r, ^o v^ i SO" AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS RELIEF C0MA1ITTEE REPORTS j\«rc* cT^-> -» American National Red Cross Relief Committee REPORTS >i' MAY, 1898 MARCH, 1899 1^3 L-cn,^*^ X. . "Cbe "Rnichcrbocfcet press, -new yo.ft iN EXCHANGS 9= CONTEXTS List of Officers . Report of Relief Committee Treasurer's Report ... Report of Yacht "Red Cross" . Woman's Committee ox Auxiliaries Supply Committee .... Special Work for Returned Soldiers Reports of Auxiliaries Map of Supplies Received from Auxiliarie Dr. Lesser's Report Camp Alger and Washington, D. C Fort McPherson, Ga. Jacksonville, Fla. . Camp Hobson. Ga. . Camp Thomas, Ga. . MoNTAUK Point Long Island City Relief Station- Miss Chanler's Porto i Rico Report Porto Rico ..... Map of Supplies Sent to Camps Supplies Received from Individuals. Firms, etc Contributions of Money . . . . • V I 8 lO 13 14 24 27 /adng 173 . -03 2 10 2 12 . 216 ■ 219 • --5 • -54 . 262 . 268 facing 278 . 279 -90 AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS RELIEF COMMITTEE Chairman Vice-Chairman Vice-Chaikman, Secretary . Treasurer . Assistant Treasurer OFFICERS Rt. Rev. HENRY C. POTTER, D.D. ALEXANDER E. ORR WILLIAM T. WARDWELL JOHN P. FAURE FREDERICK D. TAPPEN SAMUEL WOOLVERTON LL.D. MEMBERS Dr. Felix Adler Bishop Edward G. Andrews Stephen E. Barton August Belmont Joseph H. Choate William P. Clyde John D. Crimmins Chauncey M. Depew Cleveland H. Dodge John P. Faure Edwin Gould Clement A. Griscom, Jr. John S. Huyler Morris K. Jesup Edwin Langdon Dr. A. M. Lesser William G. Low Rev. Sylvester Malone J. PiERPONT Morgan Levi P. Morton Alexander E. Orr Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter, D.D., LL.D. Percy R. Pyne Douglas Robinson John D. Rockefeller Archibald D. Russell F. Augustus Schermerhorn Jacob A. Schiff GusTAv H. Schwab Charles Stewart Smith Dr. George F. Siirady James Speyer William R. Stewart A. S. Solomons Frederick D. Tappen Howard Townsend Dr. T. Gaillard Thomas William T. Wardwell EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE William T. Wardwell, Chairman Cleveland H. Dodge William G. Low- Alexander E. Orr Douglas Robinson Dr. George F. Shrady Frederick D. Tappen John P. Faure, Secretary Dr. a. M. Lesser Levi P. Morton Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter, D.D., LL.D. GusTAv H. Schwab A. S. Solomons Howard Townsend FINANCE COMMITTEE J. PIERPONT MORGAN, Chairman Frederick D. TappeiN, Vice-Chairman August Belmont James Speyer Gustav H. Schwab Edwin Langdon Levi P. Morton SUPPLY COMMITTEE Cleveland H. Dodge, Chairman Helen Fidelia Hoffman, Secretary Mrs. W. S. CowLES Dr. George F. Shrady Mrs. John L. Gardiner A. S. Solomons Percy R. Pyne Howard Townsend And the Presidents of the Auxiliary Committees, ex officio. WOMAN'S COMMITTEE ON AUXILIARIES Mrs. John Lyon Gardiner, Chairman. Mrs. Paul Dana, Secretary. Miss Martha Lincoln Draper, Treasurer. Mrs. Butler Duncan Mrs. W. S. Cowles Mrs. James W. Gerard Mrs. Winthrop Cowdin Mrs. Bettina Hofker-Lesser Mrs. Levi P. Morton IVfrs. J. PiERPONT Morgan Mrs. Henry C. Potter Dr. Lucy Hall Brown Mrs. G. F. Shrady REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE In response to a very generally expressed request, the officials con- nected with and representative of the various departments of work done under the name or banner of the Red Cross during the year 1898, have undertaken to prepare a record or history of the work so done. The work of the Supply Committee and of the various auxiliaries was naturally most prominently before the public, and yet the value of the records and a consecutive history of the various steps by which the first impulses or conceptions of the work grew into a systematized force, are deemed worthy of a place in the history described, and to this end a sketch from the standpoint of the Secretary's records is compiled. Pursuant to the thought contained in the preceding sentence, it is re- corded that at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the New York Red Cross Hospital, held at the residence of Dr. A. M. Lesser, 19 East 6ist Street, on the evening of April 23d, 189S, the following entry appears on the Minutes : " After discussion on the emergent conditions confronting the country, owing to the war with Spain, the following action was taken, on motion of Dr. Lesser, seconded by Mr. Faure : ^^ Resolved : That the President, Vice-President, Executive Surgeon, Sister-in-Chief, and Trustee John P. Faure, with Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer and Mrs. Coralie S. Gardiner be, and they hereby are, ap- pointed a Committee to have charge of all matters relating to the present emergencies growing out of the existing war with Spain. Carried.'' At the ensuing meeting of the same Board, held on April 24th, the Minutes record as follows : "The President presented the following draft of statement to be used in carrying into effect the purposes set forth in the resolution adopted at the meeting held the 23d of April, in relation to the existing emergency growing out of the war with Spain, which was unanimously approved and adopted : " * The New York Red Cross Hospital having been designated by Miss Clara Barton, President of the American National Red Cross, as the central organization to provide physicians, surgeons, nurses, and such material as may be needed in field hospital service wherever required by the Government authorities, and to receive subscriptions of money that may be tendered for such necessary material in case of war ; now, there- fore, in accordance with such selection and in order to combine and make effectual the enthusiasm and desire for helpfulness of the great body of the people of this nation, and in order that the people may have entire confidence that the money collected shall be faithfully used for field hospital service in case of war, the following gentlemen have consented to act as a Finance Committee to have entire charge of the use of such funds, and with power to appoint auxiliary committees of ladies in New York, and to invite the co-operation of similar committees in other states and cities of the nation.' " The President of the Hospital, Mr. Wm. T. Wardwell, was authorized to select fifteen gentlemen under the resolution above described, and the first meeting for organization of such Committee was held at the Man- hattan Hotel, corner Madison Avenue and Forty-second Street, on Tuesday, May 3d, at 4.30 p.m., " For the purpose of organization, the ap- pointment of committees, and the outlining and adoption of measures necessary to carry on the work of the Committee." The following nine persons were present at such meeting : Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter, D.D., LL.D., Bishop of New York ; Messrs. Alexander E. Orr, William T. Wardwell, John P. Faure, Morris K. Jesup, A. S. Solomons, John S. Huyler, Dr. George F. Shrady, Dr. A. M. Lesser. " On motion of Mr. Morris K. Jesup, Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter, D.D., LL.D., and Mr. Faure were elected respectively as temporary Chairman and temporary Secretary of the meeting. Messrs. Wardwell and Jesup, and Dr. Shrady were appointed a Committee to nominate permanent officers. " The first recommendation of this Committee was that the size of the Committee be increased to twenty-five, and they nominated the following ten persons, who were promptly and unanimously elected : " Hon. Levi P. Morton, Hon. Wm. R. Stewart, Messrs. Jacob H. Schiff, Charles Stewart Smith, D. Willis James, William G. Low, Edwin Gould, John S. Kennedy, Bishop Edward G. Andrews, Rev. Sylvester Malone, of St. Peter's Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. " In the further discharge of their duties, the Committee recommended the following officers : " Chairman, Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter, D.D., LL.D.; Vice-Chairman, Alexander E. Orr ; Secretary, John P. Faure ; Treasurer, Frederick D. Tappen. " It was then moved and seconded that a second Vice-Chairmanship be created, which motion was adopted, and Mr. William T. Wardwell was nominated to fill such position, after which the officers above nominated were unanimously elected. " The creation of an Executive Committee of five, to be appointed by the Chair was unanimously carried, and the Chair appointed such Committee as follows : " Mr. William T. Wardwell, Dr. George F, Shrady, Mr. A. S. Solomons, Dr. A. M. Lesser, Mr. John P. Faure. "The title of 'AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS RELIEF COMMITTEE' was unanimously adopted as the name or title of the Committee thus organized. " The Secretary reported that Mr. Edwin Langdon, President of the Central National Bank, No. 320 Broadway, had tendered the use of a room in that building for the business office of the Committee, which offer was accepted with thanks." The foregoing briefly covers the successive steps which brought into organized existence this Committee, whose labors were destined to become so important a factor in one phase of the brief conflict known as " The War with Spain." With the motto of ^' place aux dames " before him, the Secretary feels bound to record that the first important step taken by this Committee was the appointment of the "Woman's Committee on Auxiliaries" by the adoption of the following resolution, and the appointment of the follow- ing Committee under its provisions : " Resolved : That Mrs. J. Lyon Gardiner, Mrs. George F. Shrady, Mrs. Bettina Hofker-Lesser, Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Levi P. Morton, Mrs. Paul Dana, Mrs. James W. Gerard, Mrs. Henry C. Potter, and Mrs. Butler Duncan be appointed a Committee charged with the duty of organizing Auxiliary Committees of Women throughout the United States, to assist in Red Cross work, under the direction of this Committee, with the request that they shall keep this Committee advised of their actions. ""Resolved : That in the judgment of the Executive Committee, the efforts of the Woman's Auxiliary Committees should be directed to the collecting of money, to be used in any form of Red Cross work that may be necessary in field or hospital service, and the money so collected should be deposited with the Treasurer of the General Committee, Mr. Frederick D. Tappen, President Gallatin National Bank, New York City. " Resolved : Should, however, any Auxiliary Committees desire to raise a fund for special purposes, such as an ambulance corps or special hospital material, the funds so raised should be deposited with the Treasurer of the General Committee, to be so specially used whenever they may be required ; but should no emergency arise requiring the use of the funds for such special purpose, they may be applied to any Red Cross work decided to be most important, with the consent of the Auxiliary- Committee collecting them." The magnificent character and extent of the work of this Committee, and the superb list of Auxiliaries that grew from this germ are dealt with in a report of that work prepared by other hands, but the Secretary's data would be glaringly incomplete without early recognition in his report of this, which may safely be described as the most important and productive single act taken by the Committee during its entire existence. It is not the purpose of this report to pretend to deal with or describe the daily routine of the Secretary's office, and yet "Room 312, Central National Bank Building, No. 320 Broadway," rapidly became the centre, not only of much earnest thought and active work, but became the scene of many phases of not only Metropolitan, but National life, with its best impulses stirred to do something for the relief and benefit of those who were upholding the flag both on land and sea. One of the first formal steps taken by the Executive Committee, duly approved by the American National Red Cross Relief Committee, was the preparation and issue of an Appeal, many thousands of which were mailed to carefully selected lists of names, and many and various were the sources from which lists were selected — sub-divisions of the business directory, social register, co-partnership lists, club lists, etc., were scanned, and thousands upon thousands of Appeals fluttered out from busy hands in this office. A skilled and competent office staff was selected, carefully studied books for record of contributions were prepared, press copy books for duplicate record of every contribution were kept, and daily deposits were made with the Treasurer of funds that flowed into the Secretary's office in sums that varied as much in their amounts as they did in their sources. It was a delightful study of human nature to note the kaleidoscopic scope of this variety. Side by side with a check for thousands of dollars from a great banking house would come a grimy envelope with a few cents in postage stamps from some humble worker in a sweat shop on the East Side. The next mail would include the proceeds of an amateur musical or theatrical entertainment at a seaside or mountain resort, rendered and patronized by representatives of the social world ; the next envelope would contain a few cents, representing the proceeds of a " Lemonade Sale " by gamins, conducted on the sidewalk of a hot street in a crowded portion of the city, to be followed by a check in four figures from some great organization like Auxiliary No. 17, the First Pennsylvania Auxiliary of Pittsburg, whose wonderful organization brought and held together the best social, religious and financial impulses of that good city ; and then would come a letter from " some colored ladies of Kansas City, Kansas," with a modest contribution, and offer of whatever work might be given them to do. Many Americans summering abroad sent contributions to the Committee, either directly or through their attorneys. These few instances will indicate the great oneness of thought at many points, which showed how clearly the work of this Committee had touched a popular and national chord in the hearts of the people. Correspondence containing detailed questions from would-be helpers in all parts of the country was daily received and promptly forwarded to the Auxiliaries best fitted to reply to the inquiries. Daily calls were made for many weeks by the ubiquitous and never tiring representatives of the metropolitan press, all eager for the latest bit of " Red Cross news." Great were the demands on the patience of the Secretary and his assistants in giving important items to successive press representatives, and at times their importunities for news when there was none, sorely taxed the office, in order to seemingly satisfy the insistence of the reporter that '* Something must be printed." It is but fair to say, however, that very much of the promptitude and volume of the response to the Committee's Appeals was due to the fulness and interest with which the cause was represented by the press, and no history of the Secretarial Department of this work would be fairly or justly made without such acknowledgment. After the work in the Secretary's office had become thoroughly organ- ized, there was much of routine and sameness to the daily receipt of contributions, their delivery to the Treasurer, and the forwarding of a numbered receipt to each donor accompanied with a letter of thanks. All was not routine in the office, however, for it soon became a favorite camping ground by turns of the crank, the would-be vender of novelties for office work, and representatives of schemes for a division of spoils. The scope of these conceptions seemed never ending. The proprietor of a bicycle track, who wanted to organize a week's tournament, who sketched the number of thousands who would daily attend, and who presented glowing figures of the large percentage that the Red Cross would get and the small percentage that the proprietor wanted ; the advance agent of the soprano or contralto (as the case might be) singer, who proposed to delight temporary residents of the Atlantic Coast seaside resorts, and who wished to state in her advance circulars that such and such a percentage would be devoted to Red Cross work ; the elocu- tionists, the self-described poets, the baseball managers, the summer garden proprietors, et al., who wished to give performances with a ten per cent, rebate to the Red Cross, followed each other in rapid and maddening succession, each bursting with zeal, each most emphatic that his or her scheme would be the great source of the Committee's income. Each one had to be listened to with patience and quietly dismissed in the kindest manner possible, with the assurance by the Secretary of the Committee's great appreciation for the interest manifested, but also that " The Com- mittee was in receipt of such large direct contributions from the public, that it did not feel justified in lending its name to enterprises where but a percentage would find its way to the treasury." It is easy to read this descriptive sentence of one interview, but as it was multiplied many times and oft during the hot days of the summer, the Secretary feels sure of the sympathies of the reader. Oddness in style and manner of contributions was a most interesting feature of the Secretary's office, notably the quaint, quiet and unassuming little old couple who called and timidly asked " if this was the Red Cross office," and on receiving affirmative reply, quietly laid down a one thou- sand dollar bill and attempted to leave without giving their names ; but, upon being assured by the young ladies in charge of the office that such an act would constitute a gross violation of the Secretary's most rigid instructions, they finally, after a whispered consultation in a corner of the room, consented to leave the number of a post office box in a little village in New Jersey. One day in early June a letter was received, signed " Mary E. Ogden," asking if the writer would be permitted to make some collections in her home and vicinity, which was answered as follows : Mrs. Mary E. Ogden, New York, June loth, 1898. Care David B. Ogden, Esq., Tuxedo Park. N. Y. Dear Madam : Replying to your recent note, I write to say that I know of no objection to your raising money for the Red Cross Relief Committee, although it should be understood that the Committee has not as yet authorized or appointed any collectors, and yet we have been in receipt of money contributions raised through the instrumentalities of friends of the work. Thanking you for the interest manifested in your note, I am. Very sincerely yours, John P. Faure, Secretary. A prompt reply was received, with a gentleman's check for $396.00 from twenty-five different contributors, in a child's handwriting, the last page of which contained the following : In your letter you call me Mrs. Ogden. I am only a little girl of fourteen, called for short, Yours cordially, Polly Ogden. P. S. — I enclose a list of contributors. I hope to send more by and by. This was the beginning of a most interesting correspondence between the Secretary and his little friend " Polly," who wrote every few days, sending amounts varying from $10 to $150. '' Polly " proved an effective and interesting canvasser for contributions. This correspondence was one of the " rifts in the clouds " of the Secretary's duties. It is hardly within the province of the Secretary to deal with the magnificent volume of work done by the Executive Committee as such, and the various sub-Committees in which it divided itself as needs and interests made themselves imperatively felt, and yet this sketch would be incomplete without recording the efforts of the Finance Committee ; the active and zealous work of the Committee on Yacht, purchased and sent to Miss Barton for use in Cuban waters, in response to her special request to that end ; the all comprehensive Supply Committee, whose separate and complete report, while most complete in its detail, with rare modesty does no manner of justice to the patience, the labor, the skill, and the untiring devotion displayed by all of its members — the Secretary dares not mention names lest he would become invidious, but with a quarter of a century's experience in executive work behind him, he stoutly asserts that no more devoted or efficient work was ever done by a group of men and women than was witnessed at 552-554 Broadway during all of last summer. Professional work of the highest order was rendered by the Medical Advisory Board, especially through the work of the Sub-Com- mittee, whose report on Camp Wikoff is one of the most valued documents in the archives of the American National Red Cross Relief Committee. One special feature of the work undertaken by the Executive Committee should not be unrecorded here, viz.: The creation of a Special Com- mission, consisting of Messrs. F. Augustus Schermerhorn and Archibald D. Russell, who as representatives of this Committee visited and inspected the various camps throughout the Southern States at a time when some of the methods and practices, or, possibly, lack of them, were seriously agitating the minds and hearts of the American people. The carefully and conscientiously prepared, and evidently well digested report of this Commission, forms a most interesting feature of the records of the Committee. While, as stated at the outset, the Committee was first composed of fifteen, and then at its organizing meeting increased to twenty-five, — the conditions, necessities, and voluntary offers of work as needs were manifested, compelled from time to time, additions to the Committee. The final meeting of the Committee was held at the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce on February 20th, 1899, A resolution that the Committee pass out of existence upon the signing of the Treaty by the United States and Spain was unanimously adopted, and as such signing has taken place, the Committee feels that its functions have been accom- plished, and that its work justifiably passes into history. Respectfully submitted, John P, Faure, March 30th, 1899. Secretary REPORT OF TREASURER FREDERICK D. TAPPEN. March 17, 1899. on which date the committee was dissolved. Total cash received $320,344 12 " '' expended 301,430 08 *' " on hand (turned over to Treasurer of Trustees appointed by the Committee) 18,914 04 * Total cash received from Aux- iliaries $125,967 09 Total cash expended for Aux- iliaries 1 14,723 59 Total cash on hand from Auxiliaries 1 1,243 5^ * Of this amount $11,243.50 belongs to Special Auxil- iaries and $7,670.54 to the general fund of the Committee. In addition to this amount, the Trustees received from the Committee the yacht Red Cross, which has since been sold for the sum of $25,000. ANALYSIS OF EXPENDITURES AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS RELIEF COMMITTEE. Office expenses, etc $ 7, 1 43 15 Food supplies 46, 194 65 Hospital supplies 25,312 12 Medical supplies 12,907 07 Clothing and dry goods i»550 53 Miscellaneous supplies 17,719 46 Nurses i9'745 5i Ambulances and mules iO'55 1 1 1 Ice 31 ,909 90 Yacht Red Cross and maintenance 55.028 65 Cash to Gen'l Com. '^/c Camps 67,789 28 Laundry plant . , 1.230 10 Freight, express-charges — towing, transporta- tion, and teams 4.348 55 $301,430 08 10 THE YACHT "RED CROSS." The Committee having in charge the yacht Red Cross, submits the fol- lowing report : Soon after war was declared, our navy seized a number of steamers sailing under the Spanish flag, and took them as prizes to the port of Key West. Each one of these steamers was fully manned, and after their own supplies of provisions were exhausted the crews suffered for food and were threatened with starvation. No provision had been made for such an emergency, and no one had been authorized to make requisitions on the Government for needed supplies. In this crisis the Commandant of the Army at that port asked Miss Barton to furnish food to these crews until the Government could get its ration machinery in working order. This Miss Barton did from purchases and from the supplies on the State of Texas, then lying at Key West waiting for orders to go to Cuba. As these steamers lay at anchor it was necessary to have a small steam vessel to carry supplies to them, and as Miss Barton was dependent upon others for such service, she asked this Committee, through the National Red Cross, to furnish her a tug or yacht to be used as long as necessary at Key West, and afterwards to be taken to Cuba to assist in the discharge of the larger vessels and to carry supplies to other ports in Cuba where the water was shallow and the larger vessels could not enter. The Committee acceded to her request and appointed Messrs. Gustav H. Schwab and Wm. T. Wardwell a committee with power to purchase a suitable steamer for this purpose, to fit it for sea, and turn over the use of it to the National Red Cross. After some delay, caused largely by the fact that the Government had secured all the most desirable small steam craft in this port, The Admiral was offered to the Committee by the owners at Providence, Rhode Island, for $40,000. After it had been examined by an agent of the National Red Cross and approved, an expert was sent by the committee to Provi- dence, who made a careful examination, including a trial at sea, which proved entirely satisfactory and the yacht was accepted, the price having been reduced to $37,500. The yacht sailed from Providence, June 21st, and arrived in this port, June 23d. After being prepared for sea and loaded with about twenty tons of medicine and appliances, including delicacies for the sick soldiers at Santiago, it sailed from this port June 29th, arriving at Key West, July II loth. Damage to the machinery caused delay at Key West, and not until July i6th did the yacht sail for Santiago. Shortly after leaving Key- West it ran into a severe gale, which so disabled it that it was compelled to return to Key West. A survey was directed to be made there which showed considerable damage, so much so that, in the judgment of the Committee, it was considered unwise to send it again to Santiago, as repairs could not be made there, and the committee was advised that yellow fever had broken out and it would be dangerous to send a crew not immune to Cuba. The Committee therefore consented to the discharge of the cargo and its re-shipment by a Government transport, and the yacht was ordered to return to New York as soon as possible. On its ar- rival the crew was discharged at once and the yacht taken out of commission. Your committee deeply regretted the necessity of this action, as it had hoped the yacht might be able, not only to render valu- able service in relieving suffering in Cuba, but would give comfort to Miss Barton and her staff, and honor and dignity to the Red Cross. Shortly after its return. Dr. Doty, the Health Officer of this port, said to the Committee that he had been urging the Government to remove the sick soldiers from Camp Wikoff to hospitals in New York and elsewhere, as he feared typhoid fever might become epidemic as it had in some of the southern camps. The Government declined to remove them, on the ground that it had no transports available for this purpose. The State also had none, and Dr. Doty asked this Committee to help him, if it possibly could do so. The Committee offered him the yacht Red Cross, which was accepted. It was at once prepared for service, beds for the sick increased to fifteen, and such supplies and delicacies provided as the physician in charge advised were necessary for the comfort and safety of the sick sol- diers. Two volunteer nurses and a physician furnished by the Govern- ment were always in attendance, and we are sure that everything that sympathy and gentleness could suggest for the care of the sick was done. The yacht carried from Camp Wikoff to hospitals in New Haven, New London, Newport, New York, and other places, 449 sick soldiers, and about 60 relatives, mothers, sisters or friends who were unwilling to leave the sick without their care. Therefore the last state of the yacht was better than the first, for your Committee is assured that it has rendered incalculable service, and has been instrumental in relieving suffering and in saving many lives, a service which more than compensates for all the outlay for purchase and cost of keeping it in commission. The success attending the removal of the sick by the yacht Red Cross induced the Government to follow its example, and with its larger trans- ports hundreds were brought from Camp Wikoff to the hospitals of New York and Brooklyn. 12 The work of the yacht is over ; its crew has been discharged ; some needed repairs are now being made, and it has, by direction of your Com- mittee, been offered for sale. The proceeds of such sale, when made, will be handed to the Treasurer to be added to the general fund of the Committee in his hands. The whole amount of the cost for purchase and expenses of the yacht to date, are as follows : Cost of yacht $37)5oo oo Insurance, including war risk 4,200 00 Outfit, including repairs to launch and yacht, provisions and supplies 5,622 22 Running expenses, including wages of crew, etc 6,677 7^ $54,000 00 Respectfully submitted, December, 1898. WM. T. WARDWELL, GUSTAV H. SCHWAB, Co7nmittee^ N, B. — Since the above report was written the yacht Red Cross has been sold for $25,000, and the proceeds deposited with Mr. F. D. Tappen, Treasurer. 13 WOMAN'S COMMITTEE ON AUXILIARIES. Mrs. John Lyon Gardiner, Chairman Mrs. Paul Dana, Secretary Miss Martha Lincoln Draper, Treasurer Mrs. Butler Duncan Mrs. W. S. Cowles Mrs. James W. Gerard Mrs. Winthrop Cowdin Mrs. Bettina-Hofker Lesser Mrs. Levi P. Morton Mrs. J. PiERPONT Morgan Mrs. Henry C. Potter Dr. Lucy Hall Brown Mrs. G. F. Shrady By a resolution of the Executive Committee, the above ladies were appointed a Woman's Committee on Auxiliaries, charged with the duty of organizing Auxiliary Committees throughout the United States, to assist in Red Cross work. This Committee met for the first time on May 12th, and it was decided to interest, by personal effort and correspondence, the people of the country in serving the sick and wounded soldiers and sailors during the war, without regard to nationality, in accordance with the rules of the Conference of Geneva. While the chief object of the Auxiliaries was to collect money to be used in any form of Red Cross work found to be necessary in field or hospital service, each Auxiliary was given the right to raise money for special purposes, which it might designate, or to furnish supplies made or bought by its own individual efforts. Thus, one Auxiliary, No. i, undertook to supply all the Ambulances required. Auxiliary No. 3, the expenses of the Trained Nurses sent into the field or camp. Auxiliary No. 5 provided fully equipped cots. Auxiliary No. 6, Medical and Surgical Supplies. No. 10 furnished Ice in the camps and hospitals, and sent several schooner-loads of Ice to Cuba. Each Auxiliary organized with a Chairman, Treasurer and Secretary, and was in constant communication with the Woman's Committee on Auxiliaries and the Committee on Supplies, receiving instructions as to what was most needed, and forwarding such articles regularly to the Supply Depot, 552 Broadway. From its inaugural meeting on May 12th, until the present date, the Woman's Committee has authorized the organization of ninety-two Auxiliaries, many of these with numerous sub-Auxiliaries, No. 17 (Pitts- burgh), having over seventy, thus spreading the work throughout the country from Maine to the Rocky Mountains, the Western limit of the work of the Relief Committee. Mary D. Butler Dana, Secretary. 14 THE SUPPLY COMMITTEE. After the plan of Auxiliaries had been definitely decided upon, it became necessary to open a receiving depot to which all supplies might be sent. A Committee was formed by the " Executive " to regulate and dis- tribute the articles furnished by the Auxiliaries, and the Red Cross Supply Depot, Nos. 552 and 554 Broadway, opened with a meeting of this Committee, on June 22, 1898. Two floors of this building were put at the disposal of the Society through the generosity of Mr. John Jacob Astor, and were occupied free of rent until the 15th of October. There all requisitions were received and filled, and the Committee appointed responsible persons to purchase all necessary supplies not furnished by the Auxiliaries. The Committee was empowered to draw on the funds donated by private individuals and business firms from all over the country, which had been placed in the hands of the Treasurer, Mr. Frederick D. Tappen. Nearly three hundred thousand dollars were spent on requisitions which came in from every camp and hospital in the United States, as well as from Cuba and Porto Rico ; and it is not recorded that one was ever left unfilled. Everything, from a tent to a tooth-brush, an ambulance or a cake of soap was furnished promptly on demand. If there was delay in the delivery of some of these articles, it was due to the congested condi- tion of freight, and the difficulty of landing and transporting goods on the Cuban coast. When the yacht J^ed Cross, which had been purchased by the American National Red Cross Relief Committee, left her pier on June 29th for Cuba, she was freighted with everything that might conduce to the comfort and welfare of our men at the front. Medical and surgical supplies, delicacies for the sick, groceries, clothing and blankets were stowed away in her hold, also a Roentgen Ray apparatus, which a medical student volunteered to accompany and keep in order. Certain members of the Red Cross Relief Committee helped to pack away the stores, and as the yacht steamed away, after several postponements of her date of departure, a feeling of thankfulness filled the hearts of those who knew there would be desperate need for her cargo before she could possibly reach her destination. The Auxiliaries were now hard at work in their several fields of labor, 15 and by the first week of July, the Ice Plant Auxiliary had sent its first schooner laden with ice from Maine to Clara Barton at Santiago. Meanwhile, the work went on at the Supply Depot in Broadway. Mr. Cleveland H. Dodge and Miss Helen Fidelia Hoffman were in charge, while Mr. A. S. Solomons, Mr. Howard Townsend, Mr. Percy R. Pyne and Mr. Douglas Robinson relieved each other in carrying out the many business details connected with the enterprise, and Mr. Frank C. Gar- many rendered invaluable service as purchasing agent for the Committee. In the windows, an ambulance and stretcher with a cot and Red Cross flags, attracted the attention of the passers-by to the work which was being done within, and an eager crowd of spectators stood from morning until night, peering into the depths of the great room and watching the ceaseless activity of workers engaged in packing cases and sorting supplies. It was noticeable that no disorderly conduct, pushing, or bad language ever inconvenienced those who were obliged to go through these gatherings on their various errands for the Committee. From June 20th to September 30th the activity in the Supply Rooms never ceased. The building was open by eight o'clock in the morning, but there were days when the packing began soon after sunrise. So eager were the employees to send off every requisition by the earliest transport that they willingly remained at their work until midnight, or returned at five in the morning to complete the packing of the cases, while the express men often lent a hand to expedite matters. Each case or package received at the depot was immediately acknow- ledged by the Secretary to the Auxiliary or individual who had sent it. It was then unpacked and each article carefully listed by the receiving clerk. After this the volunteer workers took possession of the contents, marking every piece with the stamp of the Am. Nat. Red Cross, and placing everything of one kind by itself, first tying them in dozens, and, as far as possible, in articles of clothing, designating sizes. The walls were lined with large packing cases which were filled to overflowing with sheets, pillow cases, towels, handkerchiefs, surgical squares, night shirts, pajamas and underwear. Besides these, every sort of toilet article and small furnishing, stationery, patent medicines and embrocations, were stored away in boxes on the long tables in the centre of the great room. Indeed, every necessity of humanity was gathered together under the roof of 552 Broadway. The call for abdominal bands had lately been heard in the land, and probably no larger collection of this article was ever gathered together in one place before, — of every shape, size and pattern — and varying from red and gray to white and blue. They probably fulfilled a similar mission to the " Havelock " in the War of the Rebellion, which was used chiefly i6 to clean rifles, or for any purpose other than the one it was intended. The Auxiliaries had made so many of these bands, that by September ist they had filled every corner of the Supply Depot, and the packers groaned aloud as case after case was received, and yet, at the time the work ended, there was not a band to be found — every one had been shipped to fill requisitions. One case of these, which came from the far West, was quite unique. On every band a note was attached — in every note was found a friend, anxious to hear from her distant soldier. These bands were sent on with their sentimental missives, and if they caused as much amusement in the Camp as they did at the Supply Depot, they were not written in vain. One section of the floor space was given up to tonics and groceries, another to the equipped cots, while the centre of the room was devoted to the packing and unpacking of cases, and the storage of dry-goods. The un- packing of the cases containing jellies and miscellaneous provisions (the jars of the former often cracked and leaking) was the daily task of many of the women who offered their time and services to the Committee. From nine until five or six o'clock, these women worked untiringly through the great heat of July and August, and the sultry days of Septem- ber. Young and old, rich and poor, worked together in this common cause, and those who were paid for their time gave of it in such good measure that no word of complaint was overheard when they were obliged to work after hours in order to have cases ready for special transportation. The work of packing and shipping the cots was unremitting, and three or four men were employed all summer to attend to this exclusively. Each cot, which was so constructed as to fold together like a tent, con- tained the following equipment : a pillow, 2 blankets (i very heavy pair to lie upon), 3 cotton sheets, 2 pillow-cases, 3 towels, i pair pajamas^ I night-shirt, i rubber sheet, and a mosquito netting. They were all rolled compactly together, wrapped in thick, brown paper, and securely tied with strong twine. Every cot was marked in distinct black letters to- whom consigned, with destination and name of transport by which it was to be sent. These were furnished by Auxiliary No. 5, and were known as the " Metcalf-Bliss Cots," taking their name from the President of the Auxiliary, Mrs. W. Metcalf-Bliss. More than 3500 of these cots were supplied on different requisitions, at a cost of about $20,000. When a requisition was received, it was at once handed to one of the ladies who looked over the stock, and if the required articles were not on hand, an order was immediately given for their purchase and they were shipped directly from the stores, or sent to 552 Broadway, where they were packed and shipped to their destination. ^7 The boxes were all carefully lined with tar paper, and a list of the articles contained in them neatly printed on the outside. The cases received at the Supply Depot were not always so carefully packed,, especially those containing miscellaneous groceries. Tea and tobacco,, sugar and cereals were often found hopelessly conglomerated and could only be thrown away and counted as a total loss. The Red Cross must have created a corner in pajamas, for by the end of July there were days when none of the big stores could furnish a single suit of these commodities. Auxiliary 17, of Pittsburgh, became a very present help at these times of shortage — a sort of Aladdin's lamp which, when rubbed ever so gently, was sure to furnish what was needed im- mediately. Pajamas and suits of underwear came from there by the thou- sand, and everything always of the best. The Red Cross derived material benefit from their prompt and active co-operation at all times and in every emergency. More than five hundred requisitions were received during the summer and autumn, and as the majority of these called for supplies by the hundreds and even thousands, some idea may be gained of the magnitude of the work involved in selecting the goods and packing the cases. A requisition for the Leiter Hospital for groceries and delicacies for the sick was filled in one morning at a cost of two thousand dollars. Wines, cordials, and cereals of the best brands were sent, and money was for- warded to the Red Cross Agents at the different camps to purchase milk, eggs, and ice. Chickamauga, Jacksonville, Tampa, Fort Meyer, and other camps were kept constantly supplied. People were continually calling at the rooms to inquire what they could do and how they might best be of service. Numerous offers were made to organize entertainments, and a great deal of money was raised in this way. Every place of resort during the summer had its sewing circle which contributed its work to some Auxiliary. This interest and desire to do something helpful for the cause pervaded the entire community. To keep themselves in touch with the outlying branches, a meeting of representatives from the different Auxiliaries was held every Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock at 552 Broadway, which kept the Committee in- formed as to the articles each Auxiliary would furnish and in turn give it the opportunity of stating the immediate requirements. Each represen- tative pledged the Auxiliary to which she belonged to meet certain demands during the coming week, and in this way the duplication of supplies was prevented and many mistakes avoided. Auxiliaries Nos. i, 3, and 10 were formed for special work which could not be carried on through the Supply Depot, except as the transactions of each were re- ported and approved at these meetings. On the 17th of July, Surgeon-General Sternberg was in New York where he had come to meet the hospital ship Olivette^ on its first journey north with a load of wounded from Santiago. Some misunderstand- ings had arisen between the Government and the American National Red Cross Relief Committee, and as it was deemed especially advisable that an entente cordiale should be established between them as early as possible in the campaign, the Surgeon-General was asked to meet certain repre- sentatives of those Auxiliaries whose work brought them in direct com- munication with the army, A small, informal meeting was held at the residence of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, where Mrs. Reid, Mrs. Winthrop Cowdin and Mrs. Douglas Robinson of Auxiliary No. 3 for Trained Nurses, Miss Hoffman, Mr. Cleveland H. Dodge, and Mr. Douglas Robin- son of the Supply Committee were able to set forth the object and aim of the organization, and to convince the General that its only desire was to further the interests of the Government, to co-operate with him, and to supplement his efforts with its money and supplies. It was at this meet- ing that the Supply Committee was asked to furnish the Leiter Hospital at Chickamauga with a full provision of groceries and delicacies for the sick, and in response to a suggestion from General Sternberg, to send also ice-cream and eggs for the yellow fever patients at Siboney. A second hospital ship, the Missouri, was to be fitted out and the Supply Committee offered to assume various details of the equipment. Auxiliary No. 10 was to furnish an ice plant and refrigerating apparatus, and Auxiliary No. i the electric fans, the steam launch, carbonating and sterilizing plants, tele- phone system, etc. Auxiliary No. 19 supplied the laundry plant. The Supply Committee was to provide pajamas, underwear, socks, towels, slippers, etc., in large quantities, and in fact anything that Major Arthur, Surgeon-in-charge, chose to name. Soon after this meeting. General Sternberg wrote asking for $5,000 to be distributed among the army surgeons at the various camps to purchase, at their discretion, whatever was needed for the sick and wounded. This amount was immediately forwarded to the General and distributed by him to the surgeons. After the battle of San Juan the activity at the Red Cross rooms materially increased and it was a red letter day when the bales of supplies were made up for the Rough Riders. Letters had been received by friends of some of the officers telling of their dire need of underclothing, medical supplies, and tobacco, and ending with this appeal : " Could you send us some tooth powder and brushes, some soap, and a little tea?" It will be remembered that when they were ordered to advance they aban- doned their knapsacks and blankets by the roadside in order to facilitate their march, and that these were afterwards found and appropriated by 19 the Cubans for their own use. The private letters referred to were the only requisition for these particular supplies, but they were packed with a velocity and a good will that had no precedent. It is needless to say that they got all they asked for, and a great deal more besides. The bales were sewed up in burlap that they might be more easily carried on the backs of mules, the only means of transportation from the Cuban coast to the hill country back of Santiago, where the Rough Riders were encamped. Another memorable day in the annals of the Supply Committee was that on which Miss Jennings visited the rooms in Broadway. She had come north on the transport Seneca and it was the morning of her release from quarantine on Ellis Island, where all on board the fever- ridden ship were held, because of the report that yellow fever had broken out among the soldiers. The Supply Committee was in readi- ness to send every necessity and comfort to those poor sufferers and was able to help them even while they were confined at quarantine. The condition of the Seneca and the horrors of her voyage from Santiago are too well known to require repetition here, but when Miss Jennings was induced to relate her experience to those who were at work at the Supply rooms, business was suspended and she was immedi- ately surrounded by an eager group of listeners. No one who heard her tell the story can ever forget it. Alone, and almost single-handed she fought with disease and ministered to the wounded, without surgical instruments or proper food for the sick, with only two physicians, one of whom was ill most of the voyage, she still worked faithfully doing her best to save life and keep the men from starving. It was only through her forethought that the few medical supplies they had were obtained. Just as the ship was about to leave Santiago she saw how utterly unprepared they were, and insisted on being lowered into a small boat in order to get to the hospital ship Relief then anchored in the bay, and from them she procured a few trifling additions to the scanty stock on the Setieca. Surely those who were saved by her faithful care from perishing on this dreadful voyage, must ever hold her name in grateful remembrance. The Red Cross followed up the men as they were distributed in the different hospitals, and if they lacked for anything after this, it was not the fault of the Supply Committee. The nurses of Auxiliary No. 3 often sent requisitions to the Com- mittee asking it to supplement the army supplies which fell so far short of what was needed for the sick and wounded. The conditions in the hospitals at Chickamauga, Jacksonville, and other camps were so dis- couraging that without the Red Cross supplies the suffering must have been even greater than it was. Milk, ice, and eggs were provided in 20 the fever hospitals by the agents to whom money was sent to purchase them, and large consignments of groceries were constantly shipped when- ever the need for them was made known. When the Spanish prisoners were taken to Portsmouth, N. H., after the destruction of Cervera's fleet, their condition was so pitiable that without receiving any formal requisition the Committee decided to send at once several cases of clothing, bedding, groceries, and other supplies to Seavey's Island, where the camp was established. Cots were also pro- vided for the barrack hospital, and Auxiliary No. 3 sent several male nurses who did excellent service. Two of these volunteered to go to Spain on the transport which conveyed the prisoners to their native land after peace was declared. The condition of the prisoners greatly improved during their stay in this healthy locality, where fine air, good food and humane treatment brought about most favorable results. A visitor to this camp during the summer asked one of the marines on duty at one of the guns, which guarded the island at various points to prevent the escape of prisoners, if they had ever been obliged to use them. " No, not yet ; " he answered, " but we expect to when the time comes to send them home. Nothing else will drive them off the island." Perhaps the greatest strain on the Supply Committee came after the opening of the camp at Montauk Point, L. I. The preparations for the men were so incomplete when the transports arrived that the first days at Camp Wikoff were scenes of utter confusion. The Committee knew that it would be called upon, and it was ready when the call came, but the energies of all concerned were taxed to the utmost to assist in bringing any sort of order out of this chaos. The first necessity to be relieved was the lack of drinking-water, caused by the unfinished wells, and the taking for granted that water could be found anywhere on Long Island at a certain distance below the surface of the soil. This emergency demanded prompt attention, and the Supply Committee was able, through the kindness of the Standard Oil Company, to convey spring water from Jamaica to Camp Wikoff for the use of the soldiers. Later, when the wells were finished, the supply of water was sufficient, but at first it was so inadequate as to threaten the camp with disease and calamity. An agent to manage Red Cross work became necessary, and Mr. Howard Townsend was appointed in this capacity by Mr. Stephen E. Barton. He remained on duty at Montauk, superintending the distribu- tion of supplies and the transfer of fever patients by the yacht Red Cross to hospitals in New Haven and adjacent cities, thereby relieving the pres- sure on the hospital at Camp Wikoff. This yacht had returned from Cuba and was offered to the Government by the Committee for use at Montauk. 21 As many as twelve requisitions daily have been received at the Supply Rooms during August from this camp. Hospital furnishings, food sup- plies, and delicacies of all sorts were sent to the sick, besides pajamas and underwear by the thousand suits. A diet kitchen was established under the direction of Mrs. Willard, an agent of Auxiliary No. 3, which also sent trained nurses. Even with these provisions for the comfort and care of the soldiers, we know that the suffenng and illness from inadequate nursing and improper food for the men was far in excess of any other camp. All are familiar' with the tales of horror which filled every newspaper at this time, and they will not be repeated here, but even the Red Cross was powerless to act, except as those in charge at the hospitals chose to send requisitions. When these came not a moment was ever lost in ordering or packing what was called for, and if there was bad management and cruel neglect on the Montauk end of the road, at least the same charge can not be laid to'.the door of the Red Cross. When the requisition below was received by the Supply Committee in Broadway on August 26th, it was proved be- yond a doubt that the Red Cross Relief Committee was the surest, quickest, and most reliable medium through which to work and by which to reach the sick and suffering soldiers. Requisition No. 127. By Secretary Alger through H. Townsexd. For Major Hizemax, General Hospital, (Government to reimburse us.) Camp Wikoff. 75 commodes 500 cups and saucers 500 knives 500 forks 500 large spoons 500 small spoons 500 bowls 35 trays 100 galvanized iron buckets 200 tin wash-basins 100 wooden wash-tubs 25 tin wash-boilers 50 dish-pans 50 rakes 6 buck-saws 150 candle lanterns and 100 ash-cans, galvanized iron 1000 candles with covers 25 basting spoons 25 saucepans 20 roasting pans 2000 towels 1000 pillow-cases 1000 sheets 500 pillows 1000 night-shirts 1000 pairs slippers 1000 handkerchiefs The above was filled in one day and despatched by special train to Montauk, and reached its destination as swiftly as the Long Island Rail- road could carry it. A word must be said here for the untiring efforts of 22 the President of the road, Mr. Wm. H. Baldwin, Jr., in furthering our in- terests in every way, giving us precedence in matters of freight and securing for us the most rapid transportation possible. To the merchants of New York of whom we purchased our supplies, the same thanks are due. Our orders were filled with a promptness and alacrity that showed the universal interest felt in our work. Liberal discounts were allowed, and the best of everything was provided. It is well known that men often arrived at Long Island City in so ex- hausted a condition as to be found sometimes unconscious on the side- walks and ferry-boats, and often without a cent in their pockets with which to buy food. Their railway transportation was provided but nothing more. Indignant citizens came to their rescue, but the Red Cross saw that something must be done, and that quickly, to help discharged men. This led to the opening of the Red Cross Relief Station at Long Island City, in a building annexed to the railway and a few steps from the ferry. This was filled with cots, and in a few days a committee of women, physicians, nurses, cooks, and servants brought the whole into thorough and systematic working order. This enterprise calls for a special report of its own which will be given in this volume, but the Supply Committee cannot close its report without rendering some tribute to the management and devotion of those women who worked all day, and often far into the night, ministering to the wants of those men who, whether they had fought at Santiago or only languished in a southern camp, had after all made the highest sacrifice and followed the noblest impulse of which humanity is capable. By this time most of the hospitals in and about New York were filled with fever patients as they were sent from Montauk or landed from the transports in the bay. The hospitals at Governor's Island, Forts Hamil- ton and Wadsworth, the Marine Hospital on Staten Island, St. Peter's and St. Joseph's in Brooklyn, besides Bellevue, St. Luke's, Roosevelt, the Presbyterian, and others in New York were crowded with soldiers. Wards were set apart for their accommodation, and the Red Cross again came to the front, supplementing in food supplies or clothing whatever was called for. Most of the suburban hospitals received from Auxiliary No. lo weekly provisions of eggs, poultry, ice cream, and soups, besides milk and ice daily. Bellevue men received from the same Auxiliary rolls, ice cream, and oysters during several weeks. One party of convalescents from St. Peter's in Brooklyn was taken to Coney Island on a warm Sunday in September dressed in Red Cross pajamas, stamped with the Am. Nat. Red Cross on each side pocket, and every man of them was delighted to exchange the soiled and tattered uniform of the campaign for this most airy and comfortable fatigue cos- 23 tume. Besides the regular hospitals, large numbers of Convalescent Homes were started for those soldiers, who, unfit to travel on long journeys, or still exhausted from illness and fever, needed nursing and good food to restore their physical well-being. These Homes were provided with groceries, bedding, and clothing whenever requisitions were presented. It is believed that no one was ever refused anything that the Supply Committee could furnish. Where it was deemed advisable, money was sent instead of supplies, thereby saving time and transportation. By the first of September requisitions were coming in from Porto Rico, and abundant supplies of all kinds were shipped. In October the Supply Depot moved from 552 and 554 Broadway to 100 William street with a storage room on Fulton street. The work of the Committee assumed a somewhat different character, as the requisi- tions were mostly of a nature to be filled directly from the stores, and the work of making garments by the Auxiliaries had practically discontinued. The next call came from the Phillipines and from fifteen to twenty thousand dollars were spent in general supplies. Trained nurses were sent out by Auxiliary No. 3, and money enough is still in the treasury of this Auxiliary to defray their expenses for a year. The number of requisitions to be filled during the winter was small, but the need of caring for " mustered out " volunteer soldiers was very great and calls for a report of its own. During the month of March goods were shipped to Jacksonville, Savannah, Fortress Monroe, Porto Rico, Havana, Manila, and Camp Meade, Pa., and the funds of the Relief Committee placed in the hands of five Trustees, who had been appointed at the last meeting of the Committee. This summing up of the work of the summer is not done in any spirit of pride to enumerate the labors of the Supply Committee, but to those who generously subscribed their money, it is due that they should feel satisfied with the spending of it, and equally satisfied that it was as well done as if they had personally superintended its distribution. There was not a member of the Red Cross Relief Committee or its Auxiliaries who did not feel himself privileged to be in a position to help those who had gone out to serve their country, and who did not give time and strength with the hearty good will and unity of purpose which combined to bring about those results of which they may now be justly proud. Helen Fidelia Draper, J^or the Supply Committee. March, 1899. 24 SPECIAL WORK FOR RETURNED SOLDIERS On the arrival of the first transport, laden with a cargo of sick and wounded soldiers, the horrible conditions which prevailed and the absolute dearth of everything in the line of clothing, comforts, necessities, and all delicacies for the sick and convalescent, made it necessary for some action to be taken at once. The Supply Committee set to work to remedy these conditions by sending bedding, pajamas, night shirts, sheets, pillow cases, equipped cots, clothing of all kinds, medical supplies, surgical instruments, and crutches to all hospitals in need of them, also all kinds of delicacies, such as wines, soups, eggs, etc. The Committee left orders for constant delivery, as long as needed, of ice, chickens, chops, oysters, oranges, lemons, ice cream, and any delicacies that the sick might crave. For the convalescents complete outfits were provided for all who needed them and were unable to secure them from the Government. To those soldiers and sailors who could come to our warehouse at 552 Broad- way, everything their necessities demanded was always given, and none were ever turned away without being supplied. As the work increased Mrs. Hunter, Mrs. Emmett, and other ladies of Auxiliary No. 22 formed committees to take charge of the distribution of supplies, which up to this time had been taken care of by the ladies aiding the Supply Committee. After Auxiliary No. 22 had disbanded and the Supply Committee moved to Fulton Street, Miss Margaret Leverich, who, from the begin- ning of the war had given most valuable help to the Committee, in pack- ing and marking goods and assisting and taking care of the soldiers, together with Miss Catherine Cameron, who had been doing splendid work in the hospitals, volunteered to continue the work of distribution at our new (juarters, and the Committee here expresses its gratitude for the faithful and devoted work done by these ladies. From the time the regiments began to be mustered out, the facilities of both the warehouse and the office force of the Supply Committee became overtaxed with the great demand upon them, and it was seen that some arrangement must be made with an organization having ample room and office force to meet this ever increasing demand. Through the efforts of the Chairman, the full co-operation of the Bowery Branch of the Y. M. C. A. was secured, and the experienced Superintendent, Mr. W. E. Wilkins became our right hand, and the splendid work accomplished by him will be spoken of later. No one who did not see it for himself, can form an idea of the hopeless misery and 25 suffering these soldiers have borne, nor realize the manly spirit which was shown by most of them. The regiments on arriving were given furloughs of sixty days, whether wanted or not, these men without pay, many of whom lived at a distance, had no homes or friends, were thrown upon their own resources at a time of the year when it was almost impossible, except for a few skilled men, to obtain work. Here in a large, strange city, without money or influence, no provision made to take care of either themselves or their families, many, strive as they might, would soon become dependent upon charity. These men coming from hot climates with no proper clothing, weakened from sickness and insufficient food, many just from the hospitals, and too weak to work even if they could secure it, with no homes and no money, were truly in a most pitiful condition. It will be remembered that the streets were full of these men, trying to secure work, and willing to do any- thing that would bring them sufficient means to support life. Those who were hopeless, sick, pale wrecks, wandered around in a dazed, hopeless way, until, overcome with exhaustion and fatigue, they would drop in the streets. The Committee undertook : ist. To clothe and secure proper care and medical attention for all who were sick or physically unable to do any work. 2d. To clothe and give transportation home to those who lived else- where, and would there have friends to aid them. 3d. To clothe and secure employment for those who were able to work and who could find nothing to do, and at the same time to feed and shelter them, and those dependent upon them, until employment could be found. The Supply Committee at once set to work on the lines above re- ferred to, to alleviate as far as lay in its power, the terrible conditions that confronted it. Letters were written to all the prominent firms in the city, asking help in securing employment for the men. The press was also appealed to to lend its powerful aid to secure positions, and through its kind help much was done to alleviate the distress. Mr. Larrabee, of the Consolidated Ice Company, Messrs. Naughton & Company, con- tractors of the Third Avenue Railroad, and other contractors in the city, took large numbers of returned men, giving many permanent positions and taking others for temporary work. Mr. Larrabee employed some seven or eight hundred men in the cutting and storing of ice in the many ice-houses of the Consolidated Ice Company. During the first three weeks of December, while the Supply Commit- tee had charge of this matter, permanent positions for nearly five hundred men and temporary ones for as many more had been secured. 26 The work had reached such proportions that the Supply Committee was unable to handle it, and it was then turned over to the Bowery Branch of the Y. M. C. A., as before referred to. From the last reports of Mr. Wilkins, March ist, he had secured permanent and temporary positions for about two thousand men, the larger part of which are permanent positions. Besides this, he has sent to their homes large numbers of men who lived elsewhere, and were either too sick or unfit to do the work that he was able to give them. He has also sent many invalids to sanitariums or homes where they are well taken care of. As soon as the work was turned over to Mr. Wilkins, the large de- mand for money needed to carry on the work, the transportation charges, and the supplying of all kinds of necessities, clothing, grocer- ies, etc., was taken up by Auxiliary No. lo, and that Auxiliary has paid for everything connected with this work up to the present time, and has expended many thousands of dollars. It is still continuing this work, and is relieving more suffering and do- ing more permanent good by helping the men to independence and self- support, and encouraging their self-respect by becoming independent of charity, than can be fully told. The Committee extends to Auxiliaries No. lo and No. 22, and to the Bowery Branch of the Y. M. C. A. its hearty thanks, and expresses high appreciation of the splendid work, and the result with which this most necessary aid has been crowned. Before the work was taken up by Mr. Wilkins, the Supply Committee had already been greatly helped by him in sheltering and feeding all those who were sent to him with a request for aid. He was, for most of the time, so overcrowded, that arrangements had to be made to take large numbers of soldiers to lodging houses, for whom at that time he paid all expenses. Auxiliary No. 10 has, of course, since that time, repaid all this outlay of money, but we cannot repay the enthusiastic kindness with which he extended his help to us except in acknowledging with our thanks the services rendered when we were most in need. At the present time, the Committee feels that almost all men now in New York have been cared for, but as each N. Y. Vol. Regiment is dis- banded the same conditions will prevail, and if Mr. Wilkins is supported and upheld by Auxiliary No. 10, all cases can be taken care of and given employment, and much suffering will be averted. The Su])ply Committee feels that this effort to make the soldiers self- supporting is thoroughly appreciated by the men themselves, as their constant expressions of gratitude fully testify. Frank C. Garmany. March, 1899. 27 AUXILIARY No. i. Rt. Rev. HENRY C. POTTER, D.D., LL.D., Honorary President. Robert Bacon, Treasurer, (J. P. Morgan Q;' Co.) