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place; they would do things that nobody else would do. Although at the first they just seemed to drive generals, high officers and foreign visitors around, when the flu epidemic came in 1918, by George, those girls saved our lives, in spite of their smart uniforms and their snappy way of saluting every time they came in to say they'd carry a package to the Red Cross, Governor's Island or some other place. They'd always salute - even if they only came for a box. It was sort of funny, but in spite of all that when the flu came, they were the people who really did the job of going and getting the people who were stricken with the flu. It was a devastating epidemic and people died by the hundreds and couldn't even be buried. These were the girls who went into the tenements and the lodging houses, brought out the sick and took them to the hospitals in any kind of a rig that they could lay their hands on. They were the ones who also helped out the undertakers in carrying the bodies to the cemeteries, which was not any work that they had anticipated when they volunteered. They did anything and everything and were of great value. They were in this organization.

Every kind of an agency, self-appointed, was in this organization. The Lafayette made layettes for the babies born to soldiers who were overseas. They had a little sewing