Evening star., 1898-12-05
RECEIPTS AND EXPENSES
Report of Chairman of Committee in Charge
of Home for Soldiers.
The Work Done and Means Expended
in Behalf of Members of Dis
trict Regiment.

Mrs. Lizzie w. Calver. president of the
Legion of Loyal Women, has submitted a
report covering the operations of the tenn
| porary home for District soldiers, lately
closed. showing receipts and disbursements
as follows:
"AS chairman Of the committee in charge
| of the temporary home for the homeless SOL
| diers of the 1st Regiment, District of CO.
lumbia Volunteers | have the honor to re-
port that as soon as the necessity for this
home was known, and it was decided to es-
| tablish ii, the house No 413 9th street was
rented. cleaned, put in order and furnish
ed, provision being made for the comforta-
| BILE lodging and nourshng subsistence of
one hundred soldiers. and the home was
ready to receive this number upon the ar
| rival of the regiment in Washington on
their furlough of sixty days. AS necessary
| to the proper management of the home and
with view to the strictest economy, there
were employed a bookkeeper, a housekeep
er, q superintendent of the building, cook
and Il janitor.
"One hundred and forty-eight in all of
the members of the regiment were received
| at the home. or these :16 were sent to hos
pitals as too sick to remain in quarters
with the others, and 81 received medical
attention in our institution, 124 prescriptions
Tor them having been compounded at Evans
drug store and 100 at the United States dis
pensiry. all written by Dr. Charles V. Pet
teys. who gave his services gratuitousy.
Besides members of our regiment 159 SOL
dlers, who We're passing through our city,
received transient accommodation in lodg
| ing, meals and lunches to take with them
go lunches having been furnished from our
| kitchen.
Every attention to the comfort of those
| at the home was given, and it was needed
as an OF them We're more or less sick
durlnS their stay with us as the result of
| their campaign in Santiago.
| ReceiDts md nishursemeufs
our cash receipts We're as follows: From
| employees of the government printing Office
$332.35; from the citizens committee 800:
from employees of the pension office, SGT:
| from employees in Office of auditor for Post
| once Department, $4O23; from employees in
| Agricultural Department, $780, 2S: from en-
| ployes In office of auditor for War Depart
ment. $3.50; from Legion of Loyal Women
and receipts at Office, s61S12; from receipts
| from articles sold on closing, $11996; total,
81, $50. "a.
Our expenses were as follows: Rent Of
building. 500; help, $50; light and fuel,
S3olo medicines, $50: laundry, $22.0S; fur
| niture and utensils. $70.7S: provisions, s748.-
| ~: miscellaneous and incidentals, $50 70:
| total cash expense $1,374.43. The balance
| of receipts. $165.41, has been turned over
to the relief fund of the Legion of Loyal
Women, for the relief of needy and worthy
soldiers. their widows and orphans, during
| the coming winter. ii
| Other Supplies.
I'm addition to thelcash receipts, we re-
ceived donations, of provisions, valued at
$3.50; handkerchiefs, 50; pajamas, $50: night
shirts $40; underclothing, SIS; all of which
| were used in the home, making the total
expenditure for these homeless boys of our
| regiment during their necessary sojourn
with us 81 ,79S. 49, I'M this connection. and
| In behalf of those, cared for by us, desire
| to tender thanks n char
| liable citizens of the city and to the citi-
zens' committee and Red Cross Society for
their generous support in this worthy un-
| dertakinG." za F