Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-09
RED CROSS MOTOR CORPS
TO O|sBAND IN FEW DAYS
Young Women OF Richmond Per-
formed Conspicuous Service in
Work During Emergency.
MISS T.. CAMPBELL is CAPTAIN
Scores of Doughboys Picked Up by
Girls During City'S Second Parade.
Help at Camp Lee and Wcstlamp-
ton Hospital.

The Red Cross Motor Corps OF more
ihhn twenty-five girls and young wo-
mon "i Richmond. like hundreds OF
other ORGANIZATIONS called Into exist
cnce by the. cNisencics Of war condi-
TONS. Viii Il stand within few days
AMI veTna;n ir;,cti;e. unless there is an
,n,erecnCE cal for service.
White the members of the Red Cross
Mot"r cori's ct i.ichmond are Rich
ton. but or'r&,es directly under The
,omac Division at Washington.
Miss Frederick Campbell = captain
Miss Mary McCaw Halves. nrs,-!ieu-
tenant Miss Helen Starke. sergeant.
lieutenant, Miss Susie Starkc. sergeant;
and Misses Fiuribel Kaufman. May
Mercer and Ann Page corpovals
The list OF members al present in
ciudes. besides the officers mentioned
above. Mrs. John \rmistead Miss Mary
Boyd Miss Ethel cabell. Mrs. Fred
Campbell. Miss Fanny Davis Miss
Anne Hawes. Miss blanche cole. Mrs
Jcffries. Mrs Norman johnson. Mrs
Lyman, Miss Lucille Neal. Miss Elcur-
or Parrish, Miss Mae Roicn. Mrs. Cecil
Mrs. Clarence WYATT. Mrs. KWsh Miller
and Miss Sarah Faulkner.
vice rendered by these young women
in the now familiar gray craveneite
uniforms. with putt"es and sam Blown
belts and the insignia OF the Red Cross
on their caps, WAS in the second parade
when scores OF douehboys fell out o:
ranks on the line Of march To H.. i'm
nediateiy picked up by The members
q! the motor corps and taken 10 the
nrst aid stations. and then to the hos-
pitals. returning to Broad Street STA
zion with groups OF nurses picked w
on the Nay
Handle Fifty Strctchrr Cases.
They took care OF nifty strctchcr
cases with their own cars ana the am
oulanceS lent them ny a Kichmond
Z a a. Ia Tni u
ing 70 the Richmond chapter Of the
Red Cross on that eNen;fu day
The orig inal purpose OF tn. organi-
cation OF the ked Cross Motor Iorrs
OF young. women. who drove their "wn
cars. was To serve the base hospital
AT Westhampton in the loading and un :
loading o; Wounded men from inc
troop trains.
Besides their own cars. they drove
ne eight amoulances belonging 10 the
Nesthampton Hospital and the one am =
10 ne Richmond Red Cross Chapter. :
J.! Is siSn!hSant iha; with the as
sisiance o: ordcrlies from tho hospital
they ACCOMPLISHED the enormous TASK
OF !oad!ns and unloading all the troop
trains which came to Wcstnampton
9aSe hospital during It's existence a. a
Major Galoraith. who was command
ing "ihcer at the base hospital! pre-
Senied To- the motor corp, from him
self and his stan a loving Gun i'm rr,,n.
niiion OF the efficient service rendered
the hospital.
The hardest work done by these
H9uns women MAS under the direction
OF IN" commanding officer at the CamI
Lee base hospital in driving The ID,
,cntS out for an hours recreation cac II
. ,i,A Ihs trip I" camp Lee and re-
,urn Was matter OF sixty miles Til.
Hed cross has so far reimbursed the
sApehSe o; th9 unheep OF the cars
usl!cn ny the young women only in the
Lee trips.