The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-13
tic Society to
Present. The Mika.
do" for Relief of Bel
gians
LOCAL WORKERS
DREAM OF TASKS
Women Busy in Committees Division
Activities-Perform Duties in
Their Sleep-Foreign Relief Mem
bership Announced

The Harrisburg Operatic Society will
present 1.-The Mikado'' at the Majestic
theatre February II and 12 for the
heneht of the suffering Belgians Re-
hearsals are now being held at the Con-
servatory of Music. The east will be
made up as follows, it is announced:
Ko-Ko, Frank H Davies; Pooh Bah,
Russell Roop; PishTush, Louis Nun
nell; The Mikado, Elmer w. Ehler
Yum Yum, Ada Meishley; Piti-Sing,
Ruth Hoover; Peep-Bo, Helen Keister;
Katisha, Mrs. Jacob Miller; Royal UNI
brella Carrier, George Hoy.
This will be the eighth production of
the society and the third presentation
of "The Mikado -
Dream of Aiding Sufferers
Fourteen hundred thousand separate
and distinct garment pieces were care
fully folded and tied; half million
questions were asked and answered {;
thousands of woolen comforters and
scarfs were knitted; in fact, the entire
machinery of the Home Supplies and
even the Red Cross division of the
Home and War Relief Committee was
in operation during the greater portion
of last night.
Most wonderful to relate, it WASH t
done at headquarters, South Front
street, but was distributed over nearly
dozen city homes, where the division
workers of the big general and special
committees were reposing.
Did they work III their sleep? That $
the answer, vouched for by Mrs. Mer-
Ger B. Tate and number of the sup
plies division workers, and supplement-
ed and confirmed by members of the
other divisions. For the past week,
according to the initiate, operations, in
stead of ceasing when headquarters rs
left behind, begin with accentuated
earnestness when the workers retire.
Mrs. Tates Experience
"I wrapped UP and tie dthousands
of these bundles last night" said Mrs.
Tate this morning, as she skilfully
knotted a string about bulky bundle
of unsewn refugte garments. For
about week I've been doing double
duty, so to speak Work all day
through here; then speed up the pro-
cess, mentally, when | retire.
One experience relattd, others of the
volunteer corps, which is making in
roads on thousands of blanks which
Bloughs have delivered, told of how
they, too, had done their unusual work
in vivid dreams each night.
But there is no sign tha tthe double
duty is exhausting the workers. The
huge piles of supplies are being assorted
and tied up ready for use by the Home
Relief Department at such a speedy
rate that there are thousands of bun
dies ahead to issue.
Miss Mary Jennings, chairman of the
special War Box Committee, reported
yesterday that 10 of the 20 grocers
needed to handle the work had been Sc
cured. Tomato boxes were found to be
right size for the 1925 box of sup.
plies for four adults for two weeks !;
boxes having contained canned peas are
just the right size for the ''War Baby
box, which costs $3.50 to fill.
Foreign Relief Membership
Foreign Relief Division has. an
nounced the following membership:
Mrs. James F.. Bullitt, chairman;
Mrs. Lyman D. Gilbert, Mrs. Philip T.
Meredith. vice chairman; Miss Letitia
Brady, Mrs. William 7. Hildrup. Mrs.
Henry NJ. Slime, Mrs. Frank Payne,
Mrs. w. Wally Davis, Mrs +. r.
Downes, Mrs. John f. Fox, Mrs. w. H.
Gather, Mrs. A. Boyd Hamilton, the
Misses Lett, Miss Frances Morrison,
Mrs. Leslie McCreath, Mrs. Harvey T.
Smith, Mrs. John H. Weiss, Miss Caro-
line Weiss, Miss Elizabeth Kobler, Miss
Rebecca Cox, Mrs. H. Lindley Hosford,
Mrs. S. C. Todd, Mrs. J. w. Mahon,
Miss Mary Jennings, Miss Martha w.
Buehler, Miss Theodore Boone, Miss
Margaret Dale, Mrs. Frank D. Houck,
Middletown; Mrs. John Oenslager. Mrs.
George S. Comstock, Mrs. John Moffitt,
Mrs. james l.. Stewart, Mrs. William
Brown, Camp Hill; Mrs. c. NJ. Ka.lt-
wasser, Mrs. Herman P. Miller, Mrs.
John Reilly, Mrs. J. Wallis, Miss Maud
Brady, Miss Josephine Schwarz, Mrs.
Frank Robbins, Mrs. William GaIbraith.
Mrs. Frank Smith, Mrs. j. r. Morrison,
Mrs. R. w. Dowdell, Mrs. Edward
Doehne, Mrs. George j. Coloviius, Mrs.
w. R. McCord, Mrs Walter Dietrich,
Mrs. j. Horace Mcfarland, Mrs. A.
Russell Calder, Mrs. NJ. I. Kast, Mrs. L.
b. Notes.-The, Mrs. F. |. Watts, Mrs.
Rufus McCord, Miss Bella Baltzell, Miss
Grace Bame, Mrs. w. B. Corbett, Mrs.
John Heathcote, Mrs. c. Russell Smith.