The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1898-06-07
RELIEF is READY
Honolulu Ladies Quickly Form Red
Cross Corps.
MRS. SEWALL The LEADER
Ready Response to the Ca!l-PIans
Outlined and Organization Eff
fected-LIst Now Open.
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is now established
and ready for ac
ton 1t is in the hands of women
capable and earnest. They appreciate
the mission, see the opportunity and
are ready and willing and supported
by funds and counsel.
Nearly 900 OF the prominent ladies
of the city attended the meeting at
the Y. NJ. c. A. assembly hall yester-
day afternoon. Geo. w. Smith, chair
man of the Committee of 100 on Wei
come to Boys in Blue, called the meet
ing to order. DR.. Jas. T. Wayson sug-
gested that DR.. Walter Maxwell be the
temporary presiding officer. Consent
was unanimous.
In taking the chair, DR.. Maxwell out
lined the purposes of the meeting and
the movement. The proposed organi-
cation was one that would commend
itself to the support and confidence Of
all. Association might be effected with
the International Society. The efforts
of the Red Cross found application
wherever there existed human suffer-
ing or need or pain. There is work
at hand for such an organization. Sew
eral thousand more troops will be here
in transports. In time there will be
returning troops. The society should
be imbedded in strong, broad and dur
able ground plans and should have a
leadership that would be representa-
tive and confidence-inspiring.
Mr.. Smith called upon DR.. Wayson
as one who had given the matter some
careful attention to present ideas. DIR.
Wayson said he had learned of the
work of Mrs. Kleugel in visiting the
sick on the City of Picking, City of
Sydney and Australia and had thought
it time that there should be taken
steps in the direction of regular or
ganization for the work placed at
hand. There will be many men here
who can be given needed care and at
tention under the direction or with the
consent or cooperation OF surgeons in
the various expeditions. Offers have
been made of shore accommodation
and of assistance. DR.. Wayson sug-
gested these committees: Executive.
finance, transportation, visiting, flow
ers, nurses. AS Dr. Maxwell, had
said, all the physicians of the city
would gladly give assistance. Perhaps
the chief work will be that of nurses
who will labor in watches when need
ed.- His plan would be to visit the
ships on arrival, then follow directions
of the fleet surgeons.
The meeting now proceeded to per-
manent organization, with this result:
President-Mrs. Harold NJ. SewaI.
First Vice-President- S. B.
Dole.
Second President-Princes Ka-
iulani.
Secertary-Mrs. F. R. Day
Treasurer-Mrs. P. c. Jones.
Executive Committee-Mrs. w. G.
Irwin, Mrs. Jas. T. Wayson, Mrs. C. B.
Cooper, Mrs NJ c. Widdifeld, Mrs. C.
NJ. Hyde.
Upon taking the chair, Mrs. Sewall
thanked the ladies who had placed her
in the position and said she would do
the best she could do carry forward
the work successfully. 1t was voted
that members of the other committees
of the list should be appointed by the
officers and the executive committee
A roll of membership in the society
was at once opened and hundred or
so signatures put down. The list will
remain open.
A meeting of the Officers and Execu-
tive Committee was held last evening
at the home of Mrs. Sewall The Prin-
cess Kaiulani was unable to attend
All the others were present. Mrs Way
son resigned from the executive com
mittee for the purpose of assisting
with the corps of nurses. The vacan-
Cy was AlI6u ny Inc O1cCllOn VI MIS-.
Fred. Macfarlane. These heads OF COM
mfttees were then selected:
Finance-Mrs. S. NJ Damon.
Flowers John S. Walker.
Visiting-Mrs. A. F. Judd
Entertainment-M S. NJ. Ballou.
Commissary-Mrs A. j. Fuller.
Nurses-Mrs. c. B. Wood
The transportation will be left to
the hospital corps of the National
Guard of Hawaii DR.. F. R. Day, the
port physician has consented TO report
from the transports to the committees.
The entertainment committee is Great
ed for the purpose Of giving some sort
of an entertainment to raise funds.
Red Cross boxes will be placed today
in business houses about the city and