The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1920-01-02
Columbia Hospital Ball
Ends Brilliant NelU Year
Day for Capital Society
Every Dinner Party of Note Mingles With
Dancers at Benefit for Institution for
Mothers and Babies.

sian ADMINISTRATOR; Nine. t. A. Iebfe-
ton. wife Of the Ambassador from Ar
gentina; Nine. Hans sulzer. wife OF
the Minister from Switzerland; Nine.
~. 7. Cremer wife of the Minister
from the Netherlands; Nine. Sol. wife
OF the Minister from Salvador; Mrs,
Franklin Roosevelt, Mrs. Benedict
Larz Anderson, Mrs. Delos Blodgett.
Mrs. Charles @. Bell. Mrs. David
Barry, Miss Mabel Boardman, Mrs.
F. A. Delano, Mrs. James A. Drain.
Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins, Mrs. Angus
tus p. Gardner, Mrs. Charles G. Glover.
Mrs. John W. Hallowell. Mrs. Charles
Hamlin, Mrs. Joseph Hampson. Mrs.
David Jayne Hill. Mrs. Julian James.
Mrs. Reginald Huidekoper. Mrs. David
Kaime. Mrs. Francis J. Herman. Mrs.
w. e. Lester. Mrs. Henry c. Leonard,
Mrs. William Littauer. Mrs. Adolph c.
Miller. Mrs. Francis Nash. Mrs. Ny
ron NJ. Parker. Mrs. E. S. Pollock.
Mrs. Guy T. Scott, Mrs. Robert Thornp-
son. Mrs. Joseph e. Thropp, Mrs. Le-
Roy futile, Mrs. James W. Wads-
worth. jr.. Mrs. Charles Boughton
Wood. Mrs. Randolph Miner and Mrs.
Waddy Wood.
Cared for 1000 Babies.
The members Of the women's board
OF Columbia Hospital helped last year
to care for more than 1000 babies and
are doing everything possible to pro-
vide for the happiness OF all the chill
drNn OF Columbia:
The officers OF the board are: Mrs
II. G. Learned. president: Mrs. Frank
S. Bright, vice president; Mrs. Zera
L. Tanner, treasurer; Mrs. Charles II.
Bradley. recording secretary, and
| Mrs. Reeve Lewis, corresponding Sec
rotary. The members of the board in
Sclude Mrs. Franklin X. Lane, Mrs.
Josephus Daniels, Mrs. Clarence As
pinwall. Mrs. Frank Anderson. Mrs.
]. C. Black. Mrs. ]. c. Boyd. Mrs
Thomas Bradley. Mrs. William H.
Carter, Mrs. Mathew Delaney, Mrs. +.
! ]. Dorm. Mrs. Edward Echols, Mrs. II
IP. Fairbanks, Mrs. William E. Fen
! dali. Mrs. Frank Freyer.> Mrs. David
! Dubose Gaillard. Miss A. Gillett. Mrs
NJ. X. Gordon. Mrs. Thomas Holcomb,
/ Mrs. ]. c. Hunsaker. Mrs. Victor
K Kaufman, Mrs. Charles Grant Long
! Mrs. J. w. MacMurray. Mrs. Edward
B. Melgs. Mrs. Brown Miller. Mrs,
r. c. Moore. Mrs. F. B. Moran. Mrs.
lG. H. Myers. Mrs. John L. Newbold
Mrs. Clarence PerIey. Miss Ruth Put
nam. Mrs. P r Rixey. Mrs. Charles
I Sheldon. Mrs. c. A. Stedman, Mrs
Walter Tuckerman. Mrs. Denis Epson
Mrs. Myron Whitney. Mrs. JOSEPH
! worthington and Mrs. J. Marvin
Wright.
Only One OF Kind Here.
The ball was given to meet tho
clothing needs of an average baby
popula ton of sixty and to increase
hospital facilities and beds. One
Thousand and eighty-one babies
lone-eighth OF all the new citizens
ushered into the world in wash.
ington last year. arrived at the Co
lumbia Hospital, according to g
statement given out by Commodore
Du Bose. medical superintendent
! and Mrs. f. G. Fournier. superin.
ftendent of nurses. The average
daily baby population was sixty
and each baby required on an aver
age OF eight changes OF clothing
daily. all clothing being supplied
by the hospital with the neces'
, sary sterilizing shortening the live.
of clothing. the supply problem ha'
been serious.
( The hospital Is the only one ir
the city exclusively for women anC
babies. Thirty-two hundred pa
tients were admitted last year. in.
GLIDING 100 free patients. and 1.13,
visits were made by women to The
free dispensary.
Forty-eight nurses are now OF
duty. an increase of 20 per CEN
over last year. The working hour.
have been cut from twelve to eight
and a few more nurses are re.
quiTed. A new nurses home /:
among the projects in view.