The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-07-02
FRANCE RINGS
WITH PRAISES
FOR RED CROSS
ORGANIZATION HAS ASSUMED
UNLIMITED RESPONSIBLE
TIES, WORKER SAYS.
MEN LIKE HOSPITALITY AND
SERVICE AND PATRONiZE 3
STATIONS ACCORDINGLY.
ONE cANTEEN GETS $50 MEN
WITHIN SIX HOURS-MOTH-
ERS MAY REST EASY.
CBy the Associated Press.)

fanny, of New York, to Red Cross Off
cials in America. Il only wish AM
erica could realize the extent Of work
as we'll as France does,' she added.
Mrs Tiffany has been engaged in or
ganizing rest stations for American
troops a. railway stations in France.
"Never have | been happier, never
ave | liked work more nor felt that
I was so useful" she wrote in a re-
cent letter. Ever since I came
abroad i have had before my eyes a
vision of fathers, mothers ana sisters
of the soldiers in audiences in many
states from Maine to Texas. They
Will hear and know fabout our great,
beautiful hospitals, with the best
surgeons, doctors and nurses, work
ing under the best possible conditions
with the best possible material.
@'All these things are expected of
their Red Gross and taken for grant
ed, but wish them to know too,
that when their boys are we'll they
have a refuge and home as they
pass along. | want them to think of
them as writing and singing in the
gay, bright room while waiting for
their erain and eating their good
warm meas or being sent off with
sandwiches by American girls.
"When an American mule train
came in at one tation, the man said
they wanted nothing, which seemed
very unusual. From one of the Off
GERS we learned that there had been
no pay day lately When the men
We're told T. was .on the Red Cross
every pitcher and basket was emptied
over and over again. So on applica-
ton to Paris it was decided that I'M
limited coffee, American coffee, with
fresh milk, cocoa, milk and bread and
butter or Jam. sandwiches should be
served free to the travelling men. Al
ter that the mule trains and the
troops went out cheering Justify and
in very much gayer mood.
The first night we opened at d,
we had $50 men at one a. m. They
ate us out of house and home though
It seemed strange hour to eat. Thew
Carried off every magazine and paper
we had; they drank coffee and cocoa
and milk; they ate bread, butter and
Jam, cakes and chocolate: their Of
hcers were fed, too, and finally the
major came and shook my hand over
and over again and said they were
an happier and less homesick than
any time since they'd left America
and when the train pulled out the
whole unit went out to see them off
They nearly fell out of their oar
rlages to shake hands once more and
they went off cheering the Red Cross,
the President and the II. A
Bless them! Such babies and such
dears.
AT No. 8 we had a lot of Marines
lor our house warming; they were
there, 300 of them, for two hours. A.
ter supper they insisted on helpinp
Us wash up and clean gene1ally and
cf course we felt as if they were old
friends and nearly wept when thew
ielt besides all this travelling, shift
ing clientels there are also the repu.
iaf customers, all the military police
the signal corps men, engineers and
traffic regulators.
How one loves them all and how
good and kind they are to us! The
moment they find out that 7 have !,
boy Oh my own here they talk their
Ola heads off to me and it is nv best
pet that in half an hour or less thew
VIII all be sure to shcw me their
pese giris picture back home hnd
their mothers, too. Mothers. NAV
say become very, very valuable men.
PIE out here
MAJOR Patten asked me to 20 home
iof a few weeks just to tell the peo.
PIE OF what is being done here
couid not go because the State De.
paroment says Mother" may NOT
come over any more, but IL hid zone
fc \
'"ole is just one thing I would have
said:
me work is bigger and bette,
ana inner than even j with all INV
creams ever dreamed Of nava,
knew there were SO many altruistic
seifless men and women in the uo,1,,
nor one penny Is being wasted. from
the fact that even the majors them.
serves nave no motors and use nc