The Washington herald., 1913-12-11
MONEY TO HONOR
HEROIVES RAISED
Sum Of $500, 900 Given for
Memorial to Women of
the Civil War.
NEWS TOLD BY WILSON
Announces at Red Cross Meeting
$4O0, 600 Appropriation Now May
Be Made Available.

Early erection in this city of a mag
nifcent marble memorial to the women
of the great civil strife of the sixties
was made certain yesterday when the
President of the United States, presid-
ing at the ninth annual meeting of the
American Red Cross. announced that a
quartet of the nations leading philan-
thropists had subscribed $4,000 to the
building fund. This sum was necessary
to make available a $4,000 appropria-
ton made by Congress for the building
John D. Rockefeller, Mrs Russell Sage,
Mrs. E. II. Hartman, and James A.
Scrymser, who started the movement for
Wilson announced, were the subscribers
of the money. Announcement also was
made by the presiding officer that Jacob
Schir, the New York financier and phi
lanthropist, had contributed a special en-
dowment of 100000. the income of which
is to be used for the town and country
nursing service of the American Red
Cross.
To Establish Agencies.
1t also was announced by the Presi-
dent that 5000 had been pledged annual
ly by Cleveland H Dodge to establish
four agencies and employ four assistants
for National Director Ernest P. Bick-
nell. These agencies will be located in
the Atlantic, Pacific, Mississippi, and
Rocky Mountain regions, and make the
work of the American Red Cross more
effective.
Mrs. WhiteIaw Reid. widow of the Am
bassador to Great Britain; Miss Mabel
Boardman, Mrs. William s Draper,
widow of the Ambassador TO Italy; Jacob
Schfff, Secretary of Labor Wilson, and
other leaders in the social and philan-
thropic work of the country were pres
ent and followed President Wilson with
addresses and reports on the special
works of the Red Cross in which they
are severally interested.
International peace is not a far cry
from the present." declared Mr.. Schiff
in his address. That time when the
horrors Of war devastate fair lands, rem
dering homeless thousands, manning other
thousands, and making other thousands
bereaved widows and orphans, is nearly
gone. We need more peace societies to
carry on the work that is so admirably
being done in the interest of peace.
Disasters Will BE Avcrfed.
Mr.. Schih declared he also thought the
time was near at hand when mine dis
asters, sea catastrophes, and other
avoidable calamities would be prevented.
He explained that wireless had accom-
plished great things while yet in its in
fancy, and directed that principles be-
ing developed by organizations like the
Red Cross would eliminate the possibili-
ties Of many forms of disasters.
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid told of the re-
markable work being done by the Red
Cross visiting nurses in small towns and
rural communities.
Mrs. William S. Draper told how more
than a score of children thought by their
parents to have been lost in the VolturnO
disaster were comfortably cared for by
the Red Cross in New York and eventu-
ally returned to their mothers and fathers
III other parts of the world
Secretary of Labor Wilson went over
the work done by the Red Cross, acting
in cooperation with the United States
Bureau of Mines, in preparing mine
workers against accidents and teaching
them what to do in case of mine disasters.
He urged that this cooperation be con-
tinued.
Ovation for Wilson.
President Wilson, accompanied by DR..
Cary Grayson, arrived at the meeting
shortly after 80 o'clock He was met by
Miss Boardman and other officers of the
society and uShered to the platform amid
applause. The President did not remain
throughout the meeting. being compelled
because of the cold which has bothered
him for the last week or so to return to
the White House
The President personally awarded four
medals-three to WaShingtonians for
neritorious service rendered in Red Cross
work connected with the disasters of the
asst year.
Lewis Z. Stein, Francis J. Mulhall, and
Charles Magee were the Washingtonians
honored. They were given medals for
work rendered in miscellaneous lines of
charitable endeavor. W. A. Compton, the,
fourth on whom this honor was con-
ferred, was rewarded for the part he took
in relieving the flood sufferers of his ma
tive State-Ohio.
Others awarded medals at the meeting,
but who were not present to receive them
at the hands Of the president, were Gov. |
James NJ. Cox, Of Ohio, and Jacob G. |
Schmidlapp, George W. Lattimer, Ed |
ward A. Deeds, Homer II. johnson, S. |
o. Richardson, jr., and John H. Patter- |