The evening world. Newspaper, June 12, 1918, Page 6

_THE EVENING WORLD, W EDNESDAY, JUNE oo _ _ GRAFT BEFORE GRAND JURY ! 4 | mour Mork, his first assistant, ox-| ter before . * | amined the witnesses called before | means that wary corrobora « Grand Jury yesterday Mercy Legion t. ced graft 4%, the new Grand Jur: tive evid js a ah The principal difficulty encoun-| matter which Mr. Mork would not ig tered all during the investigation, | discuss. ording to Mr. Mork, was the in ity to obtain corroboration of the itnesses the he It seemed apparent from the num- ber and type of with a who were subpoenaed yesterday that the n-| quiry has been progre: Ng secretly dari | partment hy _ District dey- law, Fesumed yesterday t STORE CLOSES THIS SATURDAY AT NOON Franklin Simon 8 Co, 7ifth Avenue, 37th and 38th Sts. miss \ mabe FLETCHER, Unusual Sale—THURSDAY Women’s and Misses’ Scotch Gingham Dresses 14.50 This is One of the Best Values Offered This Season OF genuine Anderson Scotch Gingham that retails at $1.25 a yard; four distinct surplice or vestee models, with pink, lavender, red, navy or black-and-white stripes or checks; collars of plain or embroidered organdie or pique; pearl button trimmed. Women’s Gingham Dresses on sale Third Floor Misses’ Gingham Dresses on sale Second Floor NO CREDITS NO EXCHANGES BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS. Feanklin Simon a Co. Fifth Avenue, 37th and 38th Sts. MSS JANE DELANO DiRacroR OF DEPT. br CAN R&D muREIns. AMER SES “Shall We Be in Any Danger?” an Unasked Question, Though Applicants Know They Are Wanted for Immediate Ser- vice in War Zone—Noble, Self-Sacrificing Women of All Classes Manifest Their Love of Country by Enrolling by | the Hundreds in New York. Will Close Out—THURSDAY » Women’s Coats and Capes For Street. Dress, Travel or Motoring High class coats and capes, mostly one of a kind or color, and in this season’s pe Bond 25.00 styles and fabrics. Heretofore $39.50 to $69.50 NO CREDITS NO EXCHANGES Marguerite Mooers Marshall. N’*. YORK’'S women soldiers, her Legion of Mercy, are be- ing enrolled this weck in the nurses’ drive of the American Red Cross to obtain 25,000 nurses for immediate war service, Applications for Posts of honor and danger— every nurse who enrolls for service with army and navy is in line for such posts—are being received by the hundreds in this lelty. The majority of the women go to the headquarters of the Atlantic Division at No, 44 East 23d Street, WOMEN’S COAT SHOP—Fourth Floor & Taylor 39th Street FIFTH AVENUE Founded 1826. Furs and Draperies Stored in Cold Dry Air. Tel. Greeley 1900 Wardrobe or Dress Trunks For Extended Tours or Week-End Trips Substantial, Well Finished Luggage at Moderate Prices. p Full Size Wardrobe | Short Trip Wardrobe Trunks, $39.50 Trunks, $25.00 45 inches, of basswood, Open-top mode! con- f covered and interlined with | structed of 3-ply veneer hard vulcanized fibre; cre- | basswood throughout; cov- tonne lined; fitted with | ered with hard vulcanized draw bolts and It makes n difference wha kind of dres a8 you'll find it her locked. 12 assorted | tible hat drawers; fitted « hangers, shoe pockets and | with spring locks. Made SUMMER DRESSES ) interchangeable Jexclusively for Lord & IN WASH OR SILK FABRICS 5 hat drawers; tapes in | Taylor to our own spccifi- at little more than ¢ drawers, cations. eeeescen 4 wholesale rices Women’s Dress Trunks of hard vulcanized fibre, made over a basswood box protected by steel hardware. SUI a good selection Dress Trunks of suits and coats Steamer Trunks to Match | you have in mind spring | fibre. i d ! locks; top drawer is divided Cretonne lined and with av erably less than 4 | into compartments and can | shoe pockets and conver- y expect to pay y be ‘ RE 38 ne A rai at sacrifice reductions— ed $1500 $15.50 $16.00 “$10.50 | sids0 sii'oo sittoo —“$iasso" » ie Seventh Floor LTON Br CO. 307 FIFTH AVE., N. Y. Buy War Savings Stamps Now ——————/ ~ ’s Drive Will Create a Great Potential Army Of Brave American Women Soldiers NEEDLE Miss FLORENCE mM, JOHNSON DIRECTOR HURSING MISS SOPHIA KIEL ASST. TO MISS FM. JOHNSON but they are received at the New York County Chapter headquarters No. 389 Fifth Avenue, and at the listment are received by mail, and the slender, alert women in charge of the drive fool confident that t country’s call to the country’s wo- manhood will meet with whelmingly sat ory response, I watched an over- hour yesterda ernoon in the At- lantic Division headquarters, There were