The record-union., 1898-11-03
RED CROSS SOCIETYS WORK.
REPORTS READ BY THE PRESI.
DENT AND SECRETARY.
It Adopts a Constitution and By
Laws and Transacts Other
Business.

A general meeting of the Red Cross
Society was held yesterday at Forest
ers' Hall to consider the Secretary
report and other matters and also to
discuss the adoption Of a constitution
and bylaws.
Mrs. Elkus, the President, presided
and Miss Emily Thompson, the Secre-
tary, read her report, which was pub
hshed in the Record Union"
Mrs. Elkus read the Presidents re-
port of the State meeting of the Red
Cross, as follows:
To the members of Sacramento Red
Cross Society: AS your delegate, L at
tended the first annual meeting OF the
California Red Cross Society, when
met in San Francisco, October lSth,
at the First Presbyterian Church. At
ter a few happy words of welcome by
the President, Mrs. Harrington, re-
ports of the Secretary, Treasurer and
the different auxiliaries were read.
The Secretary's and Treasurer's re-
ports show that the amount received
by the State Board was So, ,94O.44, and
the disbursements were S24, 4,2I0.4O,
leaving a balance on hand of SS,6lO.O4.
OF the disbursements S12, ,90S.S6 were
for Manila; of this amount there was
for Manila field hospital supplies So
6S3.97 and cash sent to Manila 81
GLOSS. There was expended on the
Convalescent Home at the Presidio 81
1913. 10. The Secretary further report
ed that the National Red Cross had
placed the work of the Philippines in
the charge of the California society,
and instructed all the Western socie-
ties to work through it.
The report of our society was read
by our Secretary, Miss Thompson, and
was received with much applause, and
words Of commendation for the work.
ers and citizens of Sacramento. The
Santa Cruz society is entitled to our
thanks for their kindness to our boys
of Company F, their report showing
that out of their total receipts of $556
they had expended on Company F SGT,
and in addition had furnished them
gun covers, towels, medicines, fruits
and vegetables, and presented them
with a flag
At the second session, held the fol-
lowing day, Dr. Voorsanger addressed
the meeting, and made a strong plea
for the continuance of the California
Red Cross Society, and strongly ad-
Vised incorporation. He advised other
societies to adopt local relief work, on
the same plan as we are doing. That
the consequences of the war will not be
over for a long time and we should
keep our society intact, and let our
motto be, Watch. wait and be found
ready" The election of the Execu-
tive Board of fifteen took place, and
your representative was elected one of
the board. Mrs. Willard B. Harring-
ton was reelected President.
In closing the meeting President Mrs.
Harrington asked that the delegates
take back this message: THAT though
peace may come Red Cross work will
not cease, and to hold ourselves in
readiness for all emergencies that may
arise" After the meeting Miss Thomp-
son and I visited the Convalescent
Home, and I know that if all of YOU
could have been there you would have
felt as we did, that it stands as a
monument to the hospitality and gen
erosity of the people of California. Re-
spectfully submitted,
MRS. ALBERT ELKUS. President.
Frank Miller stated that he thought
the bylaws could be presented as a
Whole in a very short time. if Revs.
Mel Carroll and Banks and Mr.. Cole
man would repair to an adjoining room
and make a few unimportant altera-
tiOns.
E. I. Calvin was added to the COM
mittee and they retired.
Mrs. Elkus said that when she and
Miss Thompson visited the Red Cross
Convalescent Home they looked around
to see what could be given in order
to have something there that was dis
ftnctly Sacramentan. They found
nothing lacking but invalid chairs. and
thought about ten at 81 apiece. would
be a donation that would be much ap-
preciated by the cOnvalescents.
Mrs. Herr said that when she visit
ed the home she noticed that there
were only two chairs of that kind, and
remarked on the lack of them. She
moved that $40 be appropriated to buy
ten chairs. The motion was carried
unanimously
Mrs. Herr said that when she visited
the Ohio and Indiana transports she
saw that they were we'll provided with
woven wire mattresses She also talk
ed with two of the boys that were
wounded at Manila and came home on
the Philadelphia They said that the
sickness among the soldiers was largely
their own fault, and that the stories
published in the newspapers were not
true. There had been, they said. much
sent to them by the Red Cross that
never reached them and was sold to
the officers. but the society must ex-
pect that such things would happen.
as they always do in war There was
some complaint that there was too
much red tape on the part Of the Gov
ernment.
Rev A c. Herrick spoke in relation
to the opposition among the Turks
against the Red Cross Society. and how
they would not allow it in their country
unless the crescent accompanied it. He
said the President had showed great
modesty in not alluding to the fact
that she had been chosen Second Vice
President of the State Society. and that
Sacramento stood high in the society.
Mrs. Elkus replied that she had been
chosen to the position in recognition of
Sacramento and not of the individual.
Rev. Carroll. for the Committee on
Bylaws reported the constitution and