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Mrs. Cowles, President. Mrs. Henry Marquand, Jr., ist Vice-President. Mrs. Lorillard Spencer, 2d Vice-President. Miss Louisa Morgan, Assistant Treasurer. Miss Edith Morton, Secretary. The First New York Ambulance Red Cross Equipment Society was organized on May 9th. From that date, and during the entire summer, meetings of the Executive Committee were held once or twice a week at the residence of the President, Mrs. Cowles. This Society was started for the purpose of purchasing and equipping ambulances to be used by the Red Cross in Cuba and in the camps. $2,000 was the sum stated as necessary to buy an ambulance, horses, harness, surgical and medical supplies, uniforms for attendants and the maintenance of these same attendants. Realizing that only a certain number of ambulances would be required, the Executive Committee in its first circular stated "that it reserved to itself the privilege of transferring a portion of whatever money might be collected to other Red Cross work for the Army and Navy." This reservation was most wise, since Auxiliary No. i collected larger sums than were required for ambulances, and was able to disburse them where need was greatest for purposes which were deemed expedient by the Relief Committee, and which were not in the province of other Auxiliaries. Owing to the delays incident to all communications with the govern- ment, and at first their unwillingness to accept outside aid, and the red tape which followed, the ambulances which should have been with Miss Barton when she arrived in Cuba, did not leave New York before July ist, when they were packed on the government transport Port Victor, bound for Santiago. The Auxiliary was fully prepared to send them, with mules, long before, but neither the government nor the Red Cross Relief Com- mittee would give transportation for them earlier. That they would have been of incalculable value at Santiago is proved by the statements made by the regimental surgeons, that a lack of transportation had resulted in the death of many wounded soldiers. 28 The forty mules bought by the Auxiliary in the South in response to an urgent appeal from the Red Cross, were shipped from New Orleans to Santiago a little after July ist. Meanwhile the Relief Committee bought a yacht named the Red Cross, on which to convey all their supplies to Miss Barton in Cuba. This Auxiliary spent about $6,000 for the purchase of medical and surgical supplies, consisting of litters, canteens, filters, groceries and delicacies. These were packed on the yacht which left New York on June 29th. Owing to heavy storms she was damaged on her way south, and at Key West the supplies were transferred to another ship bound for Santiago, which they finally reached, and were there distributed by the Red Cross Agents. The supplies from the State of Texas, which were distributed by Miss Barton to our soldiers before Santiago, and which undoubtedly saved the lives of hundreds, belonged to the Cuban Relief Committee, but later the Red Cross Relief Committee refunded to them the full amount necessary to pay for these supplies ; so that we can feel that the Red Cross and not the Cuban Relief cared for the wounded and fed the hungry soldiers, before and after the battles at Santiago. Eleven ambulances were bought, of which we regret to state six were never taken off the Fort Victor. Where the fault lies, and who was to blame for this, it is impossible to say. Those six ambulances, without fittings, etc., represent a sum of $1,680, as each ambulance cost $280. The supplies and fittings for each ambulance, uniforms, etc., were not packed with the ambulances, as we were advised to send them separately, so that they could be used in the hospitals as well, and they went on the yacht Red Cross. The other five ambulances have been disposed of in the following manner : one was sent to Chickamauga, upon request of the Red Cross agent there ; two, for a while were used at the Long Island City Red Cross Relief Station, and then one was sent to Miss Chauncey's Home for Convalescents at Pelham, also one ambulance and $150 to run it was sent to Atlantic Highlands Convalescent Home which was in charge of Auxiliary No. 3 ; two are now in Porto Rico, having been telegraphed for from there. The ambulance work has proved to be but a minor part of that undertaken and accomplished by this Auxiliary. One of the first sums of money expended by the Auxiliary was $2,500, asked for by Mr. Barton, which was used to start the R^d Cross Stations at Camps Alger, Thomas and Jacksonville. To the latter camp was also sent a large circular hospital tent upon the request of the colonel of one of the regiments there. On July 17th, General Sternberg requested the Red Cross to give sup- plies, in addition to those furnished by the government, for the new hospital ship Missouri. Auxiliary No. i presented the Missouri with a 29 steam launch, carbonating and sterilizing plants, electric fans, electric bells, rubber beds and telephone system, costing about $6,000. That they were of great service is shown by Major Arthur's letter, in which he thanks the Auxiliary for its valuable and useful gifts to his ship. Upon hearing on good authority that ready money would be most use- ful, as sometimes it was easier to buy supplies in Santiago than to await their arrival from America, the Committee cabled on August 3d $500 to Col. Roosevelt for the sick and wounded of his regiment. This Auxiliary then purchased and sent to Gen. Wood, Military Governor of Santiago, twenty-five tons of supplies costing $3,000 — groceries, delicacies and clothing (500 cotton shirts, 500 pair of trousers, 500 pair of boots, socks, combs, etc.) to be distributed by him among the sick in the hospitals, and to those returning home on the transports. To avoid delay, or the risk of these supplies being left on the transport, this Auxiliary sent an agent of its own to Kingston, Jamaica, who personally superintended the forwarding of the supplies, which reached General Wood two wrecks from the time they left New York. His letter of thanks and his suggestion that more supplies of the same description would be acceptable prove the usefulness of that shipment. During the month of August the disbursements of this society were very large. $10,000 was given to the Relief Committee for Montauk, which money was spent in hospital supplies, blankets, clothes, mineral waters, four wagons, eight horses, etc. $1,500 was given Dr. Mott for the distribution of sandwiches and broth for the sick soldiers leaving transports. The splendid work Dr. and Mrs. Mott did at Camp Wikoff is well known. $5,000 also was given to be spent in the same manner at the other camps. On September ist, $5,000 more was handed to the Relief Committee to assist them in their enormous undertakings at the camps. At the request of Major Havard (Surgeon-in-Chief at Siboney) and upon advice of Major Arthur, of the Missouri, a steam launch thirty-seven feet long, costing $2,400, was sent to him on the U. S. transport Berlin, which sailed September 24th. This launch is being used in transporting the patients from the hospitals to the transports, or from Santiago to Siboney. On September 29th the Auxiliary sent $2,500 worth of supplies to Gen, Wood at Santiago. They were of the same character as those previously sent. Smaller sums have been spent in the following manner : $200 was given to Mr. Warner, Red Cross agent at Washington, to furnish milk and ice to the sick soldiers on trains passing through Washington ; $200 was given to Mrs. Thomas Manson, who did special work at Montauk, principally among the Seventh U. S. Infantry Regiment ; $200 was given to Mrs. Ollesheimer for individual work among convalescent soldiers ; $2oo to the Eighth Regiment Convalescent Home at Pelham. On the 7th of September $5,000 was put at the disposal of Mrs. Henry Marquand for use at the Long Island City Red Cross Relief Station. The surplus of $1,481.67 was returned to this Auxiliary. $200 was given to the Orange Hospital at Orange, N. J., to defray part of the expenses made by the hospital in its care of sick soldiers, during the summer. Before closing the accounts of the Auxiliary the following sums were expended: $973.18 was given to Mrs. Ollesheimer, whose funds were exhausted, to assist her in buying materials. These materials were made into garments by her Soldiers' Family Assistance Committee and when finished were sent to the Supply Department ; Auxiliary No. 3 having obtained permission to send supplies with their nurses on the Grants we were enabled, by their courtesy, to send $5,000 worth of supplies to Manila, without expense for transportation, under the care of Miss Henschel, the head nurse ; these supplies included soups, lime juice, distilled waters, etc. At the meeting of the Executive Committee, on Feb. 15th, it was decided to close the work of Auxiliary No. i, because the Red Cross Relief Committee, which was going out of existence, had requested our final reports. As it was necessary to close the accounts of Auxiliary No. I, the $4,000 still remaining were placed in the hands of a committee named for the purpose, to be immediately distributed for the benefit of our soldiers and sailors, where the need was greatest, as far as possible for those in Manila. Auxiliary No. i had four Auxiliaries of its own : The Orange Auxiliary, which raised $3,057.00 ; the Orange Mountain Children's Auxiliary, which raised $283.00 ; the Dearborn-Morgan School Auxiliary, which raised $83.00. These funds were handed in to the Treasurer, Miss Morgan. The Rhinebeck Auxiliary, which raised $207.00. This was used to purchase materials for pajamas, shirts, etc. These garments, over a thousand of which were made during the summer, were sent to the Supply Depot, 552 Broadway. The First New York Ambulance Red Cross Equipment Society is now dissolved, having completed its work and having rendered an account of its actions since May 9th, 1898 to March ist, 1899. EXTRACT OF LETTER FROM GEN. WOOD. Headquarters Military Government, Mrs. Cowles, Santiago de Cuba, Aug. 21st, 1898. No. 6S9 Madison Ave., New York. Dear Mrs. Cowles : The packages of supplies were landed here the day before yesterday, and will be most useful. I distributed a great deal of them among the troops just embarking to go 31 home, as the men were all more or less sick, many of them barely able to walk. I felt that on the sea voyage, where they will have only the ration food, the supplies that you had sent down would be very useful. I have also furnished some to the few regular troops still here. The Red Cross is about to leave here for Havana, and we shall con- tinue to need assistance from the United States for some time to come. ... If any- one could go into the hospitals here, simply walk through them, I am sure that he would realize that there are very few places in the world where supplies, such as you have just sent, are m©re needed and will be needed for some time to come. . . . You know what we may need here in the way of supplies, though generally speaking, the foods for sick people, such as soups, extract of beef, prepared foods, rice, rolled oats, fresh acid fruits, if possible, are things which are of the greatest service here. . . . Yours very sincerely, Leonard Wood. EXTRACT OF LETTER FROM LIEUT. COL. HAVARD. Headquarters Department of Santiago. Chief Surgeon's Office. My Dear Doctor: Sept. ist, 1898. Having often heard of the generosity and munificence of the Red Cross Society, I venture to ask you to have the kindness to make a request of it in behalf of the Medical Department at this city. We are verj' much in need of a steam or naptha launch for the transfer of our patients from shore to ship or hospital, or from ship to ship', and every day time is lost and the sick exposed to unnecessary risk and suffering for want of proper means of conveyance. . . . Yours very sincerely, V. Havard, Lieut. Colonel Chief Surgeon, U. S. V. EXTRACT OF LETTER FROM WM. H. ARTHUR. Harbor of Santiago de Cuba, Sept. 3rd, 1898. My Dear Mr. Dodge: If you could have seen yesterday the excellent work done by your launches, I think you would have been very much pleased. In two hours, without confusion, crowding or discomfort, we took off from shore and put to bed on the ship one hundred and ten patients. Those who were obliged to be carried on litters were sent on the launches, those able to sit up were put into the ship's boats and towed over by the launches. . . . Altogether the supplies you sent are going directly to the men for whom you intended them and nothing will be lost, wasted or stolen, which is a source of satisfaction to every one, I am sure. . . . With renewed thanks for all you have done for the Missouri, I am. Yours sincerely, Wm. H. Arthur. EXTRACT OF LETTER FROM WM. H. ARTHUR. New York City, Sept. 17th, 1898. Dear Mrs. Robinson : The conditions at Santiago are such that a steam launch there to carry sick to and from hospitals, to take supplies to the yellow fever hospital which is very isolated, and for general hospital use, is almost absolutely necessary. . . . The surgeons at Santiago showed me very plainly how necessary such a launch was for the hospitals there and urged me to leave one of mine with them. The next transport leaving for Santiago will be the Berlin, which sails next Wednesday. Yours very truly, Wm. H. Arthur, Major Surgeon, U. S. V. 32 TREASURER'S REPORT. CHIEF ITEMS OF EXPENDITURE. For Ambulances and Harness $ 3,596 05 For Uniforms 447 7^ Medical and Surgical Supplies, Army Canteens, Hospital Tents and Filters, Surgical Instruments, Rubber Beds, Carbonating Plant, Disinfector, Fan Motor and Litters 7,964 19 Two Launches (for use in Cuba) 4, 905 00 Food Supplies, Highland Water, Ginger Ale, Preserved Fruits, Condensed Milk, etc., American Food Co.'s Supplies, Mineral Waters, Groceries 8,569 41 Supplies for Manila by Transport Grant 5,000 00 THROUGH INDIVIDUALS AND AGENTS FOR RELIEF. To establish depots at Camps Alger, Chickamauga and Jackson- ville $ 2,500 00 Through Col. Roosevelt 537 23 At Montauk Point 5, 000 00 At Other Camps 5, 000 00 Through Mrs. Marquand (Relief at Long Island City) 5,000 00 Through Dr. Mott i , 500 00 Through Mrs. Manson 200 00 Through Mrs. Warner (Washington) 200 00 Through Mrs. Parish (for Convalescent Home) 550 00 Through Mrs. OUesheimer (Relief of Returning Volunteers). . . . 200 00 Through Mrs. Moulton (at Jacksonville) 350 00 Through Mrs. Robinson (at Orange Hospital) 200 00 Through Mrs. OUesheimer 973 18 Mr. Tappen (for Camps) 10,000 00 32,210 41 Remaining Items of Expense include Mules, Freight, Telegrams, Clothing, etc 8,930 79 To Ruth Morgan, Treasurer of P'und for Army and Navy, Balance of 4,000 00 Total $ 75.623 60 Total Received $ 75,623 60 Total Expended $ 75,623 60 Robert Bacon, Treasurer. Balance received from Mr. Bacon $ 4,000 00 Interest on Money deposited with J. P. Morgan & Co 312 97 Balance of Orange Auxiliary 132 50 Total $ 4,445.47 Ruth Morgan, Treasurer of Fund for Army and Navy, 33 AUXILIARY No. 2, Women's Conference, Society for Ethical Culture. Mrs. H. Ollesheimer, President. ]\Irs. L. Seligsberg, Scerctary. Mrs. T. Hell.man, Treasurer. An old adage says : " The way to do a thing is to do it." It is there- fore with pardonable pride that I submit the report of the Red Cross work done by the Women's Conference, for in truth we have carried out to the fullest extent the work we set ourselves to do. Immediately upon the outbreak of the war, a National Relief Com- mittee to the American Red Cross Society, was formed, and at once invited the co-operation of all organized societies, philanthropic or otherwise, in its proposed work for the soldiers, who were now facing sickness, suffering, and untold hardships ; and who, as shown by former experiences, would be in imperative need of greater relief than the Gov- ernment would be able to give unaided. How wise and true this forethought was, it is now needless to recall, for even those not actively employed at the side of sick and convalescent soldiers, or tenderly fortifying a distracted mother, have heard the cry : " What would we have done without the Red Cross." At a meeting called Monday afternoon, May 9, 1S98, the Women's Conference, enthusiastically resolved to become an auxiliary to the National Committee, and do all in its power to further the good cause. Our Society being the second to offer its services to the National Organization, received the name Red Cross Auxiliary No. 2. After much discussion as to what form our work should take, it was foreseen that upon the enlisting of the men, many families would be deprived of important bread winners, and much consequent distress would result, our Society decided to devote its energies to the employment of women members of the families of enlisted men, and when necessary, of such others as had been thrown out of work by the serious commercial conditions incidental to the war. These women to make such clothing and bedding as would be needed for the sick and convalescent soldiers ; which when finished, was to be turned over to the National Red Cross Relief Committee for distribution. Thus making our work do a two-fold 34 purpose ; that of aiding the soldiers who went to the front, and giving relief to the families they left at home. It will not be inappropriate to here mention a letter received by your president in which a whole com- pany of a regiment expressed its gratitude to Red Cross Auxiliary No. 2 for the relief of mind so many of the soldiers had had, through the assurance that their wives and daughters had this dignified means of helping themselves. Experience having shown that there would be many who could not leave their homes or children, it was decided to give employment both at the homes of these women and at a shop opened for this purpose. By canvassing near by camps and investigating cases of reputed distress, our first workers were secured, and sadly in need of help were they, as will be proven by relating a few example cases. Mrs. H was reported to us in great need of assistance. She was found to be the mother of six little ones, the oldest being twelve, with the prospect of an early addition to the family. Her husband had enlisted, as he had been out of work for a long time, and as the poor mother pathetically explained it : " He was a good man, but so large and took up so much room," that she was quite relieved at his going ; the home consisting of one large room, and a dark partition called another. Mrs. H was eagerly grateful to get to work, and has done so steadily since the first day the Auxiliary opened, up to date, with the exception of two days when the baby came, when she eagerly begged not to be deprived of what had been such great help. Kind friends, with an occasional dona- tion from the Soldiers' and Sailors' Family Protective Association, have paid her rent, and the work done for us has kept them in food. Her husband is still with his regiment in the South. Mrs. H is cheerful and contented as long as she is supplied with the work, which means so much to her. Perhaps a more cheerful case to contemplate is that of Mrs. G , the mother of two very small children, whose husband enlisted as a sailor in the navy. He had been a furnace feeder at an electric-light station, but through sickness and hard luck, left in very desperation at their straightened circumstances. The pay he sent home, added to the work she received from us, kept the little family while he was gone. He has now received his discharge and secured permanent work. And now, only one more case to prove the necessity of the policy of our work. Mrs. D., whose husband is a boiler-maker, rheumatic, and long out of work, is the mother of five children, the oldest of whom, a boy of twenty, drove an ash-cart and was the main support of the family. His entire gang, his mother explained, enlisted, and he had not the courage to face their taunts, as he at first tried to, and went too. The 35 only support left was a boy of sixteen earning $3.50 a week, which, with washing which Mrs. D. had done for us, has kept the wolf from the door. The soldier son has now returned, a physical wreck, and will only be an added care and expense for some time to come. By active co-operation with kindred societies, and our objects soon becoming known, there was never a dearth of women of all ages wanting and needing work. The case of each applicant for work, unless coming with proper cre- dentials, was carefully looked into by our Investigating Committee, and it is safe to state that there never was any one employed who did not actually need and merit the work. Although all the work turned out was of the highest order possible under the conditions, it was arranged to meet the requirements of such inex- perienced and inefficient help, as we necessarily had ; at the same time filling the requisitions of the Central Supply Depot This was done by giving hand-sewing to those who could not sew by machine, and washing and ironing and stamping for those who could not sew at all. Through the courtesy of the owner of Tuxedo Hall, our work-shop was first located there, and is there at present, free of charge ; but during the months of July and August, we made use of the Society House, 669 Madison Avenue, which proved a great boon during those almost unen- durably hot months. Because work of this kind cannot be carried on absolutely on the same strict lines that an ordinary factory is, and because we desired our ■workers to secure other work as soon as possible, should they be able to do so, we limited the daily wage to about 50 cents for indoor hands, and three dollars' worth of work for outside employees. The prices for work done were as foUows : Sheets, per dozen to sew, $3.00 To wash and iron, $i.cc Pillow cases, " " 3-oo " " i-°^ Night-shirts, " " 3°o " " ^--^ '■••II- <( H " " r ^^ r5urgical-shirts, 3.00 i.co Negligee-shirts " " 300 To iron, $0.50 Pajamas, " '' 3.C0 ' .50 Flannel bands, " " -75 Pads, " " i.oo Handkerchiefs, " " .50 To wash, $0.25 Wash cloths, " -25 owels, 0° --2 All buttons and buttonholes extra, at the rate of $i.co for ico. Thus making the wages for outside work corapararively high, but as the amount was limited to $3.00 a week, the dangers of over-paying were 36 eliminated, while the women had an opportunity to look after their house- holds and children, and still earn this money besides. This was only varied when the distress of the individual was so great as to warrant more work, or when we received hurry orders, as was frequently the case, from the Central Depot. Then all workers received extra pay for extra work, many indoor hands taking work home at night. For example, we received a requisition for five hundred flannel bands, which were needed at once. These were delivered in a few days, and our regular work continued besides. It is here interesting to note that the model of the flannel band made by our workers, was at once adopted by the Government and is now given to all the soldiers and sailors with their clothing supply. The hours of the shop were from nine to five (and half a day on Saturdays) with three quarters of an hour for luncheon, for which the Auxiliary provided tea, milk, etc. The things manufactured included sheets, pillow-cases, night-shirts, pajamas, handkerchiefs, wash-cloths, flannel bands, towels, surgical shirts, negligee shirts, and pads for beds. The entire work was ably managed by a paid superintendent, who took charge of the women in the shop, and also gave out and received the work done by those working at their homes. This soon became an herculean task, as the wants and work of eighty women daily had to be looked after. To her faithful and untiring zeal, most of the success of our work is due, and to her loving interest in each individual worker, many a case of distress was brought to our notice, which otherwise would have passed unwatched, and many a hard step was made easy, as is testi- fied by the devotion and constant appeal to her justice by all who worked under her. Although a paid cutter had eventually to be employed, much help was given by our Sewing Society in cutting for us, and in purchasing materials at reduced rates ; and through the co-operation of the Alliance Employment Bureau of the New York Association of Working Girls' Societies, permanent positions were secured for thirty-nine of our workers. The National Relief Committee formed a Supply Committee of the presidents of the various auxiliaries, which, met weekly, and apportioned the work needed from each auxiliary, thus keeping each one of us in direct touch with the needs of the great work going on all over our country. The weekly demands upon our Auxiliary were very large, as will be shown by the enormous quantities of things we turned out, but every effort was made to meet these requirements, and in all instances most 37 successfully. The very fact that we were helping our sick and suffering soldiers being a constant impetus to our workers to do their work faithfully and well. We have employed 145 women since May 20th, many having had steady work for ten months and over ! The articles manufactured by our Auxiliary, and turned over to the Supply Committee for distribution, were : 3209 sheets 466 negligee shirts 2660 pillow cases 356 surgical " 3119 wash rags 1896 towels 8806 handkerchiefs 1885 abdominal bands 936 pajamas (suits) (each two 222 quilted pads pieces) 456 altered shirts 649 night shirts i Red Cross flag 205 rolls of bandages Of the families employed by us there are only eight whose bread- winners have returned, and are again working. Our expenses during the summer months were about $1200 monthly. The strictest economy was observed throughout. No rent was paid for workshops or machines, the latter being loaned by kind friends, while the services of the officers were given without remuneration, as it is hardly necessary to relate. Every dollar spent has really been productive of a two-fold good. Our Finance Committee, so enthusiastically and so ably headed by Mrs. Hellman made only two appeals for support of our work through which The receipts were $7334 9^ And expenses : Wages $5048 64 Materials 1 505 26 Printing, postage, etc 9989 S6653 79 Leaving a balance on hand $ 68 1 12 On September ist active hostilities having ceased, our treasury being in a low state, and in anticipation of the superfluity of further relief in this direction, the indoor shop was closed, and the number of our workers limited to thirty-five outside hands (representing only families of enlisted men), who now receive and deliver work three mornings a week. At a recent meeting of the Supply Committee the needs of a con- tinuance of our work were carefully discussed, and it was decided as for some time to come, there would be a large army of occupation sent to the territory at present under our care, it would be well for the Red Cross Society to hold itself in readiness to supply such things to our soldiers when sick in these foreign countries, as our experience has shown us the Government would not give, but which tend so much to ease both the sick and convalescent stage. Nevertheless it was deemed wise to have all the auxiliaries employed in the manufacturing of clothes, etc., to cease active work, except ours. Auxiliary No. 2 (a splendid tribute to our policy of work) which was requested by unanimous consent, to continue. As the sickness among our soldiers, both at the camps and at home continued, and the consequent distress in their families, to whose support they cannot as yet contribute, and to whom they are often an added ex- pense, joined to the fact that there are still large requisitions for things such as we have manufactured, it was shown that our two-fold work was as much needed now, as at the beginning of the war. Upon this decision, several of the other auxiliaries generously volun- teered to turn over such materials and money, still in their possession, for the furtherance of our work, which was continued until April 24th. Before closing, even though I have always deemed it a privilege for us " stay-at-homes " to be allowed to show our appreciation of our brave soldier boys at the front, I would like to take this opportunity of express- ing the heartfelt gratitude of the Conference to our many friends who so generously donated time, money, materials, and delicacies, without which even a labor of love like ours, could not have been the success I have the pleasure of reporting. Respectfully submitted, Sarah Scheuer Ollesheimer, President. 39 AUXILIARY No. 3. OFFICERS Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter, D.D., LL.D., Hotwrary President. Mrs. James Speyer, President. Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting, First Vice-President. Mrs. William D. Sloane, Second Vice-President. Mrs. Winthrop Cowdin, Third Vice-President. Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, Secretary. Mrs. George F. Shrady, Jr., Recording Secretary. F. K. Sturgis, Esq., Treasurer. Mrs. Edmund L. Baylies, Assistant Treasurer. New York, March i, 1S99. To the American National Red Cross Relief Committee : The Red Cross Society for Maintenance of Trained Nurses has the honor to submit the following report of its work from May 18, 1898, to March i, 1899 : In every war of modern times the problem of how best to carry on relief work is one that has occupied the attention of patriotic and philan- thropic people. No Government hospital service has ever been fully equal to the emergencies of war ; and with the best intentions such an end is impossible of attainment with the methods in vogue. Recent ex- perience has taught valuable lessons in all that pertains to hospital service. In presenting this report, therefore, of the history and operations of Auxiliary No. 3, it is desired not only to pay fitting tribute to those who have labored in the Society's behalf, but to record such facts as will assist in the better understanding and management of similar work in the future. In a complete summary of the work of this Society, it is impossible to make its plan and scope clear without occasionally repeating what has al- ready been so well stated in the interesting account compiled by the then Third Vice-President, Mrs. Winthrop Cowdin, of a portion of the Society's work which was performed between May i8th and November i, 1898. As soon as hostilities were declared, the feeling became general 40 throughout the country that women should assist personally in the care of the sick and wounded. Since Florence Nightingale, the great pro- totype of her profession, organized a corps of women nurses at the suggestion of the British Sanitary Commission, and worked heroically in the hospitals of Scutari during the Crimean war, woman's peculiar fitness for this service has been fully demonstrated. With the desire, therefore, to give our soldiers and sailors every ad- vantage in sickness that modern skill and science afford, and in response to a request from the Woman's Committee on Auxiliaries of the American National Red Cross Relief Committee, this Society was organized by Mrs. James Speyer, who became its President. The first meeting was held May i8, 1898, at the residence of Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting, when officers were elected, and the Executive Committee was appointed. A circular letter was issued, setting forth the purpose to supplement the efforts of the National Government in providing suitable care for sick soldiers and sailors, and calling for donations and subscriptions of money. In the beginning it was the intention to supply sufficient funds to maintain one hundred trained nurses on a Red Cross Hospital Ship, which at that time the American National Red Cross Relief Committee proposed to buy and equip. The Relief Committee, however, soon gave up the idea of owning a hospital ship. This in no wise curtailed the Society's usefulness : for while it was organized primarily to maintain nurses on a ship, the appeal for funds in anticipation of a possible change of plan had been made to include the collecting of money for the maintenance of nurses elsewhere. Each of the one hundred Associate Members of the Society was asked to furnish a list of twenty names of persons to whom she would send an appeal for funds. These lists were carefully compared by the special committee appointed for that purpose, so that no person would receive more than one appeal. Donations of any amount from one dollar upwards were asked for, and a monthly subscription list was started. In this way at the end of the first week, $5000 was given or subscribed. The prompt generosity with which the appeal was met continued unabated during the summer and autumn, and never ceased until $108,980.68 had been raised, and notice was given by the Executive Committee that no further funds were required. A full financial statement from F. K. Sturgis, Esq., Treasurer, and Mrs. Edmund L. Baylies, Assistant Treasurer, will be found at the end of this report. As soon as the summer exodus from town began, suburban branches of 41 the Society were started, and eventually there were seventeen of these in op- eration. In the country districts all were eager to show their interest in hav- ing the men at the front well cared for, even little children giving their mites to swell the fund. Warm commendation is due to those who organized these branches, and labored unceasingly throughout the entire summer to make them successful. Social pleasures and recreations of all kinds were made to give place to the absorbing task of distributing mite boxes, keeping a full subscription list, conducting sewing societies, and giving en- tertainments to raise funds. At the end of four months the combined efforts of all the branches yielded a return of $30,673.42, not includ- ing the gifts of friends from Paris, France, secured through Mr. R. W. Corbin, and received and forwarded by the courtesy of Messrs. John Munroe & Company. These donations alone amounted to $21,287.78. Shortly after the organization of the Society, the President appointed a Committee on Nurses consisting of Mrs, Whitelaw Reid, Chairman, and Mrs. W. Lanman Bull, to select nurses and arrange for their transporta- tion, and to make all final decisions as to the relations of the Society with the Government in respect to nurses. On July 21st, Mrs. Winthrop Cowdin was added to this Committee. With the abandonment of the plan for the hospital ship, the scope of the Society's work was much enlarged, as it was then decided to place trained women nurses in the army hospitals. It was not possible to follow the Red Cross rule of volunteer service. Competent trained women nurses were unable in most cases to work without salary, many having others dependent upon them for support ; but they all gave evi- dence of patriotism in being willing to serve for much less than they would ordinarily receive. None but graduates of good standing, from well-known training schools in this and other cities were accepted, and in their selection the Committee had the assistance of the best train- ing-school superintendents in New York. Many nurses were seen, their qualifications and references were examined, and the chosen names were placed on a reserve list, so that when the first call came from San- tiago on June 30th, the Committee was ready to respond. The first party of nurses sent by the Society went to Tampa a few days later under the charge of Miss Laura D. Gill. It consisted of twelve trained nurses, one immune nurse, and one assistant. A second and third detachment followed, consisting of five physicians, forty-three nurses, and six orderlies. The five physicians, twenty-nine of the nurses, and two of the orderlies were all able to leave on the U. S. transport Lavipasas, and reached Santiago just after the surrender ; but as only immunes were then allowed to land, the nurses proceeded with General Miles to Porto Rico, where the Lampasas, which was well supplied with food and 42 ice, was used as a hospital ship. In all, 112 patients were treated, only eight of whom died. Many men had to be refused on account of lack of space. The Lampasas sailed north August ist, and landed the patients at the General Hospital, Fortress Monroe, on the 7th, in better condi- tion than those on any other transport that had yet come in. The follow- ing letter from Col. Charles R. Greenleaf will show how efficient were the services of these nurses and how much appreciated : Headquarters of the Army, Office of the Chief Surgeon, PoNXE, Puerto Rico, July 31, 1898. Miss Rutty, In charge Detachment of Nurses from National Red Cross Association. Dear Miss Rutty, I desire to express, on behalf of the Medical Department in the field, my thanks to you, and through you to the ladies under your charge, for the services you have rendered and are still rendering to the sick soldiers on board the Lampasas. No words of mine can ex- press my appreciation of the self-sacrificing efforts you have each and all made, and your unflinching devotion to duty. It is a source of deep regret to me that you should have been surrounded by so many discomforts, and have had so little material to work with, but you are fully cognizant of the circumstances under which we have been placed since our sick were put aboard the Lampasas and it is unnecessary for me to say any more re- garding it. Wishing you and the noble association of women you represent every suc- cess, and hoping if my duties are continued that I may see you again at this post, I am. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Charles R. Greenleaf, Col. Chief Surgeon of the Army. Of the nurses left in Tampa, five went to Cuba and later returned in charge of the patients on the steamer Co7icho. The others remained at Tampa. With the appearance of typhoid fever in the camp there, four nurses under the charge of Mrs. E. B. Freer served in the Division Hos- pital at Picnic Island until that camp was given up, when their services were requested by Col. O'Reilly to superintend the opening of a new military hospital in West Tampa. Permission for this was granted, and a large school building was prepared for hospital purposes ; it accom- modated 150 patients, and in tents on the grounds 150 more could be cared for. Most excellent work was done by these nurses, though they were hampered by losing the help of their trained assistants. Mrs. Freer was made superintendent of the hospital, and later had Government nurses under her. In all over 500 patients were treated, many of whom were very ill, but only eleven of whom died, thus showing what trained service can do to make a low death-rate. As no more nurses were able to go to Cuba on account of the out- break of yellow fever there, the Government only accepting immunes, the Society felt that the next greatest want was for good nurses in our 43 home camps and army hospitals. The appearance of typhoid and other fevers was so sudden and overwhelming in the different regimental and division hospitals, that the orderlies were unable to give adequate service, while in addition many sick men were being brought home from Cuba on the different transports. It was deemed necessary therefore to get into closer relations with the Government, in order that our nurses might be accepted in these hospitals. On July 15th, a Special Committee, con- sisting of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, Mrs. Winthrop Cowdin, and Mr. Howard Townsend, was sent to Washington to confer with the authorities on this matter. President McKinley considerately granted the Committee an immediate interview, and very kindly arranged a conference at the White House, with the Secretary of War and the Surgeon-General. At this conference, the Committee was assured of the co-operation of the Govern- ment. General Sternberg agreed to meet the ladies again in New York the next day ; and at this meeting results were reached, which were stated in a letter from General Sternberg to Mrs. Reid, as follows : I take pleasure in confirming by letter the arrangements made at our interview in New York on the 17th instant. I am quite willing to employ female nurses vouched for by yourself as Secretary of the Red Cross Society for Maintenance of Trained Nurses. I had previously made very satisfactory arrangements for the employment of trained female nurses through a Committee of the Daughters of the Revolution. As I said to you dur- ing our interview, I recognize the value of trained female nurses in general hospitals, and we expect to make use of their services to such an extent as seems to be desirable. But I do not approve of sending female nurses with troops in the field, or to camps of in- struction. It is the intention to transfer the seriously sick men from our field hospitals to the general hospitals as soon as practicable ; and we wish our enlisted men of the Hospital Corps to take care of the sick in the Division Field Hospitals and in camps of instruction, so that they may be fully prepared to perform the same duties when the troops are in active operation. Among these privates of the Hospital Corps who constitute the Red Cross organiza- tion of the regular military service, and who are non-combatants in accordance with the terms of the Geneva Convention, we have many medical students and even graduates in medicine. I have made an exception with reference to sending female nurses to Cuba, in view of the outbreak of yellow fever at Santiago, and I am now sending immune nurses, both male and female, for duty at the yellow fever hospitals. In accordance with our agreement, you are authorized to send ten female trained nurses, selected by your- self, to the Leiter Hospital at Camp Thomas, Georgia ; ten to the United States General Hospital at Fort Monroe, Va., and two to the hospital at Fort Wadsworth, N. Y., the understanding being that those at Fort Monroe and at Fort Wadsworth shall be boarded and lodged outside of the hospital. Thanking you very sincerely for your earnest efforts in behalf of our sick and wounded soldiers, I am, Yours very truly, Geo. M. Sternberg. A second letter authorized the Society to send twenty nurses to Charleston, as follows : 44 Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, 451 Madison Avenue, New York City. Dear Madam : I have just received the following telegram from Charleston : Charleston, S. C, July 20, 1S98. To THE Surgeon-General, U. S. A., Washington, D. C. : I would recommend that twenty nurses be ordered to this station for duty in St. Francis Xavier's and city hospitals. Impossible for hospitals to obtain sufficient help. Clayton Park hill, Afajar and Chief Surgeon, U. S. V., Chief Surgeon, First Division, First Corps. If you see fit to fill this requisition, I shall be glad to have you do so. Very truly yours, Geo. M. Sternberg, Surgeon-General, U. S. Army. In answer to this last order, twenty nurses went to Charleston, S. C, on July 24th, under Miss Martha L. Draper, who showed great ability in arranging for the nurses, and seeing them started in their work in the different hospitals, which were very much overcrowded. In addition to this, three men nurses, graduates of the Mills Training School of Bellevue, were sent to the Marine Hospital at Staten Island ; and Miss Marjorie Henshall went with three women nurses to the Post Hospital at Fort Wadsworth. Additional nurses were sent to Fort Wads- worth as the need became greater, till their number finally increased to forty-one, and Miss Henshall had two hospitals under her care. In recognition of her admirable work, she was chosen as the head of the party of nurses afterward sent to Manila. Summing up the work at Fort Wadsworth, Miss Henshall says : " Almost eight hundred patients have been well cared for, and many of these carried successfully through very serious illnesses. Seven deaths occurred, four of which were beyond medical aid when admitted." The rest of the nurses left at Tampa awaiting orders were now sent to the Leiter Hospital, near Chattanooga, and accomplished good work there, though the service was very exacting. Miss Maud Cromelien was sent to inspect their work, and reported that Major Carter, the surgeon in charge, said that "the nurses were indispensable to him." While there, she visited Chickamauga Park, to examine the Division Hospitals at Camp George H. Thomas, and reported as follows : " One glance was enough to convince me that trained nurses were greatly needed to care for the sick, most of whom were suffering from typhoid fever. The ma- jority of patients were in a wretched condition, and needed skilled nurs- ing to give them even a chance to recover. I called upon Col. J. V. R. Hoff, Chief Surgeon in the field, and stated to him that ' The Red Cross is ready to put nurses in at least one division hospital ; to erect the tents 45 needed for nurses, and to defray all expenses, such as provisions and erection of tents, all utensils needed in them, food, mineral water, laundry, etc., and to provide them with a competent matron ; and all to be subject to whatever orders or discipline the surgeon in charge ad- vises.' At first it was not considered wise to expose women to the hard- ships of life in a field hospital. However, in the end the exigencies of the situation prevailed, and Col. Hoff was kind enough to recommend my statement to General Sternberg, Surgeon-General of the Army. The following is a copy of his telegram, and its answer : Chick.\mauga Park, Ga., August 3, 1S9S. SurgeofuGeneral, Army, Washington, D. C. : Representative of Red Cross has arranged to send nurses, and provide for their material wants. Do you approve ? Hoff, Chief Surgeon. Surgeon-General's Office, Washington. August 3, 1S98. Hoff, Chief Surgeon, Chickamauga Park, Ga. : Yes ; you are authorized to accept Red Cross nurses. Sternberg, Surgeon-General. " I started the work at once, and with the efficient help of Mr. E. C, Smith, Field Agent for the American National Red Cross, I was able to prepare accommodations for twenty-five nurses at the Sternberg United States Field Hospital by August 12th. This hospital was then being established by Major R. E. Griffin, surgeon-in-charge." The following letter from him to Mrs. Reid is a statement as to the work done by the Red Cross nurses there : Dear Madam : The Red Cross Society for the Maintenance of Trained Nurses can truly say, " Veni, Vidi, Vici," for without their helping hand I would have been unable to have stayed the dread disease that has been raging in our camp. Their helping hand came in the hour of need, and the history of the future shall record each and every member of the Red Cross Society, as the guardian angels of the Sternberg Hospital. My experience of years of hospital work has enabled me to judge of the abilities of nurses, and I am proud to say that this corps of nurses under the e.xcellent supervision of Miss Maxwell has never before been equalled. As to the untiring efforts of Miss Cromelien, and her success, after knocking at the door of the department for days to be allowed to admit your Society, words can never ex- press the praise due her. Miss Cromelien was here on the ground the day I put my first tent at the hospital, and immediately began building pavilions for the nurses. I am happy to say, madam, that the world owes you, and all who have been inter- ested in the Red Cross Society, a debt of gratitude ; for not one but all the nurses sent here have been of great help to me, not only in the care of the sick but in organizing and equipping the hospital. I extend to you, madam, and all the members of the Red Cross Society, a hearty in- 46 vitation to the Sternberg U. S. Field Hospital, that you may see for yourselves the good work that is going on. Again thanking you, on behalf of the sick lioys under my care, for the good work done by your Society, I remain, Yours most truly, R. E. Griffin, Ala jor and Chief Surgeon^ U.S. Vols., Commanding Hospital. Before passing to the work at Sternberg Hospital in greater detail, we here quote from Col. Hoff's letter to Miss Cromelien : Headquarters Camp Geo. H. Thomas, Ga., August 26, 189S. Dear Mada.m : I desire to express my sense of obligations to you, and the Society you represent, for the generous offer they made on the second of August, to supply Sternberg Hospital with trained nurses, and meet all their natural wants, which offer, with the approval of the Surgeon-General of the Army, I accepted on the 3d instant. A very short time after this, you established a nursing service in this Field Hospital, which I venture to say, is not surpassed in any hospital, and is equalled in few ; a service which has already brought to our sick soldiers untold comfort, and is aiding materially in their restoration to health and strength. Certainly no nobler undertaking could be imagined and carried out by the women of our country, and none deserving of greater appreciation. Very respectfully, John Van R. Hokf, {Lieut. Col.) Chief Surgeon, Third Corps. Miss Cromelien says further : " The work begun as an experiment has proved beyond doubt the ability of women to work as trained nurses in the field hospitals, and the small amount of sickness among us certainly shows that we have the physical endurance needed for such work under such peculiarly trying circumstances." Miss Maxwell, spoken of in Major Griffin's letter, was the Superinten- dent of the New York Presbyterian Hospital Training School, who through the courtesy of the Board of Managers, was accorded leave of absence, so that she might be enabled to meet the Society's wishes by taking charge of this very important work. The Government allowed her the choice of an assistant, and an adequate supply of nurses, and twenty efficient women were soon chosen from the leading training schools of the country. This number was very largely increased later. The sixty-four nurses sent by the Society received Goyernment pay and rations. Additional maintenance and sup])lies for these, and for ninety- six other nurses ordered there by the Government were furnished by the Society. In all, the Society expended at Chickamauga for buildings, equipments, nurses' supplies and maintenance, $10,548.00, besides the sums required for transportation. The valuable aid of Miss Frances A. Stone was secured as A-^sistant Superintendent, and the party left New York on August 7th. Quoting in part froin Miss Maxwell's report : 47 " On August 13th, we started for Sternberg U. S. Hospital, to begin the work we had set out to do. This hospital was intended to receive the overflow from the overcrowded Division Hospitals, and consisted of from 170 to 200 tents with nine large, wooden pavilions, and was designed to hold 1000 patients. Besides Miss Maxwell, Miss Stone, a manager, and a dietician were maintained by the Society. The 160 nurses came from all parts of the Union, thirty-one training schools being represented. Eight dormitories, the kitchen, dining-room, bath-house, and storerooms, housekeeper, and servants were provided. The supplies of soups, jellies, and fruits for the nurses were constantly drawn upon for the use of the patients. The number of patients received at this Hospital during the three and a half months of its existence was iioo. The largest number of patients cared for at any one time was 536. Four hundred and seventy were furloughed or transferred to their homes by hospital trains which were often fitted up by the supplies from our stores, and only seventy- eight died. Ten nurses were at first sent to the General Hospital at Fortress Mon- roe in charge of Miss Lida G. Starr, but later others followed, and at one time, the number maintained there by the Society was as large as forty- five. Miss Starr remained at Fortress Monroe until late in January, when she was recalled to New York to take charge of one of the parties of nurses sent to Manila. Only thirty-four patients died of the 1700 treated, and much of the credit of this is due to Miss Starr's manage- ment. Major De Witt, the surgeon-in-charge, said : " I am satisfied that whatever success we may have had in the treat- ment of our sick and wounded, has been in a great measure due to the skill and devotion of the female nurses." In August when the Government bought the Missouri for a hospital ship, trained male nurses were offered to Major Arthur, the officer-in- charge. He finally decided to accept the men offered by this Society, instead of the ten nurses allowed him by the Government, who were only paid the regulation salary. This was less than half the amount necessary to secure the services of such able men, and the Society as- sumed the payment of the balance of salary. That he did not repent his decision, seems to be fully shown by the following letter from the chief surgeon of the Hospital Ship Missouri to Mrs. Cowdin, dated Oct. 11, 1898 : " The experience of our trip to Santiago was repeated during our trip to Porto Rico and return, and the nurses recommended by you did their work most satisfactorily. I wrote from Santiago, telling what willing, skilful, and generally excellent services these men had rendered us. Everything I called upon them to do, and I asked a great deal of them, 48 was done promptly, cheerfully, and well. They volunteered to do a great deal that I could not reasonably have asked them to do, — cleaning floors, unpacking and storing supplies, and helping in many ways before the patients were brought on board. Altogether I am very much pleased with these men, and very glad to say that they are willing to continue in the service." These men were chiefly selected from the Mills Training School ; and a few with the assistance of Dr, Fisher, of the Presbyterian Hospital. They fully deserved Major Arthur's commendation, and on the second and third trips their number was increased to fifteen. They have since been found to be so valuable that they are now permanently employed by the Government on the Missouri at full salaries. On the arrival of the CoJicho at Swinburn Island, Miss Wyckoff and Miss Barker assisted in caring for the patients, and when they were transferred to Governor's Island, Major Kimball, the surgeon-in-charge, requested that these nurses be allowed to remain and assist his hospital corps. This was not only granted, but additional nurses were sent later. Much good was also done by our representative at Fort Hamilton, There the work was in charge of Miss M. E. Wood, who writes as follows : " In all, six hundred and one soldiers have been treated within the last ten weeks. Of the three who have died, two were in such a condition when taken off the transport that they lived only a short time. *' On September loth, word was received that one hundred patients would arrive by the Shinnecock, at 10.30 a.m., but when they came at 11.30, there were two hundred and twenty-six instead of one hundred. However, Miss Mische and her assistants in the diet kitchen were so well prepared that within one hour every man had been fed. Some of them were very ill, and all looked utter wrecks. It has been most wonderful to watch them grow young again under good food in plenty, intelligent medical care, and rest on their comfortable cots. Men who looked forty- five or fifty years old, have changed so that it is now possible to believe their statement that they are twenty-two, or twenty-eight, as the case may be. During our busiest time there were in all fifteen female nurses under conditions totally different from any they had met before ; but they adapted themselves to the surroundings and saved many lives, not only by good nursing, but by giving fresh courage, cheer, and comfort to the downcast and despairing patients." Soon after the first party of nurses had been sent to Fortress Mon- roe and Leiter Hospital, Mrs. Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee, director of the D. A. R. Hospital Corps, visited New York to consult with the Committee on Nurses as to the best means of co-operating with the 49 Government in regard to the distinction between Government nurses, and nurses sent out by the Society fot the Maintenance of Trained Nurses. It was agreed that the Society would co-operate with the Government in every way, and, to make everything absoKitely clear, Mrs. Cowdin, for the Committee on Nurses, visited Washington. After her consultations with the members of the Hospital Corps, a fund of $500 was placed in the hands of Mrs. Amos G. Draper, the Treasurer, to pay for immediate transportation expenses for nurses, as Congress had not appropriated any sum for this purpose. In all $5,425.80 were so disbursed by tJhe Society, until the Government assumed all further transportation charges on Sep- tember 6th. It was also agreed that the Society would allow the nurses to sign Government contracts when so required, the Society to pay their maintenance and transportation in some cases, in others only transportation. When the first Spanish prisoners from Admiral Cervera's fleet be- gan to arrive at Portsmouth, the committee heard that the prisoners were in need of skilled care, many being very badly wounded. Letters and telegrams were at once sent to Surgeon-General Van Ruypen, of the Navy, asking permission to send male nurses to Portsmouth to take care of the prisoners. The desired permission was received, and a de- tail of six men, all graduates of the Mills Training School, was immedi- ately sent. Commodore Geo. C. R. Emery writes to Mrs. Cowdin, Sept. 28th, of the results in the following words : Dear Madam : I have the honor to inform you that the Red Cross male nurses sent to this station by the Red Cross Society for the Maintenance of Trained Nurses, Auxiliary to the Ameri- can National Red Cross Relief Committee, to care for the sick Spanish prisoners, gave en- tire satisfaction in the performance of their duties. I can only add that the object of your Society is a credit to humanity. Mr. Brayman says, speaking of their experience : " We were cordially welcomed by Dr. Persons, who is the physician-in-charge. Lying be- tween the hospital building and the Piscataqua River were two long, low wooden buildings, which we soon found to be the scene of our labors. We began work at once, and with the Red Cross Supplies which shortly arrived, a change was soon brought about in the condition of the patients. In one pavilion were fifty-one, and the other fifty-six men, and we had six Spanish prisoners as assistants." These nurses cared for many hundreds of Spanish prisoners, only six of whom died ; and they made such a good impression that the Society was asked to give their services to the Spaniards on the return trip to Spain on the City of Rome. This was readily granted and their expenses 50 assumed by the Society. Every courtesy and consideration was shown them, Admiral Cervera even thanking them personally. A field nearer home was opened at Montauk. By the courtesy of the Managers of St. Luke's Hospital, Mrs. Quintard, their Superintendent, was given leave of absence, so that she was able to take charge of this de- partment. She acquitted herself most admirably, having superintend- ence of the Government nurses and hospitals. She writes : "On August 17th I went down with eleven nurses. With eleven nurses and seven hundred patients, where to begin was the first problem ; but in a few hours the nurses were distributed to the best advantage. Ten nurses arrived on a late train, so that the next day we started in with twenty nurses besides myself. Every train brought a few more nurses, but we could not keep pace with the arrival of the patients. Friday, August 17th, we received three hundred patients from the Mobile. That was the hardest day of all ; from 5.30 A.M. until 10.30 p.m., and even then we scarcely dared to leave our patients. The arrival of twenty Sisters of Charity, and twenty nurses increased our number materially, and now we could try to systematize our work, though we were met by difficulties not known in an ordinary hospital. What should we have done without the Red Cross Relief Association ! In response to my telegram, goods came with sur- prising swiftness. The Red Cross could always get transportation ; they seemed to have the power of getting things through when no one else could. By September 1st we had about sixteen hundred patients, one hundred nurses and one hundred sisters. There were at this time forty-three hospitals, each supposed to hold thirty-five cots, but often contain- ing sixty patients. A very fine diet kitchen had been in running order for several days, and we were much better equipped in every way. I have asked several nurses who all were under my care, ill with typhoid fever, if they regretted having taken up the work. The answer has been invariably the same, emphatically, " No. Had I known the result, 1 should have given my service, even at the sacrifice of my life, and I hope to continue in the work if I regain my health. " Miss Young represented the Society at the Detention Hospital at Camp Wikoff, with fifty women under her. Her report says : " During the six weeks of its existence the Detention Hospital sheltered and cared for eighteen hundred very sick men. Of these sixty- two died, or rather less than four per cent. On September ist. Major E. B. Ebert was placed in command, and in a very short time he succeeded in transforming it into an orderly and well-equipped hospital." In all Mrs. Quintard and Miss Young had ten thousand patients under their care. Soon afterwards the Society became interested in the needs of the in- valid soldiers at the railroad stations, and provided a physician and nurses for their relief and comfort at the Long Island City Relief Station as long as the need existed. The fact that many invalids eager to start home with their regiments but unable to sit up, were making the long and exhausting trip from Montauk Point to Long Island City in midsummer, stretched on the floor 51 of baggage cars, was brought to Mrs. Whitelaw Raid's attention. She ap- pealed to Dr. W. Seward Webb, President of the Wagner Palace Car Company ; and on September 15th the use of the drawing-room cars "Franconia" and "Wayne" as ambulance or hospital cars, attached to trains running from Montauk Point to Long Island City, was kindly given by that Company, to assist in transporting men too ill to ride in ordinary passenger coaches. Three hundred and fifty patients were carried in this way. The cars were fitted up with every comfort for the transportation of sick persons, having a well-equipped diet kitchen, and the constant attendance of nurses and physicians. This was probably the means of saving many lives, for most of these men were very ill, and it was the care and skilled nursing they received that enabled them to stand the fatigue of the trip. Dr. George E. Brewer superintended the manage- ment of this work, assisted by Dr. Miller of New Rochelle and Dr. Prescott of Boston, and from time to time by contract surgeons. All of these physicians gave their services without remuneration, and they were assisted by four nurses, two being assigned to each car. The work at Camp Black, where the Society also tried to relieve suf- fering, was in charge of Miss Irene Sutliffe, Superintendent of the New York Hospital, who arrived there September 4th, with twelve nurses. The substance of her experience is as follows : " There were about one hundred and fifty patients at that time, all suffering with typhoid, or malarial fever, being cared for by men who knew nothing of nursing, many of them much afraid of the disease, and working very reluctantly. I notified Auxiliary No. 3 and the General Committee of the Red Cross Society of this condition, and of the urgent need for more nurses and supplies, including bed linen, etc. This appeal was responded to, as were the many demands made upon the Society, with the greatest cheerfulness and promptness. On September 20th it was deemed advisable to transfer the patients, nurses, and supplies to the Hempstead Hospital. On that day this was begun, but before it was ac- complished, on the 2ist, I was obliged to respond to an urgent summons to return to the New York Hospital, and very reluctantly left the Camp, leaving Miss Sanborn of St. Vincent's Hospital in charge." Every effort was made to care properly for the noble women who worked so faithfully for the Society. Nothing was spared to keep them in health and look after them in sickness. Over thirty nurses were par- tially or entirely cared for during illness, most of them being severe cases of typhoid. The success of the work of the Committee on Nurses was in a great measure due to the co-operation and experience of such women as Miss Agnes Brennan of the Bellevue School, Mrs. L. W, Quintard of St. 52 Luke's School, Miss Maxwell of the Prestyterian School, Miss Irene Sut- liffe of the New York Hospital School, Mrs. Willard of the Mills Train- ing School, and Miss M. E. Wadley of the Bureau of Registration for Trained Nurses. Mrs. Willard rendered valuable assistance in supplying the Society with male trained nurses, often attending personally to the purchase of uniforms, hammocks, and blankets, and Miss Brennan generously placed her time and knowledge at the disposal of the Society. Miss Maxwell kindly tendered the use of her office in the Presbyterian Hospital as a bureau for the registration of nurses. Through her offices the services of Miss K. N. Pierce, Superintendent of the Samaritan Hospital at Troy, N. Y., were secured, and she gave her entire vacation to the arduous task of registering and arranging for the transportation of many nurses who were sent in different directions. When Miss Pierce was obliged to leave, this work was conducted at No. 6 East 42d Street, and placed under the able management of Miss M. E. Wadley, who labored unremittingly to attain the greatest efficiency. In a work which has furnished many examples of patriotic devotion and self-sacrifice none is more worthy of mention than that of Miss Virginia C. Young. She generously volunteered on behalf of the Society to look after the special needs of the nurses in the Detention Hospital at Camp Wikoff, and was also successful in her ministrations for the com- fort of the sick. The Society is furthermore indebted to the Board of Managers of the Presbyterian, New York, and St. Luke's Hospitals for their kindness in crranting leave of absence to the Superintendents of their respective Training Schools, thus making it possible to place the Society's work on a high plane of professional excellence, by enlisting the interest and co- operation of women looked upon as acknowledged authorities in the organization and direction of hospital service. The following is a summary of the nurses, partly or wholly main- tained by the Society : At Fort Wadsworth, forty-one nurses were maintained and paid by the Society. At Charleston, twenty nurses were maintained and paid by the Society. At Leiter Hospital, ten nurses were maintained and paid by the Society. At Governor's Island, six nurses were maintained and paid by the Society. At Tampa, five nurses were maintained and paid by the Society, At the Convalescent Home for Nurses, Rowayton, Conn., one nurse was maintained and paid by the Society. 