New-York tribune., 1918-02-17
Women Motorists
To Garry Wounded
From Port to Home
Red Cross Expects to E.stab-
lish National Ambulance
Service
!. .lcoryrlght Internatlonal Eim serv!eel
IStaf Co1respondencel

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. Women
drivers Of automobiles were directly
appealed to to-day by the Bureau Of
Motor Corps Service of the American
Red Cross to assist the organization in
nationalizing and broadening the scope
of the present motor facilities of the
Red Cross.
Plans are now under way to have
every branch Of the Red Cross organize
motor corps. The uniform worn by
the corps of the District of Columbia
Chapter, of which Mrs. j. Borden Harri-
man is colonel, has been adopted, with
notifications. The women of the Dis
trlct Motor Corps wear breeches with
out coverings, while the national uni
form will require short skirts worn
over the breeches.
A. j. Pizzini, of the Department Of
Military Relief Of the Red Cross, and
director Of the new bureau, expressed
the hope o-day that every city in the
country would have its motor corps.
"under the national CONTROL" says
an official statement regarding the work
of the new bureau, "the rules governing
the service will be standardized and
strictly enforced. Women desirous of
entering the service Will be required to
take an examination in such essentials
as fair knowledge Of mechanics, ac-
i quaintancc with traffic rules, first aid
and so on. Moreover, the rules will be
rigidly enforced.
Enquiry MADE Immediately following
the creation of the Motor Corps Ser
vice Bureau brought reports showing
that there are between rs and 100
motor corps operating under the aus
pices of as many Red Cross chapters in
different parts of the country.
"F plans carry, the present number
Of motor corps soon viii be expanded
to 700
"The Department of Military Relief
of the Red Cross is making elaborate
T. arrangements to look after the comfort
OF soldiers who are returned wounded
to their native shores, and for those
who have been crippled and recon
structed, who arc sent back to their
own homes. No matter how remote
from the port of arrival the home Of
the returning soldier may be, the Red
Cross plans to go with him on the way,
through systematic relay service, and
to see to it that his journey is made
pleasant and that he has attention
after he gets to his destination.
''It is in carrying OUT this scheme,
the magnitude as we'll as the benefit Of
which will be appreciated little later,
that the motor corps Will come strongly
to the fore. The Red Gross has madc
all arrangements to get the names OF
incoming incapacitated soldiers, to-
gethcr with all information pertaining
to their disposition after reaching port.
cat the Atlantic port of disembarka-
mediate hospital attention will be taken
in hand, and those not destined for i'm
mediate hospital attention Will be aiken /
to the Red Cross canteen, to lodging
place and in due time to the train that
begins the real homeward journey. Al
fairs. will be conducted on a schedule
that will keep the relief relays all
along the route fully informed. At the
interior junction point the motor corps
officers will have exact information re-
Carding coming arrivals, with names
and all else necessary to know. At the
stations where the soldiers dctrain, the
uniformed young women of the Red
Cross motor corps will be in waiting,
so that an immediate welcome will be-
assured everywhere"