{"id":871,"date":"1956-02-17T15:34:03","date_gmt":"1956-02-17T20:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/?p=871"},"modified":"2016-06-26T15:34:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T20:34:57","slug":"wayne-red-cross-1917-float-open-day-night-for-emergency-use-1917-parade-down-broad-st-anthony-wayne-theatre-wwi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/?p=871","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Red Cross: 1917 Float \u201cOpen Day & Night for Emergency Use\u201d 1917 parade down Broad St., Anthony Wayne Theatre, WWI"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"18_image01\"<\/a>Last week’s column of \u201cYour Town and My Town\u201d described Wayne’s participation in a tremendous Red Cross parade that took place in Philadelphia on June 22, 1917, as part of the \u201cwhirlwind campaign\u201d to raise three million dollars for American Red Cross work overseas. Illustrating the column was a picture of one of the Wayne floats used in the parade. A picture of the other float is shown with today’s column.<\/p>\n

According to the graphic description in \u201cThe Suburban\u201d of June 29, 1917, this second float illustrated the practical work of the Wayne First Aid room, the pioneer one to be established along the Main Line under Red cross auspices. This room was in the Headquarters at 105 West Lancaster avenue in the house that once stood on the site of the Anthony Wayne Theatre.<\/p>\n

A replica of the room was produced for the float shown above. The scene depicted is one that might have taken place following a \u201creckless joyride\u201d along Lancaster avenue. \u201cThe awful example\u201d of the consequences of such a ride is depicted by Mrs. Charles Beatty, who lies on the cot which is almost hidden in the picture by Red Cross nurse Mrs. F.B. Embick. She is helping \u201cDoctor\u201d Lloyd Roberts who is patching up the patient in various places. Standing at the side of the young victim’s cot is his \u201cbadly shaken up mother who fortunately seems to have escaped any other damage in the \u2018accident\u2019 \u201d, to quote from \u201cThe Suburban\u201d story. In this case the mother was Mrs. Robert Wilson.<\/p>\n

The picture was obviously taken in Wayne while the tableau for the float was in rehearsal, as is indicated by the large shade-trees and the hedge. The two small boys standing on the sidewalk have been identified by Miss Roberts as her nephews, William E. Roberts and J. Shipley Troth. It is interesting to note that Mr. Roberts, the \u201cdoctor,\u201d left within a short time to go to the U.S. Base Hospital in Nantes, France, where he served as a volunteer for some time.<\/p>\n

Marchers on foot from the Wayne Red Cross Branch could not have the honor of escorting their two floats along Broad street, since all floats were massed in a body in the first division of the parade. Said \u201cThe Suburban,\u201d \u201cBroad street never saw a more effective sight than the solid column of women in Red Cross uniforms. They extended four city blocks without a break\u2026 the effect upon the crowd was remarkable, there was no cheering, only generous applause\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were 3,000 earnest Red Cross women marching with but one idea, and that was to help raise the three million dollars Philadelphia owed the Red Cross Fund. Men turned thoughtfully and silently away as the last white rank passed\u2026 Many of these men stopped at the Red Cross booths and emptied their pockets into the glass bowl\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cAs \u2018The Parade,\u2019 it will be known for many a long year after this war is over, when women of the Wayne Branch shall look back with pride and satisfaction to the part they took in the Great War for Country and for the Red Cross.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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