Show 4 0 0 0 0 TOTALS HOSPITALS ALS IN FRANCE MORE BUILDING Largest American Hospital There Furnished With I 1 Beds By Idah Idali McGlone Gibson I IE NEW E YORK April 7 There 7 There are I II I 3 hospitals in 1 France rance and more e. e are being built all the time v i The largest American hospital hospital for for fort t r American wounded wounded wounded-Is Is operated b by the Johns Hopkins unit and contains beds This hospital l Is built like our barracks building building- and tills this winter the nurses have ha suffered man many hardships r there bra bravely el and uncomplainingly U Many a 1 morning m my shoes were c c frozen to the tho floor said a nurse to me me and it makes me smile when I think of ot all of or us coming over here I I with the white uniforms of or the nurses in tho the ho hospitals at home We Wc would I ha have frozen had not the Red Cross furnished furnished furnished fur- fur us s with these heavy blue wool wooli i V. V uniforms I I These women take care of wards r containing containing- at least flit fifty men beds I. I f side side-by b side down the long IonS narrow room with a coal stove stove- at either end r j It was vas here that I J saw our first man crippled b by the war He lie had lost a leg f r. lIe He seemed er very cheerful about it and said he was coming back to Amer- Amer lea as soon as ho was able f t. t 7 T urn Ill get set something to do because f t. t there will be so man many boys bos over o here tt- tt he said Mid Before I left this hospital I heard the order given that the best artificial leg made should be sent him from the ther r I Red Cross headquarters at Paris Pans PNEUMONIA CASES Later I was ill at the hospital at General Pershing's headquarters At tIit hi hI ha 0 I entirely iiri si given up t to A American c s soldiers id suffering with pneumonia I came very near having inS It myself and thus learned about those queer things the they call nightingales I saw these flannel garments In the Red Cross warehouses wl and asked somewhat somewhat somewhat some some- what derisively what tho the wounded was wasP wast P t going to do o with a a. womans woman's combing combinE t Jacket But when I arrived at the hospital with a room heated with a atin tin tiny coal stove that went out regularly cYer every night I found out These wool capes are used to cover the patients patients' shoulders and are used I r especially In pneumonia cases where I tho the fresh air all treatment ent is given And mighty might comforting the they are arc I Ican can testify At this hospital I was given Red fled Cross garments I I w wore r the wool pa pajamas pajamas pajamas pajamas' pa- pa jamas jamas' and the these thebe e nightingales t I I cannot sa say enough about the American Amerlean Amerlean Amer Amer- lean ican nurses nurses in France The They are arc tireless tireless tireless tire tire- less In their attentions The pretty girl who cared for tor me had a whole floor of or officers on her hands and Inmost in most of the rooms In th the officers' officers quarters there were from two to four beds There Is one woman Miss Iss Carrl CarrI who was a war nur nurse e in 1870 and is nursing now in a base hospital near Paris Parts r When I recovered reco I 1 was given Even the following discharge from tho the ho hospital j J. Headquarters base hospital No Xo 15 15 January Januar 9 1918 Special Order No o 4 8 8 S. Mrs Irs Ida IdaL M. M Gibson Red fled Cross having reported at this hosi hospital hos- hos i j pital for treatment while en route Paris Jaris and now having hll completed such 3 j tr treatment is hereby authorized to proceed pro pro- to her proper station at Paris pro pro-I I France rance ay By y order of Lt Col Cot Hansell WILLIAM A. A GORTON 1st S. S C C. Adjutant It took 17 Ii papers to get set me out of ot the town where my permit had only been made for tor ten days das My sickness made me overstay m my permit three days consequently I an entire da day going from one official to another and having permits permit to leave signed and countersigned The universal request In France IsLet Is IsLet isLet Let me see seo your our papers l and you rou begin to feel after aner you OU have gotten together a sheaf shea of or them that requires a separate portfolio like the villain in the melodrama who Is always being asked Where here are the tho papers |