volunteers of every type—slen- der, bright-eyed college girls, smartly gowned women, whom it was difficult to imagine scrubbing hospital ward; elderly women that they never had nursed, wanted, most earnestly, “to do # thing,’ and—most numerous a course most desirable— well set up, intensely car rather matter-of-fact b graduated from a dic a who admitted but le and who has © or city hospital and passed through several years of grinding experience in the business of caring for the ill and in- jured. O SUCH is the kingdom of medi- cine and surgery, They are tight-lipped, “unemotional; they ask almost no questions, “I want to go into war service,” is their formula, question of Miss Edith Barnett, off \eial interviewer, “Are you a graduat of a registered hospi Then Miss Barnett two blanks es thom the about three feet of ques- 0 t s e al for 25,000 Nurses NG Women NURSES ane Fifth Avenue Branch, as well as in] Brooklyn. Many applications for en- |‘ of recruits for an | gen and they answer trippingly the first | \]| and @ woman who has had two years THIS mean) You OUR woul NeOGD CARER HEY HEED you BIW eben Sa ~— e0ITH BARNETT | OommacaALU INTERVIEWER eto (/| tions which the Government asks of | the women to whom it intrusts its wounded som nT” covers the health, ence, and present Vice of each a questionn. aining, experi- ser- ion of feet, previous ill past attack down and physician, Vision, condition | certified b: and the r | Sur on stion, “Shall I be * A" few of them, ies, ask not to be majority are keen ers in the army,” ck gowned, buxom candidate “EL would like to Jo what T id for th ntry.’ And one weak, white haired mother, n killed in » the most of her un- manding phy- sical strength and technical training. bs HY do you want to enlist as a nurse™ Tasked Miss Laura Foster, a brown eyed, frail looking woman, I feel as #0 many of the rest of us feel,” she answored earnestly. “We are Amply frantic to du anything we for our country, When we think of the boys over there and what they ndure, anything we can do or give ems little enough. I never have been a trained nurse, but I took care of my mother when she was ill for years, and I'm ready now to do all at the beginning and go | inte ning school if they want |mo to," Bessie O'Brien, who | has been a dresamaker for a number jof years, told me. “I wish I knew lenough now to be a nurse, but I |shall learn as fast as I can.” | Women who have enrolied to nurse ‘or the army or navy at $60 a month j inolude the heads of large hospitals, jand private nurses who can com- mand $% a day or more here at home. One woman. wrote the Red » Cross she was a graduate of a regis- training school but that for \s ul years she had managed her own farm in Wyoming. “I'll leave my ranch whene » Government wants me,” sh « Girls holding nt secretarial positions, who left private nursing because of its wearying demands upon bedy and hear! rolling for the infinitely more ardu- 2us work in war hospitals. 4h HEY do not call it a sacrifice, they do not think of such a | thing,” Miss Sophia Kiel, one of the |head workers in the Nurses Drive |of war nursing abroad, assured me with quiet intensity “Trained | nurses who go into Government ser- | vice just now do not even consider the comforts and material advan- tages they are leaving at home, ‘They |feel that thetr work is a privilege ind that It is little enough they can fo for the men in the trenches who are doing so much for us all.” Two women working to rogister re- cruits are waiting eagerly for their own chance to go abroad. One of them jis Miss Mabel Fletcher, who |expects the third of her necessary Passports to arrive any day. The other, Miss Ethel G, Pinder, young, soft-volced and auburn-haired, is in |the same case with the Vassar giris who sent an earnest protest to Wash- jington the other day. She has a | brother in the national service, and, jsecording to the War Department |ruling, she is at present ineligible for nursing in France, ““ want the best women in the country for nurses, just as we want the best men for soldiers,” Miss enrolling for that training if she h. nubaing service of the Atlantic Divi- sion, told me. “As Miss Delano says (Miss Jane no is National Director of the D < pitals here are likely to hawe of some woun soldiers ar added Miss Johnson, “even/if is over before their threoryears’ ty ing Js finished. Then too tthey wet tree” the-older and more expertemoed women for foreign service. 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