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Title: The American Red Cross in the great war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Davison, Henry Pomeroy, 1867-1922
Subjects: American National Red Cross World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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to attend to other pressing business;and, in addition to the dressings, a large number of knittedarticles were supplied to these same destroyers and battle-ships by the Red Cross knitting women, who had now begunto work for the Navy. Sweaters and socks and helmetswent out in great bundles to ships and training stations. In the first outburst of excitement, however, there were anumber of people who thought little of knitting needles asinstruments of war, but who now sat in the revealing bright-ness of a great light as the letters began to come from theNorth Sea in Arctic weather telUng of the comfort of RedCross sweaters and snug woolen helmets. Indeed, many atar blessed the Red Cross knitter long before his ship pokedher nose into the Atlantic for the journey overseas. One bitter night in the early winter, a battleship camebowUng into Norfolk from Guantanamo Station with severalhundred very blue noses aboard. Out of the dark theypicked up a tug light. The h^irbor boat swung alongside
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THE NAVY 61 and Red Cross men from the Norfolk Station swarmedaboard with bundles of Chapter knit goods. That sturdyship crossed the Atlantic many times afterwards, takingthe Army across. To its Commander the Red Crosssweater was the best thing of the war. i Parallel in every respect of organization and work withthat carried on in the Army camps and cantonments, theRed Cross maintained a thoroughly organized camp servicein camps and training stations and hospitals in fourteennaval districts. At Pelham Bay, Newport, Portsmouth, Quantico,(Marines) Chelsea, Great Lakes, and Norfolk it estabhshedconvalescent houses similar to those at Army camps; andother similar work at Philadelphia, Paris Island, (Marines)and Balboa Park, near San Diego, CaUfornia, was justbegun, or partially completed, when hostiUties ceased. In divers ways, some large and important, others smallbut still important, the Red Cross was able to assist theNavy. The consensus of opinion in the Navy, however,is that the best

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