The New York herald., 1921-11-05
so WOMEN IN MOTORS
DELIVER MILK TODAY
Appeal of Ten Hospitals and
Ten Day Nurseries to
Be Needed.
1,500 QUARTS NEEDED
Call Issued to All Reserve
Members of Motor Corps
Of America.
EAST SIDE GETS A SUPPLY
81, 900 Is Quickly Subscribed
for Aid by Women of Coali-
tion Committee.

Ten hospitals. ten day nurseries and
the employees OF a large downtown
firm appealed yesterday to the wom-
ems volunteer corps OF milk truck
drivers for help while the milk strike
lasts. They called upon the Motor
Corps OF America, which has been
reorganized for this emergency by Col
Helen Bastedo. to deliver to these in
stitutions more than 1900 quarts and
eight cases of milk.
The hospitals, nurseries and institu-
tions and the quantities of milk they
require are: New York Hospital, s
West Sixteenth street, $50 quarts;
Broad Street Hospital. 129 Broad
street. 12O quarts; LyingIn Hospital,
Seventeenth street and Second ave-
nue.. 800 quarts; United States Public
Health Service Hospital, Jay and Hud-
son streets, 60 quarts; Peoples Hos
pital. 203 Second avenue. so quarts;
New York Infirmary. Is Livingston
place, so quarts; Volunteer Hospital,
Water and BeeSman streets, 80 quarts;
Grace Hospital. Ala East Fourteenth
street, % quarts; New York Ortho-
pedlc Dispensary and Hospital, 420
Reconstruction Hospital. 395 Central
Park West, SO quarts: Little Mothers,
236 Second avenue, 10 quarts; Sister
Day Nursery 334 East Twenty-second
street; employees Of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company, %
Lispenard street, and eight day nur-
series to be supplied from a central
point to which the motor corps will
make a delivery of several cases and
cans of milk.
rs Cars to Carry Milk.
| Col. Bastedo will have fifty members
of the corps in uniform and at work by
o'clock this morning She will have
| twenty-five automobiles ready to carry
| the cans of milk. Each automobile will
be in charge of two women
! Because of the tremendous demand
| for help in this situation Col. Bastedo
| issued a call last night to all reserve
members of the Motor Corps of America,
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| the war and for some time afterward, to
! report at headquarters, 123 East Sixty
| second street, at o'clock this morning
| for duty until the strike Is ended. The
| headquarters was kept open until late
| laet night to receive orders from other
| institutions suffering on account OF the
! strike.
| The motor corps supplied two hospitals
with their regular ration of milk yester-
i l. ~ <t...<x H.. la-
pensary Hospital received 120 quarts.
delivered by Lieut.. Mrs. Leo) Garlic
and Lieut. Adeiina Missing. among the
first members of the reserve corps to re-
port for active duty. The women took
the milk from the station at $40 West
Fifty-sixth street.
Private Beatrice Nidd and Sergeant
(Mrs.) A. w. Seaman delivered f1fty
quarts to the Reconstruction Hospital at
3e5 Central Park West. When they ar
rived with the milk they were welcomed
by more than q score OF war veterans
who cheered the volunteer drivers.
Lieut.. Seaman wore the khaki and blue
uniform Of the motor corps and Miss
Nidd was dressed In a camefs hair motor
coat and hat.
MIX Call for East side.
Lieut.. Garlic and Lieut.. Missing were
pressed into service again in the after
noon when a call came from the East
Side for milk. They took two wagon
loads OF milk from the West Twenty
ninth street station Of one OF the milk
distributors to lower First avenue. where
parents were told they could get milk.
This work will be performed again to-
day.
Members Of the woman's division of
the coalition committee contributed
81 900 to the milk committee organized
by Miss Mary Wood chairman OF the
cooperating committee.
"witnin twenty-four hours after we
formed our committee" said Miss Wood
at the campaign headquarters In the
Murray Hill Hotel. women poured out
their money and signed checks to help
get milk distributed among the poor"
At dusk huge truck loaded with
milk cans and tin pals started to the
Bowery and the East Side, where the
milk committee had been notified that
milk was scarcest. Women manned the
trucks md distributed the milk through
the tcncments and wherever II was
needed. Miss F'loi ence Finch drove an
automobile loaded with cans of milk
and the women on the truck included
Mrs Emma Kip Edwards. Mrs. G. l..
! Charles and Mrs. Walter Scott Badger.