The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-10
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New York, May 10 - Miss Julie HeyReInan of San Francisco, portrait painter and writer, arrived here the
 ether day on four months leave of absence from the British Red Cross, with Q new distinction for an Anerl-
 can woman, that of being the orig inator of a system of vocational train ing for wounded soldiers by means of which thousands of British, Belgian, French and American fighters, crip- pied apparently beyond repair, have
 been restored to lives of happiness
 and usefulness.
 Before returning to England, Miss
 HeyneInan will make a transcon-
 tinenta1 tour of America, speaking
 before various women's clubs, Red
 Cross and Belgian war relief organ
 izations on her work abroad. Her
 itinerary at present includes Phila-
 delphia, Chicago, Washington, BaltI-
 more, Boston, San Francisco, Pitts
 buFgh, St. Louis and Denver.
 This little American woman, who landed inE ngland on the day Ant
 werp fell to the Germans, found her.
 self in Q. whirl of war terror and con-
 fusion. Belgian civilian refugees, old
 and young, penniless and despairing,
 and Belgian soldiers, terribly wound
 ed, were arriving in London by train
 loads. She established in London, aft CT much difficulty, an institution which she named ''CalifornIa House '' after her native state, where the dis abled defenders of Namur and Liege and other Belgian stronghoIds, were nureed back to health and strength and taught languages or vacations that fitted them to earn their own living.
 So successful twas this adventure in war philanthropy that the British Red Cross two years later enlisted Miss Heyneman's services, took over l her institution and established three 1 similar big homes in London known as ''Kitchener Houses No. 1, 2 and | 3. The California woman was aided l in her work by other Americans who sustained the enterprise byNXol- untary donations. Everything was ] supplied free to the soldiers and ir | three years more than 60,0O0 meals were given them.
 l The grateful BeIgians, desirous ot ] perpetuating the work for fellow war i sufferers in their native land, be- ] sought Miss Heynenlan to establish 1 a similar reconstruction centre there | and to this end she visited Queer | Elizabeth at La Panne and was as l sured her sympathy and support. The l Queen of the BeIgians, upon requeSE l designated the Edith CaveII Schoo i for Nurses in Brussels as the insti- l tuition likely to benefit most by the i expansion such as Miss Heynemar l proposed, that of esta blishing at leas | 25 beds and entailing an outlay o1 l S5,0 900 each One of the founders o1 1 the school named for the martyreG l British nurse was NIme. Marie De 1 page a Belgian woman, who per. l ished on the Lusitania- According t6 1 the plan each bed is to be dedicated to the memory of some fallen Amer | ican soldier and already the mother! ] of two officers have indicated theil | desire thus to honor the memory O l their heroic dead. After her Loe1r il l the United States Miss Heyneman in
 tends to return to Belgiup to put he1 | plan into effect. 1 T have passed through four an( i a half years of the nightmare of
 war" said Miss Heyeman. q ngye,
 would have believed until I got fntc | this work that ever could have dont l it. It has been a severe but 5ene
 fciaI experience. Of the 500 mer | who have passed through California l House, once practically helpless crip ] pies, 90 per cent have been fed ant i cared for and made self-supporting 1 The British Red Cross, az the resu1 1 of our initiatory efforts, is now sirni l larIv re-educating and training 6 ,00(
 wounded soldiers a year. in the Kit 1 chener Houses and we believe that 1 ultimately the British War Office vii put the work upon a permanen i basis
 1 Miss Heyneman said she was member of the Executive Committee 1 of Vocational Training for England 1 of which Major General Fielding, O.
 the British Army, commander of tht | London district, is chairman.