Evening star., 1920-05-30
216 WORKERS AID
HOSPITAL. DRIVE
Eleven Team Captains Re-
port Organization for Cas-
uaIty Campaign.

Eleven team captains have already
| reported an organization of 216 work.
ers for the drive to raise $4,000 for
! Casualty Hospital, 70S Massachusetts
avenue southeast, which opens next
Wednesday. The man team captains
number fifteen. of whom an even
dozen are physicians or surgeons
Already rivalry is apparent between
the woman and man leaders as to
which sex shall make the best show
ing.
The eleven captains who have re-
ported the strength of their organi-
liam p. Manning. DR.. Morris Catzva,
DR.. Henry w. Jaeger, DIR. E. w. Burch,
DR.. Daniel Webster Prentiss. DR..
Joseph J. Mundell. DR.. j. A. Stouten-
burgh. William J. Brewer. DR.. Lewis
n. Taylor and DIR. William p Reeves.
erney, DIR. Joseph A. Cannon and DR..
W. P. Wood, though active. have not
sent in the number of their per-
sonnel.
Women Send in Names.
The following women have sent in
the names of their teams: Mrs. c. w.
Reed. Mrs. Ernest II. Kettler. Mrs
J. c. Wineman, Mrs. w. G. Green.
Mrs. NJ. G.. Copeland. Mrs. Frank
Mrs. Thomas Calver and Mrs. e. B.
Shaver Their total is 123 workers.
Arrangements are being made to hold
an entertainment in some section or the
District daily during the campaign. and
the following have already been decided
upon:
DIR. Stoutenburgs team-June and 5,
la wn party at I'd and Pennsylvania ave-
nue. southeast: June Z, card party.
Washington Hall, Sd street and Penn
sylvania avenue southeast; June 8. lawn
party, Tennessee avenue and street
northeast; June 9. bridge party and
800" Harrington Hotel; June II, dance
at Raleigh Hotel: June Is, lawn party.
Grace Baptist Church, 9th street and
South Carolina avenue southeast.
Mrs. Odenhemier's team-Card' party,
moving picture and musical entertain
| ment at 2s2O pm. June IL. Knicker-
booker Theater.
DIR. William P. Reeves team-Card
party at residence of Mrs. NJ. A. Leese.
3SOS Huntington street, Chevy Chase.
2-5 pm. and 8:30-11:30 pm, June 8.
Entertainments will also be held at
the Dixie Theater and other motion pic
ture houses on dates to be announced
later.
Receipts Will Be Given.
All captains who have not sent in the
names of firms or persons whom their
teams are to solicit are to mail such
lists at once to Mrs. NJ. j. Vaughan, df-
vision leader, 473 NJ street northwest, in
order that cards authorizing solicitations
can be issued at the final organization
meeting. which will take place at the
New Ebbitt Hotel Tuesday night at
o'clock Headquarters will be maintain
ed in that hotel throughout the cam
paign.
The finance committee announces
that every person contributing to the
fund will be entitled to a receipt, and
that each worker will be equipped
with an official badge and a card au-
thorizing the collection. No worker
is permitted to solicit any firm. cor
poration, organization or individual
unless armed with card issued by
Mrs. Vaughan.
The hospital has reached the stage
where it must have money or close its
doors, and to forestall such drastic
action it was froced to come before
the public with a financial appeal for
assistance for the first time In more
than thirty years There is an in
debtedness of $4,000. that has accu-
mulated in the past two years, owing
to the high cost of living. that must
be paid before July /. and the addi-
tional $4,000 is to apply to building
fund already amounting to $4,000.
which is to be utilized Immediately to
erect an annex having a capacity of
fifty beds With this addition the
hospital directors state the institu-
tion can be made self-supporting.