Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-04-09
RED CROSS OFFICIALS
TAKE DECIDED STAND
Several Well Known Person
ages Suspended.
MISS CLARA BARTON SUSTAINED.

Those Dropped from Membership In.
cIude the Washington Minority"
Who Were Opposed to Miss Barton's
Plans.
New York, April 8-Walter P. Phil
lips, member of Clara Barton's in.
ner board of control of the Red Cross
society. has issued an announcement
that the executive committee of the
society has suspended from member
ship what is known as the Washington
| minority" or those members who have
been trying to oust Miss Barton from
the presidency.
Among the Washingtonians suspend
ed are General John M. Wilson, w. K.
Van Reypen (surgeon general of the
navy, John w. Foster (former secre-
tary Of state), Harriet Blaine Beale
| daughter of James G. Blaine), Anna
Roosevelt Cowles (sister of President
Roosevelt) and Hilary A. Herbert (for-
mer secretary of the navy.
This formal notice of suspension
was sent to each Of the disciplined
members:
you are hereby notified that at a
meeting of the executive committee
Of the American Red Cross, held in
| New York April 6, you were by vote
by the executive committee suspended
from mebership and all privileges of a
member. The charge against you be-
ing:
First, that you have attempted to
disrupt the organization.
Second, that in a certain memorial
! sent to congress and known as house
! document, No. $40 Fifty-seventh con-
gress, second session, you have as
sumed an attitude unbecoming a mem
ber of the organization.
"You are hereby notified to appear
before the legislative committee at a
time and place agreed upon later, and
show cause why said suspension
should not be permanent"
In the public announcement, Mr..
Phillips says:
This aggressive policy has been
adopted in order to end the persistent
attempt to discredit Miss Barton and
disrupt the Red Cross society. The
efforts of the minority to force the
retirement of Miss Barton have proved
absolutely futile and have not met
with the support of the public.
Among Miss Barton's supporters
are such men as William T. Wardwell,
who was chairman of the New York
Red Cross society during the Spanish
American war, raising $3.50 900 for Red
Cross work in Cuba and who has since
established the Red Cross hospital in
this city.
ut is now proposed that the society
shall take up the work of extending
.sIHers lsanization throughout the en-
she she nma:y9Slntry, as contemplated some
chs choirr""n u go by Miss Barton and con
poses. -" is her report at the last an
tanning matfg
pressed in it's ts---------
of the act it4Ys QUITE ENOUGH.
shall be FIVE
ne peopBb Vanderbilt Abandons Her
!msFlcus asc Commercial Career.
. y York, April 8.-Four days of
II oIeng a woman's smoking parlor in
Film avenue have proved almost too
much for Mrs. Jacob H. Vanderbilt.
The eliminating trouble came when
a man, claiming to be a member of the
Young Mems Christian association,
called upon Mrs. Vanderbilt with a
written protest. His appearance was
the climax o. series of protests from
societies and individuals, which Mrs.
Vanderbilt says has distressed her al
most beyond endurance.
"They have said such unjust things"
she said. 'It is inspired, l am sure,
by the desire to force me out Of this
business which l have taken up for
the purpose of earning a living.
connect this Young Mems Christian as
sociation protest with what 1 have
heard about the feeling Of certain per
sons toward my venture here"