53 On hospital cars, four nurses were maintained and paid by the Society. At Atlantic Highlands, five nurses and one surgeon were maintained and paid by the Society. At Camp Black, the salaries and laundry bills of forty-two nurses were paid by the Society. The Government provided army tents and rations. At Fort Hamilton, the salaries and laundry bills of twenty-three nurses were paid by the Society. The Government provided army tents and rations. At Fort Monroe, the salaries of forty-three nurses were paid by the Government. The Society provided maintenance for these, and salaries and maintenance for two Red Cross nurses. On the hospital ship Missouri, the salaries of fifteen men nurses were partially paid by the Society. These nurses were maintained by the Government. At Bedloe's Island, one nurse was paid by the Society, and received army rations. There was also, one volunteer Red Cross nurse who re- ceived army rations. At Portsmouth, six men nurses were paid by the Society. They re- ceived army rations, but their transportation both to Portsmouth and to Spain was assumed by the Society. At the General Hospital, Montauk Point, almost all of the one hun- dred and fifty nurses under Mrs. Quintard's superintendence signed the Government contract. Mrs. Quintard's salarj- continued to be paid by the Society, and large supplies of all kinds for the nurses were selected by Auxiliary No. 3, and their expenses to Montauk paid. At the Sternberg Hospital, Chickamauga, the sixty-four nurses sent by the Society received Government pay and rations. Additional main- tenance and supplies for these, and for ninety-six other nurses ordered there by the Government, were furnished by the Society. At the Long Island City Relief Station, twenty-nine nurses and two surgeons were paid by the Society, and maintained by the Relief Station. At the tents at Montauk Station, one nurse was paid by the Society, and one volunteer nurse was maintained by the Relief Committee. One nurse was supported in Miss Chanler's Hospital at Porto Rico. At the Nassau Hospital and Annex, Hempstead, twentv- nurses were paid by the Society, and maintained by the Hospital, At the Home for Convalescent Soldiers at Sag Harbor, six nurses were paid by the Society, and maintained by the citizens of Sag Harbor. At the Convalescent Home for the 8th Regiment at Hunter's Island, two nurses were paid by the Society, and maintained by funds raised by Miss Chauncey. Of the twenty-nine nurses on the U. S. Transport Lampasas many 54 were volunteers, and the salaries of some, and maintenance of all were borne by the Society. Nurses were also supplied on emergency calls to the 8th and 9th Regi- ment armories. As the demands upon the Society assumed a definite character, it be- came necessary to establish headquarters. From May iSth to August 6th the nurses reported at the residence of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, the Chair- man of the Committee of Nurses, and were sent out from there. After that date and until September 20th, the headquarters of the Society were maintained at the residence of Mrs. Winthrop Cowdin, who, during the temporary absence of the President and the First and Second Vice- Presidents, acted as the executive head of the Society. From September 20th to November nth the Society's office was at the residence of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, and from November nth to January ist, 1899, at No. 6 East 42d Street. On the breaking up of the hospitals at Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, and the consequent transfer of hundreds of patients to this city and Brooklyn, it was brought to the attention of the Society that in order to make room for the helplessly ill men arriving daily from Montauk Point, convalescent homes for soldiers obliged to leave the hospitals were most necessary. In order to assist in relieving this pressure, the Society accepted the generous offer made by the Rector and Vestry of the Church of the In- carnation, giving the use of their Summer Home at Peekskill, secured through Mrs. Whitelaw Reid ; and the equally kind offer of the Trustees of the Chapel Hill Fresh Air Mission House, donating the use of the " Eunice " Home at Chapel Hill, N. J. Both of these Homes were sup- ported and fully equipped by the Society with carefully selected staffs of nurses and physicians, and their supervision entrusted to a committee consisting of Mrs. Marion Story, Chairman and Treasurer, and Mrs. W. Lanman Bull. While it was impossible to effect an improvement in some of the men, the majority left the Homes benefited morally as well as physically. An illustration of the change wrought in some of them is indicated in the following remark of a soldier to one of the nurses : " Till I came to this Home I did not know there were such ladies. Now I think there is nothing like them." That boy had not been near his family for five years (having run away from home), but he went straight from the Home and spent Thanksgiving Day with his mother. Aided by the devoted efforts of Mrs. W. Lanman Bull, the Peeks- kill Home, which opened September 19th and closed November 19th, cared for eighty-five convalescent men. 55 The admirable order and discipline maintained at this Home were due in a large measure to the influence exerted by the Superintendent, Miss Briggs, Deaconess of Grace Church Parish, Miss Alice Emmons, Miss McGuirk, and Miss Stennett. On September 17th the Society accepted the use of the "Eunice" Home at Chapel Hill, kindly offered free of charge by Mrs. Sylvanus Reed. Before turning it over, the Trustees of the Chapel Hill Fresh Air Mission had the house put in perfect condition, providing stoves throughout and many new articles of furniture. A substantial amount of groceries was also put in, and coal was donated by Mrs. Hazlett NLcKim and ice by Mrs. J. Frederic Kernochan for as long a time as the Home remained open. Under the excellent management of Miss M. E. Melville and Dr. G. R. Winder, and afterwards of Miss F. H. Linton, one hundred and seventy-seven convalescent men were cared for up to December ist, at which time the Home closed. Late in the autumn, through the kindness of Mrs. A. D. Ward, the Society was given the use of a fully furnished house at Rowayton, Conn., capable of accommodating eight patients and a staff of employes. For a few weeks it was conducted as a Convalescent Home for Nurses, under the superintendence of Miss Helen Newlin. Not being adapted for winter use, it was closed on December 22d, and the convalescent nurses were carefully looked after, and cared for elsewhere. It is conceded that properly cooked and nourishing food is a most potent factor in the art of good nursing. In the army but two classes are recognized — the very sick and the well. As soon as the convalescent soldier leaves the hospital, he is served with the regular army rations, no distinction being made between him and his stronger comrade. By an exchange of rations, a light diet of milk, eggs, coffee, and canned food may be obtained for the sick. In order, therefore, to meet the urgent need of supplying proper food for convalescent and sick men, the Society obtained permission through the efforts of its Agent, Mrs. M. H. Willard, to start a diet kitchen at the General Hospital, Camp Wikoff. On August 29th, the first meal was served to about one thou- sand men. The value of the work was so apparent that it immediately received the endorsement of the Government, which assumed the ex- pense and control of this and four other large diet kitchens started in the Detention and Division Hospitals. The Massachusetts Aid Association made up the difference of the amount required to secure better cooks than could be obtained for the Government salary. In the General Hospital alone, about twelve thou- sand meals were served, and in the other hospitals about seven thousand. 56 That diet kitchens are of great value for the proper care of sick sol- diers, and that this work in field hospitals is perfectly practicable has been fully demonstrated ; and it is to be hoped that in the future no hospital of this kind will be without a diet kitchen. It seemed at one time, with a partial disbandment of the troops and the gradual withdrawal of our nurses from the Southern Camps, and later even from those nearer home, that the chances of the Society for use- fulness in connection with the emergencies of the war would cease. Subscribers and contributors were accordingly notified that no more contributions were necessary. The President on November nth ap- pointed a Committee, consisting of Mrs. William D. Guthrie, Chairman ; Mrs. Charles B. Alexander, Mrs. Edmund L. Baylies, Mrs. George F. Shrady, Jr., Mrs. John J. McCook, Mrs. Wm. Lanman Bull, Miss Eliza- beth Kean, and Mrs. James Speyer, ex-officio, to ascertain and properly dispose of all claims against the Society, close up all business of a mis- cellaneous nature, and to narrow down its obligations strictly to the main- tenance and care of nurses. This Committee promptly completed its work and it was found that the Society had to its credit on January 4th, 1899, a balance of $19,874.12. With the necessity of reinforcing our troops in the Philippines, how- ever, came a new opportunity which the Society was glad to grasp. Knowing that General Otis had asked for nurses for Manila, and hearing that they were greatly needed there, the Executive Committee decided to apply the funds remaining in the treasury for this purpose, and after a consultation between Mrs. Reid and Secretary Alger the suggestion of sending nurses to the Philippines was favorably received by the Govern- ment. While awaiting the ofiicial orders from Washington, a Committee on Nurses was appointed by the President, consisting of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, Chairman ; Mrs. William S. Cowles, Mrs. Charles B. Alexander, Mrs. Edmund L. Baylies and Mrs. James Speyer, ex-officio. A formal offer was made by the Society to send nurses to the Philippines, and on January 8th the following letter from Adjutant- General Corbin was received by the Chairman : " We have determined to take three transports from here to Manila, about eighteen hundred men on each. The Secretary of War approves your sending four nurses on each. The first ship will leave the 15th, the other two, before February ist." This was followed by a letter from Secretary Alger, which read as follows : Washington, D. C, Jan. loth. My dear Mrs. Reid : Having in mind your very assuring visit this morning, as Chairman for the Committee on Nurses for the " Trained Nurses' Maintenance Society," concerning nurses for the 57 Philippine Islands, and your kind offer to send four nurses on each of our three ships going to Manila, sailing from New York, the Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan, the first of which will leave on Tuesday next, I would suggest that if you will communicate with Col. A. S. Kimball, Depot Quartermaster, Army Building, New York City, he will notify you when the nurses should be sent, and to whom they should report. If you could possibly spare the time to visit the ship before she sails, so as to convince yourself that the nurses will be cared for, I should be very glad indeed. Col. Kimball will notify you when and where you can best see the vessels with the least inconvenience to yourself. It is understood that the nurses going on these ships, and on others that are to follow, are to remain in the service of the United States for six months. If additional service, longer than this term, is required, the matter can be negotiated hereafter. It is under- stood that the Government is to furnish transportation and subsistence to Manila and re- turn, and your organization to provide for their compensation. I'he nurses, however, are to report to the Major-General commanding at Manila, and to be governed by the hospital regulations as prescribed by him or his Surgeon-in-Chief, and to go to any other hospital in the Islands, should this be required of them. Permit me to suggest that before the nurses leave the United States, your organiza- tion fix with them their rate of compensation, and that a letter to that effect be given them. I would also suggest, in order to simplify matters, that you have a letter of credit, convertible in Manila, say $2500 or $3000, payable to the order of the Commanding- General of the United States forces there. This I think would relieve you of a great deal of care and annoyance. I will direct Col. Kimball to-day to render you such assistance as he can in making arrangements for your nurses. Letters of instruction will also be sent you, to give each of your nurses, addressed to the Commanding-General of Manila, to provide comfortable quarters for them, and make every possible arrangement to add to their comfort. Very truly yours, R. A. Alger, Secretary of War. The Committee met and agreed to this in substance, and their reply- was embodied in a letter sent on January 14th accepting Secretary Alger's terms. No time was lost in completing arrangements which had been already carefully planned, so that though for the first party the notice was short, it was possible to send the nurses properly equipped and provided for. The latter were most carefully selected, many of them having already done valuable work for the Society during the past sum- mer. They were personally instructed in every case by members of the Committee, as to their duties. The transport was inspected by the Chairman and her Committee, letters of introduction from prominent men were secured for the nurses, and everything possible was done for their comfort and success on the expedition. All signed contracts with the Society for six months' duty in Manila and on the transports, to take care of the sick in the hospital. The expectation is that, in all, they will be away from this country about nine months ; they will no doubt remain longer if needed. t Miss Henshall sailed on the Grant, on January 19th, with Miss Dow- 58 ling, Miss Towne, and Miss Ridley. Miss Henshall was not only in charge of this division, but is the Superintendent of the entire party of twelve nurses. Miss Starr sailed on the Sherman on February 2d, in charge of the second detachment, taking with her Miss Betts, Miss Sara Shaw, and Miss Agnes Shaw. The last transport, the Sheridan, left on February 19th with Miss Gladwin in charge of the party of nurses, who were Miss Stirk, Miss Mount, and Miss Holmes. The Red Cross Ambulance Society (Auxiliary No. i), the Ice Plant Auxiliary, and the American National Red Cross Relief Committee sent generous supplies of all kinds with the nurses, for the use of the soldiers on the transports and at Manila. At a meeting, held January i8th, action was taken by the Executive Committee, by the passing of the following resolutions, with a view to the disbanding of the Society at an early date : " Resolved, That all money remaining after the expenses now vouched for are paid, shall be handed to the Special Committee on sending nurses to Manila, to use for salaries and expenses for said nurses ; and *' Whereas, All money of this Committee having been appropriated, the work of the Society is virtually completed. Therefore be it ^^ Resolved, That after the necessary executive meetings and a meeting of the Associate Members have been held, the Society will be considered officially disbanded." While the Executive Committee now considers the work of Auxiliary No. 3 as formally closed, great good is still being done and will be done during the coming months with the balance of the funds left in the hands of the Special Committee for sending nurses to Manila and the Philippine Islands. The records submitted on the foregoing pages for the information of those interested in the work of Auxiliary No. 3 but imperfectly recount the innumerable acts of kindness, of generous gifts, of voluntary and heroic labor. The contributions include gifts by many of small means whose subscriptions involved real personal sacrifice. Credit and praise could not be given to all to whom justly due. To every one who aided us in any way our warmest thanks are extended. Without their prompt and generous assistance little could have been ac- complished. Surely, no nobler work could ever be engaged in. To have had any part in it is in itself an inspiration and will always remain a source of profound gratification to those who organized and managed the affairs of this Auxiliary and assisted in lessening the horrors of war. We know that the sufferings of many soldiers and sailors were relieved by the ministrations of our nurses ; and that others, less fortunate, were sustained and cheered by their presence in the inevitable hour. 59 We all must deprecate war and its horrors, and women will ever wish for eternal peace. But at times it seems as if, in the order of Providence, war becomes unavoidable. War, too, has its grandeur ; it furnishes heroic acts, deeds of patriotic and unselfish devotion which must always be reckoned among the true glories of a nation. When war does come, and our brave men go forward to fight, they never can go alone. The hearts and helpful activities of American women must go with them. By order of the Executive Committee, Elisabeth Mills Reid, Katherine W. Ambrose Shrady. Secretary. Recording Secretary. RED CROSS SOCIETY FOR MAINTENANCE OF TRAINED NURSES. AUXILIARY No. 3. Dr. In account with F. K. SruRGls, Treasurer. Cr. 1898 July 6. Paid to F. D. Tappen, Esq., Treasurer of American National Red Cross Relief Com- mittee % 12,905 00 Paid to Mrs. Winthrop Cowdin 61,350 00 " Mrs. E. L. Baylies, Ass't Treas 34,575 63 Oct. 21. " Mrs. Marion Story 15000 $108,980 68 Total amount of subscriptions, from May 23, 1898, to date, received from Louisa Baylies, Ass't Treasurer, $ 13.988 00 Total amount of donations, from May 23, 1898, to date, received from Louisa Baylies, Ass't Treasurer 73.2S3 74 Amount remitted from Paris, France, donated by resi- dents in Europe 21,287 78 Interest received to date 421 16 March i, 1899. $108,980 68 E. & O. E. F. K. STURGIS, Treasurer. 6o AUXILIARY No. 4. OFFICERS. Mrs. Wm. Sharman, President. Mrs. Oscar Rogers, Vice-President. Mrs. Heermance, Treasurer. Mrs. Theo. H. Silkman, Secretary. Yonkers Red Cross Auxiliary A meeting of the Executive Committee of Auxiliary No. 4, Red Cross Association, was held Tuesday, Nov. 8th, 1898, in the Surrogate's office, Mrs. Sharman presiding. The Secretary, Mrs. Silkman, stated that since the first meeting, on May loth, there had been twenty-five meetings, with an average attendance of fifty-two members. When the intense heat of July and August was re- membered, this large average shows how deep had been the interest. Very generous donations had been received, which have been each week acknowledged in The Yonkers Statesman. These donations are of all kinds. From every one the Auxiliary had received every possible assistance. The Treasurer, Mrs. Heermance, then read her report, showing a bal- ance in bank of $559.44. The Executive Officer, Mrs. James T. Gibson, read her interesting re- port in detail, of which the following condensed form is given : The Auxiliary has made or received 7158 articles for use, and received about 600 articles of food, varying in value from a package of cornstarch to barrels of potatoes. Of this amount, there were sent to the supply rooms in New York, 6326 articles of clothing, and 140 pints of jelly ; to local hospitals, 757 articles of clothing, and the balance of food. There are in storage 182 articles. After a short discussion, a resolution was passed that the three officers, President, Treasurer, and Secretary, be empowered to use the balance in money and the articles in storage as seemed wisest to them. The meeting adjourned sitie die. April 8, 1899. Since this meeting I have to report that the following distribution of articles has been made : 6i To Hampton Hospital, Va., a box containing eighteen (i8) dozen articles. To same Hospital, two dozen flannel wrappers. To sick soldiers, grapes, wine, also money, according to the Treasurer's Report. Sophie R. Sharman, President No. 4. TREASURER'S REPORT. Auxiliary No. 4. Receipts. To October 20, 189S $1603.05 From October 20 to November 7 2.50 From November 7, 1898, to February 15, iSgg 7-20 $1612.75 Payments. To October 20, 189S, to Mr. Tappen $ 300.00 For Supplies, goods made up and sent to Hospitals, and Special Cases, flannels, labor, laundrying, etc 713-84 From October 20 to November 7, flannels, food for Special Cases, Printing (for Concert), etc 32.27 From November 7, 1898, to February 15, iSgg, Care of Special Cases, flannel wrappers, and money to Hospitals 121.84 $1167.95 Balance 444.8o $1612.75 Mrs. W. L. Heermance, Treasurer. 62 AUXILIARY No. 5. COT EQUIPMENT. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Mrs. \Vm. Metcalf Bliss, President. Mrs. Ludlow and Mrs. Benjamin Welles, Vice-Presidents. Mrs. T. J. Oakley Rhinelander, Secretajy. Mrs. Chester Griswold, Treasurer. The Fifth Auxiliary organized late in May with a small membership and modest aims ; but the membership grew rapidly, for Red Cross work was near to the hearts of the Americans last summer and all wanted to show their interest in our soldiers. Our ambition also grew ; for as the need for the work of mercy of the Red Cross Society became more apparent, it was evident that a much larger number of equipped cots would be required than we had supposed, and our wish was to supply all the cots that should be used by the Red Cross Society. To enlarge our field of work we called upon the Associate members to volunteer to establish branches of our Auxiliary at the various country places to which they might go for the summer months. Seventeen members responded and a perusal of their reports will show the splendid results of their untiring work. It is due to them that we can congratulate ourselves on having been able to furnish funds to meet all the requisitions made upon us by the Relief Committee. It is further a source of great gratification that the equipped cots have been of such value to the soldiers. That this was the case is proved by the testimony of many ofificers and surgeons at the front and in the camps ; even so difficile a critic as Surgeon-General Sternberg having expressed his admiration of their complete equipment and their compactness when packed. The original list of equipments sent with each cot was as follows : Four sheets, a rubber sheet, a pair of woolen blankets, a pair of cotton blankets, a pillow, three pillowcases, nightshirt, pajamas, mosquito netting, agate ware washbowl and pitcher, three plates, cup, knife, fork, and spoon. 63 Later when the necessity of forwarding the cots in easily handled pack- ages had been shown, the hardware articles were omitted at the request of the Red Cross authorities. Our cordial thanks are due to Dr. and Mrs. Lesser of the Red Cross Society, who suggested the list of equipments for the cots, and to the Supply Committee of the National Red Cross Relief, by whom the cots were bought, packed, and shipped to their destinations. The Supply Committee still have a sufficient number of cots on hand to meet any probable emergency in Cuba or Porto Rico, and there is a bal- ance of funds in the hands of our Treasurer, which is held subject to the advice of the National Red Cross Relief Committee. The war ended, the reason for our existence as an organization is past, and therefore we present this final report of our work, with heartfelt thanks to those whose subscriptions have made that work possible, and to our co-workers, the Chairmen of the Summer Branches and their com- mittees. The Executive Committee. TREASURER'S REPORT. Auxiliary No. 5. In account with Mrs. Chester Griswold, Treasurer . Received from Branches. Ballston, N. Y $ 237.50 Burlington, Vt 1,709.00 Defender's Auxiliary Corps 100.00 Goshen, N. Y 169.00 Greenwich, Conn 2,107.89 Lake Mohonk, N. Y 861.00 New London, Conn 1,909.69 North East Harbor, Me 1,265.00 Narragansett Pier, R. 1 4S8.02 Ramapo, N. Y 50.00 Tuxedo, N. Y 160.00 Tarrytown, N. Y q6o.oo Ridgefield, Conn i,333-00 Southampton, L. 1 5,611.00 Stone Ridge, N. Y 566.00 Seal Harbor, Me I53-30 Scarborough, N. Y 440.00 Wyncote, Penn 1,050.00 Islip, L. 1 550.00 Total from Branches $19,720.40 Individual subscriptions 6,283.29 $26,003.69 64 Expenditures. raid Fred'k D. Tappen, Treas'r National Red Cross Relief Com., for Cots $19,500.00 Paid Fred'k D. Tappen for General Red Cross Fund 2,986.00 Auxiliary Expenses 337-99 December 1st, Balance 3,179.70 $26,003.69 NUMBER OF EQUIPPED COTS AND WHERE SENT. July 5 To Santiago 100 " 19 *' 200 25 50 Aug. S Fort Wadsworth 6 " 9 Montauk 48 << u 12 25 16 100 " " Transport " Missouri " 200 " " Fort Wadsworth 4 ** 18 Montauk 100 19 " 100 " 22 " 150 27 200 " " Porto Rico 50 " 29 L. I. Emergency Hospital 2 30 12 U _ . (( << ii 31 25 Sept. I Montauk 250 " " L. I. Emergency Hospital 50 " 2 Eighth Regiment Armory 25 " St. Peter's Hospital 7 :^ L. I. College Hospital 25 " 5 Brooklyn Hospital 25 Fort Wadsworth 4 8 St. Catherine's Hospital 50 Red Cross Car, 42nd Street 12 " " Montauk 100 " " Camp Black i " L. I. Emergency Hospital 25 ;; 9 " " " 60 " Pelham Park Convalescent Hospital 26 " L. I. College Hospital 25 10 Montauk 200 " Pennsylvania P. R. Depot 12 65 Sept. 1 2 14 15 16 216 lbs. tobacco, ) tes, \ (^ 1 2,000 cigarettes, Express, stationery, telephones, etc. 94 45 9 60 10 63 55 65 8 24 71 37 642 95 748 05 163 00 36 86 49 28 16 56 25 20 83 70 I 85 46 00 29 70 44 24 28 80 8 00 I So I 50 79 20 12 45 E. & O. E. $3,202 20 Mary Middletown Burrill, Oiairman. I 10 REPORT OF CHAIRMAN OF WORK COMMITTEE. Auxiliary 22 undertook in May to supply fifty Red Cross flags. In ad- dition we have made pajamas, towels, surgical nightshirts, cheese-cloth squares, flannel shirts, pillowcases, bandages, sheets, bands, etc., in the following quantities : June 2,909 July 3,042 August 4,416 September 3,777 Total garments sent i4,i44 Anne Brevoort Eddy, Chairman Work Cotnniittee. REPORT OF CHAIRMAN OF FOOD SUPPLY COMMITTEE. Since the Committee was appointed July ist over 850 cans and pack- ages of food have been packed and sent from the different branches of the Auxiliary. The delicacies bought from Park & Tilford consisted of cases of soups, malted and condensed milk, dozens of canned vegetables, cases of whiskey, sherry, brandy, casks of ginger ale, boxes of cereals, crackers, rennet, gelatine, etc. Receipts. New Rochelle $783 30 Larchmont 1,064 25 Mamaroneck 50 00 Pelhain Manor 10 00 Westchester 2 10 $1,909 65 Disbursements. July 13, Park & Tilford $599 91 " is, " 9998 Aug. 12, " 1S8 10 " 22, " 1,00232 $1,890 31 Credit in treasury of Food Supply Committee $19 34 N. I. Kane, Chairman. REPORT OF CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE ON READING MATTER. This Committee was appointed June 29th. Since that time the follow- ing number of books and magazines have been sent to Posts, Hospitals, and the Navy : 1 1 1 Pelham Manor 4>359 Westchester 1,585 Mamaroneck 2,139 New Rochelle 2,500 Larchmont 2,000 Total books and magazines sent 1 2,583 Besides this the New Rochelle division sent 3000 envelopes, 7 quarts ink, 95 penholders, and 12 boxes of writing paper. Jane Erin Emmet, Chairman. REPORT OF CHAIRMAN OF JUNIOR MEMBERS' COMMITTEE. Since the Committee was appointed in June, 312 children have joined, bringing the greatest enthusiasm to the work. Pelham Manor 30 Westchester 81 New Rochelle 147 Larchmont 54 A number of bandage rolling-machines were presented to the division and the children sent down over 1000 bandages and towels. The children collected money in various ways. One little girl dressed her doll as a Red Cross nurse, carried it about begging, and received $24.00. A very small boy did errands for two cents and turned in eighty- four cents proceeds. The children in August held a fair in New Rochelle from which they made $568. The total receipts of the Junior Branches were $715. Of this $633.87 was sent to the treasurer ; the remainder was used for materials, etc. Anne J. Bottom, Chairman. The last meeting of Auxiliary 22 was held on October 4, when, believ- ing that the pressing need for our services no longer existed, we adjourned indefinitely. Katharine E. Keogh, Secretary. I 12 AUXILIARY No 23. New Brighton, S. I. OFFICERS. Mrs. John L. Randle, President. Miss Grace M. Whittemore, Secretary. .Miss Elizabeth Edwards, Treastirer. There are no Sub- Auxiliaries in connection with us. We have, at present, forty-one members. We have had donated to us, 12 jars wine jelly from Pursell, 12 cans soup from O'Neill, 6 cans of cocoa and 6 cans of soup from Williamson. We made during the summer 88 nightshirts. Nothing was sent to camps ; all nightshirts sent direct to Supply Com- mittee. We organized in June and devoted ourselves all summer to the night- shirts ; when we met in October, however, it was decided to devote our work to the care of sick soldiers in Staten Island hospitals, of which there are five : U. S. Marine Hospital, Fort Wadsworth Hospital, Battle Creek Sanitarium, S. R. Smith Infirmary, and Staten Island Hospital. At the Battle Creek Sanitarium, however, we were not allowed to help at all, not even to see the soldiers ; so amongst the other four we have distributed the soup, etc. before mentioned, $11.00 worth of tobacco, four boxes of writing- paper, 2 dozen sets of warm underclothing, and 4 dozen pairs stockings. Also, we have visited the hospitals every week. Now most of the soldiers are well and this month we have taken up the case of a poor Cuban soldier who is down here, helpless, without money and not even able to speak our language. He was captured by the Spaniards and forced to stand on the edge of the rifle-pits before Santiago holding the Spanish colors, where- upon the colors were shot away and his right hand with them, by our marksmen. By some mistake he was brought up here and has been in the Marine Hospital until now. We have taken it upon ourselves to take charge of him when he leaves the hospital, find him transportation to Cuba, with enough money to keep him until he finds his friends, which is what he most desires. Grace M. Whittemore, New Brighton, Nov. 3, 1898. Secretary. 113 AUXILIARY No 24. Princeton, N. J. OFFICERS. Mrs. Junius P. Morgan, President. Mrs. Laurence Hutton, Secretary. Mrs. W. E. D. Scott, Treasurer. We established Branches at Rocky Hill, N. J., and Highstone, N. J., and Bread Loaf Inn, Vt. We sent contributions to 552 Broadway ; also to Camp Wikoff for Co. H, 8th U. S. Infantry, and to Capt. Perry, Co. H, 8th Infantry ; to Gov- ernor's Island to men of the 8th Infantry who were ill there, and to H. K. Devereux, Roosevelt Hospital. We sent 33 boxes in all, containing 400 sets pajamas, 500 handker- chiefs, 90 wash-cloths, 140 sheets, 140 pillowcases, 90 outing shirts, 10 outing coats, 34 surgical sheets, 12 under-shirts, 8 under-drawers, 120 night- shirts, 50 socks, 150 compresses, 12 comfort-bags, 16 pocket pincushions, 300 flannel bands, old linen, magazines, and newspapers. We also sent boxes containing jelly, preserves, coffee, tobacco, soap, soup, crackers, sherry, brandy, raspberry vinegar, alcohol, bay rum, fans, crutches, cocoa, bouillon, lime juice, crushed oats, malt, graino, rice ; medicines : quinine, gutta-percha tissue, absorbent cotton, cotton gauze, syringes, medicine glasses, pipes, flags, writing paper and envelopes, 10 cases containing delicacies. Our headquarters are still open, and we hope to send some more pajamas as we have quite a little material on hand. Mrs. Scott will send the treasurer's report. The money we raised was devoted to cots, and to buying material. The rooms where we held our meetings all summer were given to us rent free. Our membership con- sisted of the whole town, more or less, all working industriously and enthusiastically. Committee : Mrs. J. S. Morgan, president ; Mrs. Laurence Hutton, sec- retary ; Mrs. W. E. D. Scott, treasurer. Eleanor V. Hutton, Oct. 30, 1898. Secretary. 114 AUXILIARY No. 25. Hackeiisack, N. J. OFFICERS. Mrs. James Romeyn, President. Miss Jexnie A. Sage, Secretary. Miss Fannie Conklin, Treasurer. The Hackensack Auxiliary No. 25 of the National Red Cross Society was organized June 21, 1898, consisting of thirty-five (35) members. Our armory has been opened three mornings of each week from June 21st to September 2d, and since September 2d one morning a week up to present date. Here the ladies met to sew and give out work. The Auxiliary had the hearty cooperation of the entire community. We have raised through voluntary contributions $551.19, which has been used for buying materials and current expenses. We have con- tributed to the Red Cross work up to date 1618 articles, including pajamas, emergency garments, towels, bandages, pillows, sheets, handker- chiefs, pillow-cases, hot-water bags, beef extract. There is another box to be shipped this week, which will close our work. This will bring the number of garments made by our Auxiliary up to 1700. One box was sent during the summer to Camp Cuba Libre, Jacksonville, and another to Key West ; the other boxes have been sent to the Supply Rooms, 552 Broadway. Jennie A. Sage, Secretary. November 23, 1S9S. 115 AUXILIARY No. 26. Sezvickley , Pa. OFFICERS. Mr. Robert A. Benton, President. Mrs. Edward P. Coffin, Secretary. Mr. E. p. Young, Treasurer. FINANCIAL STATEMENT. Receipts. From Conceit ^122 00 Lawn Fete 477 57 " Membership 1780^3 " Churches and Subscriptions 216 7g $994 3^ Disbursements. Paid to American National Red Cross Relief Committee, New York, (July 22d, $100 ; August 31st, $475) 575 00 " First Pennsylvania Red Cross Auxiliary, Pittsburgh, Pa., July 22d 150 00 " for Material, Expressage, Postage, and Incidental Expenses during the Summer if'4 77 $339 77 Balance on hand October 24th 104 59 $994 36 E. P. Young, Treasurer. Memorandum of boxes forwarded to Supply Depot from Sewickley Red Cross Auxiliary No. 26 : July 2, 1898, package, 196 bandages. July 16, 1898, box, 100 hospital shirts, 100 handkerchiefs, package of bandages. July 30, 1898, box, 50 pajamas, 50 handkerchiefs. August 13, 1898, box, 96 sheets. August 20, 1898, box, 22 shirts (outing flannel), 22 handkerchiefs, 100 towels. August 27, 1898, box, 3 shirts (outing flannel), 20 pajamas, 23 handker- chiefs, also a package of bandages from Junior Auxiliary. September 12, 189S, box, zd pajamas, 26 handkerchiefs. September 26, 1898, box, 44 pajamas, 44 handkerchiefs, 2 sheets, 6 pillow- cases. October 17, 1S98, box, 18 sheets, 18 pajamas, 6 handkerchiefs, iS soft towels, and from Junior Auxiliary 9 rolled bandages and i sling. Also in September, at a date not recorded, a box containing a number of books, old magazines, etc. Robert A. Benton, Chairman. ii6 AUXILIARY No. 2^. Jennerstown, Pa. Plans for Auxiliary No. 27 were projected by the late Miss Sylvia Catherine Coffin. Miss F. E. Coffin, her sister, owing to poor health dur- ing the summer, was unable to have these plans carried out. AUXILIARY No. 28. Fort Stanwix, Rome, New York. In the absence of the Secretary, I send a short summary of the sum- mer's work of Red Cross Auxiliary No. 28. The organization was formed May 27th. The following officers were elected : Mrs. Louise M. Duffy, President ; Miss Sara Abell Beers, Secre- tary ; Mrs. Edward W. Cummings, Treasurer. Mrs. Edward Huntington, who was President of the Woman's Work for Soldiers during the Civil War, although unable to attend our meetings, was greatly interested in our un- dertaking, and was made an Honorary President of the Red Cross Society. The following were constituted an Executive Committee : The officers, ex-officio ; Miss Mary L. Bissell, Mrs. Elizabeth R. H. Bright, Mrs. James Stevens, Mrs. William H. Tuller. We organized with 59 members, the membership fee being twenty-five cents for adults and ten cents for children. This membership was in- creased to 341 during the summer. The Society was named the Fort Stanwix Red Cross Auxiliary. July 9th, Mrs. James Stevens gave the Society a check for $100, which was immediately sent to Miss Draper to be applied to the Ice Fund. Tuesday afternoon and evening, July 19th, the D. A. R. and the Red Cross Auxiliary together gave a garden party which was a very pleasant affair, socially and financially, netting each organization §103.80. July 27th a check for $100 was sent to Miss Leverich for the Ice Fund. August ist, a N. Y. draft for $50 was sent to Miss Leverich for the Ice Fund. November 9th the Treasurer sent: the balance of the money in the treasury, $9.60, to Frederick D. Tappen. To recapitulate : Number of members, 341. Money collected $259 63 Sent to Ice Fund $250 00 Balance sent to Mr. Tappen 9 60 No Sub-Auxiliaries were formed in connection with No. 28. It has been a pleasure to us to administer to the wants of the sick and wounded soldiers, and although hoping the necessity for these ministra- tions may not occur, as it will always imply trouble and sorrow, yet should the occasion require, the American National Red Cross will find Auxiliary No. 28 ready and willing to do its part. Louise M. Duffy, President. 117 AUXILIARY No. 29. Fairfield, Conn. OFFICERS. Mrs. H. S. Glover, Chairman. Miss M. F. Sturges, Secretary. Miss M. B. Kippen, Treasurer. Articles sent by Auxiliary 29 to Soldiers' Home, Fairfield : I gallon alcohol, i dozen paper basins, i dozen pairs blankets, i|- dozen brushes, \\ dozen tooth brushes, 4 dozen cheese-cloth squares, i:^ dozen combs, i dozen cups and saucers, i feeding cup, i dozen cus- pidors, 2 douche bags, 50 envelopes for photographs, 6 packages stamped envelopes, 18 fans, i large box graham wafers, 6 dozen handkerchiefs, 4 hot-water bottles, 2 bottles ink, i bread knife, i dozen knives and forks, I dozen lanterns, 50 yards matting, 2 dozen medicine glasses, i quart mouth wash, 4 dozen napkins, 4 granite covered pails, 2f dozen pajamas, 5 quires paper and envelopes, i dozen penholders, i box pens, 6 dozen pillow- cases, I dozen packages playing cards, i gallon Port wine, 3 screen covers, I basket sewing material, i dozen pairs slippers, 5 dozen sheets, i dozen draw sheets, i dozen rubber sheets, i dozen blue army shirts, i dozen nightshirts, 2 dozen cakes soap, 5 dozen pairs socks, i dozen sponge- racks, 75 two-cent stamps, 4 table cloths, 2 dozen teaspoons, 3 thermom- eters, 7 dozen towels, 2 dozen tumblers, i dozen paper wash-tubs, 3 whisk brooms, i gallon whiskey, 12 urinals, 8 pairs homemade stockings. Articles sent by Children's Branch to Headquarters of the American National Red Cross Society : I dozen linen towels, 3 dozen cotton towels, 10 spools of thread, 3f dozen pincushions. Articles sent by Children's Branch direct to Montauk : 1 large box of groceries to Troop H, 9th Cavalry ; i large box of groceries to 8th Infantry. Articles sent to Headquarters : 120 bandages, 108 abdominal bands, 708 cheese-cloth squares, 146 pajamas, 72 pillowcases, 396 and 4 boxes sanitary gauze squares, 204 sheets, 468 draw sheets, 89 nightshirts, 64 surgical shirts, 84 outing shirts, 58 pairs slippers, 36 bath towels, 84 cotton towels, 36 linen towels, 100 pint-jars blackberry cordial, 48 pint-jars current jelly, 8 pint-jars raspberrj' jelly. ii8 Articles sent to the Bridgeport Hospital for the soldiers being taken care of there : 24 cheese-cloth squares, 12 packages cigarettes, 50 two-cent stamped envelopes, 25 fans, 25 handkerchiefs, 25 pads, 25 pencils, 12 screen covers, 12 sheets, 12 draw sheets, 25 rubber sheets, 12 nightshirts, 6 pairs slippers, 25 pairs stockings, 12 one-half pound packages tobacco, 12 towels, papers and books. Articles sent to Varuna Hall, Bridgeport, for the use of the soldiers there : 2 air cushions, 4 gallons alcohol, 25 fans, 25 handkerchiefs, 18 pints jelly. Articles sent by Auxiliary 29 direct to Montauk : I large box groceries and $25-worth of fruit to Company D, 17th U. S. Infantry. I large box groceries and $25-worth of fruit to Company A, ist Bat., 2d Engineers. I large box groceries to Troop C, 9th Cavalry. I large box groceries to Troop A, ist Cavalry. Large box of books to Army and Navy Commission, Y. M. C. A. Large box of books to 3d Brigade, ist Division, 2d Corps, Camp Meade, Middletown, Pa. 10 daily papers sent each day to Naval Base, Key West, Florida ; afterwards to Montauk Point. Full amount raised by Auxiliary 29 $600 00 Sent to Mr. F. D. Tappen $115 00 Spent on materials 485 00 $600 00 Received as a donation from a friend, $i5o-worth of materials to sew, not mentioned elsewhere. We have twenty-eight members of our Auxiliary 29 that have become members of the National Red Cross by sending in their names and taking the pin. We have sent altogether, — cases of delicacies. We have made 3103 garments. We helped the soldiers at the Bridgeport Hospital. We helped the soldiers at Varuna Hall, Bridgeport. And then we furnished the Fresh Air Home, Fairfield, and helped the Fresh Air Association take care of seventeen soldiers for five Aveeks. AVe have one Branch of this Auxiliary — the "Children's Branch." (Mrs.) H. S. Glover, Chairman. 119 AUXILIARY No. 30. Norwich, Kansas. OFFICERS. Mrs. Sarah A. King, President. Miss Nettie Witman, Secretary. Miss Anna Wilbour, Treasurer. Money collected since organization $ 64 67 ' ' spent since organization $ 47 S2 " on hand Jan. i, i8gg 16 85 (Also some material for work). $64 47 Garments sent to Supply Depot : 12 nightgowns, 49 pillowcases, 60 flannel bandages. On April 25th the balance of $20.00 was sent to the Treasurer, as the Auxiliary was discontinued. Nettie Witman, Secretary. AUXILIARY No. 31. New Brighton, Pa. OFFICERS. Mrs. Mary C. Kennedy, President. Mrs. Annie Johnson, Secretary. Mrs. Andy Bigham. Treasurer. Money collected in full $143 64 " expended for supplies and expenses $ 41 96 ' ' forwarded to Frederick D. Tappen 50 00 " remaining on hand 51 68 $143 64 L. A. Wade, Treasurer. Statement of work accomplished : 168 hospital shirts, 62 pajamas, 35 day shirts. AUXILIARY No. 32. Grace Parish Laundry Auxiliary. OFFICERS. Mrs. Butler Duncan, President. Miss M. Lane, Secretary. Mrs. Deming, Treasurer. Auxiliary No. 32 begs leave to report that its contribution to the Red Cross has consisted in sending in $30 per month for four months — $120 ; $100 of which came from the earnings of the laundry, a business carried on for the purpose of giving work to poor women, and $20 from its treasurer. M, Lane, Secretary. I20 AUXILIARY No. 33. Athens, Pa. Athens Auxiliary No. 2)Z was organized June 14th with the following officers : Mrs. L. M. Park, President. Mrs. Delos McCurdy, Vice-President. Mrs. Stockbridge, Secretary. Mrs. W. H. H. Gore, Treasurer. Each lady present pledged herself to ask five others to become mem- bers of the society, each new member to ask five others, and as a result the total membership reached the number of 136. Each member was asked to pay a nominal fee of ten cents, though the amounts paid were generally much more. The town was divided into dis- tricts, and committees appointed in each to solicit canned fruits, jellies, etc. Weekly meetings were held, material bought and made up into nightshirts, pajamas, etc., and the Village Improvement Society gave an en- tertainment, donating all the money raised by it ($40.00) to the Red Cross. No Sub-Auxiliaries were organized, but the people of Sayre, and the country surrounding Athens, sent valuable contributions to the several boxes. Both supplies and money were sent to the respective headquarters in New York. Athens is a small manufacturing town, but much enthusiastic patriot- ism was shown, and the following summary will show exactly what was accomplished : Total membership, 136 ; money sent, $100.00 ; 14 cases jellies, soups, canned fruit, etc. ; 180 sheets, 262 pillowcases, 323 towels, 21 nightshirts, 20 shirts, 2 blankets, 62 bandages, 240 handkerchiefs, 12 napkins. 3 un- dershirts, I tray cover, i box small bandages, i hot-water bag, 124 sets pajamas, 49 small pillowticks, 8 pairs hose, 19 wash-cloths. About eight dollars is still in the treasury. The society has decided not to disband. Respectfully submitted, Mary B.\rstow Stockbridge, Nov. 12, 1898. Secretary. 121 AUXILIARY No. 34- Canandaigua, N. Y. OFFICERS. Mrs. C. C. Wilson, President. Mrs. J. Reynor, First Vice-President. Miss I. P. Granger. Second Vice-President. Miss K. A. MORAN, Secretary. Miss M. J. Parnell, Treasurer. Since May 24th, when Auxiliary No. 34 was organized, five meetings of the officers, three general meetings, and five public sewing-bees have been held. On July 9th a supper was served by which was realized the sum of §87. A musical and dramatic entertainment, September i6th, brought $81 to the treasury. The active interest has not been confined to the town, as some twelve or more ladies of the neighboring places cooperated with us most cordially. Thirteen barrels and boxes of clothing, provisions, etc., have been for- warded by us, and $325 in money. Two members of our Auxiliary— Dr. Hallenbeck and Dr. Behan— were appointed to care for the soldiers passing through Canandaigua. The Chairman of the Sewing Committee reports garments made :— 118 pajamas, 77 abdominal bandages, 107 pillowcases, 19 sheets. There are about 430 members in our Auxiliar>^ None of the garments, etc., were sent to camps. Would also say that the officers of Auxiliary No. 34 will hold them- selves ready to answer any call from the National Red Cross Society. Katherine a. Moran, November 10, 1898. Secretary. AUXILIARY No. 35. Eaii Claire, Wis. OFFICERS. Mrs. Francis P. Ide, President. Mrs. George T. Thompson, Vice-President. Mary Cousins, Secretary. May Stevens, Treasurer. Auxiliary No. 35 has forwarded about $145 to Frederick D. Tappen ; has confined its efforts to making hospital nightshirts and collecting old linen, etc. Have sent about 270 shirts to the Supply Depot. Have sent nothing direct to the camps, but have forwarded them to the Supply Depot. We have a membership of about 100, active and honorar)', with a Sub- Auxiliary at Boyceville, Wis., with Dr. K. S. Kavanagh at its head. We have decided to disband now that the pressing need is over. Mary Cousins, November 16, 1898. Secretary. I 22 AUXILIARY Xo. 36. Mount Vernon, N. V. OFFICERS. Mrs. William Wilson, Jr., President. Mrs. F. S. Craigie, Secretary. Mrs. a. G. Ham, Treasurer. Dear Madam : I send you herewith a report, in full, of work accomplished by us since our organization was formed on Friday, June 24, 1898. We number fifty-two (52) members, twelve (12) officers, and forty (40) annual members. On July 7th a very successful garden party was given at the home of Mrs. C. W. Williamson. One hundred and twenty dollars was sent to F. D. Tappen, Treasurer, as net proceeds ; later we sent thirty dollars to Mr. Tappen, making a total of $150 contributed by our Auxiliary. Since the garden party all moneys have been raised by personal appeal, and through local press. Our Treasurer, Mrs. Ham, succeeded in procuring two columns on editorial page of two of our best local weekly papers, and valuable space in our daily paper. These Red Cross columns were edited by her during the summer, until the war ended. In this way every- thing of interest and value was kept constantly before the public eye, false statements corrected, and valuable educational work accomplished. When the war ended, and our volunteers returned home on furlough, our hospital — which is not a city hospital, but supported by the physicians and voluntary contributions — opened its doors to all soldiers who were ill. About twenty patients have thus been cared for, a large percentage being typhoids. The work of "relief" was divided among the three organizations (women's) in our city, namely, " Women's Patriotic Relief Association," "Women's National War Relief," and Red Cross No. ^G. Our part was to supply the extra bedding, underwear, and clinical supplies needed. A special fund was raised to meet this emergency, in manner previously mentioned. Through an appeal of one of our members to Red Cross Supply Com- 123 mittee, a most generous and timely requisition was sent to our hospital^ which proved to be of great value. We have sent to Red Cross Supply Depot, New York City : 23 wash-cloths, 116 suits of pajamas, 25 surgical nightshirts, i woven- wire cot and stretcher, 2 pairs jean drawers (men), 2 bosom shirts (with tie, studs and collars), i calico wrapper (women). We have sent to Red Cross nurses at Chickamauga, i dozen one- minute thermometers. Gave to sick soldier (in Mount Vernon) 2 suits of pajamas, and " fitted out " a convalescent soldier (who had been cared for and nursed back to life by one of our officers (of No. 36), and sent to his home in the far West) — fitted him out with two complete suits of warm underwear. To Mount Vernon Hospital we sent : 18 new sheets, 20 new pillowslips, 26 new towels, 12 new wash-cloths, 24 cakes of toilet soap, 8 new nightshirts, 4 pairs drawers (new), 9 new undershirts, 6 pairs blankets (new), 3 pillows, a quantity of old muslin and linen, 2 new clinical thermometers, i new Hick's thermom- eter, 2 dozen oranges, i basket of apples, 3 cans of peaches, 3 cans of soup, several glasses of jelly, and quantities of sugar, coffee, and tea, also books and other reading matter ; also 6 suits of flannel (complete), and 6 pairs of socks — all new. We have a balance of hospital fund on hand, and will purchase new rubber goods for the hospital to replace same, which were used up in the care of soldiers. A "Junior Auxiliary" of No. ;^6 was organized on Friday, July 29th. It has twenty-four members, boys and girls. They have sent to Red Cross Supply Depot : 44S magazines, 22 towels, 31 wash-cloths, and 2 handkerchiefs. The President and Secretary (two girls) of the Juniors, had a lawn party early in September, and raised about $25. They sent $18 to F. D. Tappen ; $2 to No. 36 to purchase towels (20) for Mount Vernon Hospital, and gave $5 to the Junior Auxiliary. They dis- banded — for the present — last week, and have placed with our Treasurer $5.13, to be held by us for them until some urgent Red Cross appeal is made. In the early part of August the Cottrell children — Marie, Bertha, Grace and George — held a very successful lawn fete, assisted by Mrs. Ham, and sent to F. D. Tappen $40. While the total amount contributed in various ways seems small, yet the $2oS sent to the New York Treasurer, and the garments made and sent to your Committee represent very much work and untiring effort of our Red Cross members. Our city has contributed through the churches. Woman's 124 Club, and individuals — also Needlework Guild — very generously to the Red Cross work in Cuba. Had the amounts thus given been for one or- ganization (and we wish it might have been through No. 36), our work would not seem so meagre. Yet, we are glad to have done the little to assist you in the glorious work for hum.anity made possible by the American National Red Cross. Elizabeth Craigie, Secretary. Total cash contribution : No. 36 $150 00 Juniors 18 00 " Cottrells " 40 00 $208 00 AUXILIARY No. 37. Elmhiirst, N. V. OFFICERS. Mrs. a. C. Green, President. Miss Lizzie Gripp, Vice-President. Miss Sadie McCloskey, Secretary. Mrs. F. Walker, Treasurer. During the summer the ladies of Auxiliary No. 37 cut and made 24 nightshirts, 12 suits of pajamas, 242 wash-cloths, 20 sanitary gauze squares, also sent 7 suits of underwear, 7 pairs socks and 2 pairs trousers. There were ten members in the Auxiliary, and no Sub-Auxiliaries in connection with No. 37. All packages were sent direct to the Supply Depot. Sadie S. McCloskey, Nov. II, 1898. Secretary. 125 AUXILIARY No. 38. Dublin, N. H. Auxiliary No. 38, was organized early in July, 1898. Officers appointed were : Mrs. Lewis B. Monroe, Chairman. Miss Vivia Monroe, Secretary. Miss Olga Frothingham, Treasurer. Our great aim was to interest as many in the work as possible. Notices were given in the churches every Sunday, asking all who were interested to help us. In this way we reached people who were simply visiting Dublin, and who would join us but once or twice. Under these con- ditions there could be no regular number of members. We met twice a week for sewing, and work was always on hand for dis- tribution if people wished to take it home. There were no Sub-Auxiliaries connected with No. 38. $354-00 were collected during the summer. Of this amount $100 were destined for Porto Rico, $50 for milk at Fortress Monroe, $193 were spent on materials and express. $11 still remain in the treasury. All contributions of money and garments were sent through Supply Depot in New York. We sent no delicacies. Our work was confined to making garments and towels for hospital use. List of articles sent : 1494 cheese-cloth wash-cloths, 2040 towels, 60 nightshirts, 46 negligee shirts, 23 flannel bands, 22 sets of pajamas. Total number of articles sent, 36S5. Vivia Monroe, Secretary, 126 AUXILIARY No. 39. Larkinsville, Alabama. OFFICERS. Miss Anna L. Morris, President. Miss Annie Keeble, Secretary. Miss Leila Selby, Treastirer. No report received. AUXILIARY No. 40. OFFICERS. Mrs. Andrew Squire, President. Mrs. M. E. Rawson, Vice-President. Mrs. Kenyon Vickers Painter, Secretary. Mrs. Robert R. Rhodes, Treasurer. Auxiliary No. 40 of the American National Red Cross Relief Com- mittee was not an organization by itself. It existed as a part of the War Emergency Relief Board of Cleveland, Ohio, having for its officers those of the larger organization. Auxiliary No. 40 came into being July 15, 1S9S, to satisfy the many people in Cleveland and vicinity who -wished to contribute money and supplies for the work that the Red Cross Society was doing among the soldiers of the Spanish-American War. It existed until November, 1S9S, when, its usefulness being over, it ceased to be. During those four months it sent to the National Red Cross Relief Committee : forty (40) boxes of supplies, $906.06 in money, and $100.00 to the Outlook Company to help pay for the Red Cross yacht Moynier. Respectfully submitted, IMary a. Chisholm Painter, Mar. 13, 1899. Corresponding Secretary. 127 AUXILIARY No. 41. New Canaan^ Coiui. OFFICERS. Mrs. Willard Parker, President. Miss Laura V. Shortridge, Secretary. Miss Katherine Lambert, Treasurer. A meeting of the Red Cross Auxiliary No. 41 was held at the house of Mrs, E.W. Lambert on Wednesday, October 12th, at which time a full re- port was given of funds collected, and articles made and forwarded to the Supply Committee in New York. A letter was read from Mrs. Paul Dana, Secretary of the Woman's Committee on Auxiliaries, requesting the Auxiliary to retain its organiza- tion during the winter. In compliance with this request the Auxiliary adjourned indefinitely, holding itself subject to the call of the Chairman. Should the occasion arise, the Auxiliary feels assured of the active cooperation of the ladies of New Canaan, so generously given during the summer. Mrs. George F. Bertine has been appointed to receive all com- munications in regard to further work. secretary's report. A meeting was held on July 6, 1898, at Mrs. Lambert's, when a motion was made and seconded that an auxiliary or branch of the National Red Cross Society be formed to help the sick and wounded soldiers during the summer. It was then agreed that meetings should be held once a week, and Mrs. Lambert offered to have the meetings at her house. When authorization papers came, we were incorporated as " Auxiliary No. 41." Mrs. Willard Parker was elected Chairman ; Miss Katherine Lambert, Treasurer, and Miss Laura Y. Shortridge, Secretary. There were three committees formed, each committee having a chair- man who then nominated her associates : Mrs. E. W. Lambert, Chairman of Cutting Committee ; Miss Lambert and Mrs. K. D. Cheney, Jr., Committee 128 on Packing ; Mr. L. P. Child was appointed Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. It was agreed to ask all the people of New Canaan to contribute in some way to the work, which they did most willingly. The women gave most generously of their time and money. Mr. Rockwell cut all the men's shirts, and Mr. Kirk printed all the notices free of charge. By the active interest of these workers, the Society was able to depend upon receiving from the Auxiliary a regular donation of garments every two weeks. This interest was greatly augmented by the rectors of the various churches, who expressed their personal sympathy, and urged their parishioners to join in the work of the Society. As the weeks passed by, Miss Hoffman at the Headquarters in Broad- way, New York, reported much need of helpers, and two members volun- teered to go down and help on Tuesdays and Thursdays, until there was no further need of workers. There was also issued at this time a public appeal in the papers for air cushions, for those men who were ill and suffering in the hospitals, and a special fund started for this object, brought enough to forward one hundred dollars for procuring a small supply at once. The Soldier's Comfort Committee and the Red Cross started a ** relief car " at the Grand Central Station on September 9th, and it was agreed among the members to see from time to time that the car was provisioned with food suitable for convalescent men. This car is now discontinued, but the same relief work is being carried on at the building corner of 45th Street and Madison Avenue, known as " The Railroad Men's Club." The total number of articles made and forwarded to the Supply Depot are as follows : August 4 — 22 dozen flannel bands, 100 men's gingham shirts. " 15 — 60 cheese-cloth cot-pads, 14 dozen towels, 7 dozen cheese- cloth handkerchiefs, 35 men's gingham shirts, 23 flannel bands, 2 bundles of cheese-cloth. September 2 — 75 sheets, i6i dozen pillowcases, 2^^ dozen cheese-cloth handkerchiefs, 4 dozen towels, i gingham shirt. 8 — 22 sheets, 108 comfort bags, each containing tobacco, soap, pencil and pad, stamped envelopes, black and white cot- ton, needles, safety pins, scissors, tube of vaseline, buttons, court plaster, handkerchief. 27 — 25 dozen towels, 3 dozen comfort bags (filled as above), 2 dozen comfort bags to Mrs. Henry Glover, Convalescent Home, Fairfield, Conn., for soldiers. 129 RECAPITULATION. 516 towels, 287 flannel bands, 136 men's gingham shirts, 60 cheese- cloth cot-pads, 114 cheese-cloth handkerchiefs, 192 pillowcases, 97 sheets, 168 comfort bags, 2 bundles of cheese-cloth. 8 men's flannel shirts to be sent. 1580 articles in all, besides $100 for 84 air cushions. Laura V. Shortridge, Secretary. TREASURER'S REPORT. Receipts. From Dues $I34 00 Donations 1 14 00 Collection in Congregational Church 3° 72 " " " Episcopal Church 2000 " Special Donations for Air-Cushions 88 50 " Lawn Party given by the Children of Mrs. Fancher's School, . 15 83 $403 05 Payments. For Dry Goods $151 58 Material for 168 Comfort Bags 102 85 Express charges 9 36 Sundries for Car at 42d Street 2 50 Check for Air Cushions 100 00 25 Red Cross Books i 00 $367 29 By Balance on hand, October 12, 189S 35 77 )"i 06 Mrs. Willard Parker, Chairman, Red Cross Auxiliary No. 41, New Canaan, Conn. Dear Madam : Thinking perhaps a statement of the work done in the " Red Cross Car," at the Grand Central Station, would interest yourself and the ladies and gentlemen of New Canaan, who so kindly furnished supplies and funds, for the benefit of the soldiers, I beg leave to present the following : During the thirty days of my management, I have furnished 1650 meals to soldiers, 396 lodgings to soldiers, and 11 soldiers were sent to hospitals. Very respectfully yours, E. W. Belknap. New York, October 15, 1S9S. I30 AUXILIARY No. 42. Flat bush, Brookly?i, N. V. OFFICERS : Mrs. Cornelius L. Wells, President. Mrs. Gustave A. Jahn, Secretary. Mrs. Edmund H. Driggs, Treasurer. Mrs. C. L. Wells, Chairman of Auxiliary No. 42, has requested me to send a report of our labors during the summer : Receipts. First check Si-349 50 Second check -o oo Third check 75 oo Total $1,450 50 Also, four pairs sheets, two pounds tobacco, four pajamas, sent to Supply Depot, No. 552 Broadway ; expressage paid by us. The Auxiliary ceased to exist Oct. 17th, when it was voted to disband organization. A. Mathilde Jahn, Secretary. December 29, 1898. 131 AUXILIARY No. 43. Colorado Springs, Colorado. Mrs. E. S. Cohen, Secretary. Money received $2,354 80 Disbursements. Material and clothing for soldiers 565 28 Lunches for soldiers 202 15 National Red Cross Society, New York 200 00 Antiseptic packages for soldiers 42 55 Badges, buttons, and pamphlets 32 00 To Dr. Rose Kidd Beers, for Colorado soldiers 50 00 Remittance for hospital work, Manila 450 00 Thanksgiving money for Colorado soldiers in Manila loo OO Indentification badges for Colorado soldiers 8 35 Bandages for soldiers 6S 15 Carried forward 17 18 48 Brought forward 1718 48 Janitor's services 11 00 Soldiers' families in Colorado Springs 19 00 Express and freight on supplies shipped to soldiers 60 00 Transportation for soldiers 9 50 Remittance to Fort Logan for sick soldiers 75 00 Printing 13 25 Telegrams and postage 10 10 Medicine and care of soldiers in Colorado Springs no 10 Medical attendance 81 00 Money refunded President Aid Society, Leadville, (Woolhurst fete receipts) 84 50 Record books and postage 7 84 2,199 77 Balance on hand $I55 03 Mrs. E. S. Cohen, Secretary. AUXILIARY No. 44. OFFICERS : Mrs. John E. Leech, President. Miss M. E. Shaw, Secretary. Mrs. F. B. Pratt, Treasurer. Auxiliary No. 44, called the North Shore Auxiliary, was organized at the North Country Club, Glen Cove, L. I., on July nth, 1898. Weekly meetings occurred throughout the summer and the following articles were contributed to the central Supply Depot : i box surgical supplies, 229 suits of pajamas, 34 accident shirts, 746 cheese-cloth squares, 12 nightshirts, 362 pairs socks, 84 flannel bands, 82 magazines, 360 sets of underwear, 100 pairs hospital slippers, 100 pairs sheets. Total amount of money collected during the season, $1032.93. No branch organization was formed. M. E. Shaw, Secretary. 132 AUXILIARY No. 45- Glen Cove, Long Island. On Monday afternoon, July nth, at the home of Mrs. Wm. H. Zabriskie, under the guidance of Mrs. Paul Dana, Auxiliary No. 45 of Glen Cove was organized. The following officers were elected : Mrs. Wm. H. Zabriskie, Chairman. Mrs. Wm. H. Seaman, Secretary. (Who later resigned and was succeeded by Mrs. S. P. Coles.) Miss Sarah C. Craft, Treasurer. It seemed advisable to make this a working Auxiliary and it was agreed to raise the money required for purchasing material, etc., by the payment of an initiation fee and weekly dues, and also by soliciting subscriptions from business men and others in the village. The amount of money raised in this manner was $230.00. Through the kindness of one of these business men all the materials purchased were obtained at wholesale prices. Com- mittees were appointed to prepare and distribute the work. The meetings were held every Tuesday in the lodge rooms of the I. O. O. F., until the second week in September, after which time they were held at the home of the Chairman. The membership was 60 (sixty), about one-third of whom were con- tributors only. From July nth to Oct. 4th twelve meetings were held with an average attendance of twenty-five. The number of garments made during this time and sent weekly to the Supply Depot, 552 Broadway, are included in the following list : 117 emer- gency and nightshirts, 4 negligee shirts, 262 suits of pajamas, 1S6 abdom- inal bands, 181 wash-cloths, 72 pairs socks, 96 handkerchiefs, 114 towels 96 sheets, 96 pillowslips. At the time the sick from Camp Black were transferred to Nassau Hospital, a quantity of delicacies, three barrels of potatoes, and a quantity of stationery and stamps were sent to the hospital ; all the other supplies were sent directly to the Supply Depot. After a recess of several weeks a general meeting was called November ist, and the members, after listening to a summary of the season's work, decided to adjourn indefinitely ; the balance in the treasury to be de- posited in the name of Auxiliary No. 45 in the Glen Cove Bank. Sallie p. Coles, Secretary. 133 AUXILLARY No. 46. Far Rockaway, L. I. OFFICERS : Mrs. Alexander Stevens, President. Baroness de Wardener, Secretary. Mrs. Frederic Almy, Treasurer. To the subscribers of the Far Rockaway Red Cross Auxiliary No. 46 : The following is a report of work done between August 2nd and Sep- tember 23d : Garments made, 3,343. Subscriptions received f i ,007 38 Expenses for above work 545 33 Balance $ 462 05 To be divided between the Annex of Nassau Hospital at Hempstead, L. I. St. John's Hospital, Brooklyn, L. I. ; Red Cross Auxiliary for the Maintenance of Trained Nurses. Mrs. Alexander H. Stevens, President. Lawrence, L. I., October i, 1898. AUXILIARY No. 47. First Rhode Island Auxiliary. OFFICERS : Mrs. Charles Mason, President. Mrs. John R. Bartlett, ist Vice-President. Mrs. Charles E. Bailey, 2d Vice-Presdent. Miss N. W, Mason, Secretary and Treasurer. Since June i, 1898, our Auxiliary has sent to New York headquarters four boxes, one containing delicacies ; two others, such articles as sheets, pillowcases, nightshirts, handkerchiefs, and old linen ; and the fourth, four electric fans. One box containing delicacies and one dozen night- shirts was sent direct to the Spanish prisoners at Portsmouth. There are twelve members and no Sub-Auxiliaries in connection with No. 47. Owing to the members of the Auxiliary being separated during the summer, we have not done very much sewing ; there have been made, however, 165 flannel bandages, 20 nightshirts, 9 knitted bands, 20 sheets, and a number of pillowcases. There will be another small box sent this week to the Supply Depot. Nannie W. Mason, Secretary. Providence, R. I., November 15, 1898. 134 AUXILIARY No. 48. Nassau Auxiliary. OFFICERS: Mrs. Valentine Mott, Chaimiait. Miss Hilda Ward, Secretary. Mrs. Henry P. Tailer, Treasurer. This Auxiliary has made, in all, 792 garments, or 330 pajamas and 462 shirts. Of these, 46 pajamas and 198 shirts were taken direct to Camp Black, the rest being forwarded to the New York headquarters. The following were also taken to Camp Black : 2% dozen trousers, 3 dozen knives and forks, 3 dozen teaspoons, half dozen corkscrews, i dozen pails, half-dozen dish-pans, 2 dozen comforters, \\ dozen lanterns, I dozen pillows, 2 dozen pillowcases, 9 sets of underclothing, i large roll old linen and flannel, various groceries and jellies, 4 large boxes melons, 4 large boxes pears, 3 large boxes apples, 6 cases tomatoes, i basket watercress and mint, 50 sandwiches, 8 quarts of milk, 16 quarts of coffee. Auxiliary No. 48 had five Sub-Committees, at Westbury, Jericho, Manhasset, Hempstead, and East Williston, Long Island. We have kept no record of members, no dues having been collected. Hilda Ward, Secretary. AUXILIARY No. 49. KiJidcrhook, N. V. OFFICERS: Mrs. p. V. S. Priyn, President. Miss Mar v. C. Miller, Secretary, Mrs. E. a. Bedell, Treasurer. The Kinderhook Auxiliary No. 49 sent to the Supply Depot, New York 40 sheets, 24 nightshirts, 12 sets i)ajamas, ^40 in money. The Auxiliary disbanded as soon as this work was accomplished. P. V. S. Pruvn, President. 135 AUXILIARY No. 50. The Tobacco Auxiliary. OFFICERS : Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Chah-man and Acting Treasurer. Miss Elizabeth Davis, Secretary. October 24, 1898. Dear Madam : In the absence of the Secretary of Auxiliary No. 50, it falls to me to answer your inquiries concerning this Committee which was organized late in July to work at Newport, R. I. Its efforts to collect money to supply the soldiers with tobacco were hampered by the fact that collections for the same purpose had already been made at Newport by the Massachusetts and the Rhode Island Aid Associations. Therefore I have to report that the sum collected before the work was closed on October ist was only $170.71. Of this sum, $158.59 were expended during August for supplies which were delivered at the New York ofifice. In addition to money donations, several contributions of tobacco were received. During September the remainder of the money — $18.41 — was likewise expended and the supplies it purchased were also sent to the New York office. No funds now remain in hand, and none were sent to Mr. Tappen. It is the belief of the Committee that it should now disband. Its mem- bers feel that such time as they may be able to devote to the work of the Red Cross Association may be more usefully expended in aiding the work of other committees than in perpetuating this one. Therefore I beg that you will consider that Auxiliary No. 50 no longer exists. Very respectfully yours, M. G. Van Rensselear, Chairman. 