Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-05

President, William H. Taft, Secretary of
War; Treasurer, Charles H. Keep, assistant
secretary of the treasury; counselor, James
q. McReynolds, assistant secretary of the
interior; secretary. Charles L. Magee.
Board of consultatiOn-Brig. Gen. Robert
M. OReilly. surgeon general, U. S. A; Sur
geon General P. NJ. Rixey. U. s. N; Sur
geon General Walter Wyman, public health
and marine hospital service.
Chairman of central committee - Brig.
Gen. George w. Davis. retired.
Executive committee-R >bert Bacon,
sistant secretary of state; Brig Gen. Rob-
ert NJ OReilly, Medical Director John c.
Wise. Z. S. N; James B. McReynolds,
James Tanner, James r. Garfield and Miss
Mabel T. Boardman
Miss Helen Gould of New York was elect
ed a member of the board of incorporators
to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna-
ton of Mrs. Logan, and DR.. Frank Billings
of Chicago to fill that caused by the death
of Marshall Field. The report of the chair
man of the central committee showed that
the society now has twenty-nine branches,
its total membership being about 5000.
The report of the treasurer indicates that
the funds. of the Red Cross are in a salts
factory condition. and that responses to the
calls for assistance have been generous at
all times.
From State Societies.
Among the states that made exhaustive
reports to the society are:
Observation-Disclosures Talcott Will
liams; vice presidents, Charles Emory
Smith. Bishop A. Mackays Capt. John S.
Muckle, Miss Annie Thompson; secretary,
Henry Kirk Porter: William S. Hallowell,
Alex Van Rensselaer, Vance Mccormick;
treasurer, Mrs. Alex ]. Cassatt. Pennsyl-
vania has sixty-two life members and three
enrolled nurses. -
Michigan-President. Hugh Mcmillan;
vice president Hartman H. Newberry: sec
rotary, Ralph NJ Dyar; treasurer. Emory
w. Clark. Six life members, sixteen doc
tors enrolled and two nurses.
Vermont-President, Henry D. Halton NJ.
D., Brattleboro: vice president, Urban A.
Woodbury., Burlington: secretary, Charles
s. Forbes, st. Adams; treasurer Clayton
L. Alexander, Burlington.
Connecticut-President, w. w. Farnlam:
vice president, Charles F. Brooker, New
Haven: William A. Aiken, New London:
Mrs Frank Cheney, Hartford; Miss Annie
B. Jennings, Fairfield; Francis T. Maxwell,
Tolland: Charles E. Jackson, Middlesex
Guilford Smith, Windham; secretary, Mrs.
Sara T. Kinney; treasurer, Thomas Hook
er. The chairman of the Connecticut ex-
ecutive committee is the governor of the
state. The society has ninety-two MEM
bers, one doctor enrolled and eight nurses
District of Columbia-President. ARNOLD
Hague: vice president, Gist Blair secre-
tary, William A. Slater: Mrs Thadora Nc
Five hundred and seventy-five life mem
bers, three doctors enrolled and twenty
four nurses.
West and South.
Colorado-President. c. c. Hemming; sec
rotary. w. Def. Curtis: trustees, John A.
Thatcher. Pueblo. F. B. Gibson, Denver.
Indian Territory-President DR.. F. B.
Fite; vice presidents D. H. Johnston, chief
Nation: John Brown. chief Semi
mole Nation; w. c. Rogers, chief Cherokee
Nation: Green McCurtain. chief Choctaw
Nation: Gen. U. Porter. chief Creek Nation;
DR.. Fred s. Clinton; treasurer, ].
H. Mckinney.
Minnesota-President. Gov. John A. John
son; vice presidents DR.. Cyrus Northrup
Archbishop John Ireland, David Percy
Jones, William H Lacid. Rev. A. w.
Ryan; secretary. Edward c. Stringer; treas
urer. Kenneth Clark: chairman of executive
committee, Daniel R. Noyes.
Missouri-President: ]. c. Van Blarcom;
vice presidents John w. Noble (frsD,
Robert A. Holland, jr. (second; secretary
Leighton Shields; treasurer. not yet desg-
mated.
North Carolna-President. Mrs. Zebulon
B. Vance; vice presidents. DR.. s. Westray
Battle and James H. Caine: secretary and
treasurer. Mrs. Theodore F. Davidson.
Washington-President Mr.. John T. Red
man, vice presidents. Capt. E. G. Griggs
and DR.. Carsley Balabanoff: recording sec
rotary, Mrs. Henry McCleary; correspond.
ing secretary, Mrs. James W. Cloes; treas
urer, MF. Louis w. Pratt.
Branch in the Philippines.
The records of the Philippine Red Cross
branch show membership of 119 annual
and four life members. The following was
included in the report:
ION December 80 there died at Manila
Capt. Joaquin Monet of the Manila police
force as the direct result of cold con-
tracted in the performance of duty during
the tornado which devastated Manila and
particularly his precinct, Paso, on the 26th
day of last September, when for twenty
four hours he worked without changing his
wet clothing, amid live electric wires, in
the ravages of storm and flood, to protect
property and to relieve the sufferings and
fears of people under his care. He left 4
widow and children, and as there is no
provision for pensions for the families CT
men who give themselves at the call of
duty the Philippine Red Cross Society de-
cided to appropriate out Of it's relief funds
$500 month for six months for the sup
port of this mans family, and the secretary
of the Philippine Red Cross writes: Had
you relieved only this one case it is worth
the while to have founded here branch of
the National Red Cross
Invitation From South Carolina.
Col A. c. kaufman, president of the
South Carolina branch, stated that while
the humanitarian side or the question
touches all hearts, inasmuch as the Red
Cross has the world for it's home and hui
manity constitutes its citizenship, there is
yet to US of these United States patriotic
feature which should not be overlooked.
"These state branches. with its central
office at the capital of the nation, teach us
that while as states we are distinct as the
pillows, yet as a Union of states we are
one as the sea. To love our country there
fore, does not deny US love for our state |
The more it should emphasize it. Some
may say this is an ideal, but I join with
Carl Schurz in his conception of an ideal"
After the Red Cross meeting yesterday a
formal invitation to the officers and his CO.
members on the central committee to visit |
Charleston, S. c., was extended by Col. A. |
Kaufman. The visit, it is said, will be
made about the last week in January and
it is understood that the following have ac-
cepted The Secretary of War and Mrs
Taft, Miss Mabel 7. Boardman, Admiral p
NJ. Rixey, Surgeon General Walter Wy