The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-07-03
FRANCE IS RINGING
WITH RED CROSS WORK
MRS. BELMONT TIFFANY TELLS
OF THE WORK DONE BY THE
ORGANIZATION.

New York, July France is ring
ing with the work OF the American
Red Cross" writes Mrs. Belmont Tiff
fanny of New York, to Red Cross off
Gals In America Il only wish Amer
lea could realize the extent of work
as well as France does" she added
Mrs. Tiffany has been engaged in or
ganizing rest stations for American
troops at railway stations in France.
| Never have | been happier. never
have / liked work more nor felt that
was so useful" she wrote In re-
cent letter. Ever since came abroad
| | have had before my eyes a vision
of fathers, mothers and sisters of the
soldiers in audiences in many states
from Maine to Texas. The will hear
and know about our great. beautiful.
Hospitals, with the best surgeons doc
tors and NURSES, working under the
best possible conditions, with the best
possible material
"All these things are expected cf
their Red Cross ana taken TOR granted
but | wish them to know too that
when their boys are Wen they have
refuge and home as they pass along
want them to think of them as writ
ing and singing in the gay bright
room while waiting for their train and
eating their good warm meals or be-
ing sent off with sandwiches by Amer
lean girls.
when an American mule train
came in at one station the men 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
were told it was ON the Red Cross
every pitcher and basket was emptied
over and over again. So on applica-
tion to Paris it was decided that un-
limited coffee, American coffee, with
fresh milk, cocoa, milk and bread and
butter or jam sandwiches should be
served free to the travelling man.
After 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. IN. They
ate lis ont of house and home. though
1t seemed a strange hour to eat. They
carried off every magazine and paper
We had; they drank coffee and cocoa
and milk; they ate bread, butter and
| jam and cakes and chocolates: their
| officers were fed, too, and finally the
major came and shook my hand over
and over again and said they were
all happier and less homesick than
any time since they left America and
when the train pulled out the whole
unit went out 10 see them off. They
nearly fell on: of their carriages to
shake hands once more and they went
off cheering the Red Cross, the presi-
dent and the U. S. A. Bless them,
Such babies and such dears.
''At No 3 we had a lot of marines
for our house warming: they were
there, 300 Of them, for two hours. After
supper they insisted on helping us
wash up and clean generally and Of
course We felt as If they were old
friends and nearly wept when they
left. Besides all this travelling, shift
ing clientele there are also the reeu-
lar 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 u.s. The
moment they find out that | have a
boy Of my own here they talk their
old heads off to me and il is my best
bet that in half an hour or less they
will all be sure to SHOW me their
best girls picture back home and
their mothers too. Mothers, | may
, say, become very very valuablespeople
out here.
Major Patten asked me to 20 BONE
for a few weeks Just t. tell the peo-
pie of what is being done here. /
could not go because the state de-
partment says, Mother may not come
over any more. but if ! had gone there
was just one thing ! would have said:
1.-The work is bigger and better and
finer than even !. with all my dreams
ever dreamed Of. ] never knew there
were so many altruislic selfless men
and women in the world, not one
penny is being wasted, from the fact
that even the majors themselves have
no motors and use no gas for them
if they have them down to the mes
sage placarded everywhere: DO not
waste a single scrap of paper, 1t is
too valuable in France" the whole
policy is the strictest economy with
ourselves and the greatest generosity
to our armies and dependents"
Mf1RnE