The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-07
TAG-DAY WORKERS
meet WITH FAVOR
Instructive Visiting Nurses AS
ISOLATION Receives About $4,000
From Annual Affair.
SUN ADDS MONEY TO BOXES
First Clear Tag Day in Three
Years Makes Greatest Sue
cess on Record.

Smiled upon by cloudless sky. the
annual Tag Day Of the Instructive Wis
iting Nurses Association yesterday
brought into the Golfers of that charity
approximately $4,000 thus topping the
hgures of preceding years by a good
margin. The actual receipts counted
last night at the First National Bank,
with one-ffth of the boxes missing
amounted to SS,35S.10. Boxes counted
on Church Hill, Paramount and Fulton
yielded about $500 more making a
total of $3.S5S.
The zoo workers, who stood all day
IN the streets to make mute appeal for
the cause they represented. left their
posts at $50 O'clock last evening tir,si
but jubilant. Each one felt from the
weight of her box that it was to be
record day. and the predictions were
rindicated by the count. Never has
such broad appeal to the public been
accomplished with so little evidence OF
disagreeable incidents, which was part
ly due to the courteous department of
the workers and partly to the SYM
patty OF the public with the n,Sses'
work.
Thanks for Public.
Mrs. j. Scott Parrish. the president
OF the association. was IN very happy
frame OF mind yesterday afternoon.
1T Is hard to express the apprecia-
fion we feel Tor the way the public
has treated us today" she said to a
reporter for The Times Dispatch. THE
response to our appeal has not only
been as generous as we could desire.
but has been given In the Christian
spirit worthy of gifts to our work
As we said. the association wanted
free-will offerings. And the people
seemed TO buy the tags to-day in that
spirit.
Tho association is very grateful to
p lyar t,.A
orous!N to-day in our behalf: il is
grateful for the chivalrous treatment
accorded the workers by the men OF
Richmond, and 1t is deeply apprecia-
tive of the generosity of all who wore
our tag. 1t is the best Tag Day we
have ever had"
The chief OF the workers In Church
Hill. Fulton and Fairmount reported
TO The Times Dispatch late last night
that the boxes in these three sections
contained s499.61 by actual count at
Che Church Hill Bank. This is exclu-
slve of the boxes counted by s. Il.
Bates at the First National Bank
and. added to that sum, gives a total
OF s3.s67.71. with few boxes SIN
unaccounted for. These missing boxes
are expected to contain in the neigh
oornood OF $3.50, bringing the collcc-
tons for the day to $4,000
All Records Broken.
Yesterdays receipts exceeded the
collections OF the 1912 rag Day by
about an even $1,000. although last
year was distinguished by "a very
rainy Tag Day. The visiting nurses
received total of sSOI1 on the 1919
day. while expecting only about ST..
600. Each person seemed to feel on
that miserable day that the associa
lion was about 10 receive a disap-
pomtment. and each resolved to give a
little larger contribution in order to
soften the misfortune The 1911 Tag
Day. also rainy, nettcd about $4,000
Undoubtedly the tremendous success
OF Tag Day was duo largely to the fine
management OF the occasion. Instead
OF making the day bughear to those
who ventured out OF doors between o
and o'clock. the association sue
ceeded in making its appeal to the
purses OF the public in a thoroughly
dgnified unobtrusive and courteous
manner. thereby winning the most gem
erous response
In previous years the management
laid down ceCtain rules which the
workers in their zeal failed to observe.
This year, however,. the rules were
made so plain that even the most zeal
Gus was shown that too much ardor
was harmful to the cause For the first
time on record the tag worn on the coat
provided Immunity from requests for
further tagging, the workers dropping