october1912

USS Martha Washington, a 12,700-ton troop transport, was originally the Austrian passenger steamer Martha Washington. Launched at Port Glasgow, Scotland in 1908, she was interned at Hoboken, New Jersey, after World War I began in August 1914. When the United States entered the conflict in April 1917, she was taken over by the Army Quartermaster Corps. The Navy acquired the ship in November 1917 and placed her in commission in January 1918. Martha Washington made her first transport voyage to France in February and during the remainder of the First World War crossed the Atlantic seven more times, bringing more than 24,000 personnel to Europe. With the Armistice in November, Martha Washington reversed the pattern, making seven trips over the next year to return nearly 20,000 passengers to America. In August 1919, she was sent into the Mediterranean and Black Seas to carry a U.S. mission to Turkey and Russia. During this three-month voyage, she also carried refugees from Batum, Russia, to Constantinople, Turkey. Martha Washington decommissioned in November 1919, shortly after her return to the U.S. from Turkey, and was sold back to her Austrian former owners in November 1922. Source: www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-m/id3019.htm

No mention of The USS Martha Washington taking passengers from Split Yugoslavia in steerage on May 6th 1914.....why?

Here is an article (10/6/1912 from NYTimes) that mentions that the passenger liner, Martha Washington, was carrying Greek reservists who had been summoned home by royal decree. query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D00E4D7113AE6...

Biography: nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1931/addams-b...

Former President Theodore Roosevelt was being treated in the hospital in Chicago after being shot in Milwaukee by John Schrank (of New York City) in a botched assassination attempt, October 1912. (Roosevelt, who had been in Milwaukee to deliver a campaign sppech, was a candidate for the Presidency that year, on the Progressive Party ticket.) Jane Addams of Chicago, a friend of TR's and an organizer of the Progressive Party, visited the convalescing ex-President in the hospital. Other visitors: Mrs. McCormick, Mrs. Longworth: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2422668923/in/s... Here is the hospital building: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2422669169/in/s...

Thanks Wystan, that's good information.

Thanks Wystan, it is good information about the purpose of her visit to the hospital. We'll update the title for this photo the next time we update this record.

Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In a long, complex career, she was a pioneer settlement worker and founder of Hull House in Chicago, public philosopher (the first American woman in that role), sociologist, author, and leader in woman suffrage and world peace. She was the most prominent woman of the Progressive Era and helped turn the nation to issues of concern to mothers, such as the needs of children, public health and world peace. She emphasized that women have a special responsibility to clean up their communities and make them better places to live, arguing they needed the vote to be effective. Addams became a role model for middle-class women who volunteered to uplift their communities. She is increasingly being recognized as a member of the American pragmatist school of philosophy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Addams