Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-05-27
UNIQUE CHARITY IN
THE WALSH HOUSE
WONDERFUL WORK THE WIDOW
OF MINING MAeNATE is DOING
IN WASHINGTON.
SHARES THE TOLL HERSELF
Great Quantities Of Clothing cIeverIy
Made Over and Shipped to the Des-
titute Women and Children of the
Allied Countries.
BY EDwAHD 3. CLARK.

Washington-One of the great resi-
dences of this town of the kind that
people call a mansion is given over
today to a charity which stands in
dividualized in its field. The over
worked word unique" applies to the
place and to the things that are done
therein,
On Massachusetts avenue stands
the great brick and stone residence
of Mrs. Thomas f. Walsh, widow of
a man who made his fortune in the
mines of the west, beginning work as
a day-by-day miner in his own behalf.
Thomas f. Walsh was successful.
When he had made his money he came
to Washington to live and here he
built the great house in which his
widow is now residing. Set into the
foundation of the residence is a stone
bordered with gilt. 1t was taken from
one of the mines in which Mr.. Walsh
labored in his early days.
On the ground floor or the residence
are four great rooms. In these rooms
every day men and women toll in be-
half of the destitute women and chill
dren of all the countries of Europe,
allied or at any time allied with the
nations which were striving to free
the peoples of the earth from the
domination of militarism and auToc-
racy.
At half past o'clock every morn
ing. Mrs. Walsh goes to one of the
workrooms and starts at the labor
of love. She works with her own
hands as hard as any one of the en-
ployees and she keeps steadily at it
with only an interval for luncheon
until 7:3O o'clock in the evening.
Clothing for Women and Children.
In earlier days Mrs. Walsh in the
West learned the fine arts of a house
wife. She was her husbands help
mate in the days of his struggles as
she was his companion and helper in
the days of his success. Today she
is putting to a worlds use the ac-
complishments, for they are nothing
else, that she acquired in the days of
struggle.
To the Walsh residence daily are
sent by the people of Washington
material of various kinds and cast-off
clothing. These are taken, sterilized,
ripped to pieces and made over into
all kinds of wearing apparel for the
women and children of the different
countries of Europe, due regard being
civ 70 hn alothinn Of tho
countries and to climatic conditions.
Consideration is also given to the
appeals which certain colors make to
the women and children of different
nationalities.
The boys and girls of the destitute
regions of France are sent clothing
of the kind which they wore in the
days of prosperity and peace. The
children of Italy get the clothing of
those color schemes of which south
ern people are so fond. The general
plan of providing not only what the
people need but what the people like
is carried out in all shipments sent
to all countries.
General Dickman's New Job.
Maj. Gen. Joseph T. Dickman has
been appointed president of a board
which will meet in Chaumont, France,
to consider lessons learned from the
war in so far as they concern tactics
and organization.
Prior to- the outbreak of war, any
American army board with anything
of Importance to consider was certain
to have Joseph T. Dickman as one of
it's members. War department authori-
ties always insisted on Dickman, and
Dickman always responded. Now this
Ohio soldier has the presidency of the
most important board convened for
many years.
General Dickman has been in COM
mand of the army of occupation in
Germany. He is succeeded in that
command by Lieut. Gen. Hunter Lig-
gett. Just prior to taking command
of the army of occupation General
Dickman was In command of the First
corps, fighting in the Argonne.
No one has been allowed to know
much about the work of our army
officers in France. All of the ranking
officers doubtless deserve columns of
space for the detailing of the deeds
which they did when driving the Huns
back from their advanced positions In
France, but the exigencies of warfare
or something else prevented the proper
blazoning of the fighting qualities and
battling accomplishments of these
men.
Dickman's Division ut the Marine.
One can write only concerning those
of whom he knows something at first
hand. Dickman has been appointed
president of a high military board and
of Dickman's deeds l know something
personally, for / was attached to his
headquarters during the closing days
of the war.
In General Pershing's report TO the
secretary of War, dated November 20.
1913, this paragraph occurs:
'''The Third division was holding the
bank of the Marine from the bend east
of the mouth of the Surmelin to the
west of Mezy, opposite Chateau-Thier-
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