Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-03

III LAY lOu ten QdyS AOA6CA
In Excess of Million Dollars.
Money for relief work continued to pour
in to the Red Cross through various
agencies. Today's contributions to the
fund brought the aggregate amount ham
died through the Red Cross to about $25,-
coo In excess of million dollars. Miss
Mabel r. Boardman of the Red Cross
today returned from the flooded district.
Z Contributions totaling $10,250 reach
ed the White House from three sources
outside the United States. The Ameri-
can Chamber of Commerce at Paris
sent $4,000. the American Lunch Club
Of London sent $3.50. and the council
of the city Of Regina, Saskatchewan,
Canada, sent $1,000.
To Handle Illinois Appeals.
Gov. Dunno Of Illinois notified Secretary
Garrison today that Adjt. Gen. Frank S.
Dickson of the Illinois National Guard
had been designated to handle all appeals
from Illinois communities for federal
food relief. Gov. Dunno was the first of
the ten governors In the Ohio-Mississippi
states to. respond to Secretary Garrison s
request that one competent person In
each of those states be designated to re-
ceive and transmit to the War Depart
John IL. Patterson. chairman of the
Dayton citizens relief committee. has
urged President Wilson to send en-
gineers without delay to survey the
against the repetition of the flood
disaster.
Health and sanitary conditions
throughout the flooded region of Indi-
ana are rapidly improving, according to
reports today to Surgeon General Blue
If ho y,.hlic health Soryico
Step Taken for Cairo.
Maj Normoyle. in charge of the work
from Dayton that steps are being taken
points along the lower Mississippi, and to
rush barges and boats there. Little trou-
BILE SIS being experienced in shipping food
into the flood district, he reported.
report received from Maj. Hartman
In Omaha was to the effect that although
large number Of tents were available
for use there, there was no demand for
them.
Master Berenice Ellis. q ten-year-old
youth of Goodland. Kan, is the con-
tributor of dollar bill, received at the
White House this morning In the flood Of
other donations. A letter accompanying
the donation reads:
II am inclosing small remittance from
my meager allowance. 1t isn't much,
but l hope It will do some good to some
little boy or girl who has lost their papa
or mamma
Contributions From Catholics.
Sunday. April 13, contributions taken
in all Roman Catholic churches in the
archdiocese of Baltimore. which includes
Washington, will be given to the flood
relief fund. Rev. P. c. Gavan, chancellor
of the archdiocese. acting under direc-
ton of Cardinal Gibbons, today sent out
an appeal to all Catholic priests urging
them to exhOrt their congregations to
contribute literally.
The Woman's Beneficent Society Of the
Peoples Church at a meeting yesterday
voted SO for the relief of the flood suf-
ferers.
Local Red Cross Fund, $40, 900.
Additional contributions to the District
of Columbia Red Cross flood relief fund
received at the national offices OF the or
ganization and announced today total
ST. 1872, making the hole amount of
the local contributions to this fund ap-
proximately $4,000. The contributions
from local sources received at National
Red Cross headquarters today were as
follows:
Employees in War Department, addition
al, $37: employees in government print
ing office, additional, $542.75; employees IN
census bureau. 1885: Quartermaster' s
A. 4. M. s25; ]. H. Mccain. SIS: Doro-
thea Nagel. 81; Piney Branch Citizens
Association, IS; Home Economic Assoc
citation, So; L. D. s., so; Myra c. Hole,
So; Louis Weigert. S.: F. A. g.. 81: en-
l-~ ,fT7 I'D
SIS; bureau Of construction and repair
Navy Department. additional, 1886; Y.
M. C. A., $l6.4O: employees Navy De-
partment, additional. $50 10; Sunday
school, Church OF the Brethren, 1851
Today's contributions to this fund In
Guided one of $1.12O.67 from the officers
and employees Of the navy yard. $774.ss
from the employees OF the Department OF
Agriculture. and several substantial con-
trfbutions from individuals. Among these
was one Of 5000 from Gen. John A. john
ston, the contribution being that of the
| District of Columbia fire department.
Others who added their contributions to
the Red Cross relief fund today were:
Employees Of the pension bureau, $1O2.9O;
office OF the paymaster. U. S. M. c., $40;
Blair Lee 500: Wayne MacVeagh, $500;
Elizabeth X. Anderson, 500; Office of TIT
| Secretary Of the Interior. $7S: Isabel D.
| Stedman. 500: employees OF the geological
| survey. $73.
Women's Republic Contributions.
! Contributions OF clothing which were
sent from Washington March 20 and 81
destined for the relief of food sufferer.
in Ohio and Indiana, were handled
through the Women's Republic. 619 f
street northwest. the packing and ship
ping being directed by Mrs. Belva Lock
wood and Mrs. Susanna Harris.
A-.oag those who contributed clothin,
and other articles through the Women.
Republic were: Saks & Co.. M. Golden
berg, Mrs. ". p. Moran. Lansburgh &
Bro, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Mall, Johr
| Hyde, Mrs. l. Crist, Mrs. Ada l. Clark
Thomas Howard, Mrs. Buchanan. Mrs. ]
weinert, Mrs. Atwell. Rev. Susanna
| Harris, Mrs. Virgo p. Sparks. Miss Ma,
! MAYNARD, Mrs. F. M. Croswerite, Mrs e
w. Allen, Mrs. e. K. Burns, Hyattsville
Mrs. C. 8. French. Mrs. Annie Laurie
Pearce, Mrs. A. l. Jone-, Miss Louis,
Fallow, Miss Scott. Mrs. s. Perry Lee
Mrs. H. e. Reeves. Mr.. Beecher. Rev
Susanna Harris. Miss Lucy Dyer, Mis-
Ida Reed, Mr.. J. p. McLachen and Mis-
Rebecca Chapman.
Il The following members of Miss bod
sons branch of the Needlework Guild o
America were contributors to the relic
L 81 c,.n he fotn