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Report of 
 
 Hostess House 
 
 Committee 
 
 Issued by the 
 
 WAR WORK COUNCIL 
 
 National Board 
 
 of the 
 
 Young Womens Christian Associations 
 
 600 Lexington Avenue 
 
 New York 
 
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 WAR WORK 
 
 OF THE HOSTESS HOUSE COMMITTEE 
 
 Begitming^ Growth and Extent of J J 'or/: 
 
 WHEN the National War Work Council of the 
 Young Women's Christian Association undertook 
 to provide for the needs of the women affected hy 
 war conditions, both in industrial communities and in 
 those affected by the presence of men in the training 
 camps, there was no expectation that there \vould be any 
 need for work for women inside the camps. It was a 
 distinct surprise, therefore, to be asked to meet the un- 
 anticipated situation which arose when, in June of 1917, 
 the Officers' Training Corps was opened at Plattsburg 
 barracks and where apparently every man in training 
 was visited by all his women relatives for whom there 
 was no provision of any kind. 
 
 Consequently, because of its experience in construction 
 and in cafeteria management and because of funds im- 
 mediately available for work in Plattsburg, the Young 
 Women's Christian Association was asked to erect at once, 
 within the barracks, a building in which women visitors 
 to the men in training might meet them, might rest and 
 have food. Since in this building the workers acted as hos- 
 tesses to the visitors to the camp and the men in training 
 there, the term, hostess house, was rather informally de- 
 cided upon for that unique piece of work. 
 
 Unexpectedly and within a very short time, officers in 
 command of other officers' training corps requested 
 similar facilities. Individual requests began to be re- 
 ceived for hostess houses in camps and cantonments, then 
 being created for the training of our army. While the 
 work was still in an experimental stage, urgent requests 
 followed for hostess houses from aviation fields, marine 
 
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and naval stations, from engineer and quartermaster 
 training camps, from the ordnance and from the embarka- 
 tion camps. 
 
 With the formation of the Student Army Training 
 Corps came a flood of requests for hostess house work. 
 From camps whose personnel included both white and 
 colored soldiers came requests for provision for colored 
 women visitors similar to that for white. From perma- 
 nent posts came requests that they might have the same 
 hostess house facilities as were, upon request, being 
 given to camps. From Porto Rico and from Honolulu 
 came requests for hostess house work in camps needing 
 it to an especial degree. 
 
 With two exceptions, the Young Women's Christian 
 Association, through the hostess house committee of 
 the National War Work Council, acceded to each kind of 
 request. O-ne exception was the request which infre- 
 quently proved to be for some other form of work. The 
 second was a request from a permanent post, in which, 
 according to Government ruling, hostess houses could 
 not be built unless, in addition to the post's regular garri- 
 son, three thousand or more men were enrolled in train- 
 ing. 
 
 On the 31st of October, 1918, the War Department 
 Commission on Training Camp Activities, through its 
 committee of eleven, ruled that the five visitors' houses 
 promoted by the National Catholic War Council and 
 hostess houses operated by the Young Women's Chris- 
 tian Association should be termed hostess houses. A 
 joint hostess house committee was thereupon appointed 
 composed of representatives of the National Catholic 
 War Council, the Jewish Welfare Board and the Young 
 Women's Christian Association, to receive and consider 
 each subsequent request for a hostess house and to deter- 
 mine whether the National Catholic War Council or the 
 Young Women's Christian Association should erect and 
 administer a hostess house which the joint committee 
 had decided should be built. 
 
 Upon the signing of the armistice, the requests for a 
 time ceased and certain houses, partially built, were not 
 completed. At that time each decision not to begin prom- 
 ised construction, to discontinue construction begun or 
 
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to complete partially or substantially completed houses 
 was made after consultation with the War Department 
 and in accord with the best knowledge and prediction 
 which the Government could give. 
 
 The total number of hostess houses for which the 
 committee assumed responsibility up to November i, 
 1919, is 124. Of these 17 have been for colored visitors. 
 Work has been done in every variety of building, from 
 a tent or borrowed Colonial mansion to the latest type 
 of "X" Hostess House. 
 
 The first house, built at Plattsburg Barracks, was hardly 
 more than a Young Men's Christian Association hut, with 
 kitchenette attachment, dressing and rest room and com- 
 fortable wicker furniture, and was intended to provide for 
 the needs of visitors to five thousand men. It is very grati- 
 fying to see this house has continued to be adequate for a 
 camp of that size. As the demands upon the hostess 
 house became greater in camps where 25,000 to 50,000 
 men were in training, the size and facilities of houses had 
 to grow in proportion until they reached the two built at 
 the two embarkation camps, Merritt and Mills. 
 
 Facilities in houses for white and for colored visitors 
 were identical, the same plan of house being used for 
 each and the work differing in size only, not in content. 
 The work called for adequate provision for toilet facili- 
 ties, for rest and emergency room and for free checking 
 service. Increasingly also it called for cafeteria service 
 to provide simple and essential food for the visitors and 
 a supplement of desserts and sweets to the regular mess. 
 Sleeping rooms for the stafif and servants were provided. 
 
 At the outset, and until the period of demobilization, 
 hostess houses continued almost exclusively to be meeting 
 places. They were designed to provide for the reception, 
 refreshment, rest, shelter and protection to the women 
 relatives and friends of the officers and men in camp. No 
 lodgings were provided, although the chance women who 
 missed the last train or who fell ill and whom the mili- 
 tary authorities permitted us to entertain were taken in 
 for the night and made as comfortable as possible. No 
 dancing was permitted and no other kind of entertain- 
 ment carried on, since other volunteer organizations 
 within the camp had been asked and authorized to carry 
 
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that responsibility. No public religious services were 
 held for the same reason and also because on Sundays, 
 the busiest visiting days, nothing in the house was allowed 
 to interfere with the opportunity it gave for visiting. Sol- 
 diers, accompanied or not by their relatives, were always 
 welcome and the hostesses endeavored to establish an 
 atmosphere of home and peace and Christian friendliness 
 where the lonely boy might find sympathy and the tired 
 one, quiet. 
 
 The work of a hostess house was divided into five parts: 
 parts: 
 
 I. — The management of the house, leadership and gen- 
 eral supervision of the work, and contact with 
 the military authorities. 
 
 2. — Reception and care of the guests. 
 3. — Management of the cafeterias, engaging of servants 
 and purchase of supplies. 
 
 4. — Bookkeeping, banking and general business admin- 
 istration. 
 
 5. — Responsibility for information, connection be- 
 tween the visitors and the men they have come to 
 see, room registry, transportation, information 
 about nearby organizations or institutions. 
 
