The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-19
s0ME WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
.ocIAL HAPPENINGS AT THE Ma
TIoNAL CAPITAL.

china if It's services SnOuiu He
~eeded There-MentaIIy Deransed
soldiers From the Philippines.
visit of the Cuban School Teach
ers-Some of the Guy DoinEs of
cav NewDort-The whereabouts of
some Well known PeOpIe-Other
Matters of Interest.
U,shington, D. c., Aug. 1.-THE wide
unread publ alton that the Red Cross is
already considering what it will do in Chi
ma is a little premature. The facts. so far
ora these: Last Saturday the Associa-
sion beld its second meeting under the act
~ incorporation, and in the course of
4 %usiness, discussed what might be done in
,,6ina in the event of war. Miss Barton
referred the question to the Board of Con-
xrol should war appear inevitable spe-
rial meeting of this Board of Control will
he called and arrangements quickly and
thoroughly made. Miss Barton has had
50 much experience, on many fields far
and near that in case of urgent necessity
there will he no delay. The matter of
funds which are now very low in the Red
nous drain upon it of the Cuban relief
and the Spanish-American war will be
.be only Ion in the way. But there is,
no doubt, that the generous American
public will obviate that difficulty so soon
IS the Red Cross president makes her
wishes known, for it had always respon-
ned to every one of her app ais. even more
liberaIy than has been required. The
mere mention of Miss Barton's name is
such an open sesame" to the hearts and
~ nurses that more than once in times now
happily passed, when the Association had
no legal protection, fraudulent persons
have used it for their own base purposes.
might a tale unfold in this connection,
q concerning the wife of a well-known Off
s. Ger not long ago prominent, but now
away way DOWN on his luck" who
81 gathered in, nobody knows how many
q ehekles, ostensib,y for Cuban relief, but
which the Cubans never heard nor saw
81 n sign Of Beyond doubt the lady acted
upon the Scriptural injunction that Chair
Nv fesins lat home" a disclosure in the
II Morning News of the Well-known names
"a Of the guilty parties would create SEN
81 saton but why kick a woman when she's
d0gn-especi3llv w en- the kicking would
4* do no gOOQ f1appIy Inc iSCcAt oNt VI
WI Clrgr IS in incorporating the Red Cross
and thus giving it legal protection will eff
fectually preyeut any repetition of the
sVindle. Should the Re d Cross attempt to
act in China, it will have to face unusual
q rerils in the fact that the Yellow King
I'D dom is one of the two nations, (MeXlco
M tie other) which has never entered into
81 the treaty of Geneva and, therefore, is not
bound TO show any favor to is represen-
W tatives. Their charitable duties would ex-
tsrd to sick and wounded Chinese a wei
as among soldiers of our own and other
nations; and in pursuance thereof they
# would be in as grave danger of murder
and torture as any foe of the Yellow
Dacon. It is not so much wonder that
~ nation of treaCherous, cold-blooded hends
lie the Chinese should refuse the bench
cent treaty; but hat Mexico should stlll
hold aloof-the only really civilized coun-
81 Try Of the earth not enrolled under the
Red Cross banner-is asst comprehe nsion.
Soaking of war, one of the saddest a
i lures of the conflict in the Philippines is
u the great number of cases of insanity de-
veop d among our soldiers. Nearly two
4 hundred hopalessly crazy boys in
81 Blue have already arrived at st. ELIZA
"a beths. the government asylum near
81 Washington, since hostilities began az Ma
"a Mia while many more have been detained
81 at the Preside in California, or are how
on their way across the ocean" Few
q of them are violent enough to need
n notwithstanding, but expert physicians
saw that the comparatively mild type OF
81 mental arrangement is practically incur
a able 1t is terrible reality that the
n war in Cuba lost us many more good men
by insanity than on the field of battle
Why It is so. has noe been explained.
The hot climate may have something 10
n do with it. but il is more probable that the
entire change of habit. food and occupa-
tion has had more to do with it than the
climate. The crazy ones are not usually
from the regular army, but clerks, stu
dents farmers. mothers boys gener-
ally, used to the comforts of home. For
these the discipline of camp is much hard
er than actual fighting. To suddenly
come down from toothsome pies and
cakes with suitable accessories TO per
pctual diet of beans, bacon and hard
tack. the drudgery of camp life, or weary
marches in cow hide shoes and wooler
hose that wear the poor feet TO the bone
ell these and other unaccustomed hard
ships conspre with inconsistencies, thai
worst of diseases, to unsettle many q
brain.
Before this letter can appear in print
Washington Will De tIOWucu from 'Vh
Ter to circumference, with Cuban schoo
teachers. fourteen hundred strong, who
will devote two days 10 seeing oui
sights"
Extensive preparations have been made
for their entertainment by the loca
Board of Trade and Bureau of Education
and as your correspondent is to be one OF
the official cicerones. she will be in bet
ter position to tell you all about 1t mex
week If yet alive. Under ordinary cir
cumstances, he or she who deliberately
comes to Washington to hunt the mons
at this time of year, is either a TOOL OF
an ignoramus and he or she who offers
TO act as Snowman is a bigger one Bu
this visit of the Cuban teachers Is rare
occa sion, and must be made the most OF
though the mercury hovers persistentlS
around the hundredth degree. by th'
way that Anarchist of the social Worlo
the shirt-waist man, whose name Is leg
ion in Washington during this long sles'
of sizzling heat has so far failed TO Sc
cure official recognition.
Between the hours of $50 and a. M
and again between 4:30 and p. n1,' oul
tstreets are filed with masculine hgure'
carrying their coats on their arms
Laundering to and from the various oe
partments; but il is noticeable that II
nearly every case the garments arr
doomed before entering the official dooTs
and donned when again outside them
All secretaries and chiefs Of bureaus