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AMERICA'S RED CROSS SHIP AND HER ERRAND OF MERCY Wie steamship Red Croas wa for last we. tuated withii th all Our rmany. the fact thai con health; disturbance hat the la week tilled Will everything that trained in carinu' the Hudson River It was intended day at no present war is the largest that the worl? that made when up the river was of th? dimen- kind of ar. It was Decent It Koosevelt back from Wilbur Wright, th? for the first time ivernor's Island tc Grant's i NOISE HAS EXPECTED, AND THERE WAS NO DISAPPOINTMENT. Red Cross went aw-r.

far gooai was first planned, 'hat OK away to do, having soaked itself ess of millions of result in there being added day those of election night the Fourth of made it attracti-" iad "ii extruded by com The the movetnenta of the steam Keii I accompanied by noise. Argu itionality of the crew have delayed departure, which only tends to in treas-e of her friends. i funnels painted white, ex apt fo: sea in red, she will a kiSUtifu! '1er hull is white, exc-'pt feet wide from bow to when it is the fashion to gray-black, put out Hfhta -t aigtit. ivireloaa messages, but none. low the horizon as extreme mental cor.

the passengers of which there md crew can achieve, the Red be th. brightest object, both night und day, all the seas. She will without an enemy on land and I target, there is in no nation i man depraved as to smudge her apotk-ss p0oi on the other side, tossed un their imaginations fevered, looi. tip.in the steamship Red Cross as having toillfht irgo of angels. And their imagina? is have to be mi fevered, either.

IMK TEAKI.ESS Iainburg-American tug No. what seemed a forty-mile thir: way and lurched across the ooklyn at 2:30 o'clock, where mtti lying at st. On the tug ofleual of the American Red Cross and of Haml.ui. American Line, which has lent the known as the Hamburg, to for as long as it may be board thi Red Cross nurses dressed in gray white caps were completely 'Hnded by fathers and mothers, brother? md cou-in-. and aunts, sweethearts and those to be.

all buzzing like a church social, each the centre of a group, each group uncon of ihe pushing and crowding by those anx to become members of a similar group, once, flowers being hurried Mh? gangplank, mail being distributed in the forward, surgeons in Norfolk jackets and breeches undergoing the same processes the nurses bearing them 'splendidly, but instructions to write two blasts from the whistle, kisses and rush for final Rrip a- no leurs, more kisses and a scramble ort' because it o'clock and the tv had begun. had been engaged in cheering every up, a pretty girl, eighteen a nurse whose hair was gray. "I you have a v-e-r-y pleasant sojou Knowing us the girl did what the nurse was ing to and what she would see when she got thei the remark, in cold type, does not look to intelligent. Hut to one who saw tue rxprr on the girl's face and heard the remark Hi? tran action not only eminently proper but affc? inir. The girl hope her iiunt would have pleasant time.

The fact that probably wou not. and that both the girl and the aunt know was the precisr reason whj referring to the fa at such a moment was carefully avoided. Thousands on the slup was backed by a tug into midstream. Mo' ing pielure men. standing on top the pii? house of a snorting turned the cranks their machines at the risk of In injr tossed board.

While they took moving pictures of ship passengers took pictures of ihc moving piel tire men. Fach nurse earned an American Rag. Thei were 126 of them lined along the port side. Eae nurse was trying to wave her flag at those pci sons who a few moments before, had made that little group on deck in which she had bee the centre of attraction, the pride of them all. ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE ACTIV1 AMERICAN FLAG8.

They waved frantically from the dock. On hundred and twenty-five flags jumped up am down sympathetically from the side. Every body pointed; everybody yelled goodby Hjrain an? again. Th" steamship blew her whistle; the tuj blew just as often and twice as hard. Fares on the dock became dimmer hut through tears.

There were no' tears. The cir riculum does not include tears. There may hav? been some in the staterooms, the not told about them. Kach ship we passed as she lay doit alonj: the South Brooklyn waterfront dipped hi" colors. We passed all nations, including th? Scandinavian.

