Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-14
WOMEN TO RECEIVE
KIN OF iron MEN"
Recommendations Provided for
All Who Sought Them and
Others Available
INFORMATION BOOTHS OPEN

Plans for hospitabe reception to
visiting relatives of soldiers in the
Twenty eighth Division, who come here
for the parade tomorrow, have Kept the
womens section of the Philadelphia
welcome home committee at work night
and day.
Every family that has applied to the
womep's committee for accommodations
has been taken care of and the com
mittee. anticipating emergency needs at
the last minute. has on its lists addi-
tional accommodations to meet these
demands.
The committee. headed by Mrs. John
c. Groomc. is preparing to take care
of the relatives from the time they
arrive until they depart. All day to
morrow the reception committee, ot
which Mrs. Eugene NcwbOld is chair
man, will meet all trains and ferries
and guide visitors TO information booths,
where specific directions will he given
them for finding lodgings, rest rooms
and restaurants.
The reception committee will wear Il
white brassard bearing in red letters
s'Wclcome Home. Womcn's Reception
Committee.
Assigned to Booths
Mrs George Dallas Dixon j. IN
charge of the information booths. which
will be open all today and Thursday
Those who will assist in the manage
ment of the booths are officers aud dlrcc-
tors of the Pennsylvania Railroad WON
( ems division for war relief. They in-
t.lude Mrs. William Wallace Attcrbury.
Mrs. Lewis Nelson. Mrs. q. j. DE
Rouse. Mrs. James I. Fahnostock.
Mrs. Elisha Lee. Mrs. Robert Clinton
Wright, Mrs. J. Il. Hutchinson. Mrs.
Gardner Cassatt Mrs. w. Hayward
MYERS. Mrs George W. Boyd and Mrs.
A. J. County.
Mrs. James Starr. .Ir.. is chairman
of the subcommittee in charge ot pre-
paripg box lunches for visiting relatives
OF the men in the parade.
Notices have been sent to the families.
ipclosing n card which makes it possible
for them to secure the lunch for twenty
FIVE cents. Fifteen hundred boxes of
lunch will be on sal" at stand on the
Parkway any time after o'clock on
Thursday morning. Those assisting
Mrs. Starr include Mrs. Thomas Reath,
Mrs Howard Sewer. Mrs. ii. -.
PEBBLES. Mrs Horatio Wood and Mrs.
John Mustard.
=. The women's committee expects
/, 5rge number of the families of the SOL
I ,rs to arrive on THURSDAY and go
ht TO the Parkway to see the parade.
~ take care of these people there will
two information booths set up at
,nty- second street and the Parkway
I'VE all assistance necessary. Six
n from the National League for
ems Service. with Mrs. !. Dean
90 1T as chairman, will have charge
lhese booths.
Convert Offices Into Rest Rooms
At 1903 Walnut street the National
League for Women's Service have
planned to turn its offices into rest
rooms for the out of town women.
A similar arrangement is planned for
the Headquarters of the Emergency Aid,
142S Walnut street.
The Girls Catholic High School, at
:, Eighteenth and Wood streets, has also
opened up rest room Accommodations for
the day of the parad%
Visiting babies can be checked at the
Friends Neighborhood House, Fourth
and Green streets. and will be given a
; lunch for twenty five cents. Only the
babies of men marching in the parade
of the Twenty eighth are admitted TO
4 she nursery. and these will be cared for
by able girls and women. Mrs. Freder- =
ick H. Packard is chairman of the com
mittee on rest rooms.
Crowds and possible scorshing hot
day have led to the establishment o
first aid stations along tho line %
march These stations will have !
personnel including a police surgeon
two city nurses and Emergency AiC
nurse aids They are under the join
management of htc city and the Emor'
eency Aid. and will bc equipped with
beds. cots and rest chairs for thos'
overcome.
The stations will be located at III
South Broad. 231 North Broad. Cos
Chestnut street. SD Chestnut street
716 Market street and Twenty fourtf
and Spring Garden streets.