Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-19

CO-incident wi,h the Fourth lIDery
Loan was the epidemic Of 1918 we IKE
10 speak nf II in the past tense, al
though the grcat danger ls not over and
we have not vet resumed normal cpnG-
ltions In business or IN our community
life Like a cGnha- grafton II ran be re-
ported under control, put there may yet
be lives sacrificed to its ravagcs and
there are many not vet recovered from
it's prostrating nfiictlOu.
IL was on September Is that the Lcan
campaign started. and on that same day
the Country Club and Century Club were
taken over for emergency hospitals. for
the Loan We may re grateful, II has been
n steadying influence in these trying three
weeks. an object 10 20 worked for and An
absorbing occupation II mind for The we'll
When one recalls that the president
of the creates powder company IN the
world acted Is orderly for lascars
Negroes, workmcn aBYbodv who caTnc
within the cir le ~ his mlnistratlons.
it may De realized how near we were -
the verities Of life and how thc level oi
humanity vas reached While the plague
ragged so fiercely, there Was no thought
about Who vas doing things, or how they
were being done They were done hat
the substance of II. and II is only alter
three weeks NJ battling Hth the most
awful 7courge hat ever attacked com
munity that there ran De pause suff-
cient to think about now and when and
where and who did them Tic we'll helped
the sick The SICK n their gnspeakap'e
misery could only e greatfui and n the
midst Of it All the dead ~erc being carried
out Those who had never had experience
in nursing not only nursed nc sick and
4 Hss.~N
10 do that hardest of all things tell
the sick that a loved one had gone
II was al the Country Cub haf
Wilmingtons most pathetic scenes we're
enacted and il vas there hat those
whose names are hoef known r the clfr
worked tn save fht lives 9f t9 h'HnbIesf
citizens and ln -ome Instances those who
were stranger Within nur gates II lsfhe
8rgeet 0f he efrr1eucr hospitals and
~ one tlme here we're - pa'lents there
Help nat Is 9rlrrir- needed nov
but AZ present i rnight ba called an eff
GENTLY equipped hospital compared 81
that first awful week So instantly was
the plague upnn The cltV nat even
emergency hospitals were not readt ~
time Patients were crowded INTO tho
halls of the Country Ciuh before beds
were ready f0r hern During one 81 the
FIRST few nights 35 bets we're made MP
ana filed bet wepn midnight and ? q clock
and shat included coming Into own 80
got the cots Ballroom dinIngToom. the
enclosed Dorchcs and the men locker
room upstairs were turned into wards
Patients were crowded into cots IN rows
so close together that the nurses hardly
had room % walk between.
One great good fortune lay in securing
Miss Duncan She had Just received b
summons to 20 to amp l)evens pre-
paratorv to leaving for overseas service.
but permission was obtained from Wash
lngton for her 10 stay with a stricken
citv Nobody i quite clear As ~ now
il was done. but somehow i vas qone
She took charge, the patients were brought
III. and thev were cared for That was
the man object. and It was accom- pli~hed
In i Providential KIND ol way ID seem.
now. when i look back Is taken auf-e~
and helpers and orderlie~ appeared,
people literally walked IA and went t3
work And work il was-uenlal, lnWly,
but necessary 1t saved ME here
we're Country Club members ana people
who had never been ia me eiun before,
ppopta Who lIdn know each ltncr. 0Ut
they ai helped Pierre lu Ponr was
one OF the first. 80 was AndreW ray,
Wit oi i thousand dinner parties ia dayS
gone bE and none rouId have been more
faithful or sympathetic. Jimmie Nleld~
while his Wife helped organize il he
Century Club, till She fell victim 81 tine
plague Erie Bergiand, Louis De BoI>,
Lawrence Gilman MacAIiliaa Hoope>.
Charles Topkis, Harry >peahman VIA
Jones. hsIle> Cllricy Lieutenant Bowen.
Charlie Ferrday Fr;,nA stephens II
Arden. Samuel tlea<ea ReY Richard
TrapaciI. NOW III ulta tJ ami Rev
Charles Candtt Plenty 81 women
volunteered, toe. AND worked unui hey
had 10 20 10 their homes Ill with he
plague Mrs Frank De \lmou8 Mas
one Of the first Miss Draper ana Miss
Madeline Draper wcre there 4 great
deal IlI Miss Madeline Draper became
ii. Miss Esther Bancroft. Miss Nice
Johnson, Miss Mic, SELLERS. Miss Helen
Davis. \Ire Ford Miss Margaret t-ed-
rrtch. A.r> NorthiuSton i 4rIru Miss
Elizabeth Pyle Miss Ryal Miss Made
hue Rahy. Mrs Harry Toppan. Miss
Virginia hlrkli,, Miss Frt. Of Arden.
Miss Mary Keen. Mrs John B. Holman,
Mr.. Hopkins, Miss Wluslow. Miss
Frances Smack. Mrs NcCaullay, Mrs
keithk Miss Lillian Stockley Mr.,
koser, Mrs Phi Traynor. Miss Madeline
NIycrs. Mis-, Dorothy Ward, Miss Ruth
NrCoun. Miss MARY Mills. Miss Nora
Morgan. Miss Elizabeth Clifford, Miss
Helen Warner. Miss katherine Pierce.
Miss Eliza Johnson Mrs o. B. Potts,
Miss Sncock Miss Nardell, Miss Butler,
Miss Irene llerce. Miss Vera Pierce.
Mrs Grace Ialtavall. Miss Anne ELIAS.
Miss Meta Glenn, Miss Erma Georgia,
Miss Susan Davis, Miss Jean Evans,
Mr, Mary Schamb, Mrs ) e Willard,
George Donahuc, John T. Magee. Vii
ham Ward. II jackson, Joseph Dunn.
Jack O'Donueu. Mrs Frank REYNOLDS.
Mis- +. Il MISC and Others Miss Max
we'll ana Miss Long the two Country
Club secretaries. were splendid IN their
service and never spared themselves
IN taking care of the office and IN teiephon-
ing and doing a thousand other necessary
things Steward Noost and his wife
and the entire club staff We're So helpful,
that not TOO much could he sand In their
praise They did all the cooking for the
staff ot helpers and the sick, and thev
were ready lit amy time ID the day or
night when food Was needed.
THE GRADUATE NURSES.
Besides Miss Duncan there Wts 4
valuable factor i'll Miss Evelyn Hayes,
who was early upon The scene and helped
to organize the hospital, and then worked
until She was taken with the flu.
Miss HAYES Was engaged IL securing
alf the nursing perSonnel pf the cmer-