 To carry out these five kinds of work, a stafif of five 
 was required in some camps. In a small aviation field a 
 staff of three could divide the work among themselves 
 with the assistance of volunteers for busy days. In one of 
 the embarkation camps the information desk alone re- 
 quired the services of ten people, working in shifts and 
 assisted by orderlies and details from the camp headquar- 
 ters. 
 
 The total number of resident women engaged in hos- 
 tess house work up to November i, 1919, is as follows: 
 
 Services Employed 
 discontinued Oct.31, 1919 Total 
 
 White 529 148 677 
 
 White Volunteers . . 86 3 89 
 
 Colored 65 2 67 
 
 Foreign speaking ... 8 o 8 
 
 688 153 841 
 
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Those mentioned above as volunteers held permanent 
 positions on the staff. There were many other volunteers 
 who gave regular, but temporary help, who should not 
 fail to be mentioned. 
 
 In certain cities, which were embarkation and debarka- 
 tion ports, or which had in their immediate neighborhood 
 several military centers, hostess house work was estab- 
 lished in houses rented or loaned for that purpose. The 
 program here included additional personal service to 
 women who were strangers in the city and additional 
 work in securing lodgings for them. The largest of these 
 was the Debarkation Hostess House in New York City. 
 
 Working with the resident staffs were two groups of 
 people, the local hostess house committees and the 
 supervisors and field referees. The local committees' 
 responsibility was to assist the staff as an advisory board 
 and to render such specific assistance as the circumstances 
 permitted. Committees gave invaluable and indispensable 
 aid in interpreting local conditions to the committee at 
 headquarters and in an immense amount of many kinds 
 of arduous work in the houses. 
 
 The traveling supervisor of hostess houses, with head- 
 quarters in the nearest field ofiice, was the agent of the 
 national hostess house committee authorized to open 
 a house, install the staff, interpret to them the policies 
 and ideals of the work. She was the interpreter between 
 the houses under her jurisdiction and the committee at 
 headquarters. 
 
 As young women took up resident military work within 
 camps, the Young Women's Christian Association re- 
 ceived various requests to provide lodging and recreation 
 for them. Women workers in the Quartemaster's Depart- 
 ment and women members of liberty theatre troupes 
 became residents in buildings, in some instances erected 
 by the Young Women's Christian Association and in some 
 instances loaned by the camp authorities. 
 
 Where space permitted, there were lodged, also, women 
 entertainers of other volunteer organizations in camp ana 
 women workers of the Young Men's Christian Associa- 
 tion and of the American Library Association. In camps 
 where circumstances permitted, it was possible to be of 
 some service to the nurses. These pieces of work were 
 
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done by other committees of the council, but centered 
 in the hostess house, since some of the activities took 
 place there and since the hostess house director was 
 responsible for the contact of the Young Women's Chris- 
 tian Association with the military authorities. 
 
 The general work of the hostess house was divided 
 into three periods: The time of training for overseas 
 service, the period of the epidemic and debmobilization, 
 beginning with the signing of the armistice and probably 
 continuing through 1919. No better illustration of the 
 work can be had than in the three following reports 
 which give a vivid impression of the daily work of typical 
 hostess houses. 
 
 Each camp had its own particular problem which dif- 
 fered only in detail, not fundamentally, and which was 
 met in a true pioneer spirit by all the workers. No one 
 who has not seen the actual operation of a hostess house 
 many miles from any markets or supplies can have any 
 idea of the difficulties of housekeeping for a fluctuating 
 family, averaging fifteen hundred a day. 
 
 The following report of the work of a typical hostess 
 house during the first period covers a period of only 
 two weeks, but sums up the character of the work of that 
 house during six months. 
 
 Number served in cafeteria 25,503 
 
 Average number served per day 1,700 
 
 Letters posted from information desk. . . 2,742 
 
 Questions answered at information desk. 2,614 
 
 Parcels checked free of charge 529 
 
 People directed how to find friends. . . . 253 
 
 Telephone messages taken and delivered 545 
 
 Connections made between friends 217 
 
 Women using rest room 4,493 
 
 Children and babies using nursery 107 
 
 "Sunday, the i6th, is our record day. By reveille 
 crowds of civilians were banked outside the entrance gate 
 waiting to come into the cantonment and by 7:30, our 
 building was beginning to hum with activity. Orders 
 had been given the night before to have special care taken 
 in the cleaning. Fresh flowers and greens were every- 
 where and the building looked very inviting and cool and 
 
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comfortable. We regret that as much cannot be said for 
 it twelve hours later, for in spite of careful watching and 
 cleaning up during the day, the whole effect was as if a 
 tornado had struck us. A big Wild West show was being 
 held at the remount depot during the afternoon and that, 
 combined with the fact that it was a very lovely day, 
 caused many visitors to come out from the surrounding 
 towns. 
 
 "The cafeteria served over three hundred for break- 
 fast, and at 1 1 o'clock, when the chains were lowered for 
 the noon meal, a long line was waiting in the main room. 
 Three thousand one hundred and eighteen people were 
 served between seven-thirty in the morning and ten-fifteen 
 at night. Enough to say for the spirit of the workers 
 that at ten o'clock they were still able to smile and see 
 the funny side of many of the days' occurrences. 
 
 "All day long the main desk was piled high with 
 checked parcels, coats, bags, etc. Two secretaries and 
 sometimes three were behind the counter all day long 
 answering a steady stream of questions and sending in 
 telephone messages by the hundred. The women's rest 
 room was literally packed and jammed. One secretary 
 and the girl in the rest room stood all day long lining 
 women up, one line coming in and one going out while 
 another worker helped with the hundreds of babies who 
 came into the nursery to rest and be made comfortable. 
 People were hot, dusty and tired and their feet hurt from 
 constant standing and walking about. One girl said: T 
 came out to see camp, but all I have seen is dust and men.' 
 
 "After the last vistor had left the building and the last 
 light had been turned out, the family gathered around to 
 have a little evening service and every one had a story of 
 demands made upon them during the day, to contribute 
 to the general discussion. 'Will you please find John 
 Proctor for me?' requested an old man, leaning over the 
 oflice counter. 'What division does he belong to,' asked 
 the secretary. T don't know, I'm sure,' he replied. 'He 
 is my son and they said that you could find him for me.' 
 
 "It took the efforts of several secretaries to locate the 
 brother of a pretty girl with no more address than the 
 91st Division. A little Swedish woman approached one 
 of the workers with tears pouring down her face, 'I must 
 
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see the head worker,' she said. When a quiet corner was 
 found in the office, it was discovered that she had lost her 
 purse and all her money, and that she and her sister were 
 without funds to reach the city. The ever ready emer- 
 gency fund was used and the two girls went off, grateful 
 and happy. 
 
