The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-10-30
Man With a Crutch, and a Bed
Cross Badge On His Arm.
BORROWED MONEY IN SEATTLE.
raasmed 10 he Red Cross Son Of
wonderful Deeds and Heroic Ex-
pioits Inconsistencies In His
Narratives Create DOubts ~ to
us. prefensious - Geneva Red
Cross Society Not I'm America.

Who Is DR.. Charles l. Lore, who styles
himself OF the Order Of Geneva Red Crosx
Trained Nurses and Doctors" and VINO
has been III Seattle for week claiming
% be engaging nurses TO go TO Mania
That's the question that Ii being pro-
ROUNDED by a number Of people IN Seattle.
and throughout Washington "a well, Just
now. some OF whom think they have been
yictiuriz.d By The man az vivid iinagiEa-
zion. ard al OF whom would like 10 know
more about him and his pre;easioBs.
1t Is alleged that he mas been working
on the patriotic feeling Of the women and
their great faith In and respect for the
Red Cross, through which ne lngraiaases
himself into their good graces ana When
secure In their confidence taps them Tor A
small loan. To these same patriotic wo-
men, however, he also owes his expose ana
thanks to tie shrewGne4s of Mrs j. Z.
Uaipes. president OF the Seattle Red Cross
Society. ard Afrs. NJ. L. Courier. the latter
OF whom. Il is alleged, he tried TO victim
,xe. the doctors career VIII be snort
In the Northwest He has already left the
city for pastures new.
DIR. Love is good one. and his strength
In point OF stretching the truth is nercu-
lean, Some OF his more pTetentlols pre-
tensions summarized are about as toiaWS:
Being a melzDer Of the Geneva He'd
Cross.
Being sen, out hers to engage nurses and
doctors
Offering t, pay them salaries ranging
from $40 TO $50 a month.
Being ordered to Manila with twenty
eight nasses 10 wait on the Washington
sG X,s other pretersions cover his numerous
and wonderful exploits on land ard sea
on the island Of Cuba during the Spanish
war a. q member OF the Red Cross. exploits
ffe recital OF which, embracing -erise OF
sttrring tragic and dramatic bloodhound
1fyto, nd An
II credited, go far TO show tnat the doc
tor had been sadly overlooked ny an uh-
grateful nation and that mistake had
been made in picking out Dewey as me
hero of the Spanish war.
Geneva Order No Longer Exists.
The truth OF the matter. 1t is claimed. Is
that the Order OF the Geneva Red Cross
does no longer exist and has never existed
In this country, therefore. his pretensions
to being a representative Of that body are
without foundation. The American Ma
tional Red Cross Society knows HIN not,
and as C. ara Barton under whose auspices
he ella ms To be- working. aas more appli-
cations from trained nurses than she knows
what 10 do with. II siaida u reason. i Is
alleged, that She would not suiid Doctor
Love out TO the Pacific coast 10 engage
nutses and doctors. especially nurses &ho
have not graduated az trained nurses
Again. had Clara Barton wanted nurses
from Washington she would have cofnmun-
seated her wants to Mrs Ha!nes who, as
have filled the order on short notice. Again
Clara Barton pays no salaries 10 her train
ed nurses, as all OF them are volunteers
aud glad 20 give thsir services from pa
triotic motives therefore the Doctors prom
Use 20 pay from $40 to SO month to un-
trained nurses shows him. 1t would seem.
20 be ignorant of we'll known facts. As
taenfy-eieht nurses for the Washington
ooys at Manila would be- largely In excess
of the actual requirements that story also
falls by the waySde.
DR. Love came to Mrs. Courier A week
ago last Friday. presenting a note Of in
PRODUCTION from a friend in Yakima in
whom Mrs. Courier had the utmost conf
6enee Or" Love proceeded 10 make
himself at home and remained there until
ne took his leave last Tuesday evening
when he left ostenSb'v for Whatconl. The
doctor was uuGuesiionably an invalid of
some kind, whether from wounds or other
catieos Is not known. but ne unquestiona bly,
was r sufferer. and hexr6es having to use
q crutch ne was considerable Of a charge
TO the family. He was not at all modest
In his wants. alleging that ne was above
81 "A day for expenses and would reimburse
Mrs Courier for ali demands. After re-
counting ali his trials and sunerIngs and