New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-06-18
yrn CROSS WORK IN CUBA.
=. ORPHANS HOMES AND TWO HosPI-
rA1s AMONG THE RESULTS

~. clara Barton president OF the American
A,'s Red Cross. arrived in Cuba about six
w., eco 20 attend personally to Red Cross work
VIZ 10 island Miss Barton has had STAFF in
on s,nce April ! last and some Of the work
80 -,.r,bers have accomplished Will be found in
10 .oloWing reports made TO Miss Barton by her
". DR. J. y. Hubbe Miss Barton was re-
Ass,ed 10 resume her labors In Cuba by the Presi-
~. General Brooke and Surgeon General Stern
- she Is also looking after the needs in Porto
49, and large shipments of supplies left here for
-, Mace on the transport Mcpherson. which
lid on Wednesday Since April last The Central
-, Relief Committee has shipped TO Cuba on
=. order OF Miss Barton over eighty tons OF mis-
uoneous food. clothing medicines hospital sup
IVES garden implements. seeds and other articles.
~ Hubbeus reports were submitted BY her to the
ca,,-al cuban Relief Committee. OF which Stephen
: barton is chairman and ex-Mayor Charles a
s.bieren. OF Brooklyn. is treasurer.
M Hubbells report OF his work. from its COM
..,cement in April and its better progress in
wsv closing with Jaruca. embraces the founding
:. six orphans homes and the re-estabhshment
"a reatting Of one home and two hospitals. lie
says in his report;
4. Guines we found the civil hospital In de-
,o-able sanitary condition from lack Of necessary
~ 10 support the efforts Of its excellent director
TT o9es Goriea, who had exhausted mis- own means
N the aid OF the SICK ana orphans. Inc SICK we're
IN a wooden building. formerly the smallpox nos,
.i.sl outside the city. This was disinfected, and
he seventy -hye patients removed TO It, since which
-iv three deaths have occurred. all hopeless cases
~ f,itarcl l0ss The orphans which Mr.. GOriga had
- gathering up since mis- return from New YOrk
a., November numbered nearly one hundred
'nese he had been caring for almost entirely by
~ own efforts. and largely at his own expense
r. orphans were moved into larger building
r-bjch Also had been occupied by Spanish soldiers
I'D had 90 be dlsnfected, repaired and made ready
g. lis occupants. Ample grounds for raising yege-
.ob'ss and crops are guaranteed them when the
sSVlren are able to work. thus making them
largely self-supporting, by growing crops in quick
nm reports OF Mr.. Lloyd the United States hos
,iei steward. OF sickness, destitution and want in
catalina led US to that place. which had been hve
tines forcoly entered by the insurgents during Its
,asssssion by Spanish troops. Its population
~ me commencement OF the recommendation was
s1 but the war reduced this number 10 $50, Its
IN t6e vacant palmleaf huts Of the dead recon
.sntrados scattered through the town were num-
- OF orphan girls with no support save what
.sav could gather from the fields, no clothing but
s.sv rags covered with vermtn which they could
nj destroy. a garment to exchange. half
grown women. with bright. handsome faces. living
human eyes. without hope for the future Gaia
ina had been the birthplace Of Mr.. Garga, OF
Cuines whose helping hand was again extended
and every effort was made by the municipal au-
-horities 10 carry out our wishes A home Of
fered rent free for the asylum and the Mayor
own house was put at our disposal as homo foi
our nurses and working force.
When the nurses commenced the work OF bath
,ng and indicating the orphans and patients. the
Young Ladies' Club of Catalina. having twenty
members. came forward and asked TO be permitted
10 help our nurses. and they performed work OF
which any trained nurses might have been proud
When this over. and the little white beds glis
tables shone with the tin service of plates. cups
knives forks and spoons. and the charcoal fires ir
the kitchen told Of a dinner 20 he prepared. those
young ladies again appeared after serious con