 "More and more the realization of the need for emer- 
 gency rooms is being brought to our minds. Hardly a 
 night passes that someone doesn't come to us for emer- 
 gency housing. In some way our bedroom space always 
 seems to be stretched to meet the demands of the situation. 
 
 "The party we had for the girls at the musical comedy 
 theatre was a great success. These girls had rehearsed 
 nearly all night long for a play. They put on two 
 matinees in the afternoon and were to have two perform- 
 ances that night. About five o'clock in the afternoon, 
 when the second performance was just finishing, we went 
 over wnth hot coffee, sandwiches and cake. All the 
 members of the company gathered on the stage with 
 the girls who were acting as ushers and our secretary 
 served the picnic supper. 'Well,' said one little chorus 
 girl, as she sat on a stool resting her tired feet, 'this cer- 
 tainly tastes good to me. I am so dead tired I couldn't 
 go out and get supper and I am nearly starved to death.' 
 
 "The cooperation and help of all denominations are 
 very wonderful to see. The most interesting gathering 
 that we have ever had in the hostess house was a 
 dinner given here in the early part of the month for all 
 of the chaplains and church representatives in the can- 
 tonment. ^ We invited these men to come as our guests to 
 a seven o'clock dinner. There were about twenty-five in 
 all, among them the Mormon chaplain, the Jewish rabbi, 
 the Seventh Day Adventist, the Swedish Lutheran, the 
 Christian Scientist welfare worker, the head of the 
 Young Men's Christian Association, the head of the 
 religious work of the Young Men's Christian Associa- 
 tion, Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, Episcopalians 
 and our own secretaries. 
 
 "After dinner we gathered around in a little circle and 
 told of some of the work. We have all been so busy 
 meeting the daily demands put upon us that never before 
 
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have we really stopped to grasp what the other fellow 
 was doing. 
 
 ''One of the saddest cases we have had with us since the 
 building was opened was that of a little seventeen year 
 old girl whose husband was dying of pneumonia in the 
 hospital. This child was brought to us by the boy's 
 father, who had come up with her from the southern part 
 of the state. She was only a baby and seemed stunned 
 with the suddenness and tragedy of it all. We took her 
 in and kept her the day of her arrival and that night at 
 three o'clock our hostess went with her to the hospital 
 where they stayed until the husband passed away. 
 
 "The girl was brought back to the hostess house and 
 by eight o'clock in the morning was in a very serious 
 physical condition; in fact, so much so that at noon she 
 had to be removed in an ambulance to the hospital for a 
 slight operation. Such a pitiful case it was, for she 
 had come absolutely unprepared in the way of clothes 
 and necessities, and her broken-hearted cry was that she 
 wanted to put on black for her husband. 
 
 "She had no money; so the united wardrobes of the 
 household were searched and with a little expenditure 
 a complete black outfit was fixed for her. She is still in 
 the hospital, but when she comes out she will have the 
 satisfaction of having the kind of clothes she wants to 
 put on. 
 
 "When our very good friend, Mrs. R., heard of this 
 case, she donated hve hundred dollars to be used in simi- 
 lar cases, so now we can feel free to do for manv case*^ that 
 come to our attention. Of course, the Civilian Relief 
 takes care of all of the actual wants of soldiers' families, 
 but there are many times when a fund like this will come 
 in very wonderfully. 
 
 "At the end of May we had been working for six 
 months and statistics for that time have been compiled. 
 It is interesting to note that there have been 231,745 
 people served in the cafeteria in six months. It is also 
 interesting to note that our average per day in the cafe- 
 teria for the first fifteen days was a little over one thou- 
 sand, and for the last fifteen days has been seventeen hun- 
 
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dred. This is a considerable increase, yet it seems as if 
 the cafeteria runs on with just the same ease and the 
 crowds do not seem any greater than they did for the first 
 two weeks. The following are the statistics for the first 
 six months: 
 
 Number served in cafeteria 231,745 
 
 Average number served per day 1,287 
 
 Letters posted at information desk 36,704 
 
 People directed how to find friends 3,795 
 
 Direct connections made between friends. . . 2,655 
 
 Questions answered at main desk 61,034 
 
 Telephone messages taken and delivered. ... 6,311 
 
 Parcels checked free of charge 5,972 
 
 Women using rest room 39,6£;2 
 
 Children and babies using nursery 966 
 
 People using building 500,000 
 
 "We all realize that before long the time will come 
 when the division will be with us no longer and we feel 
 we can never say enough in gratitude for the wonderful 
 recognition that our house has had from all of these 
 men. We realize more and more how fortunate we have 
 been to have a commanding ofiicer like General G., who 
 has seen the real service our building could render and 
 who from the very first has stood by us with the most 
 wonderful kind of help and encouragement; a man who 
 has strong religious convictions and who has never hesi- 
 tated to express in public his views of right and wrong; 
 a man who is big enough to command the respect of the 
 whole community and yet who never considers himself 
 too big to attend to the personal details that mean so 
 much. Only a few days ago he stood, acting as godfather 
 while Mrs. M., our hostess, stood as god-mother for two 
 enlisted men who were being confirmed in the Episcopal 
 church. 
 
 "We shall see him leave us with a very keen regret and 
 with a deep feeling of gratitude in our hearts for all he 
 has done in removing obstacles from our pathway and 
 helping us in the work we are trying to do. May the best 
 of good fortune go with General G. and his division and 
 the hearty thanks of all of the workers here who have had 
 their work made easier because of the very wonderful 
 support that has gone out from headquarters." 
 
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During the epidemic of influenza, the demands upon 
 the hostess house varied according to conditions in dif- 
 ferent camps and were in each case met to the satisfac- 
 tion of the commanding officer. In some, the houses 
 were used to lodge the relatives of desperately ill men; 
 in some, the extra Red Cross nurses lived, and others were 
 frankly commandeered as additional hospital wards, 
 filled, even to the wide verandas, with cots. One such 
 house was pronounced completely suitable for a hospital 
 and gained special praise for its record of recoveries. In 
 every case, the Young Women's Christian Association 
 received expressions of gratitude and appreciation for 
 the service of the house and the ability of the workers 
 to adapt themselves to the needs of the camp. 
 
 Typical of work done in many hostess houses during 
 the "flu" is the following part of a report: 
 
 "On the 28th of September packages of all kinds and 
 descriptions began to come in, were left by the relatives 
 and friends of boys who were ill but not ill enough for 
 them to secure a pass. I had asked the secretaries of the 
 hospital 'Y' if they would deliver any packages, thinking 
 we might have some, and they said they would gladly do 
 it. But we hadn't any idea how fast they would come in. 
 One entire end of the office was filled about three feet 
 high several times a day. 
 
