The Washington herald., 1918-05-24

and the uniformed women who have
been working on the streets.
Yesterday a man came in with q
check which was blank, except for the
signature. and said he wanted to rive
to the Red Cross.
But you haven't filled It out" q
worker said.
IT can't write" he replied. You
will have to do that for me-
How much do you want to give??''
"Oh. say five bucks" was the
answer.
flower and candy girls at hotels and
in theater lobbies II seemed as IL no
diner downtown last evening or today
escaped being asked several times to
buy a flower for the Red Cross This
work was done under Mrs. Theodore
w. Richards and Mrs. John r. Gallo
way.
Collectors Uniformed.
No persons other than those wear
ing Red Cross uniforms. and no chill
dren, have been authorized to COL
lect for the Red Cross. 1t was sug-
gested by the campaign committee
that IL the donor knows the chill
dren and other solicitors not in uni
form that he may give to them, but
that II they are unknown to him a
safer way would be to place his
money in the hands of someone wear
ing the Red Cross uniform.
Among the contributions reported
at the noon luncheon yesterday. the
largest were checks for $1,000 each,
from Duncan Phillips and from Mrs
Duncan Phillips: and James L. Phil
lips. of the same family, also gave
a check for 5000
One of the features attracting wide
spread attention is the big open
street car of the Washington Rail-
way and Electric Company, which is
travelling all over the lines of that
system, with a band playing inside,
and displaying great canvasses bear
ing the Red Cross and the words
Give! Give! Give" on the outside.
Inside the car yesterday were bu-
glers from Fort Myer. and today the
car has a detail of buglers from Camp
Meigs. Joseph NJ. Stoddard also ar
ranged to have soldiers detailed to
stand on each end of the car.
Tomorrow night at Liberty Hut will
be ~. S. Night" and Sergt. Ar
thur Guy Empey will be the speaker.
Earlier in the day he will deliver
number Of short talks on the Red
Cross at various points. The musical
program for tomorrow evening at the
Liberty Hut includes Segurola, La
zaro and Oscar Seagle.
stretchers Feature.
Another unusual feature has been
arranged for tomorrow by Mrs. Theo-
dore w. Richards. 1t will consist
Of the appearance on the downtown
streets of Washington of ten stretch
ers. each borne by a soldier, bear
ing also a Red Cross flag, and by a
Red Cross nurse. On it will be the
inscription, You Hold Up Your
End" A receptacle will be arranged
in each Of the stretchers for cash
and pledge cards.
Many Washington stores have a.
ready volunteered to give ten per >ent
Of their gross receipts on Monday to
the Red Cross. A committee of women
was sent out yesterday. not to ask
stores to 10 this, but merely to get
information about how MANY intend
doing so. and those that have decided
to do it and have not reported the
fact to headquarters, are requested
to do so.
Tomrrow morning at Keith's Thea
ter there will be an auction of a num-
Der of articles, including Col" Jake,
the Texas turkey presented by Repre-
sentative Hardy to President Wilson
and turned over by him to ths Red
Cross. This turkey alread, has
brought in $4,000 to the organization.
The pair Of Great Dane dogs donated