The Penn's Grove record., 1919-03-07

70 write what remains. Only those
Fho hEe in the houses and the hos
pital q tell ell that was taken, but
the E1lE4ags have lost al their
earthly goods, save perhaps d bedstead.
and the others whatever they had left
IN the hospital compound.
Inc Ltlhl.a miss gHaries viii ssaV
here th55 winter. They can hardly DO
otherwise, having lost all their pos
sessions, ana tn return TO Crumia now.
70 q wasted manifestation and des-
Ciate region, 10 houses and IaTders
looted, HIth IA furniture or bedding
or 1000, at the opening Of winter.
would seem iI advised. Besides the
roads are not safe yet for travel and
no i knows when they viii be-
When they are, ere at least, probably
Dt. Ells wants to GO over to see what
can b. done icr relief and what has
become OF al the mission property.
Meanwhile the plan is for the Ellises
and Dr. Dodd to move out to the hos
pital and open a ten bed hospital and
enlarge as things become possible
while Dr.. Packard stays in the CITY to
do ~dispensary and consultation work.
Inc Richards plan TO stay till spring
and to do what relief work they can.
Mrs. Cochran and Mrs. Ffaumer and
Miss Bridges will go to America with
DR.. Nanneman Is soon as some way
opens. Miss Lamme is at the girls
school and is planning to start a wo-
mans prayer meeting for Persians
and is having callers and engaging in
work for women.
One thing is very noticeable and
touching and that has been the general
cordially of the people to Doctor and
myself upon our release. / have never
seen the Armenians so cordial and
quantities of people whom | have
never known have spoken to me and
expressed pleasure at our release.
And many Moslems also and many
tell how they had prayed for us during
our period of arrest. Of course, DR..
Vanneman's enforced stop from work
was felt all over the city by the sick
and their friends.
| am extremely busy trying to get
things set at rights, our house and the
school in some sort of order, teachers
engaged and everything ready so as
to open school at the earliest possible
moment. With Mr.. Peters, our W
American teacher, and S. Hampart-
soon and Mira Raft Khah, our senior
Armenian and Persian teacher absent,
and Mira Ismail dead of typhus, the
teacher problem isn't easy, and Rieben
and | will have to turn our hands and
minds to all sorts of new courses.
There is no way as yet to commune
cate with you, for the telegraph wires
are down, the Shahsavans on a ram
page between Sasmieneh and Zenjen.
One of your friends who started Octo-
Der oath and took a letter from me to
you, has not yet gotten beyond Hajji
Agha (the second stop out of Tabriz)
ON account of the Shahsavans. At
present all planning is up in the air
for we are absolutely ignorant of
where you are and what your plans,
etc. Miss Burgess has some thought
of going to America in Ease Miss
Wells returns Ito Tabriz) thinking it
will be the best time for her furlough
and that there won't be work enough
for two nurses. The Ellises and DR..
Dodd will live either in hospital or
the Lamme's house, depending upon
the return of DR.. Fleming and Miss
Wells and other conditions. DR.. Pack
ard will very possibly move into DR..
Vanneman's house and take up his
dispensary and practice.
November IL. The morning was a
perfect whirl, seeing lots of workers
and starting them in every direction
and then hurrying with DR.. Dodd and
DIR. Ellis to the hospital to go over it
with a mason and get his estimate on
prices. We had hardly got started be-
fore the commission came and | went
with them over the entire hospital
property, counting every missing lock,
handle, catch, window, door, pane of
glass, ETC., etc. Practically nothing re-
mains of furniture or furnishings save
one coat hanger, DR.. Crout's brass
bedstead and one other, some broken
bureaus and three cook stoves in bad
repair, with all handles and locks gone,
too, and a general scene of d~esolation.
1t will take a large sum to fix up the
property and | know not how much to
replace the furnishings.
There was a big railroad accident
between Marand and Djulfa, some $50
killed and wounded.
November IL. They are now at
work interviewing the masons and
getting bids for whitening the hospital
and the Lamme house and will prob
ably begin there Monday, and the
Ellises and DR.. Dodd hope to move
before Thanksgiving, though that is
doubtful to me.
November II. News from America.
DR.. Dodd's father was going on a
medical commission or unit to the
Holy Land and Wilfred Post might
Join them in June. Mrs. Packard has
heard of the death of her father a year
ago last October. DR.. Youatan, of
S~ouiboulak, arrived a couple of days
ago disguised as a Koord. He had
taken refuge in a Koordish village for
three months. His property and dis
pensary in Soujboulak had been de-
stroyed by the Turks. DR.. Keel, of
Maragha, was seized by Munir Bey,
the notorious commander in charge
when our hospital was looted. He
was carried to Bonab, put in stock for
a short time and later freed from them.
He was threatened with being carried
to Kars for courtmartial on charges
of communicating with the enemy, but
was offered his freedom on payment
of 500 liras. He finally got off with