 "On Sunday, the 29th, we had immense crowds. They 
 were not allowed to stand close together in line or to 
 congregate in the rooms. We used all the folding chairs 
 we had in the yard, did our best with disinfectants and 
 electric fans and kept all doors and windows open to 
 prevent anyone from contracting the epidemic here. We 
 were inspected a number of times that day. 
 
 "On the second of October we made a barrack of our 
 living room. The Quartermaster's Department hadn't 
 a cot on hand that night, but expected 5,000 the next day. 
 We were able to secure eleven cots from the Red Cross, 
 which we put in the living room for women and then 
 made beds on the floor. We put men in the writing room 
 and on the cafeteria porch. We housed twenty-two extra 
 people that first night. We kept only the relatives of the 
 boys who were so desperately ill that the presence of their 
 own people seemed advisable. 
 
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"That day I asked for a Y. M. C. A. man to help us, 
 and on October third sent for another. Over fifty people 
 slept here on the third. We had been keeping the house 
 open day and night and were getting so tired 1 asked Mr. 
 D., head of the Y. M. C. A. in camp, for a man to sit 
 up at night for us. The Y. M. C. A. buildings had all 
 been practically closed for days. Mr. C. volunteered for 
 the work, and was here for weeks. He was just the man 
 for the place. 
 
 "General A. came in every day, sometimes both morn- 
 ing and evening. On the fourth he suggested that we 
 have tents put up to handle the crowd of visitors, so we 
 had ten tents put up that day with six cots to a tent and 
 were given a detail to help with cleaning. It is the first 
 help of the kind this hostess house has ever had. A 
 couple of days later we increased the detail. I do not 
 know how we could have got along without this help. We 
 had about twenty visitors a day for a while, and now aver- 
 age fifteen a day. 
 
 "During the night of the fourth, with our first ten tents, 
 we thought we would not have enough cots. Several 
 visitors, however, always preferred to sit up, so some 
 blankets were saved for them. On the fifth sixty-two 
 women, fifty men and one baby slept here. The camp 
 personnel came down with one hundred of their men and 
 moved into our living room. The appearance of the 
 room was certainly changed. For two days they used the 
 living room during the day and moved across to the cafe- 
 teria at night. After that they moved into their office 
 tents which were pitched beside our front walk. Miss S. 
 and Miss B. sat up several nights, with the sick. After 
 that, two Y. W. C. A. secretaries came out from the city 
 Association every night. The assistance w^e received 
 from the Association was valuable. The Y. M. C. A. 
 moved down in force the day the personnel men arrived. 
 A number of chaplains made their headquarters here, 
 and Y. M. C. A., K. of C. and other organizations worked 
 hand in hand with the Y. W. C. A. 
 
 "On the sixth we turned the writing room into a check 
 room and stationed orderlies there. We are still using 
 the room for that purpose and are still keeping the house 
 
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open the full twenty-four hours. It has not been closed 
 day or night for weeks. 
 
 "We added tents until we had four office tents and 
 eighteen for sleeping. The women visitors were quar- 
 tered in the living room and on the cafeteria porch. We 
 worked out a special system for giving out the cots by 
 filing cards so we could know just where each one was 
 sleeping, in case of call at night. During the rush it took 
 about a dozen people to help with the arrangements for 
 sleeping. Those who slept in the house and on the porches 
 had sheets; those in the tents had not. We had a special 
 detail to fold up the cots each morning and place them at 
 night. 
 
 "The hotels laundered the bed linen without charge, 
 taking it to town in the morning and bringing it back 
 at night. We made no charge for the use of the cots, but 
 we told our visitors we would be glad to receive a dona- 
 tion if they cared to make one. During the height of the 
 epidemic 3,553 people slept at the house. Many said it 
 was the biggest single charity of which they had ever 
 heard. In many cases the relatives could not have stayed 
 if they had had to pay much for lodging. Numbers of 
 the visitors had never before been away from home. 
 
 "So many telegrams were being sent that we asked the 
 Western Union for an operator. One was sent out im- 
 mediately to receive the messages, and these were sent 
 to town every hour by orderly. There was a waiting line 
 even then for long distance calls on the telephone. We 
 were given permission to talk over our camp phones to 
 any place in the city or nearby town. 
 
 "The cafeteria had the busiest time in its existence. 
 The meal hours were greatly expanded and at any time 
 of the day or night coffee and rolls were ready for the 
 hungry. For ten days, during the worst of the siege, we 
 gave away coffee and rolls, particularly during the night. 
 We served nearly thirty thousand people during the epi- 
 demic and estimate that we gave away about five thou- 
 sand servings of coffee and rolls. We always had lunch 
 for the night shift. The food was just the right sort to 
 keep people fit and to tempt appetite. People who, we 
 felt, were not eating enough were given a bowl of soup 
 
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or an extra serving of meat. We often charged only ten 
 cents for a good dinner when we knew the visitor had 
 little money. 23,910 paid meals, in all, were served dur- 
 ing the time of anxiety. 
 
 "A house nurse was installed and many women were 
 kept from becoming seriously ill, yet we sent on an aver- 
 age one case of influenza a day to the City Hospital. The 
 biggest work of the hostess house was the general care 
 of the thousands who came. Everything possible was 
 done. There was so much sorrow. 
 
 "General A. was our most appreciative visitor. He 
 said we had the critical end of the work to handle and 
 were doing it so well he would not presume to make a 
 single suggestion. His summary was: 'The work here 
 is marvelous. You can have anything you want.' Colonel 
 E. told me the General had had a number of letters of 
 appreciation of their treatment at the hostess house 
 from relatives of soldiers. 
 
 "One tent, all through the epidemic, had a sign: 'Infor- 
 mation for Relatives of Deceased Soldiers.' Information 
 of every sort was sought here. The army has always met 
 the relatives of deceased soldiers at the hostess house 
 and visitors came here to find the location of their boys 
 and for their passes as well." 
 
 With the demobilization days came hard and often 
 perplexing demands upon hostess houses. At times 
 women visitors were less numerous, but not less needy. 
 The morale of the soldiers was of paramount importance 
 to the military authorities, and the War Department 
 asked hostess houses to use their unique facilities for 
 the entertainment and contentment of the men. The 
 committee tried to do this without abandoning its 
 service to the women. Many kinds of parties and enter- 
 tainments were held, and dancing was permitted where 
 asked for by the morale officer. The joyful return to 
 the hostess house of the many men who were its friends 
 while in training and who missed it when overseas was 
 a delight. 
 