136 AUXILIARY No. 51. Central Falls, R. I. Mrs. Arthur Rogers, President. Auxiliary No. 51 sent through the Red Cross, 170 cheese-cloth squares, some bandages and stockings. Cornelia Arnold Rogers. AUXILIARY No. 52. Providence, R. I. OFFICERS. Mrs. Mary Frost Evans, President. Mrs. B. F. Evans, Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer . Mrs. Mary A. Blending, Recording Secretary. LIST OF ARTICLES. Sent to New York and also to hospitals here : 6 suits pajamas, i box of soapine, i package of stationery, 6 pairs of socks, 2 sheets, 2 jars of jelly, pillowcases. Taken to St. Joseph's Hospital here : Large jars of jellies, soups, and preserves in number 11 or 12, also package of soap. Dresses and waists for distribution in Santiago, in number, 27 articles. Cash $10. Taken by members of this Auxiliary to indigent soldier : vests, coats, dressing-gown, and i pair of shoes. Mary Frost Evans, President. 137 AUXILIARY No. 53. Greensbiirg, Pa. OFFICERS. Miss Louise Brunot, President. Mrs. Thomas Lynch, ist Vice-President. Mrs. Belle Nicholls, 2d Vice-President. Mrs. J. W. Gilchrist, Secretary. Mrs. D. C. Ogden, Treasurer. Westmoreland Auxiliary No 53, has a membership of 120, has formed 3 Sub-Auxiliaries : West Newton, Pa., 103 members ; New Alexandria, Pa., 46 members, and Jeannette, 44 members. Two cases of delicacies were sent by West Newton Sub-Auxiliary to No. 53. The following garments have been made and sent to New York by Auxiliary 53 and its Sub-Auxiliaries : 285 pillowcases, 182 sheets, 278 towels, 86 suits pajamas and I pajama coat, 125 nightshirts, 48 abdominal bands, 14 straight bands, 10 surgical shirts, 5 hospital shirts, 26 negligee shirts, 254 handker- chiefs, 174 pairs socks, 2 boxes of bandages, i piece cheese-cloth, i piece mosquito net, stationery, etc., 2 hospital tents, stationery and maga- zines. Sent direct to Camp Alger, 14 nightshirts, 37 towels, 24 abdominal bandages, and 15 sheets. To Manila, 30 sheets, 48 negligee shirts, 28 suits pajamas, 31 nightshirts, 15 suits underwear, 30 pillowcases, 90 towels, 112 abdominal bands, 283 handkerchiefs, 96 pairs socks, 3 surgical shirts, I gross safety pins, i piece cheese-cloth, i piece mosquito net, 5 library envelopes, 13 wash-cloths, i package of books and a box of personal pack- ages from the friends of Co. I, lolh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. To Westmoreland Hospital for use of sick soldiers : 17 nightshirts, 8 suits pajamas. To recruits of loth Regiment at Honolulu from Auxiliary 53 : 19 suits pajamas, i dozen towels, i dozen sheets, i dozen pillow- cases. The following, from Jeannette Sub-Auxiliary to No. 53, were sent to Honolulu for recruits of the loth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers : 14 towels, 13 suits pajamas, 9 negligee shirts, 10 suits underwear, 3 pairs gum boots, 18 pairs socks, 7 abdominal bands, 23 handkerchiefs, station- ery, etc., 6 cards safety-pins. To Westmoreland Hospital at Greensburg, Pa. : 10 sheets, 12 pillowcases, 6 nightshirts. To needy soldier : 2 suits underwear, 2 negligee shirts, i handkerchief, 2 pairs socks. Mrs. J. W. Gilchrist, Secretary. November 25, 1898. 138 AUXILIARY No. 54. Pottsiow7i, Pa. OFFICERS. Mrs. E. S. COOK, President. Mrs. C. S. Wieand, Secretary. Mrs. H offer, Treasurer. We have no Sub-Auxiliary in connection with No. 54. Have 65 members. Sent 2 boxes of delicacies. Garments made : 28 nightshirts, 10 negligee shirts, 2 sets pajamas, 50 towels, 12 handkerchiefs, 24 wash- cloths, 4 pillowcases, 14 pairs men's hose. Sent about 100 " house-wives " direct to our soldiers in camp. Collected $72.47. Spent for Supplies, $6.93. Forwarded to Mr. Tappen, $64.70. Amount on hand, 64 cents. I\Irs. Leonore M. Wieand. Secretary. November 2, 1898. AUXILIARY No. 55. Emporia, Kajis. OFFICERS. Miss Sabra E. Whitley, Chairman. Miss Bertha E. Newman, Secretary. Miss Alma Busser, Treasurer. Total Receipts S125 oc Cost of box sent August loth $34 45 Check sent August 31st 35 00 Draft sent December 17th 50 00 Spent for Empori.a sick soldiers 2 65 Amount on hand 2 90 Auxiliary 55 was organized in July, 1898. The box sent August loth contained : Cotton nightshirts, 38 ; cotton pillowcases, 50 ; linen pillowcases, 35 ; towels, 24 ; old linen, socks, etc. Sabra E. Whitley, January 5, 1899. Chair7nan. 139 AUXILIARY No. 56. The Scott-Schley Auxiliary. Frederick, Md. Pursuant to a call by the Mayor of Frederick, a meeting was held by the ladies of Frederick, July 13, 1S98, to organize an Auxiliary branch of the American National Red Cross. Mrs. Donald McLean, Chairman of Aux- iliary No. 7, New York City, was elected temporary chairman, and gave a concise account of the origin and history of the Society of the Red Cross, its recognition by our own Government, its aim and object. After which, on motion, it was resolved to organize an auxiliary branch in Fred- erick, to be called the Scott-Schley Auxiliary to the Am. National Red Cross Relief Com. The organization was effected by Mrs. Carroll Mercer being elected Chairman, Mrs. Henry Williams, Secretary, Mrs. A. L. Eader, Assistant-Secretary, Mr. Henry Williams, Treasurer, Mrs. Margaret Hood and Mrs. F. F. Smith, Sub-Collectors. The Society adjourned to meet on Wednesday, July 20th, when the first Red Cross Auxiliary south of Mason and Dixon's line was inaugurated. JULY 20TH. Meeting opened by Mrs. Carroll Mercer in the chair. The application papers received, filled out, and approved by the National Board. A letter was read by Mrs. Donald McLean, received from Cleveland H. Dodge, Riverdale-on-Hudson, New York, containing useful information in regard to needed supplies for the Red Cross ; also a paraphrase quotation from Whittier's " Barbara Frietchie," as follows : " Up from the meadows rich with hay, There came one sweltering summer clay, A letter fraught with nary a frown From famous green-walled Fredericktown." A Children's Auxiliary was organized in connection with Auxiliary 56. Mrs. J. D. Hendrickson appointed chairman; they organized with 27 members, all fees paid. This feature of the Auxiliary promised well. Stephen E. Barton, Chairman of the Executive Committee, sent a badge designed by the National Red Cross bearing the official insignia of the Red Cross, for the inspection of our Auxiliary. A motion was made and carried, that members of the Auxiliary who so desired, purchase a badge. Twenty-eight gave their names, to entitle them to receive and wear the insignia of the Red Cross. In the closing exercises of this meeting a most beautiful and impressive episode marked the occa- sion, inspiring each member with devout and patriotic feeling. This con- sisted in the presentation of a beautiful National flag and a handsome I40 Red Cross flag. The waving emblem of power blending with the banner of mercy and good-will to man, were saluted by the members with pride and reverence. Then followed a petition to the Throne of Grace, written by the Right Reverend Bishop Paret, of the diocese of Maryland, as follows : O Almighty God, without Whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy, look down in mercy, we beseech Thee, upon our nation in this time of war. Pardon our offences and guard us from all pride, hardness of heart, and from every evil way. Keep, oh God, under Thy protection those who are in peril by sea or land. Remember the prisoners, relieve the sick and wounded, comfort and support the dying. Give strength to those who minister in hospital and camp, and hope to those who throughout the land are in anxiety or sorrow. Help us, we pray Thee, to establish liberty ^nd justice, and hasten the day when all nations shall dwell together in peace, to the glory of Thy name, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. With reverent attitudes the members stood, feeling the impressiveness of the beautiful and appropriate invocation to God, offered by our Secre- tary, Mrs. Henry Williams. A motion was made and carried, that this prayer be said by our Sec- retary at every meeting. Assembly Rooms, W. C. T. U. August i6, 1S9S. On motion, expressions of sympathy and condolence were offered and indulged in by the Auxiliary on the death of Mr. Thomas Wolfe, late soldier in the United States Army. The meeting adjourned, to meet as a bodj', to attend the funeral of Mr. Thomas Wolfe at 3.30 p.m. Statement of the work done by Auxiliary No. 56. jMembers 39 Members of Children's Auxiliary 27 66 2 large cases of delicacies sent to the National Red Cross Supply Depot, New York : 49 pajamas, 107 antiseptic wash-cloths. 23 sheets, 108 towels, 13 dozen handkerchiefs. 16 yards muslin for bandages. 92 pillowcases, sponges, safety-pin holders, soap, magazines, needle books, button bags, comfort bags. Henrietta Maria Williams, November iS, 1S98. Secretary. 141 AUXILIARY No. 57. Lenox, Mass. OFFICERS. Mrs. John E. Alexandre, Chairman. Miss Mary Parsons, Secretary. Mrs. Joseph W. Burden, Treasurer. REPORT FOR JULY AND AUGUST. Received from 56 members $168 00 " " donations I33 00 Total !^30i 00 Expended for materials, etc $235 78 " " express, printing, postage, etc 20 24 Total $25(^ 02 Balance unappropriated ^^44 9^ Contents of boxes : 156 flannel bands, 48 nightshirts, 60 surgical shirts, 810 wash-cloths, 350 towels, 120 pairs of stockings, 48 suits of pajamas, 800 hospital handkerchiefs, 18 blankets, 400 fans, 288 pipes, 25V pounds of tobacco, large box of books ; box of books and papers donated by Louis Regnier. Thanks are due to the ladies of New Lenox for their work and interest. Helen L. Alexandre, Chairman. 142 AUXILIARY No. 58. Caldwell, N. J. Auxiliary No. 58 has disbanded, as it was only formed for the summer months. We had 78 active members, and 86 honorary. President, Mrs. Henry Wing ; Secretary, Miss Julia Van Emburg ; Corresponding Sec- retary, Mrs. E. E. Bond ; Treasurer, Mrs. E. D. Hicks. Two checks, one of $55, another $7.25, were sent ; also, i box of to- bacco, I box leaf-tobacco, 178 towels, 13 cheese-cloth squares, 95 sheets, 38 pillowcases, 37 nightshirts, 26 pajamas, 48 flannel abdominal bandages, 155 surgical bandages, 120 shirts, 240 pairs of socks, 3 dozen games, 240 handkerchiefs, 12 yards ticking, 10 bedspreads, 200 clay pipes. There were no Sub-Auxiliaries. Marion C. Bond, Correspondijig Secretary, November, 1898. AUXILIARY No. 59. Upper Red Hook, N. V. OFFICERS. Mrs. Theo. Cookingham, President. Mrs. D. W. Wilbur, First Vice-President. Miss Frances Grouse, Second Vice-President. Mrs. E. C. Perrine, Secretary. Mrs. J. VV. Elseffer, Treasurer. Three hundred and fifty-five articles have been made by Red Cross Auxiliary No. 59 : 90 nightshirts, 81 pairs of pajamas, 63 handkerchiefs, 28 pairs of slippers, 11 sheets, i jacket; $77.31 were collected; $53.77 were expended ; $23.54 in the treasury at present. L. B. Perrine, Secretary. 143 AUXILIARY No. 60. Saugertics, N. Y. Mrs. G. F, Shrady, Chairman. Mrs. G. E. French, Secretary. Miss J. K. Myers, Treasurer. No Sub-Auxiliaries. Members 75. Garments — Pajamas, 34 ; nightshirts, 30 ; underwear, 50 ; outing shirts, 40 ; stockings, 60 ; nurses' dress-skirts, 15 ; nurses' caps, 15 ; aprons, 50. Bedding — Sheets, 62 ; pillow-slips, 119. Towels — Glass towels, 50, Turkish towels, 6. Handkerchiefs — Bandannas, t,^ ; linen, 24. Brassards, 50 ; tobacco-pouches, 88 ; tobacco, 105 lbs. ; pipes, 3 gross. Stationery — Stamped envelopes, 100 ; postal-cards, 100 ; writing-pads, 50 ; envelopes, 500 ; lead-pencils, 200. Toilet Articles — Toothbrushes, 36 ; nailbrushes, 36 ; combs, 36 ; Florida water, t,6 bottles ; toilet soap, 36 cakes. Medicine — Sun Cholera Mixture, 50 bottles. Liquors — Brandy, 18 bottles ; whiskey, 36 bottles ; port, 12 bottles. Water — Poland, 12 Carboys. Delicacies — Cases, 5 : sandwiches, 2000 ; gallons milk, 420. In addition to the above contributions, $400 was expended by the Secretary in personal work during August and September at Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, L. I., for milk, eggs, butter, fruit, delicacies, and other necessaries to benefit the sick and convalescent. Auxiliary No. 60 sent all its contributions, excepting two cases, directly to camps, viz., Governor's Island, Santiago de Cuba, and Mon- tauk Point. The Secretary, Mrs. G. E. French, personally attended to the distribution in the home camps. Mrs. G. E. French, Secretary. 144 AUXILIARY No. 6i. Hokendauqua, Pennsylvania. OEFICERS: Miss Bessie H. Thomas, President. Miss Rebecca McFettridge, ist Vice President. Mrs. Samuel R. Thomas, Secretary. Miss Florence Bass, Treasurer. The report for Auxiliary No. 6i is : Amount of money received $ 267 80 Amount of money paid out for supplies, etc 258 43 Balance on hand, Feb. i, 1899 % 9 37 Florence M. Bass, February 21, 1899. Treasurer. AUXILIARY No. 62. Bridgeport., Connecticut. OFFICERS: Mrs. Charles B. Read, President. Mrs. Warren R. Briggs, Secretary. Mrs. N. W. Bishop, Treasurer. There were no Sub-Auxiliaries in connection with Auxiliary No. 62. There were about 144 members. Two cases of delicacies : one sent directly to Fortress Monroe, and one direct to Montauk. There were 893 garments made. The Auxiliary made or purchased the following articles : — 142 pajamas, 175 hospital shirts, 48 nightshirts, 162 draw sheets, 61 abdominal bands, 20 pillowcases, 8 sheets, 127 towels, 192 wash-cloths, 133 comfort bags, 123 underdrawers, 126 undershirts, 123 pairs socks, 90 handkerchiefs, 50 jars beef extract, 6 hospital screens, 4 pieces mostiuito netting, 5 gross safety-pins, books and magazines, 8 quarts of alcohol. Some of these articles were given to the sixty or more sick soldiers who were sent to Bridgeport to be cared for. E. H. B. Briggs, October 25, 1898. Secretary. N. B. — The Auxiliary forwarded to Mr. Tappen $68.25. 145 AUXILIARY No. 63. Suffolk County^ N. V. OFFICERS: Miss Bessie Clark, President. Mrs. Julia L. Conklin, Secretary. Miss Lillie Cook, Treasurer. List of articles sent by Auxiliary No. 63 to Red Cross Headquarters : August 4th. — 12 pillows, 28 surgical gowns, 20 pajamas, 6 flannel "bandages, i shirt. August 28th. — II pillows, 15 cotton bandages, 7 surgical gowns, 14 pajama suits, 6 nightshirts. October 20th. — 24 pajama suits, 12 nightshirts, 4 abdominal belts, large package reading matter. Full amount of money collected $ 104 51 Amount spent for supplies $ 6 74 Amount forwarded to Fred. D. Tappen 56 00 Amount on hand, October 15th 41 77 J. L. Conklin, Secretary. 146 AUXILIARY No. 64. Staatsburgh, Dutchess Co., N. V. OFFICERS : Miss Madeleine Dinsmore, President. Miss Gertrude L. Hoyt, Secretary. Miss Katherine E. Cummings, Treasurer. Auxiliary No 64 has no Sub-Auxiliaries. About fifty or sixty people at the outside, assisted with money, donations, or in doing the sewing. We began work August 4th, and continued until October 29th, and sent, in all, to the Supply Depot, 5 boxes, containing 70 suits of pajamas (25 gingham, rest outing flannel), 6 extra jackets, 45 surgical nightshirts, 11 dozen and 1 1 towels, 6t, flannel bands, 5 dozen cotton socks, 6 dozen and 9 cheese- cloth handkerchiefs, 2 pairs canvas slippers, i pair knit socks, 12 jars of sweetmeats, 2 bottles of lime-juice, 39 palm-leaf fans, magazines. Harper's weekly (for a year), $28.00 in cash. $70 was used to buy materials, etc. $98 was collected altogether. The materials were bought here, at cost price. While the money was contributed by a few people of means, the work was nearly all done by the village women. As they do all their own work, and few have sewing machines, they have really given all their spare time. In the spring they had worked for the Cuban Relief Association, and had to take time for their own affairs, before beginning again for the Red Cross, which is the reason they did not organize earlier in the summer. Gertrude L. Hoyt, October 29th. Secretary. N.B. — A cheque for $18 was forwarded to Mr. Tappen. 147 AUXILIARY No. 65. Spri7ig field Centre, Otsego Co., N. Y. OFFICERS : Mrs. H. L. Wardwell, President. Mrs. Leslie Pell-Clarke, Secretary. Miss Jean Forbes, Treasurer. Members, 29. Cases of pipes and tobacco sent, 5. Cases of food supplies sent, 3. Auxiliary No. 65 was organized on July 21, 1898, so late after the breaking out of the war that only very little could be really accomplished However, from that time until October ist, when the Auxiliary disbanded, it sent 152 lbs. tobacco and 153 pipes as a luxury to the convalescing men, and 3 doz. cans of soup, i doz. cans braised beef, i doz. boxes whole wheat biscuit, i doz. cans of alkethrepta, 8 quarts raspberry vinegar, I box biscuits, 3 quarts preserved fruits, 4 quarts raspberry jam, i pint canned strawberries, 4 glasses of currant jelly, and 6 glasses of crab-apple jelly. Everything was sent to the Supply Depot for shipment. The Auxiliary held, in all, four regular meetings, in the Village Hall at Cooperstown, New York, and, while they are now disbanded, still, they hold themselves ready to answer a call from the President, Mrs. Henry Lansing Wardwell, should there be any further necessity for work in the future. $2.22 was sent to Mr. Tappen, Henrietta Pell-Clarke, Oct. 24, 1898. Secretary. 148 AUXILIARY No. 66. Plymouth Church Aitxiliary. Worcester, Mass. OFFICERS. Arthur Reed Taft, President. Theodore H. Nye, Vice-President. Miss Eliza L. Walker, Secretary. Robert E. Bigelow, Treasurer. Auxiliary No. 66 of this city has collected since its organization about $250, all of which has been sent direct to New York. There were no delicacies sent, no garments made, and nothing sent direct to camp, as this part of the work was not taken up. About the Sub-Auxiliaries, No. 66 has started an Auxiliary purporting to represent the entire city of Worcester, and itself intends to merge into that Auxiliary soon, as it seemed best to have one such Auxiliary rep- resenting all the churches rather than an Auxiliary representing each church of the city. Eliza L. Walker, Secretary. November 7, 1898. 149 AUXILIARY No. 67. Oyster Bay, L. I. OFFICERS. Mrs. Thomas S. Young, Jr., President. Mrs. J. H. Sears, Secretary. Mrs. E. M. Townsend, Treasurer. Auxiliary No. 67 of the Red Cross Relief Committee was organized in Oyster Bay on July 25th for the purpose of making garments for the soldiers. The Auxiliary disbanded on October 15th. During its existence 205 persons enrolled themselves as members of the Auxiliary, and 4285 garments were made and sent to the Red Cross Headquarters. The work was given out each week, the President of the Auxiliary making weekly inquiries at the Supply Depot in New York as to what garments were especially needed, and these were cut, distributed and sent off as fast as possible. The members of the Auxiliary defrayed the expenses of a supper which was given to the Rough Riders in Long Island City when the regi- ment was mustered out, and also sent $50 directly to the immediate Relief Fund. The surplus which remained in the treasury when the Auxiliary disbanded was sent through Mr. Tappen to General Wood at Santiago. There were no Sub-Auxiliaries in connection with No. 67. No boxes of delicacies were sent by the Auxiliary to the soldiers, and all the gar- ments which were made by the Auxiliary were sent directly to the Red Cross Headquarters in New York. Mrs. Thoimas S. Young, Jr., President. ISO AUXILIARY No. 68. Cratiford, N. J. OFFICERS. Mrs. F. R. Bourne, Preside}it. Miss Alice Lakey, Scci-etary. Miss Carrie L. Purcell, Treasurer. Auxiliary No. 68 of Cranford, New Jersey, was organized early last August. Our first contribution of $50 was raised by subscription. On the 17th of August was held a Red Cross Lawn Fete which netted four hundred dollars ($400), and with an addition of fifty-five dollars ($55) more gained through subscriptions, enabled us to remit to you on August 26th four hundred and fifty-five dollars ($455). The gentlemen of the town came to our aid and gave, on October 12th, a minstrel entertainment which was very successful, and added to our contributions to the Red Cross Fund three hundred and twenty-nine dollars ($329). This closed our work, and the Auxiliary has disbanded. Alice Lakey, Secretary. 151 AUXILIARY No. 69. Loyal Friends A iixiliary. New York City. Working Membership, 26. OFFICERS. Mrs. T. S. P. Miller President, Mrs. V. H. Morton, M.D., Vice-President. Mrs. V. E. Matthews, Secretary. Mrs. Mary Gibson, Treasurer. Cases containing delicacies 3 Pajamas made 21 Emergency shirts made 9 Nightshirts made 7 Pillowcases " 15 Amount sent Treasurer, Mr. F. D. Tappen, $28.25. Besides the above delicacies and garments, cases contained toilet articles, recreation comforts and miscellaneous garments. The Auxiliary is composed of busy working women. During August, September, and October, Visiting Committees appointed by the President, visited sick soldiers in hospitals in New York, Brooklyn, islands adjacent to New York City, and at Camp Wikoff. Through these Committees members who were unable to visit, distributed delicacies, underwear, toilet articles, flowers, fruit, reading matter, writing materials, and recreation comforts independent of contributions sent to Supply Depot. All members were required by President to visit hospitals at least once a week during August and September. No member ever went empty- handed, but whatever she carried was either purchased by her or solicited from friends independent of all other contributions. Many wrote down individual requests, and after Camp Wikoff was abandoned and soldiers returned to respective posts, articles desired were sent to them by Visiting Committees. Members of the Auxiliary voted, on October 15th, to continue the work during the winter. They have held weekly meetings at the residence of the President. During the winter the meetings will be held fortnightly on Wednesdays. Mrs. T. S. P. Miller, President. Mrs. Victoria Earle Matthews, Secretary. 152 AUXILIARY No. 70. The Emergency Club, London, Ohio. OFFICERS. Mrs. George Lincoln, President. Mrs. Charles Butler, Secretary. Miss Berth.a. Coover, Treasurer. As Secretary of Red Cross Auxiliary No. 70 I have pleasure in report- ing that we have sent you, at different times during the past summer, sixty dollars ($60.00) as per Treasurer's account. Also sent one box of supplies, consisting of 36 nightshirts, 33 sheets, 72 pillowcases, 15 towels, 6 pajamas, 36 pairs of socks. This box was shipped to your Supply Depot in New York City. No boxes were sent to the camps. Auxiliary No. 70 has thirty members ; has no Sub-Auxiliaries con- nected with it ; was organized in February, 1898, for charitable work in our own community, or wherever needed ; and at the beginning of the war with Spain voted to apply our work and supplies to the Red Cross during the continuance of the war. Auxiliary No. 70 has not disbanded as yet, and may continue to work with you ; will notify you later on as to this. Jennie T. Butler, January 7, 1899. Secretary. TREASURER'S STATEMENT. As Treasurer of Red Cross Auxiliary No. 70, I take pleasure in making the following statement : Receipts. August 2d $ 5 00 15th 500 " 26th 1000 30th 3772 November 15th 5 00 S62 72 Disbursements. August 20th §10 04 30th 1504 September 2d 15 04 24th 504 November 15th 10 04 January 4th 5 04 $60 24 Balance on hand 2 48 Bertha Coover, January 7, 1899. Treasurer. 153 AUXILIARY No. 71. Shortsville, N. Y. OFFICERS. Mrs. O. .S. Titus, President. Miss Jane Munger, Vice-President. Mrs. Edward D. Martin, Secretary. Mrs. H. H. Huntington, Treasurer. Auxiliary No. 71, Shortsville, N. Y., has a membership of 30. They have made 18 suits of pajamas, 5 nightshirts, and 3 pairs of bed slippers. Three boxes have been sent to the Supply Depot which contained vari- ous articles for hospital use — canned goods, tobacco, old linen and cotton, reading matter, towels, handkerchiefs, and six cases of jellies and preserves, etc. There are no Sub-Auxiliaries connected with No. 71. We have adjourned for the present, but stand ready to help with our mite should the necessity arise. Mary Glass Martin, Secretary. November 14, 1898. AUXILIARY No. 72. Richmond Hill, L. I. OFFICERS. Mrs. Walter P. Young, President. Mrs, Charles Prothero, Vice-President. Mrs. Arthur Hinds, Vice-President. Mrs. Francis M. Edgerton, Secretary. Mrs. G. E. Bissell, Treasurer. Auxiliary No. 72 was organized July 25, 189S, and has at present ninety-four (94) members, fifty-four (54) regular, and forty (40) associate members. We have no Sub-Auxiliaries. We have collected in all $294.13, partially by fees and dues, and partially by means of an entertainment which netted us over $100. The Treasurer's report to your treasurer gives the detailed report of moneys received and expended. 154 We have held fourteen meetings and have accomplished the following work : Sent to the Red Cross Headquarters, $50. 39 fever-shirts, 7 nightshirts, 28 pajamas, 365 cotton towels, 34 linen towels, 29 handkerchiefs, 241 surgical squares, 75 slings, 3 barrels and 3 boxes literature. Sent to Jamaica Hospital direct, $80. 9 suits pajamas, 65 surgical squares, i towel, 5 gallons whiskey. Sent to sick soldier in Richmond Hill : 2 suits pajamas, i bottle whiskey, ice-cream twice a day for a week. Sent to Nurses' Fund — Miss Draper, $25. Sent to St. John's Hospital, Brooklyn : Ice-cream, 5 gallons. Compared with the sea of relief that has been poured out, our report seems but the " cup of cold water," but it has been given gladly, and has helped to lift our own lives out of the realm of selfishness into that of Christlikeness. Respectfully submitted, Sara Townsekd Edgerton, Secretary. November 12, 1898. TREASURER'S REPORT. Receipts. Initiation Fees for Active Members $ 56 00 " " " Associate Members 35 00 Dues from Active Members 3S 75 Donations 33 06 Receipts from Entertainment 124 50 Dues paid later, etc 6 S2 Total $294 13 Disbursements, To Miss Draper, for Fund for Maintenance of Nurses $ 25 00 " Red Cross Society 50 00 " Relief Society of Jamaica Hospital So 00 For Supplies, etc. , including those sent to young soldier in town. ... 92 S5 Incidental Expenses 14 2r Total $262 06 Balance $32 07 The above report is inclusive from July, 1898, to February, 1S99. Mrs. George E. Bissell, Treasurer. 155 AUXILIARY No. 73. South Orange, N. J. OFFICERS : Mrs. Frank Arnold, President. Miss Adele Wetmore, Vice-President. Miss Mary E. Baldwin, Secretary. Mrs. Richard J. Cross, Treasurer. This Auxiliary was organized July 25th. It consisted of seventeen members, including the above-named officers. During its short existence subscriptions amounting to $420.89 were obtained, and twenty-five (25) boxes shipped from its rooms. At its final meeting, held September 27th, the Treasurer reported a balance of $26.83 still on hand, and it was decided that with permission from the National Relief Committee, this amount should be applied to the purchase of necessities for the soldiers ill at the time in Memorial Hospital, Orange. All goods were shipped to the Supply Depot at 552 Broadway, except two crates of vegetables and one barrel of apples ; these were sent to Camp Wikoff. 631 garments made, 1824 towels, 948 wash-rags, 360 pairs socks,. 138 pillowcases, ^^ sheets, 19 cases of delicacies. No Sub-Auxiliaries were organized to work under No. 73. Respectfully submitted, Mary E. Baldwin, Secretary. AUXILIARY No. 74. Telegraph and Signal Corps A uxiliary. Miss Mary A. Tomlinson, President. Miss Alice Dean, Secretary. No report received. 156 AUXILIARY No. 75. Platteville, Wis. OFFICERS : Mrs. E. G. Buck, President. Mrs. John Woodw.\rd, Secretary. There is no Sub-Auxiliary in connection with No. 75 ; we stand alone around here. We have somewhere near twenty-five members ; we never enrolled all the workers. We have not sent any delicacies ourselves, but sent $20.00 in cash to F. D. Tappen, with which to purchase delicacies. We have made and sent to the Supply Depot, 26 pajamas, 40 sheets, 24 towels, 88 napkins, 25 pillowcases, 19 nightshirts, 24 suits of under- wear, 8 handkerchiefs, 6 silk seersucker suits, some old linen, and a number of old sheets. None of these things were sent directly to Camp, all to the Supply Depot. Late in July I wrote to Stephen E. Barton, asking him if there was any- thing we, in this little city, might do to assist in the wonderful work of the Red Cross. I had been so very much interested in all the reports I could read about its work that I wanted a hand in helping in it. He wrote me he had sent my letter to John P. Faure, and that I would hear from Mr. Faure later. In the meantime, Mr. Barton had sent me some Red Cross literature which I loaned to some of my friends. I heard in a few days from Mr. Faure, and from this Auxiliary No. 75 was organized. We, two or three of my friends to whom I had shown my letters, and my- self, formed the nucleus of the organization ; with the aid of two mem- bers from each church in the city we canvassed the city for aid. The result of this canvass was $108.50 in cash and $80.00 worth of supplies. We sent, in August, two barrels of supplies valued at $80.00 ; in Septem- ber a box of supplies containing 26 pajamas and other articles valued at $40.00 ; in October, $20.00 in cash, to purchase delicacies. We have material bought for 50 more pajamas we are trying to com- plete. We meet to sew at the home of our Chairman, Mrs. Buck. Many of the ladies of the different churches meet with us to sew. We have had, I think, seven sewing meetings. We have $46.00 in the bank to our credit. This is our summer's work under this organization. We are all glad of the opportunity it gives us of doing good under the banner of the " Red Cross." Yours in the good cause, Mrs. Lydia A. Woodward. October 26, 1S98. Secretary. 157 AUXILIARY No. ^6. Walden, N. Y. Members, jy. OFFICERS. Mrs. Phcebe Saxe, President. Mrs. E. S. Sayer, Secretary. Mrs. N. J. Fowler, Treasurer. 2,2, sheets, 159 pillowcases, 32 nightshirts, 9 pairs pajamas, 7 pairs socks, 2 white shirts, 6 towels, 4 boxes prepared food, i box toilet soap, old linen and muslin. These were all sent to the Supply Depot, nothing having been sent to camp. We also sent to Frederick D. Tappen, Treas- urer, $186.82. Mary E. Sayer, Secretajy. 158 AUXILIARY No. 'jj. Wheeling, West Va. The first West Virginia Red Cross Auxiliary No. 77 was organized at Wheeling, W. Va., July 12th, 1898, under the rules controlling the Asso- ciation of the American National Red Cross, with no Auxiliary connected. The following officers were elected : President, Mrs. W. F. Butler ; Vice- Presidents, Mesdames C. J. Rawling, J. Wagner, M. E. Dalzell, M. Sonneborn, J. D. McFadden, W. B. Lewis, Catharine Meyer, W. P. Hub- bard, and Miss Jennie Bailey ; Treasurer, Mrs. Jennie P. Sisson ; Record- ing Secretary, Mrs. John B. Garden ; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Julius Pollock. The active members enrolled numbered 220, honorary, 57. Dues from both $"2 00 Receipts from donations 474 oS $586 08 Disbursements , 269 93 Balance in treasury $316 15 All goods sent were consigned to the Supply Depot, 552-554 Broad- way, New York City, and consisted of seven cases, containing number of articles recorded : August 2d, (3 small cases), 119 ; August 6th, 432 ; August 20th, 469 ; September 3d, 611 ; September loth, 66. Total, 1697. Total articles : 150 sheets, 163 nightshirts, 160 pillow-slips, 87 pajama suits, 2 pajama jackets, 88 flannel bands, 222 handkerchiefs, 164 negligee shirts, 149 towels, 96 socks, 2 wash-cloths, 2 boxes Sunlight soap, 12 cans soup, 200 fans, 24 Testaments, 6 boxes writing paper, r case disinfectant, 126 cakes soap, 13 glasses jelly, 30 bottles cordial ; total, 1697. Number of garments made, 650. Cases of delicacies : Cordial, i ; jelly, i ; soup, i. Total, 3. Respectfully submitted, Mrs. Julius Pollock:. November 4, 1898. 159 AUXILIARY No. 78. Toledo, Ohio. OFFICERS. Mrs. S. S. Knabenshue, President. Mrs. W. V. McMaken, First Vice-President. Mrs. J. D. Howe, Second Vice-President. Mrs. J. A. Fisk, Third Vice-President . Mrs. W. H. Porter, Secretary. Mrs. J. D. Smead, Treasurer. TREASURER'S REPORT, Receipts. Total amount received to October 15th •$ 470 S7 Expenditures. Express S24 75 Merchandise 95 47 Ambulance, hacks, etc 43 25 Hotels 20 25 Arnold Bros. Restaurant 84 55 Rubber Goods 41 85 Sponges 3 60 Railroad and boat tickets 14 I5 Cash given to sick soldiers I 50 Memorial Hall 2 00 Light Guard expenses 2 00 Milk at depot S 05 I341 42 Balance on hand 129 45 October 15, 1898. October 28, 1898. Dear Madam : Inclosed find three lists of supplies sent in as many boxes since last report. The first expressed to the Second Division Hospital at Knoxville, Tenn., was packed by the Ninth Ward and Washington Street Congrega- i6o tional Church ladies, whose band is Sub-Auxiliary to our branch, and contained : 3 pillows, 6 bars of soap, i box H. O., i box tapioca, i box Wheatlet, 2 glasses jelly, 4 cans soup, i box cigars, 6 pairs socks, i pair slippers, 45 wash-cloths, 3 dozen copies Young Peoples' IVeekly, i dozen handkerchiefs, 8 abdominal bands, i roll linen, 5 shirts, i blanket, i dozen pillowcases, 10 sheets, 3 bolts netting, 2 suits underwear, 3 dozen pads, 5 rolls bandages, 5 nightshirts. During October, Red Cross Auxiliary No. 78 has forwarded to your Supply Depot two boxes, which held : First — 26 suits pajamas, 4 pillows, i bed-pad, 5 bundles old muslin, 20 sheets, 27 pillowcases, 8 nightshirts, i dayshirt, 4 pairs underdrawers, i undershirt, 28 pairs socks, 2 pairs slippers, 3 dozen wash-cloths, i dozen bath towels, i dozen plain towels. Second — 5 pairs slippers, 6 muslin sheets, i rubber sheet, 3 dozen pillowcases, i dozen bath towels, 12 pairs socks, 18 wash-cloths, 4 pairs underdrawers, 2 undershirts, netting, 2 dayshirts, 5 bundles old muslin. Still another box, sent yesterday to Knoxville, was filled with grape cordial, made by the ladies themselves. The depot and hospital work (local) is daily continued. Very truly yours, Ilva N. Porter, Secretary i6i AUXILIARY No. 79. Loving ton, Illinois. OFFICERS. S. S. BOGGS, President. Dr. H. D. Smith. Vice-President. Mrs. Robert Selby, Vice-President. Miss Della Timmons, Vice-President. Miss Daisy Shoots, Vice-President. Mrs. Nora L. Stanley, Secretary. George Hewitt, Treasurer. There are no Sub- Auxiliaries in connection with Auxiliary No. 79. Auxiliary No. 79 has 76 members (about 20 working ones). One case of delicacies, handkerchiefs, and bath towels was sent direct to Camp for use of Company B Hospital, Fourth Illinois Regulars, by our Auxiliary. Our Auxilary was organized July 30th, and at the end of two months (September 30th) the Treasurer's report was as follows : Funds Collected. ' ' Leedy Lecture " $ q -^o ' ' Chicken Fry " ig oo Contributed I S 66 Red Cross edition Reporter 23 62 I70 58 Expended. Relief work, August $30 50 " " September 15 00 Postage 28 Other expenses 2 20 $47 98 On hand $2260 Mrs. Nora L. Stanley, Secretary. October 24, 189S. 1 62 AUXILIARY No. 80. New Brunswick, N. J. TREASURER'S REPORT. The following is a summary of the Treasurer's Report of Red Cross Auxiliary No. 80, since organization, July 30th, 1898, for three months ending October 31st, 1898 : Receipts l352 25 Expenditures for supplies, etc $216 62 Forwarded to Frederick D. Tappen 100 00 Balance on hand 35 63 $352 25 Mary B. Suydam, Treasurer. The Red Cross Auxiliary No. 80 of the American National Red Cross Relief Committee was formed in New Brunswick, N. J., July 30th, 1898. The officers are, Mrs. Nicholas G. Rutgers, President ; Miss Frances N. Stevens, Mrs. D. Lowber Smith, Mrs. E. W. Robbins, Vice-Presidents Mrs. V. M. \V. Suydam, Treasurer ; Mrs. David Murray, Secretary. Although the Auxiliary was late in being formed, the members have been enthusiastic and active, holding for the greater part of the time two meetings a week. There are between 160 and 170 members enrolled. Large donations of material from the merchants and people of the town have been received, which have been made up into pajamas, bedding, etc. Of these the Auxiliary has supplied 1139 articles. Foods and delicacies amounting to 331 cans and packages have been contributed ; also 162 pipes, 112 toothbrushes and combs, about 50 pounds of tobacco, besides tea, stationery, medicines, Bibles, Testaments, magazines, and other reading matter. Mr. Carl J. Shilling, Steward in United States Field Hospital, Depart- ment of the Gulf, Land's End, St. Helena Island, South Carolina, a citizen of New Brunswick, made application to the Auxiliary for medical supplies, which were greatly needed in his hospital. In response nearly forty dollars' worth of medicine was sent, also later two boxes of clothing, etc., his personal friends contributing money and articles for his benefit. Pajamas and delicacies were also furnished to Camp Voorhees, Sea Girt, N. J., on application. The other supplies were sent to the American National Red Cross Supply Committee, New York City. This is the work of three months of No. 80. The Auxiliary has not disbanded. It is a permanent society, but will not send further contribu- tions unless receiving notice from Headquarters that they are needed. Respectfully submitted, Martha Neilson Murray, October 31, 1898. Secretary. i63 AUXILIARY No. 8i. Colored Woman s Auxiliary. Kansas City, Kansas. OFFICERS. Mrs. Katie Minor, President. Mrs. Dvcie Scott, Secretary. Mrs. J. J. Lewis, Treasurer, Dear Madam : In reply to your request I respectfully submit the following report for Auxiliary No. 8i : Sub-Auxiliaries, not any. Number of members, 14. Garments made, 15 nightshirts, 18 sheets, 16 pillowcases ; total num- ber of pieces, 49. No delicacies were sent. The above supplies have been sent to Santiago de Cuba. Yours, in the interest of humanity, Mrs, Dycie Scott, Secretary. November 6, 1898. 164 AUXILIARY No. 82. North Berwick, Maine. On August II, 189S, the American National Red Cross Relief Com- mittee authorized me to organize a club, under the name of the " Sons and Daughters of the Red Cross." The club comprises eleven girls under the age of fifteen, and two boys. The President of the Society is Chester A. Hayes, Jr. Miss Alice Husey was chosen Treasurer, and Roscoe C. Hatch became Secretary of said club. The older girls volunteered to accomplish the work for the younger ones. Each member of the society has paid a membership fee of twenty-five cents, which has been put to use in purchasing material. Meetings have been held weekly. There have been no Sub-Auxiliaries. Articles were sent direct to American National Red Cross Depot, and in all amount to 107 cheese-cloth squares, 3 Testaments, and 201 pin- cushions. There is in the treasury $2 (two dollars). The names of the members of "The Sons and Daughters of the Red Cross" are : Agnes Ethel Hatch Alice Husey Sally Macdoxald Lottie Harvey Margaret Mary Gray Dorothy Clark Lillian DA\as Marjorie Clark Dorothea Da\ts Bertha Gray Hatch Lucy Hayes Mary Brownlow Hatch Lizzie Harvey Chester A. Hayes, Jr. RoscoE C. Hatch. The " Sons and Daughters of the Red Cross " have been most happy in their efforts, and hope they may always be called upon to assist in any work the American National Red Cross Relief Committee undertakes. Mary Brownlow Hatch. Mr. John P. Faure, Sec. American National Red Cross Relief Committee, Dear Sir : Your letter of the fifteenth instant received, and we are most happy to say that although we can donate but little, that we will send whatever amount of articles we are able to contribute and not disband our Auxiliary, if such be acceptable to the American National Red Cross Relief Committee. We would be happy to donate more, but there is very- little in the treasury and many of the members have resigned. We will continue to send in our work unless otherwise advised. Very sincerely, Roscoe C. Hatch, December l6, 1898. Secretary. i65 AUXILIARY No. 83. Orange, N. J. OFFICERS. Miss Rosamond Howard, President. Miss Kittie Knipps, ist Vice-President. Miss Helen Hoyt, 2d Vice-President. Miss Bessie Howard, Secretary. Miss Louise Rodman, Treasurer. x\mount on hand October 15th, $1. No. Z^ is a Children's Auxiliary, and consequently the amount accomplished has been small. About two dollars was spent on the comfort bags, most of the supplies being donated. Respectfully yours, Bessie Howard, Secretary. AUXILIARY No. 84. Hammond, Indiana. OFFICERS. Dr. Mary E. Jackson, President. Mrs. Elizabeth Barker, Vice-President. Mrs. Jennie Knapp, Secretary. Miss Helen Johnson, Treasurer. Dear Madam : Our report for Auxiliary No. 84, of Hammond, is as follows : We have no Sub-Auxiliaries. There are about fifty members. Cases of delicacies, none. Garments made, none. We have cared for and fed 102 soldiers. We have assisted, by giving aid in the burial of 4 soldiers. $23 charity work. The Treasurer will forward you a draft for $15.25, being the money collected and earned for the Red Cross Society. Yours fraternally. Dr. Mary E. Jackson, Frestdeni. November i, 1898. i66 AUXILIARY No. 85. Holdrege, Neb. OFFICERS : Mrs. Reeves, President. Mrs. F. H. Porter, Secretary. Mrs. D. T. Cornell, Treasurer, There are no Sub-Auxiliaries in connection with No. 85. Our membership is twenty. We have sent no delicacies nor garments. Our donations have been in cash only, which has amounted to $157.50. We have held five meetings of the Society, and our Constitution calls for regular meetings since the ist of October, only every three months. Other meetings at call of President. LuELLA C. Porter, Secretary. November i, 1898. AUXILIARY No. 86. Girls Toivcl A iixiliary. New York City. OFFICERS : Miss Alice O. Draper, President. Miss Janet Dana, Secretary. Miss Ruth Draper, Treasurer. Auxiliary No. 86 was organized on August 20th, for the purpose of making towels. It has nineteen members. Up to the present date it has sent in to the Supply Depot, 27 J dozen towels. Janet Dana, Secretary. November 14, 1898. 1 6/ AUXILIARY No. 87. Brattleboro, Vermont. Owing to trouble with the Red Cross Agent, this Auxiliary, No. 87, was not organized until August 226., and several of the women who joined were already committed to work for a Soldiers' Aid Society. There were forty members ; no Sub-Auxiliaries. $30 was sent to Fred. D. Tappen for furnishings for 3 cots ; 29 pajamas made and sent to Supply Depot. Mary R. Cabot. October 31, 1898. AUXILIARY No. 88. Evatiston, III. OFFICERS: Mrs. N. Gill- Kirk, President. Miss Mary E. Harris, Vice-President. Mrs. Frank Wilson, Secretary. Mrs. S. E. Hurlbut, Treasurer. REPORT OF THE WORK COMMITTEE. Since the organization of the Evanston Auxiliary, the following number of garments have been made and distributed, and delicacies furnished : to the Post Hospital at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, for the sick soldiers of the Fourth Infantry (regulars), and the volunteers of the First Illinois Cavalry : 33 suits flannelette pajamas, 22 flannelette nightshirts, 24 muslin night- shirts, 4 dozen towels, 21 dozen butter-cloth handkerchiefs, 4 granite bed- pans, 41 glasses jelly, 3 boxes oranges, 4 gallons oysters, i bushel tomatoes, 6 bottles grape juice, 12 gallons beef broth, 2 quarts chicken broth. For soldiers in Evanston Hospital :— i dozen nightshirts, 2 dozen butter-cloth handkerchiefs, 3 pairs slippers, 6 pairs socks, 6 suits pajamas. For convalescent soldiers in Evanston (sent from Fort Sheridan Hospital) for whom homes were provided : — 6 suits pajamas, 6 muslin nightshirts, 6 pairs socks. For soldiers living in Evanston : — 4 suits pajamas, 3 nightshirts. For sick and homeless soldiers in Army and Navy Barracks in Chicago : — 67, muslin nightshirts, 3 flannelette nightshirts, 84 suits flannelette pajamas. Respectfully submitted, Anna S. Howell, Chairman Work Committee. i68 REPORT OF TREASURER. The Evanston Auxiliary No. 88 of the American National Red Cross Relief Committee was organized August 8, 1898, with President, Vice- President, Secretary, Treasurer, and representatives from each of the lead- ing churches to collect funds for the Auxiliary. Membership fees of fifty cents for adults and ten cents for children were collected, with such volun- tary subscriptions as might be made. From August 8th to November ist, the Auxiliary had a membership of 275 adults and 266 children, a total of 541. Receipts. Cash collected. $ 405 93 Expenditures. Frederick D. Tappen, Red Cross Treasurer, N. Y $ 225 00 Marshall Field & Co., material for nightshirts, etc 64 3 1 Printing stationery for Auxiliary 8 75 Printing pamphlet. Life of Clara Barton Express on boxes and packages to Fort Sheridan Paper and twine Revenue stamp 3 bed-pans and express to Fort Sheridan 3 boxes oranges to Fort Sheridan 4 gallon oysters to Fort Sheridan Burial expenses of soldier, $20 ($10 of which was refunded) 10 00 Dr. S. C. Stanton, Acting Asst. Surgeon, U. S. A., for sick soldiers. . . 62 40 Balance. ■ 395 44 $ 10 49 OFFICERS AND CHURCH REPRESENTATIVES. Mrs. N. Gill-Kirk, President. Miss Mary Harris, Vice-President. Mrs. Frank Wilson, Secretary. Mrs. S. E. Hurlbut, Treasurer. First Presbyterian Church Second Presbyterian Church First Methodist Church Emmanuel Methodist Church Hemenway Methodist Church First Baptist Church First Congregational Church St. Mark's Church St. Luke's Church Central St. Methodist Church, N. Evanston St. Mary's Church .... Miss Kate Quinlan. Mrs. W. H. Spencer. Mrs. Weir and Mrs. Stewart. Mrs. D. S. McMullen. Mrs. Milhening. Mrs. C. F. Grey. Mrs. N. W. Brooks. Mrs. Lutkin. Mrs. Knox. Miss Lydia E. Snyder. Not represented. Respectfully submitted, Mary J. Hurlbut, Evanston, III., November i, 1898. Treasurer. 169 AUXILIARY No. 89. Montclair, N. y. OFFICERS. Mrs. Benjamin Strong, President. Mrs. S. F. Ward, Vice-President. Mrs. John Porter, Secretary. Miss J. S. Strong, Treasurer. Organized July 29, 1898, at ^:^ Plymouth Street. Members, 45. No Sub-Auxiliaries. TREASURER'S REPORT. Receipts. For General Fund $415 7* For Care of Soldiers in Mountainside Hospital, Montclair, N. J. . 204. 56 Total Cash Receipts $620 34 Expenditures. Forwarded to F. D. Tappen For Care of Soldiers in Mountainside Hospital, Montclair. For Materials, Expressage, etc On Hand $225 00 204 56 l32 21 3 57 $620 34 Jeannie S. Strong, Treasurer. REPORT OF WORK. Sent to Red Cross Supply Committee, N. Y. : Pajamas, 378 ; negligee shirts, 10 ; abdominal bands, 71 ; wrappers, 17 ; handkerchiefs, 405. Total to Supply Committee, 881. Sent to Mountainside Hospital for Soldiers there : Pajamas, 94 ; negligee shirts, 14 ; abdominal bands, 3 ; wrappers, 4; handkerchiefs, 50. Total to Hospital, 165. Grand total, 1046. Delicacies, etc., to Supply Committeee : 6 quarts blackberry cordial, 2 boxes fruit jellies, 100 pipes, 100 pouches tobacco, 7 barrels, 2 cases novels and magazines. 170 Delicacies, etc., to Mountainside Hospital, Montclair : i6 glasses jellies,. 3 quarts fruit syrups for drinks. Auxiliary 89 has assisted the Hospital here in its heavy burden of caring for (32) thirty-two soldiers, gratis — supplying them with pajamas, flannel undershirts, negligee shirts, wrappers, and abdominal bands, beside the $204.56 in cash to help defray expenses of their stay in Hospital. Four of the Regulars Avere sent here by the War Relief Association. The Co. K. men were all from this neighborhood ; also Lieutenant Heyer and Lieutenant Anderson ; all the rest came through the Red Cross Relief Committee. As fast as the men were fit to leave the Hospital they were placed in the homes of our patriotic citizens by the officers of Auxiliary 89. Though many were rough, common soldiers, they were taken into the homes and to the tables of some of our best people, — were treated with the greatest kindness and consideration, given the best of food and care until able to return to their own homes. In some instances they were supplied v.'ith new underclothes and flannel shirts by their hosts. Almost without exception we found the soldiers grateful and well behaved. There are still six soldiers in Hospital recovering from typhoid. Mrs. John Porter, Secretary. 171 AUXILIARY No. 90. Lyons, N. Y. OFFICERS. Miss Eudora A. Lewis, President. Mrs. L. K. Stark, Secretary. Miss Jennie T. Brownson, Treasurer. On July 20th the ladies of Lyons held a meeting and voted to become an Auxiliary of the National Red Cross Society. We were placed as No. 90. Our efforts as a society were devoted to raising funds. One of our druggists, Mr. George Getman, proffered us one day's use of his soda fountain, July 2Sth was the Red Cross day, and we realized $12.60 from the sale. July 30th our Auxiliary held an ice-cream fete which netted $66.46, which amount was forwarded to Charles A. Schieren, Treasurer National Red Cross Society. (We had not at that time been notified of the acceptance of our organization as an Auxiliary.) Received from Mr. Hardt $10.00 that had been collected for Cuban Relief. The South Lyons Missionary Society voted to send $6.00 through Auxiliary No. 90 for the sick and wounded sailors and soldiers, and $42.18 were raised by private subscriptions ; these, with our membership fees of $30.50, make a total of $167.74. From this amount 35 cents were refunded to Ice-Cream Committee, and 50 cents for record book and postage. There are no Sub-Auxiliaries in connection with No. 90. We have 122 members. No garments were made. Auxiliary No. 90 voted to disband on November i, 1898. Annie Putnam Stark. Secretary. November 2, 1898. 172 AUXILIARY No. 91. Dobbs Ferry, N. V. OFFICERS: Mrs. Walston H. Brown, President. Miss Maud R. Ingersoll, Secretary. Miss Gordon Waller, Treasurer. MONEY CONTRIBUTIONS. Mrs. Frederick F. Ayer S loo oo Miss Jessie Holden 25 00 Mr. James H . Bayley 5 00 Mrs. James Piatt Rheins 2 00 Mr. \Vm. A. Evans 10 00 Mr. Ransom ro 00 Miss Gordon Waller i 00 Total $ 153 00 CONTRIBUTIONS. Laurence & Co., 120 jelly glasses ; Gambre & Co., i dozen cans toma- toes, I ham; Miss Sharkey, 120 glasses jelly; Mrs. R. G. Ingersoll, 12 suits pajamas ; Mrs. Walston H. Brown, 30 dozen pipes, 210 packages tobacco, 2)(i glasses jelly, 60 suits pajamas. Sent to Lieut. Wilcox, ist Volunteer Cavalry, 4 gallons whiskey, i gallon sherry. To Captain Houston, ist Volunteer Cavalry, Camp Wikoff : i gallon whiskey, i gallon sherry. To Merchants Association : 60 glasses jelly. To Governors Island : 2>^ dozen pipes, 160 packages tobacco. To Miss Rhodes, Staten Island : 108 outing shirts, loS undershirts, 108 underdrawers, no pairs socks. To Mrs. Hellman, Auxiliary No. 2 : muslin, cheese-cloth and gingham, $50 ; in money, $30. The hospital at Dobbs Ferry was put at the disposal of Auxiliary No. 91. Ten sick and wounded soldiers were taken and kept until they had entirely recovered. To Red Cross car at Grand Central Station, 35 quarts milk. Paid nurse at Hospital f 50 00 Nurse for wounded soldier in New York 15 00 Nurse for sick soldier in New York 10 00 Respectfully submitted, Maud R. Ingersoll, November 14, 1898. Secretary. Fold-out Placeholder This fold-out is being digitized, and will be inserted a future date. Fold-out Placeholder This fold-out is being digitized, and will be inserted at a future date. 1/3 AUXILIARY No. 92. Marshall, Mich. OFFICERS : Mrs. W. H. Porter, President. Mrs. W. J. Gregg, Vice-President and Treasurer. Mrs. James M. Moses, Secretary. The whole amount of money received by our Society is the sum of $43. The amount expended for material % 22 25 Amount sent to F. D, Tappen, receipt on file 20 75 Total $ 43 oc> We also collected and sent one box of jellies and wines, and one large barrel of sheets, pillow-slips, pajamas, underwear and other articles, which in part were contributed, and not purchased with the money we raised. The future of Auxiliary No. 92 is not yet determined, and will not be until the return home of our President, Mrs. Porter. Mrs. W. J. Gregg, October 26, 1898. Treasurer. N. B. — No later report received. 174 REPORT OF THE NEW YORK RED CROSS HOSPITAL OF WORK ACCOMPLISHED AT SANTIAGO AND SIBONEY. By dr. a. MONAE LESSER. PREPARATION FOR WAR. Immediately after the declaration of war with Spain, I received the order from the President of the American National Red Cross to the effect "that the Red Cross Hospital Department shall be ready for service in the war." By the direction of the President, all applications for enlistment and communications relating to this service were sent to the New York Red Cross Hospital. A certain standard of experience and character was established as necessary for enlistment upon our staff. A number of applications from physicians and assistants were received, and those whose quahfications and recommendations seemed satisfactory were chosen and placed upon a list for further investigation and final selection. Care was taken to select a staff with special reference to the applicant's probable susceptibility to disease. From the large number, men were selected whom we believed would be physically able to carry wounded soldiers, and who seemed least susceptible to disease. (While immunes were greatly to be desired, persons of strong vitality were more necessary in order that in case of infection the disease might be light, and furnish less danger of casualty.) The enlisted medical staff consisted largely of Cuban and Southern physicians, and of men who had served in other armies. Only a few of them followed our expedition to Cuba, and most of them were later on enlisted in the U. S. Army service. THE FIRST STEP TOWARD THE FORMATION OF THE RELIEF COMMITTEE. At the same time Mr. Wardwell called a meeting of the Trustees of the Hospital, inviting, also, several members to be present. For the sake 175 ■of convenience the meeting was called at my residence. The following is a copy of the minutes of this meeting : "Minutes of a special meeting of the Board of Trustees of the New York Red Cross Hospital, held at the residence of Dr. A. M. Lesser, 19 East 6rst Street, on the evening of April 23d, 1898. " Present : Mrs. George F. Shrady, Mrs. Bettina Hofker-Lesser, Mr. William T. Wardwell, Dr. A. M. Lesser, Mr. John P. Faure, Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer, and Mrs. J. Lyon Gardiner, members, by invita- tion. In the absence of the Secretary, Mr. Faure was requested to act as Secretary /r^ tern, and so acted. "After discussion on the emergent conditions confronting the country, owing to the war with Spain, the following action was taken, on motion of Dr. Lesser, seconded by Mr. Faure : ''''Resolved, That the President, Vice-President, Executive Surgeon, Sister-in-Chief, and Trustee John P. Faure, with Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer, and Mrs. Coralie S. Gardiner be, and they hereby are, appointed a Committee to have charge of all matters relating to the present emergencies growing out of the existing war with Spain. Carried. "The President was authorized to consult with the President of the National Red Cross as to the advisibility of preparing a brief statement for the press, setting forth the present need of the Hospital. Carried. " On motion, the meeting adjourned. (Signed) " John P. F.a.ure, " Secretary pro tern." The following evening a meeting was called at the residence of Dr. A. Monae Lesser, there being present Mrs. George F. Shrady, Bettina Hofker-Lesser, Mr. William T. Wardwell, Dr. A. Monae Lesser, Mr. John P. Faure, Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer, Mrs. John Lyon Gardiner, and Dr. George F. Shrady. Dr. Shrady was added to the Committee, Mr. Faure acting as Secretary /r^ tern. Mr. Wardwell suggested that this movement should not be confined to the Red Cross Hospital alone, but should take a wider field, that it might receive support throughout the country, the Hospital to perform such duties as are provided in its charier, and as directed by the American National Red Cross, under whose auspices it performs its functions. Mr. Wardwell was requested to prepare a paper inviting fifteen influential citizens to form a Committee for participation in the Red Cross relief work, under the auspices of the American National Red Cross, and in conjunction with the New York Red Cross Hospital. Mr. Wardwell also, upon the request of the members present, assumed the duty of calling upon the gentlemen to makeup this proposed Committee. Several names 1/6 were suggested by the members present, and the selection of others was left to the discretion of Mr. Wardwell. Upon this, Mr. Wardwell pre- pared the following letter, which was unanimously adopted : " RED CROSS HOSPITAL FINANCE COMMITTEE. " The New York Red Cross Hospital having been designated by the American National Red Cross, as the central organization to provide physicians, surgeons, nurses, and such material as may be needed in field hospital service wherever required by the Government authorities, and to receive subscriptions of money that may be tendered for such necessary material in case of war * ; now, therefore, in accordance with such selec- tion and in order to combine and make effectual the enthusiasm and desire for helpfulness of the great body of the people of this nation, and in order that the people may have entire confidence that the money col- lected shall be faithfully used for field hospital service in case of war, the following gentlemen have consented to serve as a Finance Committee to have entire charge of the use of such funds, and with power to appoint auxiliary committees of ladies in New York, and to invite the cooperation of similar committees in other States and cities of the nation." The results are well known, and it is superfluous in this report to enter into particulars of the various meetings which followed. The Committee, consisting at first of fifteen members, formed in pursuance of the call and adopted the title of THE AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS RELIEF COMMITTEE. Mr. Wardwell, Dr. Shrady, Mr. John P. Faure, and myself were mem- bers representing the Red Cross Hospital. The Committee was finally increased to thirty-eight members. AUXILIARIES. Auxiliaries were formed in city and country for the purpose of assist- ing the Relief Committee. Auxiliaries for Ambulances, Tents, Clothing, Maintenance of Nurses, Hospital Equipment, and many others too numer- ous to mention, joined in the Red Cross work. Members of Auxiliaries came to the officers of the Red Cross Hospital for information as to the aid required from them in relief work. All of these Auxiliaries rendered material and beneficial assistance. * The New York Red Cross Hospital being the first and only legally chartered institu- tion in this country which was organized for the above purpose, including the training of Red Cross Sisters. 177 OFFICIAL OFFER OF RED CROSS SERVICE. When the Red Cross Relief Committee had formed, a special Commit- tee was appointed to call upon the President and offer the services of the Red Cross. The members of the Committee, as indicated in the minutes, were as follows : The Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter, D.D., LL.D., the Honor- able Levi P. Morton, Wm. T. Wardwell, Esq., Dr. George F. Shrady, and Dr. A. Monae Lesser, the last three named representing the Red Cross Hospital. While in Washington, the Committee officially visited the Departments of the Army and Navy, and the Department of State. TO THE CHIEF OF THE ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. After the Department of War had approved and accepted the services of the Red Cross to supplement the work of the Army Medical Depart- ment in case of need, I called, in the capacity of Surgeon-in-Chief of the American National Red Cross, upon Surgeon-General Sternberg of the U. S. Army. I was accompanied by the Sister-in-Chief. We asked the Surgeon-General for information in regard to field service. He repeated a statement previously made by him to the special Red Cross Committee, that, in his opinion, a hospital ship would be the best service that we might render. He, however, referred us to Colonel Greenleaf, Assistant Surgeon-General, who, he said, would have charge of the field. Before our departure, we again officially announced to the Surgeon-General that we would be ready for service with a number of American and Cuban physicians and nurses, some of them immunes, and also with other material aid to assist the Medical Department in the war. Upon this the Surgeon- General answered : " If you are there (seat of war) and we need you, we will call on you ! " We were then directed, by an attendant, to Colonel Greenleaf, whom we informed of our mission. After a short interview, the Colonel said that he felt that there would be a land service, and that it would be wise for us to be prepared. Being familiar with the experience of the Red Cross in wars of other nations, I felt it my duty to make all preparations, so that no possible de- lay might occur in affording Red Cross aid when needed. It is a Red Cross maxim that it is better to be ready and not required, than to be required and not to be ready. When my preparations were completed I reported " ready " to my superior officers. 