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For Sen ice Witli Base MospiiaiI nil Now SomewhereIr* France.BIRD \ iiL v* 1 WRITES LI X i * RLo Her Sister In This cf \ i c!I0inn of ReJ Cross ParadeIn New' York.*■* \Tuc following interesting: letter was written by Miss Blrda II. Hunt of C'lt; n-ter to her sister, Mrs George Miller,211 Cottage avenue, this city. MissMiller, who graduated from the localhigh school, has many friends in th • c!t who will be interested in the f« i-iuwSnB (:■. erpts t»he is a graduate nurse of the Deaconess hospital at Indianapolis and left with .* group lt;*r‘ nurses from that cii eurl in S*-ptern-l*er to receive special training in theEast preparatory to sailing for servicesomewh. rc in France:Hoboken, New Jersey,Tuesday, Octor* -r :■Dear Bess and All:I have be a seeing a little of N York and that little seemed t*.» me lt;great deal. Last Thursd *y we march-, i in the big Bed Cross parade down Fifth avenue in New York from Seven -iy-ninth street to Eighth street (seventy-one squares). We started to inaYcii at 12:15 and it was 2:40 o'clock whenProsser and I reached Eighth street.It was 3;45 when the parade ended s vou see it was seme parade. It was the first of its kind ever witnessed in the F. S. A. and vs is sure a howling ; s- ess. The p : r ue w as headed bvthe fi.m.cis l’V’.p Sousi's 1 uvi VThen *. mv t he w. r fl: - uvi the- ^the nurses ready for service abroadunits 36, 32 and 31. The big hospitalshere were represented as Mr. Siani, Bellevue, etc., and there were 30‘* pro- T bationers marched, Relt;i Cross nurses, public health nurses, grad nte ar.d nurses’ aids of all kinds and Red Cross workers It was an immense thing and the streets were crowded all the 1 way. There were 29 bands In all. ;Then on Friday night a New York society bug entert tin* 1 us at a theatre party here in Hoboken. They had three reels of g iod movie Path* news! and four or five vaudeviHr acts On Saturday afternoon the Red Cross F entertained us at Oarnegie Music Hail.It is a wonderful hall. An immense s stage and first floor, then two rows of t boxes all the way around the theatre, lt;j eight chairs in each *ox and thirty-two boxes in each row-; then two im- tmouse balconies ab ve ail this s usa's : band, 250 pieces, played front 2:3*• until a 3:45 o'clock. The boys were dress d as sailors and the music was surely in- ii spiring After this they gave the sec- t ond half of the great Rosemary T’ag-eant with an all star cast including s K'hel Barrymore, E. H. Soth* rn a no d other noted actors and actresses Tt represented all the nations, hurt and ; devastated by the Germans begging of v Truth, Justice and Law, help for their *people. The dieffrent nations came inlending their help as Englend, Japan. ;i Russia and nth* rs and still they begged lt;’ for more h*-li Then came Am* rim * with her soldiers, sailors, and nurses Such applause was heard that it made • everyone cry. The music was furnish- , ‘ ed by the New York Symphony drlt; hes- I tra. of which you have often read. •After this we went to .see the Red -Cross Parade on the screen .and had to 1 go to the roof garden of the theatre to see them as the theatre proper was ^ full Ladies and gentlemen both 1 smoked up there It was a beautiful 1 place— wonderful pools, paintings and I scenery. lt;»wls were sitting arounl ev-ervwhere with different colored eyes.Beautiful lanterns were everywhere,Sunday Prosser and I went to the M.E. church. We heard a wonderful ser- * mon and choir and we took communion services After church we ate dinner and then went down to the New' York Bay and took a steamer trip around j N«w York. We went up the East river to the Hudson river and down the 1 Hudson to New York Bay. We saw many interesting sights—a Holland embargo of ships, a fleet of war ships, jsubmarine chasers, the Brooklyn navy jvards. the stafe prison. New York's I„lt; Tity Home, Soldiers’ and Sailors’ * monument. Ellis, Bedlow, Blackwell j and Governor’s Islands and a million lt;other things that I don't recall. It lt;was a wonderful 'rip - s* -ner- and a1! j and then 1 love the water s. * much , Ti e hospital her* h r been taken ov- ,r by the g. • lt;rrm*1’ ' md is ma r aged t by it now be the Sisters are still hire , just the same We don’t know when , we will sail. We are still drilling, get - , ting in good trim. The bast repor* is •hat we sail not later than Friday but roth ng is authentic that we Jnst he ** unless its source is our chief nurse.Miss MartinWrite whenever you can *nr T am always glad to hear from you.Love to nil, lt;PTRDA R. HUNT. AT'nit 32. T-foboken. New Jersey. *itI1lt;1
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Kokomo Daily Tribune
Kokomo, Indiana, US
Sat, Oct 13, 1917
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