Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-17
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR CHARITY
JOINT FINANCE COMMITTEE
l. ACKNOWLEDGES GIFTS.
DISSEMINATION Announces That It Is
- Not Receiving as Much
Money as Is Needed.

The Joint finance committee organized
TO collect funds for the Associated Chart
ttes.,the Citizens Relief Association and
the Association for the Prevention of Tu-
btrehlosis states it is not receiving as
anuch money as it should In response to
tine first appeal. That appeal was for aid
in the name of widowed. Ill and other dis
fressed people whose sufferings make 1T
necessary to enlist new contributors and
to- urge all who have helped in other years
to renew and, If possible increase their
former gifts to each society.
Cuno II. Rudolph, chairman of the joint
finance committee, says:
1.-The needs of this association are
greater this season than in former years.
and collections will be unusually hard.
These charities do not pauperize or sup
port the able-bodies: they promote self
help and prevent the giving of relief TO
unworthy families"
OF the 5,0S1 families helped last year,
1t IS declared, only 1855 We're given ma
terial relief. Citizens are invited to make
their checks payable either to the joint
fnance committee or to any one of the
three charities. The treasurer of the
jofnt finance committee is Howard S.
Reeside of the American Security and
Efttst Company. John Joy Edison is treas
urer of the Associated Charities: Milton
Allies OF the CltlZenS 6elleI aSSOCldIlOn
and Gen. William H. Forwood of the AS
seciation for the Prevention of Tubercu-
lpsfS
,lsIt.is stated that according to the con-
sefVative estimates. based on past expert
eIlce, the Associated Charities will require
$4,000 for the year and the Citizens Re-
lief Association 10000. The headquarters
are 81 G street northwest.
- Names of Contributors.
. Jobn ool.
edges the following contributions:
Gen. John w. Foster. $50; Miss Mabel
Z. Boardman, So: Mrs Florence S. Keep.
s2a; Mrs Maria 6. venn. So; Mrs Eugene
Schuyler. sa.e4: Mrs. Mary w. Moffatt.
$40; William Hayes Ackland, 30 cents
Mrs: George Merrill. $40; j. Henry
Purdy, s25: Admiral Philip Hichborn. So;
Miss II. Lindsly. So; Miss Virginia T.
Bestor. Sc; Colyer Meriwether, S1.47;
Henry P. Blair, SO; Gen. and Mrs. Theo-
dQre Sehwan. $40: ]. Sondheimer. s.; Miss
Cora A. Lord, SO; Miss S. III. King. IS
cents: Gen. Morteza Khan, $50; Judge
and Mrs. Luther r. Smith, $3.50: Richard
Ksthbun. s1o: Mrs. Richard Wainwright
80 Edison Bradley, So; cash. 81; F. J.
Lewis, So; Mrs. Sarah NJ May. s2i.50;
leo yogel. $40: Miss Ellen P. Sampson, So
Milton f.. Afies. treasurer, has received
81 G street, the following amounts:
Miss Mabel T. Boardman. $500: Mrs
Florence s. Keep. $500: Mrs. Eugene
schuyler. s.. 10: Mrs. Mary w Moffat
$500; Mss. a. F. Sherry, 50 90: William
Hayes AckIand, 80 cents; Henry W. ORA
per. $500; I'm Memory of James Laws
$500: Miss Virginia T. Bestor. $500; Mrs.
Robert F. Shepard. $1,000: Colyer Meri-
wet4ser. Sl.O5; Henry p. Blair. $500; Miss
Mary Addison, 500; Miss Cora A. Lord
,s2.u6; Miss S. II. King. 20 cents: Gen.
Morteza Khan. S1.50: Judge and Mrs.
luther r. Smith, S1.25: +. J. Lewis, $500;
Mrs. Sarah NJ. May, S17.J0; Mrs. James
Kerr Kelly. 500.
The following gifts have been received
by William III. Forwood treasurer of the
Association for the Prevention of Tuber-
eulosis, transferred through the joint
finance committee:
Alexander Semmes 500: Mrs Eugene
Schuyler, 90 cents; Mrs. Mary W. Moffat.
S1.n; William Hayes Ackland, 30 cents i;
Miss; Virginia T. Bestor. S1.0U; Gen. James
a. Buchanan, 500: Colyer Meriwether
AZ cents: Henry =. Blair, $500; Miss s. H.
King. 81 cents; Gen. MorteZa Khan $1m;
Judge and Mrs. Luther r. Smith, S125
Mrs. Sarah NJ. May, $500