A history of United States Army Base Hospital No36 (Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery Unit) organized at Detroit, Michigan, April 11th, 1917 . em having a hundred restless women wished on them. We were two and three in a room, orin dormitories of ten or twelve, where again the disposition of clothing was a problem. Wedraped statues with clothes, etc., as we could not drive nails in the walls. There, one of thenurses who had a generous friend, (Mrs. Gilbert Lee) bought several hat-trees which helped con-siderably. We had to parade in Hoboken, but were not very enthusiastically received or
A history of United States Army Base Hospital No36 (Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery Unit) organized at Detroit, Michigan, April 11th, 1917 . em having a hundred restless women wished on them. We were two and three in a room, orin dormitories of ten or twelve, where again the disposition of clothing was a problem. Wedraped statues with clothes, etc., as we could not drive nails in the walls. There, one of thenurses who had a generous friend, (Mrs. Gilbert Lee) bought several hat-trees which helped con-siderably. We had to parade in Hoboken, but were not very enthusiastically received or cheered,as most of the population are of German descent. We had good times in New York and tookpart in the Red Cross parade down Fifth Avenue, from 86th Street to Washington group of nurses wore the diiiferent Red Cross uniforms. None of us will ever forget theovation we received from sidewalks, windows and roofs along the way. Thousands lined theAvenue cheering us and wishing us God-speed. Not a few shed tears. Bands played, great menand women, in the service and out, reviewed us from a grandstand in front of the Public
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