The sun., 1919-05-07
700 WOUNDED FIXED
UP TO SEE PARADE.
Debarkation Hospital No. 3
Does Quick Work With
New Arrivals.
TRIBUTE TO MONAGHAN
Nurses Propel Fleet Of Wheel
Chairs With Cargo of
Sufferers.


harkation Hospital No. 3 or any other
military hospital to put Just landed
bunch of soldiers through the course of
treatment that army rules prescribe be-
fore the trench heroes can be permitted
10 rlngle with the civilians of Little Old
New York. Therefore. when Col Mora-
Ehan. who commands at the Greenhut
Hospital. as the big building at Eight
zenith street and Sixth avenue is called,
promised 700 men in khaki as they came
of the George Washington Monday at
: p, NJ and struck the hospital, some of
them in stretchers, that he'd have them
all fixed up in time to see the Seventy
seventh march up Fifth avenue the next
morning, folks around the place won-
dered IL he could make good.
lie did 1t meant an all night lob for
some of the force. but before 10 A. NJ.
yesterday those 700 men were washed.
dooused, fed, their uniforms sterilized.
their records taken and they and several
pup fnascots that affectionste doughboys
had brought from France were out on
stands or II. wheel chairs, with n lot of
earlier arrivals, ready to greet Major
Gen. Robert Alexander as he led his
splendid division up from Washington
Square 1t goes on record as one of the
quickest pieces Of hospital work ever
cone.
There was ample provision made yes
terday for all the wounded. Both side
walks from Seventeenth to Thirtieth
streets, from Fortieth to Forty-second,
from Forty-ffth to Forty-seventh and
from Fifty-seventh to Fifty-ninth were
reserved for them, and while civilians
we're permitted to sit In the rear seats
where not wanted for the wounded. not
an injured fighter lacked a comfortable
place.
Start of wheel Chairs.
1t was o'clock. and the start OF the
Parade an hour away. when the frst
heet OF chairs sailed west on Eighteenth
street from Hospital No. 3, each one
propelled by the cheerfulest of nurses,
Private David Mclaughlin led the fleet.
the gay striped afghan that hid his In
Jured legs making a bit Of color that
showed blocks away. Private Nc
Laughlin grinned blithely as the pretty
army nurse brought his craft to anchor
N 'front.' or the stand on the west side Of
. .he avenue at Eighteenth street, and lit
inc cigarette with which the attentive
hed Cross workers supplied him.
I'm ready" he remarked. Bring on
your parade"
some pluck those boys have, II a
single chap among all those "amputa
uon cases' who filled the wheel chairs
tnat made the front row on that block
te.' any sense that fate had been I'M
iair IN laying them low while preserv-
Ins 'ne marching thousands OF their
co'hrades whole and sound, he didn't let
the world suspect 1t was only after
u was all over and the wounded uera
mack In their hospital wards that an
accent OF wistfulness was heard now
and then.
Inc front row OF wheel chairs on the
west side OF the block from Eighteenth
street TO Nineteenth was the orchestra
C,rcIe. Next Private Mclaughlin sat
=. Ita'e Percy ST Hillaire. pretending
10 be jealous because he had only a
gle! army blanket over his knees. while
some OF the others had grabbed bright
laprobes Of many colors. So many Of
'n'se blankets were there that the row
vas named 1.-The RAINBOW Division"
There was William Fletcher OF tho
FIRST Division. and Cigar Blossom OF
the seventh, saucy looking lad with
a twinkle in his blue eye that weeks
o. lying wounded hadn't dimmed. And
there was Corporal walth Of the Tween
ty-seventh. who has been at Dabarka-
uon Hospital No. since Christmas, and
said philosophically yesterday that he
d'dnt expect to get to his home up in
syracuse until Christmas again.
But when | go I'll have $50 Victory
note 70 take with me that didn't cost
me- anything he said, Shaping the
pocket OF his knitted jacket "Yes. at
The Hippodrome last week where they
took me to see the show. a lady said
mat for every $1,000 worth OF notes
that were sold she'd give a $50 note TO
any corporal that would stand up So
l stood up. I and six other corporals.
am We all got notes"