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The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29

I WISH to speak in terms of the
highest praise concerning the work
| done by our Oakland women during
the past ten months for the relief,
the care and the comfort of our coun-
try's soldiers.
Mrs. Granville Abbott, president of
the Oakland Red Cross, is peculiarly
fitted for the duties of that onerous po-
sition, and she guided and directed her
enthusiastic co-workers with judgment
so excellent and tact so unfailng that
no hiatus of supply nor friction of opin-
ion ever occurred to mar the efficiency
of the organization. Her executive
board was composed Of ladies who for
the time being devoted themselves ut
terly to the work in hand, with the re-
suit that perfect order and system pre-
vailed and all that was done was well
done.
While l had charge of the Oakland
table at the ferry my thirtyfive as
sistants-recruited from the very flower
of Oakland society-rose at 4 in the
morning. went across the bay on the
first boat, and often came home on the
last one at night, and worked indefa-
tigabIy all day long. They made sand
wiches, prepared the coffee, and served
our popular Oakland army stew" day
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29
BY Mrs. John F. Merrill,
President Of the San francisco Red Cross Society

TIME work done during this past
summer by our San Francisco
women has been in every way cred
liable. Without going into details,
which our public reports have made
common property, l feel that l have
every cause to congratulate most
warmly the members of our local Or
ganization upon what they have ac-
complished since they began their pa
triotic labors.
Relieving as 1 do that no body of
women did more or better work for our
country's defenders than was done here
on this coast, it has been very great
and special pleasure to me during my
recent trip East to see how widely rec
ognized is this fact in our sister States.
In every one of the thirty cities in
which I made brief stay, praises for
our Red Cross work were to be heard
on every side Miss Clara Barton,
whom / visited at her home in Glen
Echo. Maryland, expressed herself most
enthusiastically concerning it. and
whenever was in any city from which
soldiers had been sent here, l. as our
Red Cross representative, was almost
overwhelmed with the heartfelt graft
tude expressed by all whom met. My
reception by the Cuban Relief Commit
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29
The Oldest Emigrunt to California.

IN beautiful ranch, three miles
from Santa Rosa, lives one of the
" daintiest and sweetest little old
women that ever was seen. True.
her complexion is not quite as fair and
smooth as it was eighty years ago. nor
her kindly eyes quite as bright. but
her laugh is just as merry, and her
heart just as light and happy, and her
daughter, Mrs. Byers, the dear. digni-
fed elderly lady with whom she makes
her home, calls her. and with good rea-
son, "the sunshine of the house"
Just 102 years and seven months ago
a pretty little baby girl was born to
Mrs. Melissa M. Myers of st. Lawrence
County, in the State of New York. and
this little baby girl has lived on and
on until now, when she has seen over
t. years and a half more than CEN
tury of existence, and is looking for
ward to passing at lea I several years
more under our pleasant California
skies.
Little Mary Myers grew up to be
very comely young woman, well versed
in the ways of good housekeepers, and
when the hour and the man arrived she
married a clever young fellow named
Du Plaunty and made the pleasantest
KlQQ OIL q ilOIlS 1OI nm elAAN hiAS AANSAS
ones who came afterWard.
After Mr.. Du Plaunty's death his
widow made q brave fight for some
time to care for herself and her chill
dren alone, but after a time made
second, and very happy, marriage with
a Mr. Stuart, whose widow she now is.
Mrs. Stuart has been the mother of
a large family, five members of which
were sons. Two of her boys she gave
to her country in it's hour of need thir-
ty-seven years ago, and though she
gave them with loyal Willingness she
has never yet ceased, in her mother
heart, to mourn their loss. One died
AT Memphis, and the oJner IN Anderson
Vile and the mention of either place.
or of them, still brings tears to the eyes
that watched the boys march away
nearly forty years since.
Mrs. Stuart's claim to public interest
lies not alone in the fact of her ad-
vanced age, but to her belongs the dis
tinction of being undoubtedly the old
est person who ever emigrated to our
hospitable State. Last spring, when
she lacked only six weeks of being 102
wears old, Mrs. Stuart started from her
home of many years IN Penamo. Mo-.
eighty miles south of Kansas City. and
came straight through to San Francis
CO. She is delighted with California. its
climate and the conditions which sur
round her here, and only regrets that
she did not make the trip earlier
in life. my mother lived to be 104"
she saws, "away back there in the
freezing East; If she had come here she
might have lived years longer. 1 feel
now as il 1 might live to be at least
no." And all her many friends hope
that she may.
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She wrote letter inquiring as to the
disposition of the funds. She perceived
that a head was needed, and, never TAX
ing unto herself the credit for the exc
cutive ability which she so distinctly
inherits from her father, in her quiet,
unobtrusive way, she set to work to
bring order out of chaos
How she succeeded the work accom-
plished by the Woman's National War
Relief during those awful days follow
ing San Juan and Santiago amply
shows.
Miss Helen Goulds executive ability
put the war relief in shape. She not
only gave her money, which to her was
a bagatelle, but she gave her time. her
strength. and bent every energy of her
mind to the duty which she saw before
her.
When the soldiers were being sent
home from Santiago Miss Gould made
a personal supervision of all the hos
pitals on Staten Island, on Governors
Island, at Fort Hamilton, in Brooklyn
and in New York City. No detail was
too small or too insignificant for her
personal supervision, and a want once
told to her was never forgotten or over
looked.
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Wbot Some of tbe Earnest Workers Did.
BY Mrs. Russell Sage.