178 FIRST REQUISITION FOR NURSES. I urged that twelve Red Cross Sisters (trained nurses) and several assistants selected by the Sister-in-Chief should be sent on the State of Texas to join the four Sisters of the Red Cross Hospital who had re- turned from Havana, and were awaiting us in the South. Why the nurses and assistants were not sent at the time requested is best known to the American National Red Cross. A request was also made for ambu- lances, attendants, and an outfit of small and large tents, together with instruments and other utensils to be forwarded at once. In making requisitions for the various articles, I selected such as would be of advan- tage in the Tropics. CALL. In response to the call from the American National Red Cross, I left this city with Mrs. Lesser on June 15 th for Key West. On the trip south a train of recruits commanded by First Lieutenant Heavey, First Infantry, joined us on their way to Tampa. SERVICE DURING THE JOURNEY. There were a number of sick on this train. In the absence of an army physician, I offered my services to the Lieutenant, which he accepted. Most of the sick had intestinal troubles. One private among them was very ill, and lay on a short bench in a Southern railroad coach. His con- dition was somewhat alarming, and he required special care. I therefore engaged a section in a sleeper, made him more comfortable, and gave him medicine, while Mrs. Lesser nursed him until we arrived in Tampa late in the evening. The lighter cases were all much improved. The special patient, although more comfortable, was taken to the camp in an ambu- lance. The interest which Lieutenant Heavey took in the welfare of his recruits deserves much commendation. We then proceeded on our way to Key West on the steamer Mascot. On board were a number of marines of the U. S. Navy. Several of them suffered from troubles similar to those experienced by the recruits on the train. Among them was one rather severe case of erysipelas, due to improper care after vaccination. On suggestion of the officer in charge, we attended the sick. They were all comparatively well when we arrived in Key West. There Mrs. Lesser and I joined Miss Barton, her staff and four Red Cross Sisters on the State of Texas. FOR SANTIAGO. The following morning, June 20th, we started for Cuba, coasting its mountainous southern shores, and arrived in Santiago after a six days' 179 journey. At the mouth of the harbor lay the American battleships in majestic array, guarding the entrance. At different stations were a host of transports, supply ships, and other vessels. REPORTING TO THE ADMIRAL. On June 26th, Mr. George Kennan, "Vice-President of the American National Red Cross, interviewed Admiral Sampson for instructions, and the State of Texas was directed to Guantanamo, where we remained over night. On the following morning, June 27th, a correspondent of a New York paper boarded the Texas and informed us that a battle had been fought at the front, and that there were a number of sick and wounded at Siboney, with inadequate attendance. Miss Barton gave orders for the ship to return immediately to Siboney (a little village between Santiago and Guantanamo), at which place we arrived at 9:20 P. M. and anchored several miles from the rocky shore. On arriving at Siboney, although it was late in the evening. Miss Barton directed me to go ashore to inquire into the needs of the Hospi- tal, and if any, to present her compliments and to make the following offer : "Although the State of Texas was sent to feed the refugees and starving Cubans, it carries some hospital necessaries and some persons who might be of service in the army hospitals ; and the Red Cross considers it its first duty to help those who are nearest." I proceeded on my mission, accompanied by Drs. Hubbell, Gardner, Egan, Messrs. C. H. H. Cottrell, McDowall, Elwell and Warner. Siboney is not a harbor, but a beach, and it is very hard to make a landing, on account of the high breakers, especially at night. Mr. Warner, however, was an excellent seaman, and piloted safely to shore the small boats to which we were transferred. On landing, we found ourselves in a large camp, at the foot of a chain of coral mountains, interrupted by about a mile of sandy beach by the sea. AT THE CAMP. The little tents were pitched on the beach and extended far inland, and soldiers were sleeping in them on ponchos. In the background was a large barn to which I was directed, when asking for the hospital. OFFER OF SERVICE IN THE FIELD. After introducing myself and staff to the physician in charge, I ex- tended the compliments of the President of the Red Cross, offering the services of her staff, and supplies if needed. Tha physician in charge i8o very courteously answered that he had been ordered to go to the front the following morning, and not needing anything, thanked the Red Cross for its offer. Westward from the landing place we passed a pond of stagnant water. Upon a little hill across a railroad track stood a number of wooden cot- tages ; the first large one and a barn, westward from it, were pointed out to me as another hospital (it was the house which was later used as a post office, in which Postmaster Brewer contracted yellow fever, but which was never used by the Red Cross). A number of sick lay on the floor, Surgeon-Major Havard being in command. The offer of Red Cross aid was also made to him. The condition of affairs being apparent, I ten- dered the services of the Sisters, as well as cots and blankets for his sick. The Major thanked me, adding that he would accept the cots and blankets, but that as yet he did not require nurses. I invited him to the State of Texas to see Miss Barton, that he might select such articles of service as he desired. From there we went to Dr. Virani, Surgeon-in-Chief of the Cuban Hospital, making the same offers to him. He introduced us to General Garcia and his staff and thankfully accepted the offer of the Red Cross. His patients were lying on cots and on the floor, little care apparently having been given to put the house in fit or proper condition. This ended our duty of the evening and we returned to the ship. The next morning, June 28th, Surgeon-Major Havard visited Miss Barton on the Texas and made a request for cots. A Cuban delegation also called and requested the assistance of nurses and food for the sick. The work of relief which is described in the report of Mrs. Lesser then began at the Cuban Hospital, and when the Sisters went on shore, beds and blankets were sent to Surgeon-Major Havard. A MARCH TO THE FRONT. The same morning Miss Barton directed me to go to the front, to find out if anything was needed at the camps. Accompanied by Mr. George Kennan and Mr. Elwell, I started about 10 A. M. A large detachment of infantry which the night before had camped along the shore of Siboney. had marched up a hill, about a thousand feet in height, while another detachment of infantry and artillery took the lower road in the valley,* it being the only road for vehicles, which leads from Siboney to Santiago. The spectacle of thousands of men marching up the hill systematically in file can never be forgotten by those who have seen it. We walked along the lower road with the artillery. The men looked well, although the *The road is on a gradual ascent toward Santiatjo, bounded on both sides by hills and mountains thickly covered with tropical trees and shrubby undergrowth. i8i heat prostrated a number of them on the march. We rested about ten minutes at the ruins of Guasimas, the place where tlie first battle was fought between the Spaniards and the Rough Riders, and continued our walk as far as the camp of the Rough Riders, which on that day was the farthest in front (a distance of about eight miles from Siboney). It was several days after the battle of Guasimas that we visited Colonel Roose- velt, and were introduced to Colonel Wood and several members of his staff. The wounded of the first attack had been attended, and there was little or no sickness in his camp. After a short stay, having refreshed ourselves with hard tack and water, we started to return. On our way home, we met several physicians belonging to the various camps, but it was too early to tell what needs might arise. We also met General Shaf- ter and his staff on their way to the front. Homeward, we took the upper mountain path, and again walked back to Siboney, also a distance of eight miles. ON THE SPOT WHERE THE FIRST BATTLE WAS FOUGHT. On the road we found a number of empty Mauser and Krag-Jorgensen cartridge shells, which had evidently been shot from there by the thousands in the first battle. We arrived at Siboney toward evening, when we returned to the State of Texas. The next morning, June 29th, I returned to shore with the Sisters. RESERVE DIVISIONAL HOSPITAL FIFTH CORPS. Siboney, with a large water supply and the sea breeze, was selected for the Reserve Divisional Hospital of the Fifth Corps. Surgeon-Major La Garde, of the regular army service, was the chief of the department. His hospital supply was small and conveniences still smaller, which he said was owing to the fact that, through military necessity, the medical and hospital supplies of the army were still on the transports, with no means of unloading. There were but few hospital tents, and the cots in them were occupied by a number of patients under the care of Dr. Fauntleroy. It may be easily understood how difficult it was to be properly prepared when every man and every article landed had to be transferred from the big ships into the small lifeboats and rowed to the shore. There was no dock, and when one was improvised the heavy waves or breakers would tear it away. The inconveniences were so great that often, when the little boats came near shore, the breakers would wash over them, drenching everybody and everything. We were often obliged to leave the boat when near the shore and walk through the water, because of the impossibility of landing otherwise. It seems almost incredible that an army as large as the I82 one at Santiago, with all the requirements, could have landed and reached its destination in so short a time. COMMANDING SURGEON ACCEPTS RED CROSS. While the Sisters worked in the Cuban Hospital, I went to Major La Garde, and offered him the services of the Red Cross. Surgeon-Major Havard having been ordered to the front, his patients were transferred to Surgeon-Major La Garde's tents. Battle was expected every day, or every moment, and the Major, in order to be as well prepared as possible, accepted the offer of assistance made by the Red Cross, and placed a house at our disposal to serve as a hospital. Upon my request, he addressed a formal letter to Miss Barton, which I carried to her, and she answered at once Avith kind words and deeds. We took charge of the house, a full description of which is contained in the report of the Sister- in-Chief. SUPPLEMENTING THE ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. At first we received twenty-two patients, American soldiers, and later, seventeen more : in all, thirty-nine. Most of them suffered from typhoid fever, although there were a few cases of measles, some of them compli- cated with pneumonia. Before midnight we had the house in working order as an improvised hospital. We spent the next day or two in completing arrangements there, constantly receiving new patients. CLOTHES FOR THE INVALIDS. It was natural to expect that, under the circumstances, the sick v,-ere not yet supplied with nightgowns, or any clothes in which the invalid could be more comfortable than in his uniform or underwear, but the State of Texas carried a few cases of clothing, which, I understand, had been sent by the Christian Herald for the use of the suffering Cubans. It was light and more suitable to the climate, and was put to excellent use in providing for the sick. Unfortunately, there were more garments intended for women than for men. The situation was altogether too serious for ridicule ; it was, nevertheless, amusing at times to see men wearing the attire which properly belonged to women, such as wrappers and dresses. In several instances where clothing was scarce, skirts were brought into use, holes being cut through the skirts for the arms of the men. The scarcity of cups, plates, spoons, kitchen and room utensils, was overcome by articles improvised from tin cans and the boards of ammu- nition boxes. AFTER THE BATTLE. Late in the afternoon of July ist, our work had to be changed. Sur- geon-Major La Garde called for our assistance to attend the wounded who 183 were arriving from the battlefield of Santiago. Numbers of the wounded were brought down to the camp in a train and in wagons. Many of the wounded walked miles, suffering from wounds in their arms, or in other parts not preventing their walking. Men with bullet wounds through their lungs walked and crept for hours to get to the Hospital. There were hos- pitals nearer the front, but all seemed to have been overcrowded by the large number of wounded that day. Some of the wounded soldiers lost their way in the undergrowth, and wandered about until they found the nearest road to the hospital. Many preferred to walk, because they com- plained that the rough roads and rickety wagons increased their pain with every jolt. Surgeon-Major La Garde's management can never be too highly praised. He examined the wounded men as they arrived, and placed them in the most comfortable position that the situation permitted, until they could have attendance. WITH THE ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. Every surgeon and nurse was put to work. Mrs. Lesser, Sisters Isabel 01m, Minnie Rogall, and Blanche McCorriston were called to assist at the operating tables, and Sister Annie McCue and Mrs. Trumbull White were left in charge of the hospital building. At first I assisted a very able army surgeon. Dr. Fauntleroy, but the same evening a table was assigned to me by Major La Garde, and I operated upon my cases, assisted by others. From time to time, as other surgeons came, they were assigned to tables. In all, there were three regular and three improvised tables in the tent, which were in charge of the following surgeons : Drs. Fauntleroy, Ireland, Nancrede, Munson, Parker, Howard, and myself, and others whose names I could not learn. At times, as some of these surgeons left upon various duties, other surgeons were assigned in charge of tables. All present worked that night, each operator having one assistant and one Red Cross Sister at his table. The work continued with little intermission during all of the following day, as the wounded continued to come down in numbers, but there were neither cots nor shelter for them, I saw Surgeon-Major La Garde, most ably assisted by Chaplain Gavitt, hunt about for canvas or anything that would act as roof for shelter, and have it put up along the tents and flies. Their work was unceasing. Dr. Munson assisted them materially by bringing ashore from the transports covering and other necessary articles. NEED FOR COTS. Every officer and member of the medical staff gave up his cot and tent, that the wounded might find some kind of shelter and proper resting- 1 84 place, but notwithstanding all the efforts made, the requirements could not be met. The largest number of wounded lay on the ground, some on blankets, others on canvas, or if very severely wounded on a litter. RED CROSS SUPPLY DEPARTMENT. The S. S. State of Texas carried a number of cots, I believe 350, which were originally meant for Cuban relief. Many of the cots had already been used in the Red Cross Hospital in Siboney. When Miss Barton was informed of the condition of affairs, all cots that were on the ship were un- loaded, and sent to the hospital, and the most seriously wounded received comfortable resting-places. DIFFICULTIES OF TRANSPORTATION. In the loading and unloading of articles which we received from the State of Texas, Mr. Warner, Dr. Hubbell, Dr. Eagan, and Dr. Gardner, assisted by Mr. Cottrell, worked with energy and ability in bringing the articles to shore. On July 2nd the gauze bandages and iodoform gauze gave out. The State of Texas carried a quantity of surgical dressings which I had ordered from Johnson & Johnson before leaving New York, and which was pre- pared under the supervision of a Red Cross Sister. Mr. Cottrell, who was in charge of the supply department of the ship, was directed to send on land any article requested, if in his possession. We received from this supply five large cases of surgical dressings. Miss Barton, Mr. Kennan, and assistants left that afternoon for the front. OFFICIAL REQUEST FOR MORE RED CROSS ASSISTANCE. Surgeon-Majors La Garde, Appel, and Nancrede, Dr. Parker, and my- self had a consultation as to what was best to be done to relieve the ex- igencies, as more of the wounded were being brought down. Every moment news of another battle was expected. The experience of the first battle, with no better means at hand to care for the wounded, was a matter of great concern and worry to all present. Finally it was agreed to tele- graph for more Red Cross Sisters, more surgical dressings, and other material required for the sick in the field. Mrs. Lesser was consulted in the matter of nurses, and cabled for them at once. With the same cable I ordered surgical dressings and complete hospital equipments, — sufficient at least to make 500 patients comfortable. CONTINUOUS WORK. The operative work continued almost without intermission, every sur- geon employing all his energies. It was fortunate that our meals did not consist of many courses, as we 185 could spare but little time for dining. During the day the heat made the work somewhat tedious, but the nights were cool, and although we had only candle light or lanterns, we could work with more comfort. The oil for the lanterns was procured from the State of Texas, and had been -donated by the Standard Oil Co. UNITY AT THE HOSPITALS. The feeling in the hospital among the members of the surgical staff was excellent ; surgeons would show each other anything of interest, and would consult and advise on matters of importance. Surgeon-Major Nan- crede and Dr. Parker, being authorities on gunshot wounds, gave their ad- vice most willingly. NAVAL BATTLE. On the 3d of July the fleet fought its battle at the entrance of San- tiago harbor. We heard in the distance the tremendous roar of the cannon in the early morning, and could see a little of the conflict from a height at a little distance from the hospital camp, but as our work was pressing very little time could be spent away from the hospital tables. A RED CROSS INCIDENT. I wish to mention one instance of the conflict which is unimportant, but may not be without interest. It had been reported to us that one of the Spanish vessels had escaped. As the roar of the cannon died away, a strange war vessel appeared near the waters of Siboney, upon whose flag-staff we recognized from the distance the yellow and red stripes of the Spanish flag. To avoid a possible shower of lead in our direction. Major La Garde hoisted the biggest Red Cross flag in our possession upon the tallest pole he could find in the camp. Although we fully relied upon the protection afforded by the Red Cross treaty, we feared somewhat that the flag might not be seen. We soon ascertained, however, upon the nearer approach of the stranger, that the stripes upon her flag were the red and white of Austria, and not the flag of Spain. WOUNDED NAVAL PRISONERS. The night of the 3d, we expected to be able to rest a few hours, but among the many Spanish naval prisoners who had been taken upon the various American ships were a great many wounded. Dr. Lewis, Chief Surgeon of the Harvard, who assisted in attending the wounded at the hospitals at Siboney was called to his ship and invited Dr. Parker, the Sisters, and myself to help in attending the wounded Spaniards on the Har- vard, to which invitation we gladly responded. At 12.15 -^•^'- ^'^ arrived 1 86 at the beach ; there being no signal, we had to wait an hour or more, during^ which time the Sisters slept on the beach until the boat arrived to take us to the Harvard. When we arrived on the Harvard we went at once to the main hall, where the wounded Spaniards had been placed. I had never before seen the wounded of a naval battle, and accustomed as I had become to the horrors of the battlefield, I was unprepared for the ghasdy spectacle pre- sented. The magnificent hall of the floating palace of the American Line had been stripped of most of its luxurious fittings. Two long tables had been rolled to the right of the hall and were in use for surgical purposes. On the left was a long line of wounded sailors and marines lying on the floor. They had been wounded in the naval battle of that day, some of them groaning piteously. Their wounds were of a character entirely dif- ferent from those incurred in the land conflicts. Arms, hands, legs, and feet were shattered, eyes and ears burned by shells and by the steam of ex- ploding boilers, limbs and portions of the body torn out and parts blown away, leaving sufficient of the vital organs intact for life to continue. The mutilated bodies, the intensity of the suffering and the distressing cries of anguish brought to mind the force of Sherman's declaration that " war is hell." The contrast between the splendor of the walls of the majestic American steamship in the background and the grim line of shattered, bleeding bodies of the beaten foe on the floor seemed like a picture of Inferno by Dore. Two Spanish naval surgeons from one of the conquered ships assisted us in the surgical work. One of them had passed through the conflict unhurt, while the feet of the other were so badly burned that he could not walk, but hopped about on his heels. The surgical staff of the Harvard had done preliminary relief work among the wounded, and Dr. Lewis, Dr. Parker, and myself, assisted by the Sisters, operated upon the more serious cases. We worked the entire night, remaining until six o'clock in the morning. After a short visit to the State of Texas, we returned to the hospital camp. BACK TO THE HOSPITAL CAMP. It was the Fourth of July. The wounded had continued to arrive, many of them stating to us that they had been shot in the battle of July I St, and as yet had received no care except from some comrade who carried the little emergency package. Permit me to say here, that I be- lieve the little Red Cross emergency package has saved many a man from death through bleeding. Several of our patients had been shot through the brain or spine. In some instances the bullet injured the eyes or the nerves governing the iS7 eyes. Ice had to be applied continuously to the injured parts, in order to relieve the excruciating pain. Dr. Fauntleroy suggested that these cases be sent to the Red Cross Hospital. We had ice there at that time which had been brought from the Sia^e of Texas. The eyes were carefully attended by Mrs. White, the wife of Dr. Trumbull White of the Chicago Record. It was necessary to make contin- uous application of ice every few minutes, which she did with constant and unceasing care. Mrs. White is not a trained nurse, but a gentle, wise woman, and the only woman not a trained nurse, who was in the Red Cross Hospital service at Santiago. I agree with the remarks of Dr. Fauntleroy when he said that her attention and the ice relieved much suffering, and saved quite a few from blindness. Captain Mills, who was one of the wounded of that class, may tell of his own experience. INSTRUMENTS. Some surgeons brought their own private instruments and loaned them to others in cases of need. The supply of some kinds of instruments was insufficient, probably owing to the same reasons as other shortages. Cer- tain instruments were entirely wanting, except those that were the private property of several surgeons. In lending instruments in this manner, and allowing them to be taken out of the trays, my own, as well as those of some other surgeons, gradually disappeared. Other surgeons arrived during the progess of the work. Dr. Lawrence, Major McCready, Dr. Winters, Dr. Lewis and many others belonging to the Army and Navy, whose names I did not learn, but who did excellent work. Several times daily I went to the hospital to prescribe for the patients there ; the remainder of the day I spent in the tent at the operating table. SMALL PERCENTAGE OF AMPUTATIONS. Most notable and commendable was the endeavor of the surgical staff to save limbs, when at all possible, and Drs. Fauntleroy. Nancrede, Ireland, Parker and myself often worked together or with other assistants, spend- ing an hour for resection of a part, in order to prevent an amputation. Out of the total number of wounded treated in Siboney Hospital after the battle, which I was informed was 1415, I observed but three amputations of the thigh, two of the leg, and one of the fore-arm. The death rate was also small, as most of the shots made clean wounds, and caused death only when they affected the most vital parts. In the simpler cases one could work alone, with the aid of a Sister or a hospital steward, but in the more difficult cases the assistance of another 1 88 surgeon was necessary. It was often a source of great gratification, there- fore, to see two eminent surgeons of equally good reputation, assisting each other in difficult cases ; one advising, the other acting, or both active at the same time. Perfect harmony existed among the members of the staff, army, naval, and civilian. The total number of cases upon which I operated, and in which I assisted, was one hundred and eighty-one ; with Dr. Fauntleroy in forty- six of them, with Dr. Ireland in thirty-seven, and the rest I dressed with the assistance of various surgeons, a hospital steward, or Sister Isabelle. Some of the patients came down with their wounds dressed in some hospital at the front, and I may here mention that I saw excellent work coming from the hospital in command of Dr. Wood. Many of the wounded stated that they had been left in the field for days without assistance, and that they had suffered greatly from exposure to the rain and heat. NURSING THE WOUNDED. The Sisters up to this time were required in the operating tent. The wounded in the hospital tents as yet had not received much attention, •owing to the insufficient number of nurses in the camp. Hunger was the general complaint of a large number of men lying on the cots or on the ground, a great many of them too helpless even to turn. Surgeon- Major La Garde sent for Mrs. Lesser, several surgeons, and myself to dis- cuss what might be most advisable. It was concluded that other surgeons who had come to help might relieve several of the Sisters at the operating tables, and that the Sisters should take charge of the patients in the tents. Mrs. Lesser suggested that the worst cases be carried into one or two rows of tents, as the small staff of Sisters was not sufficient to take charge of all and do them justice. This was done, and Mrs. Lesser, assisted by Sister Minnie, took charge of the patients. The Major detailed a number of enlisted men to carry out the orders of Mrs. Lesser and Sister Minnie. The system worked admirably. It can be naturally understood that it was impossible for five Red Cross Sisters, although trained nurses, together with three male army nurses, to attend to the operating tables and care for the hundreds of patients in the tents and Red Cross Hospital. The hospital corps men who were detailed to follow the instructions of the Red Cross Sisters, de- serve high commendation for their endeavors to carry out their instructions. They learned by observing the methods of the Sisters and tried to follow their example. It could not be expected that those untrained and un- drilled men should be able to completely take charge of the cases, partic- ularly as the Sisters could lose no time to stand by and watch them in their 1 89 work ; but the men could assist in the feeding and other requirements of the patients, while the Sisters attended to duties which required skilled hands. Several of the severest cases were sent to the Red Cross Hospital, where Sister Annie and Mrs. White, also assisted by a number of detailed hospital corps men, received and nursed them. Mrs. Lesser continued to superintend both places, and personally took charge of the most serious cases. In this manner all the wounded were fed and nursed as well as the conditions would permit, while Sisters Isabelle and Blanche continued to assist at the operating table. NOURISHMENT FOR SICK AND WOUNDED. Food for the patients was prepared by the Sisters in the Hospital, in which work considerable assistance was given them by a number of news- paper correspondents. Some of them carried the heavy pots to the various tents, and assisted in the cooking under the supervision of the Sisters, stirring the gruels and watching the soup kettles for hours, in order that the Sisters might be relieved to perform more necessary duties. The Red Cross Hospital owes them many thanks, and those who have benefited by their assistance I am sure will be ever grateful to them. Cereals for gruels, condensed milk, Malted milk, and other well- known nutritives we received from the State of Texas ; among them was a preparation of oats and cocoa labeled " Cocavina," all of which served as nourishing food. Soups and other invalid foods were pre- pared from regular army rations which we received from the Commissary Department. On the night of the 4th we were able to obtain sufficient sleep for the first time, and, although we had given our cots to the wounded and our beds consisted of blankets upon the floor, we all slept soundly that night. The rush of the operative work continued until about July 5th or 6th. It was difficult to keep track of the date, on account of the continuous work of day and night. WOUNDED SPANISH SOLDIERS. A number of Spanish prisoners were brought to the camp, whom Major La Garde, upon my request, placed in my charge. Tents were erected for them about a quarter of a mile from our hospital. I prescribed for their ailments, while the Sisters supplied their food. In addition I answered calls which came from families in Siboney. Some of the Spanish prisoners of war were wounded, and others suf- fered from fever. The wounds had been temporarily dressed on the 190 battlefield. Several cases required larger operations, which I prepared to perform at a time when the proper arrangements required for that kind of surgery could be made in their camp. Dr. Ireland and a young but able naval surgeon, Dr. Rosenbluet, assisted me late in the afternoon of the same day to operate upon as many cases as we could before night intervened. YELLOW FEVER REPORTED IN THE CAMP. Dr. Guiteras, who visited all the hospitals daily, informed me one afternoon that he had found a case of yellow fever in the camp (not in our hospital). There were two or more suspicious cases which he had watched, and he believed that yellow fever would develop very rapidly. I called the Sisters together, presented the situation to them that they might decide whether to stay in the field or return to the State of Texas. Their unanimous decision to stay and face the consequences made them continue their work without any hesitation. In the meantime, the Red Cross Hospital building had become crowded ; one room was set aside for doubtful cases, while the other rooms were occupied by typhoid patients. The porch in front of the house shaded with canvas and an isolated room to the right sheltered the wounded. The State of Texas was moored several miles from the shore and the hospital, about a mile from the landing-place. In order to save time, we had taken a dwelling in one of the houses at Siboney, which was believed by experts not to be infected. The house was cleanly in appear- ance, and was occupied by a respectable family. Our tents, which we would have preferred as a dwelling, had not arrived. In order that a limited supply of bedclothes should be equal to the demand of the sick and wounded, we improvised a laundry in a garden next to our hospital and engaged a number of Cuban women to wash continually. This added much to the comfort of the sufferers. As fast as the wounded were in a condition to be removed they were placed on board the transports in the harbor, in which service Major Appel was very active. THE ARMY HOSPITAL SHIP RELIEF ARRIVES. On the 7th of July, after the wounded had been attended, the hospital ship Relief zxrivt^ at Siboney, with an ample supply of cots, mattresses, clothes for the invalids, hospital equipments, and all kinds of food. Thereafter we had an abundance of everything. Our cots were then re- turned to us and Major La Garde sent us mattresses. Our supply of ice 191 had been exhausted for several days, and the ice plant on the Relief ^diS indeed a relief to the entire camp, as long as the ship was at Siboney. An elegantly equipped army operating tent was then erected by Dr. Nicholas Sen and his staff in expectation of another battle. The war, however, had been practically ended and the surgeons could not avail themselves of the advantages which the tent might have offered had there been another battle. Mrs. J. Addison Porter came to Siboney on the Rciief and went to the front with Miss Barton on the following day. The work at the Red Cross Hospital and in the camp had become continuous, as a large number of i)alients came from various camps to receive attention, and still a larger number from our camp came for con- sultation and treatment. The total number of American officers and men patients, transient and permanent, treated by us or prescribed for at the hospital from the time it was opened until it was burned was 234, while aside from the surgical cases attended during the same time 79 patients were attended at various parts of the camp. The majority of them suf- fered from Cuban malarial fever. All the fever cases which were placed in our charge when we opened the hospital recovered. The last of the typhoid cases I brought home well on the Concho ; those that came later were on the way to recovery when we left for the yellow fever hospital. In fact, we had no death ex- cept that of Theodore Miller, a Rough Rider who was shot through the spinal cord. At the Spanish tent we had two deaths from tetanus (lock- jaw) during our attendance. No patients in our hospital became affected with yellow fever, although a number were brought there suffering from the disease. The former, besides being attended for the disease from which they suffered were treated by the prophylactic method described in my medical report. The latter were closely observed, and as soon as positive signs of yellow fever were noticed, they were reported to the Government experts and the patients removed to the yellow fever hospital. Although the Red Cross does not claim temperance as a platform, it may be of scientific interest to state here, that none of our patients at the hospital and those under our direct charge received alcohol in any form as a medicine or beverage. Our work continued uninterrupted until the 14th of July. Until July loth, I was the only Red Cross surgeon at the hospital. Our staff was increased by the arrival of a surgeon and three assistants enlisted by the Red Cross. We continued on duty in the various tents and at the Red Cross Hospital, and they assisted. Unfortunately, the continuous work of the past, the sleepless nights and other hardships necessarily connected with tear had reduced our 192 strength considerably. We kept up our work until we were seized with yellow fever. The Sisters were attacked first and I attended them, while continuing to perform my other duties until I was ordered to bed also. After I was unable to be about, Major La Garde's staff attended the patients who had been in my charge. On the following day, an order was given that the house in which we dwelt should be burned and that we should be removed to the yellow fever camp. The Red Cross sur- geon and the three male assistants who a few days before had arrived to relieve me, returned to the State of Texas. The Sisters and our pharma- cist went with me to the fever camp. The latter and Sister Annie re- mained well and nursed us during our illness. Dr. Fauntleroy, Dr. Ireland and Chaplain Gavitt accompanied us on the train to the fever camp, and remained there until we were made as com- fortable as the surroundings possibly permitted. THE YELLOW FEVER CAMP. The camp was located about a mile and a half from Siboney in a valley surrounded by mountains on three sides, but, unfortunately, a malarial location. A tent was pitched for us in the highest spot of the camp. Capt. Wilt of the First Illinois Volunteers, to whose kindness we are greatly indebted, constructed a fence of palm leaves and branches of cocoanut trees around our tent, so that we might have greater privacy. At great pains, he brought the leaves and branches from a distance of over a mile from the camp. He also constructed a roof on the tent of the same material, to protect us from the heat and glare of the sun. Dr. Ireland and Chaplain Gavitt came to see us twice a day. They brought us fruit and ice, as long as the Relief was at Siboney. At the camp we received the very best and the kindest attention from the physicians and officials in charge. Drs. Gorgas and McCrary were particularly attentive to us and their kindness contributed greatly to our comfort. We were glad to meet at the camp Dr. Echeverria, a most able Cuban physician and an American citizen, who was very skilful in the treatment of yellow fever. Greatly to my happiness, I found that his method of treatment corresponded in many ways to that which I had advocated. Drs. Williams and Meyer and Chaplain Swift also contri- buted to our ease and welfare at the camp. On the morning after our arrival at the camp, Miss Barton, accompanied by Mrs. Gardiner, visited us and returned with the same train to the State of Texas. OUR RAPID RECOVERY. On the seventh day after our arrival at the camp we were able to return to Siboney. Our ailments, although not prevented, had been made light 193 by prophylactic methods, and our recovery was consequently rapid, not- withstanding a brief relapse after our removal to the camp. After our return to Siboney, I again offered to serve. In the meantime a message from Assistant Surgeon-General Greenleaf was received at Siboney, stating that forty-five Red Cross sisters, surgeons, and other assistants, had arrived at Guantanamo, waiting to come to us, and on the day that we returned from the fever camp, Surgeon-Major La Garde telegraphed and telephoned repeatedly for them to come, but he re- ceived no reply. On the afternoon of the same day I went to Santiago and reported this to Miss Barton, and returned to Siboney in the evening. Being exhausted from work and illness, and feeling under the existing cir- cumstances we could not continue to work without more assistance, I applied for our return. Surgeon-Major La Garde placed me in charge of the S.S. Concho, which left for the North on July 23d. Before my departure from Siboney, Surgeon-Major La Garde handed me a letter, a copy of which I present herewith : Reserve Divisional Hospital, Fifth Corps. Siboney, Cuba, July 23, 1S9S. This is to Certify that Dr. A. Monae Lesser, Surgeon-in-Chief of the American National Red Cross, offered his senices to the medical department of the army on the 29th day of June. From the latter date to the present day, Dr. Lesser has been connected with this hospital as a surgeon and a patient. When the wounded commenced to arrive on July 1st, and during the rush of work which lasted four days, in the care of the wounded. Dr. Lesser was assigned one of the six tables in the operating room. His work was skilful and most continuous. His suggestions to me on more than one occasion, con- cerning administration details, were of the highest value. After the rush of work in the operating room, Dr. Lesser continued to take charge of a hospital, — a building which was pronounced free from infection, — in which he treated wounded and sick soldiers. His work was the admiration of every one who had the good fortune to be under the watchful care of him.self and the Sisters under him. Unfortunately, the building in which they lived, showed signs of yellow fever infection. Dr. Lesser, his wife, and four of the Sisters — his entire staff, were taken one by one with the fever. They were removed to our yellow fever hospital. They are now convalescing, though weak ; they leave us for the North to-day for a much-needed rest. I have no words at my command which could in any way express my appreciation of the work of Dr. Lesser and his heroic staff. Had it not been for their assistance and the quantities of supplies furnished by the State of Texas, the sufferings of the hundreds of wounded would have been magnified more than I can now venture to express. In commenting on our lack of supplies, attendants, etc., I desire to state that our un- prepared condition to meet the rush of work which came with such surprising rapidity, was due to those military conditions which often transpire in war, when blood, suffering, and death seem to be inevitable, or beyond the scope of man to anticipate. May God's blessing be with him and his. (Signed) LoLis A. La Garde, Major and Surgeon, U. S. A., Commanding Hospital. 194 ON THE CONCHO. The Concho was a steamship of the Mallory Line and was leased by the Government for the transportation of troops. Temporary berths or bunks had been erected throughout the interior of the ship. The Concho had conveyed troops and supplies from Tampa to Santiago, in the first expe- dition. On the 22d of July she was ordered to Siboney to transport a number of convalescent soldiers to the United States. Word was sent from the ship to Surgeon-Major La Garde that she would take a supply of provisions and water and would be at Siboney on the 23d. Yellow fever having become general in the camp, Surgeon-Major La Garde had en- deavored to isolate a number of patients convalescent from other diseases, principally from typhoid fever. These cases, about thirty in number, we decided to send away by the Concho to protect them from infection. A number of yellow fever convalescents, who had been thoroughly disin- fected and supplied with new clothes, were also selected to be sent home on the ship. On the morning of the 23d, the captain of the Concho re- ported that the ship was ready. A thousand rations which Gen. Shaffer had ordered were first brought on board, and then the men were taken to the ship in small boats. At 2 P.M. I boarded the Concho, accompanied by Mrs. Lesser, Sis- ters Minnie, Isabelle and Annie, and met on the ship Misses Adele Gard- iner, Alice Babcock, and Grace Peterson. The ship was perfectly clean. The bunks were close above each other in tiers of four in a row. I ordered the upper tiers to be removed, that the convalescents might have more air and comfort. The means at hand were insufficient comfortably to dispose of the thirty patients and the convalescents originally ordered on board. A number of convalescent soldiers had arrived and were sitting on deck. There were also about ten civilians who had come on the Concho from Santiago. I immediately sent word to Major La Garde that the ship was not in con- dition to comfortably accommodate more than sixty invalids, and that it would be best to send the officers, the typhoid patients, and a number of convalescents, not exceeding sixty, and no more men should be sent un- less they were perfectly well. I have since learned that Major La Garde unfortunately did not receive this message. The patients as they arrived were placed in steerage berths on mat- tresses, and the convalescent officers by twos in state-rooms. At 5.30 the last boat brought from shore some blankets and other stores, also word that no more would be sent. The captain then gave orders for the ship to start, and we weighed anchor at 5.45 p.m. 195 It appeared as the men arrived on the ship that most of them were well enough to take care of themselves. When evening came, I ascer- tained that a number of men had brought no blankets. The night being cool, I requested the captain to give me as many blankets as he could spare, to which request he most willingly acceded, and gave his steward direc- tions to that effect. The insufficiency of blankets caused my suspicion, since I was present when Surgeon-Major La Garde and Dr. Ireland selected the men who should go, and ordered a blanket to be placed on board for every man. The large number of men who were on the boat surprised me, and upon inquiry, I found that almost every man whom we had especially designated that morning to remain on the Island had passed through the watch and had come on board with the others, contrary to orders ; hence the large number on the ship in spite of the limited accommodations. Had all remained as well as they appeared on land, there would have been no unusual difficulty. The medicine which I carried in my own satchel, together with the medicine which I received from Siboney, would have been ample for the number of patients selected for the journey. The officers, with the exception of Major Allen, seemed apparently well, but of course very weak from severe attacks of yellow fever. Several of them complained of fever that day, and one Sister was placed in charge of the officers. Much complaint was made the first evening about the drinking water on the ship. From the message we received on the 2 2d that the ship was taking on water and provisions at Santiago, we took it for granted that fresh water was on board. I was very much astonished to find upon examination that the supply of water taken at Santiago was not fresh, but Avas taken from another ship which had loaded at Tampa in the early part of May. There was no ice and practically no fruit on the ship. A few limes and a few lemons were all that we could obtain at Siboney. Not having used ice for some time, we had learned to be without it, but the lack of good water was a matter of great discomfort to all. The next morning I was called to many parts of the ship ; it seemed that almost every one on deck and below, had taken sick. Of the many men who the day before had walked to the beach, few were able to walk about the ship the second day of our journey. Some had high fever, others suffered from diarrhoea and almost every man complained of some trouble. As time passed, the severity of the cases increased ; the officers, who though very weak were able to be about, were taken sick one by one, sooner or later. At the end of the second day it became difficult to attend to all of the ailments. To furnish the men with proper food, or rather to prevent them 196 from receiving improper food, from their comrades proved to be an even more difficult task. Captain Risk had received from the State of Texas a bag of rice and a bag of Indian meal, which he placed at our disposal, and which we used in the preparation of soft and fluid diets. As the time passed, with attention and a somewhat improved diet, a few began to recover. I was glad when I saw Steward McCowin of the hos- pital corps of the 34th Michigan well enough to assist in nursing. (He was assigned to me by Major Nancrede at the Siboney Hospital, only being detailed to the hospital corps, but is an excellent nurse, with good surgical and medical training.) He first began to assist in the nursing and directed a number of volunteer orderlies. I cannot refrain at this point from mentioning the compensation which these orderlies solicited, viz. : that they might eat at a table after the officers had dined, and might have food of similar character. In reality the officers' food was the same as that furnished to the soldiers, only differently served. I acceded to their request and gave orders to the steward to supply them with meals, the bill for which I sent to the Red Cross. Being the only surgeon on the ship, the work of attending the sick in- creased hourly. During the day I made a complete round as often as time would allow ; during the night, with exception of the first, I was called not less than four times, and one night I had to remain up until five o'clock the next morning before my day's work was fairly completed. My medicines were limited to but few kinds. The quinine gave out ; the supply of epsom salts and of the sulphur and camphor which served me so well in Cuban malarial diseases was exhausted. The tinctures and tab- lets which I carried in my own case were very much reduced, particularly those for which I had the most need. My entire supply of medicines, ex- cept a few tablets of salicylate of soda gave out on the night we came to Fortress Monroe. The boat arrived at night, but did not go into harbor until about 6 o'clock the next morning, and waited for the quarantine officer. At 10.50 a.m. two physicians, one of them from the quarantine department, came on board. They examined into the condition of the ship, asked the necessary questions, and received the necessary answers. I made request for water, fruits, food for the sick, fresh meat, ice, and medicines. In showing the quarantine physician around the ship to see the patients, I explained to him the need of different garments for the sick. He took my list of articles required, and informed me that he had to report to Washington for orders for the ship. About evening came a quantity of ice, fruit, medicines, and other arti- cles, and the Sisters distributed the fruit among those who were allowed to partake of it. A number of pajamas, wash-rags, soap and socks were also sent on board. In the meantime the men who were brought as patients 197 on the ship and placed in my charge at Siboney had recovered. They had been closely watched in their bunks, and only persons detailed for that work were allowed to go near them. They were kept in a special steerage department, each occupying a bunk. As they left their bunks, others suffering more severely were put in their places. In the evening we received an additional quantity of ice, more fruit, more food for the sick, and more clothing. Most welcome of all was the announcement that the captain had received orders to start for New York after we had been detained in Fortress Monroe for almost three days. With a new supply of water, food, and medicine, the aspect of the ship within the twelve hours was entirely changed. Men who had high fever grew better. The most marked improvement could be seen in the diarrhoea and dysentery patients, and those suffering from Cuban malaria. The improvement of the large number of sick was so rapid that when we arrived in New York on the morning of July 31st, many of them had com- paratively recovered. Although every possible care was taken to restrain the patients from taking any nourishment except that supplied to them by the nurses, some of the patients received a portion of the regular rations from their comrades who, being comparatively well, were supplied with solid food. In a well- meant but misguided intent to relieve the cravings of their weaker brethren they shared their rations with them. For this cause and other indiscre- tions which could not be prevented, four of the men, who became sick on board, died at sea before we arrived at Fortress Monroe, and three died from similar causes on the trip from Fortress Monroe to New York. On the evening of the 31st, the day of our arrival. Col. Byrne and Dr. Howard visited the ship, and permitted me to leave, requesting how- ever, that the Red Cross send another surgeon to take charge of the patients. Dr. Frank B. Carpenter, of this city, with two other physicians and eight nurses were sent by the Red Cross to take charge of the sick, who then numbered about thirty. Through the courtesy of Dr. Doty, a number of the officers, Mrs. Lesser, and myself were taken from the ship that same evening. I returned early in the morning, and found that one hundred and twenty-five men were able to leave the ship, none of whom needed assist- ance. Major Allen still required attendance, and I accompanied him to a hospital on Staten Island. Captain Paulding and twenty-five privates who had become ill during the journey, had to remain on board, as they were still suffering. On the day we left the boat, while at dinner, Major Henry Romeyn, in the name of the officers, handed me a document, of which the following is a copy : 198 On Board S. S. "Concho," July 31. " The undersigned, Officers of the regular army and volunteers on board Government Transport Concho en route from Siboney, Cuba, to New York, desire to express to Dr. A. M. Lesser and Sisters and Nurses of the Red Cross Society who have had the care of the sick ofificers and men on the said ship, their heart-felt thanks for the kindness and attention bestowed by them under very trying circumstances. We know that their labors have been arduous and wearing, and are certain that they will be held in grateful remembrance by the recipients of their care. " We can only add our hope that any persons who may in the future have the good fortune to come under their care may appreciate as we do, the services bestowed upon them. Signed, Henry Romeyn, Capt. and Br. Major, U. S. A. W. H. Hughes, Capt. I3lh Infantry. C. Fred Cook, ist Lieut., ist Reg. Infantry, D. C. Vol. John Q. Anderson, Capt. 33d Michigan Vol. J. B. McGee, Capt. 13th Infantry. Leslie R. Groves, Post Chaplain, U. S. Army. Wm. Paulding, Capt. loth U. S. Infantry. Matthew Batson, 2d Lieut. 9th Cavalry. Lyman M. Welch, 2d Lieut. 20th Infantry. Ralph R. Stegsdall, 2d Lieut. 2d Artillery. Walter S. Volkmar, 2d Lieut. 2d Artillery. James H. Pound, ist Lieut. 33d Michigan Vol. George S. Young. Capt. 71st Infantry. Joseph H. Joubert, Capt. Co. F., 9th Mass., U. S. V. Samuel P. Lyox, 2nd Lieut. 25th Infantry. Henry J. Allen, Major and A. A. G., U. S. A. W. M. Case, 2d Lieut. 33d Michigan. G. W. Stevens, Capt. Signal Corps." EXPLANATION OF THE CONDITION. The distress prevailing on board of the Concho seemed to have occurred from several causes, most of all the overcrowding by convalescents who had come on board contrary to orders and contrary to our expectation. Otherwise, with fewer to attend, the supply of medicine and nourishment would not have been so rapidly decreased, and more care could have been given to the individual cases. To this cause was due also the insufficiency of blankets and mattresses. The other hardships were due either to the exigencies of the situation, or causes over which we had no control at Siboney. WORK IN NEW YORK. After I returned to New York, I continued to attend a number of officers and men of the regular and volunteer army. Several of them Avere sick at their homes, some were at the Red Cross Hospital, and others called at my office. Most of the patients were suffering from diseases 199 contracted in Cuba and had been in hospitals in this city or country. It is likely that they had been discharged from the hospitals, the patients be- lieving themselves well, when in reality they only had relief during the stage of intermission. Among them were quite a number of the sick and wounded, whom I met while in the service at Siboney. The number of officers and men thus treated in this city to March ist was 173. This concluded our Red Cross Hospital work of the Cuban Campaign and not including the sixty U. S. soldiers attended by Mozart Monae Lesser on the Comal, may be summarized as follows : Number of sick and wounded attended by the N. Y. Red Cross Hospital : U. S. Army abroad and here 745 Spanish army and navy at Siboney 44 Cubans (non-combatants) 14 Total number , 803 Of which were en route to and from Cuba 180 At the camp in Cuba 45° In this city ^ 73 Total 803 These may be divided as follows : Number of sick treated on train and ship en route from New York to Key West 12 Number of wounded attended in Army Hospital at Siboney, American. 158 Number of wounded attended at Siboney, Spanish army and navy 23 Number of sick treated in the various tents of Siboney Camp, U. S. Army ^ ^ Number of sick treated, transient and permanent, at Red Cross Hos- pital, Siboney, (U. S. Army) 223 Number of sick Spanish prisoners in Siboney camp 21 Number of Cuban non-combatants at the camp 14 Number of sick and wounded on S. S. Concho, U. S. A 168 Number of sick treated in this city, U. S. A., (returned from Cuba and camps) ^73 Total 803 American soldiers attended on the Comal hy Mozart Monae Lesser. . . 60 The latter also attended a number of men on the Segurancia under direction of Surgeon-Major Vaughn, U. S. V. It is not in accordance with the ethics of the Red Cross for an officer to criticize the action of any department under which he may be working. 200 No person belonging to the Red Cross Hospital has at any time offered un- favorable criticism. The report of the conditions on the Concho was first made by civilians on board the ship in telegrams from Hampton Roads. When questioned we have answered facts only. Before closing, I beg to thank every physician and surgeon whom we have met in active service in Cuba for the many courtesies and kindnesses which we received from them ; in particular Doctors La Garde, Ireland, Fauntleroy, Guiteras, Munson, Nancrede, Parker, Lawrence, Appell, Vaughn, Lewis, and Echeverria, and Chaplains Gavitt and Swift. I also desire to express our thanks to Mr. Warner, Dr. Hubbell, Mr. C. H. Cottrell, and the mates of the crew of the State of Texas for their efforts to assist us, and we feel especially grateful to Mr. George Kennan for his energetic endeavors in our behalf. TO THE NATIONAL RED CROSS RELIEF COMMITTEE. As the only Red Cross Hospital represented at the seat of war, we desire to make a personal expression of gratitude to the members of the National Red Cross Relief Committee and its Auxiliaries for their en- couragement and the material assistance they rendered to the National Red Cross, through which we were enabled to perform our service. The success of the Red Cross in relieving suffering during the war is princi- pally due to the efforts of the American National Red Cross Relief Com- mittee, and the Executive Committee. THE SICK AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS. The sick and wounded American soldiers in our charge were respectful, obedient, and full of thanks for every attention they received from the Sisters. The courage which many of the wounded officers and men of the United States army have shown when operated upon without anaesthesia, was most remarkable. Their unanimous desire to return to the battle- field as soon as their wounds were dressed, displayed a valor of which any nation might be proud. The sick and wounded Spaniards, although at first frightened, soon became pacified when we attended them at the camp. They were extrav- agant in their expressions of thanks for every little kindness shown them. It was pleasing to see the United States soldiers ready to assist in any kind of work which had to be done for the wounded Spaniards ; although fierce enemies on the battlefield, the men soon recognized that they had fought for their country, and should be respected for their patriotism. The sickness of the army in Cuba has been attributed to many causes, and much stress has been laid on the army rations. Whether the food was 201 good or bad cannot be discussed in this report, but I may state that the diseases which I treated in Cuba among the men of the American army during the war, differed very little from those I attended in Cuba among ■well fed, as well as poorly fed people, before the war. TO THE ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. Comment has been made upon the relations between the Army Medi- cal Department and the Red Cross. Speaking for the Hospital Depart- ment of the Red Cross, I desire to say that we received at all times, and in all places both here and in Cuba, the most respectful and courteous treatment from every regular army and navy surgeon of all ranks without exception, and we can say the same of most of the volunteer surgeons with whom we came in contact. There never was a war in which the Army Medical Department was adequate to the requirements and exigencies during and after a great battle. The purpose of the Red Cross Committee is to assist in such emergency. The Red Cross Hospital representatives could not have had a better example or source of inspiration in their work than the untiring zeal and skilful labors of the regular and some of the volunteer surgeons of the American army. The good feeling which existed between them and the members of the Red Cross Hospital will always be cherished in the minds of those concerned. In conclusion, I desire to say in behalf of those who worked in Cuba in the name of the Red Cross Hospital, that we appreciate to the fullest the kindly words of sympathy that have been given to our work by those who knew us there and here. As to any incorrect reports that have been made, I believe that the inspiration which guided them could only have been due to lack of knowledge of the real conditions. We endeavored at all times to act in accordance with the spirit and purposes of the Red Cross. We have never sought for commendation of our individual efforts ; the knowledge that we have relieved many sick and wounded, and that we have had excellent results, is more than ample reward. Had the plans of some of the Auxiliaries not been interfered with by wrong advice from persons evidently not familiar with modern war outfits for the tropics, the arduous labors of these Auxiliaries would have been utilized to a far greater extent. If we had had in Siboney a number of assistants, and fifty Red Cross Sisters instead of six, to make work easy, a tent on clean ground instead of an infected house to sleep in, and proper food and water, I feel posi- tive we would not have contracted disease, and might have been of more .service. We regretted that our field service was shortened by the attack of 202 fever, and I may emphasize here, that it is not the pain we suffered which all of us deplored, but our inability to continue to assist those who still needed assistance. We are grateful, however, that we were spared until the battles had been fought, and the wounded had all been attended, and that we had sufficiently recovered to be able to serve on the voyage to our home. Respectfully submitted, for the Red Cross Hospital, A. MoNAE Lesser, Su rgeon - i?i - Chief. New York, March 25, 1899.* * The term Red Cross as used in this report refers to the Civilian Red Cross only. Wherever the statement is made that the State of TVjr^z^ supplied material, the amount or value of such material has been refunded by the " Relief Committee" to the Cuban Relief Committee. Likewise, all supplies provided on the Concho, and all drugs used for the care of the sick in New York. 203 REPORT OF THE RED CROSS WORK AT CAMP ALGER AND WASHINGTON, D. C. On June lo, 1898, I was notified by letter of Geo. Kennan, Esq., 1st Vice-President of American National Red Cross, that I had been ap- pointed as its representative at Camp Alger, Va., and was requested to report to Chief Surgeon Girard regarding the establishment of a station at that camp ; to ascertain if anything in the form of hospital supplies were needed, and to advise the Executive Committee. It was suggested that, as the work to be established at Camp Alger was the first step of the Red Cross in the field in connection with the Spanish war, prudence and tact should be used in maintaining friendly and harmonious relations with the military authorities, especially with the surgeons. In accordance with my appointment, I visited the War Department and obtained a special letter of introduction from Secretary Alger to Major-General Graham, commanding at Fort Alger, asking him to give me every facility possible in connection with the work undertaken. Gen- eral Graham introduced me to Col. Girard, with whom I had a long con- ference, the result of which was the establishment of headquarters of the Red Cross in the camp, and the settlement of some details as to work which was to be done in accordance with the advice and authority of the Surgeon in charge. I found Col. Girard exceedingly busy, and apparently very sanguine as to the ability of the Government to meet all demands that might be made by every department of the army. He seemed, however, willing that the Red Cross should furnish extra comforts for the men at the camp. I was thoroughly impressed with the fact that he considered men who had received a regular army education, thoroughly competent to meet the situation, and that all supplies could be had as soon as needed ; and that he did not want too many comforts for sick men, so as to unfit them for the hardships of war. On the 2ist of June, in accordance with a call issued by me, quite a large number of citizens met at the Arlington Hotel, and I was formally elected Chairman of an Executive Committee, Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, Vice- Chairman ; C. J. Bell, Treasurer ; Geo. C. Lewis, Secretary. Power was given to add to this Committee which, as finally constituted, consisted of 204 the following named persons : B. H. Warner, Simon Wolf, Wm. F. Mat- tingly, Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, a woman of national reputation and great energy, Mrs. Thomas Calver, President of the Legion of Loyal Women, Mrs. James Tanner, National President of the Ladies' Union Veteran Legion, Mrs. Sarah A. Spencer, Spencerian Business College, Mrs. J. A. T. Hull, wife of Representative Hull, Mrs. Ellen S. Mussey, Counsel of the American National Red Cross, Mrs. M. M. North, wife of one of our Presbyterian clergymen. Quite a number of prominent citizens were present at the first meet- ing, including Rev. T. S. Hamlin, D. D., Rev. Byron Sunderland, D. D. Mrs. Spencer was compelled by other engagements to retire from the work of the Executive Committee early in its history, but still remains as a member of the General Committee. I want to say for the ladies who served on the Executive Committee, that I never saw more devoted, ener- getic, and efficient service on any committee, or under any conditions with which I have been familiar, than that rendered by them. They were all ■constantly active, at Camp Alger, Fort Meyer, and all along the line, at [all hours, both day and night, wherever their presence seemed to be required. They were all exceptionally competent to direct, possessed of a high order of ability and intelligence. They deserve not only the thanks of your Committee, but also of all who are friendly to the thousands of soldiers who were benefited by their administration. I have the individual reports of the members of the Committee, all giving detailed accounts of what has been accomplished. I would be glad to give them all in full, had I not received instructions to make this report as brief as possible. Mrs. J. Ellen Foster began service at the commencement of the war, and was very active in and around Washington in Camp, Hospital, and the Railway Relief work. She also visited Camp Wikoff, Camp Black, Camp McPherson, Camp Thomas, Chickamauga, camp at Huntsville, Ala., and the hospitals in New York and Boston where sick soldiers were quartered. Her experience gave her opportunities of suggesting improve- ments in many departments of work, and the administration of relief, not only by the Red Cross, but other organizations as well. Capt. Geo. C. Lewis, on the 21st of June, was elected Secretary of the Committee. He had been an officer in the Civil War, and had large ex- perience among soldiers, both in camp and hospital. His first visit to Camp Alger was made on that date, and from that time until the camp was discontinued he was constantly on duty there, seeing that supplies were furnished and all possible relief extended. His headquarters was a large hospital tent from which the flag of the Red Cross was flying ; the principal office of the Executive Committee being in Washington, at No. 205 I3IO G Street, which was tendered free of charge by Dr. and Mrs. J. Ford Thomson, and which the Committee has retained much longer than originally anticipated. Experienced nurses seemed to be needed at Camp Alger. Patients were not receiving the necessary care and attention. The Committee supplied mattresses, sheets, pillows and slips, mosquito bars, lemons, and a large quantity of medicine, pajamas, under-clothing, nightshirts, handker- chiefs, groceries, delicacies, etc. The surgeons at the hospitals seemed to be timid about asking the Government for supplies. The Surgeon-in-Chief seemed to think that the soldiers who were taken sick should be treated in such a manner as would inure them to the hardships of camp and the life of a soldier. When spoken to on this subject he said : " These men must understand that war is not play." Some of the assistant-surgeons said, " It is much easier to ask the Red Cross for supplies, and they can be obtained sooner than by asking the Government, as there is so much red tape and it takes so long to get everything." When kitchens at Camp Alger were inspected the food did not appear to be of the right kind, and was not properly cooked. The numbers in the hospitals were large, and increasing. Point Sheridan, Va., was visited by Mrs. Mussey on July the 29th, and sixteen men were found sick. They seemed to be suffering for supplies, especi- ally medicine which had been ordered on June 27th, but had not been received. The Red Cross delivered them proper medicine within twenty- four hours. It was found that each camp hospital must have its regular visitors, and different members of the Committee were appointed. Arti- cles needed were supplied from headquarters in Washington, and large shipments were also sent direct from New York to various points. On several occasions underclothes and pajamas were supplied by the hundreds within twenty-four hours. Early in August the Washington Barracks were made a Post Hospital, and the Red Cross aid was gladly accepted by Major Adair, Surgeon in charge. For a long time our Committee supplied this point 8co pounds of ice, 5 gallons of chicken soup, 30 gallons of milk, 20 pounds of butter daily, as well as two crates of eggs weekly. We also furnished 1200 suits of underwear, several hundred suits of pajamas, 500 towels, several hundred pairs of slippers, socks, and medicines, antiseptic dressings and numerous small articles. The work at this point was closed October 8th with expressions of mutual satisfaction. The Secretary of War gave authority for the establishment of Diet Kitchens in the camps near Washington, and Mrs. Mussey, who had taken a special interest in this work from the beginning, was given general charge of the establishment of the Kitchen. A Diet Kitchen was estab- 206 lished at Camp Bristow, and two competent male colored cooks placed in charge. Major Weaver, the Chief Surgeon, and his staff of five surgeons were both devoted and competent in their service, and the sick soldiers "were loud in their praise. We found it unnecessary to establish one at the Hospital at the Wash- ington Barracks, as arrangements there were so good, and it only seemed ■necessary to furnish fresh soups daily, and the Committee made a contract for five gallons per day at cost for material only. The Committee authorized Mrs. E. S. Mussey and Mrs. J. A. T. Hull to establish a Diet Kitchen at Fort Meyer. Major Davis, Surgeon in •charge yielded his own wishes to the Secretary of War. As no building was furnished, the Committee made a contract for one of a temporary character which was put up at a cost, when completed, with range, plumb- ing, etc., of about $350.00. Dr. Mary E. Green, President of the National Household Economical Association, was secured as Superintendent, and in not more than ten days from the time of its commencement the build- ing was completed, furnished, and orders being filled. It has been a great assistance, not only in furnishing properly cooked food, but invaluable as an object lesson in neatness and skilled cooking. The Government has voluntarily paid for meat, chicken, and milk, leaving the Committee only bills for groceries and wages of employes. Dr. Green has rendered such efficient service that she has been employed by the Government to establish Diet Kitchens at other points. At Fort Meyer nearly four hundred patients were suffering with typhoid, and no provision existed for preparing special diet. Canned soup was heated and served to those just leaving a strictly milk diet, and the so- called chicken broth, which was served wholly unsatisfactorily to both physicians and nurses. When the Diet Kitchen was completed, beef, mutton, and chicken broth, made fresh daily in the manner best calculated to bring out the nutritive value of the meat, were prepared. Mutton broth •was made from hind-quarters only, and beef broth from solid meat, with no waste. Albumen, so necessary to repair the waste of the system by fevers, was supplied in the palatable form of rich custards, as ice cream and blanc mange — gelatine made into jellies with port and sherry wines — and albumen jelly, all of which are nourishing to the irritated linings. During the month of September from the 7th inst., 550 orders, aver- aging fifteen portions each, or 8250 patients, were filled. Physicians, nurses, and patients unite in saying the aid they secured from this work is of inestimable value, not only in saving lives, but in hastening