Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-11-27
SENT BY RED CROSS.
Over $4,000 Forwarded for
Relief of War Sufferers.
TURKISH-BALKAN CONFLICT
Consul Summers Appeals for
Thanksgiving Donation for Pris-
oners at Belgrade, Servia.

| That more than $4,000 has been sent
by the American National Red Cross for
| the relief of sufferers on both sides in
| the Turkish-Balkan war was a statement
made by Miss Mabel Boardman at the
annual meeting Of the Daughters Of the
American Revolution of the District of
Columbia, held at the New Willard, last
evening. Miss Boardman added that
more money is now being raised. to be
sent to the theater of war. and said that
all civilized nations should join in the
relief work, necessity for which is urgent.
Miss Boardman also informed the gath
ering that officials of the American Red
Cross had received request from the
authorities of Johns Hopkins University
that DR.. Stellard of the faculty. who is
known as an expert on cholera, be sent
to Constantinople to aid in the work Of
combating the plague. She said the
American ambassador to Turkey has
been cabled for advice and that the ques-
ton of sending the American cholera in
vestiSator was being considered.
Patriotic Exercises.
The meeting last evening was the joint
annual patriotic session of the District
members of the D. A. R.. the American
Red Cross and the Patriotic Women Of
America. Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood, state
regent of the District D. A. r., presided,
and among the speakers. in addition to
Miss BOardman, were Mrs. Matthew L.
Scott, president general of the Daughters;
Mrs Martha S. GielOw, secretary Of the
Southern Educational Association: Mrs.
Lyman SwOrmstedt. editor of the D. A. r.
magazine; Mrs. J. Heron Cresmay. presi-
dent of the Patriotic Women Of America;
Mrs. Joseph Wood. head of the new civic
movement which has it's headquarters at
Mount Vernon, n. Y, and others.
In the course Of Mrs. Scotts talk, which
the speaker called her "swan song," she
declared that much praise and honor had
been accorded to the men who fought the
is not now time to do proper honor to the
heroic women who so nobly did their part
In those times Of poverty, stress and
hardship.
Musical numbers were contributed by
Misses May Adele Levers, Lillian Che
worth and Mrs. Emig.
Appeal for Suffering Prisoners.
American Consul Summers at Belgrade,
Servia, has appealed to the Red Cross
for special Thanksgiving contribution
from the United States for the relief Of
between 5000 and 1000 Albanian and Ar
naut prisoners, who are held in the fort
ress at Belgrade in miserable condi-
ton. Consul Summers reports that when
captured by the Servians these prisoners
were scantly clad, s'hoeless and half
dead from hunger and exposure. The
Servians have not the means to care for
them and so the consul has sought a
special Thanksgiving day contribution
from the United States and promises
personally to see to the purchase Of
clothes for the unfortunates.
The German Russian and ROllm9nian
Red Cross societies have each sent fully
equipped hospitals to Servia. Mr.. Sum-
mers says there is dire need of every
thing. Many of the nurses are unframed
amateurs with no knowledge of what
should be done. and in consequence the
suffering is intensified, some of the SOL
diers remaining several days without
having their wounds dressed.