Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-11-18 | Page 13 | Huge Department Stores Built by Red Cross

HUGE DEPARTMENT I STORES BUILT BY REDCROSS REO CROSS I Supplies From America Arc Are Stored in 13 Great Warehouses Warehouses Warehouses Ware Ware- houses in France I IBy By George Martin MarLin United Press Staff Correspondent I WASHINGTON Nov Noy 17 One 17 Ono of or orthe the tho comparatively trifling little detail de do- tail tasks of tho the American Red Cross CrossIn In connection with its war jo Job overseas was to build thirteen giant department stores at various places Jn lii France These big establishments arc are used I for the storage and distribution of or orthe the millions of dollars' dollars worth of or Red RedCross RedCross RedCross Cross supplies flowing to France from this country at the tho rate of or tons a month Cn Cables les announcing the completion of ot these stores and detailing some of ot the tho uses to which they thoy arc are put were received hero today Tho The Red Hod Cross calls them warehouses warehouses warehouses ware ware- houses but ut cables that their contents varied JIB Ill are as as numerous and as ns those of ot an American department store One Ono of ot them In Paris is so big that freight cars are run CJ into the building anti and unloaded It Is to these big lg stores that the war knitting you ou do and tho We bandages you roll are sent direct To servo the American troops and the tho hundreds of ot war var hospitals behind the French firing tiring line and to reach the thousands of ot French refugees tho the I Red Cross has established this system system tem tern of or thirteen warehouses said tho the cable This new now war relief distribution system has been organized since the tho arrival of ot the Red Hed Cross commission in Paris in June Six of ot the warehouses have havu been located in Paris which serves as tho the center of the distribution system Ten others arc located In departments departments departments depart depart- ments outside the tho capital and from these supplies are distributed by motor trucks wagons and anil every available means of ot transportation to hospitals and other institutions A 1 large proportion of ot th these se supplies supplies supplies sup sup- plies is received directly from the United States and is forwarded by bythe bythe bythe the Red fled Cross supply service from chapter workrooms and from Irom relief relict I societies affiliated with the Red Cross Owing to the groat great shortage I of ot ocean tonnage largo large quantities o of 01 i j supplies have been purchased by by- bytho tho the Red Hed Cross commission in France I The Tho stocks stoel of ot goods carried by the warehouses include every kind of or I medical supplies drugs and surgical I instruments for tor the tho use of hospital I staffs statts Foodstuffs clothing building materials plowing implements and andI tools are also being imported in large largo I I quantities for tor the assistance of or French refugees refuges I Red ned Cross warehouses in Paris alone have a cap capacity of ot three and a ahalt halt half million cubic feet and can n take I caro care of sixty thousand tons of ot supplies supplies supplies sup sup- plies at a a. time American college m men n many of 01 whom formerly served as drivers in itt inthe inthe I I the American ambulance are directing directIng directing direct direct- ing the work while the to force reo of ot otI workmen is recruited from tram veteran I French soldiers and Belgian men aten no longer fit fit for military duty Th The Tho i French government and the municipal authorities of Paris are ara cooperating with tho the commission in tho the securing of or labor and find In maintaining the traD transportation transportation trans trans- service I i