Arizona republican., 1919-05-10
Phoenix Man Finds That Work of The Great Red Cross Salvage
 Station In Paris Very interesting

across to the base of the Eiffel Tower, with the huge Ferris wheel moFlhS Iazfly on it's round in the oackgrouhu'
 Fifty tents would be needed for this hotel city t was decided-not mere pup" tents such as those wherein the dough boy shelters himself solitarIiy[ not even those Of summer resort Ded- room proportions, but dormTtory tents dancing hall tents, office tents, 6uAZU . feet with roof peak of II Leel, Wlth . eight feet walls rising to meet the slope i of the roof. fitted with four paned lslh- glass windows
 The lowest price at which these tents could be purchased was Sl,35O each' . TOT did that provide for the tlooI7nE' the electric lighting. the beds and bed ding. the stoves and all the other things needed to make a hotel which q ma fresh from bare barracks or mnddy camps would find a welcome change oL surroundings.
 It seemed large order from tinan- cial standpoint. even for the care ana comfort of American boys in Paris.
 It was decided to see what the sal wage section could do for the situation. The result justified the conclusion.
 The tents were provided from the stOrehouses of the section-tents that had formerly been d part Of he hosp'- ! tals No. no and III which had shel- tered thousands Of wounded American boys at Chateau Thierry during those terrible summer days of last year; either tents which had been raised on the grassy circle within the race track at Auteuil on the outskirts of Paris to make hospital No } for other thous- ands while the bitter need lasted.
 When hospital No 1 at Neuilly. one of the oldest and best known of the American Red Cross in Paris had out
 lived it's busy days. the oak floors fit ted, grooved and polished to a marvel | ous smOOthness of surface were taken in sections from the recreation pavil
 ions and stored. In the two long tents
 to be devoted to dancing at the Champs de Mars hotel. these floors are now laid and provide a means to make
 dancing the delight which it should always be.
 l Electric lights gleam and glitter in ] every tent and this is the result of the ] careful salvage Of the electric plant es- 1 tablished some months ago in the A.
 R- C. hospital No. s at Malaby, now re- i established here
 Two tents, 40x20 feet. are equipped
 with hot and cold showers, the entire
 outfit seeing service for the second
 time
 Iron beds, fitted with newly cleaned and covered mattresses; pillows, ripped
 apart, sterilized and recovered; blau-
 kets freshly cleaned. and sheets and
 pillow eases carefully laundered and ! mended make the soldier man worn
 out with sightseeing and the joys of
 Paris, dream that is once more sleep
 ing beneath the family roof tree back
 in the states"
 And this tree is due to the salvage
 section which took the beds and their
 equipment from closing hospitals and
 instead of selling everything at prices so small as to be absurd. put them in l perfect order then packed the bedding
 in long dunnage bag-like covers. each l legiblN and indelibly marked as to the number and nature of it's contents. Coal stoves formerly on duty during long wet days and chiIl nights in hos
 pNals, canteens and the like. were saved by the same indefa tigable sec tion, cleaned and polished and now 3 make the dormitory and recreation tents warm and cozy spots.
 Lumber saved from all manner O ) buildings which outlived their useful ness with the coming of the armistice has gone to the making Of a dininl hall 1S0X50 feet which. painted white
 stands glistening in the wide opei space between the two sections of tn . dormitory tents against the greer Q background of the park beyond. l So, throughout the hotel. the salvag s section has brought comforts bot | great and small saved from destruction for further days of usefulness.