New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-05
American Coin for Extras
as Red Cross Branches
Pay All Expenses.
EX-PRESTDENT TAFT
SENDS $50 GIFT
Society Not in Fear of Compli-
cations in Sending Ship
with German Sailors.

Preparations for the sailing of the
Red Cross relief ship on Monday at 4
o'clock reached q stage Of feverish ac-
tlvity yesterday, both at the local Red
Cross headquarters, 1870 East 22d st.,
and at Pier S9, in Brooklyn, where tons
OF medical supplies are being slowed
away in the holds of the ship.
BY noon every one of the 1875 nurses
ten units and FIVE extra nurses for
emergencies-ha reported to Miss
Jane A. Delano, chairman of the Ma
tional Committee on Nursing Service,
and had received her equipment. Each
nurse will carry with her, besides her
equipment, $50 in gold. This is for
extras" for her travelling expenses
on the other side will be paid by the
Red Cross branches there. Miss Mabel
Boardman, who spent most Of the day
at the ship, said that contributions
were coming in satisfactorily. Charles
P. Rowland, a New York lawyer, prom
ised for himself and his wife to give
$50 a month while the war lasts. That
will pay the salary of one nurse.
EX-President Taft sent $50, with a
letter saying that he wished it could
be more" Some of the contributions
were nameless, as one Of So which came
with the following note, written in an
unframed hand:
please put for the use of the Red
Cross Society for their work among
the wounded ones in Europe the in
closed So. It's sent for love of Him
who died for me-Wandercr."
Heading the larger gifts was pledge
from Mrs. Whitelaw Reid that she
would contribute $500 a month as long
as hostilities last.
"That is in addition to $4,000 which
she has already given" Miss Boardman
said And Mrs. Reid writes from the
AdirOndacks, where she is staying, that
she wonders if similar pledges, to give
specified sums regularly, cannot be
obtained. Before left Washington sew
eral persons there promised So a
month each, and we hope many will
follow the example, for we shall Dc
under a steady and large expense"
A Red Cross flag has been presented
70 the society by Bernard NJ: Baker, o?
Boston, q shipping man who had good
deal to do with obtaining the Hamburg
liner for the use of the Red Cross.
Mr.. Bakers grandson will present the
flag to-day at the. pier when the nurses
and surgeons take up their quarters
there.
Anxiety is still expressed by persons
familiar with shipping affairs over the
fact that the Red Cross is using a
German boat and that she will be
manped mainly by German sailors.
Miss Boardman said yesterday that she
had not the least fear of complications.
1t was true, she said, that many of the
sailors were Hamburg-American men.
1--WE believe in safety first" she said,
land il wouldn't be safe to send the
ship out with sailors not familiar with
her. We are taking some risk, as it is,
in sending ner out under command OF
retired navy officers, for a steamship
is not like war vessel. So when
Hamburg. American sailors applied for
places Captain Rust took them, provid-
ed they were naturalized citizens of
the United States.
1--WE have received assurances from
France and England, through the State
Department, that our arrangements are
satisfactory and that our ship may en-
ter their ports"
1t is hoped that money toward the
equipment of another relief ship will
be realized from the benefit that is TO
be held at the Century Opera House
the evenings of September IA and 10.
Mrs. Elmer Black, chairman of the
benefit committee, has enlisted num-
Der of womb who will serve as patron
esses. A fee for the same purpose will
be held at the Edgemere Club, in Edge
mere, Long Island, on Labor Day.
In Europe, Miss Boardman said, peo-
pie are doing their share as well as
they can. Yesterday news came that
the emigrant railroad station Of the
North German Lloyd Steamship Com
pany at Bremen had been turned over
to the Red Cross for hospital purposes.