New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-10
RED CROSS RELIEF WORK.
REPORTS OF THE VARIOUS AUXlLIAR1ES.

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rorrER-spEEcHEs ny Ex-MAYoR
sc1I1EREN CLEVELAND II.
DODGE AND OTHERS
A largely attended meeting OF the American Ma
tona Red Cross Relief Committee was held last
evening in the small ballroom AZ Sherrys to listen
70 reports OF the Executive Committee and IN
short 70 sum ND briefly the work ~ the committee
during the war with Spain. Bishop foter pre-
sided. being chairman OF the committee ana ""e''
he called tho meeting n order there were ""''
one hundred present. OF whom the majority were
women
In his brio, Introductory address Bishop Potter
said tina, the last few months had served wei 10
show the true field and the vast importance ~
Red Cross and had opened the eyes OF the P'op
Of this country 10 its great usefulness. ~ NV
women OF the land. he said. was owing III
measure the fact that The Red cross hau V' 49,
10 10 such a great and valuable Work
William T Wardvei chairman OF the hNe'u-
tive Committee first introduced U!
Potter He spoke very briefly and divert upo" ~
splendid work that tho Red cross NURSES ~ -,
He was followed by Stephen T. Barton VINO u''''
succinctly tho story Of the origin ana grow" ~
tho Red Cross and declared that its great worn
in the war recently ended made possible o''y
by the liberal support received from 'h' H' '
people Of the country and the sef-sacrihcins sP''
0, the women o, the land. The war had been an
!
ary Of the Navy and Army the Red 'ro7' co"'' W.
made
Fv Navor Sch,eren OF Brooklyn. spoke oil 'nr
way in which tho public had responded 70 the can
Of the Cuban Central Relief Committee. anu u"
scribed how when committee had Nsl'eu
| dent Mckinley to ask him to attend banquet ~
/ New-York the Presidents thoughts had set"'u
! concentrated upon helping the suffering IN 'uDd'
I rs January J. he said the work OF tne "', "a,
| Central Relief Committee would be ended Tor NM
tary occupation would be complete by tna' .''"''
bu, the work would have on in another FORM
Even now he added association was Ior'nii.S
thar had for ,ts object the furnishing 10 the pacin
COS Of farming tools and seeds I'm order that my
might make a living for themselves from me fer-
tile soil which yielded crop in from Sky 10
ninety DAYS
THE WORK IN CUBA
n NJ lesser described conditions As ne saw
them I'm cuba before the fighting and while II vs.
going on fIe told the surgeons AT the Army HOS
pital AZ sboney that n they needed supplies 'nr
| Pod Croes would try 10 furnish them He WAS told
| tha, nothing was needed Afterward nc 81"
wounded men lying on the ground. and offered 10
| furnish cots for ihom. his offer being ac''P''' w.
smoke enthusiastically NJ tho way Colonel Roos'-
volt looked after his men. and he declared mat 'ne
Colonel was tho least comfortable man In his reg
mon, Colonel Roosevelt once came N Miss Barton
! and asked TO- food for his mon She sent MN 10
! ~ Gardner who gave him two bags OF proVlslouH'
! "Ca- yod &c. some on' 10 carr morn S"'' IT,
/ Gardner
! Garry en- snorted the Colonel. What FOR
! And no sIung tho bags over his shoulder ana
! s.,r.od o~ on his fuo-mile walk 70 his camp
| Pod Cross surgeons treated in cuba ~ surgical
cases and 2i2 fever eases. not IN mention me ~
! tendance that given to the wounded OF '"e
| snanish army and nav, nd the Insurgents
| President Jackson of tho Pirtsburg auxiliary 70
| no-,ed that rho sub-auyiliaries that made Up INC
| pi..shury auxiliary bad raised s2i tA. and the
women connected with the various branches had
made With thoi- own hands more than twenty-four
| Thousand pieces ~ clothing.
| =. & Smith who had charge ~ The Rcd Cross
work at Chickamauga said that the greatest needs
dou-n there were milk and ice and that none were
er,rlied executing what the Red Cross furnished
-bon TOO he added tho work Of the nurses or
! the Red Cross demonstrated that f"male NURSE
were valuable in the extreme for service N n'Id
bosr,tals He urged that the fact should NOT he
,o-go,ten that one could never tell when tho ser
vices Of the Red Cross would no needed again IN
| thi- country.
Hazard Townsend who represented tho Ked
Cross AT Camp Viko~ summed NJ the trouble
| that occurred there being lue 70 insuihci'nt
| boe,i,al accomr1odat lions which resulted in mon
| ,hat wore only half-wou being turned ont ~ hos
,,ai 20 mako room for others that came NJ from
| Cubo and IN whom malarill fever broke ont. even
| though they were in good hca'th when th"y ar
| rived in this country. iIe dWch upon the sp''h'i'
| llfSf~
t-oruood was afraid hoy would no. - oy reason ~
,hoir tondency 70 fit with the soldiers. but said
tho sneaker "I told thom that II they had run tho
/ sar,ut o. HOSPITAL physicians thought they were
/ sufficiently seasoned. and hoy proved IN" truth
! ~ M words. 40 praise can he 100 high for their
work
p- 9 T. Rarncs who had charge Of Rod Cross
matters I'm Porto Rico paid q tribut" 10 the polite
moss and sodierlv qualities Of tho Spanish officers
and said that Spain had provided most literally for
! ho- Red Cross ~ mis- suggestion e. vas voted 70
sord n Miss clara Barton. At Warrington me
greetings and concentrations Of III" ma"tins
THE TRAINED NURSES AUXILIARY
John P Fsure. secretary Of the committee road
| this selection from the report OF Auxiliary NO
2 'or tho Maintenance o. Trained Nurses 10 the
American National Rod Cross Relic Committee. tho
words being extract from letter written f'on
/ camp Wlkof 10y Miss Young
Il wish 7 could make tho women n IN" auxiliary
! fully understand what their splendid generosity
meant who had the JOY Of ministerng I'm their
name For tho nifty women who fought day ny day
that grim batt'e With disease and death could but
! have wrung th~lr bands IN hopeless impotence had
n no, been for the hundreds % other women hy
whose aid able ~ carry on our work one
could have M more eloquent testimony this than
tha- furnished ny walk through one NJ tho fevcr
wards or Detention Hospital where IN" men lay
on Red Cross cots. in Red Cross paIamar, covered
With BED cross sheets and blankets and taking their
Red Cross medicines or broth or delcacios from
Red Cross cups and glasses AT the hands Of Red
Cross nurses"
In Introducing Cleveland II. Dodge Bishop Pot
ter told story that hugely amused his hearers.
rIe said AZ a meeting Of the Executive Committee
| m question of accepting a benefit offered
! nv <iralfN's naval spectacle then performing AT
| Madison square Garden. lie had said ne no
! obi.rfion 70 50 doing when somebody remarked.
! Why Kirslfy the author of tho Black
! crook There ballet IN that. II will be
lid that Bishop Potter approved the ballet" Mr..
! Dodge then spoke. up. remarkng. II there bal
| let in the naval show, have surplus OF paJamas
| thsf I can oT.r for the emergency"
! Mr. Dodge declared thai one of the great eeyoi-
/ no I'D .'twenty convalescents from ST Peters
/ Hospital In Brooklyn went down 10 Coney Island
clad only In paJamas.' II closing MT Dodge
maid A high compliment 10 the devotion of New
/ York women a. displayed In their efforts 20 meet