The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-03-01
THE RELIEF CORPS.
Gleanings from National Headquar-
ters---NOteS from the Departments
CONSIDER THE RAVENS.
Are They Better than the Fowls?-Sea Island
Work Annals of Relief from Far and
SEA ISLAND WORK,

Near.
SEA ISLAND WORK.
Clara Barton, President of the American
National Red Cross, has issued md-feld
report, extending from Oct. l. 1893, to Jan. l..
1894, to be followed by general report of the
entire field at its close.
The Sea Islands are the old Port Royal
group. extending from Savannah to Charleston
and from the sea to the South Carolina main
land. Thirty thousand people, swept OF every
thing by the cyclone Of Aug. 81, were to be
fed. clothed, housed, and cared for through
period of eight months, or until the crops OF
1894 could be harvested.
After careful deIiberation the Red Cross, de-
pendent for support OH voluntary subscriptions
only, assumed the trust, all the more grave
owing to the financial condition of the country
cit has been the hardest work we have ever
known" writes Miss Barton; and, to make
the situation more formidable. appeals and
petitions began pouring in from 10000 to $4,000
starving people, swept by the cyclone in South
Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia.
Instead, then, of 10000 people looking to
the Red Cross for aid, there are, says tho Presi-
dent, from 1000 to $4,000 "at this moment
depending upon US for the only help they can
hope to gain. all insufficient as it is"
For the three months ended Jan. l. 1894. the
Red Cross received from the lovers of human
ity, by volunteer contribution, 500, $685.
list of which is published. OF this amount,
and for the period named, So 1872. so was paid
out for grits and S3,6S590 for pork. To this
add S.. 6sS97 paid out for lumber and building
material, and the munifcent sum OF S'68S97
was in the hands of the Red Cross Treasurer,
JAM /, 1894 to keep 10000 to $4,000 people
from hunger and freezing through the bleak
Winter months.
At that date, besides Sc, 3S312 cash, the sup
plies of the Red Cross consisted of $500 pounds
of meat, 40 bags OF grits. $50 barrels of grits,
100 barrels of -four, no nourishing food for the
sick and no medicines.
Through the efforts of Mrs. A. II. Christensen.
Brookline, Mass and other Red Cross workers.
the women of Massachusetts have supplied
large quantities of clothing Other States have
sent clothing, and yet the demand exceeds the
supply.
Thousands of men and women are kept con-
stsntly at work, the women sewing and mend
ing, the men building houses digging bitches
and preparing for the Spring crops. No man
has ever refused to work for rations only, and
10000 men wait for farming tools which the
Red Cross has not the means to procure.
1t is interesting to look over the financial
list and see how widely scattered are the
donors and then to add the little sums and
prove the Scotch motto: "Many mckles max
a muckle"
From South Carolina is donation ain His
Name; from Oswego, n. Y, "A Mite for Sea
Island Sufferers; from Greensburg, Pa,
nice sum from an Unknown Friend" There
is gift from poor man" in Virginia and
THE Kings Daughters" in Long Island also
from the children and teachers of the South
Carolina Institute for the Deaf; from the
Speak No Evil Circle" Clinton. s. c.; from
"Several Young Girls" Philadelphia, and "A
Little Junior Christian Endeavor Society,""
Washington. ID. G.
Consider the ravens; for they neither sow
nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor
barn; and God feedeth them. How much
more are We better than the fowls?" Luke,
1924
This is the injunction of the Master and the
guiding motto of the Red Cross. As Miss Bar
ton says: 1--WE enter a field of distress; study
carefully its conditions. learn its needs and
state these facts calmly and truthfully to the
people of the entire country through all it's
public channels of information and leave them
free to use their own judgment in regard to
the assistance they will render"
A THOROUGH INSPECTION.
There is very general appreciation of the thor
ough work of the National Inspector, who, out of
16 Department reports received has been obliged
to return Is for correction. Her predecessor
last year. Flo Jamison Miller, writes from full
knowledge of the subject as follows in the Ma
tionat Picket:
Mrs. Mary Z. Bancroft, National Inspector has
taken up inspection work with an earnestness
that clearly shows her heart is in her work.
Her instructions to Assistant National Inspect
concise and TO the point; and if followed
out they are given will result in great good
to the Order and marked advance towards
the goal of perfection In inspection. Mrs.
Bancroft is doing noble work, and the Ma
tional President will never have cause to re-
greet her appointment we feel sure.
o. g. AND G. o. HOME.
An interesting report, embellished with
illustrations and bristling with carefuly-com-
piled statistics. is the Oath annual report of the
Board of Trustees and Officers of the Ohio Sol
diers' and Sailors Orphans Home, Xenia o.
The reports of Gen. G. L. Young Superin-
tendent, and Cora Day Young, Matron-in- Chief,
are models of their kind, showing at a glance
the great advantages afforded by the Home and
the great needs yet to be met
Gen. Young commenting upon the unparal.
leed sanitary condition of the children, notes
the fact that last year the 900 orphans and
their teachers and keepers consumed 235 head
Of cattle. 145,44 pounds net; AZ calves $3.50
pounds; SO sheep $3.50 pounds; besides an
occasional diet Of FISH, pork, eggs, etc. He well
says:
No money is better expended by the State
of Wade, Bingham, Grant, Sherman and Sheri-
dan than that which goes into the Kama Sol