon and climbed out 10
take a turn while the stretcher was Delhs
csrried into the hospital, and before she
set out again on another emergency call
She had been driving steadily TO and
from the hospital all day. II vas lG'e'
and probaby she was tired, hut am
bulance drivers can't get tired whenever
thov feel like it, any more than doctors
or nurses ,.,,
Her car, big black ambulance, with
rod lettering on it, had. she said begun
its career as a supply truck, ana hau
ho.r given to her Just before the cpl
d,u,i,. II likewise rose magnincently 10
the occasion and very likely IT'S engine
vas tbrobbing with "a pleasant sense oi
it's usefulness, while it submitted III
silence TO various tiattering coinmehts'
Miss Johnson had said very little about
the mart she herself is playing IN the
struggle against the spread OF the epi-
demic.
"You do see pretty dreadful things,
she said mildly, and did not expand on
theme which has been developed win
clubbing variations. I'm not AFRAID OIL
getting II. | had "A cold or something
little while ago, which was probably
light case of the ''tu.' Any way II II
wasn't. it doesn't do much good hiding
from it-it'll get you If 1t takes fancy
10 you, and in the meantime you might
as wei! be doing what YOU can TO help
the people who are working themselves
to death
THE girls out here have been doing
wonderfully; the other members OF thc
motor corps take supplies and carry the
visiting n'frses around and things like
that and others help with the cleaning,
anything they can possibly do. When
we first opened about 100 girls from the
college volunteered and worked like
beavers.
we brought in about six new cases