Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-01

Along the line of the steadily growing
interest in the Washington campaign
of the American Red Cross for funds
lief expedition, the ship for which was
District, John Biddle and A T. Nc
Clintock, have announced their inten-
ton to contribute SIS a month during
the course of the war The national
headquarters of the organization here
express the hope that others may
adopt the same or similar plan.
Additional Contributions.
Additional contributions received
from people of the District of CO.
lumbia are announced as follows:
Mrs. Garrison McClintock. $40: Miss
K. T. McClintock. IS; Randall Hagner,
81; Hugh Roland. So; Frederick Huide-
koper, So; Mrs. Herman Jennings, 500;
Mrs. John MCGOWAN, 800: Capt. and
Mrs. Beach, 800; Gist Blair $25: Mr..
and Mrs. John H. Childs. s65; Sidney
p. Smith. IS; s. M. Landon, IS; Mrs.
Emily w. Reisinger. S.; Washington
Cathedral congregation. s13s.23; Caro-
line Ogden Jones, $50; Mrs Henry d.
Baker. $40; Mrs. Walter F. Dilling-
ham. $50: Mrs. George H. Howard, 81;
pow i,o Mcclain; g; Mrs: J. R. Webster.
ANONYMOUS. 81; Mrs: Ward Browne,
proceeds of entertainment given at
Grand Beach. Me-, IS; L. w. Jordan. jr.,
$40: Capt. James H. Oliver, $40; Mrs.
r. c. Parker, $40, and Miss Julia D.
Strong, $40.
Every police station and every fire
station in the District of Columbia is
Red Cross war relief fund collecting
agency. Contributions can be left at
the nearest police or fire station,
where subscription blanks will be
found, or sent to H. S. Reside, Ameri-
can Security and Trust Company,
treasurer of the District Of Columbia
Chapter Of the Red Cross
Congressional List.
There are some prospects of a dis
tinctively congressional subscription
being made. Speaker Champ Clark has
advised the Red Cross that he will head
such a list with a subscription of IS.
Senator T. ]. Walsh and Representative
Burton l. French have voluntarily sent
the Red Cross contributions of $25 and
$40, respectively.
Two contributions to the Swiss relief
fund reached the legation here yesterday
from Swiss soldiers in Tegucigalpa, Hon
duras. AS they were not called on for
take to get from Central America to
Switzerland they said they would send
money to help at home.
A considerable amount Of money al
and also at the consulates in New York
from Swiss people in this country.
Six Washington Doctors.
Among the American surgeons who
will sail on the steamer Red Cross,
chartered yesterday for the expedition
and formerly the Hamburg Of the Ham
rg-American line, are six Washing
ton physicians. They are Edward H.
Egbert. Charles H. Sanders, Philip
Newton Paul Zinkhan, Grover H Stem
and Arthur NJ. Zinkhan.
The complete list is:
Directors Of the ten units, Drs. Rey-
mold M. Kirby-Smith, Sewanee, Tenn. !;
Roades Fayerweather Baltimore; VIII
liam s. Megill, New York: Robert W.
Kinds. Buffalo. N. Y: Edward H. Egg
bert, Washington. D. G.; Charles H.
Sanders, Washington. D. c.; Cary A.
Bartlett Chicago; Howard W. Beal,
Worcester, Mass, and Bial F, Brad
bury. Norway, Me.
The assistants, two being assigned to
and NJ. H. Todd. Baltimore; Louis C.
Spencer and H. G. Slack. Baltimore;
Philip Newton and Paul II. ZinKhan,
Washington, D. c.; Fred w. Eastman,
New York. and Henry N. Shaw, BaIti-
more: Brown 8. McClintic. Peru, and Ar
thur N. Zinkhan. Washington. D. c.:
J. F. Spearman, Baltimore. and Grover
A c. Stem. Washington. D. c.; Fred G.
Benton. New York. and Walcott Denison,
st. Louis: Russell A. levitt. Cleveland,
| and John C.. Miller Shenandoah, Pa; v.
| N. Leonard, Baltimore and William T.
Fitzsimons. New York: r. H. Newman,
Knoxville, Tenn, and John Lancer, New
| York.