El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-26
FL PASO RAISES OVER S97, 900
FOR THE WORK Of THE RED CROSS
City Turns in Almost as Much as Was Requested For
the City and ALI Surrounding Territory-Great
Enthusiasm at Concluding Banquet; Praise
For w. W. Turney and All Workers.

by the team captains. The amount so
far verified will reach $4,000.
GIIIIes's Team Winner.
Donald B. Gillies's team No. won
in the team competition during Red
Cross week His team beat Winches-
Gillies's team collected S13,SS3 and
the Cooley team collected S13,S6715.
Mrs. Ianfer's Team Leads Women.
Mrs. T. W. Lanier's team No. Is in
the WOmen's teams competition was
highest with S5SSS.O9. which was a
larger sum than was collected by
some of the mems teams. Mrs r. B.
Orndorffs team No. 16 was second in
the women's competition. Her team
collected S36I0-52
Thanks Mexican Contributors.
A. P. Coles, chairman Of the finance
committee, said Tuesday morning that
he wished to particularly thank the
Mexican population of FL Paso and
the citizens of Juarez for their hearty
generosity. The teams working in
FL Paso had not a refusal from the
Mexicans Of the city and the society
people of Juarez who are working
there in the interests OF the Red Cross
are meeting with similar success
2z5 Attend Roundup Dinner
With Ri Rev. Anthony J. Schuler,
Brig. Gen. George Bell, jr-. c. R
Morehead and Lieut. William h Slmp-
son as guests of honor. go Officers
and workers in the Red Cross cam
paign sat down at the general round
up dinner at Hotel Paso del Norte
Monday night They gathered on the
roof garden Of the hotel at Z o'clock
and the workers held a Qualification
over their individual success in the
campaign before the doors Of the
ballroom, where the dinner was
Turney. general chairman of the
campaign, was too i'll to attend the
dinner, so Dr.. ". L Brown, president
of the FL Paso chapter. acted as toast
master in his place.
Happy Spirit Prevails.
The good natured spirit which has
the Red Cross campaign
from its very beginning continued at
the dinner. Teams joked one another
about their work and individuals also
conducted a good natured joking Be-
fore the official returns Of the cam
paign were announced many wagers
were made between teams about the
totals and the winnings were donated
to the Red Cross.
Grand Opera Stars Entertain
The AIDA NavarIete Mexican-Italian
Grand Opera company opened the
dinner entertainment with selections
from their repertory of operas and
the splendid music helped greatly to
keep up the happy humor Of the
guests during the dinner Miss Ma
varrete and her artists donated their
services to the Red Cross and ap-
peared before and after their regular
performance at the Texas Grand
theater in order to entertain the
diners. Their selections were re-
ceived with most enthusiastic ap-
plause. The opera company opened
the entertainment with the sextette
from Lucia" sung by Navarrete,
Galian, Perez2nd Betancourt.
Miss Navarrete sang Ghe waltz from
La Boheme" and a 500 was sung by
Leovalle- Other numbers were sung
by Edwardo Lejarazu and Lopez
Gontis-
Bishop Times Speakers.
DR.. Brown called for the returns
on the work of each team and said
that as the returns were announced
the captain of each team would be al
lowed to make a one minute talk to
tell OF the work in his district. Bishop
Schiller held a stop watch on the
speakers and with a large automo-
bile horn announced to them when
their so seconds were up. The speak
ers in nearly every case were unable
to talk because OF the applause which
drowned them out
Mining Companies Liberal.
Donald B. Gillies was the only one
who succeeded in making a brief talk
and he did so by announcing that he