the recovery of all. Major Davis, as the Surgeon in charge, has expressed his high appreciation of the good results obtained by establishing the Kitchen, and the methods pursued in conducting it. 207 In response to suggestions from the General Committee in New York a Special Committee was sent to Fortress Monroe to meet the first wounded ■who came from the battlefields of El Caney, San Juan, and Guasimas. The Surgeon in charge, Dr. DeWitt, stated their immediate needs, and supplies were sent one day after they were called for, consisting in part of 500 pairs pajamas, 25 pairs of crutches, 200 pairs of slippers, 350 yards of rubber sheeting, large quantities of antiseptic dressings, 5 dozen gallons of whiskey and brandy, 200 cans of soup, granite-ware basins, pitchers, dishes, etc. Several other visits were made to this point, resulting in the employ- ment of additional trained nurses, with proper provision for their mainte- nance. Arrangements were also made on behalf of the General Committee for supplying ice for the use of troops on board the transports going south, and also for the sick on their journey northward. Mr. Bickford was afterwards designated to take charge of the work of the Red Cross at this point, and so further work on the part of our Committee was unneces- sary. The branch of the work which has been really one of the most difficult to conduct was in looking after the sick soldiers who passed through the city from Southern to Northern camps, and who were also going home. There was also such a general demand on the part of the men for coffee, bread, and other supplies, and it was so hard to limit our service to the sick soldiers alone, that we soon determined to feed not only the convalescent, but all who were hungry. Soldiers from the following organizations were fed and supplied, the well men receiving bread and butter sandwiches as well as coffee, milk, etc. : Parts of the 5th and 6th Artillery, 25th Infantry, two troops of ist Cavalry, 12th, i6th, and 17th Infantry, portions of the 8th, 9th, and loth Cavalry, all United States troops, and the following volunteer forces : 2 2d Kansas, 3d and 4th Missouri, ist Maine, 2d Tennessee, 7th Illinois, ist, 3th, 9th, 1 2th, 13th, 15th, 17th, 19th Pennsylvania, ist Connecticut, 5th Maryland, 2d, 3d, 8th, 9th, 14th, 65th New York, ist and 2d New Jersey, two brigades of United States Signal Corps, and detachments from a number of other regiments ; in all about 40,000 men. Very frequently the Committee furnished handkerchiefs and soap, as -well as reading matter. The sick were given soup, and milk packed in ice, fruit, medicines, etc. Forty-five were removed from the train and taken to the hospitals in Washington. We used, in this connection, not only the services of trained nurses in the employ of the Red Cross, but Dr. Rayne was detailed by the War Department and rendered most efficient service, as he was always ready and willing to do everything in his power, day or night, for the relief of the sick. The War Department ordered for the use of the Committee the erection 208 of two tents in close proximity to our rooms, which were at 915 Maryland Avenue. One of these tents was filled with fully equipped cots on which the invalids were placed while waiting the arrival of ambulances, and the other was used as a general depot for supplies. The War Department paid for the bread we used in this work, and also for 4346 loaves furnished to the Pension Office Relief Committee, which was engaged in the same kind of work. Many donations of food and material were received, and about forty thousand men were fed. Mrs. James Tanner, who had charge of this work, was also appointed a Committee to secure reading matter for the different camps, before the Red Cross Committee was organized, and collected several wagon loads of books, magazines, and other periodicals, which were sent to Camp Alger, Fort Meyer, Point Sheridan, Fort Washington, Chickamauga, Tampa, and Santiago. Distribution of this reading matter was also made to the Red Cross quarters, 915 Maryland Avenue, and handed to the soldiers who passed through the city on trains. All bills for ice furnished to Point Sheridan, Va., Washington Barracks, and to the Diet Kitchen at Fort Meyer have been paid by the Ice Plant Auxiliary, which also furnished the large ice chests for the latter. The Legion of Loyal Women, who acted as an Auxiliary for the Red Cross Committee, made a large number of mosquito nets, flannel bandages, wash-cloths, and pajamas. Besides this, they collected many supplies consisting of boxes of oranges, lemons, tea, coffee, jelly, con- densed milk, crackers, yeast powder, cocoa, stamps, writing paper,, tobacco, fruit, soap, socks, handkerchiefs, towels, nightshirts, under- clothes, pajamas, quinine, and other medicine, which were sent to the various camps. Generous donations of clothing, jellies, cordials, and money were also received from various Auxiliaries of the Ladies' Union Veteran Legion. The Red Cross Committee also aided in the establishment of a tempo- rary home in this city for returning volunteers. The existence of this home was limited to two months. The time will expire November loth, when it will be broken up. It has cared for a daily average of sixty sol- diers. The Red Cross assisted by furnishing cots and furniture. The total amount expended in the Railway Relief work, in feeding men as they passed through the city, was $2637.13. Arrangements were also made after this work closed to look after all the sick soldiers who came in at the several railroad stations. The Treasurer, C. J. Bell, will transmit a full report with vouchers for all expenditures. Many ladies rendered excellent service in making sheets, pillowxases^ mosquito nets, pajamas, bandages, and articles too numerous to mention 209 and volunteer nurses were anxious to go where they could render service to the sick and wounded. It is gratifying to be able to state that whatever view the surgeons and other officers may have had as to the need of the Red Cross at the begin- ning of the war, at the close they joined with the private soldiers in testi- fying to its wonderful and efficient work. Among the principal donations were those from the Lutheran Church Society, Hagerstown, Md., consisting of 50 pajamas, 50 suits under- clothing, 50 nightshirts, 40 sheets, 250 pairs of socks, 100 towels, 200 handkerchiefs, 75 rolls of bandages, delicacies, and sundry articles. There were, also, contributions of different supplies demonstrating the general interest taken in our work. There were distributed by this Committee in part, 800 sheets, 500 pil- lowcases, Soo suits of pajamas, 1500 suits of underclothing, 1600 abdom- inal bandages, 800 pairs of socks, 750 nightshirts, 350 mosquito bars, 100 rubber sheets, 400 pairs of slippers, 2000 palm-leaf fans, 75 large boxes of soap, 150 cots, 250 mattresses, 100 pairs of blankets, 275 pillows, $1000 worth of groceries, $300 malted milk, $850 soups and bouillons, $725 medicines and surgical supplies, $250 wines and liquors, and S1050 milk. The following supplies were received from the Supply Committee, New York : 50 boxes of ivory soap, 50 rubber sheets, 400 suits of under- wear, 250 sheets, 250 pillowcases, 250 nightshirts, 200 pairs of slippers, 500 suits of pajamas, $200 worth of malted milk, beef extract, and Mellin's food, $700 worth of canned soups and bouillon, and $6000 cash. In closing permit me to thank Vice-President Barton and the Supply Committee for prompt and liberal response to every request made for aid of any character, and for immediately recognizing the fact that the Com- mittee at this point had a work placed upon it very extensive and unique in character, and requiring a large outlay of money and service. I desire to call your attention to the great service rendered by Mrs. E. S. Mussey, who, during the absence of Mrs. Foster and myself from the city, acted as Chairman of the Committee, and who for two months gave nearly all her time to the performance of the duties devolving upon her. The American National Red Cross has rendered services in the Spanish war which cannot be estimated, and it has for compensation the grateful acknowledgments of thousands whose sufferings have been alleviated through its ministrations, and the affectionate regard not only of the army and navy, but of the people of America and the civilized world. Respectfully submitted, B. H. Warner, Chairman Executive Committee, American National Red Cross, At Washington, D. C. 210 REPORT OF THE RED CROSS FIELD AGENT AT FORT Mcpherson, ga. On August 3d Mr. Cobb, Agent of the Red Cross came to Fort McPherson to see if the work could be organized to advantage at that Post for the relief of the many sick. On arrival he found a dietary kitchen conducted by my wife and daughter, Miss Hermoine Nave, at which from fifty to sixty invalid soldiers were being fed, some of whom were from the body of recruits assembled there, but for the most part convalescents from the general hospital. The object of this kitchen was to provide light diet for the soldiers in the barracks who were suffering from minor stomach and bowel troubles, but who were, according to the custom of the army, not sent to hospital, but must depend upon the company messes for food ; and to care for the convalescents from typhoid fever and other serious illnesses after they were sufficiently advanced in convalescence to be up and out from under the care of the nurses, and until they were sufficiently re- covered to make it safe for them to take the stronger diet of the general mess. This kitchen seemed to be performing such an important function, that Mr. Cobb tendered to Mrs, Nave the support and aid of the Red Cross. Prior to this time this benevolence had a precarious support from such funds as I was able to solicit from friends far and near. The ex- penses had at this time reached $60.00 per week, with no guaranty behind its bills except my salary, which was not equal to the expenditures them- selves. The proffer of Mr. Cobb was very gladly accepted. The Red Cross at^reed to pay bills already contracted, and to furnish all necessary expenses. This enabled Mrs. Nave to double the capacity of her work, and from that time until it was closed on the first of October, it ministered to the comfort and restoration to health of almost a thousand soldiers, to whom she served upwards of 19,000 meals. There is no doubt that this gentle and tender ministry saved many lives, as the percentage of relapses, ordinarily large in typhoid fever, was very small. The total expenditures in this kitchen were $1,391.77 i^i cash, besides large quantities of supplies furnished, consisting of rice, peas, farina, pearl barley, oat meal, and other cereals, bouillon, beef extracts, soups, dried fruits, pilot bread, crackers, canned vegetables, tapioca, gelatine, corn starch, salt, coffee, sugar, tea, salt meats, canned fruits in all varieties pearline, sapolio, soap, etc. 211 During this period, the Red Cross furnished a stenographer to enable the Chaplain to communicate with the friends of the many sick in the hospital at that post. The number of sick cared for in that hospital was upwards of 2000. During the summer the Chaplain wrote letters for soldiers, and to friends in response to inquiries concerning them. There were supplied to the sick thirteen dozen pairs of drawers, thirteen dozen shirts, and as many pairs of socks, many dozens of combs, tooth brushes, and other little comforts that the sick could not procure, and which were not furnished to them by the Government. The Red Cross furnished seven nurses, who rendered competent and faithful services in caring for the large number of sick men sent to that hospital, at a cost of upwards of $400.00, one of whom still remains rendering acceptable and useful service. The rest have for the most part returned to college, being students who entered the Red Cross service during the summer. The importance of this work as a supplement to that done by the Government for the relief of the sick cannot be overstated. An institu- tion deals with people by masses. A hospital, especially a large institution, such as an army general hospital, deals with the sick by masses. Much must be left to subordinates, many of whom have little or no experience in caring for the sick. The system is devised for the many — but where many are sick a percentage of the patients cannot regain health without special care. The work done by the Red Cross at Fort McPherson was that which could not be done effectually by institutional methods. Furthermore, the spirit of those who acted in its behalf did so solely from philanthropic mo- tives. They, therefore, brought elements to their work that employees too often lack, elements of gentleness and love. Two thousand soldiers from two thousand homes in the United States live to-day to love and honor the Red Cross in memory of the helping hand lent them in the hospital at Fort McPherson in the war with Spain. The total expenditures in cash in the benevolent work at Fort McPherson to October ist, amounted to $2242.70. Orville J. Nave, Post Chaplain, U. S. Army, Field Agent. 212 REPORT OF REV. ALEXANDER KENT, FIELD AGENT RED CROSS, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA. October lo, 1898. I arrived in Jacksonville, June i6th, in company with Miss Clara Barton, then on her way to Key West. We visited Camp Cuba Libre in the afternoon, and I had the great advantage of being presented by Miss Barton to several ofificers as the representative of the Red Cross at this point. On the following morning I visited the hospital, and found what ap- peared to me to be very unhealthful and distressing conditions. The number of patients at that time was small, but few as they were, no adequate provision had been made for their comfort. Most of them were indeed on cots, but few had either sheets or nightshirts to cover their nakedness. They were either lying in soiled underclothing, swelter- ing in the heat under army blankets, or destitute of any covering whatever. I immediately ordered 100 sheets, 100 pillowcases, and 100 pillow-ticks, which the surgeon said they could readily have filled with moss and pine needles. By the time this need was met, I learned that the sick had no suitable food, so my next business was to secure a supply of this. I had no sooner begun this work than I had to face the fact that they had no means of cooking this food, and no place in which to care for it, and keep it cool and sweet when prepared. So I purchased a large Blue Flame oil stove and a No. 6 Alaska ice chest. I soon learned that the patients were suffering for an adequate supply of ice, and made suitable provisions therefor. But adequate provision for one week was no adequate pro- vision for the next. Patients came into the hospital in ever-increasing numbers ; cots, sheets, pillows, and pillow-cases had to be doubled and trebled and quadrupled as the weeks went by. The Government provided many sheets, many cots, and many pillows, but the demand ever outran the supply, and the Red Cross was called on continually to supply the lack. In the matter of ice, milk, eggs, lemons, malted milk, peptonoids, clam bouillon, beef extract, calf's foot jelly, gelatine, corn-starch, tapioca, con. densed milk, rice, barley, sugar, butter, and delicacies of all kinds, the Government made no provision, neither did the hospital from its ration fund. All supplies of this sort were furnished the hospital by the Red Cross, or by other charitable or beneficent agencies. So far as I have 213 been able to learn, no use was made of the ordinary ration fund in the Jacksonville hospitals. With the growth of the hospital there came ever-incre;.sing demands for ice and milk, for delicacies of every sort, and for all comforts and con- veniences that tend to make hospital work not only more pleasant but more effective. Early in the history of the second division hospital, the Red Cross paid the bills for a bath house and a kitchen ; it furnished also the large circular wall tent for convalescents. It gave over a hundred cots and mattresses, and nearly a thousand pillows. Of sheets and pillowcases, nightshirts and pajamas, it sent out many thousands. We not only dis- tributed a large number sent from New York ; boxes were sent to us from St. Augustine, from Augusta, Ga., from Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and from the District of Columbia, Few people have any conception of the enormous quantity of such arti- cles required to keep a hospital with five hundred to seven hundred patients in good running order. So often are these things soiled that there must be, at least, three or four sets to each cot. When there are three or four hospitals, with an aggregate sick list of from fifteen hundred to two thousand, the number of sheets and pillowcases, of nightshirts and pajamas required to keep the beds of the patients presentable is simply tremendous. Of course the Government has supplied the greater number of sheets and pillowcases, nightshirts and pajamas. In none of these things has the supply ever quite equalled the demand. At the present time the cry of need is almost as loud as ever. When the recuperating hospital was established at Pablo Beach, the Red Cross, at the request of the Chief Surgeon, supplied two hundred and fifty sets of dishes, with a complete outfit of pitchers, trays, buckets, and many other things. It has contributed to the diet kitchens of all the hospitals, and has supplied the hospitals themselves with many articles of convenience and comfort. It had fifty large ice-chests manu- factured, and placed one in each ward of the principal hospitals. It gave over seven hundred buckets for the carrying of offal, and furnished screens for the use of the nurses. It gave bed pans and urinals in large numbers, tumblers by the barrel, medicine glasses, graduated glasses, hypodermic syringes and needles. Of the latter we learned that there was not a single one in the hospital at the time we were called on. Scores of men had been obliged to receive their hypodermic injections from a broken point, suffering greatly from the operation and subsequent results. The Red Cross has furnished over $1000 worth of medicines not on the government list, besides malted milk, peptonoids, peptomangin, peptogenic milk powder, maltine, and a large shipment of medicines sent from New York. It has supplied over one thousand bath and surgical 214 sponges, and towels in immense quantities. In short, with the exception of tents, cots, blankets, and to a considerable extent, sheets furnished by the Government, the Red Cross up to September ist, furnished the greater part of the hospital equipment. As the several heads of divisions have said to me again and again, " The hospitals never could have equipped themselves. They would have broken down utterly without the aid of the Red Cross." It has spent here over thirteen thousand dollars in cash for hospital equipment and supplies of various kinds, including ice and milk, in addi- tion to the large quantities of goods sent from New York, the value of which we do not know. And with all this, the need has not been met as fully or as promptly as it should have been. The number of the sick in- creased greatly beyond the expectations of the officers in charge, and at no time has the supply been equal to the demand. Even now, when the Government has allowed sixty cents per day for each patient in the hos- pital, and has recently so extended the order as to include regimental a& well as division hospitals, there is still continuous appeal to the Red Cross for a great variety of things which those in charge of the hospital fund do not feel warranted in buying, and most of the regiments have not yet gotten their hospitals in shape to ask for anything. As they are to move to Savannah in a few days, they will not be in condition to draw any money for weeks to come. It seems a pity, therefore, that your Committee tied our hands just at this time, when such action bears with peculiar hardship upon the sick in regimental hospital and in quarters. I have omitted to state that a most important part of the work of the Red Cross here has been the supplying of ice for the purpose of cooling the drinking water of the camps. Our ice bills for camp and hospitals, at an average of thirty-five cents per hundred have been over six thousand dollars, the second division hospital alone often consuming from four to five and a half tons a day. Our milk bills were also large, averaging for some time over five hundred dollars a week, at a cost of forty cents a gallon. Our relations with both army and medical officials have been, on the whole, harmonious and pleasant. Some little feeling arose over my atti- tude in regard to the necessity of female nurses, but as the issue has abundantly shown the soundness of my contention, that has pretty much passed away. Our hospitals have been far from ideal, but I believe they have been the best in the country, and perhaps none have realized their shortcomings and defects more than the men charged with their adminis- tration. It is not an easy matter to select even from an American army a sufficient number of reliable and capable men for so large and complex an institution, and incapacity and infidelity at any point is liable not only to bring most serious results, but to throw discredit on the whole institu- 215 tion. Doubtless many things have been done that should never have been permitted, and many left undone that constitute a record of what ought to be criminal neglect, yet they can only be avoided by men of the highest ability and largest experience, working with trained subordinates and with every facility for successful endeavor. It has not been possible to secure such in any one of the hospitals. The men in charge have been obliged to use such materials as they could get, and often the commanding officers of the regiments, when asked for a detail for hospital work, have given them the very poorest material they had. I am disposed therefore, to have pretty large charity for the surgeon-in-charge. He has a most diffi- cult task, and at the very best can only hope for moderate success. Ideal results he can never secure. October nth. Since the writing of the foregoing we have received a check for two thousand dollars, and also notice that on the 8th there were shipped to us 25 cases large size Horlick's milk, 50 cases Burnham's clam bouillon, 25 cases of lunch crackers. This was something of a surprise, coming as it did, after your letter of instructions to close up as rapidly as possible, and seems to contemplate our continuance in the field for some little time to come. I believe, however, that this is wise, and that we will be able to use these articles to great advantage. Yours very truly, Alex. Kent, Field Agent 2l6 REPORT OF WORK AT CAMP HOBSON, GA. At Camp Hobson, Lithia Springs, Ga., a Diet Kitchen was main- tained, under the direction of Miss Junia McKinley, assisted by the Atlanta Committee of the Red Cross, of which the following account is received: " The Diet Kitchen was opened here on Monday, August 9, and remained in operation three weeks, at the expiration of which time the camp broke up. During the first week after the kitchen was established, when detach- ments from the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Twenty-first, and Twenty-fifth reg- iments were in camp, 1176 meals were served. The next week orders were received for the removal of the Eighth and part of the o+her regi- ments to Montauk Point, consequently the number of convalescents was reduced, but during the second and third week 2066 meals were served, making a total of 3242 meals served at the table and in the hospital dur- ing the time the kitchen was in operation. The meals were furnished to convalescents in the hospital, men relieved from duty but not sick enough to be in the hospital, and to the hospital corps. The table meals consisted of the following : For breakfast, cereals, coffee, tea, fresh milk, eggs, toast, bread, and butter. For dinner, soups, bouillons, rice and milk, eggs, crackers, bread and fresh milk, coffee, California fruits (canned), wine, jelly, or simple dessert. Supper was the same as breakfast, with the ad- dition of stewed fruit. To patients in hospital, beef tea (made from fresh beef as well as extracts), soft-boiled eggs, cream toast, and fresh milk was served at regular hours. " The only paid help were two men and one woman ; the latter lived near the camp and reported for duty at first meal call and remained until din- ing tent and kitchen were in order. The other work in kitchen was grat- uitously done by Atlanta members of Red Cross Society, assisted by Mrs. Edward H. Barnes, Miss Loulie Gordon Roper (niece of Gen. J. B. Gor- don), Miss Emmie McDonnell, Miss Estelle Whelan, Mrs. George Boykin Saunders, all of Atlanta, and the ladies from Sweetwater Park Hotel, who came over daily from the hotel, about half a mile distant from camp, and assisted in serving table meals, also in carrying delicacies to hospitals and distributing flowers among the patients. " It affords us pleasure to acknowledge the uniform courtesy of the army 21/ officials, especially the commandant, Major Thomas Wilhelm, Chief Sur- geon Major E. L. Swift, Assistant-Surgeons Street, Bak, and Johnson, and Lieutenant Norman, Quartermaster. Major Wilhelm had our kitchen built and fly tent for dining hal! put up in a few hours after our arrival, de- tailed men to help whenever needed in kitchen, and with finest courtesy assured us of his appreciation of what was being done to add to the com- fort of his sick and convalescent men. " Besides the regular kitchen work at Camp Hobson, the Red Cross fur- nished for a short time to the hospitals one special nurse (Miss McKinlcy), and one trained nurse (Miss McLain), who remained until our last patients were sent to Fort McPherson General Hospital, and went with them in the hospital train, ministering to their wants until they were trans- ferred to their respective wards there. In this connection we think proper to state that many of our Camp Hobson patients now in Fort McPherson Hospital, one of the best equipped and best managed hospitals in the country, assure us they can never forget the unfailing kindness of Chief Surgeon Swift and assistants, the faithful care of their Red Cross nurses, and the delicacies furnished by the diet kitchen at Camp Hobson. " The Red Cross having authorized Miss McKinley to furnish anything necessary for the sick, medicines, fine whiskey, and hospital supplies were ordered by telephone from Atlanta, as there was some delay in shipment of Government supplies ; the orders were promptly filled, and proved im- portant factors in improving hospital wards. Clothing was furnished to some of the Camp Hobson men who were left behind and could not draw needed articles of clothing as their " descriptive lists " had not been fur- nished. When the Twenty-first regiment left for the North coffee was served on the train to the entire regiment in second section. Most of the ice used after the Diet Kitchen was established was furnished by Auxiliary No. lo. Thanks are due G. F. Matthews & Co., of New York, who wrote that they would furnish all the tea needed in the kitchen, but as the camp was about to break up, their kind offer was not accepted. " Special thanks are due to H. W. Blake, manager of Sweetwater Park Hotel at Lithia Springs, for many courtesies extended ; when our milkman ■was late, or our groceries (ordered from Atlanta) were delayed, he fur- nished fresh milk and eggs for the patients until our supplies arrived. Mrs. Blake sent daily from the beautiful hotel gardens flowers for hos- pitals and dining tables, also for distribution in hospital trains before leav- ing Camp Hobson. " In conclusion, we can venture to assure you that while the time of our work at Camp Hobson was short, great good was accomplished, the im- provement of convalescents who took meals at the kitchen was very rapid, owing to the well-prepared and nourishing food furnished them. The 2l8 surgeons, as well as hospital stewards, were much gratified at marked im- provement in hospital wards after the arrival of Red Cross nurses. " Upon the departure of every hospital train, we served iced milk to fever patients, milk toast to those not restricted to liquid diet, and sup- plied milk and stimulants for their journey. We thank the Red Cross foi the privilege of assisting in their relief work for our soldiers at Camp Hobson, whose appreciation for all that was done for them was unbounded and their gratitude a delight to those who ministered to their wants." (Signed) JUNIA McKinley. 219 REPORT OF RED CROSS FIELD AGENT AT CAMP THOMAS, GA. Camp George H. Thomas, Chickamauga Park, Ga., November 24, 1898. I left New York June 28th, arriving here June 30th, and immediately- reported for duty to Dr. Chas. R. Gill, Field Agent. The Supply Depot, a rough wooden building sixty by twenty feet, and called a " shack " in this section of the country, had been located in the midst of a beautiful grove of black walnuts. The park regulations regarding the felling of trees being very strict, the carpenter was compelled to build around three of the trees, so that the trunks projected through the roof, the branches affording a grateful shade during the hot summer. Twenty feet of the front part of the house were partitioned off and converted into an office and sleeping quarters. The depot was situated near the junction of the Lafayette and Brotherton roads, and next to the historic Brotherton House, in a central part of the park, A better location for our purpose could not have been selected. On July 5th Dr. Gill received telegraphic instructions from you to proceed to Tampa and to turn over the agency to me. He left the same night, after introducing me to the Chief Medical Officer and other officials. Acting upon the advice of Lieut. -Col. A. Hartsuff, Chief Surgeon, I proceeded to make the acquaintance of the surgeons commanding the five Division Hospitals, and the Leiter General Hospital, with the object of ascertaining their needs, and relieving them. Without an exception I was received in the most cordial manner, and every facility was given me to gain the information desired. The most pressing need was for milk and ice. The milk problem was the hardest one to solve, the ice problem the easiest. After consuhing with the Commanding Surgeon of each hospital and estimating the quantity of ice needed per day I had only to give him an order on the ice company and the ice was delivered to the hospital wagon at the ice house every day. As the summer advanced and the hospitals began to be crowded with patients, the demand for ice became greater and the quantities given had to be increased, so that at one time the quantity of ice issued by the Red Cross amounted to over six tons per day. The number of sick in the 220 "hospitals increased from 2240 on July 22nd to 4950 on August 20th, and the quantities of milk and ice had to be increased proportionately. During ihe period the five Division Hospitals, viz : ist Division, ist Corps ; 2nd Division, ist Corps ; 3d Division, 1st Corps ; ist Division, 3d Corps ; and 2d Division, 3d Corps ; the Leiter General Hospital, the Artillery Brigade Hospital, and a number of Regimental Hospitals were being sup- plied with ice, and every demand for an increased quantity was promptly investigated and invariably approved and issued. During the two busy months of July and August it was a physical impossibility for me to per- sonally visit all the regimental hospitals, scattered as they were over a wide expanse of territory ; but I notified the regimental surgeons that any requisition for ice or any other supplies we had signed by the Surgeon, Chaplain, or any other officer would be promptly filled, and invited them to call at the Supply Depot and inspect our stock. In some cases the reply was that their regimental fund was sufficient to buy ice needed ; but many availed themselves of my offer. I can therefore safely say that no hospital in the camp was without sufficient ice for all needs. Only two cases were brought to my notice and they were promptly remedied. In addition to the use of ice in the hospitals, a barrel of distilled ice water was constantly on tap at our milk depot, which was built near the R.R. Station and ice house. Many a thirsty soldier enjoyed a glass of pure ice water there. MILK. To get a sufficient quantity of good, pure milk and deliver it to the hos- pitals in good condition so it would keep sweet until it was all used was a difficult task during the hot and sultry weather of July and August. Con- tracts were made at Marietta and Dalton, Ga., at Nashville, Tenn., and with farmers in the vicinity of Chattanooga and the Camp. I was also fortunate enough to secure forty-eight gallons of pasteurized Jersey milk daily, from the celebrated Biltmore, N. C, Dairies and at a lower price de- livered than from any other source. All the milk purchased was tested with the lactometer, and was up to the standard ; but in spite of every care, occasional complaints of milk souring were made. These were promptly investigated and if the fault was found to lie with the milkman, he was cautioned and on a second offence his contract was cancelled. Sometimes the stewards were found to be negligent in caring for the milk, but these faults were promptly corrected by the surgeons. RED CROSS MILK DEPOT. In order to prevent the souring of the milk, I had built a small build- ing near the railroad station, where I could receive the milk and put it in 221 a refrigerator until called for by the hospital wagons. This plan worked to perfection, and no more complaints were made. The Milk Depot served an excellent purpose during the breaking up of the camp, by supplying milk in good condition at any hour of the day or night to departing hospital trains. At this time over 300 gallons of milk per day were being furnished to the hospitals, and there was a great demand from officers' messes and in- dividual soldiers for good pure milk. Many irresponsible pedlers and some miscreants miscalled milkmen, in a hurry to make their fortunes, Avere selling all kinds of slop, called milk, to the soldiers, making them sick. I found these pedlers were buying skimmed milk from the separators in Chattanooga for 7 cents a gallon and retailing it in camp to the soldiers at five cents a small glass. These facts I reported to the Chief Surgeon, Colonel John Van R. Hoff, and to the Provost Marshal, Col. Whipple, and proposed to them to retail pure tested milk to the soldiers from our depot at five cents per large glass. The plan met with their cordial approval, and the Provost Marshal went so far as to ask me to take charge of the whole milk business at the Park, and offered to have all milk pedlers report to me every morning if I would inspect the milk they had for sale. Owing to my many duties, I was unable to accept this charge ; but I tested milk whenever and wherever possible, and had the satisfaction of getting sev- eral permits revoked. The Provost Marshal was also supplied with a lactometer, and one was always kept at the Milk Depot. This Milk Depot was operated without any expense to me through an arrangement made with a reliable man who attended to receiving and de- livering the hospital milk, and doing all the other work at the depot in return for the profits on the retailing of milk by the glass. The only thing I paid for was the ice for our barrel of free distilled ice water which was kept constantly on tap. The Red Cross Milk Depot was pronounced a positive boon by officers and privates alike, the general verdict being that it was the only place in camp where a glass of pure milk could be had. Medicines and medical supplies not on the medical list of the army, or not obtainable immediately, were furnished the hospitals from our sup- plies. If not on hand, and where the need was urgent, I telegraphed for them and received goods from New York by return express. In all cases my requisitions were promptly filled and shipped by the Supply Commit- tee in New York. I can not too highly praise their promptness and efficiency. The method of furnishing these medicines and all other sup- plies was by requisitions signed by the Commanding Surgeon, or some other officer detailed for the purpose. To enumerate the list of supplies furnished would take too much space in this report. They consisted 222 ■mainly of delicacies for the sick, including wines, jellies, cereals, white sugar, barley, rice, flavoring extracts, oranges, lemons, etc. ; hospital sup- plies such as foot-tubs, pails, bed pans, bed trays, screens, clinical ther- mometers, hypodermic and other syringes, rubber rings, gasoline and oil stoves, sheets, blankets, pillowcases, nightshirts, pajamas, slippers, bed pads, mops, cots, etc. Our list of medicines included opium, pare- goric, laudanum, salol, sub-gallate bismuth, calomel and soda, sulfonal, trional, and many others. Not one requisition for supplies was ever re- fused ; many things were asked for that had to be bought in Chattanooga, or, if not obtainable there, were telegraphed or written for to the Supply Depot in New York ; but every want expressed was supplied. The total number of requisitions filled was three hundred and seventy, distributed as follows : Second Division Third Corps Hospital 40 -First " " " " 40 Eighth New York Regimental " 37 First Division First Corps Hospital 35 Third '' •' " " 31 Second " " " " 26 Sternberg Field Hospital 25 Second Arkansas Regimental Hospital 20 Leiter General Hospital 15 (Including one car load of supplies sent direct from New York Supply Depot.) -Grigsby's Rough Riders Hospital 12 Fourteenth Minnesota Regimental Hospital 11 Ninth New York Regimental Hospital 8 158th Indiana " " 8 Fourteenth New York Regimental Hospital 6 Sixth United States Volunteers Regimental Hospital 5 Artillery Brigade Hospital 4 Epworth League Chattanooga Hospital 3 (Besides paying bill for supplies purchased in Chattanooga amounting to $41.10.) First Illinois Cavalry Hospital 3 Third Tennessee Regiment 3 First Missouri Regimental Hospital 3 First Mississippi " " 3 Third Kentucky " " 3 Fifth Missouri " " 2 T'irst Pennsylvania " " 2 223 First Kentucky Cavalry Hospital 2 Secorid Kentucky Infantry " 2 Fifth Illinois " " 2 Second Ohio " " 2 Fourth Pennsylvania " " First Arkansas " " Thirty-first Michigan " " Second Kentucky Cavalry *' First Kentucky Infantry " Teamsters " SHIPPED TO ANNISTON, ALABAMA. First Division Third Corps Hospital 5 Second " " " " 2 Second Arkansas Regimental "' 2 TO KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE. Second Division First Corps Hospital r TO LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY. Third Division First Corps Hospital i STERNBERG HOSPITAL. During the latter part of July the number of sick in the hospitals began to increase so rapidly as to seriously overcrowd them, and it became apparent to the medical authorities that more room for the sick was needed immediately. It was decided to build and equip a new field hos- l)ital with a capacity of five hundred beds, and work was begun at once. In this emergency (and it was a grave one) the aid of the Red Cross was proffered and thankfully accepted by the medical department of the army. Acting under your instructions, " Supply everything needed unstinted," I conferred with Chief-Surgeon Hoff and Major R. Emmett Giffen, in charge of the new hospital, and, working harmoniously in con- cert with these gentlemen, Sternberg Hospital was ready to receive and care for sick soldiers early in August. I had built eight large wooden dormitories for our Red Cross women nurses, one dining hall and kitchen, one bath-house, containing 12 bath-rooms, one store-house, one ice-house, a large dining tent, a recreation tent for the nurses, and several small tents for use of the servants. Everything possible was done to make the nurses comfortable and to keep them in good health and to make their stay as pleasant as the depressing nature of their work would permit. 224 The results obtained at Sternberg Hospital proved what we had always contended to be correct, namely : That the trained woman nurse is not only a success in army field hospitals, but that she is indispensable for the proper nursing of sick soldiers and the successful operation of a hospital. This conclusion will, I believe, be approved by every medical man who saw our Red Cross nurses at work in Sternberg Hospital. Dur- ing the latter part of August there were one hundred and sixty Red Cross nurses on duty ; the strict propriety of their conduct, their gentle, womanly ways in the sick wards, and their unselfish devotion to duty endeared them to all with whom they came in contact. It was largely through their efforts that Sternberg Hospital was made a success ; no one realized this so much as the surgeons in charge. During the latter part of August and early in September the troops were moved away from Chickamauga Park and all the patients in the various hospitals who were able to be moved were taken in other camps on hospital trains. The Red Cross assisted in supplying these trains with ice, milk, and other supplies, and followed this by shipment of supplies to the hospitals at Knoxville, Tenn., Lexington, Ky., and Anniston, Ala. EPWORTH HOSPITAL. Some charitable ladies of Chattanooga, Tenn., established a hospital in that city, about the time of the abandonment of Camp Thomas, with the object of caring for sick soldiers en route for their homes. They did excellent work, in which I was able to assist them by furnishing supplies from the Red Cross stores. On September 12th I was taken down with typhoid fever and removed to Lookout Mountain, where I received the very best nursing and atten- tion from two Red Cross nurses sent from Sternberg Hospital, assisted by ray wife who came down from New York to take care of me. Assistant- Surgeon John C. Greenwalt and Major E- C. Carter, Commanding Leiter General Hospital, kindly looked after my case and it was to their medical skill and the excellent nursing of my wife and of Misses Duncan and Robinson that I owe my recovery. During the time of my illness, from September 12th to October 17th, my brother, A. M. Smith, who volunteered for the purpose, attended to Red Cross affairs at Camp Thomas in a highly satisfactory manner. I resumed my duties October 17th. In November I received instructions from you to settle up the business and report to you in New York. I have disposed of all perishable supplies and immovable property and leave here to-night. E. C. Smith, Field Agent. 225 TO THE NATIONAL RED CROSS RELIEF COMMITTEE. REPORT BY HOWARD TOWNSEND, A member of the Executive Committee, of his work as Field Agent in charge of the interests of the Red Cross at Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, during August, September, and October, 1898. About the first of August, 1898, the Government of the United States hastily decided to move the Fifth Corps of the Army under General Shafter before Santiago, to a camp to be formed at Montauk Point, at the eastern end of Long Island. Major-General S. B. M. Young, U. S. V., was directed to repair at once to that point and to construct the camp. Col. Forwood, Assistant Surgeon-General, was directed by the Surgeon-General to proceed to Montauk Point and there establish a temporary tent hospital of five hundred beds. Both these gentlemen reached their station August 5th. Montauk Point is an upland about eight miles in length, by three to four miles in width ; which rises (as if it had been originally an island) from the sand plain or beach west of it which connects it with the rest of Long Island. Speaking in a general way, it may be said that Camp Wikoff occupied the southwestern corner of Montauk Point. As soon as the decision of the Government in regard to the formation of this camp became known, the Executive Committee of the National Red Cross Relief Committee realized how much need there would be of Red Cross work, not merely at the hospitals, but among the regimental camps. In view of the treatment of the Red Cross agents at some of the camps during the earlier part of the summer by those in authority, it seemed advisable that one of the Executive Committee should volunteer his services as Field Agent. As the writer's summer home is at Southamp- ton, twenty-five miles west of Montauk, it seemed to him clearly to be his duty to take the position, and when Mr. Douglas Robinson broached the subject Saturday, August 5th, he was told that the writer had already decided to take charge of the work. At the time it was thought that the agent need not spend his entire time at the new camp, but could make visits there every day or so and leave the burden of the work to fall upon a responsible deputy. One day, however showed that it was not only 226 necessary for the agent to be there every day, but that he should keep himself unmistakably busy during every working hour. Sunday, August 6th, I went to Montauk by the noon train, and at the railroad station was introduced to General Young and Col. Forwood. At that time there was not the slightest evidence of a camp. The only strange object was the huge boiler which was intended for the pump house to be built at the well then in process of being driven near Fort Pond. This boiler had been drawn half way to the site of the well when the wagon broke down, and it lay half in the pond and half out of it — a most discouraging looking object. Owing to the thoughtfulness of Mr. Douglas Robinson, Col. Brown, Medical Purveyor, U. S. A., had telegraphed to Col. Forwood introducing me to him, and this, with a telegram of Mr. Baldwin, President of the Long Island Railroad, caused him to receive me with courtesy, to talk freely with me, and to express his willingness to allow the Red Cross to help him in supplying the delicacies which were not furnished by the Govern- ment. I could see, however, that the amount of help which he expected was very limited, and his astonishment when, two days afterward we heaped up twenty-five tons of supplies in the small quarters allotted to us in the General Hospital was amusing to witness. The one hospital tent which he had given to us was immediately extended to three, and before our work was ended we w^ere occupying a long gallery formed of eight hospital tents, each fourteen feet six inches by fourteen feet in size. After this talk with Col. Forwood, I had a conversation of some length with General Young. The question of the sufficiency of the water-supply weighed heavily upon his mind. There was considerable doubt as to whether sufficient water could be found, and the stratum of large boulders just underneath the surface of the soil so blunted the tubes of the well drivers that it was very difficult to go through it. Fortunately, our Chair- man, Mr. Wardwell, in a conversation with me a day or two before, had authorized me to say that we were prepared to supply the army with drink- ing water if necessary. I immediately made this offer to General Young, stating that on the basis of two quarts of water per man per day, the Red Cross would supply General Shafter's entire Corps until a sufficient water- supply was found. General Young seemed perfectly staggered by this offer, and, as a matter of fact, it was a pretty large one ; but when I repeated it he assured me that I had taken a load off his mind, and twice in our conversation before we parted he spoke of how this offer of the Red Cross had lightened the difficulty of his situation, for unquestionably his task was a tremendous one. Troops had already started from Tampa ; transports were expected to sail from Santiago at any time, and as yet the lumber had not arrived for the framework of the tents, or for the storehouses, and 227 there was a lamentable lack of carpenters. It was absolutely uncertain when the water would be found sufficient for the supply of the twenty tliousand men who were expected, and a failure in this respect meant a situation so serious as not to be thought of. My conversation with General Young was the beginning of a pleasant acquaintance which soon ripened into friendship. Within an hour after we had first met, General Young told me that a cottage had been placed at his disposal by Mr. W. L. Andrews, of New York, to be used as head- quarters, and, learning that I expected to bring down some servants within a day or two, he invited me to join with him in keeping house, an offer which I gladly accepted, and from that time until he left Camp Wikoff to take command of the First Division of the Second Army Corps at Camp Meade, General Young was the best and warmest friend that the Red Cross had. He was one of the first generals to realize its true use ; that it was an elastic department of the army, untrammelled by any rigid rules or regulations, supplied practically with an unlimited amount of money, and capable of furnishing anything at the shortest possible notice. After being assured that the Red Cross was subject to his directions, he always treated its representative as an officer of his staff, not hesitating to issue orders whenever he thought that the thing desired was within the lines of the Society's work. Until its field representatives occupy an official or semi-ofiicial position with relation to the commanding officer at any locality, the Red Cross will only show half its usefulness. It was under orders from him that the Red Cross had principal charge of the feeding of the troops on the transport Mobile which arrived August 19th, with twelve hundred well men and three hundred sick on board, all of whom had been without food since the night before. On the 9th of August several companies of the 6th Cavalry which had been left at Tampa arrived at Montauk. They had been a week on the journey from Florida and were thoroughly tired out. Twenty of their sick men, suffering from typhoid fever, spent the first night at Montauk on the grass near the site of the General Hospital, in a drenching rain without any other covering than their wet blankets. Next day tents were erected and they lay in them on their blankets on the grass. The one serious fault in connection with Camp Wikoff was the failure on the part of the representative of the Surgeon-General to realize the gravity of the situation. He should have seen at once that it was impossi- ble to send here and there up and down Long Island picking up carpen- ters, and to rely on the few wagons of the quartermaster's department to haul the lumber for the tent frames and floorings. Had he seen at once the necessities of the situation he would have arranged with some promi- 228 Tient New York contractor to go down on a steamboat with one or two or, if necessary, five hundred carpenters and a sufficient amount of material to build within a week not merely the General Hospital but the Detention Hos- pital and three or four Division Hospitals, which should have been ready when the troops arrived. As it was, the General Hospital was constructed day after day, almost over the heads of the sick men. It is true that there were at one time two thousand sick in the hospitals and the Surgeon- General's instructions were to build a hospital of five hundred beds, so that the representative of the medical department could have sheltered himself behind his superior officer's telegram ; but the newspapers for the last three weeks had been printing a sick list of General Shafter's command at Santiago and every one knew that the hospital should have been con- structed for twenty-five hundred and not for five hundred sick. As a matter of fact, the building of the hospital was going on almost until the day when the order came to clear out the hospitals. This seems to me to have been the cause of most of the difficulty at Camp Wikoff. Had the General, De- tention, and Division Hospitals been ready when the troops arrived there would have been room for every sick man ; as it was, it became necessary to turn out men before they were thoroughly well in order to make room for others just arrived who were seriously ill. Moreover, the men in their regimental camps began to get sick. There was no room for them in the General Hospital, so they had to stay in their little tents. They had no cots, except such as the Red Cross gave them, and so they lay in their blankets or on their bed-sacks. It is the usual thing for a soldier in the field to sleep on the ground, but a sick soldier is entitled to such care as the Gov- ernment can give him ; and the Government by the exercise of ordinary in- telligence could have given him a floored hospital tent, trained nurses, a sufficiency of medicine, of medical attendance, and a hospital diet. In this, I think, it failed grossly. As a result of this failure of the represent- ative of the medical department to build hospitals quickly by outside con- tract aid, half-well men who were compelled to leave the hospital because of the lack of space, collapsed at the railway station, in the cars, in Long Island City, in the streets of New York, and on their way to their homes, causing a tremendous amount of deserved criticism, not only in the news- papers, but among thoughtful men. According to the "yellow journals," Camp Wikoff was one huge pest house. According to General Wheeler's testimony before the Commission it was a Garden of Eden. The truth lies, as it usually does, between these two extremes ; but I believe if the hospitals had been built promptly, as I have suggested, there would have been little complaint. It may be urged that any suggestion is easy after the event, and that this idea of a rapid construction by contract is one that would only have been thought 229 out by a business man of large executive ability, of quick mind, and rapid decision. I have, however, seen so many instances of energy and execu- tive ability among the officers at Camp Wikoff that this argument does not appeal to me. The trouble is that nowhere except in the army does a medical man have to do with the construction and running of a hospital. All this is within the province of business men. I have in mind a capable line officer (Captain Chase of the Third Cavalry), to whom, had this matter been entrusted, it would have been carried out as successfully as if it had been left to one of our great railway or business magnates. At the extreme east end of the General Hospital was a street, on the north side of which were three tents ; the first being the operating tent, the second the commissary tent and the third, the farthest east, the tent of the Red Cross. Opposite were the three tents of the quartermaster, the surgeon-in-charge, and the executive officer of the hospital. The yacht Red Cross arrived with its twenty-five tons of delicacies Friday morning, August 12th. My assistant, Mr. Joseph Murray, together with William H. S. Brown, took charge of the unloading of it, and, although carts were worth their weight in gold, were able to have the en- tire boat-load in our tent late that night. On account of business engage- ments in New York, Mr. Murray was compelled to leave August 28th, but Mr. Brown remained with me until we closed our work on October 7th. His services were invaluable. Next morning we were given two more tents and hastily arranged our delicacies in time to bestow a substantial amount upon five hundred Rough Riders who arrived from Tampa. The same day ten thousand gallons of Hygeia water contributed by the Red Cross arrived and were instantly turned over to the Government : while from this time on, four tank cars each containing six thousand gallons of pure spring water from Jamaica (a gift of the Standard Oil Company through the National Red Cross Relief Committee) were daily hauled in the freight-yard, connected by an extemporized hose system with the water carts as they drove up, and the water, thus supplied, hauled off to the hospitals. On August 14th the Gate City, the first of the transports from Santi- ago, arrived, bringing General Sumner with detachments of the Third and Sixth Cavalry. On the 15th came the Miami with General Wheeler, Col. Roosevelt, six troops of the Rough Riders and four troops of the Third Cavalry. On the same day arrived the St. Louis with the 9th and loth Infantry and two companies of the 71st New York, the Vigilancia with the 6th and 13th Infantry, and the St. Paul with the 2d Infantry and part of the 71st New York. The Rough Riders landed the next morning and a truck-load of delicacies, together with a number of valises and other packages sent by thoughtful relatives were promptly delivered to them in 230 Detention Camp. This was my first sight of the men from the front and I never in my life have seen so many very sick men together. They were so weak that they could not unload the boxes of soups which we had brought in our wagon, and seemed almost dazed by privation and fever. I append a separate list of the dates of arrival of the transports to- gether with the troops which they carried. Auo-ust 15th Major Heizemann arrived and was placed in charge of the General Hospital. About the same time Captain Winters was placed in charge of the Detention Hospital, but was almost immediately removed for reasons of discipline and Major Ebert placed in charge of it. On the i6th of August, Major Hopkins, the Military Aid to the Sec- retary of War, returned to camp having been absent for a few days. The hospital was by this time filling rapidly, and the need of trained hospital nurses was very evident. The sick w^ere badly looked after by members of the hospital corps. These were mere private soldiers detailed to do this work, which was, in many cases distasteful to them. Some of these hos- pital corps men, or orderlies, were conscientious, but there were far too many cases of neglect of the sick ; of intoxication while on duty (with whiskey meant for the sick men), and of great laxity in the enforcement of the sanitary rules. It was very evident that there would be many deaths from lack of proper nursing unless steps were taken at once. The Surgeon-General had instructed Col. Forwood a week before this date to call on him whenever he needed women nurses, but Col. Forwood, like all army surgeons of the old school, was prejudiced against them and thought that the camp hospitals would not be ready for them for a week or ten days. Under these circumstances I communicated with Major Hopkins, and, finding that his views coincided with mine, I telegraphed to Secretary Alger offering free to the Government the services of twenty trained hospital nurses, to be fed and sheltered by the Red Cross. The next morning the Surgeon-General instructed Col. Forwood to accept my offer. The following day some of the nurses arrived, and from that time on they came daily. Mrs. Quintard, the head of the Nurses' Training School of St. Luke's Hospital, was placed in charge of the nurses. There were at one time one hundred and forty trained hospital nurses under her charge. The last week in August the annex to the General Hospital was in operation. The nurses of the Annex were all Sisters of Charity, and at one time at least one hundred of them were at work under the charge of Sister Adelaide. The Sisters of Charity were sent by the Surgeon-Gen- eral, but all the trained hospital nurses were furnished by the Red Cross to the Government, who thereupon signed contracts with them, giving, them $30 a month and their board. The Red Cross supplied them with a cook, a cooking stove, table outfit, etc. None of these women were rich. 231 The majority of them in ordinary life earned $25 a week, and many of them had steady employment. Under these circumstances their patriot- ism in considering $30 per month an equivalent for the hardest kind of work, under the most discouraging circumstances, cannot be too highly commended. It seems to me that the two most striking features devel- oped by this war are the heroism of our line and the sacrifice and devotion to duty of trained women nurses in our hospitals. Equally striking must be, to an outsider, the difficulty with which the medical department of the army was persuaded to accept the services of these women. It is not gen- erally known that the officers of the medical department had been forbid- den to accept any supplies or offers of service from the Red Cross. For the next three weeks everything at Camp Wikoff was at white heat. Transport after transport arrived (sometimes at the rate of four and five a day), each bringing their thousand or more half-sick men. The arrival of the Mobile on the 19th is an epoch in the history of Red Cross work at Camp Wikoff. Just at lunch time a telephone message came from Major-General Young, directing Mr. Howard Townsend to report to him at once at the railway station. I had never before received such an order, and I knew that something important was on hand. I drove there at once and reported to General Young. He informed me that the Mobile had just arrived with the 8th and 2 2d Infantry and the 2d Massachusetts on board. There were twelve hundred well men and three hundred sick, and all had been out of provisions since morning ; would I undertake to feed them all ? Naturally the answer was. Yes. The ques- tion of the sick men was easily disposed of. I asked for an intelligent sergeant and four privates. They were at once brought to me and were instructed to open a certain car in the freight-yard and to take out from it boxes of soups and canned milk consigned to the Red Cross. In half an hour these were brought to the dock, the condensed milk diluted in large cans and the soup heated in a huge caldron by the soldiers, while Dr. and Mrs. Valentine Mott, who had arrived at Camp Wikoff, August 15th, took charge of the distribution of it to the ambulances as they drove past. Next we arranged with the Government contractor to spare us a large caldron and the services of an old cook, and General Young sent out to the Cavalry Camp for twelve colored sergeants, it being the army theory, bred of experience, that any colored non-commissioned officer is a natural born cook. Meantime Captain Chase, the Provost Marshal, and I rode over to the Commissary and asked him for one thousand pounds of beef and a proportionate amount of onions and potatoes, so that we could make soup for twelve hundred men. He declined this request but offered to issue rations for the same number. We accepted this offer, as it included beef, onions, and potatoes, although it was difficult to see what 232 use the rest of the rations would be to us, to wit : Coffee, candles, sugar, bread, salt, pepper, etc. However the problem was solved by throwing these articles when they arrived into a shed, where, judging from my ex- perience with Government affairs, they are probably lying at this moment. The cavalry sergeants arrived and reported and were instantly set to work cutting up the meat and peeling the potatoes and onions. We then went on board the Mobile and asked General Ludlow for a detail of men from each company with tin pails to receive the soup, but it became evident to us at once that the men were too weak to be of the slightest use, and we therefore returned to the caldron (three hundred yards away), carrying twenty or thirty large tin pails. In an hour, sixty gallons of a most appe- tizing soup were ready, and our colored helpers carried it in the pails to the ship. By six o'clock the twelve hundred well men had had an appe- tizing meal of soup as rich as a stew, together with boiled beef. General Williston detailed an aide to remain all night so as to be ready in the morning to superintend the preparation of a like amount of soup for breakfast. Thus ended the Red Cross work with the Mobile, but our part in it was never forgotten by General Young. There is an interesting sequel to this episode. Three days afterward I saw on the hospital promenade two convalescents whose faces were very familiar. I stopped and asked them if they were not from the Mobile. They somewhat apa- thetically said, yes. I asked them if they did not remember my giving them a glass of milk as they sat in the ambulance. With an entire change of manner they both assured me that it was their earnest belief that they could not have lived to reach the hospital had it not been for that drink. They probably left almost immediately afterward on sick .furlough for I never saw them again. From this time Dr. and Mrs. Mott devoted themselves to assisting the soldiers as they landed from the transports. All were weak ; many were sick, and some were dying. Those who were put in the ambulances each had a little soup or a cup of milk before they started for the hospital, while every well man who landed, before the regiment marched away was given a large sandwich and as much milk as he could drink. General Young and General Williston were much interested in this work and gave every possible aid to Dr. and Mrs. Mott. Captain Frank Edwards of the First Cavalry, who had charge of the dock at which the transports landed, not only personally aided them, but gave a detail of his men to help them. The work soon ceased to be a volunteer one, and became absolutely a Government function. The regiments landed, the companies were halted, arms were stacked, and the men in single file passed the little tent where Dr. and Mrs. Mott and Captain Edward's detail of soldiers stood giving out milk and sandwiches. It was pathetic to hear the words of thankfulness 233 as the men took their first swallow of milk. " That's the best thing I've tasted since I left the United States," was the most frequent exclamation, and it was so heartfelt that not only the Red Cross volunteers but the soldiers of the detail who were supplying them with milk showed their sympathy by urging them again and again to fill their tin cups. No part of our work appealed more directly than this to the sympathies of all. No work did more immediate good, and none of the workers at Camp Wikoff deserve more praise than do Dr. and Mrs. Mott, who day after day, in rain or shine, fed the regiments as they arrived with just what they needed to give them strength to get to their camps. Dr. and Mrs. Mott left Montauk on September loth. Captain Guilfoyle of the Ninth Cavalry was in charge of the quaran- tine dock where the suspected cases were landed. It is with great pleas- ure that I bear testimony to his kindness in volunteering to receive from us and to dispense at the dock Red Cross provisions to all those soldiers who, in his opinion, were in need of food as they landed. Dr. Magruder, the quarantine officer, and Captain Stayton, U. S. N., of the patrol boat Aileen, both were of material help to us in distributing delicacies to the troop-ships as they lay in the harbor waiting their turn to land at the •dock. Some of them were absolutely without food and it can be imagined with what eagerness our cases of canned soups and vegetables were received on board. On the arrival of the Miami with Col. Roosevelt we received a visit from Mr. Douglas Robinson and Mr, John Cowdin. They saw our need of more transportation and on their return to town reported it to the Sup- ply Committee who sent down in a special car three more wagons with their horses, harnesses, and drivers. The Long Island Express Company was kind enough to furnish room in its stables for our horses and to lodge and board our men with their expressmen. Had it not been for this friendly act we should have had to rely upon the Government for trans- portation, for there was no stabling to be had or lodging to be procured for love or money. On the 2oth of August General Wheeler took command of the camp, but as General Young was retained in command of Young's Provisional Division with full charge of the management of the camp, the change of command made but little difference. On the morning of the 20th the yacht Red Cross began its work of car- rying sick men from the General Hospital at Camp Wikoff to the various hospitals along the coast. The yacht made ten trips to New Haven ; three to Norwich ; five to New London ; two to Bridgeport ; and nine to New York, having made up to the 7th of October, twenty-nine trips in all and carrying four hundred and thirty-five patients. 