New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-05

During the last week the National
League for Woman's Service held en-
ter'alhments in every canteen. All
New Years day and evening, several
thousand men were fed and enter
tanned. During the month of Decem-
Der the Riverside Community House
Canteen has served 10,526 meals; at the
Harvard Canteen for the month 5O7
men have been fed. At noon on Friday.
IN 1lve cantcens, 1,00c wounded SOL
dlers from Pelham Bay were served
with lunch at the request of the Red
cross. This service will be repeated
every Thursday. The men are brought
to the city from Pelham Bav in the
ambulances Of the Motor Corps, and as
guests of the Red Cross are taken to
the Palace Theatre matinee. During
the week dinner party for thirty
wounded men from the Polytechnic Hos
pltal was given in the League Head
quarters Canteen. Mrs Emma Lowen-
gard was hostess.
The League Motor Corps this week
answered 1874 calls, most of which were
for ambulance service and chiefly the
transportation of wounded soldiers
and sailors from one hospital to an
other. On New Years Day the ambu-
lances were used to take wounded men
to entertainments and dinner parties
given in their honor.
general information bureau will
open Monday, January 6.
Soldiers Entertained
The attendance at the Soldiers, Sail
ors and Marines Club has never been
larger than during the holidays. There
mas peen an entertainment every night,
Years Day for dinner twenty-five men
from Debarkation Hospital No. 3 were
guests OF Miss Persis Pomeroy in the
canteen and afterward spent the even
ing in the club. Mrs. James A. Roose-
welt was hostess at a dance on New
Years night.
The hospital entertainment commit
tee took eighteen wounded men to the
Palace Theatre one morning this week.
Twelve men were taken to the George
NJ. Cohan Theatre to see "a Prince
There Was" On Tuesday an entertain
mcnt, in which professional actors only
took part, was given at United States
General Hospital No. |. These enter
tainments are to become weekly in
stitution, ard are for the wounded men
whom it is impossible to bring TO the
city for amusement
The Motor Corps has taken 1923 men
to and from the Convalescent Home
during the week. On Wednesday, in
answer to an emergency call, the
corps sent six ambulances to BAY
Shore, l.. l., to aid in the relief work
for the wounded aboard the stranded
u. S. S. Northern Pacific The storm
however, prevented the landing of the
men and the corps returned to Brook
Ign.
Outside New York
The contents of the 5S2 Santa Claus
parcels distributed by the Detroit
branch of the league at the Henry
Ford Hospital on Christmas Eve were
purchased largely with money col
lected as automobile spceders' fines in
a local court. A package was given to
every one in military service, whether
patient. nurse or member of the hos
,,ital staff, and each contained box
Of candy and handkerchefs.
The Milwaukee branch of the Ma
tional League for Woman's Service on
Christmas Day distributed baskets of
food and gifts to children of soldiers
The contents of each basket were
valued at more than $40.
The Seattle branch of the National
League for Woman's Service has in
stalled in it's headquarters a "balcr
for COMPRISING packages and bundles
The balcr conserves space, reducing
the size Of u package one-half.