And canal boats. They had colors, except that their cargoes of brick wen red. So the man and his wife and children am! their dog waved and wagged, cheered and barked It was very sincere and inspiring. Docks that at such an hour would have been deserted other? wise were filled with people. A daring saflbo'it, about the size of a mantelpiece ornament, cut across our bow, our whistle denoting oui- anxiety and displeasure, the three men in the little boat calling out words of godspeed to all on board.

CONEY ISLAM) PAYS HER RESPECTS TO THE RED CROSS IDEA. A Coney Island boat, her paaaengera all on the port side, sent a i cheer across the water to Red Cross, and a series of three blasts, is the form that "1 salute thee" sea. was begun that did not stop throughout the two hours, from 4 until fi o'clock, in which the steamship Red Cross was going up the river. The only vessel that did blow her whistle was the Sandy Hook, coming up from the Jersey coast resorts, and apparently she did not want lo lose speed. The dredge of the Coastwise Dredg? ing Company, at work in midstream north of Quarantine, seeming to notice this omission, made up for it by turning on her whistle anil letting it stay on until we had passed out of hearing, We on board wondered how we must look from shore.

The Battery was lined with people who knew. White and scarlet, the sun slanting across the steamship those last rays that had not been absorbed by the Statue of Liberty directly upon our left, we knew that we must be beautiful. From both sides of the river triple blasts shot at us continuously. Each s'alute must be an? swered. Each salute was.

Conversation on board was postponed. It wasn't the kind of thine: that one could talk about anyway. ENGLISH, GERMAN, FRENCH AND RUSSIAN SVLUTES ALL SOl'ND ALIKE. There is no denying that there is a thrill staccato salutations from English, Cerman, French, Russian and South American ships, coast ships, ferryboats, boats for Boston, motor boats, railroad transfers and the Washington Irvief from Albany. There were hundreds of boats, tooting the regulation three times, and our man doing his best to keep pace with them and sue ceeding throughout Unless one is a and has heard a similar demonstration caused by the appearance of one's self at the mast lead.

there is no getting away from it that the effect ia powerful, and for the most part is felt in the region of the spinal column. Mis- Jane A. Delano, chairman of the nursing service of the American Red Cross, A Bright Spot Against War Dark Masses Is This Expedition, Representing Much Toil and Devotion, Which Puts Forth in the Name of Humanity. nupei is? the mobil tin- system whereby thou and all 'he country are enrolled with American Red Cross and may he called on for service. The nut who have gone on pre ent expedition have been chosen out live thou? sand plicants.

The 120 muse- represent ten units, each of which has three doctors also. The live extra nurses are to tak-- the places those who may become ill. l2-f from Manhattan, Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Connecticut, New Jersey, Roch? ster, Albany and Buffalo, All them are Ameri? can born, and have been selected with special regard to physical fitness for the service, who met other requirements and knew other lac nuages than English were considered especial!) At ted lor die work the. are to do. MISS HELEN SCOTT HAY, GENERAL BITER? VISOR OF THF EXPEDITION.

Miss Helen Scott Hay, who was chosen by Queen Bulgaria to oversee the building .1 hospital that country, is general supervi 1: the expedition. Assisting her Miss Katrina B. Hertzer ami Miss Josephine B. Bowman. nurses on the Cross arc not correspondons school graduate do I feel about the expedition said Mra, M.

H. Metealfe, of Chicago, "Why, 1 feel that a is 1 adventure. I know how serum? it is and I realize there is hard work lo do and suffering to see. Hut for all that. I'm a-tinglc with' the excitement of it and can hardly wait he off.

"It isn't for the e'xeitement that we're enlist? ing," said Miss Margaret G. Egan, of Brooklyn, "though we know we shall be in the thick the war. No woman is allowed on th'- but shall be tue emergency hospitals to which the wounded are IrOUght. We have no feai. any of us." Kach promises to remain six month she returns sooner she pays her own 11 tin- war lasts lunger than ix months those who desire will he returned ami others si nt in their places.

