Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-05
RED CROSS NOTES.

With nearly $1,000 already taken in
at the exhibition and sale of paintings
by Washington artists contributed in
support of the Red Cross activities, all
of the remaining pictures are to be
sold tonight at public auction to the
highest bidders. There are more than
$50 paintings in this exhibition. They
are all framed according to the ideas
of the artists who painted them. They
have been given as the artists con-
| trtbution- to the Red Cross. and every
cent taken in at the sale will be turn
ed into the Red Cross treasury. This
exhibition and sale was undertaken
by the Arts Club of Washington. the
Society of Washington Artists and the
Washington Water Color Club.
Officers of the Red Cross Auxiliary at
the Hamline NJ. E. Church. 9Th and P
G. Clark is minister. have been elected
as follows: Chairman. Mrs. II. A. Hall.
4110 Illinois avenue: vice chairman and
treasurer. Mrs. H. c. James. 1865 Meri-
shears. 1918 Clifton street; membership.
Mrs. W. c. Wood, 1904 14th street; sup
plies. Mrs. w. H. Henderson. 1864 Mon
roe street; relief. Mrs. f. l., Parks, 2463
9th street; families of enlisted men.
Mrs. W. G. Thomas. 1907 14th street
First aid classes are being. conducted
at the Providence Hospital under the
auspices of the Daughters of Isabella
Auxiliary of the Red Cross Tuesday and
Friday evenings. DR.. Claude c. Caylor
of the hospital staff is the instructing
physician. Mrs. George Howe is captain
of this auxiliary. while the lieutenants
are Miss Marguerite Boswell and Miss
Ethel Roddy.
A sewing circle also has been estab-
lished by this auxiliary in the Mercan-
tile Savings Bank building, 721 10th
street northwest. The organization $
by John D. Leonard, president of the
bank. The work of this circle Will be
to make comfort bags for the Red Cross.
Pupils of grade IA, Gales School, have
contributed S. to the Red Cross fund
The money was raised through the chill
dren abstaining from candy and other
| Injuries.
Citizens OF the lower part of Mont
gomery county assembled in the Wood
side Public School Thursday night and
formed a Red Cross auxiliary, with
be known as the Silver Spring. Linden
and Forest Glen Auxiliary The terri
tory includes Silver Spring. Sligo.
Woodside, Linden, Forest Glen and all
! elected as follows: Mrs. Caroline w.
Chandler OF Linden. chairman; Mrs.
Archibald Small of Woodside, vice
chairman: Mrs. Osgood H. Dowell of
Woodside. secretary; Robert Burns of
the Silver Spring Bank. treasurer. and
Edward w. Byrn of Sligo. chairman.
finance committee.
Mrs. Helen Thompson of Sligo donated
the use of her ballroom as a place of
meeting, and the regular sewing day is
to be each Monday. At first the
women will concentrate on making a
large supply of hospital garments. bed
clothing and surgical dressings. A
number of sewing machines and the
use of several automobiles were con-
tributed.
1t is hoped that the work of this aux
iliary may be swelled into the formation
of chapter.
The wars alarms have intensified
zeal in Red Cross work. and this Is
testified By the fact that the number
of chapters have more than doubled
in the last three months. More chap
ters were organized in April than there
were altogether in the country last
July. In February there were rs
organized. in March. "A. and in
April. 100. This makes the total num-
Der of chapters 562, while there were