The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-12
YESTERDAY EVENTS IN SOCIETY WORLD Women to Meet to Term Red
 Cross Branch NOTES HERE AND THERE Mrs. TrimbIe Discusses D. A. R. Work. Miss Rumph Awards Prize In
 the Poster Contest.
 Other Notes.
NOTES HERE AND THERE


 meeting will be held this morning at 1O:So o'clock at the residence of Mrs. Edward H. Cabaniss, 2251 Highland avenue. An invitation is extended all who would care to join such a society, which promises to include a most rep resentative membership.
 Dr. J. ". Stagg will be among those to address the meeting. From the or ganization of a branch in this city it is hoped to also perfect a state organ ization, as Alabama has not taken any steps toward assisting the national society, although this state has fur nished nurses that have won distinc- tion on battle fields, and is not behind in patriotic movements in war or peace. In the Spanish American war Miss Wheeler, the daughter of the late Gen eral Wheeler, won the undying devo- tion of the American soldier, and there are other Alabama women who deserve mention in the lists of those who have mitigated the sufferings of the wound ed and dying on far away Battle fields.
 But there has been so far no move ment to organize a society that will be prepared to meet present-day emcr gencies that would would be able to immediately respond to the call of vic tims of storm disasters, of mine ex- plosions of cyclone sufferers and other calamities which appall the whole na tion. Through the organization of a branch of the Red Cross Birmingham would be in a position to do efficient work in every emergency.
 It is interesting to see someth ing of the work of the National Red Cross which was reincorporated in 1904. Since it's governmental superintendence the society has expended nearly four millions in relief. Among those who received substantial benefits were suf- ferers from famines in Japan, Russia and China, from a typhoon in the Phil ppines and from storms on the Gulf of Mexico from erution of Vesuvius and from earthquakes in San Francisco, Valparaiso and Kingston.
 A noteworthy example of Red Cross work is found in the relief afforded to devasted San Francisco, where no less Indn S0,ll1,uU were eNptnueQ Wllnln one year after the disaster.
 The American branch is second in importance to none of the 43 national members which include practically every civilized flag in the world.
 The work done by the Japanese Red Cross in the Russo-Japanese war was marvellous. American medical and staff off m wifi the Japanese Red Cross was the means of saving an untold number of lives, and of mitigating suffering to an ex- tent that is simply incalculable An effort is now being made to maintain the American National Red Cross on a similar basis of efficiency.
 It is hoped that the movement to or- ganize a Red Cross branch in this city will meet with unbounded enthusiasm. Through an error, the meeting at Mrs. Cabaniss' residence was announced in some of the papers for Tuesday afternoon The meeting for permanent organization will be held this morning at 10 80 clock
 Sailing on May 30 with Mr. and Mrs Markell will be Miss Rushton and Miss Dickerson of Birmingham, Miss McEl- derry, Miss Joiner and Miss Plowman of INTalladega, Miss Landyum of Florida, Mrs Cherry and Miss Cherry of Eufaula, and MT. Cox of Texas The party will sail from Boston on the Romanie, stopping at the Azores and Gibraltar and landing at Naples June H. They will visit Capri. Sorrento, Amalf, Pompeii, Rome, Pisa, trIo
 nch, Innsbruck Lucerne, Interlaken, Heidelberg, Mayence, the Rhine, Cologne, Amsterdam, Isle of Marken, Brussels, Ghent, Bruges, Paris, London, Windsor, Oxford Warwick, Stratford-on-Avon Ed inburgh, Glasgow, Belfast Giants Cause way, Dublin, Cork, Queenstown, and ex- pect to return to New York about the 1st of September.
 At the last meeting of the board of City missions the attendance was unusually large and enthusiastic Several churches heretofore not connected with the board were represented, and every item of the work was discussed with interest Rev. J. w. Akin, district missionary, gave a most encouraging talk about the influence already felt from the work at Ninth street. Reports of the mothers meeting and the industrial school were most en- couraging, and a committee was appoint- ed to advise about securing more commo- dious rooms for temporary use
 A committee was also appointed to pre- sent plans for permanent work, and the establishment of a Wesley house, or in- stitutional church, at or near that point. A library is to be started at once, and book eases and books in good condition will be most gratefully received.
 Mrs. J. w. Savage, the president, pre- sided.
 At the last meeting of the General Sumpter chapter, Daughters of the Amer ican Revolution, Mrs. N. w. Trimble, who represented the chapter at the Continental congress in Washington, gave a most in-
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