They will receive $60 a month. SO they are making financial sacrifices. It will cost the Red Cross fl 6,000 a month, T. Boardman, secretary of Amer? ican brunch of the world society of that name, to kiip in the "icld tin- nurses that are being this expedition. The cost of fitting out the ship is a small pan of the expense.

WHOLESALE SUPPLY OF ABSORBENT OT? TON. ZF, BANDAGES AND ETHER. the snip are 400,000 pounds absorbent and no'i-ab sorben! cotton, than 200,000 of taute, more than 50,000 metres of gsuse for splints. 15,000 pounds of ban? dages, 30,000 gallons of iodim-, 2,000 cans ether, 2,000 eana of chloroform, doxen pairs oi rubber gloves, and thousands ligatures. Each nurse is furnished by the society with an equipment, including six gray chambray uniforms, twelve white aprons, collars, four caps, bra sard, uniform cape of blue with red, uniform hat, gray wool sweater, work, shoe and laundry bugs rug and canvas bag to carry these.

Aside from the canvas bag, cue nuise lowed take only baggage which, she could carry Major Robert U. Patterson, Medical Corps, I'. S. la in charge of all surgeons and nurses cf the expedition, as chief, bureau of medical service, American Red Cross. The number of EUfgOOaa to go on the lirst trip was limited to thirty.

Those chosen are young men. They were instructed to place in a suitcase or iight travelling bag. which, it was emphasized, they would carrv themselves, sufficient clothing to last one month. 'I he reaminder of each doctor's clothing was placed in canvas which hail a suitable loc1 attached, was furnished him in New York. The Red Cross reimbursed each for the Uniforms they purchased not to exceed MS 75.

The uniforms that each obtained consisted of the foi Norfolk uits and ridii III lll.v nnii two pail a anva leggings. i. ruppige bat. Ten I rhirts, t. the coloi cloth, cut i pasted civilian style, which buttoi 1 lie Before 'oiling, the Red Cross furnished eae doctor special passport signed by the Stat i i t.

he murl keep with him cor i tn ble receptacle, A Red Croa bi a aril worn the fl arm. If already had typhoid ferei Patterson, or the anti-typhoid prophy lactic administered, he was requeatei take rst dose before leaving his home and as many of the other doses as practicnbl? lu-foro i linar. It arranged to have th? in York to those who de it. the treatment was not complete? Dr. Pat tu son it would i on the wa to Europe.

Dii are paid 1-30 a month; ph SI ''i'? a mon' I XITED STATE? ARM1. DISCIPLINE WILL PREVAIL ON THE SHU'. While all the nurses and physicians have had long training to lit them for the arduous work they will undertake, they will have been put through United States army discipline before reaching the scenes of their labors. "I am proud of this company," said Major Pat? terson. "The nurses, as yon can tell by looking at their faces, are going because they are devoted to the work.

The physicians, if youngsters, have had long experience hospitals or practice, a.id they are surgeons every one. "The discipline and directions on this ship r.nd in the units are the same as thou in United States army. My directions are always given to Miss Hay. in charge of the nuraes. The physieim il, charge of the hospital units will give his to the nurse in charge.

So far as I cm pee every preparation has been made for the flciency at the front. Sailing as we do, on a ahip given to hospital uses, I have no loubt that a esprit de corps will be developed which will make for devotion to duty." The surgeon does not now wait for the end of a battle, nor does he remain in quarters some lance at the rear, -ays Dr. -lame. J. Walsh, pecting the wounded to be carried to him, for the number of wounded is entirely too great for that, and the battle is waged too i renuously to permit -ich movements of the hospital corps.