 In the following reports are examples of work carried 
 on in the demobilization period: 
 
 "The month of April brought many changes to the 
 
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camp. Very few of the air service men are left in 
 camp, and every week overseas troops numbering from 
 I, GOO to 3,000 men arrive. These men, on leaving the 
 transports, march directly to the camp, a long and weary 
 tramp of from six to seven miles, so on their arrival their 
 well appointed barracks seem most comfortable and even 
 luxurious. Then, when they rush to the hostess house, 
 as they do as soon as they are 'de Franced,' they feel, as 
 they tell us many times, they have really reached heaven. 
 
 "A personal note of invitation is sent from the director 
 of the hostess house to the commanding officer of each 
 incoming division, offering the hospitality of the house 
 during the day and evening to his officers and men. 
 
 "The breakfast hour from eight to nine, when two 
 hundred have sometimes been served, is as popular as any 
 during the day. Over the week-ends, a few times, nearly 
 a thousand a day have been served during all the meal 
 hours, so it can readily be seen these are busy days at 
 this hostess house, with a leap from 100 to 1,000 a day. 
 
 "The em.ergency bedrooms are in constant use, for 
 there is still much sickness in the army. Mothers and 
 wives are very frequently telegraphed to from the hospital 
 headquarters and on their arrival in camp are most grate- 
 ful for the quiet and rest of the cheerful little bedrooms 
 which they occupy until accommodation can be found 
 for them in the little villages nearby. Some of these 
 women have been with us during days and nights of 
 serious illness and even death, and they continue to write 
 letters of gratitude and send small gifts of appreciation." 
 
 Number of people entering building iO)59i 
 
 Questions answered at information desk. . . . 1,923 
 
 Parcels checked free of charge 4(54 
 
 Telephone messages taken and delivered. . . . 860 
 
 Direct connections made between friends. . . 95 
 
 Women using rest room 2,405 
 
 Children using nursery 265 
 
 "Since the first of April, 1919, between five and six 
 thousand men have arrived and been discharged from 
 this camp. With so many organizations represented, we 
 
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have met men of all types, all happy in the prospect of 
 soon being at home with loved ones. While waiting their 
 discharge they enjoy, when possible, the comforts of our 
 home. As one man expressed it: 'I love to sit here and 
 get an occasional whiff of something good cooking in the 
 kitchen.' One young lad opened the door and timidly 
 inquired: 'Please, may I come in, or is this an officers' 
 mess? It looks so nice.' 
 
 "The coming of so many troops brought friends and 
 relatives from all parts of the State who waited patiently 
 or otherwise for the first sight of the dear ones. As the 
 men are expected to turn in the equipment at once, and 
 after that remain in the demobilization camp in order 
 to sign papers necessary to complete their discharge in 
 forty-eight hours, those waiting spend their time eating, 
 asking questions and looking up the road until rewarded 
 with a glimpse of their soldier boy. 
 
 "A family consisting of father, mother, wife and small 
 child, after waiting for hours hoping that the boy might 
 be free in time to have luncheon with them, finally de- 
 cided to have the meal without him. They had scarcely 
 seated themselves when the young man rushed in. His 
 mother saw him first and in an instant was in his arms 
 holding him as though she would never again give him 
 up. The little wife with the child clinging to her skirt 
 stood by. The man, excitedly trying to greet all of them 
 at once, reached out and grasped his wife's hand and shook 
 it frantically. She stood it as long as she could and 
 finally gasped: 'Quit shaking my hand. I'm your wife.' 
 
 "Those troops fortunate in the possession of good health 
 are on their way rejoicing before we realize that they have 
 been with us. But those in the convalescent camp and 
 hospital come to us just as soon as they are able to move 
 about. One boy surprised us several weeks ago by hob- 
 bling in in his bathrobe and slippers. He had managed 
 to slip away from the hospital a mile away without be- 
 ing observed by the orderly. He made himself comfort- 
 able among the cushions, and, taking a book, informed us 
 that he was going to remain all day, as our house was 
 the only quiet, peaceful spot in camp. He wanted to get 
 away from tin pianos and racket of all kinds. 
 
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"There are a number of interesting groups who come 
 here from the hospital; a young father who spends the 
 entire day with his wife and little son, and there are, too, 
 three boys who when they first came used crutches. 
 However, the treatment given them is working wonders 
 and now one boy no longer needs a support and the other 
 two carry canes. They are quite young, mere babies who 
 want to be talked to, encouraged and petted a little. They 
 come from the hospital three or four times daily, some- 
 times forgetting that time flies and remaining too late for 
 the Red Cross bus to take them home. When this occurs, 
 we call in our good friends and neighbors, the Fire De- 
 partment who are always willing to provide transporta- 
 tion for the helpless ones. Sometimes they bring the hose 
 carriage if the Dodge is not available, but we never call 
 on them in vain. 
 
 "An interesting incident occurred some weeks ago. 
 Three almost helpless cripples came in for food. One of 
 the hostesses walked beside them while they were select- 
 ing their meals and carried their trays to a table, doing 
 all she could to make them comfortable. One of the 
 boys left some change on the tray — a tip for her kindness. 
 The hostess whispered to him that she would love to 
 accept the money but it was against cafeteria rules. He 
 was sorry, but did not want to encourage her to break a 
 rule, and promised to remember her in some other way. 
 It is needless to state how deeply touched we are with 
 the gratitude of these heroes, and thankful for the privi- 
 lege of seiving them in any way. 
 
 "The coordinating committee, made up of a repre- 
 sentative from each welfare organization, meets once a 
 week to discuss plans for the diversion and pleasure of 
 the men. Once a week a dance and dinner are given at 
 the convalescent center. Girls from San Diego and La 
 Jolla, vouched for by the War Camp Community Serv- 
 ice, are brought to these dances properly chaperoned. 
 Tuesday evenings a dance is given at the Knights of 
 Columbus building for officers and another for enlisted 
 men at the Jewish Welfare building. With movies, the- 
 atres and athletic stunts given nightly at various places, 
 the men who are able to be out of doors need not spend 
 a single dull moment. While it is not always possible for 
 
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us to take an active part in all these affairs we are always 
 cordially invited to do so. The most kindly and harmon- 
 ious feeling exists among all welfare boards and our 
 co-workers are good enough to tell us that we are doing 
 greater work than they can ever hope to do, even though 
 we may not appear in the limelight as frequently." 
 
 "The report of this month is a story of the entertain- 
 ment in camp of the Division. For months every 
 
 one had looked forward to their return, planning to give 
 them the best of everything, to show proper appreciation 
 of the splendid way they had done their part in the great 
 war. When at last they came, they filled the camp with 
 life, activity and throngs of admiring relatives and 
 friends, so that never in the history of the house were 
 we so busy on Sunday and every day as during their stay 
 here. 
 
