The morning times., 1896-10-18
1000 POUNDS OFFERED FOR HER HEAD
Ran the Only Mandatory in Northeastern Tur-
key for Thirteen Months
WORK OF The WoMEN'S ARMENIAN INDUSTRIAL BUREAU

| Williams photograph. Had it not been
Tor his timely and brave resistance of the
| murderous Kurtis, 2O, 900 more Arneniaus
would have been added to the death list;
and as for myself, would not be here to
! tell the tale
| What. they would not have dared to
attack you?'
Yes, 1 believe they would, for the old
hurd who was the instigator OF the mas
sacres had offered a2 900 for the head
OF mat woman who was keeping those
Armenian dogs alive.'''
just at this moment, while DR.. KinlbalI
was going over her photographs to find
the picture OF Mrs. Madeleine Cole tho
English woman who, she says, was the
inspiration of her relief work. there en-
cred fair-haired maiden of sixteen car
rying tray of cups and Russian tea. Her
skin was as fair as Teuton's and her harr
as light as q Swede's, while her cheeks were
! as rosy as an Irish damsel's.
This is 4 little Armenian girl that
brought home with me?'' said Dr. Kim
| ban. Don't You think she is worth saw
ing? Her name is Eliza BETH a nd she
has had what corresponds to an Ameri-
can high school education. Her mother
aud brother, Moses, are also With me,
/ Moses is eighteen, and a well educated
as his sister He is very good drug
| sist ana has put up many a prescription
| for us
| Are these fair samples OF the chill
! dren OF Armenian"
| They are good examples OF what can
be made OF the native people by & little
education and kindly care, but the ma
| jority are very far from being the equal
of these children, for the simple reason
| that the retrogressive Turkish policy has
! put every possible obstacle in the way
| OF education. Moreover, by the Cppres-
sio1 and the cupidity of the Turkish
! officials. they have been reduced to such
| straits that they are almost wholly de-
pendent upon charity for their uveli-
| hood
| In addition. to the prosecutions of the
| TurH, the Armenians have endured a sue
4 ceSslon OF sCOurges which have reduced
! them To great poverty. In 1892 the whole
[ region Was swept by the cholera the next
| year there We're terrible epidemics Of diph-
/ iberia and scarlet fever; and, finally, IN
1894, after everything taxable had been
| levied upon, the Turk began to massacre
I and pillage. Stripping their homes Of every
! thing portable. even to the doors OF the
houses. Men were compefed to leave the
country in order TO obtain work; leaving
the women and children uncared for
by the summer OF 1855 the condition
of Insecurity had become so tad, and the
outrages petty and large, had so increased,
that trade was PROSTATE, and industries
mad suffered So much that it was evident
that there was imperative need of i'm
, mediate relief.
INDUSTRIES PRoSTRATE.
'As if in answer to the call for help
there appeared about this time short
paragraph in the London News, written
by Mrs. Madeline Cole, to tell English
women of the sufferinGs of the ArmenianS,
and to ask for financial aid. The idea OF
starting an industrial enterprise among the
afflicted people had already occurred to
me, but l had no funds TO begin with.
Here appeared TO be an opening, and 1
wrote TO the London News a begging let
ter.
The answer to this appeal was prompt
! and substantial, and through Mrs. Cole
| was started the English women's Ar
/ menian Relief Committee, and on my part
/ the Womcn's Armenian Industrial Bureau.
! The English women sent nearly q 1 900
that year in weekly remittanCes. About
| $4,000 was also sent by the Christian
Herald, of the United States.
1.-The assertion has been made eers the
| funds sent to Tureky never reached the
| sufferers; but this is not true of the
money that was sent to US. 1t was sent
me in very simple and direct manner
! The money was deposited to my Credit al n
/ London bank.
Tine bank then telegraphed to the Imperial
! Ottoman Bank in Constantinople. whereupon
the superintendent sent me telegram say
ing that there was so much to my credit
In this way 1 received money within four
I days after it was deposited and never lost a
penny.
With this money l bought raw cotton
and wool with which tn SET the people to
work. 1 organized my corps of assistants
frUmamoEg the men whohad no other means
OF support. Every house that l used for a
workshop was rented from one no needed
the money to supply the bare necessities of
life.
$50 the work was carried On from July
o, '95, until August IA, SO, during which
time we used about $4,000 in running.
the Industrial Bureau; in starting free bak-
cries; in the distribution of clothing. fuel,
and agricultural implements; i'll the rebuild
ing of ruined villages. and, in rare cases, for
emigration expenses.
"Our Industrial work had to do chiefly
with women whose husbands had either
been killed in the massacrcs or driven cut
of the country in search of work. We set
the women to spinning and weaving. Every
department OF the work was taken up, from
separating the raw wool to tile makirs Of
the garments. Even the little children
were set to knitting and holding the card in
carding the wool. Tie cost of running the
Industrial bureau was about S110 q day
Including the cost OF the raw material, By
means of which sum we gave work tn 900
> persons. who in turn supported about 5.0oU
souls-altogether an expense to US of about
1-5 cents per cap.ta-while the product OF
their labor furnished US with ahundam
supplies Of clothing for distribution. ".
frequently supplied from 100 to I5u fun
lies in single day.