The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-04-12
RED CROSS TIPS.

at the American Red Cross hotel for
soldiers and sailors at "a Avenue Vic
tor Emmanuel III, Paris. And for that
reason every morning sees an eager
throng OF American fighters on hand
for the bowl of the oatmeal porridge
that they regard the finest breakfast
TO be found anywhere in tho French
capital. Coffee, bread and jam, and
extra portions, II wanted, are served
with the "mush'' for which a charge
of fifty confines Chine cents) is made.
The breakfast In served from seven
O'Clock until two. and between hours
there Is not an idle moment for thu
Red Cross girls who serve the dough-
boys and sailors. The hotel has sleep
ing accommodation for $50 men, hot
baths and many other comforts, in
addition to an information and advice
service, but "mush' remains the chief
attraction.
strikingly impressive tribute Of
love and gratitude to an American
Red Cross nurse has been paid by
Wayne County, Indiana, In the nam
ing of the Patricia Ia Byron Memorial
hospital Praticia /. Byron was "A
member of the Red Cross Nursing
Service assigned to the Army Nurse
corps who died in the line OF duty at
Camp Macarthur. Texas, last spring.
Before joining the military service sho
was executive of the Fort Wayne Tu-
berculosis Society. She helped estab-
fish an open laid school for sickly chill
dren and camp for the care OF tuber
cular patients. As this small institu-
ton grew ii was taken over by the
county, multiplied many times in ca
pacity. and thoroughly equipped with
medical and nursing facilities. And
it was In recognition of Miss Byron's
early service for the hospital that at
her death 1t was named in memory of
her.
Life is gradually returning to the
dead city of Rheims. With the assis~
lance of the local authorities the
American Red Cross has erected
sleeping quarters for five hundred
people. The largest school in the
ruined city has ben turned over to
the Red Cross, which has repaired
the roof and walls and installed beds
and kitchens for returning refugees.
Until these accommodations ware reA-
dy the only place where it was pos
Siblc TO obtain food was the canteen
In the cellar of tho Bureau de la
Place, near the cathedral ruins, where
toiled Nine. Fouriaux, "the woman OF
granite who. despite her seventy
ye<s, was the first on hand to well
come the refNwAeA
VI tfte convenience OF CASUAL o.
ficers of the American army. navy,
marin corps and Red Cross visiting
Bordeaux d hotel for their exclusive
use has been opened by the American
Red Cross in the Place de Ia Chape-
let Formerly popular as the Grand
Hotel de Nice the building has been
renovated. re-decorated, equipped and
furnished by the American organiza-
ton and ia admirably adapted TO its
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and navy officers and Red Cross
workers manage the hostelry.
Nine hospitals with total staff Of
fifty Red Cross nurses are being or
ganized in northern Serbia by the
American Red Cross mission to tho
Balkans. In addition to this the mis-
sion il sending thirteen nurses TO
Montenegro, while another unit of
ten nurses is being organized for
Greece, In all the activities there
will be steps taken to train native
women as nurses.
But where do you find a place to
live?" asked President Wilson of
American Red Cross workers ut
Rheims when he visited that shat
tered city. The women he addressed
explained that they made their home
in tn mansion of IL millionaire,
"Of course" she added. the rain
leaks through the shrapnel holes n
the roof, there are no windows and
the front door has been blown out
! But no one has a comfortable home
/ in Rheims. And everyone needs help
! here We came at our own request
after visit from Chalons, during
which we saw the great need of as
sistance among the returning people
of Rheims.
| Sweaters knitted by Honolulu fire
men have arrived in Vladivostok and
are being distributed there by S. r.
Short, an American Red Cross worker
from Hawaii. The sweaters are we'll
made and each carried a card with
! the greeting Aloha Nul J4oa," signed
! by the knitter and also bearing the
words "Firomen's Red Cross Knitting
! Unit, Honolulu, r, H"
A weekly courier service between
/ Paris and Treves and Coblentz for
the convenience of soldiers in the
American army of occupation has
| Cross and will be maintained so lorg
as American fighting men remain in
! Germany.
Warm appreciation OF the relief
/ work conducted by the American Red
! Cross in Siberia is now appearing al
most daily in the Siberian newspapers,
which, when the Red Cross workers
( itfSt appedFeuS seemed apprehenslVe
| that the Americans were bent on some
! form of commercial conquest. AS the
relief trains were made up at Vladi-
vostok and sent west with hundreds Of
| thousands of dollars worth of sup
plies of all kinds, however. the press
| investigated. Soon the relief supplies
were being distributed at Alsarterin-
burg and Chelyabinsk and it was not
! long before the population were in
! formed on American Red Cross
methods with the result that the CO.
operation of the natives with the or
sanization is steadily and rapidly
| growing.
Samuel Mason, of New York, rep
resenting the Hebrasv Sheltering and
Immigration Aid Society OF America,
has arrived in Vladivostok to organize
! the work relief that will be carried
on by his organization n siberia. Mr..
| Mason surveyed the field a year ago,
| returned TO the United States and
secured funds with which TO work
and is now heading the active work.
He has accepted the proffered full CO.
| operation of the American Red Cross
workers in Siberia. The fund at Mr..
Mason's disposal will be used not only
| for relieving the needs of Jews in