 "Not only relatives and friends, but the mayors and 
 committees of various towns came, bringing gifts, to do 
 honor to the returned heroes. Never were there so many 
 visitors daily nor so much interest and excitement. Every 
 regiment had its band and the camp seemed suddenly to 
 come to life again, assuming the look and air of a real 
 army training area. 
 
 "Our information desk was again the busiest spot in 
 the room, hundreds coming to find the boys and to be 
 directed to the part of camp where they were billeted. 
 Over three hundred telegrams were sent from here. This 
 last service was largely requested by the officers who made 
 this their headquarters. Requests to locate the boys came 
 by letter and telegram as well. Many times the visiting 
 parties, after wandering all over the camp, would come 
 to us as a last resort. With hardly an exception they were 
 able to locate their boys, and then they would say: 'Why 
 didn't we come here first. It w^ould have been so easy.' 
 Everybody came for information of every kind and every- 
 body got what they asked for. Two were necessary at the 
 desk during the busiest times of the day. I shall never 
 be able to tell of the appreciation of this place. 
 
 "The most exciting time w^as when the "Patricia" came, 
 bringing some of the last units. The trains came in late 
 in the afternoon and the officers and men found our place 
 
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just at the end of the supper hour. They had had little to 
 eat that day, so dinners were served. The line was a 
 steady one and soon the regular dinner gave out. Fried 
 eggs and cold ham were substituted, one of our workers 
 preparing the eggs. Apple pie and ice cream were the 
 favorities, of course, and each boy told us just how long 
 it had been since he had eaten any. The whoops of joy 
 at sight of a pie attested to their great satisfaction in 
 getting it. One boy said, 'We have dreamed of eating 
 pie and ice cream.' 
 
 "They came in such a steady line that the supplies 
 began to give out, but happily there was always something 
 to substitute. When at ten-thirty the night baker took 
 out the first apple pies, we served them hot. The boys, 
 we learned afterwards, thought we had baked especially 
 for them. At eleven we felt we must close, when a new 
 group suddenly appeared, and their eager, expectant faces 
 told so much of the joy of being home and all it meant, 
 we couldn't refuse as long as there was anything to serve. 
 Finally, at ii 145 we realized we must close. Putting the 
 lights out and guarding the doors seemed the only way of 
 stopping the stream of hungry men which had been com- 
 ing in since seven o'clock. Some had to be turned away, 
 much to our regret, but another busy day was almost 
 upon us. The number served in the cafeteria during the 
 month was 43,806; the largest number served on one day, 
 
 2,562." 
 
 An idea of work done in hostess houses conducted for 
 visitors to colored troops can be had from the following 
 report: 
 
 "The joy of working in the hostess house just now is 
 without parallel. In the first place the cooperation of 
 the camp authorities and welfare workers is all that could 
 be desired. Members of our stafif have been with the 
 morale officer, giving talks to men in Sunday School 
 classes, in the barracks and aiding in entertainment of 
 men in the convalescent house of the Red Cross. 
 
 "The commanding officers of the several companies 
 are permitting the men to have big spreads and our house 
 has been the scene of several pretty parties given by the 
 soldiers for their friends. 
 
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"When the men of the Division were here, they 
 
 filled our house from early morning until late at night. 
 For the most part they were young, educated, cultured 
 men of Ohio. A more cosmopolitan group could scarcely 
 be found — Scotch, Negro, American and Chinese. They 
 were striking examples of the wonderful lessons of fel- 
 lowship and sympathy that these splendid fellows had 
 learned. 
 
 "The former commandant of this camp has returned 
 with these boys and has assumed charge of the camp 
 once more. A few days after his arrival he visited us and 
 found the house filled with his own men and, recognizing 
 them, greeted them most cordially and inquired about 
 their health. 
 
 "A joint celebration of Lincoln-Douglass Day was 
 held in the main auditorium on February 12. The orga- 
 nizations participating were the hostess house, Y. M. C. 
 A. huts 75 and 78, 10" Tr. Bn., 418 Labor Bn., 2" Tr. Bn., 
 convalescent center and nurses from Quarters No. 7 at 
 base hospital. This entertainment brought nearly all 
 the men in camp and had as its audience the high- 
 est rank in the camp. The general and his stafif were 
 present. Two members of our stafif took part. One spoke 
 on 'Personal reminiscences of Frederick Douglass' and 
 the other sang a solo. 
 
 "The men are enjoying our house to the full. Many are 
 the regrets that the house was not here last winter when 
 it was severely cold and the boys had no place to take 
 their women friends. They are making up for lost time 
 now. 
 
 "The Sunday following the coming of these boys 
 found loving mothers, wives and sweethearts here to wel- 
 come their much be-decorated sons, brothers and lovers. 
 Some of these men are wearing one, two and as many as 
 three decorations for valor upon the battle field. These 
 boys bear their honors most modestly and are rather re- 
 luctant to tell of their experiences, unless one literally 
 draws them out." 
 
 "Some interesting incidents happened while this group 
 was here. A soldier, Willis by name, had gone overseas 
 
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when his little girl was two and a half years old. Having 
 stayed eighteen months, his little daughter had forgotten 
 her "daddy." They met in the hostess house and it 
 took several hours for her to accept him, but finally she 
 took him by the hand and led him all over the room, tell- 
 ing each person: "This is my daddy." 
 
 "Not long ago a rather youthful looking woman came 
 into the house, saying she had word that her husband 
 and son were expected in the camp that night. She had 
 not intended that they should know that she was coming 
 to meet them, and came to the house to await word of 
 their arrival in camp. As she sat in the cafeteria, removed 
 from the main entrance, the door opened and the eyes of 
 her boy fell upon her instantly. He had no idea his 
 mother was there. The father had gone to town but the 
 boy said something drew him to the hostess house as 
 soon as he saw the Blue Triangle and the letters, Y. W. 
 C. A. 
 
 "There were many musicians in camp besides those 
 who were with the band. Early one morning a group of 
 them got in the house before the staff came downstairs 
 and gave them a delightful sacred concert. They also 
 played one Sunday afternoon to a large group of admir- 
 ing friends. 
 
 "We were the recipient of several victrola records. 
 
 "General G. has called for regular weekly meetings of 
 all welfare workers in the camp. We are to report all 
 things of mutual interest and help devise plans to aid 
 in upholding the morale of the army. The meetings are 
 held in the librarv of the community house each Thurs- 
 day afternoon. 
 