Not long after that Miss Gould re-
ceived letter asking her to join, urg-
ing upon her the fact that l had al
ready done so.
After war was proclaimed and the
need of such an organization became
more apparent, board of directors was
chosen, consisting of the following Ia
dies as officers:
Mrs. Ellen Hardin Walworth. dIrec-
tor general; Mrs. Daniel Butterfield.
chairman; Mrs. Russell Sage, vice
chairman; Mrs. Mclean, corresponding
secretary; Miss Anne Rhoades, record
ing secretary; Mrs. Raymond, treas
urer.
Funds poured In upon us, contribu-
tions and donations, until our ex-
chequer was a full one. There was no
particular system at that time. The
war relief women were all enthusiastic
and working themselves to death, but
without any business detail or sys-
tematized routine of work. Into this
breach stepped Miss Helen Gould.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29

position with something of reluctance.
My first trip among the business
houses of our city, however, completely
reconciled me to my lot, for in three
days 1 collected over $780, many of the
sums given being accompanied by cor
dial invitations to come again" If
necessary. 1 was struck, even in those
first days, by the widespread feeling of
generosity the willingness with which
even those who could ill afford to give
anything gave what they could and
gladly. People seemed to have learned
by inspiration. almost the lesson of
giving, and while some gave hundreds
of dollars others bound themselves to
pay 25 cents a month, and scarcely any
one refused to add a mite to the general
fund.
1 appreciated then and since, as never
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29
Wire Fence Telephones.

Telephone communication has been eff
fected between a number of farms in
Australia by means of wire fences. The
Australian Agricuturist publishes a note
from a correspondent writing from a sta
ton near Cobar, stating that it was easy
to converse with friends at station
eight miles distant with Instruments con-
nected on the wire fences, and the same
kind of communication was established
over a distance of thirteen miles. A large
number of stations are connected in this
way, and the system, If widely adopted,
will do much to relieve the monotony of
back-country life.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29
Women of ColiforDio Rose to the Occusiop.
BY Mrs. w. B. Harrington,
President of the State Red Cross societt

these impressions! The refined and
cultured women of both city and coun-
try shared in the spirit of the great oc-
casion, and with tender care admins
tered to soldiers and sailors on sea and
land, wherever duty called them. The
kindly appreciations of Red Cross work
received daily from mothers, sisters and
sweethearts OF our countrys defenders
show that the women of the Golden
State have done their share in main
tanning its reputation for loyalty and
patriotism.
Throughout the East 1t has been
thought marvel by those to whom the
planning and executing of great works
of charity is a familiar task. that the
women of this State, lacking to a great
extent their experience, should in such
a brief period have originated and car
ried out SO systematically the great
work of the Red Cross of California.
The task is well nigh completed. the
duty done. In coming years no record
of the history of our State will stand
forth more conspicuously than that
made by it's women in the Spanish war
of 1898.
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before, how warm are Californian
hearts, and it was more than pleasure
to see how the plea for the soldiers
found a ready response everywhere.
San Francisco alone contributed over
100000 for Red Cross work. and over
10000 badges at 81 each were sold to
add to the amount collected.
The school children should be par
ticularly mentioned here, for they
proved themselves veritable little pa
triots. Many of them denied themselves
in different ways to send in a few
nickels each month. Some devoted all
the time possible outside school hours
to earning. soldier money" Others
held fairs and parlor sales for the same
object, and scarcely one failed to con-
tribute in some way to the Red Cross
treasury, by means of which so much
real good was accomplished
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29
MRS. w. B. HARRINGTON,
MRS. JOHN F. MERRILL,
MRS. ISAAC L. REQUA,
MRS. LOUIS SLOSS,
MISS HELEN GOULD
And Others
Write the Story
for
Sunday Call
Readers.
Tbot to Our Brave Women, as Well as to Our
Brave Soldiers oDd Sailors, Are Due the
HoDors Of Our Triumph Is Here Shown
by This Symposium Of Eorpest
Workers.

