The National tribune., 1909-10-28
New Trimming Schnnl.

! New Training school
/ The exercises marking the opening of
the National Training School. an insti-
tuition recently organized under the
auspices Of the National Baptist Con-
vention for the training of colored girls
/ and women. closed a. few nights ago
with n mass meeting at the Vermont
! Avenue Baptist Church. Among those
who spoke Were Miss Mamie IL. Bur-
rough, superintendent of the new
| school; Miss Emma Lewis, Miss Ida g.
Plummer. Miss Matte l.. Bowen and
Mrs. ]. NJ. Layton.
The dedicatory exercises of the new
| building were held on the school
campus, Lincoln. Md. in the afternoon
| The Rev. G.. B. Howard, of, Petersburg
Va, officiated. Among the speakers in
the afternoon were John C. Dancy, Ros-
coe c. Bruce, Assistant Superintendent
of Schools for the District; the Rev. G..
W. Parks, of Philadelphia, and Mrs. c..
II. Parish, Of Kentucky. Greetings from
more than 500 institutions and individ-
uals were read and gifts aggregating
81, 900 were announced
The curriculum of the school will In
clude courses in domestic science. sew
ing and missionary and Sunday School
work.
Mrs. Julia Mason Layton, who had
labored increasingly for the establish
ment of this school, is Secretary of the
Department of Potomac, Woman's Re-
lief Corps. She is a charter member of
o. 2. Morton Corps, /, the first Corps
organized in Washington. Mrs. Layton
is also a member of the Board of Chari-
ties of the Institution for the Blind, and
Is mixed up in most everything that Is
for the betterment of her people or
mankind in general
A Good Woman Gone.
All Washington was shocked one
morning last week to learn of the trag-
ically violent death of Mrs Gardiner
Greene Hubbard. She was out auto
mobiling with her daughter. and the
machine was run down by work car
on the trolley line and Mrs. Hubbard
thrown out and killed. Nobody else
was much hurt. There isn't any doubt
at all, in view Of what cye-yitnesses
said, that the accident was preventabIe,
and that the work train was running
without a light and at n tremendous
speed over a piece of the road under
repair when 1t killed Mrs. Hubbard, but
the jury impaneled found that they
were unable to fix the blame The
Grand Jury will now have whack at
the case, and will probably fix the
blame right quick.
Mrs. Hubbard was the widow of Gar
diner G. Hubbard, the eminent philan-
thropist and scientist. He was a yery
rich man, and had always done his part
In helping along any good project of
any Kind, but he was particularly inter-
ested In research of every kind. After
MS death some years ago Mrs. Hubbard
erected in his memory the Gardner
Hubbard Memorial Building" which is
used by the National Geographic Socie-
ty and other scientific bodies free OF
r. h n rnn f- hfo
those societies in which Mr.. Hubbard
was specially interested. During his
lifetime the Hubbard home was the CEN
ter OF the scientific social world, and
everybody felt at home under the Hub
oard roof, no matter how humble his
origin. Mrs. Hubbard was an OPEN
handed, warm-hearted woman. She was
IN every way an ideal of womanhood.
she was generous to fault, thoughtful
to noteworthy degree of the Feelings
and conditions of others, and very few
knew the extent of her beneflcences
The world has lost noble women,
Red Cross Stamps,
The American Red Cross Is beginning
early to make arrangements for the
Christmas season and to raise funds to
assist the various anti-tubcrculosis or
ganiZation thruout the country to fight
against the white plague Thirty million
Red Cross Christmas stamps have been
ordered from the printer to be delivered
before the end of November. This man
ner or raising funds for charitable pur-
poses Is quite an old one and orjginat-
ed presumably with the SANITARY Fair
In Boston in 1852, when stamps were
sold as a means Of raising funds for
charitable purposes. In that way great
numbers OF these stamps, known as
- n
fair at Boston, tho proceeds from the
sale OF which were to be used in the
care OF the wounded Of the civil war.
Two such fairs were held at BROOKLYN,
one of which in 1864 netted s40O, 600
In the same year, from April to June
the great Central Fair was held in New
ork City, at which the United States
sanitary Commission stamps were sold
This fair netted S1,200.0O0 When the
Red Cross found that people were not
responding readily to their call for
funds. 1t was decided to try the stamp
business again. 1t was tried first in
1903. and a design contributed by How
ard Pyle, the artist, netted in round
numbers $4,000, which was used en-
tireiy In the anti-tuberculosis work. The
new Christmas stamps of the American
Red Cross will be printed in two colors.
red and green. The holly leaves and
scroll work will be green and the cross
and holly berries in red. The stamps
will be sold by the branch Red Cross
Societies thruout the country. The de-
sign used this year is one selected by
committee of artists from more than
10000 designs. submitted in a prize
competition held by the Red Cross last
May. The Federal authorities gave the
Red Cross the privilege of selling its
stamps in the corridors of the post of
noes thruout the country. and the same
concession has been granted again this
year.
InspectOr-G q. S. Army.
Gen. Darlington. Inspector-General,