The sun., 1918-09-25
RED CROSS TOTAKE
OYER GERMAN CLUB
Rooms Where BOy-Ed and Won
Bernstorff Plotted Will
House Wounded.
A CONvALEsCENTS' HOME
Board of Governors Give Up
Luxuriously Furnished Build
ing for Nominal Rental.


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many "e".' 'NO -.
man propagandist ori'e OF, NM .n
pubic opinion iooheu s,nhl.
terday from It's place IN the o!u ueI maj
Clup, liz Centrai fark SCUM
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long smut up roonns' spotiess WI" 80,
were peing Drought IN "noieeoine 80
ing american men anu women "u VIZ,
TOUCH vi hu'ur Mere nVue ,oaaant
ences IN which the Woros conS".o
soiulers anu our pos7 "ei' 'PpN
most .
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the wheei OF fortune Una. TUG war nas
Drought une Deutsches Nere,n' vi .ne
German Clup, as NE" iork mas N"om.
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conferred on pans LOT bringing tho
united STATES oi i'S h"ees W ..
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mho i,sheu 'heif h'e' ""u ie"i'' '>
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C,uh,. cox.rro-. inter- II.
The board or governors OF the ciuo
itself onered the building TO the Hed
Cross for this purpose. Carl w. Neu-
haus or 80 East Twenty-nrst street. the
chairman. was their spokesman. For
nominal rental. less than one-nftn OF
what IL would bring IN open market,
the huse SIX Story mouse. iuily Iurhisneu'
was turned over 10 the New 1ork county
csapter or the Red cross. f1uy-nVe
rooms there are. and thirty-hve BATH
rooms In ADDITION. All the -FOUR upper
stories are in pleasant suites OF sleeping
rooms with ceiNngs ana wails delcateiy
ornamen'ed. ana VIDE WINDOWS looking
out over central Park. view only
shshtiy marreo by the ugly sheos OF tho
around the Sixth avenue entrance to the
pan. nose rooms WIN oe gwen 10 men
CIV "e "pa
~ ""'c' "e 90 9u,e'
-, alu, arg " oe feeef'eu iof
e"1,. s.o.N NaS.e. ,,
n o'ahs - p's i''us'c 'ooit,. w"ere
a. pano anu o'nel Ihst' uiIehls WIN oe d.
VIC eei'Ne o. .he men aIlo next 10 .ha'
- TWIN i'' ."e use vi women 'isi'ors'
No huso Noraiies o! iouHshs rooihs,
htteu VITA taoies ana leathern sofas ana
chairs mat iariiy eNude comrort. occupy
me whole front OF the second moor. In
.ne basement IS billiard room ana
po"hng aliey' though the latter VIII be
CEASED as TOO violent Tor convaiescents.
inc ooysn never want to go away
from here.' was the unanimous prophecy
OF every one allowed a preliminary view
or the house yesterday
The lease was signed yesterday Some
time In the first week of October the
formal opening Will take place, probably
on the 3D. One hundred convalescents.
non-commissioned men selected from the
base hospitals by Col. ]. NJ. Kennedy.
surgeon Of the port. will be the first
group. but later on It is thought that
considerably more than 100 can be &C.
commodated at one time
Everything Free to Sick.
Everything 4. IN be abso,,,.,,. ,r.. to
the convalescents ara as tbo noua,,,s
m no called Tho I,fa,ot,a IJ,rsa ~, 49,
vav--yi,, he e,nnor,ad ~, ,.o,,,.,a,
CONTRIBUTIONS ,,a non,r,i,,.a - 1917,
i, husy ti,,. A,ra,d,. oo,os, ~ ' 80
NJ tho ,haotras 10 ,,arnaa g.. ,.oiao -.
rontrihution. orc cnu,ira T., So, -.
orar "a 80, "a, 80 80 -.
endowed Ono u.or,an VIC uo,,,d,,'.
Ia, bor r.a no ,n.'as ny Mouun
civ haas ,a,,,Su 80, a. 80, Us Gu
under her wing. All sorts OF GIFTS are
Of preserves a tynewriter nlavar
piano. a sack OF prunes.
And Mrs. Edward Riardot the bouss
mother-her official title is chairman Of
the executive committee. but she IL the
jolly. warm hearted house mother who
will be on the Job every day--says that
offers of profession people who want to
do things for the soldiers are legion. one
man wants to give them electric treat
ment for nothing Of course: a chiropo-
dist wants to look after their feet and
well known physical director offers to
devote her afternoons 10 them. There Is
nothing that some one doesn't long to try
on those poor convalescents!
But they will be protected from any
thing rash by medical officer under
Col. Kennedy, who will visit Lafayette
House every day. In addition, two civil
Ian surgeons have volunteered to be on
call whenever wanted, There Is to be
force or assistant nurses in charge of
Mrs. Russell Dougherty, to do whatever
Is necessary-graduate nurses won't he
needed except in emergencies. since no
very sick soldiers will be there. Mrs.
Dougherty Is TO live there. having given
up her home to serve. Her husband ia
at the front.
"sR" heads ADVISORY Hoard.
Albert II. Wiggin, president of the