Workers.


l soldiers
an Juan and Manila
Call through presents it's
herones
The symposium which the Sunday Call
of
of
will NlIr
honor o
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29

tee is also one of the exceptionaJlv
pleasant memories left by my trip.
We are inclined to feel sometimes.
here in California, that we are some
what isolated and are working alone
as IL were, but my visit East this time
has for me destroyed all this impression
forever l realize now that we Califor-
mans are part of a great whole, bound
together by ties of warmest affection
and truest sympathy.
l think that the work for the SOL
oiers which was done on the coast this
summer has not only helped them, but
has helped all the workers. 1t has
made them more patriotic. more con-
siderate and more unselfish, and has
created between the hundreds of men
and women who were for a time united
in earnest labor for noble cause a
bond of sympathy that cannot readily
be broken
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29

TINE Red Cross of California may
we'll be termed a searchlight of ex-
i ceeding power. 1t brought to light
in every hamlet in the State women
Of brains and executive ability, who,
when called from the humdrum duties
Of everyday life, responded quickly and
intelligently.
The Red Cross auxiliaries Of Califor-
mia number over 100. To them has been
intrusted the responsibility of caring
for every detail of work, of placing the
means Of collecting funds and of using
the best methods of disbursement Thus
the latent power of woman was brought
out
The opinion prevailed to some extent
that a large class of the women of Cal
ifornia, at least In our cities, were in
capable of earnest effort and that those
with homes on ranches and away
from the rush and excitement were not
fitted to cope with philanthropic work
on a large scale. How false are both
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29
Modest Summary of the Work Accomplished
BY Miss HeleD Gould.
Acting Dreo hs Womens National War Relief Association

One of our neighbors and her daugh-
ters worked for months as hard as
though they were working for a liveIi-
hood. They distributed garments for
both the Red Cross Society and our
own; their barn was used as a work.
shop through the summer, and the wo-
men and young village girls spent many
hours in sewing under their direction,
as well as taking garments home 1t
was touching to see women with large
families of children, and with husbands
on small salaries, who still found time
to do a great amount Of this work.
The experience of the last few
months, where people from all over the
country have united in giving their
time, money and services for common
cause, makes US feel more strongly
than ever that we are a nation and not
simply loose federation of States.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29

r n response to your request that l
give you a report of the work OF
the Women's National War Relief
Association, l would refer you to Mrs.
Walworth, the director general of our
society, who is familiar with the details
and who worked untiredly through the
summer and autumn. Her daughter s
life was given in the cause, for she con-
tracted the fever while nursing in the
detention hospital at Montauk, and she
died soon after.
All American women seem to have
considered it a privilege to do what
they could to show their affection for
their country in the emergency that
arose, and in many instances it has
been touching to watch the enthusiasm
and energy with which they worked.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29

Until the reign of the Empress Jose
phine handkerchief was thought in
France so shocking an object that lady
would never have dared to use it before
any one The word. even, was carefully
avoided in refined conversation. An actor
who would have used handkerchief on
the stage even in the most fearful mo-
ments of the play, would have been un-
mercifully hissed; and 1t was only in the
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29

to contribute to the object in view So
it was that when 1 was appointed at
the first meeting of the Red Cross to do
what 1 could toward raising the few
thousand dollars that DIR. Hopkins
thought at that time would be suffi-
cient to defray all necessary expenses
along the lines proposed. accepted the
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29

beginning of the present century that a
celebrated actress, Mile. Duchesnois,
dared to appear with handkerchief in her
hand. Having to speak of this handker-
chief in the course of the piece, she never
could summon enough courage to call 1t
by its true name, but referred to it as "a
light tissue"
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29

