The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-02-14
Maui Red Cross Men
Making Fine Record
DR.. Baldwin Head Of Big Hospital In
VladivoStok-'Seab." Short Has
Charge Of Military Relief Depart
ment And Is A Busy Boy
Especial to Maui News.)
BY RILEY H. ALLEN, American Red
Gross.

cross.
~Vladivostok, Siberia,
January 2, 1919.
To residents of Maui-Dr. W. d.
Baldwin and Seabury T. Short-are
actively engaged in Red Cross work
in Siberia and each is holding down
a responsible post.
DR.. Baldwin is superintendent Of
the new refugee hospital just being
opened in a huge naval barracks
building which has been taken over
by the Red Cross. One end of this
building is devoted to the living
quarters of the male members of the
Red Cross staff and the American
railway engineers, who are here for
work in connection with the Trans
Siberian railway; the other end is de-
voted to the refugee hospital. In this
hospital there is already a daily clinic
in operation, where poor people who
are i'll may secure free treatment.
The building is now being equipped
with cots and all the appliances of an
up-to-date hospital and when COM
pleted will be one of the finest in
Siberia. DR.. Baldwin has associated
with him a capable staff of physicians
and nurses.
The other Hawaii physician who
came to Siberia for Red Cross work,
DR. Arthur F. Jackson of Honolulu,
has gone to Buchedu, Manchuria, to
take charge of the tubercular hospi-
tai there. This hospital is now filled
with Czecho-Slovak soldier patients.
DR.. Jackson has with him two Homo
lulu girls-Miss Florence Hoffman as
nurses aid and Miss Alice Lynes as
clerical worker.
Seabury T. Short, known to all Maui
as "Seab," is head of the Department
of Military Relief. This is the Red
Cross department which connects the
whole Red Cross organization direct
ly with the American army and, more
or less, with the Allied armies. At
a time such as now, when the fight
ing has ebbed, and the American sol
diers are not actively engaged on the
battle front, the Department of Mil
itary Relief does not have to look out
for newly wounded men with it's com-
forts and facilities for communica-
ton. But it has a large field, never
theless, for it is charged with the duty
Of providing comforts for the bar
racks and the camps, for soldiers and
sailors, for the Allied forces to some
extent, and also charged with the en-
couragement of communication be-
tween the soldiers in the field or camp
and their families and friends at
home.
What with Home Service work,
Camp Service work and Communica-
ton, Short is a very busy individual
and he is putting plenty of ability
and pep into the work, which already
is showing gratifying results. In adj
dition O 1ooking out for the comforts
of soldiers, sailors and marines, the
Department of Military Relief of the
American Red Cross in Siberia is
providing comfort bags, pajamas, etc,
for the American Railway engineers
who have been over here for some
months. These engineers are at
V~ladivostoll, Hardin and quartered at
various points along the Trans-Siber-
ian line.
Short expects to leave in a day or
so with three carloads Of soldier
supplies for the men up the line run
ming north from V~ladivostok to Ha-
barovsk, some 600 miles. He is plan
ming a monthly service of this kind.
Red Cross work in Siberia is hand
led by the Siberian Commission. Most
of the personnel of this Commission
and its staff is drawn from Russia,
Japan, China, the Philippines and Ha-
wall. Hawaii has sent "a active work
ers all of whom but one, Mrs. Mason
F. Prosser, are here. Mrs. Prosser
was called home by the news that her
husband, Major Prosser, who had
been with General Pershing's staff in
France, was. returning to Hawaii i'll
and needed her care. The remainder
of the Hawaii contingent expects to
stay in Siberia so long as its services
are needed.