The Washington herald., 1912-12-08
Outlook Is Favorable
For Red Cross Building
Congress Expected to Appropriate Funds for
Memorial Structure to Loyal Women of
Civil War Which viii House Hu-
n1anitarian Institution.

flee for the chairman Of the central COM
mittee. an office for the editor Of the bull
letin. for the nursing service and for the
rural nursing department. The third floor
would be occupied by each OF the three
boards-War. National Relief, and Inter
national Relief: by the department of
Training in Home Nursing for Women,
and by the Christmas seals department.
sixth room on this floor will be re-
served for special work.
Need for the BuIIdinE.
Speaking before the House committee in
July Miss Boardman thus outlined the
need for the new building:
The site of this memorial should be
dignified and central as to situation: both
because OF the memorial itself and be-
cause the Red Cross duties make a con-
venient location highly desirable. Not in
frequently members of Congress, officers
of the different departments and others
desire to consult with the Red Cross Of
ficers as to some special relief work. 1t
has at present one small room in the
War Department for its main office,
which is occupied by six persons. In
another building il rents Offices for its
national director, its nursing service, its
first aid department, and for its Christ
mas seal work, which includes the dis
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hundred State and local agents through
out the country. Its files and papers are
scattered about in these various Offices,
and others, for lack OF room, are stored
in a private residence.
We have no place to hold our annual
meetings and have to rent one, and We
have no suitable room in which to hold
any special or public meetings. We have
no place where We can keep our library.
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tanning many different foreign reports as
to the Red Cross work, for which we
should have a place: Such a room may
serve also for meetings Of the central
committee. In this library room we
should have space for a series of maps
so that instantly, when an appeal for help
comes from some part of the country or
from other parts of the world we could
Immediately obtain our geographical bear
ings to know from what near available
points to- start the assistance. Then there
should be offices for the members Of the
central committee. Gen. Davis and 1 oc-
Cupy portion of the main office, and
Ii is impossible to have any discussion
or to listen to a long-distance telephone
message, which is often necessary, and
to hear what is said without stopping the
typewriters. generally three or four.
Then. again, we can have no private
discussion, which is frequently necessary
member of Congress, II an appeal
comes from his district, may be desirous
of giving (and the officers Of the Red
Cross equally desirous of obtaining from
him) necessary information as to what
people he considered worthy of confidence
for aiding in the relief work There is no
room in which We can have any private
discussion.
I'VE have in another building the ma
tional directories office-the office from
which the work is directed when the
emergency calls come. That is in another
building with all its files and important
papers The secretary has no separate
office. We have no separate office for
the clerical forceJ This is all part Of the
general work.
Then you take the boards-each board
should have its own room for its par