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This Company has spared neither time
nor expense to give Cordova a continuous
WATER SUPPLY. To do this the Company
must have your co-operation to stop the waste
that occurs from letting the water run to avoid
freezing the pipes. Where we find this con
dition still to exist we shall SHUT OFF THE |
WATER for the winter without further notice.
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CASUALTIES OF AMERICAN FORCES
IN RECENT FIGHTING IN EUROPE
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Fifty-eight Thousand Gave Up Their Lives, 14,000
Are Missing, and 190,000 Wounded—This List
Is Exclusive of Those Taken Prisoners
NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—The swing
of the pendulum of history from war
to peace, which reversed the eastward
flow of America's lighting millions—
I the greatest trans-oceanic troop move
ment ever known—brought the Ameri
can people face to face with the
tragedy of the casuulty lists.
General Pershing’s announcement
that more than 58,000 of the expedi
tionary forces had given their lives
in the nation's cause, and that 14.000
: others, exclusive of prisoners, were
missing, created a profound impres
sion, but the human touch of almost
190,000 wounded, 16,000 of whom al
ready have been returned in various
stages of helplessness to their native
shores, promises to give the country
its first real appreciation of the sacri
! flees of its sons w ho followed the flag
J on foreign soil.
The method of their debarkation de
nies to the coming wounded the [sip
ular honors paid their comrades In
full health But the war department,
operating along lines intended to give
the lie to the proverbial "ingratitude
l of government," has arranged for
| medical, recreational and educational
attention whose aim is to restore
these maimed heroes, as fully as pos
sible, to physical comfort end finan
cial independence.
; From the day of their arrival at
New York or Newport News, the ports
of debarkation, to their re-entrance
into civilian life, a host of Good 8a
, ! maritans- army doctors, nurses and
orderlies and workers of the Ameri
can Red Cross will minister to these
sufferers from a ruthless enemy's en
gines of war. Harbor hospital boats,
debarkation hospitals, hospital trains
and general hospitals for reconstruc
tion or convalescence form a chain of
service linking the westward-hound
fleets of transports with the homes of
the wounded. And in this service the
medical debarkation corps, suddenly
thrust into the foreground of pub
licity by the collapse of the central
powers, plays an important and pic
turesque part.
The end of the war fountfthe port
medical authorities prepared to shoul
der the heavy burden laid upon them.
During nineteen months of American
participation in the conflict they had
maintained an embarkation hospital
service, treating the comparatively
rare cases of illness among troops
ready to go overseas. When Ameri
can forces entered the trenches small
groups of wounded, evacuated from
hospitals in France, began to filter
through the service on this side of
the Atlantic. With this experience
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accentuated by the lessons of the al
lied governments in repatriating their
wounded, the debarkation system was
put in readiness for the reception of
injured men at the rate of 10,000 to i
15,000 a month.
During the war and a five weeks'
period following the signing of the
armistice, approximately 11,500 j
wounded had been received at New j
York and 4,500 at Newport News. And j
the authorities were prepared, on of
ficial advices from Washington, to
handle 50,000 cases in the next four
months.
The army embarkation service at
New York, which sent three-fourths \
of the nation's men overseas, is ex j
pected to debark a majority of the re j
turning forces, and the westward flow |
of wounded also will be directed here, j
with some diversion to Newport News j
and possibly, later on. to Boston. To |
carry on the work at this port the
medical department has a personnel
of 7,306—greater than the entire army
medical corps when the United States
entered the war On this staff, head
ed by Colonel .1 M. Kennedy, veteran
of twenty-five years' service as an ;
army surgeon, 950 are medical offi
cers. 983 nurses, men and women.
5,184 enlisted men and 189 civilian
employes.
The operating facilities include
eight debarkation hospitals, with an
aggregate capacity of 10,900 beds, two
base hospitals with 4.520 beds, a re
construction hospital at Columbia
University for cases too serious to be
moved to Interior Institutions, five
harbor hospital boats with 300 beds
each, seventy-five ambulances, with
fifty additional held in reserve by the
Red Cross, and four hospital trains
each accommodating upwards of 200
patients.
Merritt and Mills, former embarka
tion, now debarkation, cantonments
for the overseas** army The debarka
tion hospitals are strategically lo- .
rated on or near the harbor front.
The port medical authorities, re
sponsible for soldier patients from the
time of their arrival from Europe to
their delivery at general hospitals
nearest their home communities, aim
to clear their charges from the de
barkation hospitals within a week.
The work begins at the port quaran
tine station Her** medical officers
hoard incoming transports and assist
tin* doctors aboard in preparing tin*
men for landing In practically all
cases the wounded arc taken directly
from the ship to the harbor hospital
boat, whiert convoys them to a pier
near one of the debarkation hospi
tals, where ambulances tire in wait
ing.
While the men get their “shore
hearings” their cases are studied and j
assignments mad** to reconstruction j
or convalescent hospitals.
The next process is the attachment |
of a medical liaison officer to the !
group he is to conduct to an interior '
station When lie has become famil
iar with his charges he applies for a
hospital car or train, according to
the size of his party, and for an es
cort of doctors, nurses and orderlies
If a train is assigned, the journey,
even across the continent, is simple,
hut if the wounded fill only on** ear.
which must be attached to regular
trains, the feeding problem becomes j
acute Here the Red Cross lends its '
aid. arranging by telegraph with its
auxiliaries along the way for meals
for the travelers at (mints where nei
ther dining car service nor station res- :
taurants are available.
Tin* hospital trains, equipped with
specially constrm ted Pullman sleep
ing and kitchen cars, have accommo j
dations both for “walking cases” and '
foi men so severely injured that they j
must remain abed both day and night
In anticipation of their use on an
j extensive scale, fifty officers and 200
men are in training here, and a
smaller company at Newport News, as
escort detachments.
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ALASKA
will soon become a second
Cripple Creek
$100 Invested Today in the
Littie Gem Mine
will make you several thousand dollars within
a year or two.
I am authorized to place a limited amount
of shares at
TEN CENTS A SHARE
and will accept Liberty Bonds at par value.
Will be at Smith’s Hotel for one week
only.
R. DAVID REESE
Mining Engineer
Alaskan Grill
FRANK A. DOUGLAS, Proprietor
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The Popular Restaurant of Cordova. Everything First-Class
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FOUR TRAINS WEEKLY BETWEEN
CHITINA AND KENNECOTT
Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mon
days, Thursdays and Saturdays
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Thursdays and Fridays
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and Fridays
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days, Thursdays and Saturdays
I lie above schedule subject to change without
not ice.
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Fassenger Trains between Cordova and Chitina.
Freight received and delivered at Cordova
^ hurl I rtin 1 !• a. m. tp 5 p in., except Sundays.
Tickets on sale at Second Street Depot office
" hour before departure of trains.
CAL.Un CORSER Superintendent
D. L LEATON, Ticket Agent