HU tiOnal War Rellet Association was
IYI first awakened by Mrs. Ellen Har-
din Walworth, who called to see
me- one afternoon long before war was
proclaimed-at time when there was
even a possibility that the vexed Gu
ban question would be settled by arbi
tration. When she first broached her
plan to me of a society of women band
ed together for the relief of soldiers
in a war which had not been declared
AS vet, exclaimed in astonishment at
the very idea of such thing being
necessary.
She said I'VE must be in shape to
take hold of it when it comes. VIII
you allow your name to be used?"
/ consented to this on condition that
/ was put on no committee, as I was
very busy at the time putting the fin
ishing touches to my book, and felt
/ could not spare moment from the
work in which was so interested.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29

MY work under the auspices of the
MI Red Cross was of a kind which.
lu had the object not been what it
was. would have been far from agree
able to me. No lady really likes, even
in the cause of most worthy charities,
10 go about soliciting subscriptions and
urging more or less generous persons
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29
How Generously tbe Money Was Subscribed
BY Mrs. Louis SIoss,

Chairman of the Red Cross Subscription Committee.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29

interest in the Woman's Ma
Nj tional War Relief Association was
vi first awakened by Mrs. Ellen Har-
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1899-05-12
RETURNED FROM THE SOUTH

EDITOR WICKs. OF TINE CALL. RE
TURNS FROM A PLEASANT TRIP
IN SOUTHERN STATES.
j. w. Wicks. of the Smyrna can. ar
rived in this city to-day on his way to
his home, in Smyrna from an extended
trip South.
Mr.. Wicks left about five weeks ago
for Birmingham and Piedmont. Ala. he
having been one Of the original boom
ers' OF the latter place. In speaking OF
Piedmont the editor states that the town
b. decidedly looking up, ana o. growing
steadily. birmingham, Mr.. WiciSs states.
viii eventually DE the city Of the South.
as to-day s5OOO0OO worth of industries are
located nj that place While there he at
tended the May Festival, which Is SINH
lar to the famous Mardi Gras of New Or
leans. lie also spent some time In At
lanta. Mr.. Wicls made the trip partially
for pleasure and partly for his health.
which he states Is greatly improved. Dur
ing his absence the CAN has been ably
managed by Davis Brown, associate cdl-
tor
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1899-05-12
WANTED TO SEE THE WORLD

BUT TWO BOLD WILMINGTON TOTS
CHANGED THEIR MIND IN PHILA-
DBIlPHIA.
With 81 in small change in their pock-
cts Willie Sullivan, aged 10 years. and
his sister, a child Of >, set out from their
home, at No. 4 Klund street, this city,
with the grim determination TO see the
world. They landed ait Chestnut street
wharf, Philadelphia, early last evening,
and then for n time amused themselves
with the sights of a big city. Night
came on and with it darkness. and then
the two little travellers began to wish foI
home.
Il want me mamma said the boy with
a whimper, which was followed by ''Ant
l want me papa" from little Julia. nher
they looked at each other and began tC
cry. In. this condition Detective Almen'
dinger found them, and last night the!
slept at City Hail. Their parents went t,
Philadelphia for them to-day.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1899-05-12
CLOSING WORK OF COURT.

In Superior Court yesterday after
noon George S. Capelle, receiver for
THE Arlington Mills Manufacturing
Company. filed a petition and obtained
a rule to compel PARTIES to the judg-
ment filed against the company to show
cause why it should not be vacated.
This Judgment was obtained on De
osmber 3, 1897, for $96,075.43. The petit
ticn recites that two of the membdre
cf THE plaintiff company We're Officers
of the defendant corporation, and as
sulch should have made certain de-
.fenEes. and that the Judgment slhou.d
have amounted to but $4,000. There
Will be argument ON the rule ON May
26. On application of counsel for tht
defense THE case of c. "a CougIhlin vs
F. BlumenthaI e Coiwas removed to th'
United States Court
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1899-05-12
A MIsINTERPRETATION.