SURGEON CRAWLING AMONG DEAD AND Will ED WHILE THE BATTLE RAGES. Armed with a pocket surgical case, in which are contained a number of absolutely necessary in? struments and ligaturea with some eapocially iodine, and above all carrying a hypo? dermic syringe and a plentiful supply of mor phine and Other anodyne drugs, the surgeon, op hands and knees, makes his way along the rows of the dead and wounded even while the battle is racing, and, with the shots passing over him, stretches himself alongside those needing ente proceeds to help them in the best way that he can for the moment, and, surprising though may be, under the circumstances there is very much that he can These boyish looking surgeons on the Red Cross have been picked and may be depended upon to devote all day and as much of the night as they r. keep awake to crawling about among the wounded and dying soldiers. "Men can be mowed down by hundreds anil even thousands." says Dr. Walsh, "with machine guns, but they have to be cared for and heir lettering? relieved individually.

Even the hope? lessly wounded not left to die unattended, or at neglected, now. He ia given the consol? ing injection morphine, partly for the sake of others as os himself, a- the surgeon passes. "The inhuman slaughter goes on, but the re deeming element of surgical care comes in Mme consolation for il all, ami at least the suf fering of men in mind as well as body the me tal torture having been worse in the the physical pain is relieved they arc the chance lor recovery from their wounds." "No one who has been in contact with the men," says a writer, "who are in the van ot' this great work can fail to be struck with the fact thai in them tin Rtrenuousnesa and ardor of the dentist mated with the devotion ami humanen? the lover of mankind. "Along with the elevation of surgery and medi? cine to that high scientific which the) now 0 upy has gone not i of the profes? sion, bul a general prevalence of a high and broad humanity among its members, he sawbones of whom we read In 'Pickwick' ere never, of course, representative of the pro (essiori, but there was a greater admixture of that ort of thug among medical students of past gen? erations than it is easy for to-day to be? lieve. The higher intellectual qualifications anal the more strenuous intellectual exertion that the lit day standards of medicine demand have without question weeded in a very great measure not only the more ignoran? nut the more callous and the more coarse-grained candidates for medical career." The will touch Arat at Falmouth, where twenty-four nurses (two units) and six surgeons will be landed for England.

At Rotterdam two units for Russia, two for Austria and two for Germany will disembark. The nurses foi France be left Frencl port. Nur es for have beer lent over In Greek ship, Holla.in, (ircece and iiaiy hav? Red there will be nursoa for them in ea i countries war, and Miss Boardman hopes that when the relief returi out again and dispatched to Hum ii "Money tne thing we need," -he paid last lay. "It is incomprehensible to me thai we luve not received more. In former calamtti? did not touch this money been given us in much larger quantitiea.

I want Sl.ooti.ooo for this war, and it would be bettor to have As one way of raising the tlMtsMM Mis? il? animan hopes, sbe to have a cKixena' committee formed in New York limiter to that in Washington. hardly think It will be neeeaaary to outline to the public in greater detail I have already done," said Miss Boardman, "the lntolil that can come through the expenditure even of a few dollars among the wounded on the field of battle. I imagine that if man about to spend a liar, say, for something he could just is well di, without realised that just that dollar might allay the suffering of aeveral pom- Midiera who utTering through no fault of heir would I that dollar to us of ing it." SWITZERLAND, AN ISLE IN A SEA OF WAR SWITZERLAND la unique among nation-. his no proper physical unity, and ita unity is the unforeseen outcome ot events which occurred more than six hundred years ago. It is prosperous beyond other Cor! mental countries, and its principal cities are undefended.

Tel to-day Switzerland lies a cool oa-is of peace the midst of a burning, glaring desert ot war. Because of its rjmall size and its hick of sea coast, the Swiss Republic has never held an im? portant place in the ranks of the powers. How? ever, the little country is one of the ilalest in existence, and has come safely through more than six of European conflicts with no lasting injury, but considerable increase of territory Since the time when the map of Europe was ad? justed as it was before the present war tin? four nations surrounding Switzerland have all cher? ished hopes of some day adding it to their terri? tory, but none of them has dared to try it. Many Swiss fear that war will put sonu- nation in a oosition threaten their sacred liberty. The inilependence and neutrality of Switzerland are guaranteed by the powers of Europe, just in the case of Belgium.

