Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-08-18
PROMINENT WOMEN AIDING RED CROSS
 IN GREAT BRITAIN

London, July l5.-t (Correspondence of The Associated Press) s)-The work of the American Red Cross in Great Britain comprises more than twenty departments. Virtually all of the sev- eral thousand American women who were residents of Great Britain before the war, many of them of course wives of Englishmen are engaged in Red Cross work of some kind under departments Of the Aemrican Red Cross, and they have also. the assis- tance of many Englishwomen whose American connections or former resi- dence on the other side of the Atlantic give them particular interest and af- lection for things American.
 Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, widow of former distinguished American am- 'bassador to Great Britain, was the pioneer in the work of the American Red Cross in this country. As soon 'as the United States came into the war. Mrs. Reid and Ambassador and Mrs. Walter Hines Page organized the London Chapter of the American Red Cross Mrs. Reid remains head of tho London chapter and has also been a,p- pointed by the central organization in W NeAohihSlOI tO tiC IOot Ol IJtpuCy Commissioner in Great Britain
 Among the women attached to var- ious branches of the work are Mrs. Henry Chapin, Mrs. Spencer Clay, the Countess of Gfanard Mrs. Frederick Guest, Viscountess Harcourt, Lady Herbert, Mrs. Irwin Laughlin, the Duchess of Marlborough, Mrs. Walter Do n C1,: Airs. Arthur Vincent, Mrs. H. $. Waite and Lady Ward.
 The American Red Cross has pro- vided a number of hospitals in Great Britain. some Of them established be- fore America entered the war, for the use of British wounded, others estab- lished since that time for the accom- odation of both British and Ameri- ' cans.
 One of the finest of these American hospitals is the Mossley Hill Hospital at Liverpool, which is staed by Amer ican army doctors and nurses under Major Ude J. Vile, formerly Profess sor of Surgery in the University Of Michigan. Already many Americans soldiers occupy it's cheerful wards.
 The largest American hospital in Great Britain will be that at Sarisbury Court, near Southampton, construct ed on a fine old esate of 1S6 acres overlooking Southampton This will beused solely for American wounded from the northern sectors of the Wes- tern front. It will have about 5000 sbeds.
 An American hospital de luxe in London is the new naval hospital on Park Lane, which occupies Aldford House, the home of Mrs. Guest, wife of Captain Frederick Guest. M. P., who generously placed her home at 'the disposal of the Red Cross.
 There are several other American hospitals in London. notable the - ter Gate hospital for officers, St. Katherine's Lodge Orthopaedic hospi- tai in Regents Park, and American Red Cross Hospital No. 2, in Kensing- ton Palace Gardens given by MT. and Mrs. Chester Beatty of New York.
 At Lingfield, Surrey, the American Red Cross has opened convalescent Home for American officers, with a capacity of 100 beds, this being hous- ed in the home of Mrs. Spender Clay, daughter of Viscount Astor.
 90 An important branch of the organi- zation's work is embraced under the title Care Committed" which has subcommittee of American women in all important cities and towns in Great Britain. They visit the hospi- tals in their vicinities, and are immed- lately notified of the arrival of any American soldiers sick or wounded. whether they bolng to the American army or to the British or Canadian forces. Every such soldier is visited at least once week, and isssupplied with comforts of various kinds, in- cluding copies of the local newspap CTS of his home town, which may be three to six thousand miles away. More than 600 women are included in this Care Committee and its sub-com-