Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-03-26
MORNING LEADER.
sATURDAY mORNING. mar. &c, 1884
SOLDIERlS AID S00IEFY.
s5 BAur s1lrrT, 6IrvILlzD, March %, 1885
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The cash which has actually reached the
Treasury Of the United States Sanitary
Commission OF Washington has In three
years amounted to about one million del
lars, Of which California has given three
quarters. II would be well for those on
the Atlantic coast who sometimes question
our economy to consider this fact: Fif-
teen-sixteenths Of this amount are ex-
pended for supplies and transportation;
the other sixteenth goes into the support
Of its homes, its lodges, its machinery of
distribution, its hospital directory, and
hospital and camp inspection. Supplies
purchased are such rs country homes do
not afford. Such IS condensed milk by the
ton beef stock, wines and spirits BY the
barrel; crackers and farinsceous food by
the ton; tea, coffee and sugar by the chest
and hogshesd; erutehes, bedrests, mat
tresses and bedstesds by the hundred car
goes Of ice, potatoes, onions, picked csb-
bage, sour krout, lemons, oranges, vegets-
bles, BY car loads; anti-scorbutics and
tonics
The Boards fthe Sanitary Commission
consisting Of President, Treasurer, Med
iesl Committee and Standing COMMITTEES,
give their time and service-they receive
nothing. Their travelling expenses alone
are partly refunded them, aud these are
triAing, except in the case Of one or two,
who frequently make tours of observation.
The Commission supports twenty-five
Soldiers Homes or Lodges, scattered over
the whole field Of war, from New Orleans
to Washington including Kicksburg, Cairo,
Chattanooga, Memphis, Nashville, Louis
vile, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland,
Washington, Sc.
TWenty-three hundred soldiers per dsy
are taken care Of in these homes.
, Multiply 2,300 by 865 and you will get
8 faint ides Of the number Of men thus
relieved in year.
A Hospital Directory is also sustained,
by which the whereabouts and condition
of the sick are determined. 1t costs $20,-
600 per year to maintain this, and it is
worth million, II human anxiety can be
estimated in money.
The Commission also has sixty hospital
inspectors constantly in the field.
They have also hospital cars on the
main roads East and West, along which !
sick soldiers are carried. They also fur
nish the hospitals with daily car loads Of |
supplies from the principal markets.
The cost Of distributing supplies is less
than three per cent.
The battle service Of the Commission re-
quires large funds and supplies
At Murfreesboro, Antietsm, Gettysburg, |
Chattanooga, Vicksburg and Port Hudson |
sudden and vast demands were made. Fif- |
ty thousand dollars would not cover the |
outlay the first two weeks after our great |
battles. At Gettysburg it was SIS, ,OOO.-l
The aversge cost is So 20 to each man, and
often, as at Gettysburg, $40 90 per man.
Are these expenses eXtraVsgant, con-
sideringothe blessings dispensed by the va |
riety and amount Of the stores Of the Com |
missioR2
The agents Of the Sanitary Commission
numbering 200, receive some more, tome |
less, averaging 81 90 per day, or less
thsU ordinary mechanics wsqes-total |
$12 1000 per month for this vast human
machinery of the Commission, stretching
from Texas to the Potomac, and from be- |
fore Charleston 70 Kansas.
REPoRTs OF BRANCH SOCIETIES.
Soldiers Aid Society Of District No. 2,
Brimfeld, Ohio, com nencing July 1st
1868. l1iL
REPORT.
Cash receipts. 80
Cash disbursements for working material. 59. "A
Living balance in treasury. ........... $3.50
The Soldiers Aid Society has sent to the
Cleveland Soldiers Ali Society, 95 Bank
street. SO shirts, 16 pair dra ers, II pair
socks, 4 pillows, Is towels, 60 pillow cases,
quilt, IL books, l barrel dried apples,
81 pounds dried berries pounds sage.
By order Of the president,
Miss MARTHA RISK.