 "Below is the report of the Information Hostess: 
 
 Civilian visitors 500 
 
 Women in restroom 170 
 
 Babies in restroom 12 
 
 Soldiers located 34 
 
 Lodging secured 12 
 
 Parcels checked 998 
 
 Letters mailed ^A^^ 
 
 Stationery — envelopes SjS^^ 
 
 " paper 4,000 
 
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Telephone calls 322 
 
 Telegrams sent 74 
 
 Telegrams received 18 
 
 Books distributed 35 
 
 With the demobilization days came new work. The 
 Debarkation Hostess House in New York City, opened 
 early in February, 1919, had for its object the care of 
 the women relatives and friends of men in service. In 
 addition to the typical facilities for reception, rest, in- 
 formation, checking, other personal service and food, 
 were lodging accommodations for one hundred women 
 and children. During the first nine months, 3,049 women 
 and 405 children had been housed, and 129,348 served in 
 the cafeteria. In cooperation with the Red Cross, this 
 hostess house received and cared for all those war brides 
 entering the Port of New York who were not met by hus- 
 bands or relatives. The Red Cross conducted in this 
 house its office for service to these women, and the house 
 thus became the first home in the United States for over 
 3,000 brides, representing seventeen nationalities. 
 
 The two houses asked for by the Red Cross at Base 
 Hospital No. 19, Oteen, N. C, and Base Hospital No. 28 
 at Fort Sheridan, 111., were completed and running on 
 October first, serving to excellent purpose among the 
 sick and convalescent in these two hospitals. 
 
 Little by little, the work of the houses grew less, and 
 finally reached what might be called a peace-time basis. 
 On October 16, the War Department sent to the afiiliated 
 welfare organizations, which had done work in camps 
 during the war, a statement that on November i, 1919, the 
 War Department would absorb and take over the work 
 of these welfare organizations under a branch of itself, 
 called the Education and Recreation Branch of the 
 War Plans Division of the General Staff. 
 
 They specifically requested of the Young Women's 
 Christian Association that buildings with such equipment 
 as the War Work Council should see fit to turn over, in 
 camps including aviation fields, regular posts, canton- 
 ments and general hospitals, should be given to the War 
 Department on that date. The Y. W. C. A. had buildings 
 in 37 of these camps listed, and, since in some camps there 
 
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was more than one building, it meant that on November i 
 the War Work Council of the Young Women's Chris- 
 tian Association turned over to the government 50 build- 
 ings. At the request of the Navy Department, the War 
 Work Council continued to supervise and carry on the 
 work in naval and marine Stations until it was lately 
 absorbed by the Navy. 
 
 In 22 of these 37 camps, hostess house work was still 
 active at this date, but in the other camps work had 
 ceased because the personnel of the camp had been so 
 reduced that the service of the house was no longer 
 needed. In the camps where hostess houses had been 
 closed for some time, buildings only were turned over to 
 the Government, as theft, deterioration or need in active 
 work elsewhere caused the equipment to be taken from 
 these buildings. It was, however, the intention of the 
 hostess house committee to turn over the active hostess 
 houses equipped in such a way as to preserve the com- 
 fortable, homey look which had been their peculiar char- 
 acteristic. 
 
 At the request of the War Department, the hostess 
 house committee recommended many of those who had 
 been working under this organization to continue work 
 with the War Department, but the appointment of these 
 workers was made through the Education and Recreation 
 Branch of the War Plans Division of the General Staff, 
 subject to the approval of the commanding officer of 
 each camp. The cafeteria continued in many of these 
 camps, but was financed by the Post Exchange, which 
 retained many who were previously Y. W. C. A. workers. 
 
 Each hostess house had as its goal the giving of the kind 
 of service most needed in each camp, according to the 
 resources, the experience and the responsibility of the 
 Young Women's Christian Association, and to make that 
 service as efficient and as telling as the ability and spirit 
 of the workers made possible. The erection and opera- 
 tion of hostess houses w^as done under increasing Govern- 
 ment cooperation and supervision which made possible 
 certain work that the Y. W. C. A. otherwise could not 
 do and defined and restricted the co-operation which 
 have done and defined and restricted the cooperation 
 
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which would have been desirable between that war emer- 
 gency service of the organization and the remainder of 
 its war program. 
 
 NATIONAL HOSTESS HOUSE COMMITTEE 
 
 Mrs. E. M. Townsend, Chairman 
 
 Mrs. William Pierson Hamilton, First Vice Chairman 
 
 Miss Margaret Mead, Sccotid Vice Chairman 
 
 Miss Katherine Scott, Executive Secretary 
 
 Active Members 
 
 Mrs. F. McNeil Bacon Mrs. William Henry Hays 
 
 Mrs. Hugh Criss Mrs. Colgate Hoyt 
 
 Mrs. Herbert S. Carter Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin 
 
 Mrs. Josephus Daniels Mrs. Henry G. Marquand 
 
 Mrs. Walter Douglas Mrs. Frederick Mead 
 
 Mrs. Coleman du Pont Mrs. Frederic B. Pratt 
 
 I Mrs. E. R. L. Gould Mrs. William Rossiter 
 Mrs. Leonard Wood 
 
 Associate Members 
 
 Mrs. Robert Bacon, New York City 
 Mrs. James A. Baker, Houston, Texas 
 Mrs. Franklin P. Cator, Baltimore, Maryland 
 Mrs. G. J. Fiebeger, West Point, New York 
 Mrs. Roy Hoffman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 
 Mrs. John Sherman Hoyt, New York City 
 Mrs. William M. Manley, Baltimore, Marjdand 
 Mrs. William Fellowes Morgan, New York City 
 Mrs. Endicott Peabody, Groton, Massachusetts 
 Mrs. Harold Peabody, Boston, Massachusetts 
 Mrs. William McMaster, Portland, Oregon 
 Mrs. Harmon Remmel, Little Rock, Arkansas 
 Mrs. Chester Thorne, Tacoma, Washington 
 Mrs. Lawrence J. Viles, Chicago, Illinois 
 Mrs. Egerton Winthrop, New York City 
 
 LIST OF YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION 
 HOSTESS HOUSES ARMY CAMPS 
 
 Camp Beauregard, La. 
 Camp Bowie, Tex. 
 
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Camp Cody, N. Mex. 
 
 Camp Doniphan, Okla. (Moved to Fort Sill) 
 
 Camp Fremont, Cal. 
 
 Camp Greene, No. i, N. C. 
 
 Camp Greene, No. 2, N. C. (colored) 
 
 Camp Hancock, Ga. 
 
 Camp Kearny, Cal. 
 
 Camp Logan, Tex. 
 
 Camp McArthur, Tex. 
 
 Camp McClellan, Ala. 
 
 Camp Sevier, S. C. 
 
 Camp Shelby, Miss. 
 
 Camp Sheridan, Ala. 
 
 Camp Wadsworth, No. i, S. C. 
 
 Camp Wadsworth, No. 2, S. C. (colored) 
 
 Camp Wheeler, Ga. 
 
