Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-17
RED CROSS SEALSSALE
OF YEAR AGO EXCEEDED
Receipts of $2,772.@ Win
Maintain Day Camp for
Tubercu!ar Patients.

The total receipts to date from the sale
of the Red Cross Christmas seals in
Washington is $2,T294. according to an
announcement made this afternoon at q
meeting of the committee in charge at
the home of Mrs. William j. Boardman,
1901 street northwest. Mrs. Theodore
North Mclaughlin, as chairman OF the
committee in charge, made the announce
ment. The proceeds of the sale this year
are greater by about $500 than they were
year ago, and the committee In charge
is much pleased at the outcome. All Of
this money will go into the Aght which
is being waged against tuberculosis In
the District Of Columbia, and will be
used to support the day camp for tuber-
cular patients at Upshur and 14th streets
northwest, which has been in operation
for several years.
Will Maintain Day Camp.
The report shows that 277,292 seals
were sold here at one cent apiece. This
sale is the only source Of revenue which
the day camp has, and it is estimated
that enough money has been received to
maintain the camp on the same high
scale as in the past. About seventy poor
children were cared for at camp last
season, and part Of the salary Of a Wis
the children in the winter Is being paid
also. Reports show that the children at
the camp have been much benefited by
the life all day long in the open air and
the substantial food furnished them at
the camp. The mothers of many of the
children are permitted to go to the camp
with the children. and are taught sewing
and other household duties there. A
special school teacher Is employed to
teach the little children as they sit about
i'm thew NOT
lose the benefits OF school.
Dulin & Martins and the post office
lead in the amount Of sales of the seals,
according to the report, the receipt at
ter, S371.96. Three of the colored schools
of the city made big returns. the Arm
strong Manual Training School, the M
Street High School and Normal School
No. ..
Statement of Receipts.
The financial statement was laid be-
fore the committee in the following
shape:
Receipts: Post office, ss71.96; Wood
ward & Lothrop, $326.75; 8. Kann, Sons
Il Co, s315.ss; 1920 receipts Empress
Theater, week before christmas, $j7.29;
sold at Cosmos and Pickwick Theaters,
S25; Normal School No. 2, $14.26; ARM
strong Manual Training and M Street
High Schools. $125; from battleships,
s60.27; Miss Morton at House Office build
ing. $63: Dulin & Martins, $3SS.27; from
drug stores. moving picture theaters, sta
tionery stores, banks and other places
of business, $1,207.36; total to date,
S2,772N.
In Charge of Seal Sale.
The committees assistants who sold
the seals at a number of places through
out the city were Mrs. w. l.. Brown, Mrs.
William x. Ellis, Mrs. William J. Cover.
Mrs. j. r. Grinstead, Mrs. William NJ
Hannay, Mrs. ]. 7. Huddle, Mrs. George
H. Johnson, Mrs. d. l.. Richmond, Mrs.
III. p. Seideman, Mrs. Franklin Swift, Mrs
II. B. Zimmele. Miss Elsie Bunting, Miss
Ellen Butterfeld, Miss Hazel Cox, Miss
Ellen Chapster, Miss Eleanor Costello.
Miss George De Pue, Miss Helen Drake,
Miss Judith Foster, Miss Frances For
ment, Miss Elizabeth Garland, Miss Vir-
ginia Gardner. Miss Eveline Gleason
bidle. Miss Alice Holmes. Miss Elizabeth
Hough Miss Grace Kendall, Miss Jennie
King. Miss Eva Lowery, Miss Frances
Mclaughlin, Miss Mary Porter, Miss
Virginia Smith. Miss Ruth Severn. Miss
Clara Stewart, Miss Eunice Weed. Miss
Mile Wing Miss Esther Whiting,
Mrs. Craig Jones. Mrs. North, Miss Eu-
nice James, Miss Florence Sullivan, Miss
Harriet Porter. Miss Helen De Pue. Miss
Sophie Stanton, Miss Elizabeth Reside,
Miss Helen Downing. Miss Hildegarde
Nagel, Miss Esther Behrend. Miss Leah
Hermann. Miss Helen Klawans, Miss
Anita Kaufman, Miss Alice Goodwin, Mrs.
Granville Bell. Miss Julia Wood, Miss
Sallie Schroeder Miss E. Behrends and
Miss b. Schiffman. Carlisle Whiting
also aided in selling the seals.
These helpers sold at s. Kann, Sons &
Co., Dulin & Martin. Woodward & Lo-
throp, American Security and Trust
Company and the post office. Those in
charge Of these stations were Mrs. w.
J. Boardman, Mrs. H. S. Reside, Mrs.
w. H. Bayly, Mrs. Charles Goldsmith
and Mrs. John Mclaughlin.