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Show 'B CiSS PUIS HOMES FMUiED Convalescent Houses and Nurse Headquarters to Be Built. CHILDREN WILL AID Local Chapter Has Forty-two Forty-two Gauze Rooms in Operation. In the midst of its srreat task of send-. send-. ing millions or surgrical dressings and hundreds of thousands of hospital garments, gar-ments, knitted articles and shiploads of supplies over the seas for the allied armies in their conflict against the Teutons, Teu-tons, the American Red Cross is not unmindful un-mindful of the fact that upon it also rests the duty of doing the major portion of the work in caring for the wounded and disabled who must shortly begin to arrive in this country. For the building of oon-alescent oon-alescent houses and nurse headquarters an appropriation of $1,500, 000 has been made by the Red Cross war council, and an additional appropriation of $250,000 is expected. Fifty convalescent houses and nurse homes are to be erected, contracts for twenty having already been let. The average cost of each house will be about J22.000, and the furniture for each will cost approximately $3000. In the mountain moun-tain division the nearest home will be that contracted for at Camp Cody. N. M., for which the school children of Utah are asked to make a part of the furnishings. How Gauze Rooms Grow. Evidence of the rapid growth in the output of the local chapter in surgical dressings becomes easier to understand when it Is noted that this county now has forty-two gauze rooms in operation and that ten of these were established and opened during April. The Red Cross organizations or-ganizations of the Ensign stake Young Indies' Mutual Improvement association and Relief society auxiliaries have equipped a"nd today will open a splendid gauze room at Whitney hall. The room will be used by the mutual organization from 4 to 7 o'clock each Thursday afternoon, after-noon, and by the Relief society workers Fridays at the same hours. Official announcement an-nouncement was made yesterday by the management of the local chapter that all auxiliaries and organizations contemplating contem-plating the opening of a new gauze room would, before taking any steps in this direction, consult with the officials of the chapter. The Consolidated Wagon & Machine company's war savings societies have announced an-nounced a Red Cross benefit, to be given in the Twentieth ward amusement hall, Second avenue and D street, May 15, at S o'clock. An elaborate programme of music, brief addresses and refreshments will feature the event, lfauch Material Received. That the approach of warm weather does not. discourage the loyal workers of v. the Salt Lake county chapter was proved by the large amount of finished articles received yesterday, a' partial list of which tsllows: Ladies' Literary club auxiliary Sixteen bed jackets, five bathrobes, thirty suits of pajamas, five surgeons' gowns, seventeen T bandages, thirty scultetus bandages, two surgeons' caps, ten Belgian Bel-gian capes, eighty pairs of socks, 43S2 surgical dressings. Elks' Ladies' auxiliary auxil-iary Fifteen 4x8-lnch irrigation pads, twelve 16xl2-inch Irrigation pads, seventeen seven-teen 12x24-inch abdominal bandages. Lloyd alliance auxiliary Six bed Jackets, one sweater, one pair of socks. Pioneer stake Relief society, Fifth ward, group No 2 Twenty-six pairs of socks, nine bed shirts. Daughters of the Revolution auxiliary Eight pairs of socks, twelve suits of pajamas, twelve bed shirts. Jewish Relief society auxiliary (one day's ' work) Thirty-two bed shirts, twelve abdominal ab-dominal bandages, twenty-five pairs of soc sew sewing organization, known as the Italian Mothers' Red Cross auxiliary, was formed vesterday, with Mrs. Rose Nixon, chairman, and Mrs. Ethel Pitts, treasurer and secretary. Weekly meetings meet-ings will be held at 569 West Fourth South street, the day and hour to be announced iatcr It is anticipated that the new auxiliary will have a membership of about thirty active workers. |