234 On the 22d of August the annex to the General Hospital was begun. On the 24th of August Secretary Alger arrived. I was presented to- him by Col. Hecker and that afternoon he sent for me to visit him in his private car and spoke in the most complimentary terms about the work which the Red Cross was doing — for Col. Hecker and Major Hopkins had spoken to him at some length about the amount which we had accomplished. Early next morning I met him at the hospital with General Wheeler and Col. Forwood, and spoke to him about the hospital, telling him that we needed at that moment an entire outfit for five hundred men. Col. Forwood admitted this statement, but said that all these articles were on their way. By hasty inquiry of some of the subordinates I ascertained that he was incorrect in this statement and told this to the Secretary. He thereupon ordered me to make the necessary purchases in New York and to send the bills to him. Acting under his authority, the following, telegram was sent to Cleveland H. Dodge : " Secretary of War authorizes you to purchase the following articles, and to ship them addressed to Major Heizemann, General Hospital, by fast freight at the earliest moment : seventy-five commodes ; earthenware cups and saucers, knives and forks, spoons (large and small) earthenware bowls, five hundred each. Two thousand towels such as you have been sending for Red Cross. One thousand pillowcases and sheets such as you have been sending for us. Thirty-five butler's trays. One hundred galvanized iron buckets. Two hundred tin wash basins. One hundred wooden wash tubs (thirty inches wide). Twenty-five tin wash boilers. Fifty dish pans. Fifty rakes. Six buck- saws. Five hundred pillows. One thousand nightshirts and one thousand pairs slippers, both assorted sizes. One hundred and fifty candle lanterns. One hundred ash cans, covered (galvanized iron). Twenty-five basting spoons. Twenty-five sauce pans. Twenty roasting pans. One thousand handkerchiefs. The Government will reim- burse you for the money expended for these articles." (Signed) Howard Townsend. This was the first instance of the Red Cross acting as the authorized agent of the Government to procure supplies. Up to this time there had been a great deal of milk sent to the hospital in care of the Red Cross by kind-hearted friends of the soldiers along the line of the Long Island Railroad, but there had been much trouble in get- ting it from the station to the hospital and the prompt return of the cans was always a matter of difficulty. Mrs. Frederic Betts of Southampton had been particularly energetic in this work. Secretary Alger solved this problem by arranging for the daily supply of two thousand gallons, and this supply continued until the regiments began to leave Camp Wikolf. At this time the Secretary told me that at any time I needed anything if I would telegraph to him he would give the matter his personal attention. I date the improvement of affairs at Camp Wikoff from the visit of the Secretary of War, for all the changes he made were excellent. So far as 235 the camp is concerned he supported and furthered the work of the Red Cross in every possible vvay, accepting and acting upon all suggestions of ours, only insisting that the Government and not the Red Cross should pay the bills. On the afternoon of this day, under his instructions, Steward Neal, the head of the Hospital Corps (whose faithful duty can never be forgotten), prepared a most elaborate and extensive list of the articles needed at the hospital, and General Wheeler's son, Lieutentant Wheeler, and I procured the articles from the Quartermaster and Commissary, and saw them de- livered in numberless army wagons at the hospital. From that time — under the Secretary's orders — every man going on sick furlough from the hospital was given free an entire new uniform, including blouse, trousers, blue shirt, shoes, and hat. It was at this time that the foundation was laid for the complaints about the care of the sick at Camp Wikoff. The hospitals were ab- solutely full. Four or five hundred sick men were known to be on board the transports then at anchor in the bay waiting their turn to unload, and there was absolutely no place to put them. The medical department laid the blame on the Quartermaster because of the lack of wagons to haul to the camp, from the freight-yard, the lumber needed for tent frames and floorings. The Quartermaster's answer was to the point — he did not have the wagons. When the camp was begun. General Young said that at least one hundred wagons were needed, and asked for that number. The Government sent him twenty, and subsequently thirty more. It was not until the greatest confusion was over that there were wagons enough. All this, as has been said before, could have been avoided by entrusting the building of the various hospitals to some civilian contractor on the loth of the month ; then every hospital would have been ready by the i8th. The lack of hospital accommodations was remedied by turning out from the hospitals the least sick of their inmates, and sending them on sick furloughs to their homes. This resulted, as has already been said, in soldiers collapsing on every side, causing infinite distress to their families, and bringing upon the Government a shower of just indignation. It is, however, only fair to the Medical Department to say that the type of the malarial fever from which a majority of the soldiers suffered was a peculiar one, characterized by long remissions, in which the patient would feel and appear well, and that a certain number of the cases of sudden illness and collapse which occurred at the Montauk station, on the trains, and in New York were cases of malaria in which the patient had been furloughed during a remission when an ordinary medical examina- tion would have revealed nothing whatever to warrant his detention in the hospital. 236 The camp had now filled up rapidly, and the hospitals had become an ■enormous affair. We began our work among the regiments by sending a wagon-load of supplies to each, and by systematically opening an account with each command. I append herewith a copy of the pages of our " Regimental Ledger," as we called it. The delay in the arrival of medical supplies and quartermaster's stores for the hospital was at its height. From the very beginning the Red Cross had supplied the cots to the wards, so that at one time there were over three hundred Red Cross cots in use in the hospital. This was usually due to the failure of some one in authority to sign and mail the requisition, or to the lack of thoroughness on the part of the officer in charge of transportation from the freight-yard to the hospital. A conver- sation with any of the officials of the Long Island Railroad would convince our readers of the superior method of the Red Cross Society in this respect. We employed one man as freight-tracer, whose only duty was to look over the shipping lists received from New York, to examine the way bills at the freight office every morning, and to pick out the cars in which our freight had arrived. He then checked each box as it was taken from the car, and was responsible for its being placed on one of the Red Cross wagons, and safely carried to our tent. We made it our duty to know personally the various subordinates who had charge of the medical and ■commissary stores at the hospital, and were satisfied that they gave season- able notice to the proper superior official of the approaching need of drugs and supplies. About August 25th Mrs. Willard, a dietary expert, was sent by Auxiliary No. 3 of the Red Cross to start a Diet Kitchen at the General Hospital. Meeting Dr. Prescott, of the Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association who was anxious to do the same work, they united their plans and soon had in full operation a most excellent Diet Kitchen, supplying all the patients of the General Hospital who were on a diet. Soon a similar kitchen was established in Detention Camp Hospital under her auspices and others were started in the Division Hospitals. The value of these kitchens "became immediately so manifest to the medical service that the Govern- ment accordingly paid all the bills of this department of voluntary work. On the 29th of August we sent from Montauk the following telegram : " Will you arrange with President Baldwin of the Long Island Railroad, to have a Red •Cross ambulance stationed at Long Island City Depot on the arrival of every train from Montauk. Soldiers on sick leave collapse at every train, and are picked up near the Thirty-fourth St. station, and sent to hospitals. We ought to handle this business our- selves. Establish also a Red Cross Bureau of Information at the Long Island City station. Wire answer." 237 The same idea had occurred to Mr. Dodge that morning and the splendid work of the Long Island City Red Cross Emergency Hospital was the result. On the ist of September Dr. George E. Brewer arrived at Montauk and reported to me as my deputy and at once took charge of that branch of our work which had to do with ascertaining the needs of the regimen- tal hospitals and camps. Dr. Brewer was eminently fitted for Red Cross work, not merely from his professional training, but because of his great executive ability and capacity for work, added to an attractive manner which enabled him to make friends at once with those with whom he was brought in contact. As my assistant and as agent during my absence owing to sickness, he was most efficient and an account of our work would be incomplete without this tribute to his large share in it. September ist General Shaffer arrived and on the same day the Shinnecock reached New York carrying 271 sick soldiers from Camp Wikoff hospitals. September 4th the President arrived at the Camp, accompanied by the Vice-President, the Secretary of War, Senator Proctor of Vermont, and others. He visited the hospitals, going through every ward, and then visited the regimental camps where he addressed the soldiers. Under instructions from the Executive Committee, I asked Secretary Alger while the presidential party was at the hospital, to accept as a gift from the Red Cross the articles which he had directed us to purchase. He answered me that the Government was grateful for our gift. President McKinley also shook hands with me and thanked the Red Cross for the work which it was doing. The last few days of August were the busiest in the history of Red Cross work at Camp Wikoff. General Young's appeal on behalf of the regulars resulted in a perfect torrent of delicacies being poured into the camp and the Red Cross distributed among the different regular regiments nearly nineteen thousand cans of soups, fruits, vegetables, etc. About the 5th of September the physicians of New York began to call the attention of the public to the probability of an early epidemic of typhoid fever at Camp Wikoff, but the views upon this point were by no means unanimous. September 5th the Surgeon-General visited the camp. The inexcusable delay in the construction of the hospital laundry had caused an accumulation of foul linen which finally had to be burnt, caus- ing a loss to the Government of many thousands of dollars. About the 7th of September the laundry got to work. The blame for the delay was laid by Col. Fonvood on the Quartermaster's Department and was promptly returned by that branch of the service. 238 During the first two weeks in September our principal work was in the regimental camps. Dr. Brewer devoted himself largely to visiting them in turn and, by interviews with the commanding officers and with the surgeon-in-charge, ascertained what was necessary and sent the needed relief at once. On the 14th of September he was able to say that the ■camps were, as a rule, well supplied with food for the well and delicacies for the sick. Much distress was caused by the statements of ladies who made daily visits to the regiments. It was difficult for them to realize that war of necessity entailed suffering and at times their statements as to the condi- tion of the men whom they found on the regimental sick lists were lacking in conservatism. There were unquestionably plenty of sick men in the regiments, but, the statements that men were " dying like sheep " in their tents were absolutely without foundation. By the middle of September the camp w^as rapidly diminishing in Tiumber, three or four regiments leaving every day. The Detention Hospital was practically closed, as was the First Division Hospital, and the two other Division Hospitals were soon to follow its example. The con- .struction of these Division Hospitals was the height of absurdity. They should have been ready for the different divisions when they arrived ; instead of that, they were constructed at so late a date that patients had scarcely been put to bed before the order came to begin to close the hospitals. On the 9th of September four Red Cross tents were erected just oppo- site the railway station, and they were filled for that night and many succeeding nights with soldiers on sick furloughs who had struggled down from the hospital and had either missed the train or had arrived at the station so exhausted that they could not take it. On the 8th of September I telegraphed to the Secretary of War calling his attention to the unusual severity of the equinoxial storms on eastern Long Island. General Young supplemented this telegram with one of his own, advising him to the same effect. The following day a telegram was received by Colonel Forwood to clear out the hospital as soon as possible. From that time, the steamer Shinnecock conveyed the sick in large num- bers to New York, whose hospitals vied with each other in caring for the soldiers. Early in September three hospital cars began to run on the trains from Montauk to Long Island City. One of these was given by Mr. Emerson Macmillan and two by Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. Each of these were supplied with trained nurses and with a surgeon, so that soldiers leaving Montauk on sick furlough had the best of care until they reached the Red Cross station at Long Island City. 239 On the 1 6th of September the regiments were going away at the rate of two a day and there were only ten thousand men in camp. The Deten- tion Hospital was practically closed and the number of patients in the General Hospital reduced to six hundred. Our principal work was to superintend the daily departure of the various regular regiments who had their sick with them. Mr. Samuel Parrish of Southampton took charge of this work. He began to work for the Red Cross early in September and gave his entire time to visiting the men in sick quarters in their tents in the various Infantry regiments. Miss Martha Lincoln Draper came from New York to take charge of the Emergency Hospital at the station, and managed it admirably. Milk had been for some time supplied by the Red Cross to soldiers leaving Montauk by train. Mrs. Henry E. Howland and Mrs. Benjamin Welles of Southampton developed this work and gave to every sick man a pint bottle of milk to refresh him on his journey. Miss Draper succeeded to the charge of this work and managed it in connection with her superin- tendency of the Emergency Hospital until September 25th, when she returned to town. Dr. Frank Delafield arrived at the Camp in September, and be- came a contract surgeon in the General Hospital, having given up his vacation for this purpose. His eminent position was recognized by the medical profession at the camp and he was largely consulted by all the surgeons. He left on the 26th of September as quietly as he came, having been of great service to the hospital and having brought about several changes which undoubtedly saved lives. From this time the camp decreased in size daily, as regiment after regiment took its departure. The first week in October, besides the men in the General Hospital, there were only in Camp Wikoff the First Battal- lion of United States Volunteer Engineers and the 7th Infantry. The number of sick men had decreased to two hundred and fifty and there was such an absolute sufficiency of nurses, provisions, and delicacies, that the Executive Committee of the Red Cross directed their work to cease on the 7th. Early in September Colonel Greenleaf, the surgeon-in-charge, re- quested me to prepare a brief statement of the work of the Red Cross at Camp Wikoff to be made a part of a Government history of the camp. Mrs. Hammond had succeeded Miss Draper September 25th, and remained until the 3d of October. Miss Draper had turned over her work at the Emergency Hospital to an assistant and had taken full charge of the work in my absence. To her and to Mrs. Hammond are due all thanks for their energy and faithfulness. 240 On the 7th of October all our tents were struck and packed ; our surplus supply of provisions placed on board the Red Cross yacht and our staff, consisting of William H. S. Brown, William S. Lalor, Frederick Leg- gett, and William T. Rainey, embarked for New York, reporting to the Red Cross Supply Headquarters the next morning. Thus ended our work at Camp Wikoff. Doubtless much might have been done that was not done ; but we heard so often from officers and men alike "What could we have done without the Red Cross ? " that we were more than compensated for the hard work of the summer. No mention of the hospitals at Camp Wikoff would be complete with- out an allusion to two men who evolved out of chaos something like order, and who spent six weeks of a life that would have sent most men to their graves. Major Ebert at the Detention Hospital succeeded to a more than usual degree in making bricks without straw. He began his hospital work when all that he had pertaining to a hospital were the patients. In the face of every difficulty he put the Detention Hospital in good shape, and the small death-rate is due in great measure to his energy, and to the enthusiasm with which he inspired his subordinates. Lieutenant Ira C. Brown arrived at Camp Wikoff Tuesday, August 9th, with the sick men of the 6th Cavalry, whom he had brought in freight cars from Tampa, nursing, bathing, and caring for them on the way. He instantly took charge under Colonel Forwood of the construction of the General Hospital, and worked so faithfully that he was rewarded by pro- motion to Brigade Surgeon with the rank of Major, and was appointed Executive Officer of the hospital, of which he was in charge until all the hospital property was sent away, November i6th. For six weeks he sat at his desk answering questions, signing orders for supplies, attending to a thousand and one details, responsible for the arrival and safe departure of the sick, and, by conflicting directions, forced to assume unnecessary responsibilities, at times to disobey improper orders ; in short, to do the work of three men. Worst of all, he was obliged to break the death news to wives and mothers arriving just too late. His was a life to break down an ordinary person in a week. It is a pleasure to pay this tribute to so good and true a man. In conclusion, I desire to submit two facts worth remembering, which are based upon the experience of our summer's work. It must not be supposed that in all cases where men were suffering- from lack of food, medical supplies, or clothing, that these articles were not to be found in the Commissary's or Quartermaster's stores, perhaps only a short distance away. Often the suffering of the soldiers was caused by the failure of some one in command, either from carelessness or ignorance, to get the required articles from the storehouse. At the 241 General Hospital the supplies and medical stores ran out more than once because the requisition was overlooked, and was not signed or not mailed, or because the officer charged with finding the stores in the freight-yard was incompetent. Under these circumstances it was not necessary for the Red Cross to waste its money in supplying the needed articles. All that was needed was to see the officer in charge of transportation, and having obtained from him sufficient army wagons, superintend the transportation of what- ever was desired from the storehouse or freight-yard to the hospital or camps. Before we had been at Camp Wikoff two weeks this fact became clear to us, and from that time we often saved wagon-loads of supplies by obtaining army wagons and transportation of commissary stores for regimental officers who seemed unable to get them, or by asking the General Officer to give his particular attention to any instance of neglect. Another fact to be remembered is, that a Red Cross representative who volunteers his services can always have more influence than if he be a salaried employee of the Society. The deputy, if necessary, may be a salaried official, but the volunteer representative of the Society should be akin in his position to a staff officer, and it was my experience that his suggestions and requests will be listened to with as much courtesy and attention, and attended to as promptly, by the General commanding as by an assistant surgeon. Dates of the arrival of transports at Montauk Point, L. I., together with a list of the troops which they carried. Date. Transport. Trocfs. August 14th. . .Gate City General Sumner and detachments of the 3d and 6th U. S. Cavalry. August 15th.. .Miami Gen. Wheeler, Col. Roosevelt, six troops of Rough Riders and four troops of the 3d Cavalry. August 17th. . .St Louis gth and loth Infantry and two companies of the 71st New York. " " . . . Vigilancia 6th and 13th Infantry. " " . . .St. Paul 2d Infantry and part of 71st New York. " " .. .La Grande Duchesse .. .71st New York and i6th Infantry. August 19th.. .Seneca 4th Infantry. " " . . .Comanche 25th Infantry. " " . . .Mobile 8th and 22d Infantry ; 2d Mass. Vol. August 20th.. .Rio Grande gth and loth Cavalry. August 22d. . .Breakwater 12th Infantry. " .. .Olivette Men taken to Boston. " " . . .City of .Macon 17th Infantry. " " . . .Mortera 21st Infantry. August 23d... .Leona Detachments of 12th Infantry ; gth Cavalry ; 4th Artillery ; 34th Michigan. August 24th.. .Badger Detachments of the 34th .Michigan Vol. '* *' .. .Resolute Detachments of 2d, 4th, 5th Infantry. 242 August 25th. . . Yale 3d and 20th Infantry. " "... Mohawk 8th Ohio Volunteers. " " .. .Harvard 33d Michigan Vol. " " . . .Prairie 7th U. S. Infantry. August 26th.. .D. H. Miller ist U. S. Infantry. " " . . .Chatham Unknown. " " . . .Yucatan Six companies 7th Infantry. August 27th. . .Catania Detachments of various regiments. " " . . .Santiago 34th Michigan Volunteers. " " .. .Hudson 2d and 3d Battalion. District of Columbia. August 29th. . .Minnewaska ist Battalion, District of Columbia ; ist Battal- ion U. S. Engineers; four troops of the 2d Cavalry ; ninety-five men of the 33d Mick. Volunteers. August 31st. . .Berlin First Illinois Volunteers. " " . . .San Marcos Various regiments. " "... Specialist Light Artillery. " " . . .Allegheny Eight companies of 9th Massachusetts. " " . . .Panther Two companies of gth Massachusetts, Sept. 1st Mexico General Shaffer and Staff. Sept. 2d City of Washington Various companies. " " Berkshire Various companies. " " Nueces 24th Infantry. Sept. 4th Unionist Fifty-three men of the ist Illinois. " " Roumania Two companies of the 9th Mass. and others. Sept. lOth . . . .Missouri Detachment of 71st N. Y. and others. Sept. 13th Vigilancia (2d trip). . . .Various companies. Sept. 2ist Seguranca Various companies. Detailed statement of Supplies furnished by the Red Cross at Camp Wikoff : 1523 cots, 4943 suits of underwear, 4322 pairs of socks, 1445 abdom- inal bands, 4322 nightshirts, 4733 pajamas, 141 1 comfort bags, 2016 cheese cloth squares, 2471 sheets, 6 rolls of sheeting, 2536 pillowcases, 8930 handkerchiefs, 518 suspenders, 2423 pairs of slippers, 798 combs. 148 wash rags, 5904 safety pins, 1600 looking glasses, 174 hair brushes, 300 combs and brushes, 2076 belts, 1444 pipes, 3000 packages of tobacco, 6554 towels, 49 screens, 929 blankets, 888 blue shirts, 851 light flannel shirts, 1272 tooth brushes, 3000 envelopes, 316 writing tablets, 286 gauze sponges, 1000 paper bags, 225 rubber sheets, 112 rubber air cushions, 212 nurses' aprons, 1000 napkins, 30 bath robes, 800 pillows, 948 pencils, 3 spigots, 600 bottles of clam broth, 200 beef capsules, 1000 lbs. of prunes, 3 bbls. and i can of Astral oil, 2 bbls. of sugar, 34 bbls. of rolled oats, 36, cans of condensed coffee, 1440 cans of cocoa, 480 cans of condensed milk, 3 bbls. and 41 cases of jellies, 2 bbls. and i box of fresh vegetables, 2650 cakes of soap, i bbl. and i basket of onions, 984 cans of Imperial cream, 10,344 cans canned soup, 30,000 lemons, 24,220 oranges, 5 crates of eggs, 270 large size bottles of malted milk, i small safe, 3456 bottles of lac- tated food, 400 loaves of bread, 1224 bottles of beef extract, 6 bbls. and 102 boxes of crackers, 6 bbls. of rice, 864 boxes of matches, 600 boxes 243 of Somatose biscuit, 5 bbls. of coffee, 10 chests of tea, i case of cocovena, 4 bbls. of apples, i case of limes, i bbl. of ginger-snaps, 4 tubs of butter, 21,840 cans assorted canned fruits and vegetables, 12 bottles of tooth powder, 3 cases beef, iron and wine, 100 charts, 26 hot-water bags, 100 yards of mosquito netting, 234 commodes, iii bed-pans, i earth closet, 72 cot pads, I case of almoral, 60 pairs of smoked glasses, 72 ideal feed- ing cups, 408 urinals, 16 syringes, 10 gallons disinfecting fluid, i-lb. bottle of Squibb's Mixture, i-lb. bottle of Jamaica Ginger, 24 bottles of bovine, 216 bottles of Kumyss, 12 bottles of Elixir Lacto-Peptine, 6 spatulas, 48 medicine glasses, 6 pads of temperature charts, 24 hypodermic needles, 144 bottles of Mellin's Food, i set of rectal tubes, i 5-lb. can of quinine, 12 lbs. of absorbent cotton, 2 urine analysis cases, 1740 bottles of ginger- ale, 5000 bottles of Apollinaris, 300 bottles of lime juice, 96 bottles of Lithia water, 240 bottles of mineral water, 400 bottles of sarsaparilla, 2 bbls. and 1080 bottles of whiskey, 2 bbls. and 960 bottles of brandy, 372 bottles of champagne, port, sherry, and Madeira wines, 24 bottles of Bur- gundy, 4 tank cars daily of Jamaica spring water, 10,100 gallons of Hygeia water, 1500 fans, 120 bottles Hostetter's bitters, 6 water beds, 6 collapsible bath tubs, 9 large cases of books, 2000 magazines, 60 bread pans, 4 milk cans, 18 milk pails, 18 milk ladles, 24 dish pans, 274 wash-tubs, 17 one-lid oil stoves, 288 lamp and lantern wicks, 60 candle-sticks, 48 plates, 158 pint cups, 50 pint bowls, 50 2-quart tin pails, 50 8-quart tin pails, 1236 knives and forks, 1368 tea spoons, 43 refrigerators, 6 can-openers, i tin oven, 100 agate-ware plates, 100 agate-ware saucers, 36 agate-ware quart pails, 3 large coffee pots, 6 large kettles, i box of sapolio, 12 egg beaters, 2 water coolers, 2 coffee pots, i tea pot, 848 cups and saucers, 4 meat platters, 548 pint bowls, 48 glasses, 12 bread knives, 300 tin plates, 300 hand brushes, 172 lanterns, 78 lamps, 50 agate basins, 125 buckets, 3 razors, 24 empty 2- quart bottles, 24 burners for lamps, 4 oil stoves for heating wards, 168 chimneys for lanterns, 200 wash basins, 50 dish pans, 50 rakes, 6 buck- saws, 25 basting spoons, 25 sauce pans, 20 roasting pans, 100 galvanized ash cans, 1000 candles, 25 wash boilers. A copy of the "Regimental Ledger" of the Red Cross at Camp Wikoff, showing the amounts given to each regiment. No list was kept of the articles furnished to the General Hospital, as this would have involved the employment of another clerk. DETENTION HOSPITAL. I barrel rice 48 suspenders 12 pint-cans imperial cream 24 cans condensed milk 1 case dried fruit 3 cases jellies 2 boxes lemons 30 cans cocoa 244 64 packages breakfast food 2 bath tubs 348 suits pajamas 168 quarts canned soups 288 quarts canned fruits and vegetables 54 bottles clam bouillon 24 bottles pickles I case crushed oats 48 bars soap 24 bottles lime juice 36 tin cups 6 tin pails 100 bottles apollinaris 1 case grapes 2 cases crackers 24 towels 24 basins 12 candlesticks 12 belts 1 barrel oatmeal 48 bandages 144 pipes 144 packages tobacco 6 wooden trays 12 pint bottles champagne 300 nightshirts 300 handkerchiefs 36 pairs slippers 25 fans 48 bottles ginger ale 12 plates 20 gallons Hygeia water 24 combs 3 bread knives 24 bottles bitters 2 crates oranges 300 suits underwear ROUGH RIDERS. 48 quarts canned fruits and vegetables 48 quarts canned soups 12 bottles clam bouillon 12 quart bottles lime juice 24 cans cocoa GOVERNMENT TRANSPORT RIO GRANDE. I 24 pint cans imperial milk 6 quart jars malted milk 72 quarts canned soups 48 quarts lime juice I barrel oatmeal GOVERNMENT TRANSPORT MOBILE. 288 quarts canned soups 120 quarts lime juice 3 boxes lemons 6 boxes malted milk 24 pint cans condensed milk 12 bottles pickles 2 cases dried apples 48 bottles ginger ale 792 quarts canned fruits and vegetables GOVERNMENT TRANSPORTS COMANCHE AND SENECA. Soup and lime juice for goo men. GOVERNMENT PATROL BOAT AILEEN. 36 quarts clam bouillon 96 quarts canned soups I box lemons 24 bottles lactated food I case jelly I case crackers 96 quarts canned fruits and vegetables 245 FIRST UNITED STATES INFANTRY. 216 quarts canned soups 48 quarts clam bouillon i^ cases lemons 12 packages breakfast food I case crackers 24 cans condensed milk I case Mellin's Food 2 bottles port wine 10 gallons Hygeia water 24 {yi-\h.) cans cocoa 3 brooms I commode r gross slippers 8i6 qts. canned goods (fruits and vegetables) SECOND UNITED STATES INFANTRY. 1 barrel of rice 48 pint cans imperial cream 2 cases crackers 24 (y^-lh.) cans cocoa 12 packages breakfast food 18 equipped cots 2 barrels oatmeal 72 pint cans condensed milk 312 quarts canned soups 12 quarts lime juice 1 case dried apples 2 boxes lemons 1 (small) box tea I case pickles 1 case crushed oats 2 cases jellies ^ dozen lanterns 2 dozen pitchers 20 gallons Hygeia water 12 cans evaporated cream 2 dozen pairs socks 1 dozen suits underwear 2 chairs 864 qts. canned goods (fruits and vegetables) THIRD UNITED STATES INFANTRY. 6 bottles whiskey 3 bottles brandy 3 bottles port wine 100 bottles apollinaris 744 qts. canned goods (fruits and vegetables) FOURTH UNITED STATES INFANTRY. 24 quarts canned soups 12 packages breakfast food I case dried apples 12 quarts lime juice I broom 8 cans condensed milk 768 qts. canned goods (fruits and vegetables) SIXTH UNITED STATES INFANTRY. 744 qts. canned goods (fruits and vegetables). SEVENTH UNITED STATES INFANTRY. 1224 quarts canned fruits and vegetables 403 quarts canned soups 36 quarts clam bouillon I barrel, 2 cases and 6 tins crackers 24 packages breakfast food 123 (J^-lb.) cans cocoa 100 bottles apollinaris 20 gallons Hygeia water 36 suits underwear r comforter 2 chests tea 12 lamp wicks 12 hot water bags I case toilet paper 12 bottles pickles 12 bottles lime juice 246 1 case dried fruit 96 bars soap 2 boxes lemons I case jelly 24 cans condensed milk 9 equipped cots I barrel oatmeal 12 bottles bitters 12 quart bottles whiskey 3 buckets 24 suits pajamas 24 pairs socks 36 towels EIGHTH UNITED STATES INFANTRY, 888 qts. canned goods (fruits and vegetables) 168 quarts soup 24 packages breakfast food I case dried apples 24 quarts lime juice I broom 8 cans condensed milk 3 bottles whiskey 3 bottles blackberry brandy 12 bottles ginger ale 1 box lemons 24 cans corned beef hash 2 cases crackers NINTH UNITED STATES INFANTRY. 24 quarts soup 24 cans cocoa I box lemons 12 bottles clam bouillon I case oatmeal 6 Ice 71 44 Laundry 213 54 Cabs 36 30 Revenue and postage stamps 4 20 Telephone rental 52 00 Ambulance Service, Horse hire and care (shoeing) 520 00 Wages 157 00 Salaries of attendants 940 35 Transportation furnished 135 23 Telegrams, ferriage and sundries 39 59 Mr. Brown's (clerk) wages 100 00 Petty cash disbursed before opening books 10 00 Petty cash loss 2 75 Mr. Cleveland H. Dodge, covering petty expenses previous to opening books 220 00 Total disbursements $7, '^5'^ 3^ Respectfully submitted, Katharine C. Marquand, Treasurer. 262 REPORT OF RED CROSS HOSPITAL WORK IN PORTO RICO. Port Ponce, P. R., August 4th, 1S98. Dear Miss Chanler . On receipt of your note I spoke to Doctor Greenleaf, and he said he would have you and one of the other Red Cross nurses remain in Porto Rico to assist in hospital work, and I am informed that he has made the necessary arrangements accordingly. I am gratified by this, as it will enable you to avoid a disagreeable ocean voyage and place you where you can continue your charitable and noble work. For the assistance already rendered by you, and those associated with you, please ac- cept my sincere thanks. Very truly yours. Nelson A. Miles, Major-General Commanding U. S. Army. Upon receiving this letter from Gen. Miles, Miss Bouligny and I were relieved from duty upon the United States Transport Lampasas by Miss Isabelle Rutty, and were ordered to Ponce, under the care of Doctor Voegel of the Red Cross, by Colonel William M. Black commanding the Lampasas. On reaching Ponce we entered a building flying the Red Cross flag. This was the headquarters of the Society in Ponce. I offered the services of two untrained women members of the American Society, and we were told that a schoolhouse and a club house were fast filling up with United States soldiers, and that our services would be gratefully accepted by the Porto Ricans who were providing these two hospitals. The schoolhouse proved to be a one-story building with a capacity for thirty beds. It was already overcrowded with men who had developed fever on landing. There was no accommodation for us in or near this schoolhouse, but the second hospital, the club, was a two-story building, the lower floor of which was occupied by printing presses, while the upper floor contained eight or ten rooms ; two of these rooms were wards ; the billiard room and the libraries were used by the club members as usual ; an empty room was offered to us, and the ladies of the Porto Rican Red Cross fur- nished this room before night. We lunched at the Cafe Fran^ais, and ar- ranged to take our mid-day and evening meals there. Then we turned our attention to the hospital, which was virtually put under our charge from that moment, as the following letter will show : 263 CoMisioN Departamentai. de la Cruz Roja de Ponce. k Mme. Anna Bouligny : Accediendo i los desoes manifestados por V. en union de la Sta. Da Margarito Chan- ler de prestar sus servicios en los Hospitales que en esta Cuidad tiene estahlicidos la Crur Boja ; con el fin dehacer mas eficaz suintervencion, y de' mejores resultados sus servicios, en mi caracter de Presidente de la Comision Departamentai de dicha Associacion, me permito suplicarle se sir\'a admitir el nombrannento que por el presente hajo en favor de V. de encargada Administradora del Hospital numero dos, establecido en la Associacion de Dependientes. Ruego a V. se sirva honrarme aceptando este nombramento, y entregar desde luego en el ejercicio de sus funciones. Dios que a Vms. as. Ponce a 4 de Agosto de 1898. Luis fiAUTiiiER. The patients were provided with cots, shirts, and drawers, a certain amount of bed linen and towels. Every article contributed was marked with a Red Cross. The service was performed by a number of negresses engaged for fifty cents a day ; one in each hospital spoke English. None knew anything about nursing, diet, or hygiene. In the schoolhouse there was a male interpreter. The medical attendance and the medicines were also contributed by the Red Cross Society. The doctors gave their ser- vices willingly ; and the presence of a number of people in each hospital showed the interest Ponce was taking in the sick American soldiers. The negresses and male attendants wore brassards. After obtaining a doctor's permission to place a sign upon the doors forbidding the entrance of any person not engaged in the care of the sick, we made a list of the patients' names, placing one above each cot. The doctors made their rounds over again for our benefit. We next visited the kitchen. In both hospitals a negress was preparing boiled milk and such light diet as the patients were allowed. Miss Bouligny took entire charge of both kitchens. From that time on I gave her the doctor's orders every morning, and she marketed and supervised the preparation of all nourishment, generally cooking, her- self, several hours a day, as we never succeeded in finding a cook who could be entirely trusted. As we did not live in the schoolhouse it was impossible to divide our time equally between the two hospitals. In a few days I succeeded in having all grave cases brought to the club, and all convalescents estab- lished in the schoolhouse. The washing, an important department, where the supply of linen was very limited, was done by laundresses, quickly and faithfully. The items of expense in these two hospitals were nourishment, washing, medicine, and service. Finding that the American soldier needed an American doctor, I su- perseded the Porto Ricans by the regimental surgeons, whose soldiers were under my care. The latter were ignorant of climatic conditions, but 264 the patients obviously identified the Porto Rican doctors with their enemies. The foreign tongue bewildered them, whereas every man in the ward felt better after the visit of a regimental surgeon. I cannot speak with too much gratitude of the attendance of Doctors Toral, Moret, and Amadeo. The latter, who had studied medicine in New York, was event- ually placed in charge of the schoolhouse by Colonel Greenleaf. When I no longer accepted the attendance of the native doctors, I felt much hesita- tion in allowing the Porto Ricans to maintain the hospitals. I knew that both were temporary shelters while the Spanish military hospital was being disinfected and organized, so I did not apply to Colonel Greenleaf for Gov- ernment support, which would have entailed much official regulation, but I gladly accepted generous contributions from officers and other Ameri- cans who visited the hospitals and recognized their usefulness. On the day of our arrival there were only five patients in the club house, but it rapidly filled up. An excellent hospital-corps man, who was detailed to follow a number of soldiers, sent to me from his regiment which was leaving Ponce, became ward master, and such of the patients as were able helped him in his work. At night an old Porto Rican woman whom I had found on duty, took our places, to the entire satisfaction of the doctors and the patients. Although she did not speak a word of English, the men waited anxiously for her to come every evening, and many of them said to me " Barbara is a mother to us." Every patient received at either hospital had fever, accompanied with chills or dysentery. Many recovered after a few days of strict dieting and would return to their regiments, saying, " Well, Sister, I guess I '11 go back to the boys and leave that yellow fruit for the natives." The serious cases were those which developed into typhoid. Within a fortnight the hospital-ship Relief left Ponce for New York, having on board all of the patients of the club who had not returned to duty or been transferred to another hospital. Feeling that we had no right to accept the hospitality of the Sociedad de los Dependientias, now that the military hospital was opened for the re- ception of American soldiers, I rented a small cottage of four rooms and returned the club to its members. The schoolhouse was still full. It became a branch military hospital and remained one until the public schools re-opened in September, by which time the number of sick was not greater than the capacity of the large military hospital. Miss Bouligny and I continued to nurse and supervise in this hospital. We spent some part of every day there. The hospital steward from the club was placed in charge by Colonel Greenleaf and drew rations and medicine, thus practically relieving us of the financial charge. 265 Neither here nor at the hirge military hospital was it possible to make any separate provision for the accommodation of officers. Five who fell ill while we were at the club were brought to us there. The day after we moved into the cottage two more came and asked if we could take them in. Miss Bouligny found seven others, for whom rooms were taken by their friends and supplied them with nourishment and bed linen, visiting each several times a day at their solicitation, and securing medical attendance. This additional demand upon her time and strength fortunately ceased after the establishment of the officers' hospital. In a few days the house was overcrowded by seven patients. I then rented the two-story stone house in the Callemayor which became known as the officers' hospital. The owner of this house, a lady who lived ne.xt door, agreed that we should take possession that evening. When I returned, expecting to find the doors open for me, my landlady said "that she had changed her mind upon hearing that I belonged to the Red Cross and intended to fill her house with sick people." I was wearing my Red Cross uniform in the morning when I engaged the house and she did not deny that I had spoken of it as a hospital. The real objection in her mind seems to have been that her son-in-law was fighting in the Spanish army and had sent word to the Porto Rican Red Cross Society that "his powder was for the Americans and his bayonets for the Red Cross." I mention this as it is the only in- stance in which the Society was treated with discourtesy. We moved into the house the next day and remained there until September 8th. Three orderlies were detailed to assist us, one of them a hospital-corps man. Officers in the United States Army are entitled to medical attendance, and, as in the club, regimental doctors and Doctor Moret, who was at this time employed by the United States Government, were unfailing in their care. The hospital was subject to daily inspection from headquarters and re- ceived cots and bed linen from Colonel Greenleaf. The status of the patients was sick in quarters. Each patient pays the same amount which an officer pays when he is m a post-hospital. On August 30th, four patients were taken from this hospital to the Relief, which sailed for Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Relief Society visited the hospital on August 21st, bringing many comforts which added materially to the well-being of the patients. I would not accept the money previously offered by this Asso- ciation, because I had been told that the founders had not wished to be auxiliary to the Red Cross Central Relief Committee, and while we had not received any directions from the American Red Cross since establish- 266 ing ourselves in Ponce, as volunteers of that Association we felt ourselves and our work to be its representatives in Porto Rico.* The Red Cross flag was flying upon the club house when we reached it, and went with us as we moved to the cottage and the officers' hospital. The Porto Rican Red Cross Society continued to befriend us. We were constantly visited by men and women offering assistance and assuring us of their interest. When the prisoners captured in Coamo reached Ponce, fourteen of them were ill and sent to the schoolhouse. I gave them the centre of the building putting the Americans in three rooms at one end. The Spanish patients conformed in every particular to the rules of the hospital and were on friendly terms with the Americans. They asked to have the same rations and that the bathroom be put at their disposal from two until four every day. Each patient was as neat and careful as I could wish, and when the representative of the Philadelphia Relief Association visited this hospital, both the Spaniards and Americans wrote letters, to which each patient signed his name, expressing their gratitude for the books and delicacies bestowed upon them. On September 8th Miss Isabelle Rutty reached Ponce with trained nurses enlisted in the hospital corps of the United States Army. Feeling that these professional women could assume our work, I offered the hospital to General Wilson, free of rent, for the next few weeks with all that it contained, and Miss Rutty with several of her nurses re- lieved Miss Bouligny and me the next day. On the ninth. Miss Bouligny and I drove to Coamo in an ambulance with Maj. L. L. Seaman, Surgeon ist U. S. Volunteer Engineers. At Coamo we found a field hospital of over 300 beds. The conditions were not such that we felt justified in offering our services. The only woman in the hospital was Mrs. Lewis, the mother of two soldiers in the 3rd Wisconsin Volunteers. Mrs. Lewis had been at Coamo about a fortnight and fell ill of the fever, from which most of the patients were suftering, a day or two after our arrival. Three miles from Coamo we found the Coamo Springs Hotel where there were few guests and comfort- able accommodation. In three weeks fourteen patients, including Mrs. Lewis, were brought to us there and a number of officers were sent to the officers' hospital in Ponce. Here, as in Ponce, Miss Bouligny took charge of the diet, and a surgeon from the Coamo Field Hospital visited the patients daily. On October 2d the trained nurses asked for by ALajor Johnson, * Miss Bouligny's expenses for the entire summer were assumed upon our return by Auxiliary No. 3. 267 the brigade surgeon-in-charge of the Coamo hosi)ital, reached Coamo and we proceeded to San Juan. At General Brooke's desire we did not open a hospital there until the day of the Spanish evacuation. As in Ponce, an officers' hospital seemed an immediate need. The large military hospital had to be disinfected and the officers' ward there was not ready until November 22. In the interim twelve officers were received and nursed by me.* One of the nurses, Miss Tower from Michigan, fell ill with typhoid fever, from which she died in December. Doctor Burrell, of the Massachusetts Bay State asked me to take charge of and distribute a cargo of hospital supplies, which were eagerly accepted by the surgeons within reach of San Juan and at Arecibo. When the officers' ward in the San Juan Military Hospital was ready to receive inmates, the five military Hospitals on the island, where women nurses were acceptable, were all equipped with graduate nurses. Miss Bouligny and I then returned to the United States upon the U. S. Transport Minnewaska, by order of General Henry. Margaret Livingston Chanler. New York April 27, 1899. Number of Patients Received in Hospitals. Number Deaths Patients received at the Club, Ponce 50 o Received at the School, Ponce 4^ ° Received at the Officers' Hospital, Ponce, before Sept. 2d, 20 o Received at the Coamo Springs Hotel 14 o Received at the Officers' Hospital, San Juan .... 12 o Total 14= o * Colonel Hoff, Surgeon-in-Chief of Puerto Rico, asked Miss Bouligny to prepare the nurses' quarters at the Military Hospital. Before this could be done, five trained nurses from Guayama arrived and stayed at my hospital. 268 REPORT OF FIELD AGENT IN PORTO RICO FOR THE AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS. August 20 to November //, i8g8. To THE Executive Committee : Red Cross relief work for Porto Rico began with the arrival of a detachment of female nurses before the American and Spanish armies had ceased hostilities. These nurses, however, were ordered back to the States at once as attendants for returning sick and wounded soldiers. On the loth of August the Executive Committee commissioned me as the Red Cross Field Agent for Porto Rico, and put me in charge of a cargo of relief supplies then on the S. S. Concho, which sailed from New York Aug. 13, and arrived at Ponce Aug. 20. During the voyage, with the aid of a good military map of the island, and of information obtained before sailing as to the location of the differ- ent divisions of the army, the line of Red Cross work afterward followed was fully determined. The army was in three divisions. The eastern under Gen. Brooke was above Guayama. The central under Gen. Wilson was at Ponce and vicinity. The western under Gen. Schwan was in Mayaguez and the neighboring region. It seemed to be the natural course to visit these divisions as soon as possible, ascertain their sanitary condition, give sup- plies as needed for the sick, wounded, and convalescent, and then, after supplying the American forces, to visit the Spanish camps and hospitals and provide for them. Afterwards, headquarters for stores and operations should be fixed at the most central convenient port for receiving goods from New York, and distributing them with the least cost and difficulty to all army stations. The plan outlined was closely followed, circumstances making it easily possible to do so. The Concho arrived at Ponce, Aug. 20. Two days afterward, the ship with the cargo of Red Cross stores still unbroken on board, started for Arroyo, the port of Guayama, about thirty miles east of Ponce, where Gen. Brooke's command had its base of operations. There a large selection of relief supplies was left in charge of Chief Sur- geon Huidekoper, of the Division Hospital at Guayama. Nothing could 269 have been more auspicious as the beginninp of Red Cross work in Porto Rico than this quick and free transportation of sui)plics to a distant command, with the minimum of labor and delay, at a period of most urgent need. Returning, the Concho reached Ponce again on the 25th. The same night, on ascertaining that the S. S. Alamo was to proceed the next day to Mayaguez and Arecibo, I arranged for lighters to put a cargo on board, to be divided between these two ports, intending the first for (ien. Schwan's command, and the second for the Sixth Mass., at Utuado, the latter to be landed at Arecibo. The surgeon of the Sixth Mass. was accordingly notified by wire to have wagons sent up to Arecibo to meet the Alamo on her arrival. Everything worked admirably. The Alamo reached Mayaguez, Aug. 27th, and ample supplies for the hospital of Gen. Schwan's command were landed at Mayaguez, and delivered to Dr. Bailey K. Ashford, Surgeon-in-charge, who expressed most cordial and grateful appreciation. Thence the Alamo proceeded, Aug. 29th, to Arecibo, which port was reached on the same day. There the wagons of the Sixth Mass. from Utuado were found in readiness to receive the consignment of goods brought for them, which were put in charge of Asst. Surgeon of the Sixth Mass., Dr. F. A. Washburn. At Arecibo was a strong force of Spanish troops, having a military and a Red Cross hospital. The Spanish military commander, the captain of the port, and the chief surgeon of the Red Cross hospital personally gave the kindest attentions, conducting me to all the military quarters and hospitals, yet while expressing thanks for the offer of goods from the American Red Cross, they declared they were not in need, as was evidently the case. On the same day, Aug. 29th, my visit and departure having been wired to the Spanish Governor-General Macias at San Juan, I took train thither, reaching the capital in the evening. The next day, with an inter- preter, I visited Gen. Macias at his headquarters, was most cordially received, given the freedom of the city, especially including all the forts, barracks, and hospitals, and on inquiry allowed, if I chose, to make any photographs of the military works, concerning which he said it did not matter, as they would be so soon in the hands of the Americans. Five days were spent in San Juan. The forts, barracks, and hospitals of the Spaniards were visited, but all need of American Red Cross supplies was courteously disavowed, evidently with truthfulness, for signs of want were nowhere apparent. Gen. Macias kindly gave me a pass through all the Spanish military guards and civil jurisdiction under his command, throughout the island of Porto Rico. With this pass I started from San 270 Juan, Sept. 2d, by coach for Ponce. At Caguas I was politely invited by the German Consul General of Porto Rico, Herr Adolph Rauchen- plat, who had been travelling alone in his coach behind me from San Juan, to join him in his carriage, and send mine back to San Juan. The invitation was heartily accepted. We dined together at Cayey. On reaching Aibonito, while our relay of horses was being harnessed, and we had been surrounded by the Spanish soldiers and townspeople, engaging in pleasant chat with them, suddenly the captain of the Spanish troops with a guard appeared and marched us unceremoniously to the guard- house. There we were challenged, and a parley ensued, until I showed my pass from Gen. Macias. The change of front was spectacular, apolo- gies were profuse, but I ended the affair by insisting successfully that the officer sign his name to my pass, which was already rather heavily over- loaded with the names of military and civil magnates, both Spanish and American. This trip was memorable, not only for the enjoyment of a ride over one of the best long roads in the world, amid the displays of all tropical fruits and flora, views of many characteristic people, habitations, customs, and cultivated sections of the island, but for the intelligent and charming exposition of everything, together with discussion of the social, political, military, and commercial interests and problems of Porto Rico, at the present stage of affairs, by Herr Rauschenplat, whose English speech scarcely betrays his German vernacular or his customary Spanish. Arriving at Ponce on the evening of Sept. 2d, on the following day storage for Red Cross goods was secured in the Custom House at the Playa, or Port of Ponce, which continued our only headquarters during work in Porto Rico. The distribution of goods commenced on Sunday, Sept. 4th. The goods at first distributed in Ponce were the remainder of the cargo brought on the Concho^ but left in charge of and lightered off of the Concho, and carefully stored by kind agreement in the Custom House, when I was obliged to depart on the Alamo for Mayaguez and Arecibo, or lose a most valuable opportunity for distributing stores where urgently needed. The plan of distribution first adopted was fixed upon after mature deliberation, and later experience afforded no reason to vary from it. Every applicant not seeking for himself alone was interrogated as to the number of sick or convalescents for whom the goods were desired, and informed that our goods were specifically for these classes. The amount bestowed was in view of the number of sick thus reported. Then on a sheet of paper, headed by the date of application all articles were recorded, checked off when taken, and the signature of the officer applying was affixed. Then my official stamp as Field Agent was affixed, and the paper 2/1 put on file as a voucher. All goods received by steamer came into the office under my personal supervision, and with very few necessary exceptions, none went out without it. On Sept. 4th, the office work of the Red Cross in Porto Rico was in- augurated with five representative issues of stores, which became matter of record. As the later files show, the number rapidly multiplied and the office work was increased by a constant procession of single ajjplicants for small things. A dose of medicine, a pencil, an abdominal band, a comfort bag, something to read, a pair of stockings, a handkerchief, a towel, a little stationery, — such applications alone made work enough for one man, and one had to be secured. Corporal Patrick Syron was detailed from the First Engineers, and his help was invaluable. As the work was increasing very rapidly, and appeals pouring in from all the camps and hospitals, the Executive Committee sent as my assistant, Gen. W. T. Bennett, who arrived Sept. 7th, on the Seneca, which also brought a fresh and valuable cargo of stores. Having, like myself, had army experience in the Civil War, Gen. Ben- nett easily grasped the situation, and while I attended specially to the dis- tribution of goods at the office, he gave efficient help in managing the outside relations of the work, made doubly exacting by the necessity of lightering off all goods from ships, and transferring them by native porters to the headquarters, amidst piles of army stores, and a horde of omni- present and vigilant thieves. Any lull in the office work was improved by me in visiting hospitals and camps, and noting how goods were received and distributed. By frequent consultation of the official figures at the Chief Surgeon's office of the sick rate at all military stations on the island, it was possible to judge correctly concerning the neediest places for sending relief, and also to be independent in judging the merits of applications. The extra- ordinary amount of typhoid fever and intestinal diseases among the troops was the object of thoughtful attention. Several native physicians and army surgeons were solicited to write their diagnoses and treatment of these diseases, in the hope that their combined testimony may furnish valuable data for guidance of physicians and surgeons who may have charge of our troops in the future. October 6th, Mr. Munroe Scott arrived from New York on the S. S. Chester, to be second assistant in our work. He was desirous of giving per- sonal service to the sick, as he had just come from such work in the North- ern army hospitals. But the needs at the various hospitals in Porto Rico were being so fully met that he gave his attention to the varied demands at the office, where his courteous manner and efficiency in detail were highly appreciated. Two ambulances were sent to Ponce in September. They 272 proved of great value in emergency cases requiring quick transportation to and from the hospitals, and in conveying our goods for short distances. It must be admitted, however, that they proved also a delicate responsi- bility, as everybody seemed to regard them as free pleasure coaches in which the Red Cross was eager to take the town to ride. A daily care was to note all incoming steamers, to board them to in- quire for Red Cross supplies, also to note all departing steamers and pro- vide that all sick and convalescents had Red Cross goods enough to insure their comfort for the homeward voyage. The Chief Surgeons were successively requested not to allow any detachment of sick men to go home without previously notifying us, so that we might provide for their proper nutriment in supplement to that provided by the Government. It is proper to add that the surgeons going home in charge of the sick on ships were all properly attentive to their duty in securing Red Cross sup- plies for their patients. Twelve shipments were made for transports carrying home the sick. One of the duties of the office was to give first aid to the sick and in- jured. Hardly a day passed without our giving many doses of medicine to soldiers for intestinal troubles, or first dressing to men injured on the pier or on shipboard. We carefully gave antiseptic dressing and bound up gashed heads and limbs, and tenderly conveyed the unfortunates to the proper hospitals, or to their homes or ships. In September, on order from New York, we began to furnish ice to hospitals not already supplied. We purchased machine-made ice at the heavy cost of forty pesos a ton, and had arranged with the hospitals of Coamo and Guayama — the only ones not supplied — to send wagons weekly for a load. For this work we were about to establish an ice-storage plant, when a large cargo furnished by the Government arrived, and although about one hundred tons soon after came from New York, consigned to the Red Cross, it was not needed, nor an ice-house for storage, as the Govern- ment supply was freely furnished to all in need, and was so large as to last till the Red Cross ice, though carefully stored in a covered lighter, had entirely melted. Had the Government not made this provision, a free grant of site, lumber, and labor for an ice plant, already secured, would have been utilized. The same cablegram authorizing an ice supply also authorized the supply of milk as needed. On inquiry it was found that all of the hospitals were already provided with this article. In case of the hospital for the First Engineers, however, the ingenious surgeon, Dr. Proben, had opened negotiations for a cow, and we promptly insisted upon paying for it, but were allowed to pledge only one-half of its cost, which we most cheerfully did, on condition that our payment should cover the cost of the half containing the milk supply. 273 A project which strongly appealed to our sympathies was the cstal)lish- ment of a free coffee and refreshment stand on the pier at the Playa, in front of our office, where drivers thronged every day, some having come long distances, and poorly supplied with food. We wished to give them bread and good beverage free of cost. Permission to occupy a suitable site was given by Gen. Henry and Col. Hill, of the Custom House. An engineer drew up a fine plan and specifications. The lumber was prom- ised, but the engineers, overdriven with work, could find no time to build, hence a cherished plan of practical relief had to be abandoned. Twelve hospital tents 14 X14 feet each, were furnished by the Red Cross, of which one was loaned to the Engineers' hospital, one to the Sixth Massachusetts hospital, and ten were located, under medical super- vision, beneath a row of cocoanut trees for the accommodation of conva- lescents awaiting transportation. A suitable trench was dug, flooring put in all the tents by the Engineers, and straw was furnished for bedding by the Quartermaster. This camp was named " Camp Barton." Some of the incidental work of the Red Cross was to answer letters of inquiry concerning missing soldiers ; to guide numerous strangers arriving at the port ; to get stragglers of the army into their proper quarters ; to help soldiers in various conditions of distress ; always to be ready with a kind look and friendly hand, as proper representatives of a generous pub- lic desiring to show full appreciation of those who upheld the nation's honor with the offering of their lives. Every man on the staff of the Red Cross in Porto Rico, could he have embo died his real preferences, would have spent his whole time personally with the boys in their tents or hos- pitals. It was a real regret to us all that from early morning until dark we had to be hard at work, with few exceptions, in dealing out stores and at- tending to duties at headquarters. But as we were serving, not a cam- paigning army but garrisons after hostilities had ceased, and the supply of surgeons and nurses was ample, there was no need of personal field service on our part. A tribute of respect and praise is demanded in honor of the army offi- cials of Porto Rico, especially those of the southern district, so wisely ad- ministered by General Guy V. Henry, now Governor of Porto Rico. The different departments were ably conducted. Their mutual relations were entirely cordial. The difficult problems presenting themselves were handled in a manful way. The Red Cross carefully avoided the role of critic or censor, and sought to conform to the wishes of commanders and surgeons, while watchfully providing for the needs of the sick as ascertained by indepen- dent investigation. It never made a protest, nor acted as a meddler, but attended strictly to its own business, and kept in its own place as an army 274 auxiliary, and servant to the sick. Hence, from the first of its work, the military, naval, surgical, medical, commissary, and quartermaster's depart- ments treated it as a part of their own common fraternity, freely granting all its requests, subjecting it to no restrictions, and cordially accepting and forwarding its beneficent operations. We received every advantage gra- tuitously. Our practical judgment was invariably respected. Not in a single instance were our requests denied. By this cordial understand- ing many hundreds of dollars of expense were saved to the Red Cross, to say nothing of those feelings which have no equivalent in money. Indications of the heavy sick rate in the army of Porto Rico may be found in the following data, gathered at the time from official sources. In August the Surgeon-in-charge at Mayaguez reported to me that fully 75 per cent, of the troops stationed there were sick in hospital or in quar- ters, or unfit for duty. Sept. loth there were in the district of Ponce over 1400 sick, including 35° typhoid cases, 600 malarial, 350 intestinal diseases. Sept. 20th the official report shows 750 sick in Ponce, 799 in Coamo, 336 in Mayaguez, 264 in Utuado, 22 in Guanica, and 328 in Guayama. Sept. 28th the i6th Penna. Inf. at Coamo reported 625 sick. One com- pany had no officers on duty, all being sick. Oct. 3d there were 125 sick in Ponce, 60 in Guayama, 65 in Utuado, 40 in Mayaguez, and 491 at Coamo. Total in these places, 781. This great reduction in the number of reported sick was due to large shipments of patients to the States. Oct. 20th there were 747 sick in the general hospital in Ponce, 120 in that at Mayaguez, and 125 in that at Guayama. Nov. loth, 603 were reported sick in the district of Ponce. The data above given will best be understood if it is remembered that they comprise for the most part only hospital inmates. The sick in quarters were not generally reported, though they fully equalled in number those in hospital. Again, it should be remembered that those unfit for duty equalled in num- ber both of the other two classes. In brief, during September, October, and November, not more than one half of the army was available for duty. In September a captain of Engineers informed me that in the morning he had only four men report for duty. Several obvious causes operated to produce the great sick rate. The effects of exposures and hardships before reaching Porto Rico, poor and scanty food, malarious influences, rum-drinking, eating native fruits, the heavy rains, and the excessive heat were potent factors in producing the general illness. There was no invigoration in the atmosphere, its heat and humidity being very depressing, and not allowing rapid recovery after prostration. Almost every man lost heavily in weight, the amounts vary- ing from twenty-five to one hundred pounds. This was true of those who were extremely careful of their diet and habits as well as of those who were reckless. During September and October a register of temj)era- tures, kept by Dr. Charles I. Proben, Surgeon of the First Engineers, showed an average daily temperature in September of 82.52" Fahr., and in October, 80.136° Fahr. These figures give little suggestion of what the soldiers had to endure, as for instance, Sept. 30th the mercury stood 96° in the shade at midday, and 113° in the sun. October 3d the mercury stood at 92° at midday. These health conditions made every American in Porto Rico a fit subject for relief, but Red Cross supplies were limited as far as practicable to the sick and convalescent. The extent and direction of our Red Cross work are indicated below : No. of issues to 24 army hospitals 150 " " " " U. S. transports returning North with sick 12 " " " " Infantry, regiments and detachments loi " " " " Artillery batteries 24 " " " " Cavalry troops 6 " " " " Officers' messes 8 " " " " Miscellaneous parties 61 Total 362 These issues were all recorded and vouchers filed. No. of issues to single applicants for their own immediate use, most- ly needy private soldiers, over 1 200 (These issues were not recorded). No. of issues of medicine to sick soldiers, applying at office, about.. 