It is lier position alone which has thus far prevented an invasion by the It is too far from Paris to Switxerland for the uses of 'he nresent German campaign. Nevertheless, a splendid path inte Fra.ice lies through Lhe western cantons, ami it is there that the Swiss have massed their loldiers in ease of more German treachery. German army could march up the valley ot the Rhine into Switzerland, then follow the Rivci Aar to the southwest and reach the tablelun I northeast of Lake Geneva. From that region it could move past the south end of Lake Neuchatei and enter France. No inaccessible passes or dif? ficult country would be met with on this course there are no fortifications of importance I urthermore, France would be entereal at a Doin' her defences are not strong.

This w.r, ii three times as far to Paris as through Belgium. Hence Belgian suffers. It is the opinion of Swiss officers that Germany will not undertake to send an army over this route unless the allies are com? pletely routed and the Kaiser decided to attacK 1 ans from both south and north. While Switzerland is maintaining a strict neu? trality and hopes to avoid any purt in the hos public sentimeent probably favors the ajiles. In twenty-one of the twenty-two cantons German and French are spoken by about eijuai numbers, while in one southern canton Italian is the ch'ef language.

All three are used in the Federal Parliament and proclamation-; and laws are published in them. But the inhabitants are Swiss before anything else, and any attempt to violate the neutrality of the country will meet v.ith instant Although there is a provision in the Swiss eon? titution prohibiting a standing army, the coun trj actually has a large and most efficient bod) soldiers. numbers well 19,000 men. It equipment la the best. Although nominally a militia body because of the constitutional pro? actually a federal army.

These soldiers dp not serve continuously, and there i- no such thing a- an enlistment for term of years. Instead, all male citizens between ages iii members of the militia and ierre loi periods latid interval-. In lb, the country is made a good oldier without seriously interfering with his occupation. A powerful lighting fuie- can be put in the Leid i few day i. Another advantage of the system low co t.

By keening only a force Hi active service the Swiss maintain what is gen? erolly regarded a thoroughly satisfactory mili? tary 'nil'? tor low of about twelve franc, per capita per annum. When the small popula tion i- considered this appears remarkable. With the situation in Europe as it is, Switzer? land appears to be fairly safe just now. Met greatest danger will be alter the war, especially if Germany should win. It was the House of Hapshurg.

whoac trouble started tne terrible conflict now raging, which directly responsible lor the founding ef vetian Republic. The Hap-burgs wore a family whese power was rapidly growing. By the middle of ihe thirteenth century they in control of Austrian politic-. They were large land owners in region which new the heart of v. it 'crland.

and they claimed feudal rights over the inhab? itants, i he-i refused to ubmit llapsburg rule. On August 1. 1291, the men of the til 11 I. hwyi and I ii' ei waldon met ami formed the "Everlasting League" for the purpo-e of real at ing the Hapsburga. That house attempted to make war on the membi 'hi- alliance, but was completely rented one battle a few after the compact had been made.

three eantona wore aided four adjoin districts in iheir From that tmi" on other cantons and division joined with the ones under the terms the League. The mam occupation of this organisation for the next two centuries was getting rid of the Hapaburg and Anatrlan influence. Rights as land owners were racogniied, but any claim calmlv Ignored, and were at no time enforced successfully. In 1171 the Hapsburgs formally gave up their claims. At time there was a decided lack of unity in the federation, due to the wide differences be? tween members.

It wa? regarded by them as a union for defence only. The retirement of the Hapsburgs was immediately followed the Bur Kundian War, durin? the course of which land was attacked a nation. This the people a national -pint a feeling of oneness of Pressure renewed on Austria, the only kingdom winch had any claim to ere gaty ove- the ar.d in 1499 that country recognised the independence of tin- Swiss nation. For the nest three centuries internal troubles by religious differences prevented any im? portant progre Th? party which contended'for renouncipg the luthorit) of Pope ami the of i ml March 29, a new which svas referred to "The Helveti? public, one and Since that time th. aeaterinl progress of country baa been rapid.

Hem titUtioni were adopted in aSd.