Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-03-12

MISS C1AbA BhEEp|.
Every pound OF food was contributed for the
SAX" 81 the Red Crcss it goes IN Inc maine OF
the Red Cross and tbs flag Of the Red cross
Will fly from the foreDeak of the vessel that
bears it across the Atlantic to that port in the
Baitc sea where j. is to be delivered To the
lnssitn Red Cross Society ana distribu ted to
the people who need K.
SO quietly. so uunste atatiougly is this work
being rai RI d on that peoplr hardly realize the
MAJ :itude Of 1t, yet thousands of dollars are
dai8 pouring into headquarters here to be de-
posted i'll Riggs Bank 70 the credi; of the Red
Cross. ard ;hewlres are kept hot with the flash
Ing OF messages announcing the shipment of
grain and thc offers OF help fro4 ever portion
of the country.
I. j. a noteworthy fact that Of all the contri-
buttons OF money yet received the largest
amount, III proportion. GENES from Johustown,
Pa-from the town that knows sow wei what the
Red Cross is and what it does for thoae who
suffer AMI are afflicted in mind body and es-
tate.
The next lcrges. prorortionate sum comes
from Jacksonville. Fla, the stricken city that
felt the helpn- hand OF :Ie Red Cross extended
when the yellow fever prevailed few years
ago.
HOW THE WORK Is MANAGED.
The charity is being conducted with the
greatest system. The west is sending grain to
New York and the east is furnishing money to
road connecting the wheat fields of the north
west and the corn fields Of the Mississippi
valley with the Atlantic seaboari has agreed 10
forward, free OF cost, the train loads OF grain
community simply delivers q car load OF
gram at a raliroad station. The railroad COM
pany switches Eox car on the side track
loads up the grain and big white placard,
with a red cross III the center, is tackled on the
side OF the car. That placard is q free pass for
that car and lnsures IFS swift transportation
and prompt delivery in New York city.
VI men the pIacarded car reaches New York it
10 run alongside grain elevator, where the
grain is unloaded and stored. all this for sweet
charity sake and without charge.
About 200 car loads of corn from the state of
Iowa alone are now in and en- route to New
York Corn and iiour. potatoes and pork and
other food products are also being gathered
in other western states for future delivery
In addition the citizens of PhIlaielphia have
purchased with their own money 200 barrels
of Minneapolis -four, loaded it OIL ship which
they have chartered, and have dispatched the
vessel. with the Red Cross flag at the peak, to
the Baltic.
Not to be outdone, the millers Of the north
west have furnished ship. load of -four, loaded
1t aboard u steamship, and the vessel, as TIE
STAR goes to press today, is swinging out of
her dock on her journey to tho Baltic, while
the flag OF the Red Cross is unfarled ut the fore
and 1utters farewell to the crowds who cheer
her departure.
All OF this is the result Of the statement by
the American Red Cross Society that help is
needed and thar the society is ready 10 carry ont
the details Of the charitable work of the people
TALK WITH MISS BARTON.
1.-THE Red Cross Society,"" said Mas Clara
Barton to STAR reporter the other night. sis
like man on a watch tower who keeps look
out over the town for the signs of a fire. II he
perceives light he watches carefully and
nv q al saa ~ A
that he may sound tho alarm.
80 does tine Red Cross Society watch the
horizon for the sign Of any kind of danger that
threatens TO become national in extent, that it
may sound the alarm and bring the nations of
the earth to the rescue.
Last summer the first speck of fire Of the
famine In Russia was discovered. For two
months the Red Cross kept an eve upon IL
saw it grow and finally develop into blaze
TO continue the figure Of speech. 1t seemed
evident that help Was needed. TO make sure,
however, we went to the Russian legation In
this city last October and asked II Russia
wanted and would accept help. We were told
that the description OF the situation in the
famine districts was not exaggerated. Twenty
million Russian peasants were in q state Of
want by reason OF failure Of crops. and several
million were on the verge of actual starvation,
They were living on roots and the veriest re-
fuse, not MT for human being to eat Typhus
fever was spreading among the unfortunate
people. whose frames were already wasted BY
famine.
"The representatives of Russia assured M
that help would DO gratefully received, and
that contributions OF food would be properly
distributed by the Russian Red Cross Society
Russia did not desire to make any conceaimsnt
OF the fact that the calamity was so widespread
among her subjects that the charity OF the
world was needed TO amsliorate their hard con-
ditious.
HOW IOWA CAME TO THE FRONT.
''fhls state Of affairs was then made known
to the citizens of tho United States Iowa was
the first state to respond. Her granaries were
OVERLOOKING with corn gathered from the most
abundant crop produced in many years. She
was anxious to give to the hungry ones. and
only wanted to know how to do it, 30 that her
contributions would be effective.
Here is whore the Red Cross Society coma
In. The people in that Mississippi valley know
the He'd Cross. Whenever their muddy Missis.
sippi begins to get above q certain level they
look around and ask Where's the Red Oross3
Gov Boies tslegraphed us if he should AL Tor
contributions in the name Of the society ana
was told to 80 ahead. The state was divided
INTO districts, and prominent men were put in
charge OF the work In every district. In order
to get only the best corn it was decided "a
| accept only contributions Of money.
with the fund thus collected in each dis
trict the manager In charge proceeded TO pur-
| chase in open market the equivalent In hard
No. Q export corn. It was inspected % risidiy
q IL bought for sale instead Of Tor charity The
secretary Of state Of Iowa, Mr.. Tllinghast 3 IA
direct charge Of the work, and b giving his Ct
tsntiou 10 the details 70 pee that nothing q loot
OF misappropristsd. The corn wiz be around
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