300 Wounds dressed at office, in first aid to injured men, about 30 Sick carried in ambulances of Red Cross, about 50 The camps and hospitals served by the Red Cross were scattered all over the island, some accessible only through difficult mountain passes, bad roads, or by long sea voyages, necessitating weekly consultation of the Chief Surgeon's sick reports from all military stations, and careful study of the best routes and means of transportation. Three months' experience lead one to say that if a man knows how to keep a hotel, a restaurant, and a refreshment stand ; if he be a good gro- cer, dry-goodsman, apothecary, financier, accountant, doctor, and linguist ; if he have the strength of a Samson, the patience of a Job, and the cheerfulness of the morning lark ; if he have the power to see and say little, to sweat and not swear, to behold limitless suffering and be fair to all ; if he be pachydermous to the shafts of malicious or ignorant critics, diplomat enough to secure universal favor, and worthy to hold it by solid merit, let him try a Field Agency with confidence, for in such service he 276 will need all of these qualities in abundance. And yet, in the midst of it all he will daily hear the sweetest words of gratitude, and feel that he is doing the most self-rewarding work of his whole life. The goods issued were as follows : I. FOODS. Soups Corn-starch Canned Peaches Potted Chicken Tapioca Canned Pears Potted Turkey Flour Canned Peas Potted Tongue Maccaroni Canned Tomatoes Potted Ham Barley Prunes Canned Salmon Rice Coffee Boned Codfish Soda Biscuit Tea Bacon Graham Wafers Cheese Rolled Oats Ginger Snaps Condensed Milk Oat Flakes Evaporated Apples Beans Pettijohn's Breakfast Canned Apples Split Peas Food Evaporated Apricots Raw Onions Rolled Wheat Canned Apricots Hominy Canned Cherries n. GROCERIES. Sugar Candles Vinegar Salt Matches Tobacco Soap in. DELICACIES. Armour's Extract of Calves' Foot Jelly Arrow Root Beef Fruit, Jelly, Preserves, Ketchup Clam Broth Jams Pickles Armour's Vigoral Gelatine Pickled Onions Horlick's Malted Milk Evaporated Cream Spices Horlick's Malted Milk Chocolate Black Currants Tablets Cocoa Ice Port Wine Whiskey Brandy Blackberry Brandy Lime Juice IV. BEVERAGES. Ginger Ale Aerated Water Apollinaris Water Poland Water Johannisburg Water Unfermented Grape Juice Fruit Cordials Raspberry Vinegar 277 V. HOSPITAL SUPPLIES. Quinine Iodoform Gauze Absorbent Cotton Old Cotton and Linen Sterilized Bandages Sterilized Gauze Chloride of Lime Ice Bags Medicine Glasses Field Hospital Knap- sacks Fans Sponges Gauze Tudor Tents Sheets — full size and " draw " Pillow Cases Mosquito Netting Mosquito Canopies Cheese-cloth Squares Paper Feeding Cups Tarred Paper Equipped Hospital Tents Upjohn's Remedy Davis's Painkiller Anti-Cholera-Remedy Ant i-C onstipation Remedy Dubisson's Liniment Seidlitz Powders "Sun" Cholera Mix- ture Beef, Iron and Wine VI. DRY GOODS. Towels Napkins Pajamas Night-shirts Surgical Shirts VII. EQUIPPED COTS. VIII. STATIONERY, Envelopes Pencils IX. READING MATTER. Army Salve- Russia Salve Polar Salve Vaseline Witch Hazel Cough Remedy Mustard Talcum Powder Rose Water Combs Hair Brushes Tooth Brushes Whisk Brooms Slippers Negligee Shirts Suits Underwear Flannel Socks Handkerchiefs For ten hours a day during three months the process of distributing these goods went on. A frequent expression of the surgeons and officers as they came to the headquarters was, " You have saved many lives." The soldiers often remarked, " If it were not for the Red Cross we would have died." A suggestive incident was the writing of a large number of letters of thanks by the soldiers, which the writer brought home to present to the donors of some extra well-furnished "comfort" bags. The President of the United States, the Surgeon-General, and the Chief Surgeon of Porto Rico have gratefully and gracefully acknowledged the efficient work of the Red Cross. I bring home also from generals, colonels, and surgeons of the army in Porto Rico testimonials to the same effect. 278 The generous donors of all gifts, great and small, to the Red Cross work in Porto Rico, and the officials of the Red Cross in New York, deserve unstinted thanks and praise for their bountiful and efficient service to their flag's defenders in the fairest isle of the Antilles. Respectfully submitted, Horace F. Barnes, Field Agent, Porto Rico. New York, Dec. 8, 1898. No Report Has Been Received from the " Field Agent " in the Philippines, as the Work There is Not Yet Completed. Fold-out Placeholder This fold-out is being digitized, and will be inserted at future date. Fold-out Placeholder This fold-out is being digitized, and will be inserted at future date. 279 LIST OF SUPPLIES RECEIVED FROM FIRMS. LXDIVIDUALS, AND AID SOCIETIES OTHER THAN THE AUXILIARIES. Careful lists were kept of supplies received, but in the pressure of the Avork during the summer, it is possible that some have been omitted. The Committee wishes to take this opportunity of acknowledging their thanks to those who so generously have sent supplies, and at the same time to thank the business firms in the city who co-operated with them in prompt shipment of supplies, and in liberal discounts off the regular prices. Riverdale Relief Committee: 222 pajamas, 113 night-shirts, 12 under- shirts, 150 abdominal bands, 178 towels, 432 wash cloths, 144 handker- chiefs, 12 pairs socks, 105 pairs slippers, i case lime juice, i case canned fruit and jelly, 12 articles wearing apparel, 31 sponges, stationery, 42 cases soup, 5 cases coffee, 2 cases malted milk, i case soap, to- bacco. Needlework Guild of America 1278 sheets, 574 pillow cases, 49 pajamas, 286 night-shirts, 135 negligee shirts, 212 undershirts, 212 under- drawers, 53 abdominal bands, 677 towels, 514 wash cloths, iiSo handkerchiefs, 245 pairs socks, 19 bandages. St. Mark's Church, Islip, L. I.: 4 sheets, 4 pillow cases, 91 pajamas, 72 night-shirts, 60 undershirts, 66 towels, 8 wash cloths, 108 handker- chiefs, I comfort bag, 72 pairs socks, 12 pairs slippers, i case canned fruit and jelly, 115 bandages, tobacco, 44 yards tlannel. Women's Relief Association, Lockport, N. Y.: 50 sheets, 103 pillow cases, 82 pajamas, 93 night-shirts, 94 negligee shirts, 535 towels, 155 hand- kerchiefs, 42 comfort bags, 151 pairs socks, 181 pairs slippers, 2 cases and 3 barrels literature, tobacco, i case and i barrel groceries. W. C. T. A., Osceola, Tioga Co., N. Y.: 18 sheets, 36 pillow cases, 6 night- shirts, 12 towels, 113 cheese-cloth squares, 46 comfort bags, 57 slings. Soldiers' Aid Society, Painesville, Ohio : 40 sheets, loS pillow cases. 47 pajamas, 127 night-shirts, 27 abdominal bands, 97 towels, malted milk, 9 pieces mosquito netting. Ladies of Fishkill Village : 60 sheets, 24 pillow cases, 12 pajamas, 35 night- shirts, 148 towels, 89 handkerchiefs, 40 yards muslin. Mrs. Underwood, Oswego, N. Y.: 12 sheets, 10 pillow cases, 7 pajamas, 280 43 night-shirts, i6 undershirts, i6 underdrawers, 24 abdominal bands, 54 towels, 18 handkerchiefs, 39 pairs socks, 24 suspenders. Mrs. P. G. Moody, Winchester, Mass.: 18 sheets, 79 pillow cases, 3 pajamas, 55 negligee shirts, 48 abdominal bands, 35 towels, 58 handkerchiefs, 12 bandages. G. A. R., Dept. of Ohio, W. R. C., Chagrin Falls, O.: 3 sheets, 2 pillow cases, 6 pajamas, 7 night-shirts, 6 abdominal bands, 12 handkerchiefs, 5 pairs slippers, i case canned fruit and jelly. W. R. A. Harbor Branch, Ashtabula: 31 sheets, 112 pillow cases, 6 pajamas, 7 night-shirts, 15 abdominal bands, 78 towels, 43 handker- chiefs, 23 comfort bags, 2 barrels canned fruit and jelly. Mrs. Lydia Graves, Ox Bow, Jefferson Co., N. Y.: i night-shirt, 43 negligee shirts, 30 abdominal bands, 30 cheese-cloth squares, 15 handkerchiefs, 26 pairs socks. Mrs. J. N. Hoben, L. I. City : 4 pillows, 8 pajamas, 12 pairs socks, 7 articles wearing apparel, i case soap, 12 fans. Anonymous, Winota, Wis. : 12 pajamas, 10 night-shirts, 40 abdominal bands, 50 towels, 120 handkerchiefs, 40 bandages. Mrs. J. F. LeBarron, Manasquam, N. J.: 2 blankets, 22 sheets, 46 pillow cases, 2 night-shirts, 37 towels, 36 handkerchiefs, 5 pairs socks. Soldiers' Aid Association, Asbury Park, N. J.: 50 pillow cases, 11 pajamas, 10 night-shirts, 9 abdominal bands, 100 towels, 3 cheese-cloth squares, 50 bandages, 51 pillow bags. Mrs. Ed. F. Saxe, Montclair, N. J. : 6 sheets, i pillow, 6 pillow cases, 3 towels. Trinity Church, Connersville, Ind. : i sheet, 2 pillows, 2 pillow cases, 117 handkerchiefs. Miss H. Martin, Warren, R. I.: 14 sheets, 12 pillow cases, 6 night-shirtsl 102 handkerchiefs. Sanitary Relief Association, New Haven : 453 pajamas, 106 night-shirts, 252 abdominal bands, 16 pairs socks, i case lime juice, i case beef extract, i case granum, no bedside records. Anonymous, Hightstown, N. J.: 10 sheets, t,6 pillow cases, 24 handker- chiefs, 16 pairs socks, i case canned fruit and jelly. Calvary Sub. Aux., East Liberty : 42 sheets, 243 pillow cases, 62 pajamas, 700 sponges. Mrs. H. N. Miller, Mt. Morris, N. Y.: 24 sheets, 67 pillow cases, 21 pajamas, 51 towels, 61 cheese-cloth squares, 48 handkerchiefs, 12 combs, 6 hair brushes, 25 tin cups, 16 tin basins. State Board of Pardons, Delta, Ohio : 16 sheets, ;^;^ pillow cases, 6 night- shirts, 9 towels, ;^;^ wash cloths, 6 handkerchiefs. Mrs. H. H. Hollister, Islip, L. I.: 8 pajamas, 24 towels, 6 wash cloths, 16 cheese-cloth squares, 10 bandages. 28l Anonymous, Dobbs Ferry : 2 sheets, 4 pillow cases, 8 pajamas, 48 night- shirts, 30 negligee shirts, 2 towels, 48 handkerchiefs, 66 pairs socks. Mrs. E. A. Handy, Cleveland, Ohio : 34 sheets, 23 pillow cases, 86 pajamas, 68 night-shirts, t8 negligee shirts, 360 abdominal bands, 11 pairs socks. Anonymous, Pittsfield, Mass.: 24 sheets, 24 pillow cases, 88 towels, 66 wash cloths, 15S handkerchiefs, 4 pieces mosquito netting. Anonymous, New Brighton, Pa.: i pajama, 30 night-shirts, 2 negligee shirts. Emergency Club Auxiliary, London, Ohio ; ;^^ sheets, 72 jiillow cases, 6 pajamas, 36 night-shirts, 15 towels, 36 socks. Miss L. J. Philip, Sharon, Conn.: 36 sheets, 66 pillow cases, i night-shirt, 12 towels. Anonymous, Watertown, N. Y.: 42 sheets, 16 pillow cases, 24 pajamas, 16 night-shirts, 38 abdominal bands, ;^;i handkerchiefs. Miss Martin, EUicott City, Md.: 30 sheets, 30 pillow cases, 27 j)ajamas, 15 night-shirts, 18 towels, 12 wash cloths, 48 handkerchiefs, 18 pairs socks. Mary W. Slee, New Windsor, N. Y.: 32 sheets, 13 pajamas, 30 night-shirts, 189 handkerchiefs, 12 pairs slippers, literature, iS bandages, stationery. Mrs. J. W. Gilchrist (Aux. 53), Greensburg, Pa.: 33 sheets, 54 pillow cases, 7 pajamas, 15 night-shirts, 20 abdominal bands, 24 towels. Miss C. E. Halsey, Astoria, L. I.: 41 sheets, 45 pillow cases, i suit pajamas, 16 night-shirts, 20 negligee shirts, 4 undershirts, 4 underdrawers. 45 towels, 147 handkerchiefs, 79 pairs socks, i case canned tr"'' "vl jelly, 2 barrels groceries. Ladies of Sharon : 6 pillow cases, 13 night-shirts, 12 towels, 6 wash cloths. Red Cross Society, Des Moines, Iowa : 68 sheets, 53 pillow cases, 56 pajamas, 30 undershirts, 30 underdrawers, 4 handkerchiefs, 7 pairs socks, 12 pairs slippers, 132 bandages, 39 oakum rings. Anonymous: 10 sheets, no pajamas, 12 night-shirts, 3 abdominal bands, 3 handkerchiefs, 50 comfort bags, i case literature. Mrs. Dayton Relyea : 15 sheets, 52 pillow cases, 2 night-shirts, 2 hand- kerchiefs. Grace Church, White Plains: 84 sheets, 76 pillow cases, 98 pajamas, Si night-shirts. Through Mrs. Andrew H. Smith, Elberon, N. J.: 274 sheets, 12 pajamas, 45 abdominal bands, 10 towels, 392 handkerchiefs. Mrs. C. A. Sherwood, N. Y. City : 8 sheets, 8 pillow cases, 6 night-shirts, 5 underdrawers, 5 undershirts. Mrs. N. B. Sherman, Honesdile, Pa.: 6 sheets, 3 pillow cases, 4 night- shirts. 282 Mr. Allien, Riverdale, N. Y. : lo pajamas, 9 night-shirts, 38 abdominal bands, 24 towels, 5 pairs slippers. Miss Julia M. Stevens, Chenango Co.: 63 sheets, 16 pajamas, 58 night- shirts, 42 handkerchiefs. S. J. Brown, Stamford, Ct.: 10 towels, 20 cheese-cloth squares. Irvington Village Relief Society : 125 night-shirts, 70 abdominal bands. Three Little Girls, Greenwich, Ct., 12 pillow cases, 12 wash cloths, 1 1 cheese-cloth squares, 6 handkerchiefs. R. H. List, Wheeling, W. Va. : 4 night-shirts, 3 abdominal bands, 50 fans, I case wine. Union Aid Association, Derby Line, Vt.: 24 pajamas, 18 abdominal bands, 179 handkerchiefs, 12 comfort bags. Miss R. H. Fowler, Richmond Hill, L. L: 39 night-shirts, 112 tow^els, 47 handkerchiefs, 75 slings. War Emergency Relief Board, Cleveland : 58 pillows, 9 towels, i barrel canned fruit and jelly, i barrel medical supplies, i barrel groceries. Through Miss Laura Day, Southampton : 12 abdominal bands, 22 towels. Miss Gurnee, Bar Harbor : 14 pajamas, 48 night-shirts, 48 handkerchiefs, cocoavena. Red Cross Relief Auxiliary, Waterbury, Conn.: 22 pajamas, 318 abdominal bands, 46 handkerchiefs, cocoavena. Mrs. W, H. Sabin, Williamstown : 26 abdominal bands, 52 towels, 20 wash cloths. Eagle Rock Chapter, D. A. R., Montclair, N. J.: 18 night-shirts, 72 pairs socks, 2 cases lime juice, 25 bandages. Henry E. Russell, New Britain, Ct. : 6 sheets, 12 pillow cases, 26 pajamas, 240 abdominal bands, ^6 handkerchiefs. Mrs. J. E. Hutton, Ridgewood, N. J. : 19 pillow cases, 38 night-shirts, 57 handkerchiefs. Mrs. Shrole, Brooklyn, N. Y. : 6 pajamas, 6 handkerchiefs, i pair socks. Dr. S. K. Deemy, Frenchtown, N. J. : 60 wash cloths, 98 comfort bags, 10 Testaments. Mrs. A. T. Campbell, Jr., Montclair, N. J. : 100 pajamas, 24 abdominal bands, 100 handkerchiefs, i barrel literature, tobacco. Mrs. C. A. Bensee, Houlton, Me. : 8 pajamas, 21 night-shirts, 19 abdom- inal bands, 19 towels, 12 handkerchiefs. Woman's War Relief, Middleville, N. J. : 38 sheets, 64 pillow cases, 7 pajamas, 81 towels, 6 hot-water bags. Miss F. L. Vose, Wyckoff, N. J. : 9 pajamas, 16 night-shirts, 28 abdominal bands. Miss Baker, Alpine, Bergen County, N. J. : 12 pajamas, 3 night-shirts, 22 abdominal bands, 41 cheese-cloth squares. 283 Mrs. W. B. Newell, Buffalo, N. Y. : 40 pillow cases, 53 towels, 14 wash cloths. Mrs. F. B. Livingston, Liverpool, Ohio : 56 pajamas, 17 night-shirts, 15 articles wearing apparel, 15 tray cloths. Miss Harris, Hotel St. Marc: 6 pajamas, lime juice, canned fruit, 17 finger stalls. Mrs. A. C. Brooks, Ridgewood, N. J. : 5 pajamas, 13 night-shirts, 25 ab- dominal bands, 24 handkerchiefs, 140 bandages. Mrs. John Ellis Blake, New York City : 23 pajamas, 24 wash cloths, 48 handkerchiefs, 12 comfort bags. Mrs. J. H. Boyd, Monmouth County : 40 comfort bags. Mrs. W. A. Read, New York City : 4 pillow cases. Anonymous, Roslyn, L. I. : 4 pajamas, 10 night-shirts. Buckingham Relief Corps, Norwalk, Ct. : 6 pajamas. Mr. Arthur Wood, Cornwall : 5 cots. Anonymous, Seal Harbor : 4 pajamas, 44 towels. Roscoe C. Hatch (Aux. 82), No. Berwick, Me. : 12 handkerchiefs, 50 pin cushions. Ladies of Darien and Noroton, Conn. : 12 night-shirts. Miss M. H. Garrard, Bellport, L. I. : 9 comfort bags. Mrs. S. P. Prentice, Monmouth Beach : literature. E. L. Ely, Norwalk, Conn. : 100 cheese-cloth squares, 2 cases literature. N. Y. Free Circulating Library : i barrel literature. Mrs. J. E. L. Davis, N. Y. City : 50 towels. Mrs. Roland Redmond, N. Y. City : 51 night-shirts. Anonymous, Cornwall, N. J. : 14 night-shirts, i case canned fruit and jelly. Miss Livingston : 72 handkerchiefs. Anonymous, Bar Harbor, Me. : 13 negligee shirts, 8 pairs slippers. Ladies of the Ban Mere Inn, Lake Sunapee : 15 night-shirts. Sewing Committee, Navesink, N. J. : 6 night-shirts. Pullman Palace Car Co. : 2 pajamas, 38 night-shirts, 26 handkerchiefs. Miss Avery, N. Y. City : 434 handkerchiefs. Anonymous, Glen Ridge, N. J. : 100 abdominal bands, 72 towels. Mrs. Beebe, Quogue, L. L : 72 towels, 14 comfort bags. Ladies of Forest House, Lake Mahopac : 48 abdominal bands. Through Miss Dominick, Monmouth Beach : 358 wash cloths. Blind lady : 4 cheese-cloth squares. Mrs. Schiff : So handkerchiefs. Ladies of Bayside, N. J. : 12 night-shirts. Presbyterian Church, White Plains : 35 pajamas. Pocahontas Chapter Patriotic League : loo cheese-cloth squares. Through Mrs. Finlay, N. Y. City : 40 towels, 12 wash cloths. 284 Miss Anna Steers, N. Y. City : 6 pillows. Hospital Book and Newspaper Society : 2 cases literature. Mrs. Paul Fuller, Wyckoff, N. J. : 34 cheese-cloth squares. Mrs. F. MacLaren, Litchfield, Ct. : 12 comfort bags. Anonymous, Merrick, L. I. : 66 abdominal bands. King's Daughters, Sanbornhill, N. H. : 7 pajamas. Mrs. Chas. Godfrey, Southampton : 16 abdominal bands. Steiner & Son, N. Y. City : 36 pajamas. H. K. Cushing, Brooklyn : 2 cases literature. Mrs. R. R. Bogert, Brooklyn : literature. Mrs. E. H. Lawrence, Flushing : i case literature. Klee & Co., N. Y. City : literature. Mrs. Sam'l Sloane, Jr., Garrison's : literature. Quogue Relief Corps : 5 cots. Miss A. D. Miller, Asbury Park : 12 towels. Mrs. V. R. Schenck, Jersey City : wearing apparel. Red Cross Society, Livingston Co. : 2 pajamas, 6 night-shirts, 2 barrels canned fruit and jelly, 6 clinical thermometers. Miss M. A. Leland, N. Y. City : i case literature. Miss Archbold, Lake George : 52 abdominal bands. Miss Wilder, N. Y. City. : 15 abdominal bands. R. T. Tobin, Dept. R. I. W. R. C. : i case literature. E. Cohn, N. Y. City : literature. L. E. Peterson, East Orange : 2 cases literature. Mrs. Wm. Munroe, N. Y. City : i case literature. Mrs. F. J. de Peyster, N. Y. City : 3 pajamas, 6 night-shirts. Mrs. S. P. Miller (Aux. 69), N. Y. City : 12 pajamas, 8 pillow cases, tobacco, groceries. Miss Travers, Riverdale : 100 pajamas, 100 night-shirts. Clarence T. Nathan, N. Y. City : 9 negligee shirts. Mrs. Jacob, Glen Cove : 24 pajamas. Mrs. C. A. Dana, Glen Cove : 18 pajamas. T. H. Gillespie, N. Y. City : wearing apparel. Mrs. A. J. Ditman, Englewood, N. J. : 22 night-shirts. Mrs. Seligman, West End, N. J. : 373 abdominal bands. Mrs. W. Gillies, Dutchess Co. : 81 bandages. Mrs. Martin, South Orange : 10 night-shirts. D. Appleton & Co., N. Y. City : 3 cases literature. Guild King's Daughters : 50 comfort bags. Mail and Express : 5 cases literature. St. George's Parish, Central Falls, R. I. : 60 cheese-cloth squares, 2 pairs socks. 285 Mrs. J. L. Banks, New Hamburg: 12 night-shirts. Inmates of Blind Asylum : 21 towels. Miss Pomeroy, Nyack, N. Y. : 3 pajamas, 3 cheese-cloth squares. Lawson Bros., N. Y. City : 2 pajamas. Mrs. Bellamy, Amagansett, L. I. : 26 towels. Junior S. I. Sewing Circle : 5 towels, 72 handkerchiefs, 13 comfort bags. Mrs. C. H. Kimball, N. Y. City : 2 towels, literature. Mrs. C. D. McClellan, Galena, 111. : 14 night-shirts. Ladies' Centenary M. E. Church, Jersey City : 17 towels. Through Dr. Gottheil, Catskills : 528 pairs socks. Mrs. John Ferry, Irvington : 81 towels. Mrs. F. Mangold, Irvington : literature. Mrs. Slawson, N. Y. City : literature. Mrs. Hollins, East Islip, L. I. : 300 comfort bags. Woman's Club, Englew'ood : 2 pajamas, i night-shirt. M. E. Church, White Plains : 21 pajamas. Anonymous, Baltimore, Md. : 4 sheets, 7 towels, i case groceries. Miss H. N. Russell, N. Y. City : 50 handkerchiefs. Anonymous, Scarsdale, N. Y. : 12 pajamas. Ladies of Kent House, Greenwich : 34 night-shirts. Ladies of New Dorp, S. I. : 132 abdominal bands. Mrs. J. O'Connor, Cherry Valley : 10 pajamas, 15 night-shirts. Mrs. F. Carroll, Philmont, N. Y. : 61 sheets, 10 bandages. Mrs. Tiernan, N. Y. City : 38 towels. St. John's Church, Cleveland, Ohio : 6 sheets, iS pillow cases, 36 pajamas, 113 abdominal bands, i case soap. Freund, Floise & Co. : 36 towels. Mrs. Henry A. Robinson, Yonkers : 4 pillows, tobacco. Mrs. Gillelan, Greenwich, Ct.: 12 pajamas, 12 night-shirts, 216 handker- chiefs. Young Women's Christian Association : iiS pajamas. K. C. Baker, Great Neck, L. I.: 24 pajamas, 88 night-shirts, 5 articles wearing apparel. Mrs. W. Piatt Pepper : 62 pillows. Mrs. Brown, N. Y. City : 95 pajamas. Anonymous, Bar Harbor, Me.: 13 night-shirts, 8 pairs slippers. Mrs. C. A. Kip, N. Y. City : literature. Church of Holy Spirit, Danbury : 40 abdominal bands. Messrs. Cornell & Millspaugh, Brooklyn: 21 pajamas, 12 handker- chiefs. Mrs. Norman Day, Norwich, Ct.: 15 wash cloths. 286 Ivy Club, N. Y. City : literature. Mrs. John Minturn, N. Y. City : 84 towels, 24 pairs socks, litera ture. Mrs. W. S. Jones, Red Bank, N. J.: literature. H. W. Munsill, Allenhurst, N. J.: 72 negligee shirts, 288 pairs socks, i case soap, 5 cases canned fruit and jelly. Mrs. H. P. Mauson, N. Y. City : 131 abdominal bands. j\Irs. Mary Lord Harrison, Old Forge, N. Y.: 6 abdominal bands, 186 towels. J. H. Stribling, Kansas : 10 pillow cases, 5 pillows, 5 pajamas. Miss C. B. Townsend, Flushing : 6 pajamas. Sister Frances, Flushing, L. I.: 48 bandages. Mr. Obry, Dakota Flats, N. Y. City : literature. Ex-Senator Evarts, N. Y. City : 38 abdominal bands. N. Y. Free Circulating Library : 2 barrels literature. E. M. Burns, Herkimer, N. Y.: 8 pajamas. Mrs. A. de Bary, Summit, N. J.: 18 night-shirts, 60 abdominal bands. Woman's Club, Englewood, N. J.: 15 pajamas. Misses Scott, Bar Harbor, Me.: 4 comfort bags. Mrs. R. C. Cornell, N. Y. City : 3 articles wearing apparel. Mrs. J. J, McComb, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.: 18 pajamas. E. Kastor, Long Branch, N. J.: 24 pairs socks. Miss Peterson, East Orange, N. J.: 4 cases literature. Mrs. E. N. Gibbs, Norwich, Ct.: 27 wash cloths, 116 cheese-cloth squares, 48 handkerchiefs. Circle King's Daughters, Hudson, N. Y. : 52 abdominal bands. Mrs. Enslie, Orange : 2 cases literature. E. Clement, Tompkins Cove, N, Y.: 25 pillow cases, literature. Mrs. Harold Hadden, N. Y. City : 372 handkerchiefs, 84 bandages. Ladies of Dean House, Lake Mahopac : 15 night-shirts, 12 abdominal bands. Mrs. A. M. Slosson, N. Y. City : 7 pajamas. Miss Stevenson, Islip, L. I.: 12 pajamas, 6 wash cloths. Miss Dorrance, Providence, R. L: 14 sheets, 45 pillow cases, 114 towels. Alice C. Smith, Williamsburg, Va. : i case literature. Millicent Porter Chapter, D. A. R., Waterbury, Ct. : 140 abdominal bands. Congregational Church, River Falls, Wis.: 29 night-shirts. Mr. R. C. Derby, Dark Harbor, Me.: 9 pajamas. Six Little Red Cross Helpers, Islip, L. I.: 16 pairs socks. W. C. T. U. and Relief Association, Perth Amboy : i case wearing ap- parel, I barrel literature. Miss Emma Dodge, Providence, R. I.: 12 handkerchiefs, 65 bandages. 288 American Compressed Food Co.: i case canned soups and vegetables. Henry B. Piatt : i8 cases Piatt's chloride. Freund & Co.: 2 bales pillows. Niagara Co., Lockport : 2 barrels wheatlet. G. F. Coshland & Co.: 2 cases wine. Stern & Saalberg : i case Bromangelon. Mrs. Brinckerhoff, Hastings-on-Hudson : i electric fan (complete). The Sanitas Co.: i case disinfecting fluid. Western Electric Co.: 4 12-inch fan motors. James Pyle & Sons : 5 cases Pearline. Asepta Chemical Co.: i case Aseptoline. James P. Smith & Co.: 5 cases pickles. P. Ruhlman & Co.: 5 boxes oranges. Babbitt's Soap Co.: 150 cases soap and 150 cases soap powder. Holland Head Screen Co.: 50 head screens. E. Taussig & Co.: 12 cans chloro-naptholeum. Hitchcock Publishing Co.: 1000 war songs. Wells & Richardson, Burlington, Vt.: 4 cases Lactated Food. Hygeia Distilled Water Co.: 1000 gallons Hygeia Water. Mrs. W. F. O'Keef, Randolph, Mass.: i box salve. Mrs. C. C. Dodge : i case cereal milk. Cereal Mfg. Co.: 2 cases cereal milk. Mrs. F. A. North and ladies. Short Beach, Conn. : 1 1 1 tobacco bags (filled). Daisy Chain Society, Schroon Lake : 32 tobacco bags (filled). Mrs. S. W. Kellogg, Waterbury, Conn.: 7 cases and i barrel supplies. Mr. Reed, Rye : i case lime juice. J. H. Lee, Goshen : i barrel grape juice. Borden's Condensed Milk Co.: 10 cases condensed milk, 10] cases evaporated cream, 2 cases condensed coffee. Lalance & Groejean Mfg. Co.: 74 bed-pans, 49 urinals, 25 chambers, 7 pitchers, 6 coffee pots, 2 tea pots, i coffee boiler. L. J. Callanan : 12 boxes gelatine, 12 boxes cocoa, 12 jars beef extract, 12 bottles raspberry vinegar, 12 bottles lime juice, 12 bottles liquid rennet, i pound arrow root. The Proctor &: Gamble Co.: 1000 cases soap. American Food Co., N. Y. City : 53 cases soup. Park & Tilford, N. Y. City : 15 cases groceries. W. H. Ross & Bro.; N. Y. City : 2 cases lime juice, barrel ginger ale, case of wine. C. H. Tompkins, Somerville, N. J. : 14 cases canned fruits and jellies. Miss Jennings, N. Y. City : 30 cases canned fruits and jelly. F. de Bary & Co., N. Y. City : 10 cases wine (champagne). :«.. \( A M Ar vr 290 CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED BY FREDERICK D. TAPPEN, Treasurer Affierican NatioJial Red Cross Relief Cortwiittee, May 21, 189S TO March 17, 1899. Arnold, Constable & Co., N. Y. City $ 2,500 00 Mrs. Anne C. Coleman, Lebanon, Pa 100 00 Wm. T. Wardwell, N. Y. City 1,000 00 " Britisher" r 00 M. Stachelberg & Co., N. Y. City 25 00 W. F. Chrystie, Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y 25 00 First Universalist Church of Hudson, N. Y 5 00 Anonymous - 0° Mrs. J. A. Hewlett, Brooklyn 25 00 Mrs. Cornelia Ward Howe, N. Y. City 100 00 Mrs. H. W. Harris, East Orange, N. J 25 00 Wm. N. Dykman, Brooklyn 25 00 Mrs. Henry A. Bogert, Flushing, L. 1 50 00 Mrs. Catherine G. Clarkson, N. Y. City 10 00 Walter S. Gurnee, N. Y. City 250 00 E. H. Harriman, " 100 00 Mrs. Thomas Garner, " 25 00 Emanuel Baptist ChapeL Orange Valley, N. J 20 00 Morris K. Jesup, N. Y. City 1,000 00 Addison Brown, " 10 00 James Byrne, " 15 00 Mrs. James W. Embury, N. Y. City 5 00 George H. Page, N. Y. City 100 00 Frank L. Sheldon, " 1000 Prescott Hall Butler, " 5000 William D. Guthrie, " 100 00 Richard M. Bruno, " 30 00 Sears & White, " 5 00 Giovanni Lordi, " 1000 Mrs. Harry Whitney Treat, Tarrytown, N. Y 10 00 Vermilye&Co., N. Y. City 250 00 Leroy B. Crane, " 1000 Mrs. Anna A. Bradford, Lenox, Mass 100 00 Alexander J. Sheldon, N. Y. City 2 50 Miss Kate Aycrigg, " 10 00 Thomas J. Farrell, " 1000 292 \Vm. P. Knapp, N. Y. City $10 00 D. Howard, Castile, N. Y 5 00 W. Z. Larned, N. Y. City 25 00 Collected at Sullivan and East Sullivan Churches (N. H.) 5 00 Thomas R. A. Hall, N. Y. City 10 00 Francis D. Moulton & Co., " 100 00 An Easter Offering from Pioneer Band and Boys' Mission Band, Clinton Avenue Congregational Church, Brooklyn N. Y 25 00 Clark Mile-End Spool Cotton Co., N. Y. City 25 00 Wm. Mitchell, N. Y. City 25 00 Kuhn, Loeb&Co., " 1,00000 Members of Church of Good Shepherd, Milford, Pa 4 00 Caroline Einstein, N. Y. City 250 00 Mrs. Robert W. Nesbitt, " 5 00 Henry Burden, Jr., Cazenovia, N. Y 10 00 Everett Frazar, N. Y. City 5 00 Proceeds of Concert given by Ladies of the "Treble Clef," Ashtabula, Ohio. 36 00 O. W. Buckingham, Union League Club 5 00 Cash, "G. D." 5 00 Mrs. Henry A. Smith, N. Y. City 10 00 United Trade Society Journeymen Sailmakers of N. Y 27 00 Wm. H. Cutter and Employees, Woodbridge, N.J 10 50 Douglas Robinson, N. Y. City 200 00 D. H. King, Jr., " 2,00000 Miss Laura L. Taylor, Hempstead, L. I 30 00 Mrs. \V. F. Merrill, N. Y. City 5 00 Mrs. G. Schwab, Morris Heights, N. Y 20 00 Miss Caroline W. Green, Tenafly, N.J 10 00 L. H. Schwab, N. Y. City 5 00 Thos. H. Hubbard, " loc 00 Mrs. Wm. Alex Smith, N. Y. City 5 00 J. P. Morgan & Co., " 5.00000 D.O.Mills, " 5,00000 Morton, Bliss & Co., " 5,00000 Mrs. Mary C. Barnes, " 1000 Loveman, Joseph & Loeb, " 10 00 Mrs. Emily H. Rushmore, Tuxedo Park, N. Y. City 5 00 Mrs. Gouveraeur Morris, N. Y. City 5 00 Wm. R. Sands, New Hamburg, N. Y 100 00 Charles Stewart Smith, Stamford, Ct 50 00 Residents of Wyoming, N. J. , for Mosquito Netting 25 75 Burrall Hoffman, N. Y. City 10 00 P. L. North & Son, " 1000 Mrs. C. I. Pardee, " 1000 Mrs. Robert Emmet Robinson, Livingston, S. 1 5 00 S. Oppenheimer & Levy, N. Y. City 50 00 Miss Carrie F. Anderson, " 1000 Frederick D. Tappen, " 25000 Wm. Alexander Smith, " 5000 .«. ftf. t4j«u:; > i 294 Mrs. Jane H. Sherman, Port Henry, N. Y $ 5 00 Mrs. Lucy W. McLaughlin, " " 5 00 Harry Paul Dorn, N. Y. City I 00 Kisselburgh & Bennett 5 00 Clifford Bouniville, N. Y. City 10 00 W. H. Mayer, " 5 00 Block & Bergf els, " 5 00 Mrs. Charles Mali, Brooklyn, N. Y 50 00 Beinecke & Co., N. Y. City 10 00 A. M. Warner & Co., " 10 00 R. T. Wilson & Co., " 25000 C. M. Hyde. N. Y. City 50 00 R. M. O. Talbot, N. Y. City 25 00 Danenbaum Bros., " 1000 Mrs. D. D. Williamson, Tannersville, N. Y 25 00 Cyrus J. Lawrence, N. Y. City 50 00 Miss Julia S. Winterhoff, Milford. Pa 15 00 Public Schools of Two Rivers, W^is 7 15 Public Schools Collection, Waterloo, Wis 2 50 Mrs. Frederick G. Lee, Cooperstown, N. Y 5 00 Tracy & Lane, N. Y City 25 00 Mrs. George H. Granniss, N. Y. City 25 00 Mrs. Alfred Pell, Highland Falls, N. Y 25 00 Sam'l Riker, Seabright, N. J 25 00 Contribution from Algoma, Wis., High School 2 00 " A. P. R.," Brooklyn, N. Y 2 00 Robert S. Webb, Cooperstown, N. Y 5 00 Mrs. Henry Oothout, N. Y. City 10 00 Albert Tilt, N. Y. City 50 00 Miss Elise M. Mourraille, N. Y. City 5 00 Mrs. Cornelia Prime, Huntington, N. Y 25 00 J. W. Pearsall, N. Y. City 10 00 " Cash," I 00 James C. Carter, N. Y. City 250 00 F. S. Smithers & Co., N. Y. City 250 00 Theo. K. Gibbs, Newport, R. 1 50 00 Jeremiah Skidmore's Sons, N. Y. City 50 00 Joseph J. O'Donohue, Jr., " 25 00 " A Friend," Providence, R.I 5 00 Mrs. Charles W. Ogden, Swampscott, Mass 20 00 Charles W. Ogden, " 20 00 Miss Mary F. Ogden, " 20 00 Miss Annie Frazier, " 1000 Mrs. Robert G. Remsen, N. Y. City lOO 00 Mrs. Charles Piatt Storrs, " 5 00 Mrs. Thomas Paton, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y 50 00 M. Bayard Brown, N. Y. City 1,000 00 Mrs. A. L. Titus 50 00 Cedar Cliff Silk Co., Paterson, N. J 25 00 296 City. M. Guggenheim's Sons, N. Y. Byam K. Stevens, " Cuyler, Morgan & Co. , " George F. Baker, " Francis Lynde Stetson, " Charles C. Post, " Oliver S. Carter, " Walter S. Johnston, " S. Hazard Halstead, " Charles Robinson Smith, " "W. P. G.," " [,[[ Samuel T. Carter, Jr. " Brooklyn & N. Y. Fur Mfg. Co., N. Y. City , Miss Alice Boit Miss Dorothea Draper, N. Y. City " A Friend," Miss E. K. Francis Mrs. Wm. C. Osborn N. Sobel, N. Y. City Woman's National War Relief Association, Poland Spring House, Me. George F. Morgan, N. Y, City Thos. Thacher, " Mrs. Francis M. Jencks, Dublin, N. H Pupils of School at Liberty Corner, N. J J. N. Longdon, N. Y. City Wm. Halls, Jr., " Proceeds of Decoration Day Services, National Prohibition Park " A. G. D." Collected by " Polly " Ogden Henry R. Beekman " D. B. Ogden F. de P. Foster John E. Parsons " Herbert Parsons " H. F. W Mrs. C. de P. F. G. Sherman " G. Waddington " Mrs. G. M. Ogden " Mrs. C. Evans " Edward Coles " Mrs. D " H. P." Edward M. Shepard " "J. C.B.- Johnston Livingston " Edward Cooper " "S. D. P." "A.D.J." Mrs. C. D. Stickney " 1,000 00 250 00 250 00 250 00 250 00 I 00 100 00 250 00 1 00 10 00 5 00 5 00 2 00 2 50 5 00 10 00 50 00 1,000 00 5 00 50 00 50 00 25 00 100 00 75 10 00 100 00 32 3S 5 00 25 00 50 00 25 00 25 00 10 00 5 00 5 00 10 00 10 00 25 00 50 00 10 00 5 00 5 00 20 00 I 00 10 00 10 00 10 00 5 00 10 00 >iT ,J%m ' < kn^^ !•< 298 St. Paul Red Cross Society $ 100 00 Probst, Wetzler & Co., N. Y. City 250 00 Beth Eden Baptist Church S. S., Omaha, Neb 6 78 Mrs. John M. Purdy, N. Y. City 10 00 Raphael Tuck & Sons Co., Ltd., N. Y. City 10 00 Revillon Freres, N. Y. City 10 00 Boshes & Buchbinder, " i 00 John B. Lawrence, Jr. , " 50 00 Mrs. S. C. W., Dalton, Mass 10 00 Samuel H. Lyman, N. Y. City 10 00 Mrs. Hopper S. Mott, " 5 00 Society of First Aid to the Injured, Hartford Ct 50 00 Theo. L. DeVinne & Co., N. Y. City 10 00 Cash from a passer-by Red Cross Supply Depot 2 00 Wm. H. Lusk, N. Y. City 25 00 Joseph Eastman, " 100 00 Schulz & Ruckgaber, " 250 00 E. D. Morgan & Co., " 250 00 H. E. Garth, " 100 00 George Zabriskie, " 50 00 Chas. Pratt & Co. , " 1,00000 Miss Isabelle Parker, " 10 00 Mi.ss Edith W. de Rusey, N. Y. City 5 00 Mrs. H. C. Hazen, " 25 00 Mrs. Henry H. Landon, Ridgefield, Ct 25 00 Sherman Reid & Co., N. Y. City 50 00 School children of Paterson, N. J 160 53 Citizens of Cumberland, Wis 24 50 All Saint's Church, Bay Side, N. Y 15 00 " C. S.," Summit, N. J 1,000 00 C. Dorflinger & Son, White Mills, Pa 50 00 Henry R. Ham, N. Y. City 10 00 Daniel Heimlich, " i 00 Jos. Cohn & Bro., " 500 Louis Dean Speir, " 5 00 Edward E. Porter, " 25 00 Cash, N. Y, City 100 00 Collected by three young ladies from guests at Pavilion Hotel, Sharon Springs, N. Y 10 00 Mrs. Geo. Pendleton Bowler, N. Y. City 100 00 Wm. T. Bostwick, Upper Montclair, N.J i 00 Twentieth Century Club, of Hartford, Ct 100 00 Rev. C. G. Bristol, Hartford, Ct 20 00 Blum & Koch, N. Y. City 10 00 S. Feldstein & Co., N. Y, City i 00 Dr. J. Stedman Converse, N. Y. City 50 00 S. P. Coleman, Middletown, Ct., (proceeds of one day's sale) 55 00 Miss Louise Whitney, Treas. King's Daughters, Southington, Ct 6 00 Mrs. Wm. E. Wilmerding, N. Y. City 5 00 300 Mrs. B. W. Bellamy, Brooklyn $ 6 oo Mrs. J. T. Draper, N. Y. City 5 00 Calvary Baptist Church, Brooklyn 13 03 Edward W. Sheldon, N. Y. City 100 00 The Shefi&eld Farms Co. , " 1000 Morewood & Co. , " 100 00 Mrs. Laura C. Sheldon, Auburn, N. Y 5 00 "G. G. v.," Fort Plain, N. Y 35 00 Moran Bros., N. Y. City 50 00 Graham F. Blandy, N. Y. City 25 00 The Angle Lamp Co., " 10 cx) William A. Holliday, Woodstock, Vt 25 00 So. Cong. Sunday-School, Brooklyn, N. Y 11 50 Public Schools of Essex Co., N. J 33 47 Mrs. S. P. Wisner, Warwick, N. Y 100 00 Mrs. M. Korey Keach, Brooklyn, N. Y 5 00 W. M. Kendall, N. Y. City 10 00 James A. Hearn & Co. , N. Y. City 250 00 Miss Margaret R. Hollenbach, Atwood, Kansas i 00 Proceeds of Lawn Party at Providence, R. I., by the Misses Phelon, Brown and Douglas 26 50 D. Schnakenberg, N. Y. City 100 00 Mrs. F. E. Gorham, " 5 00 St. Mark's Church, Mauch Chunk, Pa 22 61 " A Friend," N. Y. City 20 00 Walter Hoffman, N. Y. City 25 00 Franklin B. Lord, " 25 00 " G. L. W. H.," Bridgeport, Ct 50 00 J. D. Flower, N. Y. City 100 00 Proceeds of a Fair at Mount House, Roanoke, Va., by the Misses Hager and Pinckney 25 75 Several Members of Christ Church, Tarrytown, N. Y 25 00 "I. W.," N. Y. City 15 00 *' Mrs. L. ," " 100 00 "E. H, R. and E. R. B.," Newark, N. J 10 00 Brown Bros. & Co., N. Y. City 1,000 00 Oliver G. Barton, " 2000 James T. Woodward, " 25000 Public School Children and Epworth League M. E. Church, Belford, N. J. .. 19 00 H. T. Carey & Co., N. Y. City 100 00 Wilson, Adams & Co. , " 50 00 Rev. John Q. Adams, Sanitarium Tabernacle, Clifton Springs, N. Y 195 00 Wm. Colgate, N. Y. City 100 00 F. S. B., Berlin, Ct 5 00 " C. A. R.," N. Y. City 5 00 Moore & Schley, " 250 00 J. Hampden Dougherty, N. Y. City 50 00 Spencer, Trask & Co. , " 250 00 Mrs. and Miss Newell, Bradford, Pa 50 00 302 S. L. M., Bridgeport, Ct § lo oo Mrs. George W. Thomas, Cranford, N. J lo oo Mrs. C. A. Johnson, Binghamton, N. Y 2 50 " E. B.," N. Y. City 50 00 The Clara Barton Society, Bridgeport, Ct 15 00 John Henkel, N. Y. City 10 00 J. Hooker Hamersley, Jackson, N. H 100 00 Lenox Avenue Unitarian Church, N, Y. City 75 00 Miss Ethel Jarvis Wheeler, Amherst, Mass 10 00 George \V. Craft, N. Y. City 5 00 Mrs. E. D. Trowbridge, Noroton, Conn 10 00 School Children of Providence, R. 1 400 00 Proceeds of Fair held by four little girls, Tremont, N. Y., — Misses Juliet Grant, Vera and Jennie Thornton, and Florence Sloane 2 00 Citizens of Millbrook, N. Y 212 60 Harvey E. Kennedy, N. Y. City 25 00 Wm. L. Kennedy, " 25 00 Lewis Minford, " 2 00 Proceeds of Entertainment given by Misses Mollie Bratzner and Jeannette Kohn, Plainfield, N.J 3 00 Alexander E. Orr, N. Y. City 500 00 Henry C. Ward, " 25 00 Mrs. Wm. H. Granbery," 100 00 Mrs. W. K. Otis, Oyster Bay, L. 1 25 00 J. O. Hopkins, N. Y. City i 00 " Mrs. J. B. B.," Brooklyn 5 00 Fred Probst lS: Co., N. Y. City 100 00 M. L. Sykes, " 100 00 John L. Cadwalader, " 500 00 First Parish Sunday-school, Kennebunk, Me 3 00 Anonymous i 00 Frederic Cromwell, N. Y. City 200 00 Robert S. Holt, " 100 00 A Friend 2 00 Mrs. Alice C. Smith, Brooklyn 10 00 Miss Anna Rochester, Pomfret, Ct 5 00 DeWitt J. Seligman, N. Y. City 5 00 Miss M. L. Emmons, " 25 00 Mrs. N. Henry Sabin, Treas. Williamstown Auxiliary, Williamstown, Mass. . loi 86 J. B. Butcher, Pawling, N. Y 50 00 Rev. D. Marvin, Setauket, L. 1 5 00 Miss Kate W. Blake, N. Y. City 10 00 H. C. Carroll, from Pawling (N. Y.) Volunteer Fire Department 10 00 Proceeds of a Party held by Mrs. P. L. Jennings and others at Merrick, L.I. 6 00 Proceeds of Patriotic Garden Party, Hempstead, L. 1 120 00 First Presbyterian Church, Stamford, Ct 223 22 St. John's Episcopal Church, " " 116 30 St. John's R. C. Church, " " 30 17 St. Andrew's Episcopal Church," " 27 15 304 Church of Mediator, Providence, R.I $ lo oo Samuel N. Hoyt, N. Y. City loo oo Thatcher M. Adams, " 250 00 James R. Keene, " 1,000 00 Talbot J. Taylor & Co., N. Y. City 300 00 W. G. Bixby, Vergennes, Vt 50 00 Mrs. Rudolph Keppler, N. Y. City 20 00 Mrs. Charles A. Dana, Glen Cove, L. I 100 00 G. G. Bain, N. Y. City 5 00 Part Proceeds of Pan-American Club Festival, N. Y. City 54 00 A. A. Cowles, N. Y. City 100 00 James C. Carter, " 50000 A. J. Drexel, " 5,00000 James K. Shaw, " 1000 Wm. C. Sheldon & Co., N. Y. City 250 00 Lewisohn Bros. , " 100 00 Busk & Jevons, " 100 00 Samuel G. Bayne, " 100 00 Lee, Livingston & Co., " 100 00 Citizens of Cumberland, Wis i 00 J. H. Maghee, Beedes, N. Y 50 00 Claflin, Thayer & Co. , N. Y. City 10 00 Thomas Wyman Porter, " 50 00 Mrs. S, N. Benjamin, lenia, N. Y 5° 00 Mrs. Jas. Condie, N. Y. City 25 00 Thos, M. North, " 2500 "C. P. L.," Stamford, Ct 10 00 Proceeds of Fancy Dress Bazaar by guests of Wildmere House, Minnewaska, N. Y 253 35 Proceeds of a Garden Party on Sullivan Island, Moultrieville, S. C 225 00 Mrs. Louise B. Stilwell, N. Y. City 100 00 Chas. Wolff & Co., " 2500 Guiteman Bros. , " 2 00 Hardt & Lindgens, " 100 00 Meyer & Dickinson, " 25 00 Fleitman &Co., " 25000 Cheney Bros., " 100 00 Mrs. Hugh J. Jewett Far Rockaway, L. 1 100 00 Mrs. Thomas Hunt, " 5000 Church & Dwight Co., N. Y. City 100 00 Rev. Arthur Goster, Kilbourne, Wis 2 50 East High St. Club, London, Ohio 10 00 Mrs. Woolsey A. Hopkins, Stamford, Ct 5 00 The Badminton Club, N. Y. City 250 00 Mrs. Schley, Watertown, N. Y 500 00 Samuel C. Baum & Co., N. Y, City 5 00 Wm. Brickmaier, " 2100 Miss Catharine N. Agnew, Palisades-on-Hudson 10 00 Mrs. Robert MacCarter, Manchester, Vt 500 00 3o6 John L. Riker, N. Y. City '. Miss Cora F. Barnes, N. Y. City Mrs. S. T. Dauchy, Rebekah and Arthur B. Crawford, Brooklyn Collected by Mrs. Sidney Bernheimer, Saratoga, N. Y Residents of Wyoming, N. J 2nd Cong. Church, Falmouth, Me "C. C. A.," Anonymous, N. Y. City Crown Cycle Club and others, LaPorte, Ind C. E. Soc, 1st Baptist Church, Lambertsville, N. J Jas. Russell Parsons, Jr., Cazenovia, N. Y An American, N. Y. City Prof. James Douglas, N. Y. City Mrs. M. Hammond, Wayne, 111 Dutch Reformed Church Society, Newtown, L. I Simon Nachtigall, N. Y. City A King's Daughter, through selling homemade candies and cakes, Portchester, N. Y Emlen N. Lawrence, N. Y. City Louis Marshall, N. Y. City Miss Marie Gelpcke, Brooklyn, N. Y Miss Elizabeth B. Higginson, N. Y. City Miss Dorothy L. Higginson, " J. H. Hewson, N. Y. City Employees brickyard of John N. Frazer, New Windsor, N. Y Rev. D. Stuart Dodge, N. Y. City Mrs. Wm. Earle Dodge, " Holbrook Bros., N. Y. City Chas. T. Wing & Co., N. Y. City Mrs. Thomas Foster, Utica, N. Y Oelbermann, Dommerich & Co., N. Y. City Loewenstein Bros. , N . Y. City Boehm & Levine, " Mrs. A. Newbold Morris, Ridgefield, Ct Reformed Church of North Branch, N. J Young Ladies' Mission Circle of Reformed Church, North Branch, N. J C. Obermeier & Co., N. Y. City Wm. C. Sturges, " W.R.Moore, " C. A. Colcord, Searsport, Me King's Daughters of Blinn Memorial Church, N. Y. City Wm. Pickhardt & Kuttroff, N. Y. City Clarence Whitman & Co. , " Citizens of Sidney, Neb., through Mrs. Clara E. Britton Employees National Conduit & Cable Co., Hastings-on-IIudson Mrs. Alfred Pell, Eastport, Me Max Herzog, N. Y. City Mrs. E. N. Herzog, N. Y. City Miss S. L. Gibbs, " lOO 00 500 00 II 40 319 75 2 00 30 00 5 00 TOO 00 31 13 3 00 10 00 10 00 100 00 5 00 27 27 5 00 5 00 250 00 150 00 50 00 50 00 50 00 25 00 2 60 200 00 250 00 100 00 100 00 100 00 250 00 5 00 5 00 100 00 16 19 16 55 5 00 50 00 10 00 10 00 10 00 100 00 100 00 29 00 14 50 25 00 150 00 100 00 5 00 307 Miss Mary L. Adams, Bailey's Island, Me S 2 00 Miss Lily Babcock, Lenox, Mass 25 00 Miss Minnie Babcock, " " 25 00 The Soldiers' Friends 5 00 Mrs. Maria T. King and John B. King, Baden-Baden, Germany 50 00 Newbold Lawrence, N. Y. City 10 00 Reform Church, Kinderhook, N. V 47 49 Chautauqua Assembly Collections, Chautauqua, N. Y 200 00 "A Friend," N. Y. City 100 00 John T. Waterbury, N. Y. City 100 00 Boody, McClellan & Co. " 25 00 Mrs. A. N. Biglow, Toronto, Canada 10 00 School children of Portland, Me 90 00 Brigham, Lavvrie, Mann & Co., N. Y. City 100 00 Presb. Church, of Westernville, N. Y 17 00 Proceeds of Garden Party and Sale given by the four Cottrell children, Mount Vernon, N. Y 40 00 Fogle, Killin, Kane & Co., N. Y. City 25 00 Middleton S. Burrrill, " lOO oo Chas. A. Munn, " 25 00 O. D. Munn, " 100 00 Edward E. Poor, " 25000 From children at Montowese House, Branford, Ct 20 34 Miss Mary S. Taylor, N. Y. City n 43 Allen Schenck, " 2500 George Wellwood Murray, " 50 00 Miss Lily S. Murrray, " 3 00 Howard Mansfield, " 30 00 Citizens of Lakewood, Whiteface P. O., N. Y iS 00 Collected at Taftville, Ct., by C. W. Prentice 37 5° Proceeds of Children's Fair given by Misses Julia Jacobs, Katherine A. Mead, Elizabeth Mead, Grace Boswell and Cornelia Delano, Greenwich, Ct 18 S4 Hartley & Graham, N. Y. City 100 00 Standard Distilling Co., " 100 00 Kahn&Kahn, " -5 00 Miss Sara S. Kimball, " =5 00 Contribution taken during Service at Brining's Maple Grove, Lake Hunting- ton, N. Y -7°° Collected by members of the C. E. Society of the Hillside Presb. Church, Orange, N.J... ^^ 37 Augustus Myers, N. Y. City ^° °° Raised by Five Children at a Piazza Entertainment, Master Chas. R. Brewer, Treas., Gilbertsville, N. Y - "° Miss Susan Clark, West Brattleboro, Vt ^" 0° Miss Mary R. Cabot, Brattleboro, Vt '° °° ,, ^ .. 1.T -iT /-•» 1,00000 " Grace, N. Y. City Mrs. D. Willis James, Madison, N.J 1,000 00 Mrs. Henry Kirke Porter, Southampton, L. 1 100 00 Council of Jewish Women, Montgomery, Ala 3^ 00 3o8 \Vm. R. Beal, N. Y. City § 5° oo Castner, Curran & Bullitt, N. Y. City i oo M. J. and C. M. McC, Baden-Baden, Germany 50 oo " M. W.," N. Y. City 100 00 Mrs. Caroline H. Stone, Cherry Valley, N. Y 5 25 Edwin B. Craigie, U. D., N. Y. City 10 00 Misses Ferris, Wawbeck, N. Y 12 50 " An American," N. Y. City 5.000 00 From Villagers of Randolph, N. Y 23 50 Horace Jones, N. Y. City 5 00 James McCreery & Co., N. Y. City 100 00 Bawo & Dotter, " 25 00 George Borgfeldt & Co., " 25 00 Austin, Nichols & Co., " 20000 Camp Hood S. C. V., Marshall, Texas 5 00 H. Stearns Co., N. Y. City 5 00 Benjamin Loeb, " 2000 American Trimmings Syndicate, N. Y. City 5 00 B. Fisher & Co., N. Y. City 50 00 Mrs. M. Chamberlain 100 00 Miss J. Ridley 25 00 School children of Portland, Me 5 00 Mrs. James Marsh Barrett, Mt. Pleasant, Pa i 00 W. H. Langley & Co., N. Y. City 100 00 Cook, Bernheimer & Co., " 1000 Whitall, Tatum & Co., " 100 00 Charles B. Meyer, " 500 John G. Turnbull, " 1000 Class G, Zion Church S. S., Wappinger's Falls, N. Y 9 00 Mrs. C. A. Sands, Manchester, Vt 65 00 Anonymous - 00 N. Tesla, N. Y. City 25 00 A. K. Ingraham, Albany, N. Y 3 00 Miss Alleine Lee, N. Y. City 20 00 G. Dessecker, " 5 00 Proceeds of a Fair held by seven little children at Great Neck, L. I 20 00 " R. R.," N. Y. City 100 00 Chas. C. Post, " 100 Robert Jaffray, Stockbridge, Mass 10 00 Ladies of AUenhurst, N. J I55 00 H. A. Bourne, N. Y. City 300 00 Goodfriend Bros., " 5 00 Thos. Potts, " 50 00 Miss M. A. Parkhurst, Wellesley Hills, Mass 3 00 Miss Louisa Lee Schuyler, Eastport, Me 10 00 H, Meitzner, N. Y. City 2 00 Frederick W. Cole, N. Y. City 10 00 Richard Evans, " 1000 Mrs. George de F. Lord, " 5° 00 309 James B. Ford, N. Y. City $ i.ooo f30 Leonard W. Ely, M.D., N. Y. City 5 oo Employees W. J. Wilcox Lard and Ref'gCo., Guttenburg, N.J 3 9° Clarence M. Roof, Frost Valley, N. Y 50 oo R. W. Phair &Co., N. Y. City 10 00 Stuart Hart, M.D., " 500 J.W.Edmonds, " 1000 Proceeds of Cake, Candy, and Lemonade Sale, at Humboldt St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 5 00 Mizpah Circle King's Daughters, Plainfield, N.J 25 00 Central Council 131, Jr., O. W. A. M., Westfield, N. J 4 00 Belle Haven Morning Whist Club, Greenwich, Ct no 00 George Finck, N. Y. City 2 00 Proceeds of Fair by four children, 12 years old, at the residence of Mrs. Chas. W, Carpenter, Monmouth Beach, N.J 52 00 Proceeds of a Sacred Concert at Monmouth House, Aug. 14, Spring Lake Beach, N. J 200 00 Mrs. H. R. Kunhardt, New Brighton, S. 1 500 00 Kunhardt & Co., N. Y. City 500 00 Collection taken at the Rally of C. E. Societies of Greater New York, West New Brighton, S.I 35 ^3 Miss Grace B. Beach, Buckland, Mass • • 15 00 Mrs. C. C. Wyeth, " " 2000 Y. P. S. C. E. of Tribes Hill, N. Y 5 00 Proceeds of an Entertainment at Sloatsburg, N. Y 40 00 J. H. Voss 25 00 Through N. Y. Herald 2S0 41 Mrs. Nelson Roberts, Kingsville, Ohio 5 00 Loyal Citizens Ass'n of Oyster Bay, L, 1 156 79 Citizens of Lake Preston, S. D 35 00 Henry Eifert, N. Y. City 5 00 Jacob Kindlimann, " 5 Proceeds of a game of Baseball by the Doctors and Lawyers of Perth Amboy, N.J ^9 00 Mrs. C. A. Witt, N. Y. City 5 °° Frank W. J. Jaeger, " Miss Anna Steers, N. Y. City " °° Donald Mackay , " Elbert A. BrinckerhofI, " ^o 00 " Mrs. A. B.," Whiteface, N. Y 100 00 George F. Southard • 2^ 00 Gen. Wager Swayne, N. Y. City = ., e TJ /f " 100 00 Abram b. Hewitt, ^ ^, , ,. 10 00 George Clark, li 50 CO Morse & Rogers, II 5 00 Chas. A. Ahrens, , . , i. S 00 Mrs. George Trowbridge, -' -KT T 122 00 People of Patterson, N.J "Cash," 500 Mrs. Martha Cutler, Orange, N.J ^ 3IO J. Harvey Ladew, N. Y. City $ 500 00 Mrs. Ladew, Glen Cove, L. 1 500 00 " G. B. W.," Milwaukee, Wis 10 00 Miss Mary H. McCalla, N. E. Harbor, Me 50 00 Frederic W. Stevens, N. Y. City 250 00 Proceeds of Entertainment at Bath Beach, N. Y., Aug. iSth 25 00 Rev. F. H. Marling, N. Y. City 5 00 Geo. W. Craft, " 500 Miss Eliza M. Coxe, Drifton, Pa 25 00 Miss Maria M. Coxe, " 25 00 Miss Rebecca Coxe, " 25 00 Church of the Holy Cross, Paris, Texas 7 10 "J.J. D.," Milbrook, N. Y 25 00 Julius Ellinger & Co., N. Y. City 25 00 Mrs. August Lewis, Brattleboro, Vt 10 00 Adrian Iselin, Jr., N. Y. City 100 00 Eames & Moore, " 50 00 Wm. K. Thorn 100 00 " Cash," N. Y. City 250 00 Mrs. N. Witherill, Greenwich, Ct 250 00 Rev. H. W. Nelson, Glens Falls, N. Y 25 00 Richard M. Bruno, N. Y. City 20 00 John Muth, N. Y. City 5 00 Mrs. A. G. Meyers, Portland, Oregon 5 00 Mrs. E. L. Stetson 85 00 Richmond Grays Chapter, No. 148, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Fayette, Mo 35 00 Mrs. J. W. Dougan, N. Y. City 10 00 Dougan & Merritt, " 10 00 St. Paul's Church, Kinderhook, N. Y 5 25 The Stewart, Howe & May Co., N. Y. City 100 00 Dr. Georgia A. Cassidy, Brooklyn, N. Y 5 00 Hatzel & Buehler, N. Y. City 15 00 Miguel Attak & Co. , " 25 00 J. A. Steurer, " 8 00 W. Bourke Cockran, " 25 00 H. E. Van Home, " 100 Speak No Evil Circle of King's Daughters, Clinton, N.J 5 00 James G. Brown, N. Y. City 10 00 Mrs. C. C. Wyeth, " 20 00 Miss Eliza M. Hughes, N. Y. City, i 00 John D. Rockefeller, Jr., " 20000 John D. Archbold, " 500 oo H. M. Flagler, " 5,00000 Rudolph Keppler, " 100 00 J. D. Flower, " 200 00 J, J. Higginson, " 5000 Collection at a Church Service in the parlors of Hotel Champlain, Clinton Co., N. Y 62 40 311 G. G. Frelinghuysen, N. Y. City $ 250 00 James K. Gracie, " 100 00 William D. Barber, " 100 00 Mrs. Archibald Alexander, Bernardsville, N. J 100 00 Mrs. E. A. Stevens, Hoboken, N.J 100 00 Henry B. Ely, N. Y. City 25 00 Mrs. Lea Mcllvaine Luquer, Bar Harbor, Me 10 00 E. A. Dailey, N. Y. City 5 00 Henry B. Wilson, " 50 00 Proceeds of a Fair and Entertainment at Fabyan House, White Mts., N. H.. 1,000 00 Edo E. Mercelis, N. Y. City 10 00 George F. Morgan , " 50 00 Mrs. R. S. Bowne, East Hampton , L. 1 50 co Coudert Bros. , N. Y. City too 00 Luther League of St. John's Lutheran Church, Hudson, N. Y 5 25 Proceeds of Concert at St. Hubert's Inn, Adirondack Mt. Reserve 251 00 Miss T. Bergh-Brown, Litchfield, Ct 25 00 Misses Lucinda Dudley and Arline M. Rathbone, Committee, Mystic, Ct. . . . 21 50 Jno. L. Riker, N. Y. City 250 00 Guests of the " Wawbeck," Cragsmoor, N. Y 30 00 F. H. Nelson 5° 00 John K. Cilley, N. Y. City 50 00 William King, " 1000 Ladies of Allenhurst, N.J 25 00 Ladies' Relief Com. of Winchester, N. H 12S 30 National Meter Co 100 00 Miss Ruth Auchincloss Child, New Canaan, Ct 20 00 Wm. G. Low, N. Y. City 2,50000 Cleveland H. Dodge, N. Y. City 575 00 Mrs. E. B. Southworth, Brooklyn, N. Y 2 00 G. F. Bailey, Newark, N. J 5 00 Mrs. Edward Reeve Merritt, Oyster Bay, L.I 50 00 Henry A. Robinson, N. Y. City 25 00 People of Sagaponack, L. I ^9 00 Guests of Monhotto Inn 5i ^o Prof. James Douglas, N. Y. City 100 00 Mrs. Wm. T. Wardwell, " 2500 Women of Ridgewood, N. J 56 M Joseph Lehman, N. Y. City 5 00 .<---„ .1, " 2 00 Cash 1st Presbyterian Church, Claysville, Pa 10 00 J. H. Watson, Brooklyn ^° °° Miss Mary O. Stevens, Lawrence, L. 1 10 00 Mrs. Joanna R. Auchincloss, Bar Harbor, Me 30 00 Dr. E. A. Bogue, N. Y. City ^5 00 Mrs. M. Hammond, Wayne, 111 ^" °° Mr. James S. Baker, N. Y. City '° °° Anonymous, Port Washington, N. Y 5 Mrs. J. F. Kesseler, N. Y. City 3 40 312 D. O. Wickham, Hotel Champlain, N. Y $ loo oo A. L. Norrie, N. Y. City loo oo Miss Sara Schermerhorn, Lenox, Mass 300 00 F. Miranda & Co., N. Y. City 100 00 Henry B. Hyde, " 500 00 Rev. J. W. Campbell, " 1050 George H. Frieze, " 6 50 Miss Florence S. Boardman, N. Y. City 10 00 Entertainment at " Cedarhurst Cottage " by Mrs. Palmer and Guests, Camden, Me 50 00 Mrs. Cornelia and Miss H. Roades, N. Y. City 50 00 Townsend Howes, N. Y. City 10 00 Rev. Dr. Chas. P. Fagnani, N. Y. City 20 00 Mrs. Benjamin, N. Y. City 15 00 E. Moro Davison, " 50 00 Ybor, Manrara Co. , " 25 00 Miss Helen C. Irving, N. Y. City 5 00 Henry F. Noyes, " 100 00 Church of Holy Communion, N. Y. City 5 00 Proceeds of Entertainment at " Kenelmslea," Great Neck, L. 1 700 00 John N. Brown, Providence, R.I 200 00 W. H, Bliss, N. Y. City 500 00 \Vm. S. Bennett, " 5 00 Stamford, Ct. , Soldiers' Aid Society 44 50 Mr. Kimble, visitor to Camp Wikoff 5 00 " W. G. W.," Plainfield, N. J 5 00 " E. & M.," Orchard Home, Middletown, N, Y 5 00 Miss Margaret Ren wick, N. Y. City 100 00 Employees, John Ellis & Co., N. Y. City 26 10 Miss Alice W. Williams, Brooklyn, N. Y 15 00 Miss Cornelia W. Halsey, Newark, N.J 100 00 Augustus L. Clarkson, N. Y. City 50 00 Relief Committee, N. Y. Produce Exchange 2,587 50 " Cash " 50 00 Florence M. Brown, N. Y. City 10 00 E. A. Montell, Jr., " 1000 Hirschhorn, Mack & Co., N. Y. City 15 00 " A Friend," for Montauk Point 10 00 Mrs. J. L. Lyle, Tenafly, N.J 500 00 Roger S. Baldwin, New Haven, Ct 5 00 Mrs. Henry C. Conger, N. Y. City 25 00 Mrs. H. E. Cobb, " 500 Employees, Hastings Paper Co., Hastings-on-Hudson 1500 People of Plain View, Minn., (for Montauk Point) 25 00 S. H. Kissam, N. Y. City 100 00 Proceeds of Entertainment by Guests at Hotel Columbia, Belmar, N. J 96 75 J. Archibald Murray, N. Y. City 50 00 Miss C. C. Crosby, Poughkeepsie, N. Y 10 00 Miss Bertha G. Brooks, Moriches, L.I 100 00 313 " B. B.." N. Y. City ^ loo oo Rev. R. R. Upjohn, N. Y. City 4 oo Mrs. S. H. Powell, Old Chatham, N. Y 25 00 " J. W.," Big Indian, Ulster Co., N. Y 10 00 Offerings received at Church Services at Isle la Motte, Vt 4 28 Collected by Thos. H. Stone 2 00 Proceeds of Doll Raffle at Hotel Brighton, Atlantic City, N.J 50 00 " S. T. G.," Toms River, N. J 20 00 Mrs. Mary S. Atterbury, Trenton, N. J 10 00 A. G. Havens, N. Y. City 10 00 Wm. Halls, Jr., L. I. City 100 00 Summer Mission, West Part, New London, N. H 16 33 " A. T, W.," U. S. Hotel, Saratoga Springs, N. Y 20 00 Mrs. A. D., Brooklyn, N. Y 5 00 Frederick E. Hyde, N. Y. City 250 00 Mrs. Mary E. Read, Ticonderoga, N. Y 5 00 Mrs. Margaret D. H. Sibley, Rochester, N. Y 25 00 "A. B. E. J.," and " F. H. J.," Providence, R. 1 25 00 H. Wolff and Employees, N. Y. City 30 00 Collected at Susquehanna, Pa iS 70 John Hutchinson & Sons and employees, N. Y. City 13 32 Contributions received by N. Y. Herald 215 80 Henry R. Wood, N. Y. City 5° 00 Collection taken at M. E. Church, East Lynn, 111 341 Wm. S. Day, Jamestown, R. 1 10 00 Albert Crane, Stamford, Ct 100 00 Miss M. B. Willard, Newport, R. 1 2 00 Fred. Goldsmith, N. Y. City 3 60 Anonymous, visitor to Camp Wikoff 5 00 Dr. Wm. H. Draper, N. Y. City 100 00 Fayerweather & Ladew, N. Y. City 100 00 Proceeds of Entertainment at U. S. Hotel, Long Branch 25 25 Master Olan N. Stein, Magnolia, Mass 10 00 An Officer of a Michigan Regiment at Montauk Point 10 00 Anonymous, Montauk Point 2 00 Mrs. Mary A. Murray, Woodstock, Vt 100 00 Collection at Water St. Mission, N. Y. City I7 65 Half Proceeds of Concert and Ball at Arverne-by-the-Sea, L. 1 506 50 N. Y. Life Insurance Co S.ooo 00 Mrs. John Innes Kane, Lenox, Mass ^°° °° Jonathan Dwight, N. Y. City ^°^ °° George Gudewill, " 50000 Equitable Life Insurance Co., N. Y. City 5-000 00 Mrs. John T. Graham, Mt. Washington, Md 5 00 Mrs. Ella M. Judge, Brooklyn, N. Y 3 00 DeWitt J. Seligman, N. Y. City '° °° G. B. Mead, Jr., Brooklyn, N. Y =5 00 Rev. Charles Lewis Biggs, N. Y. City 5 00 W^. J. Tait, Jersey City, N.J 314 Proceeds of Lawn Fete given by Misses Avis j\I. Hull and Lillie M. Gould, assisted by Junior Aux. 36, Mt. Vernon $ 18 00 Open-air Entertainment given at Cold Spring-on-Hudson 250 00 Mrs. E. B. Sexton, N. Y. City 5 00 Employees, Carl Upmann Cigar Manufactory, N. Y. City 18 00 American Surety Co. of N. Y 1,000 00 Proceeds of Lawn Party by Miss Elizabeth Armington and friends, E. Provi- dence, R. 1 115 15 " E. P. C," Providence, R. 1 25 00 Astoria Silk Works, through N. V. Times 50 00 Messrs. Oswald Lewyn, Nathan Kleinbaum, Willie Greenfield, Eddy and Robert Spies, through A'". V. Times 5 00 Mrs. Joseph W. Harper, N. Y. City 100 00 Mutual Life Ins. Co., N. Y. City 5, 000 00 Miss Eliza G. Radike, Providence, R.I 100 00 Employees Engineers' Dep't Standard Gas Light Co., N. Y. City 2 70 Anonymous 25 Proceeds of Lectures at Gilbertsville, N. Y 20 00 Mrs. and Miss B 25 00 Mrs. Edmund Titus, Scarsdale, N. Y 25 00 Mrs. W. G. De Lamater, Westfield, N. J 10 00 Miss Emma L. Bridges, " " 10 00 Cortlandt Irving, N. Y. City ... 10 00 Albert L. Willis, University Heights, N. Y 5 00 Reformed Church of Ellenville, N. Y 4 00 Employees at Pier 4, North River 3(> 50 Readers of N. Y. Herald 512 00 The Patriotic Women's Relief Association of Lockport 12 00 Osman Temple Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles, Mystic Shrine, ."^t. Paul, Minn lOO 00 P. W. Ehrhard, N. Y. City 5 00 Anonymous 15 00 The Woodstock Co., Jersey City, N. J i 50 Collection of Baptist S. S., Warren, R. I " 14 00 Anonymous i 00 Chas. F. Estwick, N. Y. City 10 00 Wm, A. Evans, " 20 00 Francis Halpin, " 5 00 Proceeds of Entertainment by Children, at " Hearth-Stone Inn," De Bruce, N. Y II 00 John L. Riker, N. Y. City 250 00 Three Friends 2 00 Hugh L. Alison, Norfolk, Va 5 00 Miss M. E. Wood, Sayville, N. Y 5 00 Clara Barton Society of Stamford, N. Y 4 10 Winfred Schreiner, Summit, N.J 3 25 Mrs. John G. Walker, Wilton, N. II 50 00 Entertainment by Children at Grey Court Inn, Stamford, N. Y 3 00 A. N. Carter, N. Y. City 5 00 315 Balmville Union S. S., Newburg, N. Y $ 17 43 Mrs. John J. O'Rorke, Hastings-on-Hudson 25 00 Wm. Dulles, Jr., N. Y. City 25 fX) B. B. A. Masrha, " " i 00 Miss Abby B. Corbin, Metuchen, N.J 5 00 "A. F. W.," N. Y. City 75 00 Rev. Daniel A. Gibbons, N. Y. City i 00 Citizens of Randolph, N. Y 13 50 Beth Enieth Soldiers' Guild of Albany, N. Y 100 00 John I. Kane, Lenox, Mass 100 00 Collected at Front's Neck, Me., by Miss Bessie S. Gilbert 24 00 Proceeds of an Entertainment by a number of Children at Arios Ilall, N. Y. City 50 00 Mrs. Reuben Wing Howes, Jr., N. Y. City 10 00 Anonymous, N. Y. City 1 00 "E. F. R.," " to 00 Miss Dorothy Chapman, Flushing, L. 1 5 00 Mrs. Samuel Lawrence, N. Y. City 25 00 Miss P. C. Swords, " 2500 Miss E. Mcllvaine, East Orange, N. J 2 50 " M. H." 2 00 Defenders' Aux. Corps of Brooklyn 100 00 Miss Louise Deshler, Sagaponack, L. 1 25 00 Chas. H . Reeves, Chattolanee, Md 37 00 James H. Kirby, N. Y. City 25 00 The Misses Abbie V. Strickland, Ethelyn G. Britton, and five other girls and Two Boys, Long Branch, N.J 2 25 Mrs. Thurston, Providence, R.I 5° 00 Raised by three children— Sara and Willie Hardenbergh and Celeste Heck- scher, editing a magazine, Tannersville, N. Y 10 00 Miss Eliza A. Bulkley, Aix-Les-Bains, Paris 25 00 Charles A. Post, N. Y. City ^0° Mrs. Edward W. Gilmore, Flushing, L. 1 5 00 Misses Dorothy and Ruth and Master John Baldwin, Garden City 2 00 Misses Crawford, Brooklyn 7 10 Greene and Flaherty, N. Y. City ^ °^ Women's War Rel. Soc, Middleville, N. Y '9 39 Proceeds of Tableaux by Children at Monmouth Beach, N.J 35 00 Paul Gottheil, N. Y. City 50 00 E. S. Munger, Jr., Glen Cove, L. 1 5 00 Mrs. M. K. Washburn, Sing Sing, N. Y 1° °<^ W. H. L. Lee, N. Y. City 50 00 Miss Jane B. Kieth, N. Y. City [" °^ Miss Lillian V. Lynn, Boston, Mass =' ^ H. C. Clark, Brooklyn, N. Y ^ =° The Sunshine Club, Lenox Road, Brooklyn, N. Y 2^ 40 Mrs. Lizzie B. Barry, Passaic, N. J Baptist S. S. of the Redeemer, N. Y. City ^* Mrs. Cornelia R. Scott, Madalin, N. Y ^ ^ 3i6 Received at Supply Depot 5 E. T. H. Talmage (for Montauk point) Net Proceeds of an Outing by the Ernest Jahn Association, Brooklyn, N. Y. . Robert VV. De Forest, N. Y. City Proceeds of a Fair by four children, at the house of Mr. Chas. Drescher, Jersey City Heights Employees of The Eastern Paving Brick Co. of Catskill, X. Y Result of a Chain Letter by P. H. Medler, Brooklyn E. C. Blanchard, Newport, Vt Employees of The Albany Produce Co., Ravena, N. Y " of C. H. Evans & Sons, Hudson, N. Y Collected by Mrs. L. A. Cocheron, Brooklyn, N. Y Proceeds of Sale of North Side Club House at Van Cortlandt Lake and balance in hand from dues Collected at West Shore Round House, Ravena, N. Y Citizens of Waco, Texas Long Island R. R. Ferry Employees, L. I. City Employees, Rossman Knitting Co., Stockport, N. Y Rose McK. Nevin, Jersey City Heights Employees, Inman Mfg. Co., Amsterdam, N. Y C. H. & F. H. Stott, Stottville, N. Y " Amsterdam Carpet Works, Amsterdam, N. Y Samuel Wilde's Sons, N. Y. City Thomas Davidson , " Employees, The Solvay Process Co., Syracuse, N. Y Esther E. Libmann, N. Y. City Employees, Church & Dwight Co., Syracuse, N. Y Solvay Circle King's Daughters, " Employees, Syracuse Tube Co., Syracuse, N. Y W. J. Millard, Frankfort, N. Y Margaret D'Orleans, Rome, N. Y Delos Brower, Johnstown, N. Y W. W. Lindsay, Amsterdam, N. Y Employees, Aldridge Bros. & Co., Dutchess Jet., N. Y " Hewitt & Hillock, Johnstown, N. Y Reader of N. Y. Herald, N. Y. City Eighty-six Employees, Ireland Bros., Johnstown, N. Y Employees, Brockport Piano Mfg. Co., Brockport Employees, J. H. Decker, Son & Co., Johnstown, N. Y J. Thomas, Lockport, N. Y Oliver Bros., " Employees, Remington Arms Co., Ilion, N. Y Children of Champernam Hotel, Kittery Point, N. Y Employees, H. M. Quackenbush, Herkimer, N. Y " Trap Factory, Oneida Community, Ltd Mrs. Frederic B. Pratt, Brooklyn, N. Y St. Paul's Mem'l Church, Upper Providence, Pa Junior Society First Baptist Church, Omaha, Neb Olivet Literary Society, N. Y. City 134 06 250 00 50 00 100 00 16 06 37 85 II 55 40 00 2 00 12 00 3 20 36 66 3 51 54 26 6S 00 5 35 I CO 4 45 12 91 7 45 5 00 35 00 50 00 14 So 20 75 15 00 25 00 5 00 2 00 10 00 I 40 22 15 5 00 3 00 4 30 I 50 5 40 5 00 25 00 28 10 II 00 18 00 I 50 5 00 4 70 I 50 58 25 317 Employees, National Casket Co., Rochester, N. Y $ " Phillips & Clark Stove Co., Geneva ' ' Geneva Preserving Co. , " " Shorts ville Wheel Co Mrs. Edward W. Allen, Brooklyn, N. Y Employees, Standard Optical Co., Geneva, N. Y A. P. Snyder Bicycle Wks., Little Falls, N. Y F. F. Parker, Canastota, N. Y Miss Helen Berry, Denver, Col Asbestos Burial Casket Co., Lowville, N. Y " S. B.," N. Y, City Hunter Arms Co., Fulton, N. Y Employees, Cooper Bros., Cortland, N. Y " Bayless Bros., Binghamton, N. Y F. La Motte, Lestershire, N. Y Employees of Stickley and Brandt Chair Co.. Binghamton James B. Weed & Co. , " Employees, Independent Match Co., " Binghamton Wagon Co., " King Harness Co., Oswego, N. Y Sayre Butter Package Co., Waverly, N. Y Union Hardware Co. , Union, N. Y Mrs. J. F. Kessiter, N. Y. City Tanners' Nail Co., Hornellsville, N. Y McEwen Bros. , Wellsville, N. Y Employees of Geneva Wagon Co. , Geneva, N. Y C. E. Morey, Utica, N. Y Employees, W. N. Y. & P. Shops, Olean, N. Y Luther Mfg. Co., " W. C. A. Quirier, " Warren Baptist Sunday-School, Warren, R. I Employees, Taggart's Paper Co., Felts Mills, N. Y Cayuta Wheel and Foundry Co., Sayre, Pa R. E. Chapin Mfg. Co., Batavia, N. Y " C. Moench & Sons, Cattaraugus, N. Y H. C. Dexter's Chair Factory, Black River, N. Y " Gsensslen. Fisher & Co., Gowanda, N. Y Ridgway Dynamo & Engine Co., Ridgvvay. Pa Arthur Wood, Newburgh, N. Y Employees, J. G. Wilson, Olean, N. Y Samuel G. Maxwell, Titusville, Pa Oil Creek Oil Co., " Employees, Genesee Tannery, Wellesville, N. Y " Ajax Iron Works, Corry, Pa Falls Creek Tannery, Falls Creek, Pa Carlson, Bloomquist & Snow, Jamestown, N. Y Struthers, Wells & Co. , Warren, Pa Bailey, Jones & Co., Jamestown, Pa " A. D. Reed, Punxsutawney, Pa 7 00 15 65 5 00 4 80 3 00 2 85 5 00 2 00 33 50 2 00 18 00 12 00 I 00 3 CO 2 15 3 30 5 00 I 60 4 30 70 2 00 I 30 I 80 5 00 3 00 15 25 2 45 I 10 5 65 13 08 5 00 3 00 85 20 00 I 10 17 05 16 60 31 29 4 00 10 00 2 50 15 00 3 10 10 00 3 66 33 45 4 00 5 20 318 Employees, DuBois Iron Works, DuBois, Pa $ 4 Standard Oil Co. of N. Y., Olean, N. Y 4 Auxiliary No. i. — First N. Y. Ambulance Red Cross Equipment Society. . . 32,788 " " 3. — Maintenance of Trained Nurses 26,555 " 4.— Yonkers, N. Y 300 5.— The Metcalf Bliss Cot Equipment 22,931 6. — Columbia University 6,769 " 7.— N. Y. C. Chap. D. A. R 900 8. — Council of Jewish Women 400 " 9.— Hartford, Ct 4,305 " 10. — Ice Plant Auxiliary 25,524 " 12. — Soldiers' Field Hospital 1.905 " 14. — Morristown, N. J 1,196 " 15. — Green Twigs, Flushing, L. 1 593 " 16. — Litchfield, Conn "oS " 17. — First Pennsylvania Red Cross Aux. of Pittsburgh 6,000 " 18. — Miscellaneous Auxiliary 143 " ig. — Through Laundry Plant Auxiliary : Jay Langdon & Co., N. Y. City $50 00 Smith, Hogg & Gardner, " 50 00 J. H. Lane & Co., " 25 00 Sweetser, Pembrook & Co.," 25 00 McKesson & Robbins, " 50 00 Schieffelin & Co., " 5000 Elizabeth Trowbridge Martin 50 00 Henry W. Hayden, N. Y. City 25 00 W. P. Clyde, " Joseph Eastman, " Mrs. E. K. Trowbridge, " Mrs. George Roberts Blanchard, N. Y. City 10 cx) L. F. Whitin, West New Brighton, S. I. . . 10 00 G. Parmlee 10 00 Miss M. Thayer 5 00 Raymond L. Ward, N. Y. City 50 00 50 00 25 00 520 George Ehret, " Jacob Ruppert, " George Ringler & Co., " Bemheimer & Schmid, " Beadleston & Woerz, " Peter Doelger, " The Henry Elias Brewing Co.. N. Y. City. Neidlinger & Sons, " Clausen & Price Brewing Co. " Conrad Stein, John Kress Brewing Co., H. Clausen & Son Brewing Co., " Kip's Bay Brewing Co., " The F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Co.," Amount carried forward 50 00 50 00 25 00 50 00 50 00 50 00 25 00 25 00 25 00 25 00 25 00 25 00 25 00 50 00 319 Amount brought forward $ i,oio oo The George Bechtel Brewing Co., Staple- ton, S. 1 25 00 Rubsam & Hormann Brewing Co., Staple- ton, S. 1 25 00 Howard & Childs, N. Y. City 25 00 The F. C. Lyman Co., " 25 00 Russell & Rees, " 25 00 The John Eichler Brewing Co., N. Y. City 25 00 Joel Wheeler & Co 50 00 The Claus, Lipsius Brewing Co., Brook- lyn, N. Y 25 00 S. Liebmann & Sons' Brewing Co. , Brook- lyn, N. Y 25 00 M. Seitz, Brooklyn, N. Y 25 00 Congress Brewing Co., Ltd., N. Y. City. .. 25 00 The New York & Brooklyn Brewing Co., N. Y. City 25 00 The Excelsior Brewing Co., N. Y. City. . . 25 00 George Schmitt, " ... 25 00 Mr. Robertson Trowbridge 25 00 The Jacob Hoffman Brewing Co., N. Y. City 25 00 The India Wharf Brewing Co., Brooklyn, N. Y 25 00 Flannagan, Nay & Co., N. Y. City 50 00 David Mayer Brewing Co., " 10 00 The J. Chr. G. Hupfel Brewing Co., N. Y. City 15 00 1,505 00 Auxiliary No. 21.— Hazleton, Pa , 305 00 " 22.— Land and Sea Auxiliary 1,50000 " 23.— New Brighton, S. I ^ °" " 24.— Princeton, N. J 900 00 " 26.— Sewickley, Pa 575 00 " 28. — The Fort Stanwix Auxiliary , 20960 " 29.— Fairfield, Ct ^3i" .. 30 —Norwich, Kan 2000 '< 31. —New Brighton, Beaver Co., Pa 5° 00 " 32.— Grace Parish Laundry 3000 " 33.-Athens, Pa ^°^ 0° " " 34. — Canandaigua, N. Y "^ST j " 35.— Eau Claire. Wis I45i4 " 36.— Mount Vernon, N. Y I75 00 " " 37. — Elmhurst, L. I " 38.— Dublin, N. H '5000 pVar Emergency Relief Board, Cleveland 80000 '^°*~ ] Sub-Auxiliary of Warren, Ohio 10000 ., ,T r- f'^ 100 00 " " 41. — New Canaan, Conn " 42.— Flatbush, L. 1 1,45050 AFK 4 ia04 320 Auxiliary No. 44. — North Shore, L. I., Auxiliary $ 547 38 " " 47. — First R. I. Auxiliary 68 13 " " 49. — Kinderhook, N. Y 40 00 " " 52. — The Rhode Islander Red Cross Auxiliary 10 00 " " 54. — Pottstown, Pa 64 70 " 55. — Emporia, Kan 85 00 " 56. — Frederick, Md 3000 " " 57. — Lenox, Mass 44 g8 " 58.— Caldwell, N. J 725 " " 60. — Saugerties, N. Y 52 00 " " 62. — Bridgeport, Conn 68 25 " " 63. — Suffolk Co., L. 1 56 00 " " 64. — Staatsburg, N. Y 28 00 " " 65. — Otsego Co., N. Y 2 22 " " 66. — Plymouth Church, Worcester, Mass 23S 85 Worcester Branch, Worcester, Mass., through Edward J. McMahon, Treas 268 90 67. — Oyster Bay, L. 1 2S1 36 68. — Cranford, N.J S49 45 69. — Loyal Friends 43 25 70. — London , Ohio 60 00 72. — Richmond Hill, L. 1 50 00 74. — Telegraph and Signal Corps 65 00 75. — Platteville, Wis 30 00 76.— Walden, N. Y 186 72 78. — Toledo, Ohio 5 00 79. — Lovington, 111 15 00 80. — New Brunswick, N. J 100 00 81. — Kansas City, Kan 4 80 84. — Hammond, Ind 15 25 85. — Holdrege, Neb 159 50 88. — Evanston, 111 225 00 89. — Montclair, N. J 225 00 90. — Lyons, N. Y 40 00 92. — Marshall, Mich 20 75 Astoria Red Cross Aid Society - 146 30 Red Cross Auxiliary of Oil City, Pa 230 00 Winchester, Mass. , Auxiliary 30 cx3 Red Cross Auxiliary of Norwich, Ct 2,021 00 " " Society of Seattle, Wash 500 00 4 O 'bV 4^ » » 1 o > V^ 4 o V'. ^ i^5 • . "tj 0"' ^<^ ^«/^ p-*.i '*> •