The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-09-03
RED Cross IS
ORGANIZED HERE
a LARGE MEETING HELD YESTER-
DAY AFTERNOON IN JUDGE
DOLES CHAMBERS.

Society. The permanent organization
was effected yesterday afternoon at a
well attended meeting held in the
court room of the United States Dis
tIict Court, and presided over by
Judge S. b. Dole.
After the meeting had been opened
by a short address OF the presiding
officer in which he explained the OBJ
iects of the organization, and how the
Territorial branch had come to be or
ganized the list of officers whose no
mination had been made at the pre-
liminary meeting held a week or more
ago at the home of F. M. Hatch, were
voted on and unanimously declared
elected for the ensuing year They
are as follows:
President, Judge Sanford b. Dole;
LIST vice president Mrs. b. F. Dilling-
ham; End vice president, j. R. Gait;
secretary, Mrs. w. w. Hall; treasurer,
Clarence H. Cooke.
Executive Committee Chairman
DR.. w. r. Brinckerhoff Mrs. Charles
B. Cooper, Mrs. Andrew Fuller, Mrs
Walbridge, Mrs. Benjamin F. Marx
Mrs. F. M. Hatch, Miss Ida Pope, DIR.
G. B. Wood, Dr. William Baldwin, Will
lard e. Brown, H. M. Won Holt, Prin-
cipal Perley F. Horne, President A F.
Grifiths.
1t was decided that fifteen members
should constitute a quorum for trans
acting business, and on motion a COM
mittee was appointed to draft bylaws
consisting of w. R. Castle, A. F. Crit
fths and Miss Ida Pope
The organization as effected yester-
day is in accordance with act of
Congress passed in 1905 by which the
Red Cross Society, which up to that
time had been a private corporation,
conceived and carried on in America
largely through the force of character
and noble effort of one strong woman,
Clara Barton, is now made national
institution with the Secretary of War
as it's president, and made up of state
branches and sub-branches in all the
states and territories of the Union.
Some weeks ago Mrs. F. M. Hatch,
of this city, received a communica-
tion from the Secretary of War ask
ing her to assume the burden OF or
| ganizing a branch of the Red Cross
Society for the Territory of Hawaii
and yesterdays meeting was the re-
suit of this effort--a strong organiza-
| ton with an able and enthusiastic
/ force of officers, backed by a large
number of the best citizens of Homo,
lulu.
| Judge Dole, in opening the meeting
briefly outlined the history of the Red
| Cross movement since its conception in
| Switzerland Every civilized natior
has long encouraged the work and
had it's organizations for the humani-
tartan purpose of having charge of the
wounded, sick and afflicted in time
of war or great calamity. Il have
often thought" said he, that / should
like to belong to a great fraternal
organization, whose scope should be
as broad as humanity, and not bound
ed by the restrictions of the average
societies; one which should have for
its object the relief of affliction and
distress where ever found without re
| gard for race, creed or other cOndi
/ dition; where its ministrations might
be given to the enemies of the nation
as well as to its friends. In short a
sort of Good Samaritan organization
In the National Red Cross Society
believe these ideals have been in &
large measure been realized.
Mrs. p. G. Jones, who had been pro
minent in relief work during the days
of the Spanish-American war told Of
the organization and work of the Red
Cross Society in Honolulu for the as
sistance of the-troops passing through
in 1898 for the Orient. Headquarters
and rooms for the entertainment o.
the soldiers and sailors had been open
ed at the corner of King and NuuanJ
streets, and during the existence Of
the organization money to the amount
of $3,951.95 had been spent in the
work. A balance has since remained
in the bank, which with interest nov
amounts to $42068, which Mrs. Jones
as treasurer of the old society stated
was to be turned over to the new or
ganization.
Mrs L. l.. Dunbar, president of the
Children's Hospital of San Francisco
and chairman of the nurses division
of the Red Cross Society of that city
who is in Honolulu for a brief vaca
ton, told of the work of the so
ciety on the Coast. Local Organiza
lions had been formed, she said, dur
ing the Spanish-American war anC
also just prior to the great earthquake
and fire of April 1S, 1906. Owing tC
lack of preparation and full organi
cation, the usefulness of the society
during the last calamity had beer
lessened, and she urged that the first
thing to be done was to have a medi
cal and nursing STAFF appointed with
out delay in order to be Immediately
available in an emergency. At pres
ent California has one of the best or
ganized branches of the National AS
ISOLATION in the country, and is ready
for almost any contingency that might
occur at a moments notice
Miss Rutty. who had Red Cross ex