The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-08-30
RED CROSS NOTES.

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Sixteen orphans homes, hospitals
and farm schools operated by a
financial assistance from the Ameri-
lean Red Cross.
Eighty-four nurses and aids from
the American Red Cross at Paris
have been lent for emergency militia
ry work in connection with the pres
ent offensive.
The national game, baseball is
/ following the flag to the war zones
of Europe-and the American Red
Cross is doing all in its power to
supply equipment to keep the game
going.
The piece work department of the
American Red Cross in the Hotel
Victoria. at Naples. Italy. is now
providing 500 women who are mem
bers of soldiers families with work
to do at home.
Dion, France-Here the American
Red Cross has erected a barrack to
serve as a day nursery for the chill
dren of the French women who work
in the United States Army camoufage
factory.
Instead of opening large homes.
the American Red Cross in this dis
trict, about Genoa. Italy, is more or
less using the cottage system in car
ing for refugee children. Cottages.
each caring for IA children. have
been opened in the hills
The American Red Cross is to as
sist the Italian Santa Militaire in its
study of infectious jaundice, malaria, |,
the infectious of the typhoid group |
the LESSONS resulting from refrigera- !
ton and asphyXiating gases and GER
tain other wound infections.
A telegraphic request for addition
al Red Cross workers at the Italian
at O'Clock at Red 1
Cross headquarters Five American
Red Cross men on the train al o.
clock! With them as personal bag
gate, went 1000 shirts, 10000 cigar
cites and 5000 packages of choco-
late!
In the past nine months the Amer
lean Red Cross has aided 3S2 tuber-
culosis hospitals and dispensaries,
a total of 30,147 beds.
The second requests of 167 institu-
lions have been granted The value
Of the goods requisitioned for this
'elief work alone is estimated at / -
I25, POS frances.
Twenty layettes a week are needed
n Chioggia, Italy. The American
Red Cross layette of twenty-five
pieces, including four bright-colored
waiting bands, brings unmeasured
oy and relief, for the mothers, at
Wits end to clothe the other child
en-, are often utterly unable to pro-
'ide for the newcomer.
In the relief of thousands of refu-
ices who poured through Paris. the
american Red Cross within two days
ent out 21,O00 articles OF clothing.
500 blankets and 1000
heets.
Officers and enlisted men from
n American Aviation Instruction
ENTER in France have sent a check
Or 5000 frs. to the Red Cross as a
lark of appreciation. At this center 4
he Red Cross maintains baths, laun-
ry, canteen, disinfecting plant,
ailOr and mending shop. barber
hop and technical aviation library il
also contributed printing press v
sed by the aviators in issuing their Il
amp newspaper. e
Red Cross Protects Against Thugs. o
When Col. Robert Perkins, Red fl
ross Commissioner to Italy, was in
lis country recently, he related an n
iperiencD of Red Cross worker in A
ONE. e,
This man, dressed in the uniform c
the American Red Cross, had dined h
the opposite side of the town to y,
at in which his living quarters were c
Gated. Coming home rather late, II
Id losing his way, he got into the tC
ums OF the city. Walking along a fl
'ry dark street, he was suddenly
aylaid by two bandits, who pointed G
pistol at his head, and demanded &C
$ money. He very calmly said: 81 Sc
n Capt, of the American Red c,