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    "ocrText": "October 10, 1918.\nMiss Lettie Welch,\nMountain Division, A.R.C.,\nDenver, Colorado.\nMy dear Miss Welch:\nWe have every respect for the orders from Washington but\nwe understand them to serve as guides not hindrances to activities and consider\ntheir very elast city the secret of Red Cross efficiency.\nMiss Lewis's readiness to take refuge behind a rule made for\nfairly normal conditions and her willingness to wait twelve hours before\nconsulting you shows her a person lacking in eagerness to serve or an automatom\nunable to move alone and unfit for emergency work, for which the Red Cross stands\nabove all else.\nThe Pike's Peak Chapter also feels that its request for help\nis one to be considered without question and we cannot understand your unqualified\nendoresment of Mi SS Lewis' action without first consulting one of our officials.\nThe fact that you did not know of our predicament is an item not usually considered\nin emergency work. I might explain, however, that on Friday night, when two\nof our nurses were ill and unable to goon duty and after two appeals to Miss Lewis,\nwe tried to get you on the 'phone/and left the call in all night without no success.\nAs two boys dies during the night our acute need was obviated and I canceled the\ncall Saturday morning. As was obvious from the fact that my telegram of Saturday\nmorning did not reach you until Monday/ you left no address at the telegraph company.\nThe two nurses you sent us from Denver have been of great\nassistance and we are very grateful to you for your help.\nvery truly yours,\nMary L. Pastorius, Secretary.\nPike's Peak Chapter, A.R.C."
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