The San Francisco call., 1906-11-13
PRESIDENT
Of RED CROSS.
Judge Morrow's Successor
Named at Annual Meet
ing of State Branch
TREASURER REPORTS

United States Circuit Court room, Post
office building. After she had made
vigorous stand on that decision. in
which she was ably assisted by her
husband, Mrs. Merrills word was taken
as final. and James D. Phelan was
elected president of the organization.
Judge w. W. Morrow, the retiring pres
ident, had sent word that he could not
serve again owing to i'll health. With
many encomiums the Red Cross elected
him honorary president and also ele-
waited Mrs Merrill to the brevet rank.
Before the time for election came
Phelan spoke from the floor a strong
defense of the organized relief work
carried on in this city. He declared
that investigators from Boston and
New York had come in a carping spirit
to look over the relief operations and
had been convinced that the methods
followed here were entirely satisfac-
tory.
TICKET ADOPTED.
There were no contests over the cleo
tions, only efforts to escape the re-
sponsibility of office. Samuel Knight,
chairman of the nominating committee,
read it's report, which advised the nom
ination of the following ticket: Honor
ary president, Judge Morrow; president,
Mrs. John F. Merrill; vice president,
Mrs. F. G. Sanborn; second vice presi-
Q0uls LII. DSuJdullH NfNSSlST, InlIQ
vice president, Miss Anna Baever;
fourth vice president, Mrs. w. c. Neu-
miller of Stockton; counsellor, United
States Attorney Robert 7. Devlin; re-
cording secretary, Mrs. Thurlow Nc
Mullin; treasurer, Allen Knight; execu-
tive ommittee-chairman. Horace
Davis; Mrs c. w. Slack, Mrs. L. L.
Dunbar, Mrs. John Bakewell and Mrs.
I. Lowenberg.
1l for off
of recording secretary, but Knight
place din nomination the name of w. L.
Mcclure 1t was suggested that the
executive committee be raised from FIVE
members to eleven and the additional
nominations We're made as follows:
Mrs. W. R. Smedberg, E. B. Young, p
R. Lilienthal Mrs. ]. G. Clark, Rudolph
SpreckeIs and Mrs. James Elder. Major
c. A. Deyol and James D, Phelan were
named as delegates to the National Red
Cross meeting in Washington ink De-
cember.
The place of delegate left vacant by
Phelan's election as president will be
filled by the executive committee It
was decided to adopt the recommends
ton increasing the size of that COM
mittee.
WORK DURING FIRE.
Mrs Merrill, in the absence of Judge
Morrow, called the meeting to order
and presented her annual report, which
told of the work accomplished by the
Red Cross during the April disaster. By
rare coincidence the California Red
Cross was reorganized permanently in
conformity with the national associa-
tion's organization on April II. Then
conmitte were named and the secre-
tary was prepared to send out formal
notifications of duties to members on
April Is. The notices sent out that
day were more urgent than formal,
the report stated
Mrs. Merrill told how she had
seized" the house of Mrs. Booth at 25101
Washington street on the morning OF
April Is, converting it into a hospital
and Red Cross headquarters. Later
Mrs Booth thanked Mrs. Merrill for
having availed herself of the premises.
Mrs. Merrill had words of warm praise
for the doctors, nurses and citizens who
assisted the society at that time and
spoke with gratitude of the work done
by DR.. Edward T. Deyine, representa-
tive of the National Red Cross.
The work was also reviewed in the
report of the secretary, Mrs. McMullin.
Special mention was made of the
prompt action of Mrs. H. McCrum, who
was the first woman to enter the Red
Cross headquarters on Washington
street and who gave donation of $4,000
outright
FUNDS HANDLED.
Horace Davis, treasurer of the So
ciety, made his final report. He said
that on April II the California branch
had S469.50 on hand. He divided the
funds subsequently received into three
divisions-general contribution, special
appropriations from the Relief Corpora
ton and the funds ordinarily available
to the society. OF the first fund SILL,
S62.9 96 was received and turned over to
the Relief Corporation, and S10,533 was
secured from that source and expended,
with the exception of s204s.06, now on
hand OF the third fund there is s64249
on hand.
Phelan followed Davis with a general
report on what had been done with the
funds of relief. The total net receipts
from April 18 to November 10 were
given as s6.204, ,9s3.63 and the expendi-
lures have been s4.443,5SS.96, leaving al
balance of s1,761, 404.67. Subscriptions
from all sources were given S9,129,-
55319 and the balance due the relief
fund was put at s3,192 ,96l32-
Phelan explained that the amount
stated as subscriptions promised and
not vet received was in measure
misleading, because much of that sum
had been expended by the donors in
dependentlv and some had been with
drawn when it was seen that the needs
of San Francisco were heing adequately
met.
ON SCIENTIFIC RELIEF.
Phelan, having finished reading his
report. made a response to the charges
brought against the scientific relief
workers I'm the face of the criticisms
leveled at us, it was seriously con-
sidered that we take the fund and divide
ii per capita among the needy, but
had we done that we would have been
false to our trust he said. We care
fully Investigated cases brought before
us and in some instances we might
have been too generous in our inves-
tigations and again we might have
been too hard. But we think we have
secured beneficial results"
Mrs. F. G.. Sanborn. who had much
to do with the relief work in the
Mission, made an oral report which
covered the field so adequately and ex-
pressed the spirit of the society so
well that it was moved and carried
that the report be written and placed
on the files of the literature of the
work of the organization.
Frank Drum of the history com.
rnittee reported that Professor Henry
Morse Stephens would have the COM
plete report of the work ready in Jam.