THE CADUCEUS.
NURSES OF BASE HOSPITAL NUMBER FIFTY-FOUR
READY TO DEPART.
TFie above picture was taken by The Cadpceus photographer on Monday afternoon. It is the last
assembly of the women before they left Camp Greene on the ilrst stage of the journey towards Prance. The
nurses, whose faces are known to all those who have been at the hospital during the past seven months, are
standing at the foot of the steps of the original nurses’ home and where their first few weeks at Camp
Greene were spent.
Their names reading the top row, left tor ight, are; Mary E.,anyder, Catherine McGurty, Florence
Wendenhall, Catherine Tate, Harriet Schermerhorn.
Third row: Clarnida James, Rose Cassidy, Agnes Archer, Mary I^sell, Elizabeth Miller, Cora Bader,
Naomi Holland, Prudence Cudworth, Blanche Troxell, Anne Graffln.
Second row: Clara Wenke, Mae Dreugacker, Ruth Cook, Mary Cairus, Maud Phillips, Ruby Smith, Kat
hrwn Rulian.
First row: Susan Daymont, Lila Condon, Alice Agnew (chief nurse), Bessie Warwick, Agatha Lyons,
LaReka Pratt, Ethel Houston.
ON THEIR WAY
SUNSHINE LETTER
BIG HEATING PLANT
nurses had been at hospital
THROUGH TRYING WINTER.
The sad, ennobling partings of war
times was brought home to more peo
ple connected with the U. S. army
base hospital. Camp Greene, in the
•departure of the nurses of Base Hos
pital No, 54, on Monday evening, than
on any other time in the life of the
hospital when “good-bye” has been
spoken.
The life of the thirty-one women who
have departed for a port of embarka
tion was closely wrapped up in the
life of the Camp Greene hospital. It
■Was this fact more than the number
of the women who were leaving that
caused the touching farewells.
For two days before the nui ses were
to depart the nurses’ home was a so
cial 'center for “good-bye” calls and
'''’as the scene of busy preparation.
The departure of the group meant the
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Captain B. D. Choate,
Ward A-3.
Dear Sir—
Just a word to express my gratitude
for the courtesy and good will ex
tended to me while at the Base Hospi
tal and also for the Christian sympa
thy and kindness manifested by your
self and also the nurses of our boy,
George D. Caward, while under your
care, which was also very much ap
preciated by him. He speaks highly
of those who cared for him while he
was in Ward A-3 and the kind treat
ment he received while he was there.
Again thanking you for all your
kindness and Christian influence over
the boys and for your kindly interest
in Dewey and towards myseelf while
with you, I remain.
Very sincerely ,
GEORGE L. CAWARD,
Coheeton, N. Y.
Hospital' Has Prospect of $500,000 Sys-
' tern.
Dispatches from Washington show
that an appropriation of $500,000 has
been asked for a heating plant for the
U. S. Army Base Hospital, Camp
Greene, and that an allowance is to be
made for paving the roadway around
the hospital buildings.
The status of Camp Greene, which
has been almost abandoned, with the
exception of the Base Hospital, for the
past several weeks has been the sub
ject of much discussion before the
War Department of late, according to
telegraph reports. It is given out tha;
25,000 men are to be brought here
within a few weeks.
ON FURLOUGH.
Corporal Marcel Franck is on a ten
day furlough.