Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-07
Newsboy Aids Cause.


small newsboy who stopped Capt VIII
wanted to contribute something toward
the hospital fund.
Dr. Carr said the waiter who had
charge OF the table at which he sat at a
banquet Of medical officers last night
gave him so as subscription. Mr..
Droop told Of a subscription Of 81 made
by an elevator conductor in one Of the
office buildings.
Both Woodbury. Blair, chairman of
the executive committee, and William
F. GUIDE, chairman of the business
mems committee. made brief addresses
at the meeting. In which they Impress
ed upon the campaign workers the i'm
portance of getting the small sub
scription as we'll as the large ones
Gets 5000 Subscription.
e. II. Droop. president of the Wash
ington Board of Trade. which has placed
itself on record in favor Of a new Elmer
gency Hospital. entered the campaign this
morning, and within half hour had a
fve-thousand- dollar subscription to show
for his activity. Mr. Droop is not a men,
Der of any of the business mems teams.
as he said he would rather roam at
large than be assigned to any one Of the
subcommittee. For this reason the title
SoAA-
ferred on him.
shortly after . O'Clock this morning he
visited the office OF S. W. Woodward Of
the firm Of Woodward & Lothrop. He
handed Mr. Woodward a pledge card with
the date filled in, but with the name OF
the subscriber and amount blank
Fiji In and sign. please" said Mr..
Droop.
When Mr. Woodward saw that the
card which Mr.. Droop had handed him
- So .hn@. G~~Ai~
ward the observation-disclosures
fund for a new Emergency Hospital. he
was much surprised. Mr.. Woodward is
vice chairman Of the business mems COM
mittee. which is doing such good work In
the campaign, and the fact that a com
mitteeman at large had come to him for
. subscription was highly amusing 10
him.
Picking up a pen from his desk. Mr..
Woodward filled in the pledge for 5000
and signed the name Of the firm Of
which he is head. Within a half hour
from the time he had started out on the
campaign" Mr.. DroOp arrived at the
headquarters with the five-thousand-dol-
lar subscription.
Boy Scouts Will Work.
The 1900 Boy Scouts of Washington
are to get out and work in behalf OF
the three-hundred- thousand-dollar fund
fTIOdy ana SATURDAY VI next week, ac-
cording to an announcement made today
by A. c. Moses. captain of team &c" and
president of the executive committee OF
the local Boy Scout council.
Mr.. Moses has worked out scheme by
which every Boy Scout In the Distric,
can assist in raising subscriptions for the
fund in a way which will be both move
and effective. Early next week letters
containing an appeal for subscriptions viii
be furnished to the members of all the
Boy Scout troops throughout the District
| Each letter will be in an envelope in
| which there will also be a tag with a
piece of string attached.
The letters will be distributed by the
scouts Friday afternoon in the neigh
borhoods in which their homes are To-
| Gated. No solicitation of funds will be
made at that time.
The letters will state that if the re-
| cipient desires to make subscription
| toward the fund he should tie the in.
| closed tag to the outside knob OF the
| front door of his residence or on the han.
| die OF the doorbell. This should be done
Friday evening or night, for bright and
early the next morning the scouts viii