New-York tribune., 1905-11-15
RED CROSS PROGRESS.
Good Uork Reported at annual
Meeting at Mrs. Robnsons.

TIE hrst annual meeting Of the New I orR
Stat. branch Of the American National Red
Cross was held yesterday afternoon at the homo
Of Mr. and Mrs Douglas Robinson. No. AZ
Msdison-ave Colonel William Cary Sanger, OF
SaneervfIie. presided. and. although the branch
was only organized on May 4. at the home OF
Mr. and Mrs Whitelaw Reid. the officers were
able TO report substantial progress. Subdivisions
have been organized in Buffalo, Islfp, Long
Island. and Westchester County. A Brooklyn
Subdivision viii be organized in few weeks
and arrangements have been made for early
organization IN Utica. Syracuse. Rochester ana
Rome Before the close Of the winter IL is
hoped that many other cities and towns
through the State will also be organized
The society now has 574 members. 95 of these
being life srerr1bers. and some Of the most infiu
entail members Of the medical and nursing pro
fe.sorls are enrolling for energencv service
Samuel ". Lambert, dean of the College OF
Physicians and Surgeons: DR.. George f. Brewer
and Dr. John W. Brannan have consented TO
act On an advisory committee. and other names
are to be added at the first meeting of the
executive committee elected eft yesterdays meet
ing.
Miss Laura D. GILL dean Of Barnard College
L. chairman Of the COMMITTEES for the enrolment
Of nurses and serving with her are Miss Jane
A Deleno superintendent of Bellevue Training
SchocI for Nurses; Miss Anna c. Maxwell
.upertntendent Of the Presbyterian Training
School for Nurses: Miss Emma j. heatns'
euperintendent of nurses. Erie County Hospital
Buffalo, and Miss Eva Allerton, superintendent
Of nurses Homeopathic Hospital. Rochester
Tho work Of the enrolment Of nurses has already
been successfully begun.
The treasurer, Jacob H schif. reported that
the receipts for the fiscal year ended October
ii had been S2654 and that there had been
no disbursements An Office has been secured
Ut No 200 5th-aye but the expense of the same.
Alciuding the salary of a stenogrspher, has been
met from a special fund started by a coptribu-
tion Of $500 from officer of the Cuban war,
and augmented later by other gifts
The meeting reelected the following officers:
President. Colonel William Cary Sanger: vice
president EIinu Root: secretary, Mrs. William
Kinnicutt Draper, and treasurer. Jacob II. Schif.
No executive committee was appointed at the
organization meeting, but yesterday the fol-
lowing were chosen: c. II. Dodge Howard
Townsend Douglas Robinson and Adrian Iselin.
ir of NeU-York: Alfred r White. of Brooklyn,
irving s UndertI OF Buffalo; T. r. Proctor
of Utica: W. s Andrews, of Syracuse and IL.
q. DanfoTth. OF Rochester
At the conclusion Of the business Miss Anna
c. Maxwell and Miss Mabel T. Boardman ad-
dressed the meeting
Miss Maxwell said she had frequently heard
St said that nurses class were unfr1endly
the Red Cross. and fn disproof of this inn
preston she stated that two years ago In Bos-
ton the associate alumnse OF the profession had
appointed a committee to ask for afflliat1on with
the Red Cross when it should have been placed
business basis.
Miss Boardman. who visited the Philippines
and Japan in the summer with Secretary Tafts
party. gave interesting facts about the
Red Cross work in Japan.
..The Jananese Red Cross Society has 1900
GOO, members. SAID Miss Boardman and / be-
lieve 1t TO be the most wonderful organization
of its kind that ever existed. One interesting
thing about il is that It antedates the Geneva
CT Inference and that the original society, which
afterward took the Of the Red Cross,
sdopted the Geneva principle Of caring alike
for friend and foe This done at the re-
quest of the Empress, and the Japanese recon-
,lied 1t with their intense patriotism by various
arguments. of which was that IL they cared
for the enemy's wounded the enemy would care
for theirs
this principle of the neutrality Of the wounded
fn the late war. Miss Roardman told how the
Red Cross nurses had Won the gratitude OF Ad-
,niraI RoiestYensky and how Red Cross supplies
were rushed into Port Arthur immediately after
Its fall
Miss Roardman regretted that the reorganiza-
eion of the American Red Cross had not been
completed in time TO enable this country to offer
any assistance in the Of the wounded in
she late and also that it had not been able
TO respond 10 request for aid after the typboon
IN the Philippines. She hoped, however, that it
was not yet too late to do something for the
Philippines
She said that aid had been offered in the
yellow fever epidemic in the South. but the au-
ihoritjes had not thought it necessary TO accept
assistance.
Among those present at the meeting were
William Rhnelander Stewart. William r. Ward
well, Miss Lambert, Mrs. Henry MarQuand. Mrs
Roland Redmond. Mrs. Lucius K. Wimerdng
efiss CuyIer. Howard Townsend. Cleveland H
Dodge. Frederick Walcott. of Utica: DIR. and
AIRS. W. S Mills. Mrs. John ". Wilkie, the
Misses Tuckerman. Mrs. John ID. Wood. Mrs
William Church Osborn. Mrs Herman Schwa b.
Miss I.everich, Mrs. W. ii. Willard DR.. William
Kinuicuft Draper Mrs. Samuel w Lambert
Mrs. Melville Fuller. of Mount Kisco: Dr. and
Mrs Thomas French. of Brooklyn. and Mrs. w.
G Andrews of Seattle.