Evening star., 1915-02-19
ASKS FOR CAR FARE
FOR DONATION WEEK
Mrs. Logan Calls This ''Jitney"
Day in Campaign for Dis.
trict Charities.
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
URGED TO CONTRIBUTE
Who Will Be First to Give Five-Dol.
lar Note About $3.50 Col
lected Yesterday.

lected Yesterday.
This is "jitney'' day in the District
donation week campaign.
Mrs. Ellis Logan. president of the
District Federation of Women's Clubs
who is leading more than 1000 wom-
en- of Washington in a city-wide effort
this week for the relief Of the local
Endorsed charities, sent out a plea for
every one to be his or her own "jitney
bus today and save the customary jit
of car fare for the charity donation
boxes.
And Mrs. Logan had a message for
the members of Congress, too 1t was
a strictly confidential suggestion: who
will be the first member of Congress to
give gd, aet tvedolas note She said that hat
workers notified her that a single
member Of Congress has made gen.
erous donation. She says she knows
they intend to, but hopes they will not
paign. so that their generosity may be
an inspiration to others.
Merchants Start Contributions.
Mrs. Logan stated that she knows
many of the merchants started the
boxes in their stores with contribu-
tions of 81 and IS. and that the execu-
tive committee of the District dona-
tion week" campaign is grateful for
| this cooperation of the merchants.
But she would like to see some OF the
| send in good-sized checks to the mems
| committee, of which former Commits
sioner Henry B. F. Macfarland is
chairman.
She feoJc S,,ra +y,+ 10 , oo,,.,> ~-,;,, .h,,-
| start the good work there will be num-
| Der of others who will follow their ex-
| ample.
| The net results of the efforts yesterday
amounted to little over $3.50
After making her round of the more
than 100 stations today Mrs. Logan re-
ported that the contributions seem to be
| coming In much faster today, and that
she hopes for big total this evening.
Drummers Make Donation.
| Four drummers met in one Of the
| busiest drug stores In the city and
the proprietor directed their attention
| to the movement in aid Of the District
charities. He proposed that they match
pennies with him to see which Of the
| five would place a dve-dollar bill N
the donation box, to which he directed
| attention. 1t turned out that the drug
| gist lost. The drummers insisted on
each one contributing 81.
Scarcely had Mrs. w. A. Kelsey and
Mrs. Conrad Hess taken their stand at
| the Sunshine and Community Society
| booth in 8. Kann Sons & Co. store this
| morning when a woman handed them
\ an envelope containing 127 pennies
| Il want it to go to the blind children.
| she said, ard explained that the men,
| bers of her family are putting away
! every penny they get into little box
| for this charity.
| She gave her name as Mrs. ]. Irling,
| and said she would bring more at the
| end Of the week.
| The president Of one Of the organi-
| cations most active in the District
| donation week campaign Is a cripple
but this is not preventing her from
| taking a personal part in the work
| Besides directing a large group OF
| young women from her home she Wis
| tied one of the stations on Connecticut
| avenue in her wheel chair yesterday
| and by personal plea won much SYM
| pathy for the cause.
Baby an Attraction
A merry little baby less than yeal
old. from the Founding Hospital. wa:
the center of much attraction at the
Palais Royal booth. She cooed at al
visitors, clutched at their fingers and
excited no little interest. Almost every
one who came to look dropped some
small contribution in the box in re-
sponse to the sympathy aroused by the
little orphan.
| BY a strange coincidence a man con-
lsiderably under the influence of liquor
happened to find his way to the w. c
r. u station. at the 9 street entrance
ed the contribution box to the fdor al
he fumbled to put In his coin, with the
remark that he couldn't pass without
giving them the price of another drink
t. thk ~<
the St Vincent de Paul Society at Parker
Bridget's. A prominent society lead
er stepped out of his big limousine at
that corner this afternoon and entered
charge two nickelst He said he had
earned them. His two little children
last night had insisted on his shining
their shoes so that they could give the
dren" He said ne expects to earn a
dollar for the cause tomorrow morn
ing by giving the baby its bath, as
his wife bet him 81 he couldn't do it.
the Florence Crittenton Home. was In
charge of the community barrels in the
Center market today. and will also di-
rect the collection there tomorrow
the Crittenton homo to be fed and the
food donations dropped into the bar
rels today and tomorrow will mean
much help in this cause.
Boys Disclose Unique Plan.
Miss Mullen had an amusing incident
today. when a couple Of youngsters
came along carrying a big basket OF
groceries. They stopped and after con-
sultation took from the basket two
packages of breakfast food and pu,
them into the barrel.
Miss Mullen asked them II they hat
tbeen told to do SO by their mother
IThey said no: she had given them II
cents to give but they had decided the
1.-TWO packages would do the poor chill.
|dren more good than the 10 cents. anG
Ithen. warmed to condolences, shyly ad
lmitted that they didn't like breakfast
food and would rather have the candy
lthey could buy with the dime
Mrs. Logan in making her rounds Of
some OF the stations today thought she
would get the human side Of the cam.
paign, SO for five minutes she counted
l137 women pass through the revolving
doors at one of, the large department
stores and every one of the 1877 passet
fright by the donation stand, while two
men stopped and made small con.
ltributions.
At another store Mrs. Logan countet