The times., 1898-09-12
RELIEF POR TEE ASKING
Much Distress Found in Dis
trict Soldiers Homes.
AID OFFERED PROMPTLY
The Committee Having the work
in Charge VIII Establish Head
quarters Within Convenient
Reach of All Who Need Assist
ance-A Meeting Tonight.

The good work of remembering the sick
and needy of the District of Columbia
Volunteer Regiment is progressing under
the admirable arrangements which have
been made by the committee.
The Subcommittee of seven, which was
recently appointed by B. H. Warner,
chairman of the committee on the inves-
tigation of cases for relief held its in
itial meeting at the home of Mrs. Margue-
rite Dickins, at 1884 Nineteenth Street
northwest, last Saturday evening, and
discussed the work before it. The COM
mittee consists of the following ladies and
gentlemen: Mrs. Marguerite Dickins.
Mrs. Mary S. Gist, Mrs. Margaret B.
Hatch, Mrs. Alexander Kent, Mrs. A. j.
Edison, Miss Cornelia Clay, Edward j.
Roche, ]. A. Frank and George S. Wilson.
1t is the intention of the relief COM
mittee to consider each case individually,
and at the Saturday evening meeting it
was decided to assign a certain amount
of territory to each of the seven members
in order to expedite the work. Each mem
ber was authorized to afford immediate
relief in all cases of an emergency nature,
but all other cases are to be referred to
the subcommittee before relief is af-
forded.
1t is the intention of the subcommittee
TO establish an office In the center of the
city for the purpose of seeking and re-
cording the names of all members of the
District regiment requiring assistance.
Mrs Dickins was appointed a committee
of one to confer with Major Sylvester re-
garding the establishing of this office.
Many Need Aid.
Thirty-eight cases of needy families
were considered at the meeting, and all
of them were found to be worthy ones.
No less than eight of these are cases in
which the soldier upon whom the family
is dependent for support is sick in bed,
and there are from two TO six persons in
each family.
Some of these cases were given assist
ance during the absence of the volunteers
at the front by the ladies of the relief
committee of the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution, of which Mrs Diciins
was chairman, and they will now be
taken up by the Warner relief committee.
Two cases were granted immediate re-
| lief by Edward ]. Roche yesterday morn
| ing. Mr. Roche is a member of the COM
| mittee of five and has been investigat-
ing the conditions of the families of many
| of the volunteers, on behalf of the gener-
| al committee on arrangements for the re-
ception as well as for the Warner relief
| committee.
| He was informed at an early hour yes
terday that a member of the District
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| sick and that his family was in need.
| He Immediately went TO the home of the
soldier and found that the family needed
help most urgently. Relief was inme-
| diately extended.
| The subcommittee Of seven will meet
| again next Wednesday evening at 7;3a
! O'Clock at the home of Mrs. Dickins. In
| the meantime the executive committee OF
five. consisting of Major Sylvester and
Messrs Edison, West, Noyes. and Hutch
ins. Will meet and il is probable that the
| subcommittee of seven, which has immed-
| late charge of the matter of relief. viii
confer with the executive committee al
that time for the purpose of learning It's
financial status.
The reception fund, or what is more
| properly relief fund since the reception
has been given, is daily growing. a grea
deal of the money collected in the de
to Mr.. Edison, and when this has beer
done the fund will be enlarged very con
siderably.
Meeting Tonight.
The employment committee will NEE
at the Ebbitt House under the chairman
ship of Simon Wolf at O'Clock this even
ing. The following members of the com
mittee are requested 10 be present with
out further notice from the chairman
J. Nota McGin, vice chairman: George Nj
| Dunlap, Robert Weaver Nathaniel VIII
son, o. T. Crosby, ". X sSchoepf. Arthur
f. Randle, Lee Hutchins, II. S. Cum
mings. H. A. Griswold. John Callahan
Joseph Crawford, of the Pennsylvania
Railroad: John B. Thomas, of the Balti
more and Ohio Railroad: l.. S. Brown. o
the Southern Railroad: William S Bron
SOP, of the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
road; Andrew Gleeson Joseph H. Gran
ford, NJ f. Tally, Samuel Bieber Ed
win Saxton, George ". Moss, of Adam
Express: Samuel III. Bowman, of tn,
United States Express; William S
Knox. Frederick springmann, join
l.. Newbold, Thomas w. Smith
Samuel H. Walker, Frank L. Handy
Charles F. Schneider, Thomas Somerville
Samuel z. Wheatley, William T. CALI
her, A. NJ. Lothrop, Isadore Saks, Gus
taye Lansburgh. Charles Baum A Lis
ner, Louis S. Kahn, Hon. John R. Nc
Lean, William Hart, A A. Thomas. w
p. Young, James f. Oyster J. p Nc
Cormick, n. c. Thompson. n. c. Bunees
j. n. Heisley, j. H Shipley, j. E. Jones
Rev. Dr. d. J. Stafford, Rev. S. II
Greene, Rev. S. M Newman Rev. J. II
Elliott, Rabbi Stern, Rev. S. Domer, Re,
Luther Wilson, Rev. W. S. Hammond
Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage, Rev. Lesii
Moore, Rev. Alexander Kent, also tn
pastor of the Unitarian Church.
The ladies of the Legion of LOYAL Won
en- are doing most worthy work in help
ing those members of the regiment wht
are without homes. There are no les.
than eighty of the men, and fifty of then
are being cared for at the home which
the ladies of the Legion have establishe,
at No. 413 Ninth Street
Many of the homeless men know moth
: ing of the existence of the home, and fo
the purpose of reaching and helping then
cards have been circulated reading a
J follows:
/ "Welcome-The Legion of Loyal Won
en-, the Soldiers Relief Association of tn
District of Columbia the Citizens an
Residents of the National Capital, tn
American National Red Cross request an.
, returning District of Columbia Voluntee
S without home to accept the hospitalit
of house No. Alb Ninth Street and max
his home there upon his arrival in Wash
ington Mrs Lizzie w Calver, presiden
Legion of Loyal Women, chairman
The Times is in receipt of the followin
e explanatory letter, offering assistance /
c some of the returned members of th
regiment:
For the sake of our own soldier. VIII
, | went in defense of his country we al