New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 19, 1918, Page 5

NEW BRITA(N DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, HOSPITALFOR U. 5. | MEN IN LIVERPOOL Firét Station for Privates Openedl fi in England l Liverpool, Feb. 20 (Correspondence ©of The Associated Press).—The first hogpital for American soldiers in Great Britain has just been opened in Liverpool. All other hospitals thus' far opened in the Rritlsh Isles have | Leen far American oflicers. The Liver- pool rhospital is known as American Red Cross Mil| Hospital No. 4 and Is situated in the Mossley HIll d\» trigt, the most fashionable residential section, about three miles from tde downtown business part of the city. | Already many American soldiers ac- | y its cheerful wards and many | 's in the convalescent stage, clad | § In hospital pale blue, are walking | about the spacious grounds. | The hospital proper occupies Moss- | § ley House, the former home of Dr. i Bdmund Knowles Muspratt, a noted authority on chemistry and one of Liverpool's leading citizens, who, when hé heard that the Americans wanted it, gladly turned it over to them. It occupies the highest elevation in the city. A typical old gothic style Eng- lish town house, it stands in the center of seven acres of beautiful grounds, the flower gardens of which are rap- | idly being converted inta plots for raising vegetables. An American flag, fiving from the tall staff in front of the ground great dis- tance, and assists visitors to find the pRce. The head of the hospital is Major Udo J. Wile, Medical Officers’ Reserve Corps, United States Army, who is a member of the faculty of the Upi- versity of Michigan at Ann Arbor. || Major Wile came here last November and has worked untiringly to outfit the institution. In this he has been as- sisted by Joseph R. Morris, of Chi-' cago, representing the American Red Cross. The major's staff consists of five officers—three captains and two lieutenants. The personnel of the place includes ten American Red Cross L sergeants and 20 pri- vates. Weller, a gradu- ate of the New York hospital, is chief nyrse. | Equipped in 31 Days. Major Wile is proud of the fact that 434 days after Mossley House was taken over it was a fully equipped American hospital ready for its first patients. Today it has 150 beds with room for expansion to 826 beds. The institution is equipped throughout on the American plan. This especially is true of the hot water heating gplant 4nd of the plumbing and electrical in- stalations, all of which work was fa- cilitated largely through the efforts of the British Roval gineers, Wwho helped draw up the plans and put them into execution in these days of labor shortage. The hospital now has ten wards for soldiers, two small officers’ wards av an operating room, besides the admi istrative offices. It boasts two am bulances of the latest type, one give by Richard Pearce, an American res dent in Liverpool, and the second b: an anonymous donor. About 200 yards from the hospita are building two isolation wards, each designed to accommodate 100 con- tagious disease patients. These arc one-story structures of brick and con- crete. Each will have four 10-bed wards with two small wards in the center for officers. A feature will be discharge rooms, where outgoing pa- tients can don their new garments. STARS OF STAGE ACT FOR SOLDIERS Troops Serving in Flanders Enter- fained by American Actors (By James C. Derieux. Paris, March 20. “We shall go on with the enter tainment,” said a colonel a moment after the “lights out” order had been obeved. ‘“We can have an air raid any night, but it isn't often that we have a chance to hear Mr. Sothern.” S0 Wdward H. Sothern, great Ameri- can actor, continued his recitation from Hamlet, after calling attention {e the fact that the air raid signal 2d interrupted him on the line which says, “Oh, what a rash and bloody deed is this.” This was just one of the inci- dents connected with the tour of | Sothern through American camps in | [ France, during which tour he has given readings (they always In upon calling recitations by that ame) to thousands of men in Khaki, e, with Winthrop Ames, the the- strical manager who produced “The Blue Bird,’ Mrs. Ames E. E. Lyons, pusiness manager for Mr. Ames, and Charles M. Steele of the Y. M. C. A. sntertainment bureau, made the tour n order to find out needs and pos- aibilities for theatrical entertainment. \r. Sothern s Ames came at the invitatio the Y. M. C. A, They will make a report of their find- ngs to the theatrical profession in america. Sothern Wears Hob-nailed Boots. Never before he came to France did H. Sothern wear hob-nailed shocs He may have worn them tor effect when the role he was tak- ng in some play called for them, yut never before for comfort and arotection. 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Boys’ Suits that will appeal to your these prices, CONNOR 248 MAIN STREET Was -HALL “Always Reliabie” Never before stand on the same flour with his aud. fcnce and give a conglomerate pro- gram of short classics. accustomed to enthus of course, with his brilllant theatrical i history, and there were no exception. astic audiences, did he He is quite | poem from Sothern has gone. of muddy, stalwart, appreciative aud- tences he has King,” Gate,” “Flanders Flelds,” In the presence recited the stirring | Negro Clogs ‘“Verdun,” has given selections “Hamlet,” from “If I Were has read “The Hun Is at the “The Landlord’s Daughter,” clog d@mmgers. “The American camps in France. has made good After Once he gave wre gram Was completed, Often he proper¥y men, or with “supers’” before both. Actor's Prog to some talked othern | m, wd h after his pro- negro with there he zave 1 men and | cluster o s masks ntion.” he now hi Marshal Joffre, those ire woven into the "nd which say——"Th here 1 with s program iron hung at oric words wearing word em, unique re- OF THE APES SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY | Put it remained for this war to bring nim in contact with audiences that ave cast away the camouflage of <ivil lite, and are bent upon the stern |usiness of winning a war. Into the huts and the tents Mr. | Gettysburs "’ the "‘Battle Hymn of the Re- public, and he has told jokes and stories. It is a far cry from the dolled-up audiences of American the- aters to the khakl-clad audiences of Address, in the army, and once he had with General Pershing—he and his | party. v('p the line Sothern stood in a ‘xmg.v room of a partly demolished house in a partly demmlished village, of ception One who, while the sound hing to the French gen- harles Martel of old, invaspon of RAN CO. NEW BRITAIN the territory of France—a savage at- tempt to destroy the fruits of civi- lization. Again on the same evening the actor stood in a tent, which was gummy with smoke, and there went through with his program. S. R. O. sign Is Up. « At a port city Sothern gave a pro- zram for the stevedores. In inland points he gave numerous programs for the men in training, sometimes as many as four programs in an which “Verdun," shall mnot evening. Up the line he appe fore the men who are now arnd now fighting. Theorists thearized about “What do th want?” as if the soldiers wers| apart. The experienc of 8 und others, indicate that the such problem any more than at home. The same stuff thi zocd at home g good here, ai the stars come along in Fri S. R. O. sign goes up, justy America.