The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-06-09

Inc organization OIL a FNeu SiOSS
chapter in Goldfield has prompted
many inquiries in relation to the
origin and scope of the organiza-
ton, the field it occupies and the
personnel of its officiary. The Tri-
bune has been asked to publish
such data as will in a general way
answer some of these questions.
On August %, 1864, at Geneva,
Switzerland, plenipotentaries repre-
senting Italy, Baden, Belgium, Den
mark, Spain, Portugal, France,
Prussia, Saxony and Wuerttemberg
and the Swiss Federation agreed
) upon ten articles of a treaty or con-
vention for the purpose of mitigat-
ing the evils inseparable from war,
and particularly providing, among
other things, that persons employed
in hospitals and in affording relief
to the sick and wounded and sup
plies for this purpose should be
deemed neutral and entitled to pro-
tinctive flag should be adopted for
hospitals and ambulances and con-
voys of sick and wounded and an
arm badge for individuals thus
neutralized.
This was prior to the formation
of the present German empire, but
it embraced several of the German
states including Prussia, Saxony,
Wuerttemberg, etc.
The treaty was ratified by all
the above states or powers and sub
s%equently by others to the num-
Der of 43, including the United
States. The Geneva conference re-
commended that there exist in every
! country a committee whose mission
should be to cooperate in. times
of war with the hospital service Of
the armies by all means in it's
power.
So much for the international
Red Cross organization. For the
United States an organization was
formed in Washington in July, 1881,
known as the American National
Association of the Red Cross" 1t
was re-incorporated April H.
under the laws of the District of
Columbia, and again re-incOrporated
by act of congress in June 1900.
1t was not, however, until January
9Th, 1905, that the present charter
was granted by congress under a
further re-incorporation. Among
the incorporators under this charter
were many names familiar through
out the world.
Among them were Clara Barton,
Hilary T.. Herbert, Charles G.. GLOW
err, Mabel B~oardman, the late Ad-
miral Dewey, General Nelson A.
Miles, James Tanner, Simon Wolf,
James r. Garfield, son of the late
president Garfield; Mary A. Logan,
widow of General John A. Logan;
Doctor Walter Wyman. William H.
Taft, a%fterward president, Cleveland
II. Dodge, John G. Carlisle, former
secretary of the treasury; George
B. Mcclellan, Margaret Carnegie,
Marshal Field, Robert T. Lincoln,
Redfield Proctor, John w. Foster,
twice secretary of state; John Sharp
Williams and many others.
The charter provides that the
president of the United States shall
be the president of the American
Red Cross, and that there shall be
a governing body, known as the
/ rootco1 Com npittnn annAintn6 nv the
president. This consists, at pre-
sent, of William H. Taft, chairman,
Robert Lansing, John Shelton Will
liams, Major General William c.
Gorgas, Rear Admiral William c.
Braisted and John w. Davis. In
this list the departments of state,
treasury, war, navy and justice are
represented.
Six other members are elected by
the incorporators and these include
Mabel Boardman, Robert w. de
Forest, John Bassett Moore, nation
al law expert; Federal Circuit Judge
w. w. Morrow, Albert A. Sprague
and James Tanner. Another six
are eleCtcu ny TIC Sohoioi -"
these include General Charles Bird.
John M. Glenn, Franklin X. Lane,
secretary of the interior; Charles
Nagel, former secretary of COM
merce; Charles D.. Norton and Al
fred T. White.
There are other distinguished
names in connection with the sew
eral committees. For instance, Err
nest P. Bicknell. former director of
the Associated Charities of Indiana.