 AVIATION FIELDS 
 
 Call Field, Tex. 
 
 Camp Morrison, Va. 
 
 Carlstrom Field, Fla. 
 
 Damm Field, L. I., N. Y. 
 
 Dorr Field, Fla. 
 
 Eberts Field, Ark. 
 
 Ellington Field, Tex. 
 
 Hazelhurst Field, L. I., N. Y. 
 
 Kellv Field, Tex. 
 
 Mitchel Field, L. I., N. Y. 
 
 Overland Aviation School, St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 Park Field, Tenn. 
 
 Payne Field, Miss. 
 
 Rich Field, Tex. 
 
 Wilbur Wright Air Service Depot, Ohio 
 
 CANTONMENTS 
 
 Camp Custer, No. i, Mich. 
 
 Camp Custer, No. 2, Mich, (colored) 
 
 Camp Devens, Mass. 
 
 Camp Dix, No. i, N. J. 
 
 Camp Dix, No. 2, N.J. (colored) 
 
 Camp Dodge, No. i, Iowa 
 
 Camp Dodge, No. 2, Iowa (colored) 
 
 Camp Funston, No. i, Kansas 
 
 Camp Funston, No. 2, Kansas (colored) 
 
 Camp Funston, Kansas (detention) 
 
 Camp Gordon, No. i, Ga. 
 
 Camp Gordon, No. 2, Ga. (colored) 
 
 Camp Gordon Remount Sta., Ga. 
 
 Camp Grant, No. i. 111. 
 
 Camp Grant, No. 2, 111. (colored) 
 
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Camp Jackson, No. i, S. C. 
 
 Camp Jackson, No. 2, S. C. (colored) 
 
 Camp Las Casas, No. i, Porto Rico 
 
 Camp Las Casas, No. 2, Porto Rico (colored) 
 
 Camp Lee, No. i, Va. 
 
 Camp Lee, No. 2, Va. (replacement camp) 
 
 Camp Lee, No. 3, Va. (colored) 
 
 Camp Lewis, Wash. 
 
 Camp Meade, No. i, Md. 
 
 Camp Meade, No. 2, Md. (colored) 
 
 Camp Pike, Ark. 
 
 Camp Sherman, Ohio (colored) 
 
 Camp Taylor, No. i, Ky. 
 
 Camp Taylor, No. 2, Ky. (colored) 
 
 Camp Travis, No. i, Texas 
 
 Camp Travis, No. 2, Texas (colored) 
 
 Camp Travis, Texas (detention camp) 
 
 Camp Upton, No. i, L. I., N. Y. 
 
 Camp Upton, No. 2, L. I., N. Y. 
 
 Camp Upton, No. 3, L. I.. N. Y. (colored) 
 
 IN CITY FOR NEARBY CAMPS 
 
 Boston, Mass., (48 Boylston St.) 
 
 Brooklyn, New York (245 Carlton Ave.) 
 
 Fort Williams 
 
 Fort McKinley, Portland, Maine 
 
 Fort Preble 
 
 Fort Hamilton, New York 
 
 Hoboken, N. J. (Port of Embarkation) 
 
 New London, Conn. 
 
 New York City, 30 E. 52nd St., (Debarkation) 
 
 New York City, 375 Lexington Ave. (Debarkation) 
 
 Portland, Me., Dock (Debarkation) 
 
 Port Townsend, Wash. 
 
 Saunderstowii, R. I. 
 
 MARINE 
 
 Marine Barracks, Quantico, Va. 
 Marine Barracks, V^ancouver, Wash. 
 Parris Island, 5. C. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS 
 
 Camp Alexander. \"a. (Embarkation) (colored) 
 
 Army Reserve Depot, South Schenectady, N. Y. (Remount) 
 
 Camp Crane, Penn. (Medical) 
 
 Camp Eustis, Va. (Artiller\) 
 
 Fort Benjamin, Harrison, Ind. (General Hospital No. 25) 
 
 Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. (Medical) 
 
 Fort Riley, Kans. (Medical) 
 
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Fort Shafter, T. H., Hawaiian Islands 
 
 Camp Hill, Va. (Embarkation) 
 
 Camp Humphreys, Va. (Engineer) 
 
 Camp Johnston, Fla. (Quartermaster) 
 
 Camp Merritt, No. i, N. J. (Embarkation) 
 
 Camp Merritt, No. 2, N. J. (Debarkation) 
 
 Camp Mills, L. I., N. Y. (Embarkation) 
 
 Plattsburg Barracks, N. Y. (Reserve Officers' Training Corps — Later 
 
 Genl. Hosp.) 
 Camp Polk, N. C. (Artillery) 
 Raritan Arsenal, N. J. (Ordnance) 
 Schofield Barracks, Castner, T. H., Hawaiian Islands 
 
 NAVAL BASES AND STATIONS 
 
 Navy Yard, Bremerton, Wash. 
 
 Naval Station, Main Sta., Great Lakes, 111. 
 
 Naval Station, Camp Dewe}^ Great Lakes, 111. 
 
 Naval Base, Hampton Roads, Va. 
 
 Naval Training Station, Newport R. I. 
 
 Naval Base, San Diego, Cal. 
 
 Receiving Ship of New York, Bay Ridge, N. Y. 
 
 RED CROSS HOSPITAL CENTERS 
 
 General Hospital No. 28. Fort Sheridan, 111. 
 General Hospital No. 19, Azalea, N. C. 
 
 RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS 
 
 Fort Niagara, New York 
 Madison Barracks, New York 
 Camp Stanley, Texas 
 
 STUDENT ARMY TRAINING CORPS 
 
 Syracuse. New York 
 University of Oregon, Corvallis, Ore. 
 University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. 
 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. 
 University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 
 Reserve Officers' Training Corps, Durham, N. H. 
 Princeton University, N. J. 
 Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y. 
 Training Detachment, Syracuse, N. Y. 
 Fort Sheridan, 111. (See Red Cross Hospital Centers) 
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WAR WORK COUNCIL 
 
 NATIONAL BOARD 
 YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS 
 
 Hostess House . . Expenditures 
 June 1917 .... Dec. 1,1919 
 
 Construction 2,883,849.71 
 
 Rent and Alterations .... 232,165.46 
 
 Equipment 532,438.59 
 
 Automobiles 46,408.19 
 
 Operation and Maintenance . . 741,097.95 
 
 TraveUl-KTS 38,227.61 
 
 Total . . . 4,474,187.51 
 
 Hostess Housr . Receipts 
 
 Salvage . 62,037.60 
 
 Net Cafeteria receipts .... 214,670.39 
 
 Total . . . 276,707.99 
 
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