Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1918-10-19
Some of the Hospitals in

Major Marshal Hale, manager of the Pacific division, American Red Cross, now in France on leave of ab- sence, has written an interesting let ter to his brother, R. B. Hale.
 Major Hale is at the head of one of the Red Cross Zones with head quarters at Lyons.
 He tells of hospital that is so big the nurses have to use bicycles to get around on their duties. He says he doesn't believe it is possible to con- ceive what twenty thousand bed hospital means unless one sees it.
 Excerpts from the letter follow: 1 "Your very interesting and newsy letter of August 10th was received this morning and found us just nov ing into our new offices.
 Capt. J. F. Coulston, President of the First National Bank of Pasadena, is my assistant and we have an office together. find him a splendid or ganizer.
 "James Hazen Hyde and Major Pierce came down to Lyons and in troduced me at a luncheon, at which the prominent and influential people of Lyons were present. General Abner, at the head of the French Military was present and also Mayor Herriot- he is one of the leading citizens of France, has considerable influence and is popular as probable candidate for the president of France. Clarence Carrigan, a brother of Andrew Car rigan, is council here and very pop ular.
 "There is hardly anything that the Red Cross asks for, that the author ities are not ready to grant.
 "We have charge of the repatriates coming through Evian, there are prob ably more refugees taken care of in this zone than any other in France, and we have five or six large base hos pitals, ranging from 1000 to 10000 beds each. Base hospital No. 30 is in our zone and base hospital No. Al is just over the line.
 Capt. Coulston and I made trip last week, visited base hospital No. 30 and also hase hospital No. 47. It certainly was a pleasure to call on them. Saw Dr. Frankenheimer, Mrs. Tezereau at base hospital No. 30. Dr. Weeks was at the front, and Dr. Kill gore was in Paris. Saw Dr. Levin son, Dr. Arthur McKenny who wanted to be remembered to you, and several of the other San Francisco doctors Tried to see Dr. Roncovieri, but he was not around. They invited us to have pancakes, which we accepted they are the first have had since leaving home. .....
 q don't believe it possible to con- cenve what a 10000 bed hospital means. We furnish bicycles to the nurses, because the distances are SC great and it saves them many steps The Red Cross established canteens recreation huts and other comforts fo, the patients, and help the doctors anc nurses in getting conveniences whicf they would otherwise be obliged to gt without. H#F "You have no idea of the difficulty in making progress when everything is so hard to get. Stenographers ane chaffeurs are scarce. At present there are plenty of Ford automobiles but not enough men to set them up It is hard to get enough typewriter' for the stenographers.
 "We cannot purchase more than 5O( francs worth at a time without get ting permission of the A. E. F., ant . if it is 1000 francs we also have t' get permission from the French au thorities, and it takes time-some times two or three week, to get thes' permissions through"