The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-11-17
Returns Of Women's eanyass.Are
Mcaeer But Promise Most
Encouraging Results
LARGE BUSINESS CONCERNS
MAKE GENEROUS DONATIONS
Some Doors Are Shut in Faces
Of Workers But Penurity
III Is Rare

After q full day 5 work selling Red
Gross seals yesterday, il is stiH I'M
possible TO estimate the amount re-,
eeiyed except In a general way. Mr..
Rath, treasurer Of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
League, announced last night that ali
he could say was that the seals seemed
TO have sold very wen. From the ipdi-
yidual reports Of the members of the
committee It IS apparent that the re-
eeipts from the business district wilt
be from two to -four times those 81 last
year, while the receipts from the resi.
dence districts win believer than last
year, As . whole, il is certain that
the Tuberculosis campaign can be con.
tmued nearly as planned and that the
league will have, possibly, a larger fund
than for the year just passed. VI
Business Firms Generous a1
The only district to turn its receipts
over to Mr.. Rath yesterday was number
10, or that lying mauba Of King street,
over which Mrs. Herman Foeke had
charge. In all she turned in Sl24s 40.
four times the amount collected IN, tbs
same district last year, which was,
1896. so A large part Of this money
was donations BY big business firms.
given, not in exchange for Red Cross
seals, but with the proviso that all OF
It and not only ninety per cent Of 10,
remain IN the Territory. As this is
the ease with all money not received
directly for seals, their wishes will be-
observed. Among the larger contrib
utors were III. .Hackfeld & CO., Il. II.
Davies & Co.., Bishop & Co, the Bank
of Hawaii and others.
Mrs. IL Faxon Bishop, who had the
district makai of King street, also met
with, q generous response, aud at nine
9 clock yesterday morning had collect
ed 5000. All Of the returns from her
assistants, however, have not been
made, and, as in the case of nearly Iall
Of the thirty districts, it was impossible
for her TO make up the final account
yesterday.
Two Women Do wen
B Mrs. j. p Cooks, VINO. was I'M charge
of the Makiki district, had received
up to last night $50. So, while one of
her assistants, who had charge of al
large part Of the district, had not vet
reported. This is an excellent percent!i
age, as only 500 worth of stamps had
been turned over 10 Mrs. Cooke.
Mrs, w. l.. Whitney estimates the
receipts in her district, Kakanko as
far west as Alalxea street, to have been
$3.50, but, as in the other cases, her
assistants had not reported Very few
of the other ladies' had been able to
make up any figures at all.
Mr.. Rath had several hurry calls for
more stamps in the morning, and so
some Of the districts, at any rate, ran
over their original allowance, but IL is
not known vet which ones they were.
The workers all reported more or less
uniform treatment. Many Of the best
known and most luxurious homes in the
city, particularly in the Makikf and
Punahou districts, closed their doors in
the faces of the workers, while on the
other hand many humble tenement
dwellers bought their dime s or quar-
ter's worth. "A % ......'. 81
III treatment Not General ,.. ..
This was by no means always the
case. Generosity often lived ilamedi,
ately alongside Penurity. On the
whole, however, it was usually those
who had no opportunity 10 lead shell,
tered lives, but who saw on all sides
of them the ravages Of tuberculosis,
who contributed most willingly.
The Japanese, did not appear to know
the object Of the stamps, and appeals
to that nationality were not always
answered in some of the districts, but
other nationaIities, particularly Hawa.
iians, answered. readily. !.
Meanwhile the Great White Plague
also stayed ON the job, and seven new
eases Of Tuberculosis were registered
Yesterday, of whom two had already
been met by death. One of the re
manning five, a schoolteacher, having
lost his occupation, is now absolutely
destitute and living in one Of the most
sordid Chinese tenements in the city,
awaiting his turn to enter the Leah
Home The bureau is making an extra
effort to get him free bed. 4
Many of the women Of the committee
will continue their selling campaign
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