ARTICLE APPEARING IN YESnl1R-
DAYS ISSUE OF JOURNAL APPAR-
EMILY MISUNDERSTOOD.
For the benefit of that class of read
ers who wlfully or otherwise appear to
misunderstood the purport Of the article
appearing In Wednesdays issue OF the
Evening Journal relative to the Bavarian
brewery robbery, few words Of expla-
nation are hereby made:
The day following the robbery a por-
ton Of the police and certain newspapers
held to the theory that the instigators
Of the robbery were the men who visited
the brewery to solicit advertisements for
the EllSs' program. This theory was APP
parently held without any effort on the
part of anyone to ascertain who the par
ties wene who did the soliciting and the
fallacy Of It was clearly proved when II
became known through the columns OF
the Journal that the men were OF high
standing in the community. Had they
not been made public and the theory still
clung to those who knew the parties
might have regarded It as a suspicious
circumstance that their names were
given out.
Messrs. Brown, Baird and Foulk are
too well known for anyone, no matter
how simple-minded and unsophisdcated
fair in any other light than "a good one
en- the police that the alleged "schem-
ers" were not unearthed before
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1899-05-12
LOCAL NEWS NOTES.

Wilmington and Brandywine Gene
terry this afternoon received the body OF
Miss Annie Croney, of No. 1909 West sec-
ord street
Persons residing IN the neighborhood
of Gupn avenue and Franklin street
complain that the garbage is not prop
erly collected.
Rev. c. A Grlse viii address the gos-
pel meeting at Association Ham on Sum
day afternoon and Ernest Haines viii
sing
ON Sunday week Bolton Hall. of New
York. win speak at the mems meeting at
the Y. NJ. G. A.. and the choir OF St.
Andrews Church win sing.
This afternoon Sheriff Taylor viii sell
the properties Of George W. Forrest and
Constantine Cooper.
George W. Foster, of this city. has re-
ceivcd two letters from William r.
Myers. who Is with Battery II. Sixteenth
Artillery, In Honolulu.
Bishop Monaghan was present at sew
eral of the services of the forty hours
devotion at EastOn, Nd.
-Crusaders Castle, Knights Of the Col
den Eagle, will celebrate its fifteenth an
n.versary on Tuesday evening.
The Harlan and EIOlllngsworth Com
pany will build two large compound en-
gines for the Neafie q Levy Company Of
/ Philadelphia, to be placed In Baltimore
and Ohio railroad tugs.
"
| Is asking for bids for the construction Of
a bel. line around this city.
! South Wilmington experienced a
/ syght hail storm yesterday
| DIR. e. G. Shortlidge made a trip
Il down the state yesterday and to-day and
distributed 100000 shad try in various
II streams.
This afternoon the Bayard Memorial
Association will meet, elect directors ana
decide upon the character OF the memoir
ial.
"A special train bearing 25O soldiers
from ST. Louis, en- route for Porto hlco'
PASSED through this city yesterday al
; ternoon at 420 o'clock
The Harlan and Hollingsworth Com
; many Is awaiting orders from tne 1oS'
4 ernment to launch the torpedo noat Al
/, miral Stringham. "a.
-On account Of muddy water the ciis
] numping station had to stop work lot
time yesterday.
--,,a no,v of Mark Moore. colored. whs
sisd on Tuesday last. has been sent x
Farnhurst for burial
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1899-05-12
AN AMICABLE AWARD

GOVERNMENT GIVES THE PENN
SYLvArNHA RAILROAD COMPANY
"a SUBSTANTIAL SUM.
After pendenoy since january, 1895,
the Mitigation between THE Pennsylva-
mia Rallroad Company and the Fed
eral government over the right CIf way
for THE Assawaman canal, I'm Sussex
county, ended to-day.
This railrCad company is awarded
$37 ,343.5S for the land condemned and
for the building Of the bridge. and the
amount includKs a capitalized sum for
this operation of the draw over this
inland waterway.
AS a mattcr of fact, the controversy
was seut'nd yesterday afternoon, whan
Distrlct Attorney Vanhegrlft, repre-
sentingtha government, and John
Biggs. attorney for THE company, me
and agreed upon the sum stated.
Th.ls mornimg Columbus Watkins
John S. Harrington and Andrew j
Horsey, THE commissioners appointed
| by THE General Assembly to assess th,
damages. came to Wilmington ant
Signed THE amicable award.
In this controversy the state was rep
resented by Attorney-General White.