Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12
RED CROSS drive.
ends; TOTAL OF
$4,000 RAISED.
Men Admit Women Far Out
classed Them, But Have
Large Sums Coming
In a Few Days.

Officially the third Red Cross roll
call closed last night with $55,o4o in
bank and in pledges. In addition to
this sum the women had something
like $4,000 in cash that was received
too late to bank, thus making a
total of 100000 available for carry
ing on the work of the Red Cross
during the coming year. Omaha's
quota was 100000.
OF the money in bank the women
ha. collected $34,lll on member
ships. That remaining in their
hands at the close of the drive,
about $4,000, also goes to the men,
bership fund They had set their
mark at $4,000 and consequently
fell but a few hundred dollars short
Of reaching their goal.
Men Were Outclassed.
The men at the head of the drive
acknowledged last night that they
had been outclassed by the women,
but consoied themselves by saying,
Wait until we get through and
you will See that we have made
good"
Chairman Scott of the committee
made this statement with reference
to the drive:
with the plan that we adopted,
carrying on campaign by Solicit
ing by letter, we are more money
ahead than we would have been
mad we hired men to canvass the
city. OF course, we could have i'll
duced 100lor more business men to
60 out and solicit subscriptions, but
this plan would have resulted in
most of them having incurred great
business losses and so, on the whole,
we, the members of the committee,
feel that we adopted and followed
the best method in carrying on the
drive. ~"
To Continue Drive.
1--WE will continue the drive along
the lines that we have been follow
ing and before e stop we expect
that Omaha's quota will have been
raised. We know to an absolute
certainty of $4,000 that is in sight
and will be paid over within the
next two or three days. Besides
this there are a number of large
subscriptions that we have every
reason to believe will be turned in
during the week"
One of the last big subscriptions
to come in last night was that
of the Burgess-Nash company. 1t
was obtained by Mrs. Pryor Markell,
in charge of the booth in the store.
During the drive and from this
booth she turned in more than
$1,000. She also had supervision
over the other large retail stores
of the city. From these she col
lected $1,000 more than was taken
in from the same places during
any of the formers drives in the in
terest of war; activities.
Hut Took in $435.
During the drive the National
League for Woman's Service hut
on the court house grounds took
in $435. There the work was III
charge of Mrs. Archibald Smith,
chairman, assisted by other men,
bers of the organization. They had
no set mark and had no quota to
meet. They were we'll satisfied with
the results of their work.
Leonard Trester, acting state
director of the National Red Cross,
said that last night he had heard
from 10 counties out in Nebraska
and that they reported total of
$4,000 turned in on memberships.
Should the ratio hold good the total
for the state would exceed $250,0OO.
OF the counties reporting to Mr..
Trester, Pawnee had gone over the
top and had turned in more money
than during any of the war drives.
House-to- House Work.
Among the majors who had
charge of the wards of the city dur
:. ing the Red Cross drive, Mrs. w. G..
Brandt of the Ninth was the first
to turn in a complete report. Early
Tuesday morning she reported at
headquarters and informed Com
mandant Healey that not a house
in the ward had been left without
having been visited.
Mrs. John MacTaggart, Twelfth
ward; Mrs. ]. H. Vance, Second, and
Mrs. Byron Hart, First ward, all
majors in the drive, having been
short of workers, got out and CAN
vassed precincts during the drive.
Miss Allie Houston, major for the
Florence district, and Mrs. H. L.
Rivett, Benson, turned in their re-
ports early Tuesday Both reported
many difficulties, adding that, not
withstanding, they had visited all the
homes in their territory.