Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-11
Miss Mabel Boardman, the
Head of Local Chapter,
Recommends Extension.
HOPES TO SUPPLY RELIEF
TO THE LUMBER INDUSTRY
Reports Read at Meeting Held Yes
terday-Temporary Head
quarters in View.


tional Red Cross was held yesterday
afternoon at the residence of w. J.
| Boardman, 1901 z street northwest.
The present officers of the organization
were reelected. c. c. Glover. jr., and
Stanton j. Peelle. jr.. were added to
the executive committee, reports of
the years work were delivered, ad-
dresses were made by Miss Mabel
Boardman, executive head of the ma
tional association, and by j. w. Ma
gruder, general secretary of the Fed
Grated Charities of Baltimore, Nd, and
/ a number of announcements were
made.
Several of the announcements came
during Miss Boardman's address, which
i dealt with the work of the national
organization She said that the Red
| Cross hopes to establish reilef work IN
/ the lumber industry. somewhat similar
to that already esta blished in the min
| ing industry
| one declared that in the state of Wash
ington alone 100 men in the lumber in
dustry are killed each year, ana from
1890 to 1000 permanently tnJurel- Ii
| the percentage of fatalities ana accidents
| in the state of Washington s carrie4 out
IN other lumber industry states, she de-
| clared. the total will be found TO be SO
/ appalling as to necessitate immaculate
1
/ of the organization to get the iumper
people interested In the proposed RELIEF
! work as the mining people have been in
| tereSted
Suggests Temporary Headquarters.
Miss Boardman also announced that
steps will be taken by the District OF Co.
lumbia Chapter to provide a building or
| rooms in Washington where the various
| Washing ton agencies of the Red Cross
may be gathered pending the time the
proposed new Red Cross national build
! ing is being built she said there Is
| little douot that the 100000 the nat onai
| org cation must raise for the building,
| in ADDITION to the 10000 promised by
James \. Scrymser of New YORK, will be
| forthcoming when il Is needed. and told
| of the success attending the efforts OF
| the Red cross organization 10 get the APP
! propriaL ton OF 100000 from Congress for
tine building. when was grained with tle
pa ovlso mat the organization ralSs go
voo 1t Is hoped, she sdio, TO make TIE
! even-hundreu-t housand-uoilar building
one of the most peau.iu IN Washington.
Mr.. MasfuderS ADDRESS dealt VITA his
| work III the relIeT Of Hamilton and
other Ohio cities during the hoods last
| spring
Reports Of standing committees were
| read covering the work of the District
| of Columbia Chapter in Washington
during the past year Miss l. l.. Strong.
| SUPERINTENDENT of the Red Cross day
camp, reported that tifty-tive children
and seventeen adults were admitted to
the camp the past season. Many OF
them are still under treatment there.
and the camp will remain open until
after Thanksgiving. The day camp and
Christmas seal standing committee is
composed of Rear Admiral n. En- Mason.
chairman: Mrs. Boardman, Mrs. Bayly.
Mrs. Mclaughlin, Howard Reeside and
w. A. Slater. Miss Strong, as superin-
tendent of the day camp presented the
report for the chairman, Admiral
Mason. who served as chairman of the
meeting.
| Mrs. Boardman presented the report
| on Christmas seals, announcing that a
| total of $1,000 had been realized from
| this source last year.
Miss GreenleeS, chairman of the COM
mittee on nursing. told OF the work
| done during the floods in the middle
west last spring and at the national
| horse show and at the public celebra
, tion of the 4th of July in Washington
! the past year.
First-Aid Station in Potomac Park.
Col John Van r. Hoff, u. S. A.. re-
tired. chairman Of the first aid commit
tee. reported the opening of a first aid
station In Potomac Park. AT the first aid
room In the census bureau LOO en-
ployes. he said, had been treated since
November. 1912. and in the first aid room
at the Treasury 1,416 employees had been
treated since the same date.
Mai. Gen. G. 3. Davis, T.. S. A., re-
tired. chairman of the committee on
membership and public meetings report
ed that tifty-iiye new members have
| Joined the organization, about thirty of
| them as a result of moving picture
exhibition held at Rauscher's during the
year.
Miss Jane Delano told of the work of
| the Red Cross nursing service and advo-
Gated the immediate establishment in
/ Washington of Il headquarters for Glasses
| in instruction and classes in first aid. She
urged the BRINGING together under one
roof all the Red Cross activities of the
| District chapter.
The report of III. S Reeside. treasurer
showed that there had been expended for
tuberculosis and relief work during the
/ past year the sum of So, 1850
Secretary's Report.
! Mrs T. y. Mclaughlin read her report
as secretary, which was in part as fol-
lows:
a first aid school cabinet was given
| to the Technical High School and was
| Immediately made use of; first, to render
| aid to member of the foot ball team
/ who was badly bruised in a rush
! then for several pupils who had tooth
| ache and other minor Ills.
| in the latter part of November. 1912,
| an urgent appeal was issued through
| the newspapers OF Washington, for
| funds FOR the relief nf the Balkan war
| sufferers and $l.61l.I WAS contributed
! In answer to this appeal.
/ AT executive committee meeting
| the following were elected To member
| ship in the committee, in accordance
| with the action taken at the annual
| meeting: DIR. ]. c. Boyd. T. S. N, Cor
| coran Thorn, J. Nota McGill Col. J..
| Van X. Hof and Miss Anna ]. Green
/ lees. The office of second vice chairman
was created and H. e. f. Macfarland
/ elected 10 I'LL the office.
| New Committees Created.
| The following new committees were
| also created Day camp and Christmas
| seals. Admiral Mason. chairman; Mrs.
/ Boardman. Mrs Bayly. Mrs. McLaugh-
/ lin MIR. Reesde and Mr. Slater First
aid Col. Ho@, chairman Mrs Ma
Laughlin. Gen. Davis and Mr. McGill
| Emergency service. Mr.. Thorn char
| nan; Mr.. Reeside and DIR. Boy. Nurs-
/ ing. Miss Greenlees. chairman: Miss
/ Oliver. MemDers..lp and public meeting.
| Gen. Davis. chairman; Mr.. Macfarland.
/ Miss Boardman and MIR. Wolf. Pub
/ Hcity. Admiral Mason. chairman and
1 Mr. Bicknell. Supplies. Mrs. Bayly.
/ chairman: Mrs Galloway. Mrs. Board
!, man and Mrs. Mclaughlin.
| I'm February. a request was received
from the Agricultural Department for a